[oracleappscommunity]

Clearly this is broken after 1.2 upgrade. I have same issue, so I logged bug.

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/blog-link-replaced-with-activity-in-12

[Boone Gorges]

The best solution at this time is something like Group Activity Notifications https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-group-activity-stream-subscription/. It does a bit more than what you’re asking for, and by default it has everyone subscribed to everything, but it does allow the user pretty fine-grained control over notifications.

We’re working to make the plugin more customizable, so that the site admin could choose to turn notifications off by default. Then it would work just like the way you describe.

[Roger Coathup]

@Andy – I understand the developer logic / enhanced power of the forums-groups concept. Unfortunately, though… it causes a headache for the clients we are building sites for:

They are used to the plain simple concept of standalone forums. No amount of explanation gets me past the response “but, I still don’t see why I’ve got to create a group, when all I want is a forum”.

In one case, the client has decided they are going to run SimplePress forums integrated with BuddyPress to get around this ‘problem’.

Perhaps, it would be less of an issue if it was our own site that we were running and maintaining, but we are developing for clients who will administer the system themselves and struggle with / or don’t see the need for forums-groups setup.

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I guess it’s the old marketing adage: “it’s much easier to sell them something they want, rather than to sell them something they don’t know they want”.

[Nommo]

I am currently using “Unfiltered MU” plug-in to do this – but will check out oEmbed as I upgraded recently…

[arnonel]

erm @Nexia that would be one for the buddypress creators, right?

this just aint pretty: http://spoint.me/groups/usp-journal/forum/topic/usp-journal-faq/#post-39

[Paul Wong-Gibbs]

Upgrade to the newest BuddyPress version and you could use the plugin “oEmbed For BuddyPress”

[Paul Wong-Gibbs]

You need to add them in manually, either via the page or directly in the DB. I suppose this could be achieved with a plugin, or in a future BP version.

I’m moving this post to the Ideas forum.

[alcina22]

thank you for your answers!

@zageek: Drupal seems a little to difficult for me…maybe modify something in wpmu is more easy…

but I see the french “Le Monde” and yes you tell right about separate sections, he has 2 separates sites for “newspaper” and “blogs”…

but mine is not a big big newspaper so maybe I can try wpmu also for the news section… maybe with some plugins etc.

@Peter: I’m working on the homepage with html and css, now I’ll follow your advice and keep a look to indexes, and post pages. So the articles will be “posts”… or “pages”?

Newspaper sites:

I have found this and this…

http://www.expressandstar.com/

http://www.larchmontgazette.com/

have you maybe some others links for some other “inspiration”?

Because neither of these has the “last news” displayed on the front page like I would…

Thank-you again, ciao!

A.

P.S. maybe I’ll ask also on the wpmu forum…!

[draganbabic]

Thanks for the help r-a-y, I found this solution:

[IN BP_CUSTOM.PHP]:

function custom_xprofile( $field ) {

echo bp_custom_get_member_list_xprofile_data( $field );

}

function bp_custom_get_member_list_xprofile_data( $field ) {

global $site_members_template;

return xprofile_get_field_data( $field, $site_members_template->member->id );

}

[IN CHILD THEME FILE]:

<?php custom_xprofile('Header Image') ?>

[jalien]

Actually thanks for the post. This is a something I have been doing (trying to do) since wpmu 1.0. I use WPMU / Buddypress with young (elementary school students 6-12 years old) so simplicity is a must. The New Blog Options plugin (if it works as it says it will) would make make perfect customization possible. Here are a list of WPMU plugins that I use or have used that might help. I am in the process of retrying everything to achieve exactly what you are trying to do. Let everyone on the forums know how your testing goes. Hope this isn’t too long. I added links to save time since there are sometimes plugins with similar names).

New Blog Options – this one is fairly new (still beta), and I haven’t tried it extensively yet, but it will allow you to clone on blog setup with it’s plugin options etc. to all new blogs.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/default-blog-options/

Limit Blogs per User – if you don’t want them making more than one blog (set to 2, one is the main buddypress blog and 2 is their own blog)

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/limit-blogs-per-user/

WPMU New Blog Defaults – this will allow you to restrict menus, change default links, etc under the Options in the Site Admin menu

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wpmu-new-blog-defaults/

Members – this one takes over where the old Role-manager plugin left off. Haven’t had time to check it out yet, but if you could use this with New Blog Options it would allow you to very finally tune what your users could do and see.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/members/

Adminimize – again I haven’t played with this for a while, but if you could use it with New Blog Options, then you could simplify the look of the menus for your users too.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/adminimize/

Default User Role – will set the user role when a new blog is created

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wpmu-default-user-role/

Plugin Manager – does what it says, allows you to manage which plugins users can set, which ones are automatically turned on, and which regular users cannot see

http://wpmudev.org/project/wpmu-plugin-manager

download link is: http://wpmudev.org/download/946613807_mp-plugin-manager.php

Of course with young people you might want to consider a privacy plugin like:

More Privacy Options – this doesn’t work with the feed on Buddypress, but if you search the forums it can be made to work or you can use the following plugin for feed privacy (Buddypress privacy should be coming soon)

http://wpmudev.org/project/More-Privacy-Options/

download link is: http://wpmudev.org/download/999830698_ds_private_blog.php

BP MPO Activity Filter – This plugin, BP MPO Activity Filter, does just what the name suggests: it filters BuddyPress activity feeds. Used with More Privacy Options.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-mpo-activity-filter/

[dwdutch]

@David

Thanks for the follow-up. I tried and it worked fine. Now, what’s odd is that (with the exception of the Custom Styles section) the lines in my file were the same. Okay, so my only explanation is that I must have had something else wrong on my site – after all, it was in the wee hours of the night that i was experimenting.

