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Just wanted to add my two-pennies worth to this discussion – I had the error posting topic message and the “forum not enabled in this group” message too. I had already enabled forums and previously posted. Somewhere along the line though, I hadn’t realised – perhaps it was during migration to subdomain, that bb-config hadn’t been updated, but when I updated the bb-config in the root folder to match the details in the wp-config, it suddenly worked perfectly again, so double check your bb-config files!

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@RogerCoathup Thanks for that I will look in to it- it didn’t happen to me when I built first edition on local server. It may be one of a number of plugins, I will test each one to see if they cause problem and then try another theme. Shouldn’t be the theme because custom community theme is supposed to be compatible with BP but hey ho you never know.

@cj-kruger Yes I think I am, BP Klout and BP Twitter. I’ll look to see how it goes but at the moment the two plugins seem to be fine together unless of course they are causing the problem.

I will test this week and report back. Thanks all.

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Well (I’m sorry I don’t have a clue how to insert a pic like you have) I’d like them to show up on the member’s profile page, i.e. when they click on your name. I want it to be in the header I suppose, or just somehow accessible. At the moment, when I click on a member, there is no “public profile” tab or anything like there is on my own, so all you see is the activity module.with activity, groups, forums etc.
I just want other people to be able to access this info even if it means an “info” tab a la Facebook!

To briefly explain, I have a similar set up to yours – Twitter button and klout score and a user location map so these things are in the header already, but other info like for example, Facebook page url, web address – I want these custom fields to also show and not just serve as input for plugins etc.

Thanks

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Resolved.

I just copied the code as is in to the script file as I said and updated permalinks and now the site is working as it was meant to!! This might be the answer to several problems I’ve been having! I wish these hosting companies would just do everything the same to save the hassle!!
Thanks ShaneBP for your help.

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Ok it does give help on the knowledge base about a rewrite script. I don’t exactly understand what I’m rewriting as I’m a bit of a newbie to it all – is the modrewrite script important?

It tells me to create a file called rewrite.script in the web folder and enter my code and it shows this:
`#Zeus webserver version of basic WordPress mod_rewrite rules
map path into SCRATCH:path from %{URL}
look for file at %{SCRATCH:path}
if exists then goto END
look for dir at %{SCRATCH:path}
if exists then goto END
##### FIX FOR LOGIN/FORGOTTEN PASSWORD/ADMIN ETC #####
match URL into $ with ^/wp-.*$
if matched then goto END
##### FIX TO ALLOW SEARCH TO WORK #####
match URL into $ with ^/(.*)
set URL = /index.php/$1`

Do you know if I simply copy this code or am I supposed to modify it for myself?

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Also read that my host blocks xmlrpc.php file – could this affect buddypress? There’s a way around it using a plugin to rename it in scripts which I will try if someone can tell me if I need to do it? Thanks.

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Hi Shane thanks for your reply.
No I don’t seem to have one. I installed WP using a one-click script after problems I had with transferring my site from offline version and there’s no .htaccess file there. Is it vital? What should I do?
Also apparently my web server isn’t using Apache it’s running Zeus. I don’t know how this affects my site, so any help appreciated!
Thanks for your help.

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+1 here too. I’d love to be able to be able to “praise” others especially since our site would be mainly for internal work purposes and it would be motivational and encouraging for non-techies as well if nothing else!
I’ve yet to try the various plugins but will be on my to-do list to test them when my site is near complete.

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Thanks for the help guys, but the stuff in the codex article there is exactly what’s in the instructions for the template pack.

Hugo – Thanks but as my site is a specific type of website the converted themes aren’t really diverse enough to suit it. The instructions are fine except when you get to altering code as I am not au fait with website coding and have very little confidence there.
“For the record you don’t re-name the BP files you just ensure they are copied over “
– well the walkthroughs/codex/instructions suggest you copy the sidebar/header/footer and rename as sidebar-buddypress.php etc so i was just following that.

The trouble I’m having is that I simply don’t know how to ensure the content of the page doesn’t overlap the sidebars, and which bits of code to paste to rectify this – it’s not clear enough in the instructions for a novice like myself I’m afraid! (Maybe that’s the intention but I have to try!)

Take my example here – this is the page.php file for my current theme:
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I don’t understand how this pertains to the other files and what out of this I should replicate and how. Even the walkthrough for the simple 2011 theme it’s not as simple as copying, but rather adding extra code in which I don’t know if I can replicate for my theme.
Any help or advice welcome.
Thanks