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@shamus – Please create a child theme if you plan on making changes to any aspects of the default theme.

Once you’ve created a child theme, place the snippet I posted above in your child theme’s style.css.

“Try telling your opinion without personal attacks”
It’s not a personal attack, just an attempt to inject some realism. Andy Peatling is obviously a brilliant PHP programmer, but he is the only one Automattic pays to work on Buddypress. So Buddypress is like his solo project. Usually software is a collaboration between business requirements, programmers, interaction designers, graphic designers, copy writers, marketing, project manager, etc. See also semi-competitors of BP like SocialEngine. In Buddypress the priorities seem out of whack.

BP Quickpress is a possibility:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-quickpress/

If you’re using WPMU, you could also try BP Groupblog:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-groupblog/

Though you need to create a group before you can enable a blog.

1) You can use any version of WP now for BP. WPMU allows users to create their own blogs though, and a few BP plugins require it (BP Group Wiki, BP Groupblog, BP Classifieds).
2) Depends on the third-party plugin in question.

This thread is quite interesting to me, and I do appreciate everyone’s thoughtful posts.

I may sound silly asking some of these questions so I would like to beg your forgiveness in advance,

1) Is WPMU still a base requirement for BuddyPress?
2) When a membership site is using BuddyPress, WordPress or WPMU (if required), 1ShoppingCart, and Wishlist Member, is the login seamless?

I guess further questions are relatd to the answers to these. Thanks in advance for your responses!

Hi MrMaz, I think your plugin is super! I do have one question, we are building a buddypress pay site and we want to hide all of the tabs except for a few pages if the user is logged in. Where can I find the code that creates the “Links” navigation in the top header so that I can hide it if the user is logged in or not? Also, can “Links” navigation item be changed to the word “Videos” instead? It seems like both of these would be easy fixes once I knew where the code is, or is it more complicated than that? Thanks in advance for your help!

@richard1987 @sofastop you are most welcome:)
For no highlighting the members tab and just highlighting the “My profile” tab, we will need to modify the header.php.
Please create a child theme and copy the header from bp-default to your child theme.
Then edit it and change line no 57 where the code says

to

Edit: Seems the code did not pass. Posting on pastebin again
http://bpdev.pastebin.com/GCxK3i0y

I hope, the code passes through the forum.

One part that I find confusing is that it’s not intuitive where to post. For example, I see posts about specific plugins in the community activity section (posted there only), in forums (where plugins are discussed both in “Creating and Extending” and in “Third Party Components and Plugins”), and in the activity section of that plugin’s page.

Seems a bit disjointed…which is fine for this site because we’ll all take the time to learn the quirks.

But on our own sites, I can see casual members being confused. An example: I have several members who continually write blog posts in the activity stream, thinking that they are blog posts! In other words, if it’s too confusing for a 2nd grader to figure out quickly, then it’s not going to be user-friendly for most of the public.

Hi Brajesh

Thanks for this piece of code, Ive been looking for something like this for awhile now. One problem however (nothing to do with your code tho).

When a user logs into my BuddyPress website it automatically redirects them to their profile page, therefore making the MEMBERS and MY PROFILE link both active, (In my case they are both now turning orange). Is it possible to make only the MY PROFILE link active?

Hope i have explain my problem ok?

Thanks

@boyevul – try this revision:
http://pastebin.com/MGCv9nUw (updated)

I’m filtering the bp_activity_user_link this time instead of the entire member domain! D’oh!

@peterverkooijen: Try telling your opinion without personal attacks and being harsh. That’s just counter productive, for you, the thread and everything else.

How about people’s names missing (like the comment 2 above this). I’m guessing they are users that have been around a while before you were required to add some profile field?

@gtn
Hi, Please take a look at the second code, It will allow you linking while retaining the buddypress style. I had forgot to put the li elements, so, corrected in the 2nd link.
Hope that helps.
Thanks
Brajesh

sorry, but not a fan.

Pay no attention to question #2. Just saw the Cron Settings.

Great updates!

Do you know how to add the member avatar to the top points widget. I’m trying to style it to look more like the default BP widgets.

Is there a way to give everyone 100 points? We have lots of existing members and to make it fair I would like to give them the same number of points a new member would get for registering.

Is it possible to hook into the BP Links Plugin?

Thanks

@francescolaffi here,here on the comments ” on mobile support: I thinks first step is to make bp mobile friendly then plugins will follow the core example. I mean that core protocol with support for plugins is much more better then each plugin with it’s own protocol.”

Please update the plugin with this feature when ready!

I’m not going to make any friends in here anyway, so I’ll say what others won’t: Andy Peatling is a PHP programmer, not an (interface) designer. This redesign is cluttered, hard to use. I see groups, forums, topics, community, support. I have no clue what’s what. Automattic should focus on core functionality (member management, security, privacy, spam, etc.), take out redundancies (less is more), separate script from layout as much as possible and leave design to theme developers.

@xberserker You are wanting a way to donate points to a specific user?? So when you go to a user (who is a friend perhaps) it shows a donate button??
I dont use donate – but cant imagine this would be hard to do…

@agrundner @anointed @mercime @finni3
Thank you all
@stwc
That’s a little more complex as I guess It involves two things(programmatically auto creation of groups(easy) and then Andy seems to be using Group Extension API,group meta for achieving the review functionality, and may be a modified plugin which already does the review and rating). I hope, Andy is going to make it available, if not, obviously we can achieve the same, perhaps I will do something similar for one of my site in near future and will let you know

@apeatling, you solution is easy, but I was doing it for a theme, so I had to consider generalized case when we don’t know which components will be active and which won’t, That’s why I used the do_action/add action approach. Further If you want to change the order of display of search result for components, It will be just a matter of changing the priority in the add action.
@r-a-y, haha you were perfectly right