I need to promote one or more users to Administrator (or Super Administrator) status to approve/delete new or spammer/abusive members, along with patrolling Groups and Forums to clean up content. I did that with a test account to see what level of access a promoted user gets. When I logged into my network under this newly promoted test account, it didn’t seem to have any greater level of function than before.
How does an Administrator get to the Dashboard, so that if needed he/she can delete users, add plugins, etc? The way I do it now is to go to Blue Host, login under the Control Panel (cPanel) and the login as Admin through there. Then I see the Network Admin with the “Super Admin” functions.
Is a promoted user supposed to have a WordPress account, and are they supposed to login with that at the NetworkName dot com/wp-login.php address? I want any new Admins to NOT have access through Blue Host.
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@boonebgorges
true. it makes a lot more sense working towards a certain goal. in my case that was also wordpress development, so that’s the way i learned php as well. which wasn’t necessarily the easiest or fastest way to do it. Anyways, I think, having a certain understanding of php makes it so much easier to understand WP, or any other php-based code.
Once I got my hands on Programming PHP, my skills developed a lot faster than by trying to figure out stuff by reading other peoples source code.
it’s item 9 on this list for BuddyPress 1.3:
Wed 28th July Dev Chat homework
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A good way to start are these 2 pages:
This one specifically for BP:
https://codex.buddypress.org/home/
And this one for WP:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page
On that last one have a look at the developers documentation.
But as said before, if you don’t know php, then that’s where you need to start.
@dubbelf – it’s no more technical than modifying your theme loops to exclude posts from various categories, and certainly less technical than restricting certain authors to specific categories.
At this stage the questions you are asking are not really BuddyPress support specific, more general WordPress considerations.
If you want someone to build / enhance your site for you, you can advertise on the Jobs Board: https://buddypress.org/community/groups/bp-jobs-board/
If you are going to modify the site yourself, you will have to get technical (PHP, HTML and some base WordPress theming knowledge).
You have more than one problem in your install unlike the singular issues posted above. Before blaming everything on BuddyPress, make sure you’ve got your WordPress working https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/before-installing/. Where are you hosted? Single site or Multisite? BP/WP versions used?
I am running buddypress, I have several users each with their own blog. When a user comments on another blog their avatars do not show just the default that I have Mysteryman.
Here is the site and example
Main Site
http://eyeofthevortexonline.com/wordpress/
One of the Blogs
http://eyeofthevortexonline.com/wordpress/gamepad/
you will also notice users avatars do not show up in the members widget either.
and all the members have an uploaded avatar?
Suggestions?
@airrykah deactivate BuddyPress. It depends on your WordPress installation. Check if your install is sending out activation emails to those registering. Find resolution for your email problem at WordPress.org forums before activating BuddyPress.
If your WP activation email is working, deactivate any BP registration plugins and see if regular registration works.
Edit – there’s also a workaround, see if this works for you – https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/faqs/specific-faqs/#register
Couldnt you use the existing user roles… built in to wordpress?
I’ve been using: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/dbd-login-style/ It’s not perfect, but works ok. I thought I saw another one released recently, but I can’t remember where.
That’s because it’s hardcoded in the bp-default theme (unfortunately).
You can remedy this by creating a child theme with bp-default as the template. Then, copy over bp-default’s header.php and remove the WordPress version meta tag.
Hi everyone.
The Log Out problem is with the Admin Bar. The link is http://example.com/wordpress/wp-login.php?action=logout&redirect_to=http%3A%2F%2Fexample.com%2Fwordpress&_wpnonce=xxxxxxx
The user gets logged out but it’s a 404. Interestingly, the sidebar logout works fine and the logout link is http://example.com/wordpress/wp-login.php?action=logout&redirect_to=http%3A%2F%2Fexample.com&_wpnonce=xxxxxxx
The first link has /wordpress in there. WordPress is installed in /wordpress, not the root directory, so this is where the problem is, but I don’t understand why the Admin bar has the incorrect link. Any ideas?
Delete Account also goes to a 404, but the account gets deleted. I’ve seen posts on this but it was solved with the lastest Buddypress release? I have the latest version, so I’m not sure what the problem is here.
