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[guy_fraser]

Marking this topic as resolved as it’s superseded by https://archived.seventhqueen.com/forums/topic/wishlist-menus-widgets-shortcodes

[guy_fraser]

@designing Some links that might be of use:

* http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2013/09/02/email-forwarding/
* http://dev7studios.com/announcing-custom-emails-wordpress-plugin/
* http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-better-emails/

[guy_fraser]

Yes, go in to Admin > Theme Options > General Settings and scroll to the bottom of the page and you’ll see a Quick css box. Enter something like the following:


.top-bar {
/* styles for entire top bar */
}
.top-menu {
/* styles for just the menu part of the top bar */
}


You can inspect the HTML in that area and find more info on CSS as described in this comment: https://archived.seventhqueen.com/forums/topic/ui-feedback/#post-16566

[guy_fraser]

@troy14 – if you’re using a browser like Google Chrome, you can right-click on any part of the page and choose “Inspect Element” – it will show you the HTML at that part of the page and even what styles are applied to it (eg. you can select a paragraph and in the sidebar it will tell you every single style applied and the CSS code used for it). http://cs.brown.edu/courses/cs132/resources/inspector/

If you’ve not done much with CSS before, there’s some good intros on how it works:

* http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_intro.asp
* http://www.htmldog.com/guides/css/beginner/
* http://www.csstutorial.net/css-intro/introductioncss-part1.php

[guy_fraser]

@patagonia – did the plugin I mentioned earlier work for you? If so, please mark topic resolved 🙂

[guy_fraser]

And, if you want to get more creative, there’s a free plugin called “Buddy Press Direct Links” that you can install to generate more custom menu links. Heres what I set up and how it looks…

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Yes, just enable the profile module in BP…

Admin > Settings > Buddy Press, then tick “Extended Profiles” to enable the UI for BP profiles

Now, assuming you’ve turned off the WP bar for end-users (there’s an option to do that in Kleo theme settings) you’ll need to add a menu item to your Kleo menu bar so people can get to the BP profile UI…

Go in to Admin > Appearance > Menus, and in your Main Menu (or the Top Bar menu if you prefer) click the “Screen options” button at the top-right of the admin screen, and make sure Buddy Press is ticked. You’ll now get a new “Buddy Press” set of menu links to use on your menus, one of which is a profile link…

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[guy_fraser]

wp-dynamic-sidebar runs rings round woosidebars

geo-my-wp looks super-awesome, downloading now!!

OMG, just looking at the geo-my-wp website and ffffffuuuuuuuuu…..

I’m genuinely creaming my pants over the possibilities. *mind blown*

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[guy_fraser]

Yup, that’s quite nice. Just wish it was for likes rather than favourites tho heh.

Here’s another link from the same site: http://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/new-plugin-adds-like-and-dislike-buttons-to-buddypress-acitivity-stream/

[guy_fraser]

#winning 😀

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Regarding post above…

1) +1 for assigning widgets to megamenu!

2) There are already some plugins that do that sort of thing IIRC, example: http://codecanyon.net/item/site-locator-map/7354406

3) Found a perfect plugin for this (which allows any sidebar to be swapped or merged with some other sidebar based on conditional ruleset): http://wordpress.org/plugins/content-aware-sidebars/ << IMHO this should be bundled with the theme. You can even swap out footer columns based on context with this plugin!

And another one that might be worth investigating: http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-dynamic-sidebar/

[guy_fraser]

That plugin I mentioned above seems to work 🙂 It allows me to say “in <whatever> location, substitute Extra – for 3 column pages sidebar with <some other> sidebar” – and so far it seems to be working. In fact, I can replace even things like footer columns, etc. IMHO that plugin would be worthwhile bundling with the theme.

[guy_fraser]

Yup, it’s as if there is a battle in the plugin community between developers wanting to make their own facebook and developers wanting to extend twitter in to something more like facebook. In recent days I’m leaning more towards the twitter camp in relation to friends vs. followers, but more towards the facebook camp in relation to favourites vs. like. These days most people you meet online aren’t really friends, they are just really interesting folks that you want to follow, and likewise I don’t have any ‘favourite’ content, I just ‘like’ lots of things.

As the infamous quote illustrates…

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[guy_fraser]

🙂 If that works pls mark topic as Resolved (top of page).

[guy_fraser]

I’m going to try this plugin… http://wordpress.org/plugins/content-aware-sidebars/

[guy_fraser]

Put another way, when editing a page/post that has 2 sidebars there should be two drop-down lists – one for changing which sidebar appears in the first sidebar, and the other for choosing which sidebar appears in the second sidebar.

Currently there is only one drop down – so at page/post level we can only currently alter one of the sidebars for that specific page. Having the additional drop down would allow us to alter the second sidebar for that specific page/post.

[guy_fraser]

Yup, just use CSS via the Kleo theme settings, replacing #f00 for whatever colour code you want….

