yes that im aware of but my question is how does it display the bar chart and what code is used to pull data from somewhere
While this is not entirely a ‘problem’ with the new site i would suggest that allowing group creation is perhaps not the best idea or at least might need some further consideration? However having said that I realise that it’s part of the core aspect of BP. Reason mentioned is the recent creation of a group for the sole purpose of making what amounts to a post asking for help that really should have gone in an appropriate pre-existing group forum such as ‘Help and Trouble Shooting’ It tends to highlight the confusion that can exist for a self confessed buddypress newbie in using the site? It also means that unchecked groups could grow at an alarming rate and responding to the forum post or update means joining an ever increasing list of groups.
Do not change the markup directly, likely you have not added your ‘code’ to every instance of the pages that require it, regardless this isn’t the corect approach for many reasons that I won’t labour.
you should add images such as this using the background property but from the primary stylesheet for your theme with the graphic itself uploaded to whatever directory exists for iamges in that theme directory. If you find and open your primary stylesheet you will probably see examples of the background property used to place graphics on other elements so simply copy the example to the body element while replacing the graphics file name to the one you want.
I would tend to agree with modemloopers take on the Activity Stream and of r-a-y’s notion of the Facebook/Twitter issue
I am presently quite concerned with the way that the activity stream might be shapping our communities general activity or possibly simply confusing users. Initially I saw the activity stream as an extremely necessary feature that had to exist in it’s site wide guise on the main page, acting as a beacon of the sites hive of activity, I wanted it apparent that there was ‘Activity’ on the site, but now my concern is that it simply acts to stall users from actually clicking through into the site, of visiting groups, making forum entries etc and in that respect feel that I’m in agreement in stripping out the Sitewide Activity Stream.
As for BP aping Facebook and Twitter in respect of conventions this is something I feel concerned by, I do tend to see why yet would rather it didn’t and attempted to conceive it’s own conventions which I think was partly my thinking in running this thread to explore these issues i.e are twitter like activity streams what are really required do they matter in respect of a communities cohesion? ‘Updates’? very often the question that springs to my mind is “Updates to what?” and I am aware that some users do find Updates confusing.
While I do agree that one aspect of what we do as site developers is to shape our particular site community vis a vis it’s features I do think that this shouldn’t simply mean that BP throws everything into the pot sits back and says “there you are, we’ve provided a little of everything up to you to make sense of it now” On the other hand that is what I tend to enjoy doing 
but perhaps this is less about us as developers that have the ability and knowledge to hack away and more about BP itself and how non developers (who will comprise – ultimately – the greater group requiring BP to work out of the box without undue hacking)
I think that a discussion/thoughts about two central concerns might be appropriate and to that end – at the risk of trying to mold this general thread too much?- am posting a sub topic to perhaps try and establish some consensus on general principles (if it’s just muddling up the main thread, happy to hear so and a Mod can pull it?)
@Modemlooper @apeatling what if this forums activity situation could be fixed by not allowing one to post to their activity unless it is to only update there status profile only if that feature is enabled on the site. In this situation the activity stream could show everything i does not but would not confuse someone in thinking they are making a blog post or even a forum post. Each activity entry that is plugin enabled could have it’sown preset links to go to the group page for viewing or posting. I really like the idea of groups having all the options that buddypress has but I agree that it is confusing using groups with forums with the activity stream. Though this solution would alow the activity stream to be a real time site update page for all plugins/pages with in the wp/buddyress site that would also show data for all subsites with in mu or 3.0
I am one of the developers for wowroster.net and I have been following buddypress for sometime now as I would like to use it for our main site. When we started back in 04 we used phpbb2, then when to DragonflyCMS after we suffered a magor data loss due to an outage, and now we currently use phpbb3. We know we have limitations with phpbb3 and after I have been using WP along with buddpress I can really see the potential our site can have with our community. Though most of our community is accustom to forums rather than cms or now all that including a social networking layer….. I have peronally been able to weed though the nuances with the way buddypress deals with forums, blogs, and activity, though I feel if one would not be able to add content to the activity stream directly from the page it would ease the understanding on where one should be posting information. I personally see the activity stream being just that showing what is going on through out the whole site. If one wants to post they do it from the forums, if one wants to update a status they do it from thier profile and or group page they are an admin or mod too. and then anything that happens with in the site and update to profile, group, blog, and or any plugin should show in the activity stream for real time(with refreshes) viewing.
