[peter-hamilton]

Hi Q-Shadows

It is quite a list of plugins, some hardcoded into my child theme, others just as plugins.

Plugins Installed

BBpress
Rewrote most of the template files

Buddypress
Version 2.1.1, tried updating yesterday but broke my site so have to rewrite my plugins before updating

BBpress Like Button
Likes for forums

BP Profile Widgets
To show a music or video player on members profile

Buddypress Activity Plus

Buddypress Like
For activity likes

BuddyPress Activity Stream Bump to Top
Liked and commented activity goes to top of list

Buddypress Upload Avatar Ajax
To allow avatar upoad during registration

Front-End Publishing
So members can write blogs without multisite activated

GD bbPress Attachments
For forum image uploads

BP Profile as Homepage
All links to a user links to profile page instead of user activity

Post rating

WanGuard

And I have a few plugins hardcoded into my child theme, not sure about the names

BuddyPress Group Customizer Lite
For group backgrounds

User Signature
For a signature on forum posts

Easy View count
displays views count on single-topic-list

BP custom background for user profiles
Or something like that to recreate the facebook/twitter function

And I added a lot more functions that I found through other members on these forums that have been added to my Functions.php etc.
Theme had had a lot of alterations since my last visit and is almost finished, have a look.

Onlijn.com

Peter Hamilton

[Robin W]

no it can be done by this

so

create a post (you’ll delete this after, this is just temporary) and put what you want in the content, including nay images, and get it looking like you want it. you can’t have any single quotes (‘) but can have double quotes (“).

Then switch to ‘text’ view – top right of the content box. This will take you into html mode, and the ‘code’ we need will be there.

Copy all this code into the $content = bit in the code above. It must have a ‘ at either end, and a ; at the end so you will end up with

$content = ‘ whatever the text you copied is in here ‘ ;

then save and upload, and delete the post when you are happy it works.

Come back if any of that doesn’t work, and if you do and are happy to make it public let me know what you have pasted in there so I can make sure it’s right

[Skrollen]

Cool, thanks!

If possible I would like to add a bit more than just a line of content. Like a paragraph of text (like 50 Words) and an image or two. Is there any way to do this through code, or perhaps by being able to insert a text widget?

[crystalleeanne]

Okay, this topic gets me part of the way there…
Can someone please help me figure out how to modify this filter code to create placeholder text for the bbPress login form widget? (Username and Password fields).

[don5999]

Yes, it has that shortcode.

a) I have no idea if it is sending – I havent set anything up email wise
b) I have tried my business email and personal email addresses and its not receiving on either
c) I have looked in both junk folders and nothing in there

Do I need to set up an external link to email or setting inside of wordpress or bbpress to open my Outlook to send it or should it automatically send through wordpress?

[Robin W]

you’ll need to work you way through this article

Functions files and child themes – explained !

[Robin W]

put the following in your style.css

#bbpress-forums .button {
  background-color: blue;
  color: red;
}

Functions files and child themes – explained !

[Robin W]

would need a function recoded to do this, as there is a function that does the avatar and role display

The function is bbp_reply_author_link

and it’s held in

bbpress\includes\replies\template.php

it has a filter you can call, and if you fine with php you should be able to hack the code to change the order

[Robin W]

add the following to your style.css

if you want it on the left but smaller

#bbpress-forums {
  width: 66% !important;
}

If you want it centered

#bbpress-forums {
  margin-left: auto !important;
  margin-right: auto !important;
  width: 66% !important;
}

Functions files and child themes – explained !

Obviously play with the 66% to get whatever width you want

[Robin W]

If it is just one line then add the following to your functions file

function my_content () {
	$content = 'Hello this is some content after the topic' ; 
	echo $content ;
	}
	 
add_action ('bbp_template_after_replies_loop', 'my_content' ) ;

and change the text to what you want

Functions files and child themes – explained !

If it is more than that, then you will need to detail exactly what you want so I can help you.

[Robin W]

and for

Also, would like to change that “oh bother” to something less “cutesy”.

add the following

//This function changes the text wherever it is quoted
function change_translate_text( $translated_text ) {
	if ( $translated_text == 'Oh bother! No topics were found here!' ) {
	$translated_text = 'new text';
	}
	return $translated_text;
}
add_filter( 'gettext', 'change_translate_text', 20 );

to your functions file

Functions files and child themes – explained !

[Robin W]

oops sorry didn’t take the ); out of the previous line

try

function change_display_name( $user_id ) {
    $info = get_userdata( $user_id );
	$args = array(
		'ID' => $user_id,
		'display_name' => $info->user_login ,
'nickname' => $info->user_login 	);

    wp_update_user( $args );
}
add_action('user_register','change_display_name');

[vikingpoker]

Using bbpress 2.5.4, wordpress 4.1, buddypress 2.2 http://www.new.stonemagegames.com

I just started learning all of this so please be patient with me. How come when I make a new forum and it brings up the new page where I can place an image, the image does not appear on the forum page when I click on the forum? I do not understand why this is so complicated. All I want is a banner on the top of the forum page. That’s it. Nothing more… nothing less… I haven’t found any way to do this or make it work. I dont know the proper terminology to use when searching for answers so I am completely lost. I have watched youtube videos and read many posts. My head is about to explode!!!

