I was wondering the same thing but in 1.7b1 it doesn’t exist. I would like to know how to get that back?
>> text above the status update box that says something like “What’s New?” so members know to click in there.
>> I would like to know how to get that back?
@39images @bphelp for that specific item
1. create a new folder named buddypress in your active WP theme
2. within that buddypress folder you created, create a folder named activity
3. download https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress/activity/post-form.php and place it in your new activity folder like so:
wp-content/themes/NAME-OF-YOUR-WP-THEME/buddypress/activity/post-form.php
4. Open up post-form.php. On line 21 https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress/activity/post-form.php#L21 insert http://pastebin.com/z8e7xyRZ
5. Add the following to your theme’s stylesheet:
#whats-new-form p {
margin-left: 70px;
}
Worked great, thank you! 🙂
You’re welcome. Marking this topic as resolved.
@mercime We perhaps ought to create a ticket on this? Why was it removed in the bp-legacy files template?
@39images @bphelp Although this isn’t strictly a required line of text that has to be there, it is perhaps a bit clearer with some instruction – although that could be better done with a little inventive PHP on the textarea value to replicate ‘placeholder’ text.
Remember if you encounter issues like this you do still have the original default buddypress template files in the plugin folder so you can compare the same files to see changes / grab bits of code that have been removed.
@hnla Good info, I think the missing line which echoes out the users name makes it feel more personalized for that user. If this can be fixed in an update great, if not then @mercime ‘s solution isn’t to hard to implement. I appreciate both of your help. Thanks!
@hnla sure, will create trac ticket for this and add link to this topic
(strange, didn’t get notification for your @ mention)
EDIT – ticket with patch https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4864
Update: @39images @bphelp @hnla patch for ticket to add back the greeting above status update form has been approved. @39images @bphelp I suggest that you delete /buddypress/activity/post.form when next BP 1.7 beta/RC rolls out.
@mercime that is great news, thank you for the update!
