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In reply to: wp-super-cache strategy
People, is this 404 thing only on bp’s virtual urls? Directories has the same problem is_404() returns ‘never heard of this, yep it is’. Lemme go look. Gotta go play with headers today. Gotta learn about them. I need to refresh a page at an inconvenient moment. Like after generating the bp menu bar.
In reply to: Minimal groups, forums, members and blogs listschadeverson, the blog directory built into bp is just what you are talking about. It has alphabetic lookup, search and featured which is just random(). Get more than just a few blogs and the list option is long and unwieldy.
In reply to: Building Link to My Friends Activitylemme try it in the browser…
Yep. I see the problem:
<a href="<?php global $bp; echo bp_core_get_userurl($bp['loggedin_userid']) ?>activity/my-friends">Your Friends Activity</a>
That works. Wasn’t working for me either. I’m not trying this in a bp theme. Because I hadn’t declared that I wanted to play with $bp it resolves to nothing.
Don’t know where you are using this but withing the scope of usage of that var you have to declare you want to use it.
In reply to: Building Link to My Friends Activity$bp['loggedin_userid']is the global userid for the logged in user.So that url you described above would be:
<a href="<?php echo bp_core_get_userurl($bp['loggedin_userid']) ?>activity/my-friends">Your Friends Activity</a>
Because bp_core_get_userurl() returns this:
return $bp['root_domain'] . '/' . MEMBERS_SLUG . '/' . $ud->user_login . '/';
bp-core.php, bp_core_get_userurl()
In reply to: WTF????When things go nuts like that realfam it’s related to linux, apache or nameserver type stuff. Glad it got solved.
In reply to: RSS Feeds Broken“How to and troubleshooting” ok?
moved. You trying to automate me out of this cushy job I got?Sorry can’t help with the feeds issue. I haven’t used them yet.
In reply to: A new BP themeBP is just beginning to roll. You might want to talk to danielfelice at:
http://www.freebuddypressthemes.com/
Or nicolagreco at:
In reply to: weird RSS widget behaviorI dunno Mike. I have a test blog that runs the home theme. I created two rss widgets in a column and both seem to work fine. I’m using both of the rss urls you are using in those widgets. Only thing I can think of is that the 2nd widget has diff params that it’s trying to pull from the feed that the feed doesn’t support? What is it in that widget? ‘show content’, ‘show author’, ‘date’ something along those lines.
I configured the West Point feed to show 1 item and the Army Sports widget to show 5. Works over here in lovely Michigan.
In reply to: Groups – Mods and AdminsYes we do have a place for docs. https://codex.buddypress.org/ Anyone can contribute. Thank you for asking
. Products like bp and mu are built by programmers. Documentation gives programmers hives.
In reply to: WTF????Realfam, I’ve seen that kinda generic ‘apache is alive and well here’ screen. It showed up when I didn’t do all the steps needed to get mu setup correctly. I just made sure that I went thru and did *everything* in the mu install readme doc.
– mod_rewrite turned on
– httpd.conf configured correctly. <Directory> and <Virtual Host> directives
– DNS wildcard subdomains setup in my nameserver
– Do I have an .htaccess file in the doc root of my mu install?
When I did that these kind of problems went away.
mikepratt is right realfam. How old are you? Try to be more descriptive of the issue in your topic title please. Sudden emergencies due to incorrect mu and apache configurations are your problem. Just like problems related to my inexperience and stupidity are my problems.
mu requires a certain level of experience that only comes by solving my own problems. If I just throw up my hands and give the problem to the universe I get ignored.
You’re not a dick Mike. That’s my job. I guess I can share the responsibilities though. If I have to.
In reply to: Groups IssueThis might be a bp issue. I’ve never tested banning and kicking. Why do I enjoy saying those things? Anyway, did any of your admins do such a thing lately? I’m thinking some out of control, I wanted to just do ‘him’ and it did ‘everybody?’ kinda thing. Oh, well I was never here or did *that*.
In reply to: BuddyPress and Site wide tags pluginIf you take a look at Trac you’ll see that this issue is represented as tickets:
https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/336
https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/175
You’ll also notice lots of bp related tickets that stem from the alpha and recent beta release. If I were lead developer on an open source community project such as this, I’d pay attention first to the tickets that related to getting bp to beta 2.
I’ve decided that this issue is *our* problem. *We* need to fix it. I’ve got some time to give to it and that’s what I’m gonna do today. Anybody else willing to help work on this community problem?
realfam, bp covers wpmu, bbpress and bp itself. We try to address all three environments simply because we *have to* to get bp running. That thread was a little off topic for the forums. Even though it did relate to wpmu sorta, kinda.
Then again I just get cranky at times.
Hey jvinch. I think that this sort of thing is a ‘left to the student’ type of exercise for people who are creating bp member themes. The theme’s we have now are the basic ones that come with the package. Kinda like mu’s kubrick default and home themes.
Although bp’s default themes are pretty nifty by themselves. The member theme is pretty unique. But ya, you’re right.