I made a page and threw it up in the top menu that says forums. It has a picture on it. My forums are on the side bar and they work fine. Why would they even bother giving me a page to upload media when I create a new forum if it wont even display it? It doesn’t make sense.

So then I tried using widgetlogic. I have entered every code I can find and nothing makes it display on the page that I put the banner on. All that happens is that my forum list disappears from the sidebar.

Please tell me that i’m just an idiot and I am overlooking something stupid and simple. Please tell me that it is not this complicated just to have a banner on the top of my forum pages. Please HELP!!!

[Robin W]

ok, let’s try setting both

function change_display_name( $user_id ) {
    $info = get_userdata( $user_id );
	$args = array(
		'ID' => $user_id,
		'display_name' => $info->user_login 	);
'nickname' => $info->user_login 	);

    wp_update_user( $args );
}
add_action('user_register','change_display_name');

This should set both display_name and nickname to the username

[Robin W]

Having said that it does appear to be using the username now in the address bar ???

with my code in, or without?

[Robin W]

yes that’s to do with how wordpress stores stuff.

the code you need to use is in the post above, don’t use the email one !

Try again and come back !

[format19]

How odd the code I got in the email is different from the code as pasted here in the forum ????

https://www.dropbox.com/s/tff64o2g5kan3r4/code%20error.jpg?dl=0

M

[format19]

Hi Robin,

Thanks again for getting back, Not directed at you but that made me mad… >-|
I posted in the BuddyPress forum before posting here and they saidf it was a bbpress problem…. I have just had a week of various website problems and every one (except yourself) have only been interested in blaming someone else or someone elses plugin and in no way interested in helping fix the problem.

Rant over…. 🙂
I tried your code in my functions.php but unfortunatly it broke the site and just kept telling me there was an unexpected & in line 127

Line 127 was
” & # 039 ; display_name' => $info->user_login ) ; ”
'display_name' => $info->user_login );

(ah I dont know why it keeps changing what im pasting)

Any idea what is wrong there?
Thanks
Mark

[Robin W]

ok, that is buddypress adding the profile fields, so you may need to take it up with them if the next bit doesn’t work !

However whilst doing something for someone else today, I found a function on the net, which I have amended (but not tested) below

function change_display_name( $user_id ) {
    $info = get_userdata( $user_id );
	$args = array(
		'ID' => $user_id,
		'display_name' => $info->user_login 	);
    wp_update_user( $args );
}
add_action('user_register','change_display_name');

then on registration it should set the display_name to the username

put this in your functions file

Functions files and child themes – explained !

[KatieKat]

@robin-w ,

Hi Robin,
can I just clarify something here as my problem is different to milenushkas in that the fix of r5409 applied before adding 2618.4.diff definitely worked for subscribing to Topics and Replies.

However there is still an outstanding issue in terms of subscribing to Forums which is exhibiting some weird behaviour. I worked on this late into the night and found your plugins and was hoping the topic- subscribe would solve the issue when subscribed to a forum but unfortunately it didn’t.

For anyone else following this thread my understanding from @netweb (Stephen Edgar) is that when you are subscribed to a Forum a user will only be notified of New Topics and not to changes within existing ones which you need to subscribe to separately.

So last night I tried the following:-
1. As admin created a new topic in the backend. Absolutely no notifications received by other users subscribed to the Forum to show a new topic has been created but admin notified of pending Topic as expected.

2. As a user created a new topic in the frontend. Absolutely no notifications received by other users subscribed to the Forum to show a new topic has been created but admin notified of pending Topic as expected.

3. Weird behaviour. As admin created a topic in the frontend and this time a message was received by the user and admin !! However both the user message and admin message contained strange text. For the user at the beginning before the normal message of “You are receiving this email because you subscribed to a forum.” it showed the following – nb the items in bold have been changed for security purposes.

:
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report
X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname – pxxxxxxxxxx.prod.phx3.secureserver.net
X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain – aol.com
X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID – [47 12] / [47 12]
X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain – mywebsitename
X-Get-Message-Sender-Via: pxxxxxxxxxx.prod.phx3.secureserver.net: acl_c_authenticated_local_user: myusername
X-Source:
X-Source-Args:
X-Source-Dir:

On the Admin notification I am getting the information below. However one thing I have noticed that is different to the email notifications for the topics and reply that is working is that the From details are showing as Website Name <mail@websiteurl> in the Forum notifications instead of Website Name <noreply@websiteurl>.

The To details are showing as <noreply@websiteurl> on both the Forum Notifications and Topic/Replies Notification so somehow there is an issue with the From details picking up my default email address instead of the <noreply@websiteurl>.

ADMIN NOTIFICATION
noreply@mywebsitename
A communication failure occurred during the delivery of your message. Please try resending the message later. For more tips to help resolve this issue, see DSN code 5.4.1 in Exchange Online – Office 365. If the problem continues, contact your email admin.
The following organization rejected your message: DB3FFO11FD020.mail.protection.outlook.com.
(NB the proper notification message is also attached within this information)

Hope there is sufficient for you to troubleshoot this but cannot understand why a user creating a topic in the frontend and an admin creating a topic in the backend doesn’t generate any email but an admin creating a topic in the frontend does generate an email but contains spurious information for both the user and admin.

