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In a BP group, when I try to post a status update in the text box provided, pressing Return does not post it. And there is no button to post it either, so there is no way to actually post the status update.
WP v4.1
BP v2.2.0
Kleo v2.3.1Don’t know if it’s a BP or Kleo issue, but in a BP group hitting Return doesn’t post the status update – it just adds a CR/LF. WP 4.1 and problem persists even with latest BP update.
#OpRealLove website
Promotes homeless outreach projects (currently in northwest UK)http://opreallove.wpengine.com/
Launched January 2015.
Home page makes use of “Let it snow” component, but only on large screen sizes. Medium screens turn off the snow, mobile screens replace with a featured blog post grid. This was achieved using VC row with 3 columns sized at 1/1, each column being set to only display on certain screen widths.
Makes use of Kleo “pin” component for interactive map of a venue here: http://opreallove.wpengine.com/opreallove-liverpool-2015/ – Uses percentage-based positioning to handle scaling on different screen sizes.
Most of the menu navigation has been put in the sidebar to keep top bar and main menu bar clutter free. <3 the side menu!
Looking forward to it! By the version number I assume there are some other key changes in 1.5? Is there a changelog available?
Ah, realised the UI in the latest version (pre-release from developer site) has different UI.
I noticed I have several plugins outputting modernizr and was wondering if it would be worth just having one modernizr file that includes everything and ignore all the plugin/theme versions?
I’m not sure what you mean by this:
Add these two lines in BWP settings in the scripts to minify in the header:
kleo-init
modernizrFor the shortcodes, as there will be several pages (one for each shortcode) I’m just trying to determine the best way to approach the documentation.
I started by using tabs, one for each parameter on the shortcode, but wonder if that’s UI overkill that will make reading the docs cumbersome. So I was just asking if your team has any ideas on the best format for shortcode documentation pages.
Ideally the documentation should have consistent format for each ‘section’ in the documentation – so all pages documenting shortcodes should have a similar structure for example.
Would be nice to have tinymce button for adding menu icons to content, something like this: http://codecanyon.net/item/iconize-wordpress-plugin/6481628 – ideally pulling details of what icons are available from the config.json file (eg. if I’ve customised my fontello font).
@patagonia : We think of mobile devices as being slow, but if they’re on wifi they’re often just as quick as a desktop. We think of small screens being lower resolution, but with the advent of retina displays small screens can have bigger resolutions than desktops. Many people now use mobile devices as instead of desktop, even when they are at home connected to wifi. A man I spoke to yesterday uses an iPad connected to a ‘myfi‘ – so on the one hand you have a very high resolution screen and on the other hand you have internet connection that’s sometimes >ADSL speeds and other times old mobile speeds.
So, ultimately, I think the decision of image size needs to be based on available bandwidth rather than screensize.
The popular SmartMag WP theme uses this plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-retina-2x/
Item 4 (and only item 4) on this list looks interesting also: http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/serving-responsive-images/
But but those approaches don’t take bandwidth in to account. Lazy loading and progressive enhancement could potentially be used, but without knowing the state of the browser cache I’m not sure how a theme could accurately determine what bandwidth is available. Sure, it can load an image from a unique url (putting random number after ? on the URL for example) but it won’t know what else is being downloaded in the background (is the CSS, JS, *fonts*, etc, already cached – if not, that will skew the bandwidth assessment).
Ok, done. I’ve submitted for review (several times by accident, sorry for notification spam!) an article titled “Changing section icons in profiles and groups”
One thing I struggle with is the feature images – I’m not very good at doing graphics for those. Maybe your team could make a nicer feature image for the pages?
Looks like there will be a new plugin appearing in coming weeks to help with changing / reordering the menu items (sections) in profile/groups pages. Will report back once available 🙂
Yup that’s working now 🙂
Is there a CSS class I can add to screenshot images to make them look nicer? Maybe something that adds a border?
I’ve just this minute found this which may also be useful (free for personal use, but monthly fee for bigger sites – pricing under their Support menu); http://nomorecaptchas.com/
I’ve not tried it yet so no idea how reliable it is (for example, what happens if their site is offline – does it stop activity on my site?).
