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Hi @shaughnessy119

You should ask this same question over at bbPress. Those guys handle forum-related questions 🙂

This can be done by modifying your theme. BuddyPress uses a Template Hierarchy. If you have any specific questions feel free to ask them here 🙂

+1

I don’t use the admin bar on my sites. It actually took me a while to discover that’s where all the BP functionality was.

The best option right now is to do it with some templating:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/31812132/buddypress-display-notification-and-profile-in-header-instead-of-wp-admin-bar
That guy’s CSS isn’t the best, I’d suggest working on that.

Create a template overload of this file:
buddypress\bp-templates\bp-legacy\buddypress\groups\create.php

Add a conditional that checks user level at the top.

Or use the do_action hook ( read 2nd answer ) at the top of that file:
do_action( 'bp_before_create_group_page' );
and write a function in your theme/functions.php

Hey wonky1,

I’m looking to do something similar. I’m currently on VB and want to move to something else. Xenforo looks like a likely candidate, but we want to be able to utilize BuddyPress.

May I ask how you’re running user management, registration and access? Is all of that managed by Xenforo, and WP is just pulling/syncing the data? Or the other way around? Waht are you doing for member profile pages? Combine the buddypress and Xenforo pages, or running two separate ones>

And maybe you can share some details on what you’re using for your bridge.

Lots of questions, but answers would be a big help.

Thanks!

WWB

Issue is whenever user post a comment

@mjc82in Just so we’re clear, when you say “post a comment”, do you mean post a comment in the comment form of a blog post? If so, that could be an issue with a theme which needs to be updated to be compatible with the latest WP and BP versions.

What theme are you using? Have you tried changing to the Twenty Fifteen theme and check if issue is resolved?

I can give access to my site to one of the moderators or developer if it helps.

We will ask for a throw-away (not admin) account should the need arise. But at this stage, it’s looking to be a theme issue, not a BuddyPress bug. So your problem is not resolved by changing the theme, do provide answers to all the questions in the link I gave you so we can see the overall structure of your installation.

@hnla Hi Hugo, thanks for your feedback.

I’ve updated the Stack Exchange question to better reflect what I’m looking to do. I also updated the answer with a second link to the Buddypress codex for those looking to do less specific Buddypress theming. Additionally, I added a disclaimer saying it is not the recommended method. Without any specific mistakes pointed out that’s about the best I can do for now.

As for removing it, I’m sure it will be put on hold soon enough, seems they don’t like Buddypress (third party plugin) questions over there.

Until then the answer solves my question and I can see it being useful for people looking to heavily customize things, I myself have been referring to it constantly. I would have been ecstatic to have found something like it 3 weeks ago when I began working on a buddypress theme.

Of course, my being a noob means that answer will not be perfect. I will however keep it updated as I learn more and if there’s someone willing to better answer it I’m sure I wouldn’t be the only appreciative one.

Apologies for hijacking this thread, wasn’t sure where better to reply.

@hastig While it is genuinely appreciated that you are trying to help people, some of what you are describing as template files is a little confused and will mislead people into thinking they have to use the advanced taxonomy template hierarchy which isn’t necessarily the case.

I’d urge you check our codex pages again to best understand how overloading files works.

The stackoverflow page would be better removed or at least edited to better reflect how the BP template hierarchy works.
http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/214774/is-there-a-list-of-what-buddypress-template-files-go-where-and-what-theyre-to-b

I don’t know which theme you’re using so I can only offer some basic, general css advice.

The numbers are in a table column, each number is in a table cell. In the html the table cell is written as <td>

I’m not sure if you can or will want to remove the numbers column entirely, there may be some buddypress inserted code in there (#id’s, etc) that helps identify each row <tr> for a buddypress function.

What you can do is make that column narrower or possibly hide it from displaying on screen while keeping the (possibly) important code in place.

With Firefox or Chrome right click on a cell and choose ‘inspect element’.

This will show you the html code in that area.

You want to find the cell <td> that wraps around the numbers then identify its class. There may be a couple of different classes in each <td> that buddypress inserts.

To help find which class you want to work with add a background-color: red; to different classes til you find the right one that applies to all cells in the column.

(if you cant find a class that applies to only the numbers column you will need to get into a little more complex css using nth and similar methods)

Once you find the right one open your themes style.css file and place on the bottom of it the class with your new styles.

Try something like ..

.className {visibility: hidden;} to hide it

or

.className {width: 10%;} to adjust it’s width relative to the overall width. (would want to adjust the other columns cell widths to compensate. may also be some other elements within the cell with their own widths set.)

There are numerous ways to target those cells for styling and different things that may prevent the above ideas from working but I’d better leave it at that for now.

@rlfstars So did you build the website yourself? If you did you should sort of be able to retrace some of the steps you took before Buddypress suddenly quit as you have described, can you explain what you mean a little better about Buddypress suddenly quiting? do you mean certain parts of Buddypress stopped working or didn’t work as it was before? or do you mean Buddypress somehow got deactivated? there must of been something that triggered what you are describing for it to happen in the first place, I am just finding it very strange the way you are describing Buddypress as suddenly quiting.

