[@djpaul Keymaster 16 years, 11 months ago]

You’re correct, it IS a WPMU question.

I have no time to dig up the link but it’s been posted elsewhere on the forums and I guess you can find it over at the WP/WPMU sites.

[@djpaul Keymaster 16 years, 12 months ago]

The original poster has since deleted ther account, and as there are several solutions in this thread, I’m marking it as resolved.

[@djpaul Keymaster 16 years, 12 months ago]

I have this issue too. I’ll fix it as soon as I get a chance; Achievements is going to haves release first. I’m the first to admit Welcome Pack’s code quality is very poor but if someone wants to fix it up for the current BP version we can release that.

[@djpaul Keymaster 16 years, 12 months ago]

Not upgrading wordpress to its latest version is a security risk. You’ve been warned.

[@djpaul Keymaster 16 years, 12 months ago]

This thread is six months old, it’s been marked as ‘resolved’ so not many people are even going to click it open, and the fact that BuddyPress is covered by the GPL license, means any plugins that use BuddyPress will also be GPL. This means you can do whatever you want within the terms of that license. This means you can ‘fork’ the software and provide updated versions if you so want to.

[@djpaul Keymaster 16 years, 12 months ago]

You have access to the globals in whichever scope you’re trying to use it in?

[@djpaul Keymaster 16 years, 12 months ago]

IMO this is a theme design decision; if you want a graphic logo on your site, then that’s a custom theme. The bundled theme is just a starting point, even if you only re-do the colours. I’m even going to go so far to say if you want a graphic rather than a text header, you are very likely to want to change some other aspect of the site design at some point; so you’d be creating a child theme for that anyway. I can’t see people *only* wanting to change the site title to a graphic being a very common situation.

In previous versions, we used to get a lot of questions about which file to replace for the graphic, and ‘what font was used/can I have the PSD file for it’, and all the issues that both of these entail.

[@djpaul Keymaster 16 years, 12 months ago]

Bigger problem is that some of the plugin activation/deactivation hooks don’t work or aren’t reliable with WPMU, which makes things difficulty or tricky to track down when something breaks.

[@djpaul Keymaster 16 years, 12 months ago]

This isn’t anything to do with BuddyPress. I could be wrong, but I think this is one of the differences between WP and WPMU.

[@djpaul Keymaster 16 years, 12 months ago]

I can’t speak for this particular company but there are good and bad things for this sort of approach. I’m limited on time right now but my concern is like you say the dependancy on a third party.

For a site I’m working on, I’m utilising profile autodiscovery techniques with the account stored locally.

[@djpaul Keymaster 16 years, 12 months ago]

White screen is usually a memory or parser problem. What does it say in your error log?

[@djpaul Keymaster 16 years, 12 months ago]

Hi Philipp

Don’t worry, your English is very good.

To answer your question, I think you need to think about what content there will be on your site.

Will the volunteer placements remain the same each half-year? i.e. a school and (for example) at a charity.

If this is the case, you probably want to keep the structure of the site very similar so people can read and learn from what previous volunteers have experienced. You could automatically ‘tag’ data in each half-year period; this would let you find and sort the data appropriately.

If volunteer placements can be anywhere and different in each half-year period, then you might want to use Groups as a form of category – i.e. rather than having groups for Example School 1 and Example School 2, use just one group – ‘School’. Again, you could let users tag data with their specific placements.

EDIT: I’ve also re-titled this thread to make it a bit clearer as to the type of questions you are asking

[@djpaul Keymaster 16 years, 12 months ago]

Migrating from WP to WPMU is beyond the scope of this forum. Have you tried Google or on the WPMU forums?

[@djpaul Keymaster 16 years, 12 months ago]

Actually, that was you as well.

[@djpaul Keymaster 16 years, 12 months ago]

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/custom-logo-in-buddypress-11

No need for a duplicate of a recent post.

[@djpaul Keymaster 16 years, 12 months ago]

If you’ve migrated the users correctly, they’d only show in the BuddyPress members directly once they’ve logged in for the first time.

[@djpaul Keymaster 16 years, 12 months ago]

If you’re using a standard installation afaik you don’t have to do anything with the bbpress file. Have a look at the translations page on this website (under Codex) and see what other people have done.

[@djpaul Keymaster 16 years, 12 months ago]

Try duplicating the home theme and *delete* home.php.

[@djpaul Keymaster 16 years, 12 months ago]

Create a child theme, copy in header.php from the default theme and change the heade element (“h1” from memory) and replace it with an image.

[@djpaul Keymaster 17 years ago]

I’m Looking for someone to contribute some quality art for achievement icons whilst I think of it

[@djpaul Keymaster 17 years ago]

It was removed way back – possibly before the 1.0 release. If you’ve upgraded from an old version, that’s why.

[@djpaul Keymaster 17 years ago]

I have seen your Twitter message and emailing me isn’t going to come any sooner. Rest assured things have not been abandoned.

[@djpaul Keymaster 17 years ago]

I assume you’ve wrapped your code in <?php ?> brackets?

Also, check you haven’t got any linebreaks or white spaces anywhere.

[@djpaul Keymaster 17 years ago]

It is easier to reinstall WPMU. However, it is possible to change it manually. I suggest you search on the wpmu forums as this isn’t a BP question.

[@djpaul Keymaster 17 years ago]

Then the plugin isn’t compatible with the current version of BP. I’d normally advise you to talk to the author but I know he hasn’t been around for a while.