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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.

You can write your own customised BuddyPress website (theme) to achieve this:

Please check the codex reference I gave you – it has all the details on how to write your own custom (filtered as you want it) activity loop.

Also check under docs on this site for details on how to write your own bespoke website theme.

@kimprasannanielsen welcome to the help forum, firstly the forum is not a coding service as such we can’t do the work for you but will help you where you get stuck.

If you find an aspect confusing then please explain what stage you are at and what you’re stuck with and someone with experience of using the template pack will hopefully be able to guide you along.

If however you do want professional help then rather than post your email address here post a request on the jobs board group for help getting this sorted.

Yes, there are already filters for this in the default theme.

Also, take a look at: https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/custom-buddypress-loops/the-activity-stream-loop/

Hi @bowromir,

This has the makings of a good debate, (and nothing to do with “get non activated users”.. Someone close this thread!)

I want to argue with you, refute your points, etc., etc. – but in reality, I tend to agree with a lot of them.

You are right, this site is very poor when it comes to finding information – even, as you point out, “how to” information (tricks… I hate that word!) that you know you read just a few days ago.

I’ve seen little constructive feedback, desire or direction from Automattic on this. So, I understand the motivation to create a separate site that attempts to do the job of presenting technical “how to” information well (and easily searchable).

I’m a little uncomfortable though about mixing your commercial side (themes) in the same site as the community resource, but accept there are arguments each way. I don’t know much about Adii and WooThemes, but suspect a lot of their content is self generated, or produced by their theme users. Where I worry about the ethics is if things are simply taken from this site (or others) and represented as “another great trick brought to you by Bowe”.

Ok, enough of hijacking this thread – and @travel-junkie‘s excellent snippet. Let’s talk separately sometime.

Hi @rogercoathup,

Woow you almost make me feel guilty now! You make a few valid points, and I think the “problem” is that bp-tricks.com currently shows a big homepage offering my theme, while the actual community is not yet online. This might give you the impression it’s purely about business and making profit, and that is certainly not the case. It’s hard to defend myself when I only have a pre-order page to show, but if you read my reply here: https://buddypress.org/community/groups/creating-extending/forum/topic/bp-slick-probably-the-best-bp-theme-ive-ever-seen/#post-73078 you hopefully have a better idea of what I’m trying to do.

I’ve been on this forums for a long time, and I’ve come across so many awesome tips and tricks which are only seen by a few, and lost for so many. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve looked for a tricks which I KNOW is here somewhere, but impossible to find back. That’s how BP-Tricks was born, and it will hopefully become a very nice resource for buddypress users. No ads, only BuddyPress related content, and no subscription models or anything like that. If you want to purchase a premium theme you can, and you’ll receive support for that, but it will not be promoted with ads or constant posts about why you should buy a Premium Theme or anything.

I hope that BP-Tricks becomes something like WooThemes or NetTuts.. have a huge bunch of cool resources and free stuff, while at the same time providing good support and nice designs/themes for people who wish to use that service. I personally have no problems with these kinds of services as long as you strike a balance between offering awesome stuff for free, and asking some money for certain services (in my case a Theme).

This has become quite a long reply sorry for that

@paulhastings0 – are you suggesting we should copy good code snippets from these forums across to a 3rd party site that will sell themes? That’s sounds like a lot of freely acquired content and SEO for what’s ostensibly a commercial business.

I’m generally happy to submit and publish code to help people on these forums (and for them to use how they see fit, commercial or otherwise). It will occasionally be abused, and there are spam sites that will trawl and re-publish as their own work, and we can’t prevent that.

However, if I thought it was being republished blatantly with little added value, as you suggest, as an offering from another business, I would be much more reluctant to publish it in the first place.

The main juice is the filter.

What you’ll want to do is disable the current filter and write a conditional to activate the filter (depending on where you want it to be enabled).

Let’s say you wanted to disable oEmbed from the home page, something like the following will work in your theme’s functions.php:

`remove_filter( ‘bp_get_activity_content_body’, ‘ray_bp_oembed’, 9 );
remove_filter( ‘bp_get_activity_content’, ‘ray_bp_oembed’, 9 );

if( !is_front_page() ) {
// re add the filters
add_filter( ‘bp_get_activity_content_body’, ‘ray_bp_oembed’, 9 );
add_filter( ‘bp_get_activity_content’, ‘ray_bp_oembed’, 9 );
}`

You might have to play around with the conditional to get it right, but hopefully this gives you an idea.

*Word of warning: I’m restructuring the plugin, so these filters will need to change for v0.6.

Okay, so I’ll probably create a plugin for this in the coming week or two. Please remind me if I don’t get to this!

@dougjoseph – Your ideas have been discussed before.

Read this blog post on BuddyDev.com to post on a user’s profile (mirroring the functionality of bp.org):

Using activity as wire in Buddypress 1.2 themes

@janismo We use the Favicon Rotator plugin with our child theme: http://archetyped.com/tools/favicon-rotator/