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@svenl77

Hi. Once you’ve made your changes, create a patch, and then upload to https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ (you will need to make a new ticket — one ticket per patch/idea). Then one of the core team will take a look and give feedback/commit as necessary.
As @dennissmolek said, if a child theme has customised, for example single.php, it is important that this change does not render a duplicate sidebar. I am looking forward to see your suggestion.
Also, how much work would it be to make the sidebar go on the left? Is it just a case of changing the CSS or is it lots of work?

We’re trying to keep backwards compatibility for the theme as much as possible, as we encourage people to create child themes of it ad don’t want to annoy theme developers.

In general regarding custom post types: we have plans to do this everywhere for BuddyPress 1.4. I am sure that once we are closer to the release of 1.3, we will communicate details for 1.4 on the bpdevel.wordpress.com so everyone can discuss. That may be an appropriate time to kick-start the old groups-as-an-object ticket.

Hi @johnjamesjacoby

we are kind of new to all this… How to start? I will check out the latest version via svn. That’s fine. But how to check in? Commit? Push?
Should I add the complete theme as .zip file on a ticket? I guess the size will be too big.
I would like to write this patch, I’d like to start with some easy job to slowly go into all this. So the sidebar bug is an easy startup.

@dennissmolek, i guess we can keep it update save (backwards compatible) by asking if the sidebar is already active
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/is_active_sidebar

Some more newbee questions:
Where do I add my other subjects? The sidebar was just one example of a long list we would like to discuss and write patches for.

Should we open a ticket for every idea we’d like to change?

Sorry, if some of the questions are already answered in other forum threads.
Maybe it would be a good idea, to write a guide to become an active part on the project.
Thanks for all, we are excited to start

First of all, do not use ALL CAPS to post your issue in this forum, it’s not kosher.

Second, what do you mean you “cannot get the links to work”? You have to be more specific than that – like link redirects to home page or to blank page, etc.

Third, pretty permalinks are required in BuddyPress installations. mod_rewrite must be enabled in your server.
Deactivate BuddyPress and any BP plugins you have installed, change to WP default theme – twentyten – and resolve permalink issues at WordPress forums before activating BuddyPress again.
https://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks
https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting
https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/before-installing/

if you want to customize the page, you can copy down the /plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/members/single/messages down to your own theme (put it in /themes/yourtheme/members/single/messages ) and edit away.

If you’re talking about the buddybar, read this: https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/modifying-the-buddypress-admin-bar/

If you’re talking about the WordPress 3.0 admin bar, that’s different.

In either case, you want this code: `groups_is_user_member( $user_id, $group_id )`

And a link to your site will help. “it still ain’t happening.” isn’t much to go on to help troubleshoot.

== Can someone please give me a dullards guide on installing child themes. How I am doing it now because that’s what I’ve read, is to activate the child theme and not the parent theme. But it still ain’t happening.==

The question is whether you created a child theme of bp-default theme or of a WordPress theme.

– If you created a child theme of bp-default theme (https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/), upload the folder you created to server wp-content/themes/, then activate the child theme and you’re good to go and customize further.

– If you created a child theme of a regular WordPress theme, then you also need to install and activate the BP Template Pack plugin to make your child theme compatible with BuddyPress
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-template-pack/
https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/
https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/bp-template-pack-walkthrough-level-easy-2/

Sorry @vegasparty607 but in order for this to look right I will need a link to “your site” . either way i meant for 117px to be 130px i edited my last update , review it.
The span’s css is ` `

@naijaping make sure you made the folders `wp-content/themes/(yourTheme)/members/single/member-header.php`
and not `wp-content/themes/(yourTheme)/member-header.php`

@mikey3d thanks for pointing that out, if that isn’t his site then he must be using the same theme, I have had alot of people wanting help but most don’t like to link to their sites. Kinda odd, since a link with help promote their site.

I am currently writing my own theme that looks nothing like BP-default, but I’ve been on trac almost daily with the UI tickets. I don’t know if we need a dedicated “UI/UX” team, but as long as folks are submitting on those tickets it will ease some of the other dev’s needing to mess with it. I DO think it is an important component with BP and we need to keep talking about 1.3’s problems.

I’m glad to see all the discussion going on, especially in light of all the “BP IS DEAD” nonsense. I think the biggest issue is how the forums make it hard to actually talk, but the testBP forums are great and I’m excited to see them go live here. I’m also anxious to see the new BP.org which seems to be slated to June.

