Media tab completely messed up after update…

Hi,

It cannot mess with the BuddyPress core files and cannot give errors once deleted. It’s a plugin, it just plugs in and plugs out.

Now, as far as issues with your site are concerned, none of the users have reported anything like this till date. Also, you might have a look at http://demo.rtcamp.com/buddypress-media and see how it does work nicely.

Now, from what I see, your theme behaves more like a plugin and if I’m not wrong, it is a modification of the Geo Places by Templatic. The mix that you’re trying to acheive on the site can go wrong in many ways. Would you have a coder have a look at your site? Or at least send me some temporary admin credentials on saurabh dot shukla at rtcamp dot com. From what I’ve said before, this behaviour is very strange and even we’re very curious to know what is causing this, so we can block the culprit in future versions.

I’m sure we can help each other and the community out.

Regards.

Hi,

Just found the problem.

You see, the plugin now uses the WordPress Settings for the number of media items to show. For some reason, this remains blank, even after repeatedly trying to save it. So, the plugin loads no media items by default! This could be caused by another plugin or your theme. You could test it by disabling one of them. Whichever is causing this behaviour is a bad bad product. Get rid of it, in general.

Here’s what I’m talking about:https://docs.google.com/a/rtcamp.com/file/d/0B2Ne-xHFReRMS3o2VzFwalFZdGs/edit

We have recently added this to our roadmap. Latest by Wednesday, we are going to release 2.6 which will have Privacy Settings and another setting to independently control the number of media items to show. This will solve the problem you are having with BuddyPress Media. However, like I’ve said, whatever is not letting you save the number of posts to show is not a good idea.

If it doesn’t inconvenience you much, you could wait till then.

Regards.

The update will fix the issue where no media is loaded by default.

As for the second, because the page is called upload, even in the url, BuddyPress adds the class upload to the body. This is true for any addition that is done to BuddyPress. Stands true for Images, Videos, Audio and Albums, as well.

A smart theme or plugin designer would use specificity. It’s very simple. The selector for the button should just say button.upload or something like that. Otherwise with the current selector your site uses (.upload) anything with the class upload will be affected. That, anybody will tell you, is a bad idea.

We can only fix this by calling our upload page something else like rtUpload or bpm-upload. But that’ll give us ugly urls and the tabs will be named weirdly. So, this we won’t change. Kindly ask the theme developers to use more specificity.

Lastly, if you don’t want to use the plugin, you can just disable it first and simply delete it. To delete the media added, you just need to go to the default WordPress media gallery and delete them.

Regards.