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Assuming that you’re using a child theme of bp-default, the easiest and simplest way is adding the following in your child theme’s style.css:

body.groups div#sidebar { display: none }
body.groups div#content .padder { border-right: 0px; margin-right:0px; }

@thekmen so do you have this theme working with the new version of bp 1.4.5 and 3.0? I have been using your version of mystique for awhile now and have had to make adjustments to other plugins theme files but other than that it seems to be working good…. though I still seem to have the iusse I had on the activity page where the footer was not put in place right in which data started to over lap. in my case now I seem to have an hr line at the bottom of the page that over laps the main container.

@Zanzoon did you manage to get it to work for you?

I’m having an issue with this plugin no longer working after update to 1.2.5, the text input box no longer appears and neither does the entire chat. Deleted and reinstalled 3 times. Any idea?

@intimez – Per BP Roadmap – BP 1.4 Import/Export of all BuddyPress user data
– unless of course someone makes a plugin for that function beforehand
Even so, nothing beats database backups

Try this code by Boone:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/how-can-i-set-show-newblogposts-as-default-on-acitivity-stream/?topic_page=2&num=15#post-42623

@heini , @DJPaul – Works for me in bp-custom.php. Did you wrap the code in open and ending PHP tags?

eg. [?php … ?] (replace square brackets with circular brackets).

If that doesn’t work, you can always put the code in your theme’s functions.php.

Locking thread.

@queertoday – BP-FBConnect, as Jeff has stated, is an old plugin. The FB plugin that is even recommended by BP is WP-FB-AutoConnect.

Unfortunately, there are some things that are not added out of the box like FB avatars. However in the comments section of the plugin author’s page (located at the bottom), there is some code you can use to add that functionality.

@sushkov I’ll be testing it out, too and thanks for being so helpful over here in addition to your gsoc work. One thing I will look to do is to enable this feature set in some groups, but not others / noroc

@desininja you know the Post New Topic button you used to start this thread? Hit it again when you have a new topic yaar

@jeffsayre @DJPaul

Can’t wait see import/export like wordpress. Useful for transfer, another install, etc.

@alierkurt; I found your post here whilst taking a break from, well, breaking things in BP.

Not sure what you mean though. Why would members need to post in a group they haven’t joined? I’d have thought that’s the basic idea; you join one to post in it (and read too, if it’s hidden).

@Jalien, gradebook should be ready in a week or so. The idea is to use BuddyPress forums as a platform for students solutions postings, and implement a grading system above it. All the data later will be pulled into main Courseware dashboard.

A testing version is available now, but it has no gradebook so far, and will require UI/UX work. A final version is scheduled at the end of my gsoc period, which is end of this summer.

Basically the API approach I’m using is the same as in WordPress: Actions and Filters. The component will be full of hooks so extending it should be a snap.

Here’s the initial list of features: http://gsoc2010.wordpress.com/stas-suscov-academic-suite/

@LPH2005 The code on svn works and allows creating courses, adding assignments and bibliographies to it. Untill monday there will schedules support too.
People ask how can they install and test…

@alanchrishughes It is/will be a big project, yes.

The external integration approach does work (with BuddyPress, too), and that way you can have the traditional forum view (or at least, a normal bbPress site as well). It’s not straightforward to do, and it has been a long time since I did it last; hopefully someone will pop up with a link to some instructions.

@dennis_h
This sort of comment is why we end up closing threads; trying to provoke developers into responding to your thread in this way is, at the very least, rude.

I was referring to the main BuddyPress project, as that’s where the theme is. The project to improve bp.org is not related. And child themes are usable and upgradeable; I personally have clients doing exactly that.
Giving the entire community less than two hours to link you to BP 1.2.5 theme upgrade instructions and then saying that “child themes are not compatible with BP” is unrealistic and misleading for anyone casually browsing these forums.

The best I will do for you is link you to this page on the Trac, which shows the differences in the BP-Default theme from 1.2.4 to 1.2.5. Red means something deleted, green means something changed or new.

@Dennis_H; Laughing here. BP is a great tool, for all the slagging-off the poor developers get! They have the patience of saints.

@Dennis_H; Have to laugh! BP has made me cranky as hell during the past couple of weeks, as nothing is easy with it. I actually trashed all the downloaded files, plugins, etc., THREE times in a hissy fit! The thing is, it’s the only way at present to have a working social network with member groups, which is essential for what we need. Our site will be advertised locally very soon, and so will be a real world example. I’m sure there must be others too (did I see a ‘Featured sites’ link somewhere..?)

@DJPaul; Cheers, will do.