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buddypress is extremely limited in extensiblity and thin like a wafer. Just count how many settings it has. There are few other social scripts available. You have to give them a try

@FIQ – horizontal navigation tends to work well with a small set of options, but falls over for a flexible site with large numbers of screens / menu options / tabs. As you add more screens (photo albums, events, etc, etc.) you quickly run out of reasonable horizontal space to display the menu tabs. We’ve encountered this on a number of our builds.

Vertical navigation on a flexible (expandable) social site copes better with a large number / growth in menu options. It’s the approach that both Facebook (news feed / landing page) and Google+ take to cope with that situation.

It continues onto Facebook’s mobile app as well — where the menu button expands to a long vertical nav.

Of course, there are those who’ll cry out we shouldn’t copy Facebook — but, that kind of begs the answer “Why not? They’ll have invested considerably in analysing the UX issues / best practices – let’s learn from that.”

[EDIT: In any case, I trust the navigation and the actual content will be rendered via separate template parts – which should make it relatively straightforward (even for ‘default themers’) to present / locate the navigation where they best see fit.]

hello,

you can read here at the bottom:
https://codex.buddypress.org/extending-buddypress/changing-internal-configuration-settings/

and also here:
http://www.otreva.com/buddypress-how-to-change-avatar-size-larger-or-smaller/

This is crude and requires hacking core file, but until a better fix is found this seems to be working.
In the file, bp-forums-functions.php (located in buddypress>bp-forums) I added $text = ‘dice roll’
to line 354. So it now looks like
`function bp_forums_reply_exists( $text = ”, $text = ‘dice roll’, $topic_id = 0, $user_id = 0 ) {
$reply_exists = false;`

Tried several successive dice rolls and they posted correctly. You’re mileage may vary! It also seems to allow duplication of regular text replies as well, so that’s not ideal.
I’d much rather have a function or better yet, an update to the plugin, but this seems to work for now.

@karmatosed,

I like this. One suggestion: Provide the user with the option in Settings to either show the widgets in the “sidebar” or the “footer”. If “footer” is selected, then this page becomes 2-column, thus providing more content real estate.

http://testbp.org This will show you BuddyPress out of the box. Log in an create content to understand the functionality. It’s a basic social network.

@ploupas cool. Thanks for letting us know

A fast solution in profile fields for the huddle theme…
Go to wp-content/themes/huddle/functions.php and open it.
At line 45 you should see
` $new_values[] = ‘‘ . $value . ‘‘; `
change it with this
` $new_values[] = strip_tags( $value ); `
I bought this theme today, and i did not have time to beautify the code and the functions, but i will write again probably the next days.

Hi tjtate, this forum thread is over 10 months old. When you see an old thread that hasn’t been answered in awhile, it’s better to just create a new topic.

To quickly answer, when bbPress 2.0 is more tightly integrated with BuddyPress groups, it might be possible to use an existing bbPress 2.0 plugin with BuddyPress when that time comes. Until then, you probably won’t see threaded forum posts.

I’m going to close this thread now, but feel free to post new topics in the future.

@jwordsmith – Sorry if you were confused during the forum installation.

You shouldn’t have to click on “Use existing installation”. Try clicking on the “Uninstall group forums” button and then click on “Install Group Forums”.

Hopefully that fixes your issue.

@aronprins: Like the first look, nice and fresh. Also the login dropdown moves smoothly. Only thing I am missing is a clear call to action on the homepage. Goodluck with the further development!