My biggest issue with the BP sites I run is spam. Even my non indexed test servers get spammed. My AIGA site was deleting 250 spam users/blogs a day before shutting off new user registration. The first part of that comes from spam users being registered. There are two types of spam services, bots, and (slave) labor. These folks get through the Captcha’s and set up real fake accounts. But in my experience with my comment forms adding a Captcha killed a vast majority of spamers. Then with comments, contact forms, etc this would kill most spam. From there heuristic spam fighting from splogs, comments, etc. Also a system that users can mark a item as spam would help a ton.

Second, its that to learn how to do ANYTHING in BP I have to take something that works with the current version and hack it a part to figure out basic commands and actions. Once the new site is up I think there should be a real push on getting the Codex up to snuff(look at jQuery and WP) that have examples, resources, etc. Then have tutorials on things, hell syndicate them from other bloggers.

So as my thing(s) I want to keep being a part of fixing UI issues, and will as long as I can.
I want to write for the Codex, and am here and willing to write Blog articles for BP. Tutorials, Updates, whatever. I’m game. I will be writing tutorials for AIGA members anyway, so why not sync the content here.
I am working on the Group Documents plugin with its original developer because my sites need it.

And lastly I will be writing a BP-Spam component. I will do it as a plugin first and will want/need tons of feedback. But to get the University to sign off on my project I will need to stop all the Viagra and other inappropriate content from making it through. I will do this regardless of it being a part of BP but want to give back however I can.

I’m so psyched to see all the energy is still in this project!

@Timothy Tarmon Jr, thanks for you effort, just tried this as instructed but seems to have no effect, what am i doing wrong, i just copied member-header.php to my child theme and replaced

@naijaping . Ok this is what i came up with based on your sites css.

go to your theme’s /member-header.php

find `

== I installed Template Pack and created Pages (ie: Activity, profile, etc) ==

Are you on BP trunk or BP 1.2.8? If you’re on BP 1.2.8, you do not “create” (Add New > Page – Activity – publish), you just add the links to your WP theme.

== I cannot get the pages to accept my widgets in sidebar ==

Delete the BP pages you created and let BP do its own thing with the BP template files transferred to your active WP theme during the compatibility process.

== This theme has been designed to be used with sidebars. ==

That warning is not caused by the integration process, that’s in the sidebar.php of your WP theme. Which one are you using?

You could turn BP groups into locations.

There are a few album plugins that work for groups. BP Gallery by buddydev.com works as far as I know and BP Media is scheduled to have this functionality as well.

Members could create new locations by creating new groups.

Remember to change the groups slug to locations:
https://codex.buddypress.org/extending-buddypress/changing-internal-configuration-settings/

And modifying group labels to locations with a language file:
https://codex.buddypress.org/extending-buddypress/customizing-labels-messages-and-urls/

You’ll probably have to do some theme modding as well.

You can do whatever you want with your theme. However, since you’re not using a child theme of bp-default, your theme subsequently will not receive any updates for bugs or features when a new version of BuddyPress is released. You’d then have to manually check over new BuddyPress releases and merge them into your custom theme. A lot of BP functionality is tied to the theme (AJAX, JS), so hopefully you’re aware of that.

Re: labels – I’m guessing you mean the BuddyPress localization strings. The BP localization strings are convenient if a user is already using the BuddyPress language file, but you’re happy to run with your own theme language file as well.

It sounds like you’re doing a lot of modding to the original bp-default theme, so since you seem happy with this approach you should be fine.

If you duplicated and renamed the function and add_action, you’d also need to add some javascript, so WP will recognize the new AJAX function.

Check out the following lines in in /bp-default/_inc/global.js:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/1.2.8/bp-themes/bp-default/_inc/global.js#L607

Instead of adding your tournament code directly into the bp_dtheme_ajax_invite_user() function, you’d need to duplicate and rename that entire function and add_action and do a search and replace for groups to tournaments.

well, In that case, some more questions will help.
1. how do you create a buddypress page? from wordpress admin? from theme, have you added a new component as I don’t see other way to add a page in buddypress
2. Is the page opened using wordpress/is coming inside wordpress (seems to me iT is not )
3. Or is the page independent of wordpress, you are loading that page(php) directly inside the browser ?

are you calling that from bp-custom.php ? or your theme ?

style.css file

Ok, I figured what is happening is *something* (either BP itself or the BP Template Pack) is changing the link in the WP editor to point to the forums/index.php file, instead of the theme’s index.php file.

I edited the homepage on my website by going directly to the themes folder via FTP and downloading the template’s index file, then resaving it in the same location. Annoying, and not sure why/when/by what the change has been made, but there’s a workaround.

I have the same problem, my subcontent posts are too close together. I didn’t understand this response:

div.subcontentpost h2{
text-overflow:ellipsis;
overflow:hidden;
white-space:nowrap;
}

Should I paste that into widget home php? If so where?