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1: No you can keep the same membership page! Just fill in the ID of that page on the S2Member Theme Options page. By using a very simple plugin (included with your purchase) this page will then be added to a person’s profile. So basically it’s a nice wrapper to show the membership page inside someone’s profile. I did not want to mess with the brilliant S2Member plugin, and this is a nice solution.

2: See answer one.. Since S2Member can be used for so many different things I focused on adding:

– an extra template for the welcome page with some nice tabs (shown on the bp-tricks homepage right now)
– a sidebar for that page
– Profile integration
– Some nice shortcodes to create cool looking buttons
– A welcome page template to get people started

So the changes are mostly aimed at making your sales/welcome page look awesome, add a nice membership section to profiles and allow you to quickly set everything up. S2Member remains intact and is not “messed” with.

3: Nope! Although most question you might have should be answered in the docs

Hope this answers your questions!

@Bowromir

That will be a great start to a new week!

A few questions…
1 – I’ve got s2member set up on my install and have already coded a membership page to display info according to level and ccaps along with various other extras. I’m guessing I’ll have to take that page down when I install bp-slick, right?
2 – Do the s2member settings in bp-slick adapt to the current install, or should the current install be reset to default settings and let the theme take over?
3 – Should I wait for theme documentation before asking more?

Hi Rob
First question is what have you changed recently? Switched to a new theme, installed a new plugin, changed permalinks?

A lot of us try to help answering questions on these boards, but we’re just volunteers doing this for fun. We seem to get most issues replied to within a two day period, which I think is very good.

Regarding above — neither of you have provided sufficient detail (have a look at https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/when-asking-for-support/ for the sort of information we’d find useful). Does WordPress (without any plugins or custom themes installed) send emails correctly, for example on user registration?

@pcwriter The theme is done! I’m now creating the different packages and setting up the payment system. It should be two days max!

@pjnu: thanks for your order!

@leguis08

algunas cosas:

[es tan temprano – no puedo escribir mi respuesta en castellano]

1. You should not change the core BuddyPress files (e.g. bp-activity-templatetags.php). If you do this, you will make it much harder to upgrade your site.

2. If you want to show all activity items on the home page (including the hidden items), you can do this in your theme files (without changing the BuddyPress core files):

– Have you built your own child theme? If not, check the ‘docs’ section of this site for information
– In the activity_loop file in your child theme, include the parameter (‘show_hidden’=>true) in the call to bp_has_activities()

3. No, it’s not a bug to let you reply to an activity item:

– The default logic for privacy / hidden decides whether an activity item is shown in the stream. By default, private / hidden items wouldn’t be shown. You have over-ridden this logic, by changing the template tag to show all items regardless of whether they are hidden or not
– Once an item is shown, you can reply to that item (unless it is a blog or forum item with replies disabled)

4. If you want to show hidden / private items, but disable replies to them if the member is not in the group:

– Try adding an additional check for group membership in the activity-meta section of entry.php in your default theme. I’m not sure if there is enough information in the activity item to let you do this

Use FTP to do a complete reinstall of the entire BuddyPress plugin again. Make sure that you have the correct folder and that it’s in the correct folder level. After that then remove your Facelook theme from the theme folder. Then see if your site comes back with the BuddyPress Default Theme activated.

If you do not want to use FTP then you might try yoursite.com/wp-admin/theme-install.php and search for Facelook.

I’m looking forward to this. I hope to have it installed on my site ASAP. Thank you for the suggestion and feedback of the interface.

@Bowromir

So-o-o… any clue about, say, ummm, a release date?
(mouth waters as he speaks…)

Sorry for the double post guys!

@skolbloggense: I’ve been looking into CourseWare and it seems to behave great under BP-Slick. There are a few css styling hickups and I will look into them on a later date, but it is certainly usable straight away without any major problems. I did add a new option to the theme options panel which allows you to make Theme fluid. This means it will expand on higher screen resolutions (like the standard theme does as well) and communities who use courseware should benefit from this, because it looks less crammed. A screenshot:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1628201/courseware.png

@lespaul I’m afraid you won’t find a lot of help tagging on to the end of a thread in this way. Please start a fresh topic, describe your issue, detail your setup; versions, plugins in use, themes in use, etc and someone hopefully will be able to help.

It would, but only if bbPress was installed via WP dashboard > BuddyPress > Forum Setup. BP theme won’t work in external bbPress installation.

What versions, and what theme, are you using?

I’m going to try and add the steps for the fix again. I didn’t see the note about using backticks for code…

1. Open the index.php, save it to your theme as posts-page.php (or whatever template name you like).
2. Edit the newly created posts-page.php file and place the following at the top to create a page template:

`<?php
/*
Template Name: Posts Page
*/
?> `

3. Now scroll down in the posts-page.php to the beginning of the WordPress loop and just before the line “ add this one line of code “ Note: (5 == the number of post to show you can change this to whatever you want.)
4. Save the posts-page.php file.
5. In your WordPress/BuddyPress admin panel create a new page called “Blog” (or something similar) and select “Posts Page” under Template.
6. Publish page.

You should now be able to go to your Settings -> Reading menu and set a static page and select your Posts Page to show your blog posts.

Ok… there are few things you need to look at to achieve this:

You should create a new theme where you are going to implement your reworked profile / activity sub-nav menu. I suggest deriving this from the bp-default theme: https://codex.buddypress.org/extending-buddypress/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/

In the default theme, the activity sub-nav menu is created by a call to bp_get_options_nav() in /members/single/activity.php. It’s this call that you’ll either want to replace with your custom version (or apply filters / action hooks to get your desired result).

You should also take a look at how the activity stream is built – it’s quite easy to create your own activity loop that will return all the items for a given user merged into a single page (rather than the separate tabs): https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/custom-buddypress-loops/the-activity-stream-loop/

Hopefully that’s enough to get you started.

@askunky

There are any number of ways you can do this using CSS positioning (and developing your own bespoke website theme).

This isn’t really a BuddyPress question though, it’s a general website development / CSS question. I suggest a good book on CSS would be a starting point.

Incidentally: There’s no need for div wrappers just to position an image (you are adding unnecessary bloat), and I’d certainly avoid inline style definitions (which can be a maintenance nightmare).

@pcwriter – I’m not sure what you are trying to write with your CSS, but I suspect you’ve confused absolute and relative positioning. For the approach you are suggesting, you should make your main header div relatively positioned, and use absolute positioning on your image to position it absolutely in relation to the header div: http://css-tricks.com/absolute-positioning-inside-relative-positioning/

As to suitability of BuddyPress for a ‘simple site’ – it depends what you want that site to do – if you want user profiles, messaging, groups, activity streams, etc. – then BuddyPress gives you a great platform to build on.

If you just want a simple content management system with posts, then you’d be better building on vanilla WordPress.

If you don’t need content management, then your simplest site would just be HTML and CSS.