@Abe / @Boblebad : IMHO it would be better to find some other way to encourage users to fill in their profile. One thing I’m considering is BadgeOS: http://badgeos.org/ – it has some ready-made stuff for awarding badges to people who fill in their profile, etc.
Some of the plugins in this list will help with some of your requirements: https://archived.seventhqueen.com/forums/topic/useful-plugins
For example, there’s a plugin in that list that will link all usernames (eg. author of blog post) to their BP profile rather than WP author page.
I was hoping to use something like https://wordpress.org/plugins/codestyling-localization/ for changing locale text but unfortunately it’s broken on WP 3.9.
An alternative to DW Question Answer plugin might be AnsPress (still playing with both plugins so not sure which is best yet).
Here is screenshot of what I use:
** Note the / after the #bpdmcustom# – without that / it seems to break stuff.
If you installed recommended plugins then you are using correct forums most likely, but to check…
Go to WP Admin > Settings > BuddyPress > Components tab, click on “Retired” link at top and make sure the groups component is disabled (not ticked).
Next, go to WP Admin > Forums and make sure there is a forum *category* that will act as parent to the BP group forums. (When creating/editing that forum the “Forum Attributes” should have Forum Type = Category)
Note: I also set this category forum to be hidden so that none of the group forums will appear on the main forums list = they can only be accessed via their associated groups.
Go to WP Admin > Settings > Forums and tick “Enable Group Forums” at the bottom of that screen, then make sure the correct forum category is selected as the group forum parent.
That’s basically what I did, if it doesn’t work on your install then it’s probably worth heading over to the bbpress website to see if anyone there knows of a cure. http://bbpress.org/forums/
Ah, I see the differences:
* Status update box missing on shortcode version
* Filter links and drop-down missing on shortcode version
* Favourite icons missing on shortcode versionPerhaps if the kleo shortcode could have the following amendments:
* status=”yes” – show status update box
* filter=”navbar” – show filter navbar (links, drop-down)
* favourite=”yes” – show favourite buttonsBTW, that eyes-only shortcode is awesome, thanks for sharing!
There is a short code for showing activity, but I have no idea how to only show it to logged in users.
Anyway, the activity short code is:
[kleo_bp_activity_stream number=6 show_button=yes button_label="More.." button_link="/activity"]I’ll add this to the knowledgebase
There are many plugins for dealing with spam, some I will list below:
WangGuard – http://wordpress.org/plugins/wangguard/
Askimet – https://wordpress.org/plugins/akismet/
Those two alone kill most spam. But there are some others that might be worth investigating…
Stop spammer registrations: http://wordpress.org/plugins/stop-spammer-registrations-plugin/
Spam master: http://wordpress.org/plugins/spam-master/
Let us know how you get on.
Are you using bbPress for your forums? Or are you using the deprecated forum feature within BuddyPress?
Looks like the plugin by imath only works with the BP bundled forums (which are now deprecated in favour of the separate bbPress forum plugin, although in a recent interview a lead dev of BP mentioned that they might revive the BP forums module *sigh*).
There will be a new release of the imath plugin soon, 2.0, which is designed purely for the bbPress forum plugin, with improved features: http://imathi.eu/2013/08/19/buddy-bbpress-support-topic-2-0-beta/ (in French but google translate does a good job).
I have a hunch that the setup used on this support site is based on this: http://extras.envato.com/wordpress-plugin/supportte-bbpress-support-forum-for-envato-marketplace-authors/
Yeah, I’d come across the getshopped one but their stuff looks mostly unmaintained – most of their plugins haven’t been touched since 2011 so I’m not keen on using them.
Awesome win! I’d dredged through dozens of plugins and not found that one, glad to see it’s by imath – he’s one of the better developers out there 🙂
Yes, but what plugin is on the back-end that puts the UI in to the forums and manages ticket status, etc?
Do the pages exist – eg. if you go to the URLs in the browser, do they appear?
Also, have you set the normal WP permalinks under Admin > Settings > Permalinks? (Sometimes you need to save that screen even if not making changes to it).
Also, make sure they are top-level pages – they can’t be children of other pages, they need to be top level or they break (I have no idea why WP works this way, it’s very annoying heh).
