Comments on: BuddyPress Updated to 1.1.2

By: arsik

arsik — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:02:19 +0000

I am using BuddyPress 1.1.2 and WordPress mu 2.8.5.2
My website is http://www.turkmenhalky.com
Problem is users can register my site and create blog but when they login and try to enter their Blogs dashboard they cannot enter. When they push dashboard button they are redirected to the wordpress login area but when you enter username and password there, nothing happens..
Please help me to solve my problem please!!

By: paulettee

paulettee — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:36:21 +0000

I just upgraded and it worked fine now I’m trying to activate buddypress skeleton component but it resulted in a fatal error even after moving bp-example and bp-example.php file to wp-content/plugins/

Sample error bit:
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare bp_example_register_widgets() (previously declared …)

Any ideas of what might be wrong? Thanks.

-Paulette

By: stripedsquirrel

stripedsquirrel — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:24:52 +0000

Hi andy,

the front and back went blank, at the moment I de-activated BuddyPress, so before doing any update itself. Only after renaming the themes and plugins they both came back.
Only then I stared the (manual) upgrade.

It seems that if you use the standard themes you should either:
- change to another theme before updating
- update automatically (or manually by just overwriting?) without deactivating BP first.
Is that correct? It conflicts with the upgrade instructions.

Cheers, Harry

By: runbay

runbay — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:36:12 +0000

Something wrong. Could not update automatically. Maid manual download.

By: Andy Peatling

Andy Peatling — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:27:06 +0000

Your install should not go blank if you disable BuddyPress in the admin area. The front of your site will for a short time while you upgrade, but the backend should not.

By: stripedsquirrel

stripedsquirrel — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 02:30:50 +0000

Hmm, wish I had read Shaun’s comments before trying to update.
This MUST be added to the upgrade instructions!

After you disable all related plugins, then disable BP main plugin, all goes blank. Not just main blog, but all blogs.

Had to rename plugin folder and bp-themes before I could even get into wp-admin. Would have been enough to rename only the BP plugins & themes, but hard to find out. Then of course all plugins were de-activated, so painfully checking all and re-activating them. Can’t imagine what a nightmare this will be on a large live site.

So: definitely switch theme first if you are using the standard theme. Else all will go blank and you will have a hard time getting it back unless you are FTP connected. again: this should be in instructions, not hidden in some comment here…

By: Jomark

Jomark — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:29:08 +0000

I have upgraded my site manually and it works just fine.

By: Jim

Jim — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 04:07:16 +0000

Multi-line text box doesn’t understand line breaks!

If users enter text, hit return, more text, hit return… it won’t be acknowledged. When viewing the profile, it will smush it all together into one big sentence. Users shouldn’t have to manually enter line breaks.

Also, there should be a way to distinguish URLs from content in the social network. If someone enters a URL for their blog or website in the social network, BP thinks its a keyword, so it looks in the site for it as a hyperlink. URLs in the social network aren’t understood by BP either.

Please fix these in the next update. Thank you. Keep up the great work!

By: Marcelo

Marcelo — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:59:32 +0000

Great stuff Andy! http://testbp.org/ is great. But, colud you help me please?

i installed wordpress mu 2.8.5 without problems but when i installed buddypress 1.1.2 in the plugins folder my admin page of wordpress fails, the page just turn white after i activate it in the “Plugins > Installed” menu, and there is nothing i can do until i erase the buddypress folder or rename it.

Could you tell me what is the problem? Incompatibility?

I extracted buddypress files and upload it to my server in the folder social/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/

I’m looking forward to your reply.

thanks

By: Shaun

Shaun — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:27:04 +0000

Got the site back up. Before you deactivate the buddypress plugin, switch to a different theme that does not depend on BP functions first, then deactivate all plugins that depend on BP, then if you are using bp-custom.php rename it, then deactivate BuddyPress, and now you are ready to update. Then of course you reactivate in reverse order.