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Bumping this, since it still sounds like a neat opportunity and I’m curious what progress was made.

Honestly if you want BuddyPress to function correctly, In my opinion you should create a child theme based on the BuddyPress default theme and make any changes within its css. If you don’t know how to make a child theme then I can send you a really simple one that allows you to change the CSS of the buddypress default theme. As of this post the newest theme is Fanwood and I am not certain it will function correctly with WordPress 3.4.1 and BuddyPress 1.6

if you are on a custom theme it might not work. I have it installed on bp-default and it works fine.

@arrogance-is-bliss Thanks for the info. Its a shame how some people use their knowledge destructively vs constructively. I will never jeopardize the integrity of the platform just to have a malicious plugin or theme released.

There are a few different social networking platforms out there and someone coming up with a safe way to integrate one or more of them with WordPress (or visa-verse) would be a welcomed development, in my opinion. However, a ‘plugin’ like GRA4 that takes unsuspecting members from WordPress sites and opens the WordPress site owner(s) up to potentially (MAJOR) security and privacy issues (as well as hosting and server violation issues) is not a plugin. It is a dangerous interface that WordPress webmasters would be well advised to stay away from.

One thing to consider when allowing a ‘plugin’ to use a remote server is, you can not know the intentions of the people on the remote server. Once that avenue is opened, a site can be vulnerable to many things unseen and unimagined.. That is Dangerous.. Unfortunately, a lot of people using WordPress do not look at code. Even if they did, they don’t know how to spot potential dangers. As website developers, webmasters, and the like, we do have a responsibility to those who use our websites, to be careful of providing something that could violate the rights and privacy of our users as well as open our own servers and/or hosting, to unsavory and malicious intruders.

It pays to ask questions, @lunchgirl thanks for doing so. I wasn’t aware of gra4 until I saw this thread and @mercime pointing out that it isn’t available in the Repository anymore caused me to want to know what it did. So, I looked it up and found that they are attempting to infiltrate several different and independent platforms. If anyone uses those other platforms or knows someone who does, I would let them know about that plugin (or in the case of some, it’s a drop-in). It is still available in those other platforms and shouldn’t be. Please spread the word..

@shawn38

Shawn Roger provides a great deal of help and support of the forum, and has provided you with some valuable pointers and guidance here which should have helped you. Throwing that help back in someone’s face and insulting them is not very wise, nor is it ever acceptable behaviour on open forums.

Many of us that can provide the help people require are ‘Professionals’ in the strict meaning of the word we earn our living from web development, I, nor any of the others I suspect, take kindly to phrases like and the ones that use it to gain money should be banned! it’s not a very clever thing to say!

This thread has become unproductive and I’m closing it.

Please avoid insulting members on this forum in future.

I don’t understand what you mean by folder name. The BuddyPress folder on the file system is not used in that way. We have components at example.com/members/, and example.com/groups/, etc.

@mercime Thank you! Its great to have a wonderful community that helps when you just “over look something!” Thank you my friend!

@webifiedgeek depends on the theme. usually you change the color of the font in the theme’s style.css file

This is a shitty concept and is a poor example of plugin usage!

@davidkooo, Exactly what i did, you can use “ to show notification when you have notification.

@davidkooo – BuddyPress adds the notification bar using the function bp_members_admin_bar_notifications_menu() (in buddypress/bp-members/bp-members-adminbar.php).

If you take a look at that function, you can see how it generates the menu, and rework to include it in your template file.

In particular – take a look at the function it uses: bp_core_get_notifications_for_user()

@arrogance-is-bliss thank you for providing a detailed report on the extent of the plugin’s abuse. I just saw the first few lines of one of the plugin’s files in repo and reported it right away at plugins@wordpress.org

You may want to contact @modemlooper and request that he add this functionality to his awesome “Profile Menu Plugin” on its next iteration. I would love to finally have freedom of buddypress independent of this bar that sends a red flag that it’s using buddypress. The only way to do this is to get rid of this bar and implement it in the normal menu. @modemlooper I would like to request a way to add an order to your plugin, just as as you can order a custom menu. It would also be cool to have admin options to rename this extra tab to name it something other than “Profile!” Thanks!