Hi @kkradel
Sorry to hear you’re having problems with 2.2. How has it broken Featured Posts — can you explain what you’re seeing, and also what you expect to see?
Did you update any other plugins, translations, or core files at the same that you updated BuddyPress?
Hi,
If “featured posts” are sticky posts, just tested on twentyfourteen with latest BuddyPress and i don’t see any troubles. Posts are listed above the other ones.
I found that last night right before I fell asleep and am just now getting online for the day – I will experiment a little with the plugin to see if I can figure it out.
1. Yes, I did do the bulk plugin update and one of them was Contact Form 7 and the other was Google Analytics. But deactivating Buddypress was the only one that brought the Featured Posts back as they should be – I had the Activity Stream on my front page but switched it out last night since it ended up being blank (because of the deactivation).
2. I have six sticky/Featured Posts – the posts themselves did not disappear, just the six stickies that sat just below the header.
3. I had a post go a tiny bit viral yesterday so instead of mucking with it, I just deactivated the BuddyPress plugins that I have installed.
4. The URL is artist-at-large.com As I work on this today, things will appear and disappear.
5. I’ve never had problems before with the bulk updater.
6. The spacing on the widget that gives a list of members is also spaced all zig-zaggy. I usually keep that in the footer.
The Members widget has members staggered rather than in a straight flush left list.
In v2.2, member avatars in widgets have been enlarged from 40px to 60px, which might have caused the staggering issue that you are experiencing. You might have to adjust your theme’s CSS to fix this.
I’m tentatively saying that it may have been Google Analytics … I deactivated Google Analytics and reactivated BuddyPress and it seems to be working.
OH, WAIT A MINUTE … I see what it does.
I have my site set with a static front page, which is the Activity Stream page, and the blog posts are reached via the navigation bar.
Prior to upgrading the BuddyPress plugin to 2.2.0, my front page was the Activity page AND I had six Featured Posts/stickies just under the header. (This is the way I want it to act).
After upgrading the BuddyPress plugin to 2.2.0, if the front page is the Activity page, then the Featured Posts/stickies go missing, so only the Activity Stream shows up underneath the header. But if I make the Activity Stream a secondary page and put the blog posts back out front, then the Featured Posts/stickies are under the header. Not quite what I want.
Thank you @moderator re: the CSS.
Does the Featured Posts plugin offer an option to put posts directly under the header? Or is it a code snippet that you added to the header?
If it’s the latter option, can you post your snippet? You might need to adjust the Featured Posts loop parameters.
“Featured Content” is part of the the Twenty-Fourteen out of the box theme. One can opt for a slider or super large thumbnails.
You can see it at artist-at-large.com if you go look right now (I’m currently looking at the CSS.) I currently have the front page set to show blog posts.
Thanks @r-a-y !
I think I’m going to leave all as is for a while. Having the activity stream as a secondary page solves a few other problems as well.
I can’t find where to edit the size of the images in the Members widget. I looked in the theme CSS, BuddyPress CSS and Members-Widget.php and the theme functions to no avail. I’m just going to leave it.
Thanks!
Didn’t know “Featured Posts” was a Twenty Fourteen thing. Oops! 🙂
For anyone else reading, some more info on the “Featured Content” option in Twenty Fourteen can be found here:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Twenty_Fourteen
Will try to look this when I have some more time.
About the member widget avatar CSS, looks like Twenty Fourteen showcases a bug 🙁
Try this patch to fix the staggering issue:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/attachment/ticket/5817/5817.clear.patch
Featured Content *could* be part of Jetpack, come to think of it. I’m too tired to go look right now.
I will try the patch! (Tomorrow!)
Thanks!
