BuddyPress Test Drive

Suzanne posted a new activity comment: Man nested replies should be limited – that’s unusable when replies can only handle one word per line.

Back to this search thing… I’m been hammering on this from a usability perspective. I’m leaning more and more toward a single search box solution that doesn’t require you to pick “members” or…[Read more]

Suzanne posted a new activity comment: I see that as well with Safari 4 here at testbp.org. It does not occur on my site with the 1.2 install however. 2 years, 4 months ago

Suzanne posted a new activity comment: Yeah that’s what the issue is, the search filters. I agree with you on the tab filters tho. 2 years, 4 months ago

Suzanne posted a new activity comment: Interesting… if you hit the save button, the options will reappear. 2 years, 4 months ago

Suzanne posted a new activity comment: Well generally speaking, when you filter something, you’re going to be on a search results type page. The user intuitively expects that and understands that. Next they’ll do one of a couple things, they’ll either find what they wanted and move on or they won’t find what they wanted and re-filter or clear…[Read more]

Suzanne posted a new activity comment: Agree too. The change in structure always throws me off. I removed all the styles in my installation that cause that and the single activity entries look and feel much better in the standard page structure. 2 years, 4 months ago

Suzanne posted a new activity comment: Hum… side note too… the comment at the top of the fall-back version says ”if admin-bar.css is not present” and it should read ”if adminbar.css is not present”. No hyphen between admin and bar. 2 years, 5 months ago

Suzanne posted a new activity comment: It’s not extra tho it’s

#container -> #content -> .padder.

and

#main -> #container -> #content

Three DIVs – same thing. It’s semantics, but I’d argue that the second approach is a more meaningful use of IDs/class names. 2 years, 5 months ago

Suzanne posted a new activity comment: I understand what you’re trying to solve but I think using a more standard structure both allows for the space you’re trying to insert and provides more logical use of HTML. Sidebar content is generally wrapped in UL list items. Applying margins to the UL does the same thing as your “padder” without the…[Read more]

Suzanne posted a new activity comment: Hey Andrea,

There were two main ones, the details of which I’m going to have to go back and review to best describe, but they had to do with

1. The inclusion of userbar.php and optionsbar.php. As I recall they were being called a function within buddypress-extensions.php and that wasn’t working or…[Read more]

Suzanne posted a new activity comment: Wow interesting… I liked that at first thought but then realistically, the admin bar does not necessarily contain the main menu links the user would more likely be wanting to click at the bottom of a page. Right? Wouldn’t they be more inclined to want Home, Blog, Members, Groups, Forums or Blogs? Not that…[Read more]

Suzanne posted a new activity comment: I should add… I would prefer to see this structure with #container rather than the current one that uses ”padder”. I think that achieves what you’re trying to alleviate with ”padder” but uses a more indicative name.

header
main
—container
——content
—sidebar
footer 2 years, 5 months ago

Suzanne posted a new activity comment: Andy I’m assuming this means the original theme is being updated with the new functionality we’re seeing here in this theme? For example, the filters are now in a dropdown floating right? 2 years, 5 months ago

Suzanne posted a new activity comment: I agree about the orange too, but it’s less about the color than it is the over-all feel of the original child theme. I think the original had much better use of font-size and white space. It felt more relaxed and friendly. This new theme feels a little hyper-active, cluttered and even corporate.

It’s…[Read more]

Suzanne posted a new activity comment: This is kind of a “six of one, half dozen of the other” problem because as it currently is, the “My Account” menu is accessible even when viewing member blogs which I personally like. It maintains the concept that you and your account are global to both BP and the WP MU blogs, not just BP. Perhaps it…[Read more]

Suzanne posted a new activity comment: Hey Ray – thanks for the tip on the filter. I may use that in the interim but I’d still prefer to have functions like that at the framework level. Call me anal. You’d think my desk would be neater, but no :-b

I did try out Buddymatic first, but I found a few snafus and the BP pages were still the same…[Read more]