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I’m using that plugin as well and I’ve asked that same question here on the forum with no success. However, whether you’re using that sidebar plugin or not, I’m still having trouble getting a clear answer on how to replace WP code linking to the author in your custom theme to the profile page in Buddypress.

In other words, how do I change <?php the_author_posts_link(); ?> from my custom home theme to <‘author’s buddypress profile link’> in order to reach that author’s profile page?

Thx

The default sort order for directories is ‘active’. It dispays the most recently active first in the directory. You can change that by using a different sort order in your theme. See the docs for the loops here:

https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/custom-buddypress-loops/

In the default theme, the loop for members is controlled by /bpmember/directories/members/members-loop.php in the function:

bp_has_site_members( ‘type=active&per_page=10’ )

Changing type=active to type=alphabetical should get you there.

Jason–

Do you mean that your home page style isn’t showing up in the members and groups pages, i.e., you are still seeing the “Social Networking” logo and the orange, rather than your green theme? That you want those pages to match your home page theme?

If that’s what you’re concerned about, you have to change your CSS in a different place for those areas. They aren’t controlled by the same CSS that manages the main page of your Buddypress installation.

Your CSS for the groups and member pages are in the wp-content/bpthemes/bpmember folder. Your logo (logo.gif) is in the bpmember/images folder.

Make your changes there just as you did with your base.css for your bphome theme and you should be good to go.

Jfcarter-

It is of course easy to do this in a forum!

But, I do not know of any non-forum plugin that is specifically designed to facilitate question answering. I suppose you could use the P2 theme and create a special post category just for this purpose.

Hello Baraberle,

Have a look there:

/wp-content/bp-themes/bpmember/images

and

/wp-content/themes/bphome/images

You should find what you want.

I am seeing your friends page fine.. yourdomain.com/members/admin/friends/

the friends page in the template refers to that url. ..perhaps you mean yourdomain.com/members/? there is default yourdomain.com/friends/ in the bphometheme unless you create it.

Dennyhalim-

I just took a quick visit to the Hoard Hunter plugin page. This is what is says about:

Hoard Hunter is an online treasure map game designed and developed for people who would like an easy (and fun) method of fund raising online. The system comprises of a custom plugin and integrated theme. The Hoard Hunter site is powered by WordPress MU (though the system will also run on standard WordPress) and uses a number of WordPress plugins to provide additional functionality.

My First thought is that I would not even attempt to use this with BuddyPress. This looks like a complicated plugin that relies on many other plugins and its own custom theme to do some complex stuff. It is ripe with problems waiting to happen.

Also, it is not clear if this plugin suite, as it really should be considered, works with WPMU 2.7.1. You need to contact the developer and ask. There does not seem to be an activity on that plugin’s thread for almost 6 months and the images do not load on the website. This is never a good sign.

As is stated above, Hoard Hunter is a “system [comprised] of a custom plugin and integrated theme” and it relies on “a number of WordPress plugins to provide additional functionality”. You are dealing with a potentially large mess here in figuring out what is going on.

As John and I both suggested, you need to deactivate the Hoard Hunter plugin and all other plugins that Hoard Hunter is using. Furthermore, you need to switch back to the default BuddyPress themes. In other words, to troubleshoot this issue, you need to strip down your install to the lowest common denominator and see if the problem goes away.

So, just using the BuddyPress plugins and no other WPMU plugins, and just using the standard, default BP themes, does the problem go away. If so, you then start working your way backwards, adding a plugin at a time until either everything works or you find the problem.

It could also be an issue with Hoard Hunter’s “integrated theme”.

I hope this is just a development install and not an ongoing WPMU community to which your trying to add BP. If it is an ongoing community, perhaps you should stick with what you have and forget using BP.

If you wish to continue troubleshooting, and you have important data to protect, please make sure you know what you are doing, that you are comfortable with troubleshooting this issue. You’ll need to make backups of your database, your themes, upload directories, plugins–in other words everything. Why? Because there are no guarantees.

…really would love to learn from folks who are able to do this…

1.. make sure the template file for your member theme contains /friends/index.php and everything is kosher there.. and then make sure that you don’t have another page/post named friends, and you don’t have a url rewrite rule for friends in your. htaccess file.

2. the avatar upload is most likely due to misconfig of the GD Library.

try here – https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=2454

3. default for the home page? did you change the theme? can you put up a link?

Alpha version of a social network for African journalists/writers/bloggers/ etc. Using buddypress theme which is really great and clean with minor tweaks. Is this the first buddypress site in Africa?

http://grubstreetgang.com

Depends on where you are.

If you are in the member theme group pages the global $group_obj is available. It’s an instance of BP_Groups_Group class for the current group.

