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In reply to: I have a few issues.
This is the BP forum though 🙂 Ben is helping a good deal, bear in mind you do need a certain coding level if you are going to start customising your installs, finding a ruleset in a stylesheet and applying or adding properties a basic one.
In reply to: No Flood Control – Buddypress 1.6.2Great are you going to patch it for us then 🙂
Patches can be returned on a ticket to: buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/
In reply to: [Resolved] Recently active avatarsWhy the url shortened link? Please post proper links, many rightly won’t click url shortened links directing who knows where.
In reply to: Can’t unpack/install Buddypress5.2.17 means that your php version is not good for WP 3.5/BP 1.6.2
5.2.17 is a later release than 5.2.4 which was – last I checked – the minimum requirement for WP/PHP
Better to be on the 3.3 release stream though if possible.
In reply to: Not exactly “a few easy clicks”Try not to inatall any plugins until you have a basic WP/BP install fully functioning, adding plugins just adds to what may be affecting things.
In reply to: [Resolved] New Buddypress Default ThemesThe point of 1.7 is to provide BP in a fashion to work with any theme, period!
But understand that although WP has created the impression that absolute non coders are catered for absolutely this is only partly the case, it’s the case if you simply accept the defaults, or accept the freely available theme – whatever that may be, or that freely provided plugin to perform some task, start to step outside that and you do need some development skills even if only at a basic level, creating a child theme is actually relatively simple and the WP codex quite clear on how to do this.
In reply to: Not exactly “a few easy clicks”@ngoegan You must have a little patience, you are new to BP and WP by the sounds of things and working with these two apps requires a little understanding of how things work, bear in mind you are coming from a paid for service which simply gives a series of options to an OS app that has far greater flexibility when you start to look under the hood and begin wanting to customize.
by the way writing in caps is considered ‘shouting’ 🙂
In reply to: [Resolved] BuddyPress kills my 3.5 upgradePHP Script Memory limit is there for a very particular reason, it’s set as a limit to ensure that no script running on the server can end up consuming all the main system memory and thus crashing your whole server, setting what you have suggests all of your machines main memory and you may well run into issues, 128M or 256M should be more than enough to run WP/BP.
I would also not trust to setting this php config from WP check what is actually set using phpinfo()
In reply to: BuddyPress Template Pack + Flexx Professional ThemeObviously if I had experience with this type of coding then I wouldn’t get stuck on it but unfortunately that’s the root of the problem
Well start from somewhere if people want other than what is provided for free out of the box, defaults then they ought to be prepared to put a little time in on learning and gaining those skills at least at a basic level.
I do hope you did read the codex walkthrough and at least try to understand the process, it’s not too difficult.
I would have urged you to take the advice earlier and wait for BP 1.7 to be released then this process would have been much easier for you.
In reply to: BuddyPress Template Pack + Flexx Professional ThemeFirst thing you do is check the BP codex documentation where you will find a walkthrough for this step people seem to get stuck on. Have a read and a go at starting the process off and report back to this thread with your results and issues.
Or better still if you can hang on and wait for BP 1.7 to be released, that will work with any theme and is the best option really.
In reply to: How to allow guest access to groups/forumsThis is not default behaviour, you must have third party plugins at work, as I can’t see any groups listing. If you have added plugins you need to be aware of how they will affect your site, if you haven’t got plugins doing a walled garden sort of privacy management then you have something odd going on.
In reply to: Forum corruptionYou trouble shoot ‘Intenal Server Error’ messages as the phrase suggests at the server level, you look through your error.logs for some clue as to what was/is happening
In reply to: How to change “groups” to “teams”?Have a read through the BP codex documentation, specifically for language translation entries
In reply to: How to change colors in default BP theme?look at the options provided, BP default theme allows for custom headers to be uploaded/set or you create a child theme and change the background of the #header from a stylesheet.
In reply to: plugin to manually activate members WP 3.5!The advice is as always please deactivate all plugins except the essential and test that the process works, that narrows things down to a plugin issue. So just running WP with the default BP theme and no third party plugins does the issue persist? if it does a ticket with steps to replicate raised on BP Trac.
In reply to: Is anybody really using BuddyPress?Yes plenty are using it on production sites, doesn’t mean though that there isn’t work involved in getting/keeping it running, WP/BP may work out the box but that’s only the beginning of things and issues are a fact of life with any application.
In reply to: [Resolved] URL issuesIf you are going to write example links please correctly use the reserved domain ‘example.com’ NOT ‘mysite’
Does this error occur on the default WP install and BP default theme, if you’re using a custom theme please change to BP default and check if error still exists, if it does report back with as much detail as possible and preferably a link to your site.
