[@hempsworth Participant 16 years, 11 months ago]

I’ve since uploaded everything again and it’s working – second time this has happened – I have NO idea what was wrong!

Alex

[@hempsworth Participant 16 years, 11 months ago]

I’ve installed WPMU trunk via SVN and all is well.

Then I install BuddyPress via the shell ‘wget’ method, and placed the plugin and theme files in the correct locations:

/wp-content/plugins/buddypress

/wp-content/themes/bphome

/wp-content/bp-themes

I can activate BuddyPress, but when I go to the /members page for example, I am given:

You do not have any BuddyPress themes installed.

Please move “/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/” to “/wp-content/bp-themes/” and refresh this page. You can download more themes here.

When I visit the wp-admin/admin.php?page=bp-core.php page, the dropdown of themes to select gives me the default WPMU themes – not the BP themes.

Here are some details about my setup:

1. Which version of WPMU are you running?

– 2.8.1-RC1

2. Did you install WPMU as a directory or subdomain install?

– Subdomain

3. If a directory install, is it in root or in a subdirectory?

– NA

4. Did you upgraded from a previous version of WPMU? If so, from which version?

– No, fresh install

5. Was WPMU functioning properly before installing/upgrading BuddyPress?

– Yes

6. Which version of BuddyPress (BP) are you running?

– 1.0.2

7. Did you upgraded from a previous version of BP? If so, from which version?

– No, fresh install

8. Do you have any plugins other than BuddyPress installed and activated?

– No

9. Are you using the standard BuddyPress themes or customized themes?

– Standard, for now

10. Have you modified the core files in any way?

– No

11. Do you have any custom functions in bp-custom.php?

– No

12. If running bbPress, which version?

– Not running, yet

13. Please provide a list of any errors in your server’s log files.

– No errors

[@hempsworth Participant 16 years, 12 months ago]

If this plugin can be expanded and refined, and if @P.S. you are willing to add to it, could this be included in core prior to 1.2?

The roadmap blog post elluded to plugins being included in core if they were good and required. I’d love to see privacy features make it in sooner than 1.2.

Good work so far!

[@hempsworth Participant 16 years, 12 months ago]

Yes Jeff, the home themes were showing up in the BuddyPress > General Settings dropdown.

However, I’m not sure how good I’m going to be in the ensuing conversation as I’ve just done a fresh install of WPMU 2.7.1 and BP 1.0.1 and everything is working fine. Nothing on the server side has changed, and all permissions are the same as before. I’m putting this down to a mishap in the FTP upload last night.

@honewatson Have you tried doing the same? Installing WPMU 2.7.1 and BP 1.0.1 from fresh? It may sort your problem as well.

[@hempsworth Participant 16 years, 12 months ago]

FYI my PHP version is 5.2.6-1, it’s a fresh VPS so I’m installing the latest stable of everything.

I might try backing my current config up and starting from scratch again… It might work, but if theres a solution I’d rather not do all of that again!

Should I go from the current stable versions for each of the installs? WPMU 2.7.1, BP 1.0.1 and bbPress 1.0 RC2? I’ve always used trunk for each but I’ll do stable this time?

[@hempsworth Participant 16 years, 12 months ago]

The only rewrites I’m using are these: http://is.gd/11Izw

I really don’t get this either… Frustrating as hell!

[@hempsworth Participant 16 years, 12 months ago]

Just set it, and the contents, to 777, and no change.

[@hempsworth Participant 16 years, 12 months ago]

Its obviously reading the contents of my wp-content/themes directory, so I tried moving bpmember from bp-themes to wp-content/themes; sure enough it now shows up on the list and I can choose it.

However, I’m still getting the error on user pages. I’ve reverted back to the original setup and still trying to work this out.

The main problem is that BP isn’t recognizing that the folder exists…

[@hempsworth Participant 16 years, 12 months ago]

Well this is what I get in the list:

WordPress Classic (1.5)

WordPress mu Default (1.6)

WordPress mu Homepage (1.6)

Because I looked there.

[@hempsworth Participant 16 years, 12 months ago]

Spoke too soon…

Although the bphome theme and the plugins are all working correctly, I get an error trying to access frontend pages:

You do not have any BuddyPress themes installed.

Please move “/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/” to “/wp-content/bp-themes/” and refresh this page. You can download more themes here.

However, they are definitely installed in /wp-content/bp-themes/ and I’ve re-uploaded multiple times. You can see here:

http://getconcero.org/wp-content/bp-themes/

Any ideas?!

[@hempsworth Participant 16 years, 12 months ago]

Fantastic! Can’t believe I didn’t try this already but after deleting the buddypress files and re-uploading everything is in working order!

Must have been a dodgy upload perhaps? Either way, thanks so much for helping me with this. You’re time’s really appreciated.

[@hempsworth Participant 16 years, 12 months ago]

* I manually installed the BP files

* I restarted the webserver after making the rewrite changes

* I also moved the bpmember theme to the correct location

* Lighty rewrite rules are working fine, the rewrites I’m using are basically the same

I can install other plugins in the wp-content/plugins directory, it’s just buddypress not showing up. Same with other themes.

