I don’t think you can make a public page in a hidden group.
The viewer is either a member or they aren’t – and that applies to /group/…
You could make a WP page and apply a template to it.
That template could call a function that gathers public events.

It’s important to understand that this is a theme issue, not BP’s issue, as of 1.7 BP re-factored how it worked to a huge degree and added theme compatibility, designed to allow BP content to work seamlessly in any WP theme providing the theme followed basic WP template practises -it’s a real shame so many don’t!

They replied and said the buddypress pages should be using the buddypress page templates and asked if I have installed the buddypress page templates correctly.

This is somewhat outdated advice and sounds as though they are suggesting the old template pack process or copying over bp-default theme templates, neither of these are what you need to be doing and require a little knowledge to achieve.

As said earlier all you need is a correctly functioning page.php, clearly this theme prevents page.php working as is normally expected so the answer is copy page.php & rename it buddypress.php in order that you may make custom mods in that file without page.php and your themes templating breaking. Now in buddypress.php you need to have a working and ‘Normal’ WP loop plus any other html markup structure your theme uses, however this is the sort of thing the theme author can best handle or at least they will understand what needs doing.

Again earlier I pointed out where you can find an example loop in the WP default theme twentytwelve but you need something like this in your content area of your custom buddypress.php file:

<div id=”content” role=”main”>

<?php while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>

<h1 class=”entry-title”><?php the_title(); ?></h1>
<?php the_content(); ?>

<?php endwhile; // end of the loop. ?>

</div><!– #content –>

However whereas this may kick the custom template into life it doesn’t account for the theme markup structure so likely would look broken, but we have no understanding of what this theme does with it’s templates so can’t really advice – again the theme author could and needs to understand how BP now works as a simple one file include with their theme could allow them to state their theme is BP compatible.

Lastly and for anyone else reading the thread understand that the best place to source themes which are BP compatible is the official WP theme repo as the theme checks run on submitted themes will ensure standard WP practises are adhered to, buy premium themes and you take your chances, unless they are from a well known source and /or clearly state BP compatible or if not that they DO follow the WP templating API not invent their own I would avoid also I would avoid unless there was a strong support area for the theme.

@tcbroonsie Please share the names of the two themes which did not work with BP 1.7 theme compat so that we can be prepared if others using the same themes post here with the same issue. Much appreciated.

Easiest test -> activate BuddyPress and check BP pages using Twenty Twelve. If it’s working as expected in your installation using Twenty Twelve but does not work with a WordPress theme you activate next, then there’s a problem with the theme. Either theme author has rewritten WP templating system or added layer/s of abstraction which prevents BP template parts from showing up in that theme, etc/

As for plugins, starting off with the Theme Check plugin – if you see any WARNINGS and REQUIRED issues showing up after you run the theme check, then it’s possible that the theme might not work with BP

Check out Theme Mentor plugin as well https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/theme-mentor/
It’s a relatively new plugin and has some false positives but it’ll help you out.

1) Even some BuddyPress themes can do that – so, yes.
2) 2 plugins (one & two) for BuddyPress exists for this. Yes.
3) Achievements plugin by Paul Gibbs (BP core developer) and Cube Points. Yes.
4) Lots of WordPress-based solutions – nothing to do here for BP. Yes.
5) Via a plugin like BuddyPress Block Activity Stream Types or via easy to write code hacks in your template.

WP+BP might be your option if you can afford a good hosting.

@FIQ – horizontal navigation tends to work well with a small set of options, but falls over for a flexible site with large numbers of screens / menu options / tabs. As you add more screens (photo albums, events, etc, etc.) you quickly run out of reasonable horizontal space to display the menu tabs. We’ve encountered this on a number of our builds.

Vertical navigation on a flexible (expandable) social site copes better with a large number / growth in menu options. It’s the approach that both Facebook (news feed / landing page) and Google+ take to cope with that situation.

It continues onto Facebook’s mobile app as well — where the menu button expands to a long vertical nav.

Of course, there are those who’ll cry out we shouldn’t copy Facebook — but, that kind of begs the answer “Why not? They’ll have invested considerably in analysing the UX issues / best practices – let’s learn from that.”

[EDIT: In any case, I trust the navigation and the actual content will be rendered via separate template parts – which should make it relatively straightforward (even for ‘default themers’) to present / locate the navigation where they best see fit.]