In reply to: “escape” characters in Group forum postsThis thread contains non core mod fixes for the above issues:
I thought about doing the same thing. I setup 2 instances of bbpress. One for groups and one for ‘the community’. The groups forums were hidden. I didn’t like it too much. I wanted the public groups to be public forums but read only until users joined a group. I also wanted the private and hidden groups to have hidden forums.
See this thread: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=696
In reply to: Remove User ID from Blog Related Site Wide ActivityThe suggested mod filters all posts that go to blog id 2 and trigger ‘publish_post’. If the plugin that you are using doesn’t trigger the action ‘publish_post’ it might not work.
If the sitewide activity is still picking it up then you have to figure out how.
I was thinking about this kind of thing as well. In more general terms. I’m creating a bp member theme skin. Right now just trying to integrate it with the rest of the site. As I’m doing this I’m going over the features that are in that theme. Since I’m fooling with them, I’m thinking about them.
What do I want to see in this theme. How would I change it. I was thinking more about how I operate on my site and other sites. What changes would I make that would make my life easier on the net.
The first thing I would implement is a ‘favorites’ or ‘watch’ component. Kinda like rss feed aggregation. I make comments on people’s blogs. I start topics on the forums and reply to topics. I don’t remember all the junk I do in one day. So being reminded of *my* activity is important.
Viewing my group’s activity is important. Some blog’s are important and I want to see posts from those select blogs. *Some* of my friend’s activity is important. Forum and blog posts for some of my friends.
I’d like to be able to see *all* that stuff above and selectively see a subset of that. That subset is what’s important to me at the moment. It’ll change day to day.
Favorites, watches. Things I want to monitor. I’d like to be able to just dynamically add and delete such things.
I want to do this in one place. One screen. A bp/mu Heads Up Display. For me. I want ‘My HUD’.
In reply to: Responding to WiresThat would be cool. Pretty easy too I’m thinking. No I’m not volunteering.
You can kinda do it now if you think of it. The wire poster’s name is their profile link and at the bottom of where it takes you is the wire box for that person. I never would have thought of doing that until you mentioned this. I’d make it more explicit though.
Something like the ‘delete’ button that becomes visible if it’s your wire.
In reply to: Remove User ID from Blog Related Site Wide ActivityMessage? To you? I got a friend request from you on testbp.org. Just accepted it. That it?
I see. Ya brain fart on my part. $blog should be $blog_id. Sorry. Also I would put that new line above the $post = get_post($post_id); call. Why make a db call if we aren’t going to do anything if it’s on blog 2?
Of course you could look at the post and see if it’s from ‘admin’ and ignore that. In that case some sort of filter after get_post() would be appropriate.
I gotta slow down and stop doing 10 things at once. The details like $blog/$blog_id sometimes get lost in the shuffle. Programming is all about details. It isn’t good enough to be ‘close’.
In reply to: Sitewide searchThis site wide search issue is interesting. Everyone wants something different. I need to have content search like Mike. I also need to have all content site wide aggregated into categories and tags. Cross all blogs on the site. I’ve implemented this by installing donncha’s site wide tags plugin. Any post by any user on any blog goes to the ‘tags’ blog where they all live. This is my community blog.
I had to turn off the activity component in bp to get this though. Currently those two confilict.
Now searching the community blog searches all blog content except pages. It’s very nice because when you find a post that interests you on the community blog you get redirected to the source of the article. You wind up on the blog where the article actually lives.
Mike, I see your problem. The bp search is designed to find things in bp. Not content on a blog. Hmmm. The standard wp way of searching blog content is somehow integrating the searchform.php into your theme. Check out any theme that has a search box. It usually loads up searchform.php. When the user enters in a search term wp goes out and uses search.php template to display the results.
Check out the wpmu default theme. It makes a call to get_search_form() where it wants to display searchform.php.
In reply to: Groups Issuedaniel I can’t imagine what would cause this other than some sort of mysql server crash. Perhaps you should talk to Trent about this issue. He’s got more db experience that everyone around here put together.
In reply to: Groups – Mods and AdminsI understand completely. What we got here is just the core of a wonderful thing. Some areas of bp are feature rich and some need to be fleshed out. It’s up to us to determine what the features should be based on how we want to use bp. Our problem now is that the docs for the features that do exist are kinda sparse. Like any open source product it’s up to us to create them.
This is really how wpmu, bbpress and buddypress are designed. The architecture is extensible and the extensions and features grow out of need. I’d much prefer this way of doing things than being stuck with something monolithic. Here’s what ya get. Take it or leave it.
In reply to: Small issue on my homepage, driving me NUTS!!!!What does this have to do with bp? This is a buddypress forum.
No, you wouldn’t have to do any of that running around. If that theme is only used on that blog and you have it turned off for all other blogs except the home blog on your site, then you just have to drop this into functions.php for that theme.
remove_action( 'wp_footer', 'bp_core_admin_bar' );
remove_action( 'wp_head', 'bp_core_add_css' );In that theme the admin bar won’t show. Ever. If you use that theme on other blogs then you’ll have to wrap those two calls in some code to detect what blog it’s running on and only make those calls on blog id 1.
You could also create a plugin that runs in /mu-plugins, use those two calls above and just detect what blog it’s running on and make the calls only for blog id 1. That might be better.
