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@kimprasannanielsen welcome to the help forum, firstly the forum is not a coding service as such we can’t do the work for you but will help you where you get stuck.

If you find an aspect confusing then please explain what stage you are at and what you’re stuck with and someone with experience of using the template pack will hopefully be able to guide you along.

If however you do want professional help then rather than post your email address here post a request on the jobs board group for help getting this sorted.

@travel-junkie Along with due attribution should also go the common courtesy of requesting permission and of not assuming that because something is posted publicly that that means it’s free to be copied as this is generally not the case.

With a tiny moderation hat on I would state for the record that this thread, should it continue, is not about bp-tricks in particular please, lest it feel like unfair judgment is being passed, which isn’t deserved.

On the matter of ‘tips & tricks’ getting lost on this project home site I would agree but that is an issue that is to be addressed by the reworking of the codex for the site and that this is where many code snippets will be gathered and presented as things progress, as for that being replicated elsewhere I pass no comment either way.

Yes, there are already filters for this in the default theme.

Also, take a look at: https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/custom-buddypress-loops/the-activity-stream-loop/

Hi @bowromir,

This has the makings of a good debate, (and nothing to do with “get non activated users”.. Someone close this thread!)

I want to argue with you, refute your points, etc., etc. – but in reality, I tend to agree with a lot of them.

You are right, this site is very poor when it comes to finding information – even, as you point out, “how to” information (tricks… I hate that word!) that you know you read just a few days ago.

I’ve seen little constructive feedback, desire or direction from Automattic on this. So, I understand the motivation to create a separate site that attempts to do the job of presenting technical “how to” information well (and easily searchable).

I’m a little uncomfortable though about mixing your commercial side (themes) in the same site as the community resource, but accept there are arguments each way. I don’t know much about Adii and WooThemes, but suspect a lot of their content is self generated, or produced by their theme users. Where I worry about the ethics is if things are simply taken from this site (or others) and represented as “another great trick brought to you by Bowe”.

Ok, enough of hijacking this thread – and @travel-junkie‘s excellent snippet. Let’s talk separately sometime.

Hi Jozik and others
Are you still developing BPML? It’s been a while since last update.

Hi @rogercoathup,

Woow you almost make me feel guilty now! You make a few valid points, and I think the “problem” is that bp-tricks.com currently shows a big homepage offering my theme, while the actual community is not yet online. This might give you the impression it’s purely about business and making profit, and that is certainly not the case. It’s hard to defend myself when I only have a pre-order page to show, but if you read my reply here: https://buddypress.org/community/groups/creating-extending/forum/topic/bp-slick-probably-the-best-bp-theme-ive-ever-seen/#post-73078 you hopefully have a better idea of what I’m trying to do.

I’ve been on this forums for a long time, and I’ve come across so many awesome tips and tricks which are only seen by a few, and lost for so many. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve looked for a tricks which I KNOW is here somewhere, but impossible to find back. That’s how BP-Tricks was born, and it will hopefully become a very nice resource for buddypress users. No ads, only BuddyPress related content, and no subscription models or anything like that. If you want to purchase a premium theme you can, and you’ll receive support for that, but it will not be promoted with ads or constant posts about why you should buy a Premium Theme or anything.

I hope that BP-Tricks becomes something like WooThemes or NetTuts.. have a huge bunch of cool resources and free stuff, while at the same time providing good support and nice designs/themes for people who wish to use that service. I personally have no problems with these kinds of services as long as you strike a balance between offering awesome stuff for free, and asking some money for certain services (in my case a Theme).

This has become quite a long reply sorry for that

I’m not aware of any games plugins, but I an working on an Achievements plugin.

@paulhastings0 – are you suggesting we should copy good code snippets from these forums across to a 3rd party site that will sell themes? That’s sounds like a lot of freely acquired content and SEO for what’s ostensibly a commercial business.

I’m generally happy to submit and publish code to help people on these forums (and for them to use how they see fit, commercial or otherwise). It will occasionally be abused, and there are spam sites that will trawl and re-publish as their own work, and we can’t prevent that.

However, if I thought it was being republished blatantly with little added value, as you suggest, as an offering from another business, I would be much more reluctant to publish it in the first place.

Hey @asshu – Is Janrain now supposed to be functional with buddypress?

@janismo Spam post noted containing 200,000,000 links no wonder IE couldn’t cope, it will be flagged up.

@r-a-y

Thanks. I had found that same post yesterday and already applied it. Works great!

I like it because I get the benefit of “post on wall” type usability, and I still get the email notifications, which I think is an important feature. I now simply wish to have “@username” tagging (mentions) to continue to work as always, yet I want to tweak the look of the site so user’s who don’t want to try to understand it don’t feel like they have to.

Also, regarding my #2 point above: The user who is doing the posting never has to type an “@user” and cannot delete it from the posting form, because it gets added behind the scenes after he or she posts. Nice! Like I said, now I just need to tweak the site design to make the “mention this user” button go away, and perhaps rename the “mentions” filter menu choice.

This should preferably be posted in the oEmbed BP forum:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/oembed-for-buddypress/forum

But anyway… yup it should be possible.

Would have to write a custom activity fetch routine to do this. Might add this for oEmbed for BP 0.7 (that’s right, I’m talking about 0.7 before 0.6 is officially released!).

Re: thumbnails – I’m working on support for that for v0.6. Not all providers will return thumbnails. YouTube will work though.

Okay, so I’ll probably create a plugin for this in the coming week or two. Please remind me if I don’t get to this!

@dougjoseph – Your ideas have been discussed before.

Read this blog post on BuddyDev.com to post on a user’s profile (mirroring the functionality of bp.org):

Using activity as wire in Buddypress 1.2 themes

https://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop#Style_Posts_From_Some_Category_Differently

@rossagrant – these Codex pages on the loop are your ‘bread and butter’ when theming with WordPress blogs.

@hnla Oh, right. Whoops. My amazing brilliance got ahead of itself.

Here’s the link: https://codex.buddypress.org/buddypress-site-administration/customizing-labels-messages-and-urls/