My apologies I’m terrible with my understanding of php etc.. but when I copied the code above for another Themeblvd theme (Akita) the resulting page comes up blank? Is their a solution for the Akita theme?
The themes page.php file is as follows:
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— Mercime ]
okay I was able to move the buddypress default menu and make it a vertical menu in my sidebar but the links won’t work I mean they don’t get the actual user’s portal links or their version of activity page and so on but if I include the user name’s in the code then it would so is there anyway I can make these links so that it would work for everyone. please see the image:
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/213/mymenu.gif/
Hmmm.. I agree Dannyjimmy.. I was excited to see an “official” link on caching for BP, but it looks like I’ve found nothing.
Can someone tell me of a plugin that I can use so that my buddypress site can only be viewed by registered users only or specific pages only?
@rogercoathup and @karmatosed – it seems since BP version 1.6.1, the wonderful guys who develop BuddyPress have changed the way the activity feed works. The activity feed ajax/js is less reliant on the markup in entry.php which leaves you free to replace the text links with images.
Massive +1 to @JohnJamesJacoby and the team
Thanks for the tips @rogercoathup – in my early days of web dev I had a site penalty for redirecting a page in the wrong way. Since then I seem to question everything I do. You’re right though, i’ve seen it done everywhere and this seems to be a perfectly reasonable approach :}
@thirstcard — image replacement techniques for small pieces of text like this are used throughout the web (find a modern website that doesn’t do it somewhere or other) — Google is not going to punish you for this. Have a read around, there are hundreds of articles on this and SEO.
Here’s Jeffrey Zeldman’s post on the latest technique to use: http://www.zeldman.com/2012/03/01/replacing-the-9999px-hack-new-image-replacement/
@modemlooper – I missed where you made that point?
@modemlooper excellent .. thank you !!
works great
@synergywp – I understand where you are coming from re: visibility of username in the url and the consequent reduction in site security.
It’s a fundamental part of the way BuddyPress sets up the URL structure, but should theoretically be
possible to rework the rewrite system to implement something more secure. Perhaps in the Facebook style, where user ID in the URL is just a number (until they change it to a preferred name), and does not reveal their login username (an email).
Would be interesting to get feedback from an informed core developer on this subject — did you check the trac to see if it had been raised before.
[EDIT: having said all that, is Facebook much more secure? — if someone knows my email address, they know my username]
Can one install WordPress Multisite after Buddypress is already installed? Would it cause problems? I know you usually install Multisite first.
Options:
Create a new user then give that user admin privileges and then delete the admin account This may delete the content associated with the deleted account.
Edit database directly. Links may get broken.
This plugin: http://buddydev.com/buddypress/allow-your-users-to-change-their-username-on-your-buddypress-based-site/
Hhhmm,
So, I don’t have access to any of the database tables, @djpaul –not allowed by my hosting provider (they rock btw!). Anyway, anyone have a suggestion as to how I could get the meta names of the XProfile fields? Thanks!
@dadvan & @bounomid,
Why wouldn’t a Group work for you? …much more convenient for those who have an entirely separate and secret family unbeknownst to everyone else. 
@FIQ – assume you are meaning a jQuery event, equivalent to something like a document.ready() that fires on Ajax load. Pretty sure there are some default jQuery events ready to AJAX activity.. can’t remember names off top of my head
[EDIT: take a look at the global jQuery ajaxSuccess, ajaxError, ajaxStart, ajaxSend, and ajaxStop events — there are also local versions]
Also have tons of other plugins installed…..just at wits end on how to get it to exactly work correctly.
I have seen one person do this before, I have the group Hierarchy installed as well as the group organizer for BP…..What im wanting to do is edit the files so that every time a subgroup has a post/update it automatically posts in the parent group. I know its possible but im running on 13 hours trying to figure this out.
Good morning,
Since I updated my buddypress I cannot access member profiles including my own. Every time I try to access my profile, messages, change avatar, etc, I get this message: “Safari can not open the page. Too many redirects occurred trying to open ” http://www.swaggstar.com/members//daypowell|”. This might occur if you open a page that is redirected to another page which then is redirected to open the original page.”
None of my members can access their profiles to change their avatar, check messages, add friends, etc. Please help. I have new members signing up everyday.
My website domain is http://www.SwaggStar.com and the link to my profile page is http://www.swaggstar.com/members/daypowell. I have uninstalled and reinstalled buddypress numerous times. I have also disable other plug ins to make sure there was not a conflict.
If you go to my page and click on one of the member profiles on the right sidebar you will get the message described above. However, when I click on member profiles from a windows pc (internet Explorer), nothing ever happens. It trys to connect but eventually says Internet Explorer cant open the page.
Okay, I just installed the theme “Catch Box” to my website: http://www.fifaadvocate.com . Now I am in the process of fixing the alignment issues caused by BuddyPress on the affected pages. I have installed the BuddyPress Template Pack plugin, as this is not a compatible BuddyPress theme. I have almost no experience with FTP when editing, but understand step 3 requires some editing of my themes template files, so providing the specific code I need to add to any files is best for me. It seems, the header is too short or something like that, the right sidebar does not have enough room, and gets pushed below the content, and the content is being narrowed. Any help would be really appreciated!!!
@shemada – to do this properly, you need to use the bp_core_remove_nav_item() function.
Add a call to it in your theme’s functions.php file passing in the ID of the Events nav item.
If you Google on here for ‘remove_nav_item’ you should find plenty of previous threads / examples.
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Do you have plugins other than BuddyPress installed? If so then try disabling each one until you find the offender.
But, do you really want AOL users? If so I got about a million hours of CD-ROMs I can sell them. 