[@djpaul Keymaster 16 years, 8 months ago]

Attach an image to their site-wide picture/gravatar? No. I was thinking something like this, what do you think? http://irrationalgames.com/members/downtown

[@djpaul Keymaster 16 years, 8 months ago]

Go to https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/badge-maker

[@djpaul Keymaster 16 years, 8 months ago]

I disagree. Yes plugin authors SHOULD do that, but WordPress plugins should be able to declare a parent plugin that must be active. That way, when BuddyPress is deactivated, my Welcome Pack plugin is deactivated automatically. It also protects against plugin authors who do not know how to do this properly; either through lack of PHP experience or ignorance. There’s a whole range of WordPress plugins out there, and some are really well written, and some are really poorly written.

[@djpaul Keymaster 16 years, 8 months ago]

Open Social is a huge jigsaw puzzle, some of which looks more well done than others. Could anyone interested specifically say what part of Open Social they’d want, be a bit specific?

[@djpaul Keymaster 16 years, 8 months ago]

Plugin dependancies is a WordPress-level issue, and well-written BuddyPress plugins can silently quit if they find BuddyPress is available.

[@djpaul Keymaster 16 years, 8 months ago]

I’m going to mark threads which I’ve looked in green, by the way.

EDIT: The ideas subforum doesn’t seem to have this feature, so I can’t do this

[@djpaul Keymaster 16 years, 8 months ago]

I’ll Collect them all up

[@djpaul Keymaster 16 years, 8 months ago]

I’m moving this to the Ideas board

[@djpaul Keymaster 16 years, 8 months ago]

The Forums are bbPress, so you’re going about it in the correct way. Obviously you’ll need to create BP Groups for each existing forum and then update the forum IDs in the Groups database table. What sort of problems are you having?

[@djpaul Keymaster 16 years, 8 months ago]

Today I am going to make a list of all of the ideas on this forum so that we can get them to go into a poll.

[@djpaul Keymaster 16 years, 8 months ago]

If you know how to set up and configure a server, then I’d recommend Slicehost.

[@djpaul Keymaster 16 years, 8 months ago]

Yes, the 1.2 theme wasn’t built specifically to work with IE6. Andy said that if anyone wanted to test it and patch and bugs for IE6, that’d be fine.

[@djpaul Keymaster 16 years, 8 months ago]

If you get a totally blank page, check your web server error log as it’s usually a PHP error. What does it say?

[@djpaul Keymaster 16 years, 8 months ago]

Hm, no real instruction manual as such. And no question is a noob question

With regards to features, you can read this page https://buddypress.org/, find some BuddyPress introduction videos from WordCamp conferences at http://wordpress.tv/category/buddypress/. I’ve just got back from WordCamp Ireland where I did an introduction to BP session; slides are at http://slideshare.net/DJPaul/wordcamp-ireland-2010-introduction-to-buddypress

If you can ask us a specific question about BuddyPress, we can come up with a more specific answer (hopefully!)

[@djpaul Keymaster 16 years, 8 months ago]

But I want to go on holiday to the Bahamas too?

Well done r-a-y and thank you for your contributions to BuddyPress so far

[@djpaul Keymaster 16 years, 8 months ago]

Go to http://example.com/wp-admin/options-general.php (on your domain) and ensure “Anyone can register” is checked.

[@djpaul Keymaster 16 years, 8 months ago]

Have you set this in wp-config.php? It may go some way to assisting.

define( ‘BP_ENABLE_USERNAME_COMPATIBILITY_MODE’, true );

From https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/changing-internal-configuration-settings/

[@djpaul Keymaster 16 years, 8 months ago]

In your theme/child theme, you just need to add new widget areas in, same as any regular WordPress theme. I’m not a theme expert but have a look at http://www.themelab.com/2008/04/18/see-how-easy-it-is-to-widgetize-wordpress-themes/ under “Multiple Widget Ready Areas”

[@djpaul Keymaster 16 years, 8 months ago]

Yes. Please make a trac enhancement ticket on https://trac.buddypress.org/, as we should probably make sure we add this into WP to keep the behaviour consistent.

[@djpaul Keymaster 16 years, 8 months ago]

These forums are integrated differently to those of a standard BP install (and your site). So, I assume the page loads back the forum thread and the changes don’t appear?

This can be caused by an invalid nonce or a cookie error. Were you using the back arrow in your browser when you were testing? Let us now the exact steps you followed, thanks.

[@djpaul Keymaster 16 years, 8 months ago]

What theme are you using? Is there anything in your web server error log?

[@djpaul Keymaster 16 years, 8 months ago]

Have a look at https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/changing-internal-configuration-settings/ (“avatar specific settings”).

However, that’s a PHP memory limit which you might want to see if you can increase on your host. It currently appears to be 40Mb-ish? Try setting to at least 64Mb, as such (in wp-settings.php) by doing this:

define(‘WP_MEMORY_LIMIT’, ’64M’);

[@djpaul Keymaster 16 years, 8 months ago]

Did you set pretty permalinks?

[@djpaul Keymaster 16 years, 8 months ago]

@pedromiguel – yes

@nickmy – no

[@djpaul Keymaster 16 years, 8 months ago]

If someone posts this on the Ideas forum, that’ll get this flagged for a future BP release. I know John’s working on xProfile in BP 1.3, so it’ll never work again properly *hides*