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Hi,
I want remove the @mention item on the admin bar menu, and on the activity profil page (not the global activity page because we can do this editing child theme).
Do I can do this editing bp-custom with something like this ?
I’ve found this to remove random menu in admin bar :
function modify_adminbar(){
remove_action( ‘bp_adminbar_menus’, ‘bp_adminbar_random_menu’, 100 );
}
add_action(‘plugins_loaded’,’modify_adminbar’,99);Someone could tell me how to remove this function : bp_core_new_subnav_item ?
Thanks.
First off, I’ve just installed Justin Tadock’s Members Plugin to get access to the Restrict Roles Template tags. What I’d like to do is make it so that specific components of my BP install are only available to certain roles.
This is the code I’ve come up with so far:
if ( bp_is_active( ‘profile’ | ‘activity’ | ‘messages’ | ‘friends’ | ‘groups’ | ‘settings’ ) && function_exists( ‘current_user_has_role’ ) && current_user_has_role( ‘subscriber’ | ‘moderator’ | ‘administrator’ ) ) {
// the BP Component is “Profile, Activity, Messages, Friends, Groups, or Settings”, and the users role is “Subscriber, Moderator, or Administrator”display the component; // I don’t know what to put here so that the component is displayed if the user has the right role.
}else {
wp_redirect(get_option(‘siteurl’) . ‘/page-of-my-choice.php’);; // redirects user who don’t have the correct role to my page of my choice
}Any Ideas on how to make this work?
@Mike Pratt yes there is really a distinction to be made between blogs and forums, but deciding on which to use? If one disables forums in groups one is simply left with ‘updates’ there is no blog functionality per se (I’m ignoring plugins in the context of this thread) and I’m thinking that the nature of ‘Updates’ is tending to be confusing to users?
“BP tends to be better at constructing grown up environments that focus on quality content contributions” I would agree but not sure why. Quality content contributions are what I perceive as the core of a community or social network as designed using apps such as BP or Ning whereas I tend to view FB as somewhat ephemeral nonsense
(sorry not one of those that consider FB or Twitter as hugely vital) My biggest issue is that as things stand I’m struggling to see my way to a custom configuration based around default BP that does actually facilitate the quality content – this isn’t necessarily a BP ‘fault’ but there are issues that I feel need highlighting such as the confusion that tends to arise around the sitewide activity stream@lph2005 This is the sort of feedback that I felt would play a crucial part in this thread, so it would be interesting if you could explore this further and update the thread. As regards the static front page I’m guessing that this static page did not include the hubbub that is the Site Wide Activity Stream?
Slowly I am beginning to realize that Buddy press is not a straight-out-of-the-box solution. It is not like wordpress. In order to create a proper Buddypress community you really have to *develop* your community.
The negative with this is that the default install is confusing. Comments/updates in the activity stream, forum posts, comments on forum posts, comments on blog posts. Not only do you have different types of comments but you also have meta comments. No wonder things are confusing!
I am tempted to use an analogy of Linux vs Apple. You can do a lot with linux, but all the choices may lead to confusion and an unproductive environment. Apple on the other hand knows the importance of keeping things simple. The iPad is an example of this. It has less features than regular computers, and this makes it easier to use and less confusing. It does fewer things but it does them well.
So what has Apple and Linux got to do with Buddypress? I believe that Buddypress should have several options. (as it has today), but it should be easier to customize Buddypress in order to suit every individual communities` needs. You develop the site to suit you needs. Use what your community needs and remove everything else. Less noise and less confusion and more Apple like
As it is right now, in order to really customize the default install, you have to know PHP etc. This is good if you are a programmer, but unfortunately not all of us are. It seems to me like a lot of the BPusers are non-programmers who just want to add a social layer to their WP site. If Automattic wants to cater to these people, it will be necessary to make it easy to customize BP without having to dive into the code.
I suggest expanding on the options (toggles) in the Admin panel in order to customize the BP install more. That way you can really streamline your community experience.
Example:
– disable commenting for ALL activity-items at the homepage, or choose which one you want to disable. (forum/blogs etc)
– disable activity streams on groups (if admin wants to use forums instead.)
-Choose what is displayed in the activity feed. (Friend connections, blog posts etc)What is apparent, just by reading the previous posts are that we all have different needs:
“Built-in forums are increasingly clashing with commenting on blogs and wires and the social networking structure. There is no reason to have old-fashioned forums in a next generation social network.”
vs
“I think it’s best to strip out sitewide activity stream as well as the groups activity stream. Force users to post content in forums and use their own profile activity stream to post a message to a specific user.”
People want different things, so why not let them have a choice. The new Bp.org is proof that all these different features are useful. They all have their advantages.(although it could use some more improvements to streamline the experience)
I agree with RAYs view:
“For groups, you can either go one way – embrace the activity stream or embrace the forums. It’s not the best thing to try and have it both ways. But this is a decision the BP admin should make (which it is right now). At the end of the day, BP gives you free reign to customize your community all you want.”SUMMARY: My thoughts are that Buddypress needs an easier and more complete way of designing the community through the admin panel.