Default wordpress sidebar search:

#searchform .input-group { background-color: #f00; }

Kleo main menu search pop-up panel:

#nav-menu-item-search .show_search_pop { background-color: #f00; }

And the search box itself:

#nav-menu-item-search .form-control { background-color: #f00; }

bbPress forums search:

.bbp-search-form { background-color: #f00; }

BuddyPress groups search form:

#search-groups-form { background-color: #f00; }

BuddyPress members search form:

#search-members-form { background-color: #f00; }

If you have a browser such as Google Chrome, you can right click any part of a web page and choose “Inspect Element” to see the HTML behind it and get class or id of tags.

[guy_fraser]

These any use?

http://wordpress.org/plugins/bowe-codes/

http://codex.bbpress.org/shortcodes/

[guy_fraser]

So you can change one sidebar on a page by page basis, but the 2nd sidebar is static site-wide? While we can customise the widgets on that 2nd sidebar, we can’t actually swap it out for a completely different sidebar?

[guy_fraser]

Awesome 🙂 Please mark the topic as Resolved (top of page)

[guy_fraser]

You have to turn on tracking of stuff external to BP, here’s how…

Site Admin > Settings > BuddyPress > Components tab > Tick “Site Tracking” then Save

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So, I kind of see what you’re getting at, but as both an end-user and site admin I find it terribly confusing. WP allows me to create page hierarchies, set the slugs of pages, and set the titles of pages. When working with normal pages, both the titles and breadcrumbs work fine.

However, when using bbPress and BuddyPress, there seems to be a break from the standard conventions to some seemingly random way of doing things, and I can’t fathom why.

My Page hierarchy <and what I’ve associated each page with>:

Socialise <sitewide activity>
– Members <members directory>
– Groups <groups directory>
– Forums <forums directory>

So, for example, I would expect that when I’m on Groups page, the breadcrumbs would be:
Home > Socialise > Groups

What I actually get is something quite random:

Socialise (gives: Home / Sitewide Activity; desired: Home / Socialise)
– Members (gives: Home / Members; desired: Home / Socialise / Members)
– Groups (gives: Home / Groups Create a Group; desired: Home / Socialise / Groups)
– Forums (gives: Home; desired: Home / Socialise / Forums)

Ignoring page titles for a moment, and focussing just on the breadcrumb trail, it’s the fact that “Socialise” part of the trail is missing in the Members, Groups and Forums pages, etc. – the breadcrumb trail, which is supposed to reflect the actual page hierarchy, is not reflecting the actual page hierarchy…

I realise that the bbForums and BuddyPress plugins output their own page titles / breadcrumbs, but I’m also aware that the theme also manipulates these things and, as such, was wondering if the theme could cover up some of the UX cracks caused by the third party plugins.

My main frustration is that I’m not proficient enough in PHP to work out how to change this myself – I tried earlier today and crashed my site.

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I used the hacks in the url provided earlier and made some additional tweaks to it’s html output to facilitate easier styling (added a span tag around the count) and ended up with this…

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[guy_fraser]

Why not just use the standard breadcrumb trail for pages (Groups, Members, etc) and then append to it for the virtual pages (user profiles, topics, etc)?

[guy_fraser]

Hi,

Thanks for this, I’ve uploaded the file and it’s a great improvement.

I still wish the page title and breadcrumbs would be based on the actual page name and hierarchy though 😉

[guy_fraser]

Item 5 on the list is the most important IMHO. Because of the gap between main menu bar and the submenus that appear when hovering over it, if someone is slow to move mouse down to the submenu it disappears before they reach it.

Also, I noticed that the search icon on the main menu isn’t right-aligned with the other content on the right-hand side of the page.

Both these things can be seen on the demo pages, eg: http://themeforest.net/item/kleo-next-level-premium-wordpress-theme/full_screen_preview/6776630

[guy_fraser]

I’ve looked through the BP settings screens and couldn’t see an option to turn off favorites – any pointers? I guess I could just use CSS, but the HTML and favorite-related features like activity stream filter items will still be there.

I agree that it isn’t Kleo theme responsibility to change WP or the other 3rd party plugins, however it should try where possible to give a consistent UI.

Is there a way to list liked posts?

[guy_fraser]

Also, I just realised that it’s showing the first image from within the post, rather than the “Featured Image”.

[guy_fraser]

Nope, it doesn’t support notifications without some extra hacks:

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/quick-fix-to-add-support-for-notifications?replies=5

The biggest problem is that it’s getting all the counts (read: lots of SQL queries = server load) regardless of whether it will need them.

[guy_fraser]

This might be what you’re after – seems much simpler than the Adminimize plugin: http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-admin-no-show/

[guy_fraser]

Another suggestion: Instead of showing user’s last status update below the avatar, allow them to customise that text – for example, what is their job or hobby? This would be far more meaningful, especially when viewing the members list.

[guy_fraser]

That worked, thanks!

Seems that if there is no custom title it gets replaced with the avatar image html markup = breaks menu. Putting the title in (step 5) fixed it.

[guy_fraser]

I’ve been trying to get that plugin working, what settings did you use for it’s items (the avatar in particular – it crashed my site when I tried using %avatar-mini%)? Also, how did you assign icons to the other menu items?

[guy_fraser]

In addition, I’ve made Members page a child of Socialise page, but the breadcrumb trail shows: Home / Members instead of: Home / Socialise / Members

It seems the breadcrumbs and titles of these pages are hardcoded in the theme?

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