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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.

Anyone interested in UI should keep an eye on tickets marked as needing UI input: https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/query?status=%21closed&keywords=~needs-ui

Perhaps we can add some more reports to the Trac. Are there any on https://core.trac.wordpress.org/report that you would find useful on the BuddyPress trac?

EDIT: just added report 17 — “Needs User Experience / UI Feedback / Designs”

https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/report/17

@r-a-y ‘s https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/oembed-for-buddypress/ is going into 1.3: https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2707

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/

yes alice, thanks I just remembered to add that to my last post. Please let me know if everything works correctly.

*edit: just saw your site, please uninstall. Guess there are still a few bugs…
*edit: I left out the main file, just finished it a few hours ago but didn’t upload it. It might take a few minutes to propagate to the wordpress server

@janismo @Aliceembroid @el_terko @phoenon @4ella @digte WordPress and Buddypress finally registered it https://buddypress.org/community/groups/buddypress-comments-collapse-and-expand/

*edit: If you plan on installing this plugin, please note that you must undo any changes made that were previously discussed within this forum topic.

I spent another five hours today trying to figure out a way to get this fixed for BuddyPress 1.3, I couldn’t figure out a solution that worked in all situations. It’s pretty much the same problem as https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1726

But……. https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/attachment/ticket/2299/iis.patch

If you can try that, @tejaswi2008, and either comment here or on https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2299/ that the patch there works, I’ll drop that into BuddyPress 1.3. I don’t know how to force my dev installations to use almost pretty permalinks, so I can’t test it.

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 )`

It’s because the admin username that you set up with for your hosing account is different from the one that buddypress mentions to, which is “admin”. Not sure why this happens, but here is how to solve it.

Install this plugin: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wpvn-username-changer/, and change the username to “admin”. You don’t have to change it to admin, but that’s what it says on your profile to mention to, “ @admin“.

Thanks @digte , let me look into it and if I am able to post it there I will post a link.

*edit, wordpress approved the plugin, I have a link to the plugin as soon as possible

By the looks of that site – you need to enable pretty permalinks which is required for buddypress….

To fix this problem, enter the WordPress admin panel > Settings > Pemalinks – set to any configuration other than the default configuration. The mod_rewrite must be enabled on your server for pretty permalinks to work

Tyr one of these plugins to change the mail-from address so the users’ email providers will deliver the mail.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search.php?q=+%27Mail+From%27&sort=

== 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/

maybe you can try this: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/posthaste/

The code still works but, she just commented out the script for now @digte . alice reported a bug and I’m in the works of fixing it.

*edit : wordpress is reviewing the plugin now, not sure how long it will take but when it’s available i’ll let you know

Ok alice, I made a few modification when developing this plugin, so once I am able to figure out how to submit it to wordpress it will be downloadable and we can see if the problem persists.

This is not right forum to post at; the WordPress support forum is more appropriate:
https://wordpress.org/support/

Anyway, a quick answer, you’ll need to filter the RSS content and do your formatting that way. If it’s as simple as removing a few inline styles, you could do a search and replace on the content.

@wordpresschina @boonebgorges
Unfortunately, I cannot get it to work so far. I have 870 users with about 30 different profile fields from another CMS which I need to import, so it would be really important not to have to do this by hand… Could you provide an example csv file which shows how it should be structured? Are the names for the columns just given in the first row?

Cheers

Sebastian

After The Deadline sounds like it might work for you; https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/after-the-deadline/

Please someone should help me out on my topic. Thanks

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/post-contents-not-showing-in-wordpress-installation/

Please someone should help me out on my forum topic. Thanks

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/post-contents-not-showing-in-wordpress-installation/

If those template functions are similar, I don’t see a problem changing it, but get_template_part() fires an action, but it doesn’t let you filter things. What’s the benefit?

get_template_part() isn’t filterable, but creating a wrapper function would do the job much like the bbPress plugin is doing. (Sorry if I wasn’t clear above.)

I basically wrote a wrapper function for locate_template(). Similar to what’s suggested here:
http://bpdevel.wordpress.com/2011/01/12/there-is-a-dev-chat-today-wednesday-12t/

There’s an open ticket (#2649) on BP Trac suggesting to wait for WP core to implement the filter. However, in all likelihood, the WP filter for locate_template() will probably be implemented in a future release.

The frontend is to the main location of your groups or singular group:
hxxp://example.com/groups
hxxp://example.com/groups/YOURGROUP

That plugin is not intended for blog subscriptions; you’d have to find another plugin for that:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tags/subscribe