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I got good news for ya meerblickzimmer. Ya it does work. I remember playing with it a couple of months ago. Just tried it again on my mu site. The config stuff is buried in the ‘secret’ options page. It’s not advertised, it’s just sorta there.
yourdomain.org/wp-admin/options.php
Here’s an mu thread.
https://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic.php?id=1857
Happy posting.
Yep. The message allows me to send to any user in the community now. Even if they aren’t a ‘friend’. One thing that I noticed with the behavior of that form is that when I hit ‘tab’ to go from the name field to the subject field, the cursor just disappears. It doesn’t go to the next tab index field in the form as I would expect.
Since you got it up in the editor anyway…
Almost forgot. Thanks.
Hi Andy, Trent. I just assumed that I’d be able to send a msg to any user in the bp community. Friend or not. I saw the ‘send messge’ button in the user profile area now that you mentioned it. If I assume that, then run of the mill users will assume that too. Then I get to field the ‘why doesn’t it work questions’.
Ya know it’s gonna happen.
The group create not completing only happens on my DV server. Works fine on my windows box.(sigh)
I had group forums up and running on the windows box. Installed latest mu trunk and bp beta and that is not working now. Went thru all the integration and setup instructions as per the readme. No soap.
Hell, my windows mu install *was* talking to the forums on my DV bbpress install and locally. Now nothing, nowhere.
It’s lonely out here in the field.
Howdy, looking around in the bp code I found this for ya.
bp_post_author_avatar(). It’s in the bp-core-templatetags.php file. Looks like it is only useful inside of a wordpress post loop.
function bp_post_author_avatar() {
global $post;
if ( function_exists(‘bp_core_get_avatar’) ) {
echo apply_filters( ‘bp_post_author_avatar’, bp_core_get_avatar( $post->post_author, 1 ) );
} else if ( function_exists(‘get_avatar’) ) {
get_avatar();
}
}
I don’t see any references to *bp* using this function at all for it’s own purposes. Looks like it was built special for you.
This what you’re looking for?
Hey. Well I’m getting closer to finding out a solution for my group forums problem. I know by digging deep into the bowels of the code that group forums is using, that in my case, it is eventually winding up at doing a curl_exec() call looking for the header from the bbpress install. It uses that to figure out the ‘pingback’ url for bbpress. It’s part of the xmlrpc stuff that we have to enable to get it to work.
This curl_exec call is part of a very common php lib that is used to go do http GETs and other nice things. That curl_exec() call always returns 404 on my linux dedicated virtual server box.
I’ve been beating my head against why this is happening for days now and sent off a tech support email to my host. This is the conversation between us.
Howdy,
I’ve got WordPress MU 2.7 trunk installed on my DV and it uses the curl_exec() function to grab some stuff from the returned header info. It’s not working at all on my DV. It always returns 404 even for a valid url.
This works fine on another box I’ve got running. Same code just different environment. It seems like curl isn’t working right here.
I tried a little test script as follows:
<?php
// create a new cURL resource
$ch = curl_init();
// set URL and other appropriate options
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, “http://ourcommoninterest.org”);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
// grab URL and pass it to the browser
curl_exec($ch);
// close cURL resource, and free up system resources
curl_close($ch);
?>
Can’t get more basic than that. The url it is trying to get is to a valid domain on my DV. This script returns an ‘apache test page’, not the normal results I’d expect if I visited with a browser. WPMU is up and running at that above url.
Trying a different url such as http://ourcommoninterest.org/bbpress/ gets back 404. This is also a valid working url on my DV. I’ve been trying to figure this one out for days without luck.
Any help would be appreciated muchly!
Burt
My host Media Temple’s response:
You are getting this 404 error when running curl on the server because ourcommoninterest.org is set to the default domain for the ip address. When the server does a curl on this domain it looks in the host file and brings up 127.0.0.1. This localhost address isn’t setup on the (dv) because it is in a virtual environment so it brings up the 404 error.
You can either use the ip address when referencing this domain through curl or create a new domain and set that domain to be the default domain. If you have any further questions regarding your (mt) Media Temple services, please feel free to contact us at any time.
My confused reply:
Sorry Frank. I’m new to this so I’m not getting the explanation or the solution. Let me echo back what I’m not hearing very well.
When curl_exec() is run from the same box the domain is hosted on, it goes out and gets results from 127.0.0.1 (localhost) when querying ‘ourcommoninterest.org’?
When I run the same curl_exec() with the same param ‘ourcommoninterest.org’ on a different server, it goes out, gets dns resolution, finds it on the DV at media temple, doesn’t get 127.0.0.1 but gets the ip address for ‘ourcommoninterest.org’ and is happy to return the results it finds there. (not 404)
I’m actually trying to get a result back from the url ‘http://ourcommoninterest.org/bbpress/’. So to bypass the hosts file problem I can just use ‘http://whatevermyipaddressis/bbpress/’ to get the results I’m looking for?
Ya lost me completely on creating a new domain and setting that to the default domain. This would be a dummy domain that I just create thru plesk and still leave ‘ourcommoninterest.org’ hooked up to it’s current ip address?
(welcome to noob tech support)
This just happened a couple of minutes ago and frankly I’m no closer to understanding a solution. The only thing I can gather from all this tech noise is that it’s a result of being hosted as a dedicated virtual server.
I’ve had a problem similar to #1. The email is actually sent but the recipient’s email server just blocks it. They never get it. It doesn’t get sent to ‘spam’ like gmail or yahoo. They just don’t get it at all.
hotmail
Right? Try complaining to Microsoft.
Some of the widgets like the ‘activity’ and ‘recent posts’ widgets were designed to run on blog id 1 only. If you are comfortable changing the code in the bp core then here’s the spots:
Activity widget: /mu-plugins/bp-activity/bp-activity-widgets.php. Line #8 and line #30 have checks for blog id > 1. Modify to reflect your site.
Recent Posts widget: /mu-plugins/bp-blogs/bp-blogs-widgets.php. Line #8 and line #30 have checks for blog id > 1. Modify to reflect your site.
Welcome and Members widget: /mu-plugins/bp-core/bp-core-widgets.php. Line #8 checks for blog id > 1. Modify to reflect your site.
Groups widget: /mu-plugins/bp-groups/bp-groups-widgets.php. Line #8 checks for blog id > 1. Modify to reflect your site.
CAUTION: Your site may melt down. Your friends may leave you. Your pets may not like you anymore. I’ve heard of people’s cars not starting after making changes to the bp core.
