[@hnla Participant 15 years, 10 months ago]

If they do turn off then they don’t deserve to understand, and good luck to them! There is a danger in pandering to those that want things spelled out in too much of an idiot fashion, My steps were verbose but accurate if followed, which sadly does mean a certain amount of application of effort on the part of the reader *sigh*

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 10 months ago]

You provide next to no information on your setup both WP/BP and more importantly your server/hosting .Email issues nearly always have a root cause at the server level, generally WP sends email without hitch via fakemail programs such as sendmail.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 10 months ago]

@modemlooper you’ve gone and duplicated effort here! I had written up an explanation for using poedit a while ago and added it to the codex on the language page.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 10 months ago]

With my moderators hat on: Can I please remind people that on tech forums it is frowned upon to hijack threads i.e have two or more people asking questions within the one topic, this is due to threads rapidly becoming confused, my question was directed at ? one person but another replied in answer to it, this thread and it’s responses belong to the original OP or at least are meant to.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 10 months ago]

No I won’t

Personally never thought that it should work in functions.php, perhaps it should? not really sure, we’ll leave the bug reporting to pcwriter

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 10 months ago]

Bluehost and email issues crop up quite frequently, this is really an issue with the host/server setup rather than BP.

Can we ask you to do a search of the forum as you’ll find threads and possible solutions like a plugin to use smtp rather than sendmail or phpmail
or contact Bluehost ans ask for a solution, after all they are listed on WP.org as a WP suitable host!

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 10 months ago]

I suspect that you are not connecting to the DB, can you look for the file bb-config.php it should be in your root directory same place as your wp-config.php it contains DB connection details in the same way wp-config does. bb-config must have the same connection details as wp-config.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 10 months ago]

Never been able to get this working in anything other than wp-config or bp-custom in functions.php it appears to be too late to be acknowledged – not useful in one wants portability via functions.php for a theme

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 10 months ago]

But check first that it isn’t an issue already reported and ticket raised to avoid duplicate tickets.

Reporting issues in this thread will largely get overlooked, issues must be reported on the trac system

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 10 months ago]

That’s looking very polished, wish I had time to get on with themeing

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 10 months ago]

Yes there is a single inclusion of wp_nav_menu() in header.php for 1.3, this has a callback or fallback_cb to wp_menu_pages() run from a function in functions.php; if wp_nav_menu() not initialised from the dashboard bp will use the wp_menu_pages instead

Occurred to me when I first played around with it to configure dropdowns for bp-default that it might well necessitate a re-think of add-all-nav… plugin.

Also – and I am still fuming over this – but it was brought to my attention that wp_nav_menus do indeed do nested children but you have to visually arrange them (bad!) so I thank the WP forums and other places where I tried to elicit help on that and other wp_nav_menu issues for the lack of responses.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 10 months ago]

Yep! Quite restrained here on this forum though, you should see my antics on my other forum home

for the record If I’m upset or feel real admonishment is necessary it will be very plain and clear I will always say so in no uncertain terms, the above wasn’t so it was gentle-ish chiding.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 10 months ago]

@gunju2221 no please not to my server

@julius38 the above merited a smile the former didn’t, though a grimace and frown might have been appropriate

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 10 months ago]

And for future reference please check the WordPress Codex pages as they explain how to do this sort of thing very clearly with examples, it isn’t actually a BP issue and therefore not best addressed as a support post here.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 10 months ago]

What a quick tip on how to ‘Hot Link’ files? Are you sure that’s correct and proper? Google Hot Linking and stealing bandwidth!

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 10 months ago]

Changing a DB password would not result in these issues, that is something simply between MySQL and the DB connection file details.

What prompted the password change what other actions did you perhaps take? Anything server related? Was this a server move? Walk us through any actions that you may have taken.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 10 months ago]

yes. I see the bb-config.php file.
And can you confirm that it has the same connection details as the main wp-config file just to rule that out of the equation.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 10 months ago]

You’re running third party plugins how! without knowing that! please check through your plugins list and disable any you don’t know the purpose of.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 10 months ago]

Couple of things: always explain in a tech thread all avenues you have covered and things tried and tested including help from other places, that you had tried for support at Suffusion was great but also I and others weren’t necessarily aware of this?.

I do find it odd that suffusion should present an issue with something so basic and fundamental to BP and not essentially a particularly difficult aspect? but maybe there is a deeper reason that this is an issue.

I was slightly hoping that someone with some experience with Suffusion might have weighed in to help as I feel sure it’s a theme that has been discussed before but can’t recall anyone having quite this issue.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 10 months ago]

You are using a custom theme as soon as you do that you enter a new realm and need to know what you are doing, this particular theme Suffusion uses a custom menu of some description and BP directory menu items will not be included by default. BP hard codes these menus links in header.php (soon to change to WP nav menus)

You! have to do a little manual work in getting things to work and need to understand how both Suffusion and BP work, this act of trying to get BP to use any old WP theme is not a natural one.

In all honesty you have simply asked this question in entirely the wrong place – and perhaps I should have said this much earlier – The correct place to have addressed these issues would have been to the theme home, Suffusion has it’s own support and if you had asked there would probably have had this wrapped up and solved in no time. Strictly speaking this site supports BP and BP default theme it can’t be expected to support digressions and third party implementations – other than the plugins that have a group support home on the site.

I looked through suffusion support for you and quickly got an impression of what may be wrong however this is not something I ought to be doing for anyone

http://www.aquoid.com/forum/search.php?st=0&sk=t&sd=d&sr=posts&keywords=buddypress

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 10 months ago]

yeah… this is no issue with bp default theme (except for the fact that if you click “groups” in the “adminbar” you wont see the create group link).

As I’ve said adminbar is irrelevant adminbar does not have links to the groups page it does have a user account list of links and a group option for ‘My Groups’ so what you have is a modification or plugin running.

So the issue is with your child/custom theme Quite what the issue is is hard to say it’s a third party customisation, I would hazard a guess that the groups/index page if one is copied over to you child theme is not complete, running something like the template pack plugin does require additional manual steps and you might need to compare the bp-default groups index file with the one that exists in child theme and ensure that it has this pice of code sitting in the heading tag:
`  <a class="button" href="”>`

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 10 months ago]

Now as a logged in user and with – as I mentioned earlier: (assuming that create new groups is enabled in the BP settings in the dashboard – components settings > ‘Let users create, join and participate in groups’)

You should see the create group link to the right of the directory heading

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 10 months ago]

Give us a link to your site running bp-default please

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 10 months ago]

I simply don’t get what you are trying to do here and you seem to be over complicating things.

Simply click the link to ‘groups’ in the main set of menu links this is the groups directory view and on that page should be seen a clickable link ‘create a group’

This isn’t anything to do with adminbar, nor do you access this via a url which actually would be http://example.com/groups/create/

Your bp default theme either shows this or it’s a defective incomplete install your other questions are related to third party plugins and / or themes and at this stage we are simply trying to establish that bp-default works before moving on.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 10 months ago]

Please follow this step once more: disable whatever child theme is running and activate the bp-default theme from the dashboard/themes page, now running the default buddypress theme you should have a directory named ‘Groups’, on that page is a button next to the primary page heading which creates a new group (assuming that create new groups is enabled in the BP settings in the dashboard – components settings > ‘Let users create, join and participate in groups’).

If not then you have a defective install of the default theme and perhaps need to re-upload a fresh copy.

If you do have the create group button as expected then you have an issue withthe suffusion child theme not set up correctly but this is something that is harder to help with, this support site is primarily support for the core BP app and theme, third party themes and configurations are harder to help with unless someone has direct experience with those custom elements.