[@henrywright Moderator 11 years, 2 months ago]

Hey djsteveb

Thanks for your feedback! As you say it could be a plugin conflict or maybe even a theme issue.

Not using GitHub isn’t a problem. Once you’ve completed all of your tests, can you post the issues you find on the plugin’s support forum? I’d be happy to take a look

[@henrywright Moderator 11 years, 2 months ago]

Just looked it up

 * Filter SQL query strings to swap out the 'meta_id' column.
 *
 * WordPress uses the meta_id column for commentmeta and postmeta, and so
 * hardcodes the column name into its *_metadata() functions. BuddyPress, on
 * the other hand, uses 'id' for the primary column. To make WP's functions
 * usable for BuddyPress, we use this just-in-time filter on 'query' to swap
 * 'meta_id' with 'id.

Seems as though it’s used to make WP *_metadata() functions compatible with BP.

[@henrywright Moderator 11 years, 2 months ago]

Good shout @shanebp.

Also, looking at the groups_get_groupmeta() function definition, I’m wondering why we need to filter the query string with bp_filter_metaid_column_name?

Anyway, alternatively, this may work but I haven’t tested:

$retval = get_metadata( 'group', $group_id, $meta_key, $single );
var_dump( $retval );

Edit: Looks as though there is a reason BuddyPress uses bp_filter_metaid_column_name to filter the query. So my above might not work when it comes to BP.

[@henrywright Moderator 11 years, 2 months ago]

That’s strange. I’m assuming you’re passing it an actual group ID (integer)? That’s required. Can you var_dump what it’s returning?

[@henrywright Moderator 11 years, 2 months ago]

I agree it sounds as though you’ll need a bookmarking plugin as the “core”. There are most probably lots to choose from in the WordPress Plugin Directory. My advice is set up a WordPress site locally for testing, install BuddyPress and try out some of the bookmarking plugins to see which suits your idea best.

[@henrywright Moderator 11 years, 2 months ago]

The activation key is emailed to each new member in the form on a link after they register on your site. Does that help?

[@henrywright Moderator 11 years, 2 months ago]

Try disabling all plugins and activating TwentyFifteen.

[@henrywright Moderator 11 years, 2 months ago]

I haven’t used Redis for caching but would be interested in what you find. Perhaps you could post your results here?

[@henrywright Moderator 11 years, 2 months ago]

I added some comments asking the main group to seriously consider BP and other plugins when choosing next default theme

Nice one @djsteveb! I hope TwentySeventeen takes BuddyPress into consideration too.

[@henrywright Moderator 11 years, 2 months ago]

To the best of my knowledge, you can’t have 2 themes activated at the same time. You should choose a WordPress theme and then make use of the BuddyPress Template Hierarchy to customise the BuddyPress portion of your website.

[@henrywright Moderator 11 years, 2 months ago]

This could be absolutely anything and I know that’s not what you wanted to hear. Try checking your .htaccess file, sometimes that can be a source of 500 errors.

[@henrywright Moderator 11 years, 2 months ago]

Check out the Persistent Object Caching article for a good overview of the various ways to cache.

[@henrywright Moderator 11 years, 2 months ago]

You may have some URL conflicts?

For example, I may have a page called WordPress here:

example.com/wordpress

Then if I install a second instance of WordPress in a sub dir called wordpress, I’d have:

example.com/wordpress

It’s all I can think of.

You’d need to think about your database too. That could cause some issues.

[@henrywright Moderator 11 years, 2 months ago]

See the Customizing Labels, Messages, and URLs article.

[@henrywright Moderator 11 years, 2 months ago]

Perhaps there’s a plugin conflict?

[@henrywright Moderator 11 years, 2 months ago]

Unless I’m mistaken, there must some thing else wrong because I’ve not found BuddyPress Followers to be problematic in that way. Are you sure you’re using the latest version?

[@henrywright Moderator 11 years, 2 months ago]

You’ll probably want to dequeue the style sheet that comes with the plugin and then add your own styles to your theme’s style.css.

[@henrywright Moderator 11 years, 2 months ago]

You should paste @shanebp’s code into your theme’s functions.php file. That’s where it should go.

[@henrywright Moderator 11 years, 2 months ago]

I use the plugin Buddypress followers, but is problematic

What did you find was wrong with it? It works well for me.

[@henrywright Moderator 11 years, 2 months ago]

Check out Theme My Login. I’ve used it alongside BuddyPress many times and can say it works well.

[@henrywright Moderator 11 years, 2 months ago]

Have you opened a ticket on the xProfile Rich Text Field plugin’s support forum?

[@henrywright Moderator 11 years, 2 months ago]

Instead of trying the newline characater, try <br /> or <p>.

[@henrywright Moderator 11 years, 2 months ago]

xProfile data is a BuddyPress thing and user meta is a WordPress thing. Which one you use will depend on whether you plan to always use BuddyPress. If not then taking the user meta approach will ensure your plugin will work on all WordPress installs (even when BuddyPress is deactivated).

[@henrywright Moderator 11 years, 2 months ago]

The best advice I can give is to look at how some of the already-available plugins do it. XML Sitemaps is a good one to learn from. It might not cover BuddyPress pages but I’ve used it in the past and it worked great for me.

[@henrywright Moderator 11 years, 2 months ago]

So, is that how the spam or favorite/un favorite buttons work?

Maybe. It will depend if you have JavaScript enabled in your browser. If you do, then Ajax will be working. If you don’t, it’s likely the traditional POST or GET methods will be in operation.