If you are in a group template then the fn bp_get_group_id() in bp-groups-templatetags.php gets you the current group’s id.

Or you could always use the class method BP_Groups_Group::get_id_from_slug($slug) in bp-groups-classes.php

oh sorry never mind i found it in the css folders of the theme, sorry its been a long day.

Amhyaut-

Which version of BuddyPress are you running? Whereas I do see the potential error you’re referring to in the two testbp.org links above, when I went to my test install, I could not replicate this behavior.

At first the “uncategorized” category appeared in the member theme when navigating to “Blogs > Recent Posts”. But when I went into the blog’s dashboard and edited the post by reselecting a new category, making sure that “uncategorized” was deselected, and then hitting the “Update Post” button, the problem disappeared upon refreshing the member theme page in my browser.

Perhaps this has something to do with cached data in testbp.org. So, I would not submit a new ticket in trac.

Where can you find the names of the widgets you want listed for users by default so you can add them to the user layout?

Also is there a way of forcing all new users to have the same buddypress theme? EG: Shout? It seems really weird tome that the default mode of operation is that each new users account gets set to the wordpress default rather than the site default.

Could I just overwrite the wordpress default blog theme directory with the contents of the shout buddypress theme?

Thanks in advance,

You should edit ‘wp-content/bp-themes/your-theme/plugin-template.php’

But gives you little flexibility to edit the layout. I’m seriously thinking to edit the core files or try t oextract those function funcionallity to my own theme functions (don’t know how to, but …)

You have to create a component and get the group nav stuff working. The group stuff works in a similar fashion. Only the nav call is:

global $group_obj;



$group_link = $bp->root_domain . '/' . $bp->groups->slug . '/' .

$group_obj->slug . '/';



bp_core_add_subnav_item($bp->groups->slug, 'someaction' ,

__( 'Some Action', 'oci-contents' ),	$group_link, 'oci_screen_group_someaction');

That listens for /groups/somegroup/someaction and triggers oci_screen_group_someaction() when it finds it. Which happens when the user navigates to Groups > Some Group > Some Action.

Either a link from somewhere in the universe is /groups/somegroup/someaction or the user picks that spot from the member theme menu. The nav system and the urls in bp are intertwined. Your component, when it sets up the nav stuff, determines the urls that your component responds to.

If the url has things like an image name of some sort after the /groups/somegroup/someaction part of the url like: /groups/somegroup/someaction/imagename.jpg then the imagename.jpg is available in bp through the $bp->action_variables. Everything *after* the component/action is available to your component’s code in $bp->action_variables which is an array of things that are stuff after that component/action part of the url.

You can get rid of the error by calling that like: bp_core_widget_whos_online(array()); but it doesn’t pay any attention to args being passed when it comes to number of user to display. You’ll have to fire up the widget for each blog, set the max users, deactivate the widget to not display it. This widget was not designed to be used in this way.

You’d be better off creating a mini template for this purpose.

https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/custom-buddypress-loops/the-site-members-loop/ with ‘type=online’.

I would create a custom page template

https://codex.wordpress.org/Pages#Examples_of_Pages_and_Templates

the page slug would be “login”

then the url would be http://www.yoursite.com/login

because it’s a custom page template AND in your themes directory, it’s “in the loop”

that should work for you

@Jrtlm

Here’s the code I put in bp-custom.php (if you don’t have a bp-custom.php file already, create it and put it in the plugins directory)

The code:

<?php

function my_login_bar(){

?>



<div id="search-login-bar">

<?php bp_login_bar() ?>

</div>



<?php

}

add_action( 'bp_adminbar_menus', 'my_login_bar', 100 ); ?>

Also, if the CSS for the search/login bar isn’t in your bp-core/css directory, you may want to copy it from your bphome theme (not all of the css, just the part that relates to the search-login bar).

Also, the number 70 you see above determines the location of the menu item on the adminbar. The random menu on the far right is 100. I got rid of that random menu and that’s why I used 100 in my code.

Hope this helps. You’ll probably need to tinker around with it to get your location just, so, but it’s a start.

All the best to you!

I was able to add it to the admin bar on http://sunysb.net

I am going to make facebook the only way to sign up and login once I modify the home theme.

I don’t know what you mean by ‘buddybar’. All I know of is the adminbar, userbar, and optionsbar. You might be talking about the userbar that shows your own avatar and navigation through profile, friends, activity, etc when logged in, and just a login form when logged out. I got rid of that on my member theme.

It shouldn’t be very hard to add it anywhere, that code snippet should be all you need, unless you want a little more customization. You will also probably need to modify or add to the structure.css file within the plugin.