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Add these to your theme’s stylesheet.

form.dir-form div.dir-search {margin:0 !important; width:auto !important;}

I’d recommend using a web developer toolbar like Firebug for Firefox to debug these things.

@dwdutch

Use a web developer toolbar.

If you’re using Firefox, get Firebug.

Is there any way to get a full version of the post area that the admins get with the tinymce toolbar (including any plugin icons that are added within the toolbar) as well as Custom fields and the ability to upload an image and insert into post , that would be crucial

So… I had bowob on my site which I still think is the most fastest and the one users most like. Its also the simplest to install: just activate the plugin sitewide and presto. It was however also the most expensive it costs 40 dollar per 150.000 loads. I think they need to change their pricing schema because that is really a) expensive b) confusing. The cost was mainly why I looked for another solution.

– arrowchat does not have a teamroom and no bp integration and as far as i can see its not out yet

– wibiya provides a nice toolbar but the login is a hassle to login via e.g. facebook and another via twitter, i want to have the user account from my own site

– i now have cometchat enabled but users find the “common chatroom” almost never. I currently have the problem that it keeps counting online users even when they are long gone

I have not tried webbychat yet maybe thats an idea to test that one also concerning the load. Bowob took abou 50% of my server resources when people where chatting happily away and basically cometchat does the same.

also notice that ALL of these even bowob which resides on another server take a huge load on your server. It pretty much does not matter which one you choose.

I did the same thing. It works now, but I have a notification that is ‘stuck’ on 1. How do you refresh those tables/drop bad ones in mysql?

EDIT: All fixed now – it was a Javascript conflict with the Wibiya toolbar.

Also, the tweetstream settings page is returning a 404 server response though the page still loads for me in FF.

See this screen capture

This is causing an issue with one of my users, his ISP intercepts 404’s I think and is redirecting him to Yahoo (or it’s a yahoo toolbar thing).

Edit: I also wanted to say thanks for developing this plugin!

I use the chat add on from Wibiya Toolbar (Tiny Chat) and we had a big event with over 30 people in the chat room at once(http://freelancerunplugged.com/blog/chat-your-face-off-review/)! it worked great but there is no friend feature. The good thing though is that it puts a little number in brackets next to the Join Chat button on the bottom toolbar so you know how many people are in the chat – but would love a buddypress chat option – it would surely kick Facebooks dodgy chat!

if you have adobe photoshop or adobe illustrator, those colors are defined in every spectrum you can imagine. just hit on the color swatch from the toolbar, not the admin bar, and pick a color and look for the code

Thanks for sharing regarding RPXNOW. After a quick review, I think their model will probably keep them around, but I’m concerned about the limited functionality at the free level. Most of it requires $10/mo. or more https://rpxnow.com/get. Gigya’s model seems to allow them to provide a free service with much more customization and features. The fact they have many major partners also suggests staying power. http://www.gigya.com/public/Content/GS/Implementation.aspx. THey even have an interesting toolbar, but I probably won’t use it.

Unless something changes, I’m leaning toward gigya. However, there are issues. Last I checked, they were just finishing the MU version of their plugin (even though some had gotten the .org version working). Also, the biggest complaint I saw was an inability to restrict people from creating multiple logins with each of their identities (e.g. Yahoo, Google). Also, getting users to fill out detailed profiles was more problematic. I would want to see these addressed (although I don’t see how the former could be addressed technologically).

Regarding OpenID, as with the liquor store, allowing multiple forms of payment is a must. Cash only will restrict customers.

yeah, it seems strange to turn everything off.

but i too have some things i didn’t want to appear in the interface for users – sometimes disabling leaves the button but returns a “you can’t create a new blog” message (for example).

and it’s definitely not a bulletproof solution, but what i’m doing is just hiding those buttons, forms, etc. via CSS, or removing post-load with jquery calls. it’s true that with any developer plugins, they could turn off javascript or tweak the css, but that doesn’t bother me. if they find a way to get in there and post content that no one can see, sure it’ll get added to the database… but it’s kind of like the tree that fell in the forest that no one was there to hear. other things like the toolbar at the top you can remove via plugins.

I have WPMU setup in the root, but wanted to have the “community” page on a different page as well.

Here’s what I did:

1. Create a new WordPress page template with the BP widget toolbar calls in it.
2. Create a new WordPress page and apply the page template you created in step #1.
3. Add BP widgets to the BP widget toolbar.

That should be it!

thanks again r-a-y, It worked when I moved the bbcode-buttons toolbar plugin from “my-plugins folder” to “bb-plugins folder”!

I have bbcode-lite lying in “my-plugins folder” and bbcode-buttons doing the job in “bb-plugins folder” ))

Interesting that, i had the similar problem with lookslike buddypress theme, when I had it in my-templates folder it would not activate, but activated when I moved it to bb-templates!

It works for me… I’m using bbPress 1.0.1 as well.

FYI, I’m using _ck_’s BBcode Lite and BBcode Buttons Toolbar plugins.

Using Comment Form Quicktags (which puts it for the blog), I was able to tweak a little and get it to work by manually editing files.

For the Wire, I edited my theme’s membertheme/wire/post-forum.php from

<textarea name="wire-post-textarea" id="wire-post-textarea"></textarea>

to

<script type="text/javascript">edToolbar();</script>

<textarea name="wire-post-textarea" id="wire-post-textarea"></textarea>

<script type="text/javascript">var edCanvas = document.getElementById('wire-post-textarea');</script>

In theory the plugin should be hackable, but adding this:

add_action('wire-post-textarea', array(&$this, 'detect_end'));

to

/**

* Start to detect <textarea>.

*/

function detect_start($file) {

ob_start(array(&$this, 'add_tags'));

$this->ended = false;

add_action('comment_form', array(&$this, 'detect_end'));

add_action('wp_footer', array(&$this, 'detect_end'));



return $file;

}

didn’t work so I’ll have to keep poking around.

just like you did it with your logo, simply modify css classes for navigation.

Using dev toolbar on firefox helps you find css functions. I highly recommend this.

If you use Firefox add the Web Developer toolbar. It saves me a lot of time when I need to understand how things work .

The test site is acting a bit odd when I login with my Facebook account. It thinks my profile is http://testbp.org/members/facebookuser/ which belongs to a Trent Adams. Trying to view settings redirects back to http://testbp.org/members/facebookuser/, as does trying to logout through the top grey toolbar.

I’ve restricted my facebook profile quite a bit so maybe its relying on information facebook isn’t providing.