Soooo, thank you for your input.

Now, as I played with it more, I was able to successfully create my own unique child theme. I commented out the code for the sidebar login block (AND the comparable logout display) in sidebar.php but, here’s my question: why do your lines work?

#sidebar-login-form,

#login-text{display: none;}

I went poking around in the buddypress forum and developers area but i didn’t find a comparable reference. How did you know about this “shortcut” (so i can find other such items if i need them)?

[stefrusso]

ok, got it… : )

[stefrusso]

could you help me find the right file to make this mod please? I’m not sure exactly what file is being mentioned here.

thanks

[draganbabic]

Hi guys,

thanks for the ideas. So far I got this running:

<?php if ( bp_has_profile('profile_group_id=2') ) : ?>

<?php while ( bp_profile_groups() ) : bp_the_profile_group(); ?>

<?php if ( bp_profile_group_has_fields() ) : ?>

<?php while ( bp_profile_fields() ) : bp_the_profile_field(); ?>

<?php if ( bp_field_has_data() ) : ?>

style="<?php bp_the_profile_field_value() ?>"

<?php endif; ?>

<?php endwhile; ?>

<?php endif; ?>

<?php endwhile; ?>

<?php else: ?>

<?php endif;?>

And this indeed outputs the desired value, but it is also wrapped in a paragraph and autolinked. Please do note that I have no idea what I am doing here, weather it is valid, good or anything else, this just got the job done, so it’s a starting point.

I have searched the forum and found this code that is supposed to remove the autolinking:

<?php

function remove_links(){

remove_filter( 'bp_get_the_profile_field_value', 'xprofile_filter_link_profile_data', 2 );

}

add_action( 'plugins_loaded', 'remove_links' );

?>

However it doesn’t do that once placed in bp-custom.php

Any pointers?

[r-a-y]

You can use the regular <img> HTML code to show images.

<img src="YOUR IMAGE URL" />

There are also some third-party plugins to attach images:

*BP-Gallery beta (paid plugin) – http://buddydev.com

– adds a gallery component to BP; you can attach images to groups (and profiles) this way as well

* Forum Attachments for BuddyPress -https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/forum-attachments-for-buddypress/

– allows you to attach images to forum posts only in BP

– needs some testing in BP 1.2 though; i’ve only tested this a bit in BP 1.2, needs a little work

[paulhastings0]

You can see my fix here.

[r-a-y]

Doesn’t that work against the traditional standards of registering?

Are you looking for guest posting on forums?

[hydroweb]

No, I would just like to “wrap” the forum in the BP header so that the forum lies below the tabs and site title etc…so a user can navigate back to home, activity, members, etc… As it is now, the forum stands alone and to get back to BP one has to hit the back button.

[hydroweb]

@ r-a-y Looks like I got an external install working. See wonowon.com click tab forums. Is there a template that will allow me to put the forum in the BP header? Many thanks again. Roger

[5832806]

Yeah I too have this problem.

If I read you guys right the theme can make group creation problematic so how can I correct this.

I don’t even have the option to create a group in any menu be it the bpress admin or the top navigation bar.

I don’t have forums eighter even if all options are set to make it possible. why ?

[Michael Berra]

Hi Erich,

i don’t think it has something to do with that Ticket…

In my Case ALL the old group-activity does not show anymore… ( i had at last Forums disabled)

The Strange thing to me is, that I seem to be the only one experiencing this, although it happens on two total different setups. They only have in common, that both were setup in the very early stages of BP…

[draganbabic]

Similar thing happened to me, after posting a new thread, it would spit out a 404, but it would post the thread. The plugin that handles group forum notifications was the thing causing it, so I had to disable it.

[abcde666]

Hi Michael,

which content you are talking about which is missing ? Activity-content or Forum-content ?

https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/2072

[Mariusooms]

We are actually working on this. As the co-author of the Group Blog plugin we are adopting the P2 theme as a base and making a child theme that ‘s based on buddypress’ look.

To integrate with the Group Blog plugin we added new functionality that allows deeper blog integration inside your group which enables P2 to exist within the group. It will be very nice and we have some additional goodies coming which I don’t want to spoil yet

Some of the templating functionality is already in trunk of the plugin for those who are adventurous or curious. It shouldn’t be to long out for a release as we are actively developing for BP1.2.

I’ll keep ya’ll posted on the forums on the progress.

[Paul Wong-Gibbs]

Indeed, I don’t check the plugin forum page very often. I’ll look into this problem, as BP 1.2.x should provide that function for you. Hmm.