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Here’s what I came up with and it works the way I need it..

I added the following function to the “buddypress/bp-forums/bp-forums-templatetags.php” file.

`function bp_the_short_topic_title() {
echo bp_get_the_short_topic_title();
}
function bp_get_the_short_topic_title() {
global $forum_template;
$topic = $forum_template->topic->topic_title;

if (strlen($topic) > 35)
{
$output = substr($topic, 0, 35).’…’;
}
else
{
$output = $forum_template->topic->topic_title;
}
return apply_filters( ‘bp_get_the_topic_title’, stripslashes($output) );
}`

then just replaced bp_the_topic_title() with bp_the_short_topic_title() where I needed it shortened.

@hnla – I think that works for now.

@ChuckNJ and @phyz: thanks for using and liking our theme. We are very interested in feedback and examples of how others are using it. Please check out our demo page, FAQ and documentation is also following soon on there.

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Great idea @r-a-y, ala Ning with front end posting and possibly using each member’s username as parent category or even post type.

@Shonnaedwards one way of doing allowing members to post articles without a plugin is by giving new users the role of “Contributors” or above just like many WP multi-author blogs thereby allowing members access to backend to post articles.

For a plugin solution, try this one https://buddypress.org/community/groups/one-quick-post/ where members can post from the front end and you can keep members/users’ roles to suscriber level.

Other than site admin checks, BuddyPress doesn’t use or check for specific roles or capabilities anywhere. So, in terms of regular users, there is no difference between a subscriber and a contributor for the BuddyPress features.

That’d never get into core . If you think you’ve found an issue with timestamps, and you are sure you have configured everything correctly, post a bug report on https://trac.buddypress.org/ please with full details of what exactly is wrong. A screenshot would be mega helpful, too.

@gregfielding check this out as well http://buddydev.com/plugins/one-click-mark-spammer-for-buddypress/

I solved the issue by deleting BuddyPress from wp-content/plugin directory, and re uploading it. Good luck everyone!

There is already a ticket and a patch for this as well as a support thread expect the patch committed in 1.2.7

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/time-offset-still-present-in-bp-1-2-6/

However you are reporting quite a time difference? but this is a long running issue but should be corrected with this final patch.

I use the plugin with WP3.0.1. and BP 1.2.6. It works fine with e.g. Google Chrome but in Internet Explrer 8.0 files are not uploaded.
Any idea?

@zomex ignore the query string it’s a version string appended when the style sheet is added to the output of the page and is simply a method used to force refresh of browser cache , it’s appended to the file after the fact and no file actually exists physically with a query string, just edit the adminbar.css as r-a-y has shown you

Added a footnote to the ‘blog tracking’ list item on https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/configure-buddypress-components/

It perhaps also needs reference elsewhere as well.

@r-a-y (Sidenote: me thinks we need a BP codex article to setup the blogs component) by that do you mean multi site feature? if so is that not really a WP issue and well covered in their codex, with perhaps BP codex just needing to reference that WP page, subscribing to a variation of DRY therein.

@ChuckNJ I would love to show you, but its only in the testing phase right now so it’s not up to me right now. What I can say is this is a great theme and allows for great customization. When the site is done I will definitely send you out a link.

Did you search Google for an existing WordPress plugin? https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-transliteration/ is one I found after a quick search. You could use that as a starting point for figuring out how to extend support to wherever you want in BuddyPress.

Buddydev.com has a group blog plugin that takes advantage of standard WP’s blog categories:
http://buddydev.com/buddypress/blog-categories-for-groups-plugin/

Something similar could be put together like that for members instead of groups.

@ChuckNJ Oh alright, when you post there is a bar on the right side, under “post tags” called “featured image”. Click “set featured image” and then either upload or select from your library. Also with this theme you are able to set which categories are shown in the slider. For instance, I created a category called “featured” and only those posts in the category get displayed. This is useful because you may not want all of your categories to be displayed.

@ChuckNJ Mine is working just fine. Are you using the images as featured images?

Here’s a quick snippet you can add in your theme’s functions.php:

`function ray_number_online_users() {
$i = 0;

if ( bp_has_members( ‘user_id=0&type=online&per_page=999&populate_extras=0’ ) ) :
while ( bp_members() ) : bp_the_member();
$i++;
endwhile;
endif;

return $i;
}`

Then you can use it in a template like:

`if ( function_exists( ‘ray_number_online_users’ ) ) echo ray_number_online_users();`

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*Sidenote: code could be better. I just modified the code from the online widget.

To add a friend, simply navigate to a member profile you want to become friends with and click on the “Add Friend” button. The requested member gets an email notification asking whether or not to accept the friendship.

Please go and test BuddyPress thoroughly on http://testbp.org, then come back here for any help.

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For blogs, you need to enable WordPress’ network mode:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network

When you have that setup, BuddyPress automatically detects this and adds a blog directory. There should be a button to create a blog on that page as well as on the registration page.

(Sidenote: me thinks we need a BP codex article to setup the blogs component)

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To customize the welcome email, try Paul Gibbs’ Welcome Pack plugin:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/welcome-pack/

@zomex – If you’re trying to override the adminbar CSS on the subblog, create a file called:
`/wp-content/themes/_YOURTHEME_/_inc/css/adminbar.css`

And copy the styles from bp-default’s adminbar.css. Then you can customize the styles to your heart’s content.