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Hi can you tell me how to display avatars on a sidebar for the top 10 point leaders using the plugin cubepoints integrated with buddypress?

1. Make sure you did not check “__ Disable BP Template Pack CSS” otherwise bp.css won’t be enqueued

2. Make sure that you have “ immediately before “ in header.php so that the adminbar default styles are rendered on screen.

@andrewteg:

I was referred to this thread by a moderator to help me figure out how to bypass the group admin page. What I’d like to do instead is have the users go directly to the forum page after clicking the link for a specific group on the group directory page. I am not clear though how to actually make this happen based on the discussion above though. Could you assist in this modification as well?

Thank you in advance.

BuddyPress must be in: wp-content/plugins/buddypress/

It looks like you’ve put it in wp-content/plugins/1.5-beta-3/

Hm. I guess if I were you I would start with my child theme’s javascript. Look for something that would activate when a dropdown is changed, possible using the jquery method .change. At the very least, try disabling your child theme’s javascript (just comment it all out for a moment) to verify that that’s where the problem lies.

As it stands, it appears that this is *not* a BuddyPress problem, but is related to your theme – but more investigation on your part will make this clearer.

@modemlooper, maybe it’s there as a placeholder for future functionality? IMHO at the moment, providing a “template” option across all Pages (incl. Component pages), is somewhat misleading.

So given your last post, are you saying that I could hide the sidebar through code in my child’s style.css? If so, how would I do that? If not, which files and how should I do it? I can figure out how to change the width on the “content”, so that shouldn’t be an issue. Sorry about asking so many questions. I am still pretty new to this. Thanks.

FYI: I’m running BP 1.5 Beta 3

Wow, that is a very strange issue. Have you tried clearing your browser cache entirely? It’s possible that there is some rogue javascript in your cache (which may be related to BuddyPress or may not) that is causing this bizarre behavior.

FWIW I can’t reproduce this, with the same setup (except Snow Leopard instead of Lion, but I can’t imagine it’d make a difference.)

Yes and no. I’m doing something similar by configuring/hacking buddypress within my own theme. I used the BuddyPress Template Pack plugin to get the pages I needed but it’s a lot of editing from there. And I think that the S2Membership plugin will further the control by you if you want to make certain parts of the site public and other parts private.

I think BuddyPress is designed to take over a site, not sit side by side. Although that is what I’m trying to do.

I’m fairly proficient at hacking WordPress and I’m still running into roadblocks with configuring BuddyPress.

Asked and answered at WP.org forums

I’ve upgraded to W3 Total Cache 0.9.2.4, which has recently become available, and this seems to have fixed the problem.

I’m just giving it a cautious thumbs-up for now because it was an intermittent problem before and maybe I’ve just been lucky. But so far, so good.

https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3566
Thank you @qrahaman

@dains, your enclosed link no longer works. The following should:

Customize profile and group menus in BuddyPress

@mercime, thanks for confirming. I’ve placed the ticket.

Hi Mr. Zen,

Where will we add this php scripts? Thanks.

@tommyhoang, the major benefit of creating a child theme is so that when the parent theme gets updated, the customizations that were made won’t be lost. The child theme’s style.css is where the CSS customizations are being defined. That’s where you would have styled the header.

By the way, the child theme’s style.css is intended to override the targeted styling in default.css which resides in the parent theme. I’m new at this but I don’t see the purpose of you creating a default.css for your child theme.

@qrahaman you’re right. It’s a bug which should be reported in https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ Would you like to do the honors? Use same username and password you used to log in buddypress.org

@modemlooper, I’m too new at this to help you but I just wanted you to know that your group announcement plugin that could broadcast across the stream from the “group” itself is a fantastic idea! Here’s a thought. What if there is so much activity in the stream that a observer/member (not of that group) misses it? Do you think providing a subscription feature for a specific group’s Group Anouncements would be something folks would want?

@modemlooper, thanks for replying. I saw I could do that right after I posted my question. I tried what you suggested for each of the component pages but it didn’t work. I created a new page and selected the appropriate template, and that worked. So then, I tried associating the Members component page with that newly created page. No go. Even though it mapped to the new page, the sidebar still shows up. Am I missing a step or do you think this could be a bug?

@tommyhoang use language file to change the text or add this to your functions.php file
`class Tommys_Translation_Mangler {
function filter_gettext($translation, $text, $domain) {
$translations = &get_translations_for_domain( $domain );
if ( $text == ‘You will auto join this group when you reply to this topic.’ ) {
return $translations->translate( ‘Feel free to reply.’ );
}
return $translation;
}
}
add_filter(‘gettext’, array(‘Tommys_Translation_Mangler’, ‘filter_gettext’), 10, 4);`

Reference: http://blog.ftwr.co.uk/archives/2010/01/02/mangling-strings-for-fun-and-profit/

@sbruner, yeah i figured that out right before i read this. any chance you can help me out on this other topic
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/removing-group-auto-join/

@mercime, I know this is a somewhat old thread but I would appreciate your advice on how to remove the sidebar and make the content area full width (for all the component directories: Activity, Forums, Groups, Members) from a markup/php standpoint for Buddypress 1.5. I am running Beta 3.

Per @modemlooper plugin, I’ve been able to add fields to groups. So what I’ve asked you is the next step; that is, to make room for all the content.

Thanks @modemlooper. I went hunting for an answer and there it was. Your plugin works like a charm!!

@r-a-y, remove custom css from which file? default.css?

as soon as i put
<?php

define( ‘HEADER_IMAGE_HEIGHT’, 300 );
?>

into my functions.php, i cant access wp-admin dashboard. i get this message: Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home6/stemcomm/public_html/wp-content/themes/STEM/functions.php:17) in /home6/stemcomm/public_html/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 934

Various notification settings are scattered throughout the BuddyPress codebase; each setting is saved as user meta.

To disable them, you have to set each one to “no” for each member.

eg. To disable email notifications for a member, you can use:
`update_user_meta( $user_id, ‘notification_messages_new_message’, ‘no’ );`

You’ll have to pass the user’s ID for the `$user_id` variable.

In BP 1.2.9, to find notification settings, try looking at /plugins/buddypress/bp-X.php, where X is each component’s main loader and search for “notification_settings”, then grab the meta key and rinse and repeat:
eg. https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/1.2.9/bp-messages.php#L254