Seems like I should have connected the dots on that one; I’ve been so busy lately that when I looked through the repository here, the fact that it emulated the repository there didn’t immediately clue me in that they weren’t separate entities. I figured it was just a little brother / big brother scenario.
Thanks guys!
I got it and it was so simple, thank you.
I did this:
1. Check Mod_rewrite is enabled or not(as @travel-junkie has pointed). If you are on wamp 2.0, you can left click on the wamp icon(in the quick taskbar, the half cirecle icon)->Slect Apache(from the menu)->Apache Modules->rewrite_module(If it is not having a tick, click over that). Refresh the wordpress page and check is it working or not.
2.Once mod rewrite is checked you can try enabling/disabling permalink and resave it and Most probably it is going to work.
also, how would i create themes for both? or where could i get themes for both that look similiar?
Does the groups mean users, or disscusions? I want to set this up right, and kinda want it like i had stuff setup when i was using phpbb, where it was based on permissions, and roles, and you had certain, categories and subforums…..
Thanks Erich73 for any info
I am not sure how to use the code you provided.What i have is
<body background="picbg.jpg">
The images show on the pages except on the member and each group pages
how would I use the code
thanks
background-color:#F5F5F5;
background-image:url(/bg.jpg);
background-repeat:repeat-x;
can you post this as a TRAC-ticket ?
https://trac.buddypress.org/timeline
Hi, im not sure if people have tried testing on different hosts with different results??
2 hosts one works one doesn’t- its so weird, is this a godaddy problem?
working: http://www.intelioum.com/buddypress/members/ (see there is a avatar there)
not working: http://eyemagine.info/buddypress/
user and pass for eyemagine(feel free to check it out): u: tester p: 123456
you successfully sign in, it asks for you to upload a pic but later it just stalls and goes blank.
what i noticed is that on my server the images are uploaded although the crop function ect never works.
Would be great if someone has a fix- please let me know
It’s the whole Twitter / Facebook hybrid. Trying to emulate too many features from popular, existing social networks.
The main UI problem is groups. BP tried to copy how Facebook setup forums. But then, in v1.2, BP added Twitter-like activity streams.
For groups, you can either go one way – embrace the activity stream or embrace the forums. It’s not the best thing to try and have it both ways. But this is a decision the BP admin should make (which it is right now). At the end of the day, BP gives you free reign to customize your community all you want.
@modemlooper has got the right idea (although I don’t agree with the usage of the word “fork”). Trim down the features you don’t want by customization.
This theme will probably not be made publically available.
Well, there was another thread complaining about the clutterness of this BP sites design. I think by default BP gives you the kitchen sink and you need to develop your site into a fork if you users are looking for a fork. I personally feel like a dog chasing my tail with the default BP install. Content over here looks the same as over there scenario. Mainly it’s the forums / Activity problem. You post in a forum yet is shows up in the activity stream confuses people. I think it’s best to strip out sitewide activity stream as well as the groups activity stream. Force users to post content in forums and use their own profile activity stream to post a message to a specific user.
Just had this problem myself.
https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/2361
Normally BP fails silently if this table is missing. However if a WordPress plugin calls $wpdb->show_errors() it reports the error above.
Workaround – find the plugin with $wpdb->show_errors() and comment it out.
Ian
@anabel4you I can sort you with some good cheap Indian viagra if needed?
@takeo David you are a genius! Thank you so much – works really well. I just wonder how it is done here on buddypress.org where the entire “community” is sitting in its own subfolder? Does anyone know? (I know the thread is a bit old, but…)
testing another delightful bug @buddypress.com
^^^ spurious atmention
I’m following anabel. I’m her first follower!
But apparently not the first to notice her in the past 2 hours, 30 minutes: https://buddypress.org/community/members/anabel4you/
Yo MODs… ban hammer??
@simoncreative This is absolutely STUNNING! I can see subtle differences from the older version, so it’s really impressive how you were able to keep everything consistent with the upgrade. Big question though: How many hours do you anticipate spending on upgrading h-mag.com with every major release of BP?
