BuddyPress.org

Not sure if this is the right place, but it’s a complaint for sure, and as this site is a nightmare to navigate here will have to do. I’ll stick my foot where my mouth is and rant, but will happily listen if someone can explain the kind of nonsense I’m coming across while theming BuddyPress.

I’ve spent long, long days for weeks on end setting up BP and modifying a simple theme to suit what we want. Some problems, it seems to me, should never have been ‘designed’ into it. For example, in the Activity stream there are links to View and Delete the post. Fair enough. My theme causes View to wreck the layout and display everything off-centre, with no sidebar. I’ve spent hours trying to rectify it, then had to take a break to help someone out with an old clanker of a PC that stopped working. When I came back I clicked on View, to continue working on getting the View page to display correctly. Then I thought, WHY?! What on earth is the point of a View link, to display something I can already see, on a blank page of its own?

So I’ve done it another way; deleted the code which inserts the View link from the core files. I’ve backed it up for when there’s an upgrade, along with a few other things which make little or no sense. That’s just one example, along with the stupid admin bar which only gets in the way in the WP back end, and confuses users on the BP front end.

Now we’re very grateful for WP and BP, and all the wonderful plugin work done by others. But come on; who designed this thing, and why is it so Heath Robinson, with more unnecessary options and bits than you can shake a stick at? For the next version, wouldn’t it make sense to re-map what’s actually required in a social network site and what’s just a waste of developer time, and our time? Or can someone make better sense of it all (including this site) because we sure can’t!

Hey @Travel-Junkie (or anyone who knows the answer to this) where should I paste your code, inside my functions.php (..plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/functions.php)file?

If my template file is named bp-gamers.php (in my theme in the profiles folder), what should I rename from your code?
I really just want a blank profile page so that I may hardcode a few fields.

Thanks

ps: That functionality you described on your site sounds really cool.. do you have a link?

Hi peeps. I’m having a similar problem, but not sure if its exactly the same thing, my activity page is not the first page, nor do I want it. I’m using a custom theme designed in Artisteer, and the activity is not showing up. If I use the default buddypress theme, then the activity shows up.

Any ideas?
http://spaceoflove.co.za

Thanks

but you are only ever displayed as ‘Admin’, you don’t show as ‘Super Admin’ that is just a menu item or category that all admins should see, or so I thought? have you actually lost the dashboard menu headed ‘Super Admin’?

Ought to also point out that this forum is really for BuddyPress specific issues, you might be better asking this at the WP forums or sticking with the thread in that post.

@Paul Gibbs, can you point out which pieces of code have been fixed, which functions etc? Is it also WP 3.0-ready? Is it documented somewhere, on trac or something like that? I’m not a developer, so I’m not sure where to start.

Some avatar bug stuff has been fixed in the next version of BuddyPress.

@azreeceli – based on your post, you want to allow your user to post and want to customize the admin dashboard so the user won’t even know that their posting in the back-end by theming the back-end to look like the front-end of the site. That’s is do-able but a lot of work which = paid work.
There’s a way to allow your users to post from the front-end,install Jet QuickPress plugin.https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/jet-quickpress/

@MattKern; Nice site, very clean looking. Is that a custom theme of your own?

@Veneration; First, clone the default theme (there’s help around about doing that, and it’s pretty easy). Then edit your theme header.php template, where you should find the links. Any files you clone into a new theme override the default theme’s files.

@AviM: If you wanted attempt to go the child theme route (which really isn’t that hard at all), you could always just put a bp_group_is_admin conditional around the group activity stream update form on groups/single/activity.php. It’s worked fine for me.

@eric, current versions of BP are not WordPress 3.0-ready.

I’ve upgraded a BP 1.1.3-based custom theme to WordPress 3.0. The only problem I’ve found so far is avatars upload, so I guess WP 3.0 changed how it handles avatars?

Can someone point out which change broke the functionality? Were function or hook names changed? Were functions moved to other files? Or something more complicated?

Is this already being worked on for a 1.2+ version? Is there a trac (or whatever it’s called) that I can use as reference to try to fix it in my custom theme?

Our site is for one UK county only, so would it be possible to put a rule in .htaccess to block any connections not from the UK? (Not brothered about search engine spiders, as it’ll be local word of mouth advertising). Or, is it possible to just block anyone from outside of the UK from signing-up? That would allow others to read, but not register or post.

I might be missing the point completely here, but I changed my theme’s sidebar.php code to call up the root sign-up using this;

<?php printf( __( ' You can also create an account.’, ‘buddypress’ ), site_url( ‘/wp-signup.php’ ) ) ?>

Mind you, it shows the sign-up form complete with the extra fields I added via Buddypress. Does this mean it’s still being hooked into by BP and is actually bypassing the standard WP 3.0 sign-up code? I noticed that even pulling out the php and replacing it with a normal href link, it still does the same thing.

a few things i’ve done

removed the powered by in the footer (just changed up the wording to WP/BP)
block the crappy browser MSIE ([3456]).
block a bunch of bad bots (something like: http://www.askapache.com/htaccess/blocking-bad-bots-and-scrapers-with-htaccess.html )
block a bunch of CDIR ranges (something like: http://www.wizcrafts.net/blocklists.html )

Okay! This is pathetic. Spam is a real problem for literally all community websites on the internet. Ever since I’ve updated to WP 3.0, spam has become a pain in the anus! So this is my solution, I’m building a spam prevention plugin that is built in flash. Its all using AS 3.0. I’m having issues with Internet Explorer 6. If you use IE 6 or you don’t have a flash plugin or something for your browser then I don’t care. SPAM IS A PLOBLEM. 90% of the people using my site have flash and don’t use IE6. The 10% have to just deal with it.

UPDATE COMING SOON! IF YOU USE IE6 THEN GO LIVE IN A CAVE LIKE THE HOBBITS DO.

Thanks for that @mercime, I’ll give it a go sometime soon.