[@mercime]

@jaymeselman Note: If you’ve revised any of the BP template files transferred to your backstreet theme folder in server during the BP Compatibility process, please delete those 6 BP folders transferred to your theme folder in server – /activity, /blogs, /forums, /members, /groups, /register – then re-run Appearance > BP Compatibility again to make sure that you have clean template files.

[@mercime]

A day hasn’t passed by and you’re already bumping your post. Know that those who help out in the forums are all volunteers living in different time zones.

[Tammie Lister]

I think you’ve already asked this

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/how-to-show-only-firstname-lastname-in-activity-instead-of-nickname/

Better to keep to one thread – doesn’t get a faster answer by asking multiple times.

[Tammie Lister]

I just did a quick check and that plugin is only designed to work for the members directory not site wide from what I see. Either that or it’s stopped working on activity, but the notes seem to indicate it’s designed for members directory.

Per user you can set it yourself but I guess you want a solution that forces users to have it displayed one way? If the per user method works though you can under their user settings in the admin.

This thread: https://buddypress.org/community/groups/requests-feedback/forum/topic/fullname-vs-username-vs-first-last-name/?topic_page=1&num=15 has some thoughts on solutions but they are all code and not sure how applicable to the current code base.

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/buddypress-usernames-only/forum/topic/bp-username-only-plugin-announcements/ however may be another thing to consider.

[@mercime]

Based on the HTML structure of your theme, you will only need to create two new files, header-buddypress.php and sidebar-buddypress.php to make the BP templates compatible with your theme.

If you’ve revised any of the BP template files transferred to your strings theme folder in server during the BP Compatibility process, please delete those 6 BP folders transferred to your theme folder in server – /activity, /blogs, /forums, /members, /groups, /register – then re-run Appearance > BP Compatibility again to make sure that you have clean template files.

A. COPY your theme’s header.php and Save As > header-buddypress.php

Open up header-buddypress.php and at the BOTTOM of the file, below other code contained within, add:
`

<article class="blog_post" id="post-id; ?>”>

`

Save file.

[nickyernstsen]

@rogercoathup

The only thing i’ve done is to replace “sidebar” with “//sidebar” in the twenty ten theme files.

As to your solution, could you be more specific as to how I resolve this issue. I’ve no idea how to remove the ‘table-layout fixed’, and by removing that won’t I then get full width on all pages?

I only need full width on the forum.

[@mercime]

Closing this duplicate of https://buddypress.org/community/groups/installing-buddypress/forum/topic/need-some-real-help-with-alignment-if-anyone-can-assist/

[newbie2011]

Well, I tried to post to her group but, I think I posted to a normal forum. When I select forums the area is blank. Maybe I just don’t know how to use this site lol.

[newbie2011]

@Roger Coathup – sorry didn’t realized that I should have posted seperately, will do and ash other questions on the wordpress forums, thanks

[Roger Coathup]

You should ask these as separate questions – the first two issues are general WordPress (not BuddyPress), so best asked on the wordpress.org forums.

Post issue 3 as sep question on here, and issue 4 you could ask to @pollyplummer on her group for the plugin

[shanebp]

I’m not sure how to do that via gravity forms.

I use this approach
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/display-custom-post-types-in-activity-feed/

[Hugo Ashmore]

@newpress Please don’t make these sorts of posts, this is spam and we do not need it re-focussed on. Both Paul and I have asked you previously to improve your behaviour on this forum, please observe these requests as it isn’t going to be asked again.

tbh thought I had locked this thread – will do so now.

[sfjones1965]

Well darn. This would definitely be a great Administrator option as an addition to a plugin. I am amazed that this hasn’t been pursued before. Being able to notify all groups with a topic/message in their respective forums would be awesome. Even the option for administrator to see in the drop down group menu when posting an “ALL” tab that would post to all of them.

[stwc]

Crikey. I just did this yesterday, and just FTP-dropped BP 1.5 on top of 1.2.x, upgraded with the wizard thing in the backend, then used the plugins upgrade tool to get to 1.6. With no working search here in the forum and so many missing pages in the codex, I gave up trying to find canonical directions and just went for it. Seemed to work OK. I guess I was lucky.

Some of my custom functions.php code is broken, but I knew that would happen.

[@mercime]

@newbie2011 just saying that it would be easier creating two files instead of changing 16 BP template files since you’re fortunate that your theme’s HTML structure allows it. See an example of how it was done for the Evolution Theme. The additions to the header-buddypress.php and sidebar-buddypress.php would be different in your case, but you get what I mean. Should you decide to go this route, backup your revisions.

[r-a-y]

Unfortunately, this isn’t possible by default; it would require custom development.

The easiest way to achieve what you want is to create one group forum topic in a specific group. Then, modify your group forum template (/groups/single/forum.php or /forums/forums-loop.php depending on where you want the link displayed) to manually add a link to this topic.

[r-a-y]

Check out this link:
https://codex.buddypress.org/releases/developer-and-designer-information/#member-forum-pages-are-blank

[nickyernstsen]

@ @mercime, I’ve managed to make it work here;

http://nickyernstsen.dk/spilportal/forum

But when you choose a forum then the sidebar shows up again. Any ideas?

[sfjones1965]

Well maybe to clarify. Lets say my site has 50 groups and I want to post a “Please read first” topic in all 50 groups without having to individually post in each group. Basically my site is going to cover all 50 of the States in the US with sub-groups of major cities within those States. I am looking for a way to post in every group forum with one single post.

[danbpfr]

Please read here first:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/bp-privacy/forum/topic/is-this-plugins-is-worked-for-version-1-5-1/

The plugin translation had to be in the plugin languages folder

[Paul Wong-Gibbs]

Group forums or sitewide forum?

[Tammie Lister]

‘Out of the box’ things are sticky in their own forums. You could start with this discussion though:

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/how-to-keep-the-sticky-posts-at-the-top/

I’d recommend you don’t hack core files though and pull it out into a bp-custom.php file.

https://codex.buddypress.org/extending-buddypress/bp-custom-php/

[@mercime]

@nickyernstsen Pages > Add New, choose the full-width template of your theme, if any, add title of the forum, then post the shortcode `[bbp-forum-index]` in text area or any or a mix of the available shortcodes https://codex.bbpress.org/shortcodes/

[@mercime]

== I had to include index.php in the permalink and it is working now. ==

Yeah. I don’t believe that’s going to work with BuddyPress. See how it was resolved for user with Windows server in this thread without resorting to adding index.php

[juanmaguerrero]

In fact the entire modifications (not only the preloader.gif) are made in the not-ideally-correct way, since all will be gone with any update. I’m asking for help since weeks ago on https://buddypress.org/community/groups/creating-extending/forum/topic/help-at-making-a-plugin-how-to-replace-bp-code/ and now on buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/how-can-i-make-a-custom-activity-loop-into-a-plugin-that-will-replace-the-default-one/ if I can manage to solve that automation I have all the code ready to pack as a plugin with a lot of improvements. @shawn38 do you know how to get this done?