[@dainismichel Participant 17 years, 2 months ago]

@Wildrot

and @apeatling of https://apeatling.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/blog.jpg

is there a downloadable way to do what you guys have done and make it the default for user blogs (no user set up required, just automatic)?

Can you guys make your user templates available to the BuddyPress community?

Best,

Dainis

[@dainismichel Participant 17 years, 2 months ago]

Great job on schmink-tipps!

[@dainismichel Participant 17 years, 2 months ago]

You know, there’s got to be some file somewhere that gets written to (or multiple files), when you configure widgets. Basically, all I need to do is automatically put that file into each new member’s blog, and I should be done. The way things are right now, the home theme works fine for user blogs, but the widgets aren’t configured.

So these are the steps I’m thinking would be easiest to follow:

1) Figure out where the widget configuration gets stored

2) Configure the widgets

3) Figure out how to get a pre-configured theme for new members (by copying certain files or writing a script or I don’t know what)

Answers? Helpful? Goofy?

Best,

Dainis

[@dainismichel Participant 17 years, 2 months ago]

Hi John,

Thanks, I don\’t know how to do what you are suggesting. The theme seems to work, it\’s just that it asks blog owners to configure their widgets. Is there any way to pre-configure the widgets?

Best,

Dainis

PS: Or to do it automatically?

[@dainismichel Participant 17 years, 2 months ago]

Hi Sebastian, that really sounds great!

We have similar specs, here are my responses:

[blockquote]I will be creating a new Blog BP plugin that will be pulling all the posts, categories and comments straight from the user’s blog. [/blockquote] Doesn’t “all activity” already do that? Also, you mean straight from the users blogs (plural), right? That means, users’ blogs will show in your “home blog” right?

[blockquote]I will only be allowing one blog per user.[/blockquote] Me too, is that an existing setting?

[blockquote]Also I setup my BP installation not to use subdomains for blogs but folders.[/blockquote]Me too, seems cleaner and more appropriate for a “user,” also I couldn’t get it to install with the other method!

[blockquote]I will be looking to hook into BP’s url dispatcher to use subdomains for the public profiles and will be disallowing direct access to the actual users WP blogs (maybe using .htaccess rules) so that way blogs will look and feel like they belong to the profile just like the wire, friends and eventually galleries and not a separate/independent entity the way it currently works.[/blockquote]

I don’t know what you mean by disallowing access to the actual users WP blogs. Oh, now I get it…they don’t even “post” or “see” their actual blogs.

…Hmm…

Well, here’s something that may be a bit of a shortcut that you could try, it’s just that I don’t know how to do one step.

Just make the user blogs have the theme “buddy press home.” It looks like it works just fine. The only thing is that the user is then asked to configure widgets. If you could figure out how to allow only the main admin to configure the user blog template (including widgets), and if you could figure out how to activate and deactivate and “move around” those widgets on all user blogs simultaneously (all user blogs use one theme, and the settings are all set in one place by the global admin), then, it seems to me like we would be all set.

What do you think?

Best,

Dainis

[@dainismichel Participant 17 years, 3 months ago]

I would like to do this too.

What I did is make the buddypress home theme available to memberblogs. The only “catch” is that the member blog appears without any widgets set.

I am curious, if there is a way to “preset” the widgets on a userblog theme to a standard layout.

This image is perfect: https://apeatling.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/blog.jpg

If member blogs could look like that, then I can launch my community.

Best,

Dainis

[@dainismichel Participant 17 years, 3 months ago]

Also, maybe my members don’t need entire blogs of their own, however, I would like them to be able to share articles, videos, PDF files, etc.

[@dainismichel Participant 17 years, 3 months ago]

Now I think I understand. Does the “buddypress member theme” define the look of the member profile pages and not the theme of their blogs?

What I’m looking for is a standard configuration for member blogs.

[@dainismichel Participant 17 years, 3 months ago]

Thanks for your reply,

Basically what I’ve done is follow the install procedure exactly, which results in the blue “buddpress-member” theme being the theme for members.

I guess I’m still reeling a bit with the vocabulary. I feel like I am the “blog owner,” and it’s odd to talk about admins of blogs, because I am the admin of the community, and the others could be “member blog admins,” but it feels odd to me to call them “blog admins.”

Anyway, I am allowing people to create their own blogs, because I want them to be able to share articles and videos and I want them to be able to post, etc.

However, the blue default theme for what I’m calling “member blogs” is too far away from the overall site design for me to be able to use it.

I created a test blog by creating a member and a blog. It automatically had the blue default template, which I assume is member-themes/buddypress-member.

I then uploaded member-themes/buddypress-home (which I know is “wrong”), and went to “BuddyPress Settings | Select theme to use for member pages:” and chose “BuddyPress Home Theme.” That did not change the theme of the member blog I had created, so I logged in as the member and changed the theme to buddypress-home.

