[@hnla Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

Just for clarity- you do know understand that in the event that bp hasn’t created pages or you get that message that associations are broken it’s a manual process to create those pages before navigating back to BP pages to now find them available in the selection dropdown.

With Saluation – if memory serves – you may need to go into each of those pages created for BP use and ensure that you have selected ‘buddypress’ in the layout options sidebar custom field.

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

Mysql handles rows/fields far better than it does tables – a table for each of your 10 million users would, I’d have thought, cause far more issues than 10 million rows in one table think about all those table locks, handles required, I’ve had issues dumping db of a far smaller, but large size due to an unusual amount of custom tables added to a db in the past.

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

Go with Paul’s second suggestion, you could make it a simple text input and instruct the user to add items comma separated and then grab the field and run an explode function on the comma to get a list you can loop over and display.

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

Would have helped to have posted that link in the first place then

The third step does require some manual modifications did you try that or are you not familiar with basic html /code?

I’m sure mercime will help shortly – but I do stress again that the help forums are not to be regarded as a service.

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

Please bear in mind that this is a support forum to help with BP issues and problems, it is not a coding service. People here are volunteers giving their free time to help.

You really should make an attempt to begin this process – using the template pack plugin if required – or post to the jobs board with the request and pay someone to help you with this requirement.

If you make an attempt to get started I’m sure @mercime or someone will guide you along with the process and help where you get stuck.

Also do check out the codex pages as – apart from the template pack walk throughs – Mercime has done a lot of work converting themes to BP and has an extensive list of themes that have been converted or threads where the process for a given theme exist.

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

you’ll need to set your permalinks to something other than default ‘numeric’ BP needs words

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

And does this happen if you just run WP i.e leave BP deactivated and any other plugins that are not necessary, in other words can you get the most basic WP instance running to point to a plugin issue or if that does get WP running then you may need to re-install WP.

This is probably a situation that requires some study of your server logs, access, and error logs to see what events are recorded to give you a clue as to what is happening.

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

you can check if(function_exists(‘bp_is_active’) or ‘bp_version’ you may also want to have a look at the BP skeleton component plugins loader.php if your writing a plugin dependent on BP.

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 7 months ago]

@tank2012 these questions are a little general, have you read through the BP codex ? Read through the beginners guides first as they will answer some questions.
https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/

Basic things like starting forum topics, registering really require having a little play around with the install before you let lose live. Registering is a WP function and initially you need to enable it in the WP general settings then the BP page will work at /register/ or whatever you titled the empty page.

Forums have to be enabled in the BP settings and then you can add them to groups or run as a sitewide one – again have a play around first to see how these things work then post back in a new thread if you have specific issues and problems.

Lastly bear in mind that TastyKitchen woulld have taken a while to get to the stage you see so be prepared for a little work getting there.

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 7 months ago]

Think of it as a continual notification that a thread has been updated / added to, I have a number of accounts that track in this way I may only have posted once or just be on the ticket / thread mailing list but will get an email notification every time someone adds to that thread, this is a good thing by and large.

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 7 months ago]

Please folks, we say this time and time again, but you must start your own thread on an issue even if it’s similar to another, hijacking threads is considered a bad practise.

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 7 months ago]

it’s something I’ve mentioned a few times on threads of this nature, you need bb-config in your root next to wp-config if the BP group forum install doesn’t move it then copy it over and ensure it has same DB details as wp-config

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 7 months ago]

What have your tried? Have a look through the codex for some guides to theme compatibility and using the template pack plugin, have a stab at getting things going then if you get stuck no doubt mercime will help out if you post back.

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 7 months ago]

The devil is in the detail if asking for help, please provide it initially rather than us having to ask for it!

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 7 months ago]

Yes! Try it and see!

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 7 months ago]

> I read somewhere that the wp-content directory should be be 777

Not sure where you read that but no directories should ever be world writeable it’s dangerous, insecure and completely unnecessary. Change those perms back and instead look at how your group/owner is set for site folders – 644 is going to b far too restrictive you need 775 but also the correct group and user able to write to these dirs/files

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 7 months ago]

Although naturally it’s Mercims decision to help in any way she would like, please bear in mind that this is a volunteer help and support forum, and asking for people to do work for free is sometimes asking a bit too much

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 7 months ago]

Running sub blogs is a WP feature ‘Multi Site MS’ – for guides on setting your blog to use the MS feature you need to head over to the WP codex and find the guide there for setting up MS

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 7 months ago]

There are now four different poster to this thread! Please observe basic and essential forum nettiquette by not posting in others threads as your issues while similar may not be a mirror of the original posters question/issue and multiple responses can’t be maintained within one thread as it’s too confusing.

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 7 months ago]

If you think this is a bug then raise a ticket on the BP trac along with precise steps to replicate the issue, and someone will have a look.

I can create a private group and create topics in it on one of my test installs so I do not think this is a bug.

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 7 months ago]

Check that you have a bb-config file in your root directory and that it has the same details as wp-config for accessing the DB, if you haven’t got one perhaps you actually didn’t set up forums in the BP setup? in which do so if you did then you may need to manually copy over bb-config to your doc root and then go back to a group select ‘admin > settings’ and ensure ‘enable discussion forum’ is checked and save the page.

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 7 months ago]

? ‘left pane’; are you running a custom theme, if so it’s hard for us to help with third party theme on this support forum. You can generally add anything like though to themes in any number of ways; BP default theme has a sidebar thus, as one would expect, in the WP dashboard you can add a text widget to that sidebar column to render content.

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 7 months ago]

Is there any reason why you can’t have both/all fields on the initial signup and let the user choose which they complete? Fields required to display on registration need to go in the ‘Base’ group.

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 7 months ago]

and you have host entries in the form of 127.0.0.1 site1.dev and .htaccess in site doc root, mod_rewrite enabled in httpd.conf.

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 7 months ago]

Difficult to say without seeing more detail of your installation, did you get domain name resolving set up, resolve a domain name to localhost / 127.0.0.1 and httpd using vhost containers so you can say mysite.dev is ServerName and it’s Documentroot = /the/folder/containing/site/files.

There should be examples commented out in httpd.conf and httpd-vhosts.conf