Topic: Profile Field Filtering
Everyone says they want this, but the BP Member Filter plugin doesn’t appear to be going anywhere. Maybe it’s getting worked into the core of some future release, but who knows what it will actually do.
Right now, it is nearly impossible to find specific members in buddypress…For example, my site is real-estate-focused. It should be EASY to find a local agent or mortgage broker, but it’s virtually impossible. And, because they can’t be easily found, some are questioning the value in signing up for my site in the first place.
Here’s the concept….
Buddypress has profile fields. We should be able to search and sort by those fields.
I need them by location (pre-loaded), but the same concept could apply to profession, hobby, shoe size, or astrological sign or whatever.
For example, when someone clicks on my “Members” tab, there should be a drop-down box at the top of the page that filters by country…then, state, county, and city. Maybe there could be an option for additional filters beyond that, like my “profession” field.
Since my site is news-ish, visitors could search blog posts the same way, finding posts specific to their location.
Once this basic platform is set up, there are a ton of cool ways it could be used…
Filter results RSS feeds would could created customized newsletters
Sidebar widgets and activity streams could show community activity that match a member’s location (or shoe size or whatever).
Profile Page Sidebars could display local activity.
Using a visitor’s IP address, local member’s activity could automatically be shown…
This could be the groundwork for an entire targeted advertising program, showing ads to specific groupings of people in specific locations.
I want to have the Activity stream as the home page, but I’d like to have it look more like the blog page with some widgets on the side (e.g. – groups, who’s online, etc.). Is there any way to do that?
I’m very new to this and do not have a working knowledge of css or programming. So, I operate from the user-friendly environment only. Any help you can give this newbie-of-all-newbies is appreciated.
Waiting someone create plugin allowing to display different widget on each buddypress component (members, groups, forum repository, search, page, post, 404, etc..), I’ve tested a trick wich does work easy. This tutorial helped me http://buddydress.com/2010/04/add-a-widget-anywhere-in-3-simple-steps/
1) duplicate sidebar.php and rename this : sidebar-members.php to each component you want customize.
2) on yours news sidebar-xxxxx.php, find this : and replace ‘sidebar’ with currently name of your file without ‘.php’ (if you are on sidebar-members.php, put ‘sidebar-members’).
3) create fonctions on functions.php : add :
array(
‘name’ => ‘Sidebar-xxxxxxx’,
‘before_widget’ => ‘‘,
‘after_widget’ => ‘‘,
‘before_title’ => ‘‘,
‘after_title’ => ‘‘
)
);e.g. :
register_sidebars( 1,
array(
‘name’ => ‘Sidebar-search’,
‘before_widget’ => ‘‘,
‘after_widget’ => ‘‘,
‘before_title’ => ‘‘,
‘after_title’ => ‘‘
)
);register_sidebars( 1,
array(
‘name’ => ‘Sidebar-404’,
‘before_widget’ => ‘‘,
‘after_widget’ => ‘‘,
‘before_title’ => ‘‘,
‘after_title’ => ‘‘
)
);register_sidebars( 1,
array(
‘name’ => ‘Sidebar-activity’,
‘before_widget’ => ‘‘,
‘after_widget’ => ‘‘,
‘before_title’ => ‘‘,
‘after_title’ => ‘‘
)
);4) call new sidebar area in your components. To each component template, you must have home.php or index.php wich has at the end of the code. Replace ‘sidebar.php’ with ‘sidebar-xxxxx.php’ of your choice.
5) Check the results in your widget admin and enjoy
Excuse my english !
Lately I get an error while creating a group at this stage: create/step/group-avatar
Error: There was an error saving group details. Please try again.
My site details are:
WordPress:
WP single install 2.9.2
Where:
On a Subdirectory – http://nijmegeneet.nl/club/
BuddyPress:
BP 1.2.3
Plugins activated:
All in One Webmaster,
Custom Login Page,
Tweetstream,
Maintenance Mode,
Facestream,
BuddyPress Links,
Invite Anyone,
oEmbed for BuddyPress,
W3 Total Cache,
Wordpress Backup,
WordPress Table Rename,
WP-DBManager,
WP Security Scan
Theme:
Child Theme of bp-default
bp-custom.php:
<?php
define(‘BP_MEMBERS_SLUG’,’leden’);
define(‘BP_GROUPS_SLUG’,’groepen’);
define(‘BP_ACTIVITY_SLUG’,’activiteit’);
define(‘BP_MESSAGES_SLUG’,’berichten’);
define( ‘HEADER_IMAGE_WIDTH’, 939 );
define( ‘HEADER_IMAGE_HEIGHT’, 132 );
?>
BbPress:
built-in
Hosting:
Servage Hosting
I got this after upgrading BuddyPress Links to version 0.4. Can this cause this error?
Thanks for your help!
