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David,

“…minimum required to give you the ability to add a new menu item…”

You talking about adding a new menu item to the buddybar ™ or to the user/options bar in the member theme?

what account settings? backend or settings on profile theme?

dimensionmedia

This may not be possible, but it might be nice to include users of Identi.ca (and Laconica servers) plus Openmicroblogger.org servers in this stream. Both use the OpenMicroBlogging protocol enabling users to post to Twitter and subscribe to friends on each platform.

Openmicroblogger.org in particular is heavily tied to WordPress plugins and themes already.

Cheers

Let’s take these things one at a time.

“well no search works not even groups or anything” You are going to have to explain that in more detail please. That’s not enough to even know what the problem is or where it’s located. Try something like “Using the home theme, when I go to the search box labeled ‘find blogs’ and enter in part of a blog title it doesn’t show the blog I’m looking for.”

Start with the problems you are having using search. Give me some details.

Howdy. The plugin-template.php is used when you are running a non-bp home theme. As far as I can see it’s the only time it’s ever used. The plugin-template.php calls get_header(), triggers an action ‘bp_template_content’ and then calls get_footer(). Whatever is triggered by the ‘bp_template_content’ event, renders the stuff in between the header and the footer. The content div with the groups directory stuff inside it in the case you mentioned.

If you are getting two content divs then your theme is starting a content div in it’s header.php file. Gotta be. That should be left to the rest of the theme’s template files.

Am I understanding what you are saying?

Mike, the blogs component is about creating and tracking the blogs that each user creates. If you don’t want your users to create blogs then don’t install the blogs component. All references to blogs should just vanish. From the admin bar, from the home theme and from the member theme.

That and disabling blog creation in the mu back end should take care of it. Am I missing something? Won’t be the first time..

I think I understand the question now. Takes me awhile sometimes.

When you install mu you are installing a multi-user blog community. People register and create their own blogs. As the Site Admin of this vast and wonderful new community, you get to oversee the chaos. Each and every new user in your Infini community is a blog admin and they get to choose the blog theme. The way it looks is up to them. There is a light at the end of the tunnel for you. You control what themes are available for them to choose from. (I know don’t end sentences with a preposition)

Any themes *you* install and enable are there for selection by your new blog admin/owners.

EDIT: Stop here Burt and read the question again. You are going on about something unrelated to what the question is.

So, like I wasn’t saying above, yes you can have all users in your mu community running the bp home theme. I had never considered doing that though. Hmmm. Yep, it’ll work. It can’t think of any negative side effects at the moment. You just need to have the blog owners choose that as a theme.

‘Site Policy #17a’ : Thou shalt run the bp home theme.

YETANOTHEREDIT: (sigh) There’s an easier way you moron. Get a clue Burt.

The default mu theme is the default mu theme for new blogs. That’s why they call it the default.

I remember playing with the ‘default’ directory under /wp-content/themes. I wiped it and put a different theme in there. The only problem I remember having was mu got confused a bit by two themes registering as ‘theme x’. I deleted the copy of the theme that was laying around under /themes and mu seemed happier. It fired up my selection of tarski being the default theme. I didn’t find any toggles or switches to flip in mu, I just stuffed what I wanted into the ‘default’ directory and went on with life.

EDIT AGAIN: Maybe you should refer them to advice from someone who has slept in the past 24hrs.

Is that what you are talking about?

Which ‘toolbar’ are you talking about. We have three that might be the one you are talking about. We have the ‘member adminbar’ which has ‘my account’ ‘my blogs’…, the member and home theme ‘button bar’ which have ‘news’, ‘groups’…

In all cases you have to modify the code or develop a plugin to make additions or modifications.

gpo1, nope. I’ve got too much on my plate right now. I’m not going to be able to do much else except get a site launched by the 1/1/09 deadline.

I talked to Andy about enabling bp to use standard wp widgets in the member theme. Got a couple of ideas but no time at the moment to play with them. The problem is that mu deals with *one* theme per blog. The members theme is sort of this invisible theme that lurks in the background. mu doesn’t even know about it. Only bp knows about it. It *is* bp.

The way I understand that widgets work is:

Register a ‘sidebar’ in mu with a name. 1,2,3 or ‘BP Member Profile’, ‘BP Member Blogs’. The sidebar gets registered to a specific blog id.

register_sidebar(array('name'=>'Main Sidebar',

'before_title' => "<h3 class='widgettitle'>",

'after_title' => "</h3>n",

));

In theme code call mu’s sidebar launcher fn.