First off, try to ask yourself a few of these questions below and think back:

Did you install any new plugins after you had set Buddypress up and had it working?
Did you by any chance have Buddypress working with your current theme and plugin configuration or was it all working correctly when it was on another theme?
How much memory does your wordpress install have allocated to it?
Did you do a WordPress version update recently? the newer versions of WordPress since 4.0 are known to have broke quite a few older plugins that are outdated or don’t have much support. maybe this could be causing a clash…I dunno?

I know your site is live and you don’t want to mess things up and maybe you are worried about deactivating some of your plugins, but have you yet tried deactivating plugins one at a time and then with each deactivation tried to reactivate Buddypress?

In future it may be better for you to also have some form of testing environment too (preferably a local install), this will allow you to test as many different plugins/theme combinations and tweak things such as combining scripts etc before doing the changes to your live website. (This will ensure everything works how it should and nothing is broken). Also please note, I would not recommend you diving into the combining of JS and CSS files etc on a live site as you can often break things and it can be trial and error to get right depending on what plugins/features you are using (this is also a different issue than what you have, I only mentioned it to give you an heads up on the shear amount that your website loads on a per page basis whilst I was looking at your source).

Other than the above steps it really is hard to help out any more from this end without being able to check it out pal. Like shane said maybe you need to hire someone in to take a look at it all.

You are asking LearnDash questions on a BP support forum.
Please ask LearnDash.

@jblevins1991 Please check through the BP codex documentation we provide a few guides there that set out how BP templating is structured and how to overload the files to a theme or child theme, this is your first port of call for information thereafter if you still have questions not covered in our guides do ask back here.

Support questions for 3rd party plugins should be directed at the creator of those plugins – in this case https://premium.wpmudev.org

Your posting above of code from one of their premium plugins is probably in violation of the terms of purchase.

Oh and before you think of going for the new peepso platform its exactly the same I had it today and configured it and thought right here we go the button and hey presto exactly the same thing with their new version of a plugin that is meant to be able to share uploaded media straight to facebook…. I saw the networking site for the first time today and just the way the woman who created it delivered her speech was a dead give away, she knows she selling something that is not as functional as she is making out, lost a lot of respect for wordpress over this. You think they are there to help but they are just out to make money, and wont answer questions like yours, just dont care… and thats why they dont like people diving in on others topics because they dont want people getting on the same wave length… if i get this plug in sorted though am a happy man

Thanks for the quick reply!

Ohhhh, I think I know why it’s not working. It’s because order.php is in de Learnpress plugin, and trying to get data from Buddypress. I’m not using your code inside Buddypress only…

So: order.php in the Learnpress plugin needs to pull the data from the Buddypress plugin. When I change

Opleiding: <?php
do_action ( 'user_opleiding_field' ); 
?>

in order.php to your new suggestion it doesn’t work either. Should your new suggestion work with a secondairy plugin (Learnpress?).

Sorry if I’m asking dumb questions. I’m do have some PHP knowledge, but not enough to figure this kind of stuff out myself. I hope you can help us out!

David

Yes, to both questions.

Hey @alessandrat

Welcome to the BuddyPress forum!

1. Have two separate front ends for different user types (with differently configured profiles), appearances, and accesses.

Yes. This can be done with either a plugin (try searching the Plugin Directory) or coded through the Member Types feature introduced in version 2.2.

2. Have a place where shortcode could be put in so that users can take a questionnaire containing likert questions on their profile and/or while creating their profile.

Either a post, page or perhaps even an activity update all spring to mind as possible places to add it.

3. One but not both kinds of users can create their own group (public, semiprivate or private) or forum and browse/ join existing ones

The ability for all members to create new groups comes as standard.

4. One kind of user but not the other needs to be able to set up ways for the other type of user to purchase products (I assume I can use another plugin but will need a place to put the shortcode)

This will need to be either custom coded, or you may find a plugin with the functionality you need.

Hope this info helps!

Please use the code button when posting code.
Never include the full path to your installation in code you post publicly.

All the ‘errors’ are related to the BuddyBlog plugin.
You should submit your questions to the developer of that plugin: http://buddydev.com/

I custom edited my BP

Since nobody knows what you did, how can anyone answer your questions?
In order to maybe get answers, you will need to provide access to your installation.

@niranjanchouhan – given that sweetdate is a premium theme, you will need to contact those theme developers for support with issues like that.

In 99% of cases around here (at buddypress dot org) you will find no help with premium themes and plugins. There are many reasons for that. People posting questions about premium accounts and premium themes just waste space here and get people kind of.. not happy.

I have been looking at some options to restrict private messaging to certain groups of users, and there was a recent form post here about limited certain groups of users to a certain amount of private messaging. Which I think are great topics.. however the only options I have seen with details on doing that are premium / paid options.

If you find a free plugin or code that gets into these kinds of restrictions I’d love to see that conversation here at the BP forums.. however if you only have experience with that one theme, then I’ll pass. I’m looking for something like that that will work with multiple themes.