What then happened, is that when I viewed that “member blog,” it asked me to add widgets, but, before opening up this community to its audience, I would like to have a “member blog theme” set, with all display options pre-selected. I don’t want the members who choose to have blogs to need to mess with blog settings, changing themes, etc.

Also, I want the member blog theme to be cohesive with the site theme, which, if I did the install correctly, and if the blue wordpress default theme is what I’m “supposed” to be seeing, is a different style altogether.

So, I’m trying to set up an automatic theme for member blogs that

1) is cohesive with the main buddypress-home theme

2) doesn’t require member blog admins to do anything regarding configuration (they can just start posting)

Make sense?

Thank you very much for your support!

Sincerely,

Dainis

[@dainismichel Participant 17 years, 3 months ago]

OK, well, the theme itself works, however, it prompts the member to add their own widgets and stuff. Basically, how can I create a pre-set member theme that all members just \”get,\” with widget settings and all?

Is that possible?

Best,

Dainis

PS: Also, when I switched the theme in the main admin area, my testmember blog theme stayed the same. I logged into testmember and changed the theme there. It would be cool, if all changes to the member theme would apply to all uses of the member theme. Is that the case, or are copies made and “hidden” somewhere?

[@dainismichel Participant 17 years, 3 months ago]

Ha ha

If I’m gonna break this thang, then how do I back this mutha up? Thanks for the info on the plugins!

Cheers,

Dainis

[@dainismichel Participant 17 years, 3 months ago]

Thanks DJ Paul.

Now, if I would like users to be able to share PDF files, images, videos, etc., how would I do that?

For some reason, I am not sure if I’m “really” using WordPress, and I don’t know what the “admin” can do, and what sub-blog owners can and can’t do.

Basically, can I tell them, if you want to share images, documents, etc., just create a blog for yourself and start uploading? So, I think there is something called next gen image gallery, or I can surf around on the buddy press forum and find plugins that do a good job with file sharing/viewing?

If a plugin is available in the “main” blog, and it works there, does that mean that the same plugin is available for all of the blogs?

What kind of user functionality tends to break BuddyPress? What do I need to avoid, so that I have the easiest time with support?

Best,

Dainis

[@dainismichel Participant 17 years, 3 months ago]

Thanks for this helpful post, I was able to customize the graphics! I had to take the admin_bar_logo.gif background image and center it over admin_bar_logo.gif, because the transparency wasn’t working well in my Photoshop Save for web. So, my logo is not transparent, but it fits with the menu bar background.

Best,

Dainis

[@dainismichel Participant 17 years, 3 months ago]

I was installing by following the instructions here https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/installing-buddypres-from-combo/ exactly.

I really don’t know how it happened, but I forgot to create a new database, and I started the sequence from the beginning, and it worked (over an existing DB).

[@dainismichel Participant 17 years, 3 months ago]

The directory-based setup, installed into the root directory of subdomain.domain.org, ran into a redirect loop error (WP MU issue), and I unfortunately see no way to install buddypress right now because of it.

[@dainismichel Participant 17 years, 3 months ago]

since subdomains are recommended, is there a way to switch to subdirectories afterwards, thereby creating.

community.domainname.org/userblog/

instead of

userblog.community.domainname.org

Best,

Dainis

[@dainismichel Participant 17 years, 3 months ago]

What wildcard thing? I guess I’ll have to search around. I’m having the subdomain issue. New user makes a blog and gets newuser.subdomain.domainname.org. Gotta keep searching!

[@dainismichel Participant 17 years, 3 months ago]

Hiya, here’s what I’m trying. I’d like to password protect my entire BuddyPress install with one username and password (I’ll change it from time to time).

Here’s BuddyPress’s htaccess file

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RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /community/

#uploaded files

RewriteRule ^(.*/)?files/$ index.php [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !.*wp-content/plugins.*

RewriteRule ^(.*/)?files/(.*) wp-content/blogs.php?file=$2 [L]

# add a trailing slash to /wp-admin

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^.*/wp-admin$

RewriteRule ^(.+)$ $1/ [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d

RewriteRule . – [L]

RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(wp-.*) $2 [L]

RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(.*\.php)$ $2 [L]

RewriteRule . index.php [L]

<IfModule mod_security.c>

<Files async-upload.php>

SecFilterEngine Off

SecFilterScanPOST Off

</Files>

</IfModule>

---

To which I tried to add:

AuthType Basic

AuthUserFile /home/username/sitename.org/subdirectory/.htpasswd

AuthName “Community Name”

require valid-user

---

and I made a .htpasswd file too.

---

Possibly because I installed into a subdirectory of an exising WP install, it winds up going to sitename.org and nothing is protected.

I will try the whole thing in subdomain.domain.org to see if I can get the htaccess stuff to work.

So, can anyone point out how I can just password protect the whole BuddyPress site with one username and password?