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Any progress on this? I tried the plugin linked above but didn’t have any success.
Weird. Running 2.7?
Try this instead:
http://www.west-point.org/index.php?option=com_rss&feed=RSS2.0
I was able to add it to my install no problem.
I’m not sure of a true fix yet as SEO is kind of on the back burner right now for me, but temporarily I’ve just changed the title of 404 pages to my website name.
Sure is! From the dashboard go to Site Admin->Blogs->Edit (for the main blog) and change “Default Role” to “author”.
@wardeh – No, I thought I saw a comment in one of the files about this. Could never get past installing Elgg unfortunately.
Anyone try out the plugin yet?
Media Temple here as well and I have nothing but good things to say about them and haven’t had any problems with WPMU/bbPress/BuddyPress.
Thanks, Trent! I was going to ask about this. I’ll just take the avatars off the directory until they’re able to be customized.
I’ll probably be chiming in on this soon enough. I’m working on a messaging issue then I’m planning on moving on to some theme tweaks.
Also, in the interim you could use the forum RSS feeds for notification.
This function isn’t in BuddyPress yet as far as I know but it should be a pretty easy addition. I’d create a ticket on the Trac (trac.buddypress.org) marking this as an enhancement.
The hosts file can be edited through Plesk. You must be logged in as root then go to Virtuozzo->File Manager then navigate to /etc/hosts and you can edit it from there. That’s how I did it and can confirm it works, but make sure your changes stick. I modified it once and the server changed it slightly after saving which still prevented the forums from working but I re-edited as outlined above and it fixed my forum issues. Thanks!
Thank you Trent! I’ve been working on getting the forums working since they were first released and have FINALLY got them working thanks to your post and this thread. Looking back I think I had two problems:
1. I had been installing the plugin in bb-plugins, not my-plugins. I had seen my-plugins mentioned a few places but thought maybe it was replaced by bb-plugins in 1.0 and never really looked into it. I still installed and activated the plugin successfully through bb-plugins so I’m not sure if this was or wasn’t the problem but in any case thanks for pointing this out.
2. I previously modified the etc/hosts file mentioned in the other thread but it must not have saved correctly on the first try. I re-edited it to what burtadsit recommended and now we’re working.
Anyways, thanks again!
Nah, I’m on a DV as well. I’ll probably just contact support and see if I can make any progress that way, though I need to try to pinpoint where it’s going wrong as all I know right now is the forums don’t work and that’s about it.
Tried this but still no luck. Back to the drawing board.
Burtadsit, what method were you using to determine that it was 404’ing? I’m curious to test and see if I was/am receiving a 404 because that should help me pinpoint where the problem is.
burtadsit – Did you successfully integrate cookies as well or just users?
stix1972 – Media Temple uses Plesk so you are likely not affected by this, though it may be a similar problem at your host, which I presume isn’t Media Temple as they don’t use cPanel as far as I know.
So you’ve got the group forums working? Congrats and thanks for the how to! Going to try this out as soon as time permits.
Andy – It’s working in that a username list drops down but the listed names aren’t correct so it’s working is the strictest sense but is unusable. I’m going to upgrade to the latest trunk, clear my cache, and will update if anything changes but for now auto-complete isn’t working properly. I can post some screenshots later today to show what I’m experiencing.
Burtadsit – Interesting development. I’ll be following your progress. Best of luck!
Totally agree Trent, that would at least temporarily resolve the messaging issues I’m facing until the auto-complete is tweaked.
I’m using Firefox and have cleared my cookies and cache multiple times but still didn’t have any luck.
Personally I’d like to have the auto-complete just look at a user’s username and “Full Name”. Like I said above, I have a friend “justin” on my site but when I type J only another user without any Js in their name is displayed. Also, I’d like to see the original messaging behavior re-implemented, along with an auto-complete as well, where a username could be typed directly into the Send To box. Because I can’t type them directly and the auto-complete isn’t working I have to manually visit profiles to send messages as opposed to simply typing them.
Andy, I know you said you tested it with 2.6.X and didn’t have any problems but you may want to try it on 2.7 as well as this is what a lot of us (and I assume TestBP.org as well) are running so we can try to get the forum functionality working.
I suspect this issues may also be related to the DV since it doesn’t seem too widespread and Andy hasn’t been able to replicate it.
What I did was added this code to my theme’s functions.php file:
<?php function _user_name()
{
global $userdata;
get_currentuserinfo();
echo $userdata->user_login;
}
?>
Then, you construct your links like this:
http://yourdomainhere.org/members/<?php _user_name(); ?>/profileJust swap out “profile” for whatever you want to link to.
In all liklihood our forum problems have the same cause as I’m also on a Media Temple DV.
It’s my finals week so I don’t have much time to dig into this thing too much until Friday afternoon but this is my top priority over break.
I haven’t confirmed the group creation problem, but I too have been unable to setup the group forums.
Yep, same here. Here’s my post from the other thread w/ some details on my problems:
Since upgrading to the latest components I’ve been running into a lot of errors and bugs, particularly with the messaging component.
First and most importantly I am unable to send messages. This problem leads me to the second issue I’m facing which is that the auto-complete is not working as expected.
A user first emailed me about this on my live site and I first verified the issue there. Basically it’s impossible to send messages to anyone, the page just reloads, the message is erased, and an error that reads “Message could not be sent, please try again” is displayed. I erased all of my BuddyPress files, uploaded the latest trunk (which I was already running) and permissioned them to 755, then re-tested and the problem is still present.
In an attempt to see if it was my install specifically I installed MU on another domain, uploaded the files, and tested there and received the same error. Messaging was working on my install even with the latest files then suddenly quit.
Onto my second issue, the auto-complete feature doesn’t seem to be working properly at all. I ran into this on both my live site and test site as well as on TestBP.org. Basically when typing a name into “Send to” field the result don’t necessarily begin or even contain the typed letter. For example if I type the letter “A” on testbp.org the first result is Andy, as expected, but the second is “Robert Popovic (phlux0r)”, which clearly doesn’t contain an A at all. The next two results contain the letter A but don’t start with it. At first I though perhaps it only auto-completed the names of friends, which it may, but on my live site I have a friend named “justin” but when I enter the letter J another user without a J, “ryanmoney”, is the only one that displays.
Anyways, I can offer a lot more details if needed but I wanted to share the vitals and see if anyone else ran into this. If not, I’ll file a ticket but my hope is I’m not the only one.