<?php if (!function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar('Main Sidebar') ) : // begin primary sidebar widgets ?>

I just had some questions that I didn’t have time to investigate. When can I call call register_sidebar()? Any time I want, anywhere I want? I see it done in theme functions.php.

When I access any bp member theme functions do they execute in the blog id 1 environment? I think so.

If I register some bp member theme sidebars in bp code will it show up in the mu backend? I think so.

Seems like only the site admin who owns blog id 1 will be able to add widgets to the member theme. Well that’s a *good* thing. This is a feature.

Lots of questions and unknowns right now and not much time to explore answers. Have at it! Have fun.

Wouldn’t it be as simple as having the plugin in mu-plugins and then just adding the call to your member theme just like any other theme?

#1-#2 Something is amiss. Should be working. Both the alphabet and search work on my installation. Try reinstalling the bp files, including themes. Save your changes beforehand! Do you have other plugins installed that could be interfering?

#3 probably related to above

Sorry I can’t help more…

Are you using your own theme or the buddypress-home theme?

is this for the members theme page?

i hope so!

I’m not sure I understand. Let me say what I think you are saying.

You installed mu and bp. Created some user accounts and then created blogs for each user. You wrote some posts on each of those blogs. The posts are showing up on those blogs as expected.

(I’m back) I just signed up for a blog and posted to my new blog. The new post shows up in the ‘recent’ area on your home theme. When you setup mu those ‘hello world’ posts just show up as part of the install process.

Then you install bp. After bp is installed and working, then your blog posts show up. It doesn’t pick up pre-bp install posts.

Everything seems to be working ok there. You are farther along than others are. Now the real fun begins.

Oh, I bookmarked your site. Let me keep the blog. I’ll be back. I just want to know what the heck you are doing. I have no idea what that welcome msg implies.

I had also made mine a two column theme… extending the left column stretching across to the right one. Getting rid of the middle one. Got a few issues in IE with the top margin, should be an easy fix…but i’ll let you know.

@ottochen you are having these problems using the home theme on what blog? The root mu blog id 1? Or are you activating the home theme on a subdomain blog. That’s ok but the ‘news’ not working is indicative of running home on a subdomain.

I just looked at the code. The home theme should get the latest blog posts on the blog it’s activated on now. There was a restriction in there that caused it to fail on subdomains with 404. Andy made it go away.

@belogical things fail 404 if:

they aren’t there

apache/.htaccess rewrites things and they aren’t where we tell apache they are

bp snags those urls (which it does) and things aren’t where they should be

What do your error logs say when you hit: news, members, …

The mysite.org/blogs, mysite.org/news … urls for bp directories are just virtual urls. bp hooks them and goes out happily trying to run the appropriate code. It might be a permissions problem. Not found can also mean Not accessable.

Error logs?

Howdy, the area I think you are talking about is the default form when you view a member’s profile right? ‘me’ > profile > public. The template that generates that screen is in /member-themes/buddypress-member/profile/index.php

You’ll see the calls to generate all the sections on that page. One of them is the wire. Line 47:

<?php bp_wire_get_post_list( bp_current_user_id()… and so on …

You were gonna make a copy of the theme, make whatever changes you need to run a custom bp member theme and edit that one right? I think it’s in the bp rules and code of conduct. I’ll have to check.

There are 2 things you need to change, 1 in custom.css, 1 in home.php in the buddypress-home theme folder (and /css folder)

remove lines 14 to 25 (or comment out) of home.php

`<div id=”center-column”>

<?php if ( !function_exists(‘dynamic_sidebar’)

|| !dynamic_sidebar(‘center-column’) ) : ?>

<div class=”widget-error”>

Please log in and /wp-admin/widgets.php?s=&show=&sidebar=sidebar-2″>add widgets to this column.

</div>

<?php endif; ?>

</div>`

This will remove the center column from the layout.

Next you need to adjust the css right margin of #left-column

#left-column {

margin-right: 280px;

}

Also you could adjust the body width, with this addition to your custom.css

body {

max-width: 1100px;

}

Hope That Helps,

Brad

http://www.gorgeousgamers.com/beta/

if i were you, i wont use widget in this case. i would create a loop to show last post

(i use prologue theme too on one of my buddypress installation, and i highly hacked that theme!!)

The directories should work on any theme when you browse to the URL.