BuddyDev is alive and well the last time I looked And if I recall, there are membership levels there which allow you access to all plugins and themes. Confirm with them first.

BP Mag Theme – As with other regular and premium themes, BP templates for plugins with template files included need to be updated and revised. @sbrajesh is active in providing support for the plugins one needs to use with the BP Mag theme.

You’d have to let sbrajesh know which Events plugin you want to use for BP Mag and if that BuddyPress Links 0.5 – is the premium version updated for BP 1.5

I’m having problems with this too – but you shouldn’t be editing the core files as they’ll likely get over written. Please can someone advise me how to do this?

My now defunct code:
function new_group_items_setup_nav() {
global $bp;
bp_core_new_subnav_item( array(
‘name’ => ‘Latest Club Posts’,
‘slug’ => ‘recent-posts’,
‘parent_url’ => $bp->root_domain.’/’.$bp->groups->slug.’/’.$bp->groups->current_group->slug.’/’,
‘parent_slug’ => $bp->groups->slug,
‘screen_function’ => ‘show_blogs_from_club’,
‘position’ => 20 ) );

bp_core_new_subnav_item( array(
‘name’ => ‘Events’,
‘slug’ => ‘events’,
‘parent_url’ => $bp->root_domain.’/’.$bp->groups->slug.’/’.$bp->groups->current_group->slug.’/’,
‘parent_slug’ => $bp->groups->slug,
‘screen_function’ => ‘show_events_from_club’,
‘position’ => 20 ) );

}

add_action( ‘wp’, ‘new_group_items_setup_nav’, 2 );
function show_blogs_from_club() {

//add title and content here – last is to call the members plugin.php template
add_action( ‘bp_template_title’, ‘show_blogs_from_club_screen_title’ );
add_action( ‘bp_template_content’, ‘show_blogs_from_club_screen_content’ );
bp_core_load_template( apply_filters( ‘bp_core_template_plugin’, ‘groups/single/plugins’ ) );
}

function show_blogs_from_club_screen_title() {
echo ‘My Page Title’;
}
function show_blogs_from_club_screen_content() {

// page content goes here
locate_template( array( ‘groups/single/blog-posts.php’ ), true );
}

function show_events_from_club() {

//add title and content here – last is to call the members plugin.php template
add_action( ‘bp_template_title’, ‘show_events_from_club_screen_title’ );
add_action( ‘bp_template_content’, ‘show_events_from_club_screen_content’ );
bp_core_load_template( apply_filters( ‘bp_core_template_plugin’, ‘groups/single/plugins’ ) );
}

function show_events_from_club_screen_title() {
echo ‘My Page Title’;
}
function show_events_from_club_screen_content() {

// page content goes here
locate_template( array( ‘groups/single/events.php’ ), true );
}
add_action( ‘wp’, ‘new_group_items_setup_nav’, 2 );

@foxly I can see in your spreadsheet that Jet Events System is listed as “fail” to work with BP 1.5, but I just tested it and it works fine for me perhaps the tester forgot to click on “update database/templates” buttons? can you clarify this? thanks!

Hello, thanks for the response.

I tried bp_setup_nav and with that the menu item does not even appear. my code is

`

add_action(‘wp’, ‘CubePoints_List_Menu’);
function CubePoints_List_Menu(){

global $bp;
$cubepoint_link = ($bp->displayed_user->id ? $bp->displayed_user->domain : $bp->loggedin_user->domain) . $bp->cubepoint->slug . ‘/’;
global $wp_filter;

bp_core_new_subnav_item( array(
‘name’ =>’test’,
‘slug’ => ‘top_points’,
‘parent_slug’ => $bp->cubepoint->slug,
‘parent_url’ => $cubepoint_link,
‘screen_function’ => ‘top_points_screen’,
‘position’ => 70,
) );
}

function top_points_screen() {
global $bp;

add_action( ‘bp_template_title’, ‘top_points_events_title’ );
add_action( ‘bp_template_content’, ‘top_points_events_content’ );
bp_core_load_template( apply_filters( ‘bp_core_template_plugin’, ‘members/single/plugins’ ) );
//bp_core_load_template( apply_filters( ‘bp_em_template_screen_one’, ’em/screen-one’ ) );
}
/***
* The second argument of each of the above add_action() calls is a function that will
* display the corresponding information. The functions are presented below:
*/
function top_points_events_title() {
echo ‘Top Points’;
}

function top_points_events_content() {
global $bp;

?>

hello world

<?php
}
`

With this the menu item shows up, if I hover over it points to the correct place, but when I click it just takes me to the home page. I have tried several variations of this code with no luck.

