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@ipstenu

Everything works fine on our site. Media library, post media, avatars…

If I understand what’s happening, the forums summaries blocks (for lack of a better description) in /support change their order based on where the most recent comments occurred. That’s kind of a useability nightmare, not knowing from visit to visit where things are going to be located on the page.

Edit: I’m not even sure what’s happening. My head’s a-spinnin’ trying to find stuff that was nearly muscle memory, having spent so much time on this site in the past.

I’m pleased that the site is using the latest BP, but man, it is really hard to find stuff you need to find. Harder — and I didn’t think this would be possible — that it was before, even. Patience, though, I know — presumably it will get better.

One thing that I think is really being pointed up here is how weak the forums component (the most useful component for us as developers/users of this site) is, and how much work can be done (through plugins, thus far, but that kind of makes the core look a bit weak if a dozen plugins are being used on the showcase site) to make the forums experience better.

That spotlight on places where there is room for improvement can’t be a bad thing, I hope, but it sure makes using the new site frustrating so far, and I’ve been working with BP for my own sites for almost a year, so I’m familiar with its quirks already. New users? I can’t help but think they’d be a little put off.

I’ve ported this (in a very semi-informed and probably mistake-filled way) to work with Forums posts. Works flawlessly on my testbed install, and I’ve been trying to contact Hempsworth here and via his site(s) to send him my work if he’s interested in using it at all.

Posting this here in case he sees it and not email or PM or etc.

Use the oembed plugin, the forums attachment plugin, and either the tinyMCE plugin, rich’s toolbar solution or mine.

That should cover all the bases.

Via plugins.

Forum attachments for BP:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/forum-attachments-for-buddypress/

oEmbed for BP:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/oembed-for-buddypress

All support related questions for the Featured Members Widget should now be made with the Featured Members Widget Group forum. You must first join the group to be able to post to the support forum. While your there, please consider making a donation to keep me alive!

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/buddypress-featured-members-widget/forum/

@sbrajesh and @r-a-y, it was the bad bad mercime who added the link to the hack. i promise never to let my alter ego do it again

@dandelionweb

It’s better to make your changes in a child theme. This way your changes will not be overwritten when you have to upgrade BP.

(Confirming my blockquote was stripped in my reply, above)

Both of these were powerful tools for me as a moderator.

And indispensable as a user!

Link to forum thread post item in Activity Stream should link to actual post. I’ve done this on my own site by adding an id to the a:link with post-(post#). Needs to be pagination-aware, too, of course.

@skcsknathan001, second what @Andrea_r said. The plugin’s working very well in WPMU 2.9.2 with BP 1.2.3 using subdomain structures. I haven’t tested this yet in installs with subdirectory strucutres, but since all your other MU plugins – Ada Recent Posts, Ada List All, etc – work well in both structures per my experience, I don’t foresee any problems

In addition, kudos for adding an admin page for this plugin at Site Admin > Ada Site Feed to make it easier for others to input the correct feed URL’s The plugin’s full-feed also included the first five thumbnails of images I uploaded via BPGallery rc4 and published to activity stream – very cool.

Many thanks again..

more or less, you can test it out over on:
http://mystique.bp-theme-converts.com

I’ll zip it up if you want tomorrow.

I noticed “add friend” was replaced by “follow.” Profile details seem private. And, I like the permalink button in the activity streams.

Has anyone made this BuddyPress-compatible yet?

@dandelionweb

Try using the post snippet I posted above.

Any chance to get this working for group forums?

@dandelionweb


function my_redirect_activation_email()
{
return get_site_option( "admin_email" );
}
add_filter('bp_core_activation_signup_user_notification_to', 'my_redirect_activation_email');


Add this to wp-content/plugins/bp-custom.php or your theme’s functions.php file.