[@hnla Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

now switching to buddypress for a huge community site

Having stated experience with Jom, I assume that you have as much or more experience with BP as ‘Huge Community Site’ worries me slightly, not trying to put you off BP in the slightest, but generally one would tackle large projects only when 100% confident developing on a particular platform, and BP does require a fair bit of work to get what one wants.

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

Rename the BP plugin to force deactivation of it which should allow access back to the dashboard.

Have a dislike of auto installers, you might need to upload BP plgin via ftp.

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

When you close a thread it’s really helpful for those that might happen across it with the same issue to explain briefly what resolved it for you – if possible!

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

I don’t see any wp_bb_ tables in that list, that though doesn’t necessarilly have a bearing on the page not found, unless the forum componant in not installing means no path to be found.

The sub domain isn’t an issue, it’s just a domain, as long as everything is working in the doc root which is the more important aspect, I’m currently working on an install that is working as a sub domain of the top level domain , no special steps are required for that.

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

I think most of us read the forums as a main listing, one group doesn’t necessarily get more interest than another.

It sounds as though all should be working so it’s hard to think what you should try now.

You are using the default BP theme? If not please do so for the purposes of testing, also disable any plugins you might also be running, except, of course, for BP itself.

You say that the .htaccess file is in place but can you actually confirm that it’s writable by the server when you update/change the permalink structure. Can you check that the DB tables are being created? Does your bb-config.php have the correct DB connection values?

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

Topic closed.

@alazanski not sure why you asked the same question again in a new thread. Please continue in your original thread linked to above, and there appear to be two responses for you to consider there, if they do not help then post back in the thread.

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

No style.css which @imports the required stylesheets uses hardcoded relative paths to locate the imported styesheets. Copy adminbar.css to your child structure if you want to edit some of it, if you revert to the default theme at any time then the original style.css will be in effect and call the other original stylesheets.

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

@rogercoathup Yeah but I notice you couldn’t write “WordPress custom post” in German
poor show

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

Anyone, want to point out I shouldn’t work late on Saturdays,

You shouldn’t work late on Saturdays.
Hope that helps!

Try working late on Saturdays struggling with what you’d think would be a simple requirement to fetch the users role, no I don’t want to check the current_user_can capability I know that, I want the role assigned, got there but sometimes just sometimes one wonders whether things shouldn’t be simpler.

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

Just in case it was actually taken seriously the after the spam comment I made was meant to be tongue in cheek

Good luck with the site Bowe and I concur with the “not a paid endorsement” brigade the site does look good

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

I agree wholeheartedly people can’t expect everything for free – sadly they do though – I was not really knocking the premium model at all in fact I have very strong views on when ‘Stuff’ should be free and when it ought to carry a value, I’ve been a jobbing coder for quite some time I have to try and earn a living and that means paid client work I have to be careful how I proportion my working hours.

Also BP is not really ‘Free’ it represents a lot of man hours and as such has an intrinsic value, the fact that we are not asked to contribute in monetary terms to it’s continued development is indeed amazing

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

It’s a great addition to the community if it’s provided free, as a premium theme well…

No offense Bowe, Know you are a good egg

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

:p

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

Spam

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

oops forgot to escape the entities, little bit busy at the moment.

<?php else: ?>

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

You’r5e mixing different syntax approaches to writing a conditional:

Classic is:
{
}

generally used though is :

so your else needs to be

<?php else: ?>

‘stuff here’

<?php endif; ?>

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

No patch can be allowed to be committed called snufflewuffwafflepants, sorry!

Still will always be a need for basic frontend PHP manipulation though, especially of the conditional construct variety.

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

? Disable the plugin!

Check the plugin group for answers or ask the question about the error in that group

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/bp-registration-options/home/

However I would think that this plugin hasn’t been updated to work with WP 3.0 or BP stable but I might be wrong.

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

bb-config.php is found if you look in your doc root, that’s the top level directory that serves your WP site.

bb-config should have the same DB connection strings as your wp-config file, also found in the same directory.

As a rule of thumb ‘Backups’ will tend to roll something back to the state it was at the given date for that backup file, so you need to think about what the backup files actually contain and whether you want to revert to one of them, taking into account the possible data loss that it will result in (at this stage I wouldn’t rush into reverting to a backup just yet)

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

Not generally an advisable thing to want to do, privacy, spam concerns etc etc

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

Don’t plan a site move unless you have to; select a host that you will be able to work with for a while.

Important aspects to hosting, fast turn around on ticket requests to support desk, helpful support desk!.

If you are not hugely confident in your abilities to manage a dedicated server (not as easy as one might think!) opt for managed server or semi managed.

The costs you quoted sound high, and personally I wouldn’t choose the two you mention, cloud hosting is a viable approach, companies such as Media Temple offer good entry level VDS packages which can be expanded when required, they also have a strong user/support forum, these can be immensely useful for asking questions and generally gaining a bit of knowledge.

There is a group here that was setup to start to collate info on hosts I would check that group out and see what others are using and recommending.

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

If people are to be able to help you must supply a little detail about your setup i.e what versions you upgraded from / to and whether you are using a custom theme which by the sound of ‘whacky’ you possibly are.

If the version you have upgraded to works albeit with a whacky layout then you ought to stick with the latest version where possible and deal with what sounds like simply layout issues.

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

What did you actually try though Jenny?

For each profile display in the header.php there is the function:

bp_displayed_user_id()

This always returns the id of the current profile or user that is being viewed, you can check that by simply adding above the heading tag:

<?php echo bp_displayed_user_id() ?>

And you should see a numeric value returned which is that members ID

Now we know that it’s a simple case of writing an if conditional that carries as it’s primary query:

bp_displayed_user_id() == 1

If you’re not sure how to write PHP conditionals look through various theme files as there are countless examples of them (you’ll spot them by the fact they start with ‘if’ ) or check out the PHP docs php.net or google ‘php conditional statements’

If you are really still stuck post back and we’ll help further but conditionals are a useful bit of PHP coding to learn to write

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

Not easy to move posts at the moment, so not to worry just a note for future reference.

If you haven’t I would ensure you have latest updates if on Windows, and all protection well up to date, disable JavaScript in PDF in Adobe Acrobat Reader, and generally view everything suspiciously for a while, these exploits can sneak past protection very easily having a very low detection rate at present.

[@hnla Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

Steer clear of the page / download for the moment, there is a flurry of exploits hitting sites with a vengeance it seems, possibly the adobe JavaScript exploit? If you want further information about the theme or the problem encountered I would contact wpmu directly.

This Gallery group is really for showcasing finished BP sites this post would have been better in misc group