This is really easy with S2Member. Go to your S2Member settings in your admin and then General Options > URI Restrictions.

The next step would be to block the sections you want to protect based on membership level. If you would like to keep the group homepage visible, you could do this:

URIs That Require Level #1 Or Higher:
/members
/events
/groups (if you want to block all access to groups)

You can also protect certain templates (like the post form or a join group button for example) by using S2Member conditionals. For instance:

`
Some content for Members who are logged in with an s2Member Level >= 1.

Some public content.

`
It’s a great and extremely powerful plugin! Good luck Be sure to check out the S2Member APi/Scripting section in the plugin settings to learn (a lot) more.

PS: Shameless plug: I’ve created a BuddyPress Theme with S2Member Integration as well.. Read more about it here: http://bp-tricks.com/purchase-bp-slick/#S2Member

Hi Sven — Thanks! I replied to your question on the google group. Copy/pasting here for the sake of completion:

Hi

On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 3:10 PM, svenl77 wrote:
> first of all, thanks for the nice powerful plugin. Brilliant work!

Thanks!

> I have a question. how can I display the event categories?
> I like to display The event categories in the sidebar. But with the
> eventspress templates for the entry. Not as a normal entry.
> I couldn’t find anything in your files. Will this function be
> developed soon? It’s an important part for me.

Depends on whether you’re using EventPress on WordPress or EventPress on
BuddyPress — support for nicely displaying tags and categories hasn’t been
included at the moment, but for I can definitely add in templates for
WordPress by 0.1.3. Tag/Category support in BuddyPress needs much more work
and will take a bit of time.

Kunal

@David Lewis, It’s a page template in your standard theme directory. You just need to select it in your page edit screen as template for the site where you want the calendar or event list to be displayed.
Look in your theme for a file: page-events-list.php
If you can’t see the template, check the page-events-list.php and add the missing Template name.
`
/*
Template Name: Events Calendar List
*/
`
@kunalb, first of all, thanks for the nice powerful plugin. Brilliant work!
I have a question. how can I display the event categories?
I like to display The event categories in the sidebar. But with the eventspress templates for the entry. Not as a normal entry.
I couldn’t find anything in your files. Will this function be developed soon? It’s an important part for me.

Dude – I want it. I have mixed feelings about the GSOC Eventpress effort. It’s kinda bloated and there is still too difficult a workflow process (I’d have to tweak all of the templates just to de-confuse my members)

How can I get my hands on this and take for a spin?

I have just been playing around with eventpress and am very impressed, find the plugin file layout a little different than used to in it’s use of a MVC pattern and the new custom pages but the results look very good, seems pretty stable.

Jet events is also worthy but I did have to customise it to add google maps picked up automagically from event address fields, the plugin does look to be in ongoing development which is good, although the same can be said of eventpress.

Jet events tables can be changed just create your own templates it’s what I would have done.
As for authors just check the files as they carry that information.

Best thing is to have a play around yourself with both to get a feel for which suits.

@ghostchild

(appended here so that other participants can read the answer)

In reply to your message saying that you still don’t see the tab in the subnav, I could be wrong but I would be inclined to think that your problem is not caused by the WP/BP versions (I am running the latest ones) but by the theme you are using.

The “Events” nav is posted in the member profile through this call (in bp-events.php)

/* Add ‘Events’ to the main navigation */
bp_core_new_nav_item( array( ‘name’ => __(‘Events’, ‘bp-events’), ….. [stuff removed here]

In order for this to work, your theme (wp-contentthemesyour-theme-herememberssinglehome.php) should contain this call in the “right” place

bp_get_displayed_user_nav()

e.g. If I take this line away from my theme (I decided to turn a regular WP theme into a BP compliant theme thanks to BuddyPress Template Pack), then the “Events” tab no longer shows up (and a few others disappear too).

So you might want to verify your theme. Is it truly BP-compliant?