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At the moment the bp widgets aren’t callable as template tags like the wp widgets. As far as I know you have to have a ‘sidebar’ region to activate the widgets. The problem is that the widgets you are talking about don’t parse arguments like your example above. We do need that. Gonna post an enhancement ticket to that effect.

i don’t know if i’m using firebug lite correctly, however the message of firebug is:

“the class does not support automation (http://127.0.0.1/mu/,12)”

i’ve inserted the js code in the header.php of the bp home theme

Have a look at this..

I figured out how to fix the problem with width in IE!!!

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=1421#post-7005

PerS, Does this toksta chat app only display in the member themes like Facebook chat because if in the home theme, it would be abused and not private?

If you are not using the “buddypress-home” theme, it requires that you drop in some of the files that are in that theme to display each plugin. I don’t know off the top of my head which ones exactly, but maybe look at the buddypress-home theme and that might help. Once I get in a position to look myself, I might post back later.

You got it Trent, be glad to help.

@ArmchairGeneral, if you find something that will help with cross browser compatibility, could you create a ticket with your fixes on http://trac.buddypress.org ? Just login with username and password from these forums.

Trent

Buddypress is just a set of plugins running a set of themes running on WPMU. If you can edit themes in WP, it is pretty easy to add in advertising wherever you see fit.

Trent

I’ve spent countless hours getting my site to look right across all browsers. I was ready to launch until someone showed me my site in IE6, which I had totally neglected. Turns out that something like 1 in 5 people still use that POS.

In looking at your site tracedef, the problem with the top header is probably because you have it inside a table or div inside the footer. For the life of me I couldn’t get that header to go full width until I figured that out. Seems simple now…but after looking at my site for so long I was going blind to certain things.

I don’t blame this on Buddypress by the by, though there are some issues with the template. For example on the blogs page, in IEx you cannot see the buttons to visit the blogs. This is probably an issue on the member pages and groups pages as well.

If I dig out my code for how I solved that I’ll post here.

The only *real* problem that I see with your website is with internet explorer 6, and there are entire countries boycotting the use of it at this point, so at least we’re on the cusp of an era for developers.

On a stock install, IE6 and IE7 look 98% acceptable and the others look totally fine as far as I can see. (safari, opera, chrome, firefox)

Looks like either something you did broke it, or something went awry in your upload/edit of the files.

When I look at testbp.org in IE6, it looks pretty much perfect.

I think that considering the plethora of files and CSS that BP has, that it’s been cross browser tested pretty thoroughly actually.

make sure you submit it to http://www.freebuddypressthemes.com

we need more themes!

@brandtd, back from the dead… Looks good and I like the colors a lot.

Something I noticed is that the page links in your main navigation start with “www.” when it doesn’t need it. If you’re using RC1 then that is hard coded and you can just omit that and be good to go.

@Andy, question that I didn’t see asked… For the recent forum widget, are you using the existing widget for non-mu WordPress, or did you make a special one for BuddyPress?

I’ve messed with Social Engine before…not a bad script at all.

Here’s what I’ve done with my BP home page for a site that worked better with a static 960px width layout. I know it’s not perfect, but please view with either Firefox, Chrome, or IE7 (I think 6 bugs out a little).

http://mmaopinion.com/

We have the same problems with Sámi characters: ŽžčČáÁŠŠđĐŋŊŧŦ

The problem occurs in wires and member theme fields. The procedure for carrying the utf-8 characters to the database seems to be wrong. All characters are replaced with ‘?’ indicating that the fields do not handle utf-8 characters. Since the texts then get stored without correct characters in the database, all texts has to be re-entered to be corrected when the problem is fixed.

I think this is an extremly serious fault in Buddypress so far, and excludes us needing the utf-8 characters to use BP.

i would like to see member themes changeable on a per user basis so they can have their own skins as such, and also allow them to create their own, i think we need to collaborate as to what the user can change and what they cant, it would be nice to allow them selected css,

i would also like to see the modules changeable in a drag and drop kinda way and allow the user to choose which modules they do or do not want to use,

im interested in a love plugin which allows users to post a little love icon with thier wire posts but i could also see this being extended to comments, i have made a request for it before but got no replies so visit my profile for the topic,

last fm integration would be majorly cool i think, as it would rival many of the ‘apps’ out there on the larger social networks. building on this area of things you could also add twitter, etc. so i guess what im trying to say is focus on the users ‘lifestream’

when the user logs in i want them to go straight to the dashboard but the dashboard should have things like pending freind requests, groups to join, latest comments, profile stats (incuding who visited thier profile), options and such like, and an aggregation of thier freinds activity updates. when i visit my site i dont care what user a,b and c are up to im just interested in what my freinds x,y and z did recently,

so it would be very useful to have these widgets in the dashboard, that way everything is centralised for the user to do things,

another thing i thought would be useful was profile privacy options, allowing members to discriminate based on age eg, users over X cant visit profiles for members under 18 or whatever, maybe allow the user to choose who can contact them / add them etc,

also have a block ability and mark as spam,

the profile itself should have 3 modes of operation, public – everything is displayed, semi private, freinds can see full profile, non freinds can see selected modules / different modules only, and fully private – the user must be freinds to see anything other than name, age and city/ country.

i have used the profile sidebar plugin, but as of yet there are no freinds or group widgets for it, i would like to see these with a good amount of configurability options allowing for things like top freinds, other half etc

sorry for such a long post but i would like to see these features implemented as i think they would greatly enhance buddypress!!

thanks!!

I would like to see the ability for users to be able to personalise their profile page, with this I mean them being able to pick ‘boxes’ with content (say, my groups, my friends, online friends, personal info, etc sort of like widgets, but picked by each user) and place them on their profile, perhaps able to move them around ajax style (and hide/minimize/maximize them) like in the WordPress backend dashboard.

Well, I can’t look at the same code you are running because I’m running RC-1 and the latest trunk. The global var $bp is not an array any more it’s an object now. Take a look at bp-core.php and the <component>_setup_globals() functions to get to know the new layout of this object. It’s got all the same things but we reference them differently now.

It’s not a very good idea to be modifying the wpmu core code for any reason. That being said, I see where you are calling the fn from now. I still don’t know the context in which you are calling this function. This is within a theme you are building?

I’m marking this a ‘not a support question’ because this really has nothing to do with bp support.

Where are you calling this modified wp_query member function? In a theme? I gotta have some idea of the context. The wp_query obj doesn’t have a context all by itself. It can be called from anywhere.

I’ve seen this theme and I think its very cool,maybe you could get some ideas from it for member themes on BP?

http://experience.thirteen23.com/2008/10/06/facbook-the-way-it-should-be-ego/

Group Site Permissions.

I think having a default hidden user group for registered users is a good idea. This way you could put *bad* members into a hidden *bozo* group and maybe restrict their abilities based on preset group permissions? Bozo’s can’t instant message or upload avatars, for example.

how about a plugin that would allow a user to join group(s) when they signup for their account, rather than after.. Ideally the group selection being an Admin Sponsored Group. That way zillions of groups aren’t shown in the selection list.

Admin Sponsored Groups.

PHP Developer

Buddypress Developer

User createdGroups

PHP California Developers

Blah, blah

Brian