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This isn’t an “issue”.

Activity update permalinks, by default, are supposed to look like that.

The inspiration of this layout comes from Twitter’s status updates:

eg: http://twitter.com/buddypressdev/status/8201641709

You can always change the layout through themeing!

@pjnu

I do understand what you are talking about.

I would also rather hide this “open secret” at my website, thereby saying I would not like my competitors to know what software I am running my website on.

Not sure how this complies with GPL and Andys comment about something like “cats & puppies….”

It’s open sauce.

Sorry, couldn’t resist…

It’s open source. We all have sauce on our collars.

How did you install the BuddyPress group forums?

What’s wrong with sharing the secret sauce?

Did you follow the BP upgrade instructions here?

https://buddypress.org/blog/news/buddypress-1-2-beta/

Also if you’re running object cache, disable or clear it before activating your new BP 1.2 theme.

Here’s a tutorial for setting up XAMPP and WordPress:

http://sixrevisions.com/tutorials/web-development-tutorials/using-xampp-for-local-wordpress-theme-development/

If you’re not planning on using member blogs, this tutorial should get you up and running with WordPress. Then all you need to do is install BuddyPress.

Did you disable new user registration?

CSS would work too if you want to override everything manually… but you might need to add !important to the declaration. I just did it in a function since my client will want to change the header image themselves from time to time and the custom header application would force them to crop anything they try to upload that is taller than 125.

So all I did was change the height definition (line 117 in bp-themes/bp-default/functions.php) by adding a functions.php file to my child with just one line:

define( 'HEADER_IMAGE_HEIGHT', 250 );

Seems to work.

You can google about escaping HTML, but keep in mind this will require Javascript.

You’ll also have to modify the header actions, which are added to BP. This means on upgrades, you’ll have to manually make sure you keep up with changes.

I wouldn’t recommend this myself.

Would be nice with the header API if the height was not restricted. I ended up adding a line to functions.php in my child to allows for a taller header.

I am not following what you are saying at all..

I always go into wp-admin and click on users and then go through there to mark as spammers – I guess there is another way to do this with buddypress?

I would like a way to mark as spammers from the front page. I would also like a way to add email domains to the spam list at the same time, so the same email domain the spammer used to sign up with can’t be used again.. perhaps also pull the ip addy that they used and add that to a list that could be inserted into an htaccess deny list…

A better way to find them by username or screen name would be nice. When spammers hit my BP site, it shows up as blog spam in the recent wire or whatever it’s called, listed as posted by “danielle jones” – but when I go into wp-admin backend / users and search for danielle, it comes up with nothing – that sucks – so I have to go back to my site’ home page, and hover over the spammers name to see what the url is, and then search for the member signup name that way – bleh

ok, figured out another hack to get post deletes working on 1.1.3 Please read all my other entries and follow the same precautions. I am as of yet completely baffeled as to why this is happening and even more baffeled as to why the fixes work. on my site I had three problems, all with the activity stream as follows. could not delete a post, could not use RSS on the activity stream and post times are off by exactly the number of hous my server is off GMT.

While I still believe these are all related in some wierd way, I have yet to discover it. my changes are just code hacks that can only be done when the installed system is known.

here is the fix for delete post:

Find this file

http://yourdomain/yourinstalledfolder/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-activity bp-activity-templatetags.php

Find this line:

function bp_activity_delete_link()

6 lines below find this href statement segment

$bp->root_domain . ‘/’ . $bp->activity->slug . ‘/delete/

modify this seciton to this:

$bp->root_domain . ‘/buddypress/’ . $bp->activity->slug . ‘/delete/

by adding; buddypress/

this should fix the delete buttons on your activity stream itself and return you to the correct page after deletion.

Steve

PS please let me know how it works for you.

had to add my 2 cents..

photo albums are an integral part of most social networks – they were also a promised part of buddypress when it was announced, and given the features that were supposed to be available by 2009 is the reason we have spent so much time working with and testing BP.

While I think it is fine for people to develop and charge for premium plugins, I have found with several projects that a nightmare occurs when core code is updated and plugins are broken – many of the premium plugins developers do not update. Anyone who purchases premium plugins needs to be aware that they may not work in the future, this has hurt other projects in a big way. I vote that buddypress gets photo albums in the core, and as soon as possible.

[blockquote]”dozens of other applications that could be core to someone; event management, mailing lists, groupware, file sharing, paid membership levels, video galleries, group video editing, chat rooms, video conferencing, shopping cart, credit card payment bridge, mobile apps, geolocation”[/blockquote]

– I agree that many of these features are core to a social network in 2010 – If I was Automattic, I would have a developer on salary that worked full time to make sure plugins for these things did not break with future core updates – it’s essential for a stable future of social software in my humble opinion, this is one of the issues that crippled phpfox years ago.

Without some of these things that some people consider “extras” – buddypress is nothing more than a web 1.0 app that some geeks may enjoy, but essentially does nothing more than phpbb or phpnuke did years ago. Boonex’s Dolphin has photo albums, privacy, chat, and all of that – all core – and it still leaves room for premium plugin developers to create fancier flash gallery plugins, and others.

@John James Jacoby – I like your idea of charging for answered questions – that would make things better for those who answer and those who ask – very similar to a group-financing of plugins that get core support I had a couple years back.

Ok, I am mistaken, the post above is incorrect. it is exactly the same problem for deleting posts. Someone on my site posted just as I deleted and i thought it was multiple records but a review of records shows that it was just the one I selectd.

So, a simple way to delete a post from the activity stream seems to be to change the url from;

http://yourdomain/installedFolder/activity/delete/38?_wpnonce=db334cffab

to:

http://yourdomain/installedFolder/buddypress/activity/delete/38?_wpnonce=db334cffab

this will delete the item and leave you at a blank page you can just then back out. I will look for the hard code changes to get you to the right page and make it so you do not need to alter the url.

Steve

Log into the admin page, buddypress tab, click the “Profile Field Setup”. On the page that appears, you can set any field you want to display on the registration page.

Hopefully helpful.