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Hmm okay… i’m just testing this locally with a child theme of the default BP theme. I also haven’t upgraded to BP 1.2.1 on this test box.

Are you echoing $bp->current_component to get these results – “a-post-with-everything-in-itcomponent” and “groupcomponent”?

@Dwenaus

Slight problem here: when on the blog creation page (Create a Blog from Blog Directory), group tags appear at the top of the page content. Oops!

Any way to remove / hide this?

I’m running WPMU2.9.1 and BP1.2.1 with default theme.

I only tested the current_component on one WP page… okay just tested with one post.

It returns a number if you’re on a WP post, so do a check for is_numeric.

global $bp;

if (is_front_page() || (isset($bp->current_component) && !is_numeric($bp->current_component))  ) {

YOUR BP CSS/JS here

}

This is untested… but give it a shot.

In the template for your main blog just hide it in the css is the easy way

Look at the current_component.

<?php global $bp;

if (isset($bp->current_component)) {

YOUR BP CSS/JS here

}

?>

The current_component should only return something if it is a BP page.

[EDIT]

Just checked the activity stream home page… it doesn’t return anything for that.

You’ll need to add a conditional for that as well.

ok that seemed to have fixed it. I think I was using a old version of the buddypress plugin.

yes i am using the default theme. I am about to reinstall wp and buddypress. I just started it

This is a theme issue. The new bp-default has a main content area (where you’re seeing the “not found” message which signifies that you haven’t yet posted any blog entries on the main blog), and one sidebar at the right. You’ll have to create a child theme and register some new sidebars if you want to use the new bp-default and have a similar look to the old bp-sn-parent.

Here’s a discussion on the subject: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/three-columns

I would be already happy if the already existing Private-Groups would work properly……

https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/2072

yea i can’t even get my messages to come up. I am running the newest WP and buddypress…

Tim – we must be on similar wavelengths. I was just thinking about this problem yesterday and I wrote the following: http://teleogistic.net/code/buddypress/bp-import-blog-activity/. I assume that, because this creates activity items for all members who have ever posted/commented on the site, it will do the work of adding those members to the directory as well. (Still doesn’t do anything for members who have never contributed, probably.) Hope it helps.

“In WP v3.0, WordPress MU will be merged with the single WP installation and there will be a migration path.”

Unless you are merging together more than one standalone WP install into one multisite network, in 3.0 there will be no need to migrate anything to turn on multiple blogs (ie; multiple sites).

Am awaiting this feature for my ustream.tv,but the best bet is contact dev : bp-link maybe a pro version is in the pipeline..

BP v1.21 is very whacked out in how it handles user names and profile URL’s. I’m seeing inconsistencies all over the place. Sometimes it uses the users nicename and sometimes it seems to be using their display_name. It doesn’t handle spaces in the user name at all. With some code I found on these forums, I’ve been able to patch things up a bit, but its still a mess. Check out this thread: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/all-links-are-working-minus-my-adminauthorall-of-my-pages.

Fixing the issue with spaces in the user name is actually quite easy by adding a urlencode() function to the string that gets used to find the user. However, in most cases the spaces in the user name are appearing because BP is using the wrong user name for the lookup.

If anyone stumbles on this thread, there is another thread where I have replied at length about this: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/activating-existing-users

Clearly this is broken after 1.2 upgrade. I have same issue, so I logged bug.

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/blog-link-replaced-with-activity-in-12

The best solution at this time is something like Group Activity Notifications https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-group-activity-stream-subscription/. It does a bit more than what you’re asking for, and by default it has everyone subscribed to everything, but it does allow the user pretty fine-grained control over notifications.

We’re working to make the plugin more customizable, so that the site admin could choose to turn notifications off by default. Then it would work just like the way you describe.

@Andy – I understand the developer logic / enhanced power of the forums-groups concept. Unfortunately, though… it causes a headache for the clients we are building sites for:

They are used to the plain simple concept of standalone forums. No amount of explanation gets me past the response “but, I still don’t see why I’ve got to create a group, when all I want is a forum”.

In one case, the client has decided they are going to run SimplePress forums integrated with BuddyPress to get around this ‘problem’.

Perhaps, it would be less of an issue if it was our own site that we were running and maintaining, but we are developing for clients who will administer the system themselves and struggle with / or don’t see the need for forums-groups setup.

I guess it’s the old marketing adage: “it’s much easier to sell them something they want, rather than to sell them something they don’t know they want”.