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Hi again

Found out about adding more fields, but can’t see any options regarding my other questions ?

All the best
Carsten

Hi Hugo,

I did read that link you provided previously, and I have been searching the codex pages. Perhaps this is a case of “the light not coming on” for me. 🙂 It is probably an issue of me not ever having created a child theme.

If I understand the codex link you sent me correctly, then basically I create a buddypress directory in my personal themes folder (gotbooks_forums), then copy over whatever I want to modify? Like buddypress.php? And then I create a css folder, and copy over the css files that I want to modify?

Am I on the right track? My apologies for all the questions. I’ve been searching the web for hours and have finally decided to ask for help.

Thanks much,
Jerry

mrjarbenne- thanks a lot for the suggestion! This could be great. 🙂 I will give it a try and let you know how it goes. And I’ll remember to break up my questions to one per post. 🙂

yeah that’s what i thought. it might not be the easiest tasks.

It seems as if it would be something more people would have looked into, but I’ve searched high and low and no answers (or questions for that matter.)

Would you have any ideas as how to override BP_Messages_Box_Template() class?

@mercime I posted that questions, but I really need this theme to work.
As it is already up and running, and I can’t change the layout.
I have to tweak the theme and make it work.

Do you have any other suggestions?

I understand that answering all those questions on the forum might be overwhelming but if you know how, anyone, please help, the launch of my site depends on that. I wont publish a site where the activity page is full of unuseful info and long comments page.

@ubernaut thanks for the reply! Sorry but my internet has been down and life a little too busy to log back in here.

I finally got a reply from the theme developer, but his answer didn’t help. He did at least confirm that it was a problem with the theme and then told me to just upgrade to the new theme they were developing (which is still in beta and has massive problems), so not useful at all. I hacked in some custom CSS I’d found for someone else havign as similar problem with a different plugin to trick it into displaying correctly while I look for another theme.

I believe it is somehow related to the fact that buddypress sidebars are not the same as site sidebars, it just doesn’t see that there are any sidebars at all. I went through the codex and the pages and tried to see where I could fix it myself since the developer has essentially abandoned the theme but it’s just a little beyond my coding skills at present. I think my ultimate solution will be to find a theme by a developer with better support. Hopefully as I learn more problems like this will be less of an issue.

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On another note:

I realize that this is an open source, free product but I have to say that the attitude from the developers here in the threads I’ve read is incredibly off putting. Rolling your eyes at people who’ve installed a plugin but do know how to code and find your codex incomprehensible is extremely unhelpful.

Wordpress was designed just so that people who didn’t know how to code could build custom blogs and websites. Whipping out a hipster sneer and telling them that they should be grateful is both rude and mean. You are the ones who chose to develop a plugin for a different user base than the core product. Don’t slap them across the face for assuming your plugin might work for them (since it’s apparently the #1 plugin on WordPress.org) and then having questions when it doesn’t.

I will say that having read the forums here first, I almost didn’t install BuddyPress at all because I don’t really want to interact with devs who treat their users so poorly solely based on the excuse that it’s free so you should be able to talk at us however you like, or simply ignore us if our questions are “too stupid”. If I didn’t have even at least a little experience with programming and web development I would’ve passed over it completely. I won’t be able to recommend it to any of my clients because I wouldn’t ask them to have to deal with this themselves.

You are lucky that you have users here helping one another, because for the most part they are the only one I see providing any support.

Thanks. That worked!

So I’m clear on what fixed it … the “999” at the end prioritizes the addition of the action? I’ve looked high and low for an explanation of this number. Since I put bp-custom.php in mu-plugins, it probably was executing prior to crating the nav items.

As long as I have your attention, have you got a link to a tutorial on how to make the dropdown item labels on the wp-admin bar match those in the profile page?

Thanks again for the fix and thanks, in advance for answering the subsequent questions.