Thanks for helping out

[@hempsworth Participant 16 years, 12 months ago]

Domain is here: http://getconcero.org/

[@hempsworth Participant 16 years, 12 months ago]

Sorry for not providing enough info, here it is:

1. Latest version of lighty for Debian Lenny, 1.4.19-5

2. WPMU trunk (as of last night)

3. Subdomain install

4. NA

5. Working fine, using rewrites from here: http://is.gd/11Izw

6. /blog/%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%/

7. Trunk (as of last night)

8. No errors to report, just a PHP error that it couldn’t load the GD library; not relevant methinks.

WPMU was functioning fine, I made sure it was before trying to install BP. Post creation, viewing etc all normal.

I’m on Slicehost and this is my first experience of running a server from scratch; but I’m picking things up quickly and this is the first big issue.

[@hempsworth Participant 17 years, 2 months ago]

Although the discussion here is about getting it to work, I was wondering if a new feature could be added (possibly a way of getting the welcome message to work easily); could new users be sent to a specific URL on account creation/confirmation.

It would be very easy to create a set of welcome pages (example.com/welcome/getting-started) which could have custom page templates and content easily editable.

In summary – could I define a URL for the user to be sent to on account creation?

[@hempsworth Participant 17 years, 2 months ago]

Not sure if anyones seen this already but there’s a GPL PHP class which might make dealing with the Facebook API easier:

http://webscripts.softpedia.com/script/PHP-Clases/FBToolbox-50393.html

[@hempsworth Participant 17 years, 3 months ago]

I’ve mentioned this before but it went ignored, perhaps nobody was interested at the time? lol

I’m not sure how localization works with BuddyPress, but I’m guessing it just takes the WPLANG constant which can be defined in wp-config.php

There are language switching plugins out there which define this on a per-user basis, perhaps try getting the basic WPLANG definition feature from this ( http://www.poplarware.com/languageplugin.html ) working with WPMU/BuddyPress?

[@hempsworth Participant 17 years, 3 months ago]

‘Trunk’ means the latest development build in the SVN repository, which you can access and ‘check out’ here:

https://svn.buddypress.org/trunk

More information about using SVN here: https://codex.wordpress.org/SVN

[@hempsworth Participant 17 years, 3 months ago]

Andy, thanks for working on this – it was previously discussed but didn’t seem to go anywhere.

Obviously you’re just working at getting basic functionality into it, but I thought I’d paste my featurelist from the other topic, to see whether you would consider building these features in at some point:

For me, a good feature set would be:

* On the signup page have a ‘Create an account using your Facebook details’ button so that information is already added when the users account is created.

* For existing users, a button they can press to connect their accounts up.

* New events on the BuddyPress site to be published on their Facebook account. So, what you would normally have on their profiles ‘Activity’ area, posted onto Facebook. Eg, “John created a new group on The BuddyPress Demo Site”.

* This activity ‘syncing’ can be configured from the users settings page on BuddyPress, so they can turn off activity updates.

* In the same settings page, the user can choose to either use their Facebook avatar, or their BuddyPress one

* Have a page like buddpress-site.com/members/MEMBER/friends/invite, and having the ability to ‘Invite your Facebook friends to BuddyPress Demo Site’, would be great.

Cheers, I’ll be testing out the current version ASAP.

[@hempsworth Participant 17 years, 3 months ago]

> @brianbrey, How do you know this?

A couple of months ago Zohar Babin said he was interested in helping, https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=367#post-1647

[@hempsworth Participant 17 years, 3 months ago]

I’ve been testing out the latest release and things seem to be looking great.

However, the maps features need tweaking I feel – it’s a bit clunky having to install Geopress as well, it would be far nicer just having to paste in my API keys into the BP-Events admin section.

When/if that is done, it would also be useful to be able to choose whether Google Maps, Yahoo Maps or both are used, I would personally only want one and I would like to be able to choose.

Also, we will need checkboxes in the admin panel as to whether Maps/Twitter features should be on or off, as I’m guessing some social networks wouldn’t even know what Twitter is, and it might confuse them!

[@hempsworth Participant 17 years, 3 months ago]

I like the ‘tweet($userid, $status)’ idea, that would probably encourage more twitter integration.

[@hempsworth Participant 17 years, 3 months ago]

Is there no way this is possible? I’d be surprised if this hasn’t been achieved, or isn’t wanted by people?

[@hempsworth Participant 17 years, 3 months ago]

> unless another twitter plugin also created a bp-xprofile field

This could easily be solved by checking to see if the field exists already, but that cannot be guaranteed for all plugins.

[@hempsworth Participant 17 years, 3 months ago]

Yeah I’m a UI developer (why I don’t currently know much PHP), and the idea of tonnes of icons everywhere was giving me a headache… But I would probably have it appear when you hover over the item, so hovering over a wire post would show a small icon on the top right of the post.

The problem I have with favourite-ing the entire page is that the content on that may change and the specific information you wanted to save might get lost. Permalinks for the items guarantees them being saved correctly.

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This is actually part of a BP toolbox a site I’m developing needs; where each item on the site will have options to:

* save it as a favourite for later

* give it good/bad karma

* report the item to admins

Each function will be available through small icons which appear on hovering over the item.

The karma system will allow us to show top rated items on parts of the sites, in a ‘Popular Now’ section, as well as making it easier for site admins to choose featured content (users will basically be giving it to us). The moderation feature is also needed as the site I’m developing is for many international youth groups, so we need to be careful what content gets through the net.