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RTFM https://codex.wordpress.org/wp_list_pages

I’m testing the plugin and it’s got some severe limitations. It cannot handle recurring events and I can’t get it working globally. I am also testing Events Manager 2.0rc2. It seems much more capable of complex functions and display.

This is a good and clear guide for you:

http://www.kristarella.com/2009/05/how-to-move-wordpressmu/

To get rid of Pages, I followed the directions on the link specified above:

Using the following piece of code, the Pages will display without heading and in Page Order:

<?php wp_list_pages(‘sort_column=menu_order&title_li=’); ?>

It can be kind of hard to find, it’s about half way down the page on this link: https://codex.wordpress.org/wp_list_pages

Try the custom filters for BP plugin – https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-profile-filters-for-buddypress/

Allows you / your users to be more prescriptive about what BP ‘auto-links’. Don’t think it will completely stop BP auto-linking some things – though you could, if you wished, tell the plugin to exclude ALL fields from being auto-linked.

You / users can also use the square brackets ‘[ ]’ in profile fields to specify words or phrases they do want linking.

The plugin’s pretty handy for specifying fields like web site / twitter that shouldn’t be auto-linked.

Watch your escape quotes. Each time you write a double quote, it ends the previous quoted segment. If you start a quoted string with double quotes, use single quotes to indicate quotation marks inside. It works as vice versa as well.

If you already knew that and simply wrote it all with double quotes for your demonstration, I would advise that you double check your path to your image.

A word of advice about paths: it is usually a good idea not to hard-code the whole path. It will work on your site if you get it right, but if you ever move things it will break. Instead, use defined constants to represent these path components. WP_PLUGIN_URL points to your plugins directory, and get_option(‘siteurl’) will assume the value of your root domain, with http://. Here is a link that has some more of these useful constants.

Hope this helps.

That is a great method @dpolant! I however wanted to insert this snippet here before

<blockquote>

but it’s not accepting it. Mainly the url value is not accepted I think, how is that done correctly?

$activity_content .= "<img height="20" width="20" class="bla" alt="bla" src="http://wordpress.mu/(...)/bla.png"/><blockquote>"

Thanks!

Hmmm – I installed the Plugin from Dennis Morhard “Invitation Code Checker” (https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/invitation-code-checker) and changed the text a bit, so that my users know, which the code is when they register. Since then (a couple days now) ZERO spam signups… I hope it stays like that and the plugin is not too upset, that I misuse it

How do you make the custom child themes, from http://themeshaper.com/thematic/ work? WordPress MU can’t seem to see them, when I upload them.

(I’m going to try to be helpful rather than just telling you to go elsewhere. I want Buddypress to grow, and users helping users ought be part of that. I’d also like the forum here to be a useful resource. So many threads at mu.wordpress.org are just cries for help with zero replies. That sucks.)

wordpressfan, I’d probably approach this using Roles. I’ve never done it, but you could set the Dashboard user default role in Site Options to ‘Inactive’. That would allow you to monitor signups, and approve as necessary, I’d imagine. As long as users know that there is a process in place where they have to wait for approval. There are plugins out there that allow you to create custom roles, too, but I’ve never used them.

In terms of the registration emails sent to you as admin, this is also a WMPU thing, not on the Buddypress end. I’m sure I’ve seen plugins that allow you to edit these, but I can’t find them for the life of me. If you’re comfortable with hacking the WPMU core (and rehacking after updates), you can find the place these emails are generated in

function newblog_notify_siteadmin

in wmpu-functions.php in /wpmu-includes

off the root of your WMPU install.

I seem to recall using this with success on an old pre-1.1 install to make that happen : https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/cosmic-bp-user-signup-password/

Not upgrading wordpress to its latest version is a security risk. You’ve been warned.

I think you can upgrade, but beware that this is frowned upon as the offical documentation states that you need WPMU 2.8+ or higher.

The other thing to keep in mind is that your BP widgets will not work due to the new widget system in WP 2.8+.

What are the plugins that are keeping you from upgrading?

Did you activate BuddyPress? Then did you face any errors?

Well, look at it this way. WordPress doesn’t have a feature like that, so why should BP? There are themes out there that let you do that and that’s fine. That’s the way it should be with BP as well. In time there’ll be a lot more themes and maybe some of them will implement uploading a logo image, but it should not be in core.