[Bowe]

Schwooba and Neobabs, the idea has been proposed on BuddyDev.com

http://buddydev.com/forums/topic/group-category-plugin

There is something in the works, so if you’re interested let Brajesh (the developer) know in that topic!

[vusis]

I have a problem:

how do i pickup the group_id of the forum topic. Thant way i can build the link to the from topic from the home page.

[schwooba]

Anyone up for it? Unfortunately, my programming skills are sub par. Shall I start a new post in the forums?

[vusis]

bp_get_the_topic_object_permalink() – not working

Burt perhaps you can assist.

[vusis]

hey i’ve got it to work, I’m quickly setting up the plugin to work as a widget and i’ll upload it
Note i’m still working on getting the correct permalink though, but that shouldn’t be a train-smash. will you posted

<div class="topic-list">
<?php if (bp_has_forum_topics() ) : ?>
<?php while ( bp_forum_topics() ) : bp_the_forum_topic(); ?></p>
<div class="topic-list-item"><a>" rel="bookmark" class="title"><?php bp_the_topic_title(); ?></a></div>
<?php endwhile; ?>
<?php else: ?>
<p>There are no topics</p>
<?php endif; ?>
</div>

[Paul Wong-Gibbs]

Without knowing these answers https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/when-asking-for-support, we can but only make wild guesses.

[vusis]

i think the loop we are looking for is:

bp_has_forum_topics

[@mercime]

What Michael said. There is a thread in this forum regarding BP_Group_Extension not found … haven’t tried it “fixing” the plugins with that solution though

[bhafer]

That worked great, thanks! I actually commented out lines 48-60 (the whole block).

Ben

[Erwin Gerrits]

Find the following block of code in the groups/create.php template file (in themes/bp-default, lines 49-61)

<?php if ( function_exists('bp_forums_setup') ) : ?>



.. blah blah blah..



<?php endif; ?>

Just comment that whole section out (put a /* before and a */ after this block of code) and your users will never get the option to create a forum

Erwin

[D Cartwright]

Do you mean something like the forum/users/groups directory? I would definitely like to add something like that but sadly it will have to wait until after the initial project release/deadline as we are pretty much out of time and need to concentrate on bug-fixing at the moment. I do plan to look at a few things asap in my own time (though that is sadly very limited) and that would probably be one of my priorities

I also would recommend joining up to the site and creating your own group so you can see the admin functions for the group wiki. You have a fairly fine grain of control over the wiki pages…

[@mercime]

Congratulations, DCartwright. Looking good Other than seeing by chance that there is Wiki page or new wiki entry in the sitewide activities, will you be adding a navigation tab along with Groups, Members, etc. Wiki so that members can see that there is a Wiki feature/directory page? Just like Forums link where forums are dependent on groups, so are Wiki’s. Or… we could just hardcode the link

[r-a-y]

Here’s a writeup I made awhile back:

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/bp-admin-bar-on-bbpress-front-page-1#post-18626

For the require_once line, if that line doesn’t work change it to the absolute file path.

If you’re using single WP, delete these lines:

bp_adminbar_blogs_menu();

bp_adminbar_authors_menu();

[dainismichel]

OK, went in and selected the same theme for

http://community.urine-therapy.org/testing2/ that

http://community.urine-therapy.org/testing3/ uses,

but the changes I made to sidebar.php have affected testing2 and not testing3. I’m actually pretty sure I am using the same theme on both of these test member blogs. Maybe I have to go in and reselect the theme for the changes to take effect? I don’t know on that one.

Now, why don’t

Blog

Members

Groups

Forums

Blogs

work in either testing2 or testing3?

Basically, I just want those links to go to the links of the main site.

Is the logic that I make a blog and people come and make blogs and each blog gets members and sub members?

Basically, what I am going for is:

Members join and make a profile page and a blog.

They can post but not make pages

Their posts appear in sitewide activity

When you visit their blog you see only the member’s posts

There are no sub-sub members (members don’t have members)

There are no sub-sub-blogs members only get one blog and that’s it

I am starting to make some changes, but I really don’t know why just yet.

[bbrian017]

The only reason I noticed this is because the comment love keeps messing up and I have to go in and re enter the url under the admin profile.

p.s linking my site in this forum has only brought me spam.

It seems to be staying now…

[neobabs]

hello, i was wondering exactly the same thing !

I think it can be very usefull and in fact it can help to make buddy press more clear.

Or maybe the ability to create category for put group inside !

Cause if your buddypress community is very big and lots of people create group we will have a terrible mix of all and we can be lost…

example: a category for group called music

and inside some groups like: rock, pop, alternative, jazz etc…

general forum for category and sub forums for groups inside can be very usefull too

I don’t now really how to do this but if someone think it can be done let me now !

thanks in advance

neobabs

[jrmadsen67]

Thank you. What about the second question then – if I need to dig in the code or create my own plugin, where do I start?

Has anyone worked with the forum plugin enough to point me in the right direction?

(Let me add to this – I’m a php programmer, and I’ve done some small WP plugin work in the past. I’m new to all the WPMU and Buddypress files and am looking for a little help with a quick start, as I’m just trying to help a friend get something finished quickly and don’t have time to learn the code properly. Any quick notes or “watch outs” are appreciated.

In compensation, if I manage this and make a plugin/modification, I’ll be happy to release it to the community )

[Paul Wong-Gibbs]

Not possible out of the box. Not sure if anyone’s released a plugin that does this, I’m not aware of any.

[gregbd]

Thanks, I figured it out.

[peterverkooijen]

This has been discussed here, with some solutions – that I haven’t tried yet…

[David Lewis]

@Peter: WordPress is the same. If you want to do something that it doesn’t do by default you have to dig into the Codex and forums and figure out a little bit of PHP. The only changes you can make with “some html/css” are visual changes. No matter what the software is. If you take a look through the WordPress.org forums you will find thousands of posts with people discussing code, php, template tags, action hooks, custom queries, arrays. And WordPress plugins break after updates too. All the time.

Sorry… what was the original question again? Oh yah… different user types. I guess that has already been answered above… as best as it can be. Topic has been marked as “resolved” too.

[osasko]

Thanks ,man!!

Having a bit of problems with the plugin – but I see in the forum that everyone else is also…

[Paul Wong-Gibbs]

This sort of request for help is why we have this thread -> https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/when-asking-for-support

[r-a-y]

If you can wait about two weeks, you’ll be able to use BuddyPress on your regular WordPress site!

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To create forums, you need to create a group with discussion forum enabled.

[nig3d]

any clue?