[Hugo Ashmore]

users might jump to the conclusion that they are a part of the site navigation

Ok that’s all you needed to have said in the first place – so the reason I asked skill level was because this is a fairly basic thing to do, but as has been said above you will need some ground level CSS knowledge – I gave you a pointer on how to do that if that wasn’t clear then you perhaps ought to have expressed that rather than taking a cheap shot at me

Further than that it’s difficult to help with we don’t know the theme so can’t give absolute answers only guidence.

In a stylesheet somewhere in your theme you need to add a rule along the lines of .forum-signatures a {color: red;}

but you will need to identify what element is the parent of the anchor for the correct class or id to use replacing my example ‘.forum-signatures’

[Roger Coathup]

For ratings — have a look at GDPress and their star rating plugin

You can search for ‘buddypress.org anti spam’ on Google ( search doesn’t work on this forum ), and it should throw up a lot of previous discussion on the subject.

@djpaul also revealed that a coming version of BuddyPress will have Akismet support for activity stream entries (1.6 or 1.7… I can’t remember which).

[newpress]

Why will users be mis-guided?

Forum signatures are mostly external links. When they bear the same color, users might jump to the conclusion that they are a part of the site navigation

What is your skill level when it comes to HTML/CSS?

Zero

[frank tredici]

Solved…thanks @hotsitez for getting me to see that what i wanted to do was, in fact, possible and allowed me to poke around deeper.

And thanks to @boonebgorges for this post –> https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/profile-field-adds-award/

It helped me to get the “non-echo” function for getting profile values.

[PE Scholar]

This has also been raised in the following post: https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/registration-page-has-prepoulated-full-name-field-help/

[aces]

@djpaul – did you see the last (recent) message to you about this?
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/how-to-clear-the-previous-registration-form-data-1/

[danbpfr]

Hello,

you’re not wrong. Forum post don’t display html.
You have to handle this problem similar to WP comments or here by using backsticks, pre or code tag if you need code in your posts.
Anyway, with approximative html or php output….
You can also remove some filters by puting the instruction in your child theme functions.php
(ie remove_filter( 'bp_get_the_topic_post_content', 'bp_forums_filter_kses', 1 );)
The list of filters used in Forums are in bp-forums/bp-forums-filters.php

[Paul Wong-Gibbs]

> Fatal error: Call to undefined method stdClass::have_posts() in /home/…/…/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-includes/bbp-reply-template.php on line 168

Your error is coming from bbPress, not BuddyPress. Please post on the bbpress.org forums for help.

[Hugo Ashmore]

Why will users be mis-guided? the purpose of colouring links and/or adding cursor definition , underlines etc is to highlight a section of text to be a link or serving a further purpose than just readable text, in that respect the styling of links isn’t in the main to denote a type of link.

Of course you can style links in page sections differently if you wish and you would simply do that via your stylesheet using, probably, descendent selectors to style the link based on some specific parent element i.e something that tokenised the element as ‘forum’ or something similar that was unique.

What is your skill level when it comes to HTML/CSS? This is a fairly straightforward thing to accomplish.

[Paul Wong-Gibbs]

Nope. But when BP 1.6, you can use bbPress 2 for both group and site wide forums, and it comes with backend admin panels.

[b1gft]

group forums.

[Paul Wong-Gibbs]

Are you using Group Forums or Sitewide Forums?

[Paul Wong-Gibbs]

There are 3 core developers; John James Jacoby, Boone Gorges, and myself. We all read and reply on the forums, but we also have a team of forum moderators who have excellent BuddyPress knowledge: hnla, r-a-y, and mercime. There are many others who regularly help out on the forum. Not everyone knows everything, and if the question is extremely technical or is a “build X feature for me” post, then that person might skip over that forum topic — which is fine.

Stepping outside the forums, we have a lot of contributions from people writing tutorials, talking about BuddyPress at WordCamps and local meet up groups, people writing patches, writing BuddyPress plugins and themes, submitting/managing bug reports and enhancement ideas, writing and improving documentation on the BuddyPress Codex, writing translations, helping other users in real-time in our IRC channel… and there are probably other areas that I’ve overlooked.