Kind regards

KatieKat

[Robin W]

good start, but that approach gets very complicated, as whilst you have added the fields, you have not saved them or said where to save them – that requires a whole bunch of other code !

Easier approach :

bbpress uses wordpress registration, so it’s easier to hook to that.

The whole bunch of code below is not my original work (but I do use it on one of my sites, so know it works) but if you have a play with it, you should be able to adapt it.

`//add code for adding first and last name to registration

//1. Add a new form element…
add_action(‘register_form’,’myplugin_register_form’);
function myplugin_register_form (){
$first_name = ( isset( $_POST[‘first_name’] ) ) ? $_POST[‘first_name’]: ”;
$last_name = ( isset( $_POST[‘last_name’] ) ) ? $_POST[‘last_name’]: ”;
?>
<p>
<label for=”first_name”><?php _e(‘First Name as people call you eg Dave’,’mydomain’) ?><br />
<input type=”text” name=”first_name” id=”first_name” class=”input” value=”<?php echo esc_attr(stripslashes($first_name)); ?>” size=”25″ /></label>
</p>
<p>
<label for=”last_name”><?php _e(‘Last Name’,’mydomain’) ?><br />
<input type=”text” name=”last_name” id=”last_name” class=”input” value=”<?php echo esc_attr(stripslashes($last_name)); ?>” size=”25″ /></label>
</p>
<?php
}

//2. Add validation. In this case, we make sure first_name and last_name is required.
add_filter(‘registration_errors’, ‘myplugin_registration_errors’, 10, 3);
function myplugin_registration_errors ($errors, $sanitized_user_login, $user_email) {

if ( empty( $_POST[‘first_name’] ) )
$errors->add( ‘first_name_error’, __(‘ERROR: You must include a first name.’,’mydomain’) );
if ( empty( $_POST[‘last_name’] ) )
$errors->add( ‘last_name_error’, __(‘ERROR: You must include a last name.’,’mydomain’) );

return $errors;
}

//3. Finally, save our extra registration user meta.
add_action(‘user_register’, ‘myplugin_user_register’);
function myplugin_user_register ($user_id) {
if ( isset( $_POST[‘first_name’] ) )
update_user_meta($user_id, ‘first_name’, $_POST[‘first_name’]);
if ( isset( $_POST[‘last_name’] ) )
update_user_meta($user_id, ‘last_name’, $_POST[‘last_name’]);
}

in essence start by looking at the end – 3. save

and the line

update_user_meta($user_id, ‘first_name’, $_POST[‘first_name’]);

this is updating a user_meta field called ‘first_name’ for the user_id $user_id with the information entered in $_POST[‘first_name’]

So it is saving the first name the user enters in a user_meta field for that user called ‘first_name’

My plugin stores the data in a user_meta field called ‘rpi_label1’, so a find/replace to change ‘first_name’ to ‘rpi_label1’ is what is needed throughout the code. then some tidying up of things like the prompts and you should have it working.

Give it a go, and see how you get on. IF you get it working, the deal is you post the result back here, and I can nick it for the plugin (and give you a credit) !

If you don’t then come back with how you are getting on, and I’ll help – too tied up to do all the work myself !

This code by the way goes in your functions file see

Functions files and child themes – explained !

[elucidateTX]

Thought you said you hated code?!! 🙂

Have you a specific registration template in mind, does your theme come with something?

Ha no I don’t hate code! I’m just not any good at it yet. I’m using the Genesis Enterprise Pro theme.

Here’s what I tried:
1. Created a page and dropped the [bbp-register] shortcode into it.
2. Copied the form-user-register.php file into the bbpress directory in my theme folder
3. I added this form of code for each of the four rpi_label classes:

`<div class=”rpi_label1″>
<label for=”rpi_label1″><?php _e( ‘Class’, ‘bbpress’ ); ?>: </label>
<input type=”text” name=”rpi_label1″ value=”<?php bbp_sanitize_val( ‘rpi_label1’ ); ?>” size=”20″ id=”rpi_label1″ tabindex=”<?php bbp_tab_index(); ?>” />
</div>
…for this one it’s an input field for the Class of my user

Am I on the right track? The data entered doesn’t seem to be making it into the user database. After filling out the registration form for a test user…then going to edit the user…the data isn’t listed.

Thanks!

[Sebastian]

Thanks for your time!
But it would be possible to code it!?
Perhaps we decide that it would be great to have this feature for our platform and hire someone.

[Robin W]

Thought you said you hated code?!! 🙂

Have you a specific registration template in mind, does your theme come with something?

[kc88]

Hi I’m trying to reduce the width of my forum.

Here is a link to the page. http://www.beastmodegamer.com/?page_id=2254

I used the shortcode to insert the forum into the page. I want the forum to have a reduced width without taking up the entire width of the Page. Can anyone offer some advice?

Thanks