[@hnla Participant 16 years ago]

Well what tends to happen as I’m experiencing and which client isn’t going to be happy with nor understand is that disparate third party plugins all tend to take a different approach, utilise different mechanisms resulting in a mix of different UX/UI for the end user, and that simply doesn’t work once you confuse the user or worse the client then you’re in trouble.

[@hnla Participant 16 years ago]

Also have that Mercime but it works in a very odd way or have I missed something? uploading using that tiny little graphic just under the update posting box doesn’t add anything into the actual update it just posts to an existing gallery it doesn’t embed the image in an actual update one may have written

[@hnla Participant 16 years ago]

That’s not necessarily user friendly, I have that installed but users will not necessarily have media uploaded somewhere and at the limited? number of providers oEmbed can make use of, however most users are familiar with uploading media from their local machines via a simple upload form control and will likely want that or at least the option to do it this way.

Re ‘Limited’: Correction; oEmbed can have the white list of sites added to.

[@hnla Participant 16 years ago]

Funny you should ask that, as that is what I’ve just been quizzed over by a client who expects and wants to be able to upload a photo directly into an activity update or forum post; the answer is you can’t at present.

[@hnla Participant 16 years ago]

There are ways of saying things and there are ways of saying things Glen

TBH I’m not sure these sorts of discussions should be directed to and made on the site in question though, is there not a forum/group where one can ask questions of the author/s in advance of possible use?

[@hnla Participant 16 years ago]

Glen that’s a little rude

[@hnla Participant 16 years ago]

Considering that bp-custom.php doesn’t exist unless the developer creates it then if it is found that is likely to be the culpret.

As Roger says though this problem has to be the result of some customisation or plugin somewhere BP 1.2.5.2 onwards doesn’t show this issue in a vanilla install.

[@hnla Participant 16 years ago]

You restore a DB from a backup, have you taken a backup? if not get in the habit quickly it’s essential and also absolutely essential to perform before you go anywhere near one to start manually editing tables, which can be a dangerous exercise.

[@hnla Participant 16 years ago]

thekmen’s advise should be noted to refer to a true custom theme rather than a child theme.

If you are running as a ‘child theme’ i.e you are using and referencing the bp-default files – even if you have copied over some to customise then that is a child theme and you are still loading the original functions.php so DON’T copy anything in it over to your own file as that duplicates or attempts to call the same function twice and that results in problems.

[@hnla Participant 16 years ago]

Probably by creating a little piece of scripting. jQuery would be the preferred and easiest approach. I would suggest perhaps that you look at SM forums code and see how they have managed it, you might possibly be able to replicate the function from their example, or head over to jQuery plugins and see if there is a custom ready made function to handle this that you can work into your site.

[@hnla Participant 16 years ago]

Well the first thing that must be done when troubleshooting is to take your installation back to the bare minimum required, that means no plugins other than BP and using the default BP theme then test whether the issue still arises; this way we know if the issue is theme or plugin related and of couirse we first have ensured that the actual plain WP install all works correctly – which it sounds as though it does in this case.

[@hnla Participant 16 years ago]

Why can’t you access admin is more to the point, what exactly is happening. You do not need to remove BP plugin simply rename it which has the effect of breaking or un-setting the activation.

If you have tried solutions it is insufficient to state you have that is meaningless, please make the effort to describe accurately what the issue is, what steps you have taken to try and resolve the issue.

Lastly issues like the one you allude to tend to crop up on a daily basis please be sure to have searched quite thoroughly for a solution in past threads as generally you will find the resolution already described.

[@hnla Participant 16 years ago]

In fairness the docs are a little light at present, but being brought up to date as quickly as possible. Essentially BP needs the root, you cant run bp on a user blog created by the main blog.

[@hnla Participant 16 years ago]

The ‘New Site’ is not! a buddypress site it’s a WP blog which will carry the BP adminbar. These blogs effectively work just as a standard WP blog their theme is defined from their own admin backend.

I would have a good read of all the docs you can find on the BP codex and WP codex.

[@hnla Participant 16 years ago]

As I mentioned a search would have answered this:
https://buddypress.org/search/?f=php+memory+limit

[@hnla Participant 16 years ago]

Have you has a search through the posts for any solutions or pointers?

Most often when this issue arises as you describe it’s due to having insufficient PHP script memory allocated, if you have a search around you will find many posts on the subject dealing with this and the available methods to deal with a the script memory limit setting in php.ini

[@hnla Participant 16 years ago]

WP used to exist in two separate versions one regular bog standard WP and one refereed to as WPMU which was capable of managing user blogs. Eventually WPMU was merged into regular WP. One install, one application, you choose whether it runs as Multi Site or in single blog version.

[@hnla Participant 16 years ago]

This is usually a server issue with groups/users permissions, simply creating the folders and even setting their permissions insecurely i.e 777 can still not mean that the server can write to the directories or create them, whenever I run across this it seems to be a flipping CP messing things up.

Ensure that PHP Safe Mode is off is one thing to check.

[@hnla Participant 16 years ago]

@freeriders sorry i don’t have a link to that particular comment which was likely part of a larger thread

[@hnla Participant 16 years ago]

You just need to replicate the whole section after the `if(function_exists(‘bp_has_profile’)) :` but pass the parameter for the group required i.e ‘profile_group_id=2’

I’ll warn you in advance the trick is going to be working through the mire of if/elses there’s a mess of them, tha whole page should have could have been written better!

There’s a plugin to deal with the links in profiles, look through the plugin list .

[@hnla Participant 16 years ago]

And did you try it with the BP default theme?
You’re not logged in to the site and trying to activate a registration using the same browser are you?

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

That was a lot of duplicates Steffy I’ve removed them now.

In reference to profile types this is a subject that has been discuss on a few threads pretty recently last few days, would you have a hunt through for these as they will likely help out towards this end and provide coding snippets and guides, if still stuck then post back for further guidance. In fact your question almost exactly mirrors another so have a read through those threads, they don’t necessarily have all the answers but will get you started.

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

I think that you would probably be better off posting this as a job on the ‘Jobs Board’ and getting a developer working on it, it’s probably a bit too much of an involved requirement to be covered in ‘How To and Troubleshooting’

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

Edit// too slow
Yes WPMU is now defunct; you have WP 3.0 so already have the capability of running it as a MS install, you just have to do a little manual configuration to enable it which is explained over on the WP Codex.

I think a sub domain is the easiest approach, hardest aspect is working existing theme into BP.

Don’t dismiss writing HTML / CSS completely especially from a hand coding point of view, I would say there are a few of us around that would probably express the sentiment that they hoped WP and other cms’s didn’t become the defacto standard for web sites, as much as I like WP

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

@whitbyglennk Hi Glen,
As soon as I saw the name Whitby I thought “That rings a bell” and had to search back through the archives at CSSCreator, nice to see the domain flourishing although it was the ‘Sea Anglers’ site you were working on back then.

To clarify for the thread real-whitby is presently a WP site and quite an evolved and customised one.

As has been said you have all options available to you really as to which is the best one to take I’m not to sure, I think it’s fair to say the most work would be to activate BP on the primary root blog, creating a secondary blog would be an easier option but I’m tending to think that a physical subdomain i.e community.real-whitby the easier route along with user blogs as folders, community.real-whitby/glensblog.

I’m not entirely sure of the best approach, you’ll probably need to experiment on a localhost test install to get a feel for the amount of work required and how the various options work in practice.