Topic: Remove Options and User Bar from Members, Groups and Blog Pages

Remove Options and User Bar from Members, Groups and Blog Pages

@saraswati11

Participant

15 years, 7 months ago

I’ve recently installed the 1.0 version of BuddyPress, I’m using a custom theme built for the RC1 version of BuddyPress. I’ve added the directories folders, css, and Activate.php

Plugins-sidebar.php, Plugin-template.php files etc.

When I go to the members, group, and blog pages the user bar and options bar appear on the left, on the bphome theme this doesn’t appear.

I can’t figure out what is causing that to appear.

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@jeffsayre

Participant

15 years, 7 months ago

As the first step in helping you solve this issue, please go back and read the section entitled “Upgrading the Theme files” in the first post of this thread and verify that you have taken the proper steps.

@saraswati11

Participant

15 years, 7 months ago

Hi,I double checked and have gone through all the steps. This code is at the end of the header file,

<?php bp_get_userbar() ?>

<?php bp_get_optionsbar() ?>

Is this being bypassed somewhere else on that page?

I’m missing something somewhere but can’t figure it out.

@johnjamesjacoby

Keymaster

15 years, 7 months ago

Saraswati11, are you saying that when viewing the member theme area, looking at the directory listings, the userbar and optionsbar are showing?

@saraswati11

Participant

15 years, 7 months ago

Yes.

@johnjamesjacoby

Keymaster

15 years, 7 months ago

It sounds to me like your bp-core-templatetags.php file isn’t in the right place, or isn’t the correct version. That’s where those functions you mentioned above reside, and they’re responsible for hiding the bars if you’re viewing the directory. Either that, or your $bp->is_directory variable isn’t getting set, both of which are indications of an incomplete upgrade process.

@saraswati11

Participant

15 years, 7 months ago

John, thanks for trying to help, I didn’t upgrade buddy press, well I did, but then just started from scratch with fresh install of wordpressmu 2.7.1 and installed buddypress and then installed theme, upgraded theme by modifying all the files directed to.

@johnjamesjacoby

Keymaster

15 years, 7 months ago

Can we take a step back and make sure that the included bpmember theme works the way that it should?

@saraswati11

Participant

15 years, 7 months ago

OK, i’ve got the bpmember theme up and it’s appearing like I think it should (http://summorecords.net/members).

@jeffsayre

Participant

15 years, 7 months ago

Saraswati11-

So the standard, default bpmember theme works fine. So, you are only having this issue when using a custom theme, correct?

By custom, I mean any theme that is not the standard BP themes. This means that if you took one of the standard BP themes (home, member) and made any changes to it, it would be a custom theme.

@saraswati11

Participant

15 years, 7 months ago

Jeff,

That’s correct, someone else made the theme that i’m using. I’ve run into the same issue when I tried to customize my own theme where the user bar and options bar are on members pages that they’re not on the bp theme and I haven’t been able to figure out what is causing it.

Thanks

@saraswati11

Participant

15 years, 7 months ago

There’s a new post regarding skeleton theme, https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=2522. He states, “So in looking through the skeleton theme I noticed something strange.

I am wondering why the ‘Activity’, ‘Profile’, ‘Wire’, and ‘Friends’ items do not work from the optionsbar?”

response, “It looks like the options bar is showing up on the directory pages when it shouldn’t – most likely because I forgot to add a hide function. All the other pages are working fine. I will update this.”

For the pages i’m referring to i have the same problem, the options bar that shows up on these pages (not user bars links to same sections) links go to “The page you were looking for was not found.”

I’m thinking the solution for that would be the same for me?

@jeffsayre

Participant

15 years, 7 months ago

Saraswati11-

I’m thinking the solution for that would be the same for me?

That could be the same issue. Let’s wait for Andy to addresses this issue and then see if your issue clears up as well.

@saraswati11

Participant

15 years, 7 months ago

Do we know where Andy would be adding the hide function?

@mark235

Participant

15 years, 7 months ago

I have the same problem. Has anyone found a fix for hiding the optionbar and userbar on the directory pages for member, group and blog pages?

@saraswati11

Participant

15 years, 6 months ago

Has anyone had any luck with this problem? I’m at my wits end after weeks of looking at it.

Inactive

15 years, 6 months ago

bump…

Googling around because I’m having the same issue. Only I’m running bpmember that comes packaged with buddypress and making basic css modifications. On the directories, the links and functionality of the bars don’t appear, but the divs do.

Did this get fixed? If so, how do I implement the fix?

Inactive

15 years, 4 months ago

This thread helped me with things! Thanks all!

@toregus

Participant

15 years, 4 months ago

BP-member-theme is made so that there are two menues at the left side. Even the graphic hints at that since there are two “hardcoded” grey backgrounds at the far left. If you’d remove the userbar & optionsbar there would still be two grey areas there.

I’m modifying the bp-member-theme and putting horizontal navigation on my BP webite. When doing it that way you could do a workaround to not show the userbar/optionsbar at some webpages. You could do it if you take away the call for nav-bar in the header.php. Then you’d have to add that call to all pages you want the userbar/optionsbar to appear.

But as far as BP-member theme goes you’d have to do something about those grey background-areas if you remove the userbar/optionsbar.