Have the solution — the code to implement the BP_Legacy class in buddypress-functions.php had changed between beta and full release.
I needed to update the buddypress-functions.php file in our theme to match these changes.
@r-a-y: thanks for getting back to me. Yes, this is a considerable build based on the new theming approach — it’s been about 4 months in development (with a number of devs involved). We’d seen it through a number of alpha / betas of 1.7, so was a bit of a shock when the WSOD appeared! Anyway, that problem sorted now.
@shanebpdev – sorry, just seen your comment. Thanks for the feedback.
The client is partnered with a publishing company, and uses the publishing company’s servers — unfortunately, I don’t have too many details on the specification — concentrating on the development side of this project.
At one stage, we had considerable server problems (when we were handling 100 / 1000s of new member registrations each day). I suspect though that this was due in no small part to the number of DB queries being fired off on each page view. Hopefully, that issue is considerably reduced with 1.7+. We’re still 1.6.x for Enterprise Nation.
Problem is that groups_create_group() doesn’t set the total_member_count — so subsequent calls to set up the Groups Template fail to load the groups.
We worked around by explicitly setting: groups_update_groupmeta( $group_id, ‘total_member_count’, (int) groups_get_groupmeta( $group_id, ‘total_member_count’) + 1 );
The author of ‘friendpress’ took several snippets of code written by other people, and tried to package them in a plugin. From other people’s feedback, I don’t believe it ever worked.
The groups_join_group action gets passed the group_id as its first parameter:
e.g. do_action( ‘groups_join_group’, $group_id, $user_id );
So, you have the group_id already.
Interestingly, there doesn’t seem to be a function to get the creator – so, you would then either have to:
Create a new BP_Group instance using the group_id, and directly access the it’s ->creator_id attribute, or
Make a direct SQL call on $bp->groups->table_name to return the creator_id where the id = group_id
Find that out, and edit in: /wp-content/themes/your-theme/members/single/member-header.php
If you haven’t got your theme structure setup correctly – then you need to do that first of all — have a look at the advice on theme development, theme structures on wordpress.org. The documentation on buddypress.org also has advice on building child themes from bp-default, and on adapting existing wordpress themes (see template pack pages).
@rickkumar – I noticed loginradius have been spamming the Internet with fake users / testimonials for their product — so probably good to avoid that one.
If you are looking for another free solution – you can investigate HybridAuth. That one’s a PHP library, rather than a plugin, so you’d have to do some coding, but on the positive side would gain a lot more flexibility.