Lots of people are involved with BuddyPress. Everyone can be involved with BuddyPress. And someone will get to your question as soon as possible; if no-one does, feel free to post a reply on it to bump it to the top of the list after a couple of days.

[Roger Coathup]

@jason — It’s something that could be built, but it’s a reasonable chunk of development work, which would need some thought and investigation.

I doubt anyone on the forum has done anything like this wrt blogs (certainly in a manner where they can give a quick answer on the forum). We’ve done similar things with the members directory (adding multiple filters), but it was considerable pieces of code and expertise.

In our case, we layered new functionality in / javascript etc., rather than trying to extend any existing function.

[Jason]

I’m about to give up on buddypress. They have something great going on, but how many devs are involved?

It must not be enough, or they need to get some forum people to help ping developers when something is up. Buddypress is good, but it’s so close to being great, and their 1.6 is getting back on a good track again.

My Question has no replies, and I’ve seen many older posts that are the same way. I wish there were a little more transparency into who does what around here. A “Meet the team” if you will, and a “Join our efforts” page really need to be showcased at the top….

[palmdoc]

Hmm my bad. On another PC the search works so perhaps it is the Chrome browser cache.
On a related note, one can only search the Forum topic and not the whole thread. Will this be a feature for a future version? I hope so!

[@mercime]

@michaeljdornan best place to ask is at https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/bp-multi-network wpmuguru does answer forum questions

Having said that, you can try this plugin which I know works with the other BP MultiNetwork plugin by sbrajesh http://buddydev.com/buddypress/introducing-join-blog-widget-for-wordpress-multisite/

[Damler]

Thank you, I saw this when searching the forum but will try it again.

[frank tredici]

Perfect. Thanks @mercime. Appreciate your help…

I typically post my questions in both the WP forum and this forum. It seems to increase my chances of getting assistance from “never getting assistance” to “getting some assistance within a few days”. Both forums are not as active as many others out there on the net that I participate in.

[frank tredici]

Ok, thanks @Asynaptic.

So it ends up being that my workaround is the only way to see what I need to see.

Thanks. Maybe this will get fixed someday to make it easier to get the info.

[@mercime]

@damler

First you need to activate the BuddyPress plugin.

Second, you need to install the BP Template Pack plugin and go through Appearance > BP Compatibility

Third, realign BP template files, see https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/easel-theme-buddypress-alignment-problem/

[Paul Wong-Gibbs]

If you only want sitewide forums (not group forums as well):

In wp-admin in BuddyPress > Components, disable the “Forums” component. Go to the Pages menu in wp-admin, and if you have a page called “forums”, delete it (you don’t need it any more).
In wp-admin, go to Plugins > Add New, and search for and install and activate the “bbPress” plugin. You should see something like version 2.1 of that plugin.

Once done, you should be able to start using bbPress for sitewide forums. If you have specific questions about how to make bbPress do non-BuddyPress things, the best place to ask is on bbpress.org.

[Roger Coathup]

Don’t post duplicates.

If you don’t understand, or are unable to carry out the advice given, please say so on the original thread: https://buddypress.org/community/groups/creating-extending/forum/topic/dob-problem-on-registration-form/

[abbersbolton]

Well (I’m sorry I don’t have a clue how to insert a pic like you have) I’d like them to show up on the member’s profile page, i.e. when they click on your name. I want it to be in the header I suppose, or just somehow accessible. At the moment, when I click on a member, there is no “public profile” tab or anything like there is on my own, so all you see is the activity module.with activity, groups, forums etc.
I just want other people to be able to access this info even if it means an “info” tab a la Facebook!

To briefly explain, I have a similar set up to yours – Twitter button and klout score and a user location map so these things are in the header already, but other info like for example, Facebook page url, web address – I want these custom fields to also show and not just serve as input for plugins etc.

Thanks

[newpress]

And also one fundamental thing, are external links within a buddypress + bbpress do-follow or no-follow?