In reply to: Installing BuddyPress on the Sterling ThemeWell if mercime has said it’s likely only three files need modding then it’s perhaps Step 3 b.
In other words header.php, sidebar.php, footer.php copied from the bp examples and renamed to header-buddypress.php etc then you can edit those files to match your themes html structure, i.e comparing the themes header.php file to the bp version and ensuring the BP version matches the themes.
In reply to: Installing BuddyPress on the Sterling ThemeBeaten to it by Mercime 🙂 Please have a stab at the process though if it’s only a few files then it oughtn’t to be too difficult.
Before Mercime does do this for you, have you read through the link I provided? Wanting to diverge from the BP theme while not child themeing it, but attempting to shoehorn BP into a third party theme is really something the user takes upon themselves to at least make a stab at.
In reply to: Installing BuddyPress on the Sterling ThemeHave you checked the BP documentation yet?
https://codex.buddypress.org/legacy/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/#step-three
Have you a basic degree of HTML/PHP knowledge, you will need a basic level to be bale to copy/paste the markup structure of BP template files to match the themes structure which is what step three is about and I’m afraid is a manual process.
If you can’t manage the adjustment of the files it may be better to wait for BP 1.7 to drop as that will work with any theme.
In reply to: Problem with adding friendsIt’s new years day so responses will be slow, but also we do request that people wait 24 hours before bumping their threads.
It will be difficult to diagnose an issue like this from a graphic, it may confirm an issue but that’s about it.
You appear to be using a custom theme here, so first request is always to please revert to BP default theme and check for the issue running the default theme, if it clears up it’s theme related and you may need to approach the theme author. Also do ensure you are not running any plugins that may interfere with the behaviour of this component so disable all possible bp plugins when testing.
Note of warning one click installs can and often are problematic and not recommended. As for credible host, I take your word for that 🙂 Ask them to ensure your IP has a correct PTR record set and go to http://www.openspf.org/ and create a txt SPF entry to add to your MX records this will help certain email hosts to accept email from your server when it comes via your domain records or associates your MX records and the server as being allowed to send email on behalf of that domain and isn’t just some open spam relay.
Oh and yes perhaps the codex/ or that thread could do with a preface about the nature of this problem, sadly I have actually written in depth twice iirc on this issue when in the past there seemed to be a spate of this troublesome aspect, but not sure it’s possible to find those now.
Big problem is that many email providers latched onto a series of email protocols to use as a means of checking that received emails were from genuine sources and not spam, problem was/is these protocols are not mandatory ones to have such as PTR records but due to this those sorts of records, as arcane and complicated as they are become necessary.
Without detailed knowledge and access to your server it would be hard to speculate as to where the issue lies. A plain vanilla WP install will send out emails quite happily, that is if the server is configured correctly, sendmail is sometimes problematic and postfix often recommended as an alternative. If you have things working now using a plugin to manage the issue then all well and good, it’s just that it masks an issue elsewhere really, and personally I’m not in favour of plugins used to manage aspects such as this.
I would advise you check you have correct PTR record for your IP address, and also set a SPF record along with your MX records doing these two things can drastically affect how mail servers receive your mail or reject it if not happy these two items exist and check out as valid.
In reply to: Group moderator are not able to edit, delete group@mercime that devils advocate argument doesn’t really hold water, if the admin is to trust to the group mod not changing those aspects then what point them being available, if the group admin does indeed want them to change or have ability to change these details why are these trusted members not simply elevated to group admin a position that can be held by more than one person.
This discussion and any views either way ought to now continue on the ticket as a form of straw poll so to speak and a view taken on which is best approach to follow on the basis of majority opinion.
For the record you do not really need to be adding further plugins to WP to sort out what is actually not an issue ever related to an application but rests at the server / domain level and in correct server sendmail or other versions of smpt/relay programs configurations and of properly configured email dns records, and requires a little technical knowledge when things don’t work out of the box. Plugins will try and bridge that gap between correct configurations, and users technical knowledge and I guess if they work alls well and good, but better is that things are sorted out at the real point of breakage.
So just to clarify this does not need to be done so that WP/ BuddyPress can send emails they have no problem sending emails as long as the server and domain records are correctly setup.
If your emails are being continually dropped into spam folders it’s because the email server receiving them isn’t able to validate the server as valid for the domain and you likely need to set an SPF record and possibly reverse DNS records but the latter is usually something the host providing the IP address for the server needs to set.