Any help would be appeciated! Thank you.
Hi Sven — Thanks! I replied to your question on the google group. Copy/pasting here for the sake of completion:
Hi
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 3:10 PM, svenl77 wrote:
> first of all, thanks for the nice powerful plugin. Brilliant work!
Thanks!
> I have a question. how can I display the event categories?
> I like to display The event categories in the sidebar. But with the
> eventspress templates for the entry. Not as a normal entry.
> I couldn’t find anything in your files. Will this function be
> developed soon? It’s an important part for me.
Depends on whether you’re using EventPress on WordPress or EventPress on
BuddyPress — support for nicely displaying tags and categories hasn’t been
included at the moment, but for I can definitely add in templates for
WordPress by 0.1.3. Tag/Category support in BuddyPress needs much more work
and will take a bit of time.
Kunal
Hi
I’m trying to do exactly the same thing but the plugin linked above doesn’t work when you have buddypress installed.
Wordpress can use the user “nicename” as the url – but for some reason the profile page breaks whenever there is a dash (“-“) in that field.
Hello,
I’m using buddypress with WordPress multi-blogging. I’ve got some modifications to make to my buddypress’s navigation bar.
I would like to know how I could stylizing the buddypress navigation in the aim to make it look like the same on all the blogs. On certain blogs the buddypress’s navigation bar is different than the others blogs.
Also I would like to modify the background property to make it 100% compatible with IE.
Is it possible to add a link in the buddypress navigation bar ?
Thanks you for your help.
Best regards,
@dubbelf –
Yes, members can have their own blog – it’s a standard feature of a WordPress Multisite install.
Follow the instructions here to set up Multisite: https://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network
Then check everything works, including custom permalinks.
Install BuddyPress (automatic plugin install)
And, hey, you will have an admin blog, and separate blogs enabled for members
Have a look at a basic WordPress install with a theme like P2
In normal WP you can add:
`remove_action(‘wp_head’, ‘wp_generator’);`
to functions.php.
This removes the WordPress version number from the but it doesn’t seem to work with Buddypress.
Good day everyone,
trying buddypress for first time here and running into a proplem. I am installing it off a directory off my root domain http://www.padraighs-alehouse.com/mcrack and the wordpress install went fine. I then tried to install buddypress it seemed to install fine the theme comes up went through configuration and changed permalinks and the .htaccess on the root. When I tryo go anywhere or do anything on the theme I get the following ‘backticks’ The requested URL /mcrack/members/cpeters1965/profile/ was not found on this server.
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request. ‘backticks’
Any and all help is appreciated. Thank you
This site uses a customised version of the current “trunk” code, which adds support to BuddyPress to integrate into WordPress’ pages system/menus properly.
Iv’e been looking at star rating plug-ins and think this is a nice simple one. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/five-star-rating/
Basically what is does is saves the posts ID to the db along with the number of votes and user cookies ( cant vote more than once untill cookie has expired ). Thinking about the process, this should be a nice easy one to try my hand at to port it to groups, though I can’t seem to find where it fetches the post’s id and saves it to the bd. What I want to do at this step is have it save the group ID instead..
Any help would be appreciated.
@porscheheritage –
Yes, BuddyPress would definitely benefit from a serious UX review. Theming is much harder work than it should be. It’s far too tightly coupled to the core, with too much presentation code / decision making embedded and difficult to change. The permalink activity pages are definitely the worst presented and often most useless aspect of the default setup.
That said – the default setup can never be made to please every user. It’s perfectly reasonable / normal to have to create and modify your own bespoke template files to get the site you want. It’s the same for WordPress, Drupal, Expression Engine – any content management system you care to name.
Copying everyone under the sun on your post, is unlikely to win you many fans! However, there really should be somewhere more obvious and accessible to raise thoughts about the interface and BP experience.
My tuppence worth: make the API much finer grained (e.g. accessing the activity stream elements by part, rather than monolithic string), loosen the presentation coupling as much as possible, and put out a default theme that’s based on a finer grained access, and therefore much easier to understand how to re-work and restyle. This would encourage more theming, more unique uses of BuddyPress and push the boundaries.
