It’s definitely not images breaking the widget, as testbp.org has had a whole bunch of image posts not break it. In fact, it has over 2,000 blogs on that site, and when I had the widget on the front page it never broke.
I’d like to see if anyone else has had this problem first of all to make sure it is not something specific on your installation.
With all due respect, your attitude makes me want to help you less, and I’m sure I’m not the only one.
First of all, this is pre-release software, if you were not prepared or did not expect potential headaches, then you should not have installed BuddyPress.
The community around this project is coming on leaps and bounds, usually all threads will eventually get an answer which is almost unheard of for something so new. There have been caching issues with the forums, nothing to do with bbPress, and it has been temperamental with all forums on Automattic servers. This should be cleared up now.
Your problem sounds like perhaps something in a post is breaking the blogs widget, which would explain why it sometimes works, and sometimes does not.
If you can somehow monitor which post was the newest when the widget stopped working, that would help a great deal to address what it is in the post that is breaking the widget.
If anyone else has experienced this issue – please post a reply here.
The only reason I can think of why this would fail is if you have not upgraded the themes and all JS files. That would mean you are not passing the security nonce and it will not return a valid result. You said you have upgraded everything, including themes, so that doesn’t make any sense.
Basically, if you add a file called members-directory.php in your blog/home theme it will override the directory with whatever you put in that file. Same for blogs-directory.php and groups-directory.php.
You will see examples of this on the new BuddyPress site when it launches.
I just want to make sure we have the right idea here:
I belong to the group “Transformers is awesome”.
I’m browsing a BuddyPress site and come across a blog post on Transformers, that has some interesting facts. I think to myself, this is cool, I’d love other members of the group “Transformers is awesome” to be notified of this. I’ll “tag” this content to that group, perhaps by entering a unique group tag for “Transformers is awesome” or selecting the group from a menu.
I continue browsing and come across some photos of the new Transformers II movie, I think, that would be cool to show in the group too. I decide to “tag” those photos to the group as well.
I also find a cool quote on someone’s wire that says “Transformers release date is April 3rd 2009”. I “tag” that content to the group too.
When I return to the “Transformers is awesome” group home page, I see that the content I have “tagged” appears on the home page (perhaps in a “latest tagged” box) for all the group members to see. There may (and probably should be) an approval process in between a piece of content being “tagged” and it showing on the group page.
Thoughts?
Actual content tagging would be cool too, so you tag anything on the site, and those tags then become content groups. However, that is a MUCH bigger job, and would probably render group creation irrelevant down the line (all in good time).
Devrim, you can’t just set this stuff up outside of a function call. You should download the skeleton component to understand how to write WPMU capable plugins.
You need to wrap your code in a function then call it on the ‘wp’ action.
function mystuff() {
…
}
add_action( ‘wp’, ‘mystuff’ );
You are running into problems because your code is executing before anything has been set up. BuddyPress is entirely action based, if you start programming outside of this, you’ll run into many issues.
