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@rogercoathup I have another strange issue, I’m using a front end editor so users can create blog posts http://perishablepress.com/user-submitted-posts/ I modified that using some recommended code so that the image attached will be set as a post thumbnail. Which works as it should the image is there with the post when I check the post and it appears everywhere I call for the post thumbnail such as the home page. The only place it doesn’t appear is in the Buddypress activity stream next to the excerpt. Interestingly if I go and edit or update a post that I originally created with the front end editor, the thumbnail suddenly appears in the buddypress activity stream as it should. Any thoughts on what might be going on?

@dmanthony : cool. not sure that I ‘ve understood where I should enter 99 to hide admin … ? merci

@tindell:

adding the excerpt should be straightforward – around line 32 in my pastebin code (from page 1), after you’ve assigned the thumbnail to the activity_content – you’ll need to do something like:

(for standard WP excerpt):

$activity_content .= $post->post_excerpt;

(for BP excerpt):

$activity_content .= bp_create_excerpt ($post->post_content, 100) // to get the first 100 characters

Note: I might have the syntax wrong on the BP (doing it off the top of my head) – so, you may need to check the function out, and experiment a little

thanks @janismo, and you’re correct. If you have a child theme then it would be best to post to those files.
I forgot about child themes when i took on this test. definitely something i should remember.

I have the post thumbnail working for buddypress blog posts activity using the code from @rogercoathup but I’m struggling to figure out how to also add the content excerpt with it. Any help would be great, I imagine it’s quite simple I just don’t have a clue how to add it. Hopefully this will help other people who might be struggling with the same problem. I’m happy with the default auto excerpt from buddypress so long as I can limit the amount of characters. Thanks.

hi @timothyjunior nice update, definitely will try.
messing with core files isn’t smth terrible, all you should have is child theme of bp-default.

ok, break out notepad++ or any text editor and make back ups these two files:
– /wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/activity/entry.php
-/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/header.php

add this to your header.php file within the head section :
`

`

now locate entry.php and replace : `

Friends should be able to be called other names like: contacts if its a business networking site like I did with mine, partners if it is a closed partership intranet for a lawfirm or accounting fir, students, collegues, etc. there should be an option wher you put something or frieds is default. Groups is groups, but the additional functionality to add is very poor, group wiki does not assing a default wiki theme, group blog does not assign a default blog theme, etc Admins sgould be able to choose the default theme for these addons…

This is the first time I’ve heard about this kind of behavior on a default installation even in subdomain structure. Deactivate all plugins including BuddyPress, mu-plugins and bp-custom.php as well if you have them and change theme to default twentyten theme. Clear cache. See if same behavior persists.

If it only happens with BP installed, then https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/when-asking-for-support/

You need to get your “pretty permalinks” – one of the major requirements – working first before activating BuddyPress. Deactivate BuddyPress and change theme to default twenty ten theme. Find resolution for your permalink settings at WordPress.org forums https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting . Good luck.

Almost same topic as your first post which I replied to https://buddypress.org/community/groups/installing-buddypress/forum/topic/bug-install/

== but there is no new member sign up, only a log in ==

@godcix go to dashboard > Network Admin > Settings > Settings > Registration Settings — either “user accounts many be created” or “user and blogs may be created” should be chosen. The default setting is closed registration so you have to change the setting.

Greetings all,
I am new to WordPress and BuddyPress. (The first version of WP I ever installed was 3.0.x!) and I am very very confused about how to give each BP user a “blog” of their own.

I’ve been digging through the instructions for multisite and it seems like way overkill for what I want to do.

http://www.nodepression.com is a good example of what I’d like to do. From an end user perspective, I can go to a page that is “my blog”. But as far as I can tell, it’s just an “all posts” page with a ?author=idnum parameter on the end of it. For example, my “blog” in nodepression.com is located at:
http://www.nodepression.com/profiles/blog/list?user=37d8c5io9r1pq

Just based on hacking around the site, it appears that they are using buddy press, and ucanpost and have disabled the admin bar. So the only way to post is through the ucanpost editor.

Does BuddyPress have a “user blog” type of capability or is the “blog” concept on the ND site just a set of highly customized templates?

== it returns a non-existent LINK (PAGE NOT FOUND ==
You need mod_rewrite module enabled – aka “pretty permalinks” for BuddyPress to work

== Folders to be moved are Activity, menbers, Groups, Forums ==
Not sure what you mean. If you’re using the BP Template Pack to make your WordPress theme compatible with BuddyPress, the plugin will do that for during during the compatibility process.

Well, I have gotten past this issue. I am not sure its related, but I changed the permalinks before enabling buddypress to “day and month”. This seemed to resolve I think. Otherwise I am without a clue. Tried so many variations to get this to work without much systematic success. I hate random failure OR success in software.

@nit3watch Thanks for the message, and thanks for sharing the theme. I can’t wait to check it out.

I just try it above muchad’s code and put that in your child theme function.php. It works, why? Because the characters are messing it up. Here’s workable code:
`//=Change the number of activity items to show per page
function my_custom_query_filter( $query_string ) {
$query_string .= ‘&per_page=30’;
return $query_string;
}
add_filter( ‘bp_dtheme_ajax_querystring’, ‘my_custom_query_filter’ );`

adding “Groups” page to new bp site seems to have solved it

Followed instructions from above link. All worked well.

Except

the new bp installation is not drawing in the posts from the other sites.

Any ideas about where to look to get this functionality back would be greatly appreciated.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I installed Wp 3.1.1 and then went through the multisite process and then installed buddypress 1.2.8. Installed groupblogs 1.5 Used ronaldzw fix for groupblogs – https://buddypress.org/community/groups/bp-groupblog/forum/topic/no-bp-groupblogs-menu-under-buddypress-menu-in-network-admin/

but there is no new member sign up, only a log in. So there is no way to create a new member on the front end.

Thanks

fix a issue where by if the content area is ’shorter’ than the sidebars ( being ‘taller’ from widgets ), the content boarder breaks.

Research Faux columns for backgrounds running full height and overlapping borders using negative margins to create the illusion of a full height single borders.

What’s the issue with stripping and IE?

I trust that the ‘screw this’ chap has requested a full refund

Hey, nice one Update us here when it gets approved (I assume you’re talking about the wordpress.org list?)

@imjscn I think the beauty is that there is no wrong way of going about it. Since I use MU, I don’t need CPT since the entire subsite is dedicated to the q/a. This keeps search separate from of different content types also keeps wp-admin only dedicated to q/a. I can only imagine when you do CPTs that managing the CPTs under one wp-admin it could get little overwhelming keeping those apart from other content but I’m not familiar with CPTs so I don’t know. I’ve only ever used a new blog when I need a new type of content. How does search work for cpt?