[@hnla Participant 15 years, 8 months ago]

Really glad it’s sorted, the solution was an odd one though if anything the newer MySQL versions should be better but nasty conflicts do arise between various versions of all these essential core apps on a server – I’m having to deal with a few issues with MySQL on production servers that are turning my hair white at present. I suspect the root cause of your issue is still to be understood exactly and fully.

This thread is a helpful one for others though and we should ensure it’s linked to from the others which I’ll do if you haven’t already.
Edit// great, see you’ve done that.

Of course in all this we should stop to consider that down grading ones MySQL version on a dev server is one thing but many will be unable to do that on a production or hosted server easily and even if they can they should proceed with absolute caution in doing this on a *nix server as it needs to be done rather carefully.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 8 months ago]

This will not be helpful and to be honest I am not sure why that one table is repeatedly not installed correctly, but I would suggest it’s perhaps better not to go the separate BB install – unless of course you specifically wanted the standalone forum – and stick to the BP bundle as that does work, and normally without any hitch also very? shortly BBPress will be released as a plugin and that will integrate with BP and replace the present implementation of BBPress in BP

Just so the thread is armed with as much detail as possible can you state the versions of everything you are running plus whether child themes in use etc.

Interestingly on one of my many test installs on which I hadn’t set up forums, It’s failing to create any tables but not sure why that is at this minute and haven’t time right now to look in detail at what’s occurring but will come back to it later.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 8 months ago]

Have you tried visiting his site?

As for the second request not 100% sure what you are after?

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 8 months ago]

The only table that you appear to be missing is wp_bb_posts.

When you say manual install what exactly do you mean by that? Have you gone through the motions of using the BP re-install option in dashboard, created new group with forum etc.

It’s not wasting peoples time to suggest all possible solutions to a problem that is difficult to pin down to an exact cause that can be given a simple step by step fix to.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 8 months ago]

Closing this thread. @xxxxx I think you have exceeded your warnings, lord knows why you continue to post those @mentions but you really should take heed when three moderators make direct comment.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 8 months ago]

The email issues are a common topic with bluehost sites, check this thread and the plugins mentioned by mercime – they should get around an issue which frankly should be tackled at the server level.

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/problem-after-installing-buddypress/

Also you might want to add an SPF record to your zone file and ask bluehost to add a PTR RDNS record for your IP/Domain name as these two items – or the lack of them – can be the cause of email server rejecting sent emails from a server they can’t verify.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 8 months ago]

So why after Boone asked you not to @mention everyone under the sun do you go and do it again? and I have remarked on this on another thread, do stop it and for a little light bedtime reading please have a look at this RFC on forum, list, board nettiquette for guidance

http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 8 months ago]

@xxxxx Please dont @mention quite so many people it’s not going to get you any faster attention and likely to just annoy

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 8 months ago]

I’m amazed, interest in validation

There are and have been ID errors for for ever and a day, I’ve mentioned them in the past and there’s probably a ticket lying around.
The repeated use of an Id is a common error when writing things like loops and sticking an id within one trouble is mid tier coders tend not to look at frontend output much.

Changing a DTD to get around validation errors is bad practice, new documents should always be written to a strict schema, this common use of Transitional is wrong but hey ho. What would make more sense especially given the use of attributes such as ‘roles’ (even though an XHTML spec and even though it’s actually only a working draft attribute) is a move to what is referred to as an HTML5 DTD or more accurately a DTD without a formal public identifier. TwentyTen has chosen to do this I would suggest BP can follow suite?

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 8 months ago]

You’ll need to be a little more specific about your set up and how you’re attempting this. What themes approach are you taking, are you using a custom theme, child theme of bp-default.

In theory you should be able to simply adjust the body font-size but a series of fixed px units throughout the layout make this harder to accomplish so you may have to target specific elements within the activities page.

The best and proper approach if you are using the bp-default theme is to create a simple child theme in which you simply have a style.css and in that you keep any custom styles.

Guides on creating a child theme: https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/

You’ll then need to identify the element you want to increase the size on. Depending on what elements you do actually want to increase you might simply be able to adjust the body font-size which is set to 12px but that will only change those elements that haven’t been explicitly set to a fixed size.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 8 months ago]

Not a bad idea, not sure though that it would be that easy to add another support forum. I can see arguments against as well as for, it would need discussing a little further.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 8 months ago]

!.2.6 saw the final correction to this fun little mischief maker, there were, however, later reports of issues but as I recal those it did prove to be down more to an oddity in WP between UTC Vs. City in the timezone selection – at least changing this aspect sorted seemed to sort it for many.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 8 months ago]

It’s a syntax error so you need to examine the line it’s referring to and check and correct the syntax php met an unexpected double quote mark and seems to be suggesting there ought to have been an ) closing parentheses. this is an extremely old post you have dragged up and I would expect this plugin/code to necessarily work given the version updates to BP since this was written.

btw editing core files in this manner is not advised really, if it’s a filter it ought to be written to a functions.php file living in a child theme

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 8 months ago]

You may need to provide a little more detail to your question such as versions you are running, themes etc. In BP you generally have a members directory which does show all members along with their avatars is this not what you are looking for?

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 8 months ago]

And you have covered all the basics? Set up forums correctly in the buddypress settings, Permlinks are working correctly, When you say go into ‘It’ what do you mean by ‘it’, the top level directory for forum posts.

Have you tested basic functionality with the default buddypress theme enabled to see if this is a theme related issue?

You will need to provide slightly more detailed info , version numbers for WP/BP are also important.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 8 months ago]

You’re on 3.1 so you will need to switch to the ‘Network Admin’ view of the dashboard (upper right link) then sites > sites to see the list of MS sites along with id’s

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 8 months ago]

https://trac.buddypress.org/changeset?old_path=/tags/1.2.7&old=&new_path=/tags/1.2.8&new=

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 8 months ago]

Not sure you haven’t chosen a rather complicated theme to cut your teeth on, the two files you showed above do not really look like they match to the live site or at least that the theme might be pulling some include tricks to fetch the rightside element, what’s in your head.php?

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 8 months ago]

I’d write it from scratch, but then I’m not into themes

You only need to copy the element I showed you need make no decsions as to what to call things, the idea is that your chosen theme already has a particular html structure and associated styles, the BP files, however will be using something different, the BP files must fit the structure your theme dictates.

This isn’t about changing your theme layout it’s about ensuring that BP files / pages do not break the layout due to a different html markup structure which would create issues simply in structure terms but that also will not be able to pick up the styles from your theme due to different class / ID tokens.

If you are actually wanting to change the layout look of your theme that is something different altogether and a step too far at this stage.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 8 months ago]

If you look at the two files you’ll notice the main similarity of those files is this:
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Compare that to a BP index page in one of the directories such as activity you will see something like:
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The idea is that these elements should essentially represent the main html elements that form the site layout, the BP files much match the structure of your chosen theme so it looks as though your chosen theme does noy use #content or .padder so they need to be replaced (along with the matching closing tags) with the one you see in your chosen theme file (this needs to be done for all BP files as listed in the guide).

Once the layout functions you will probably need to bring BP links in to the chosen themes primary link structure which will live in the header file (think that’s explained in the guide – if not check out the simplified guide provided by mercime in the codex as it may explain things further)

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 8 months ago]

Can you confirm how far you have progressed with this process:

https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/

You need to explain just what you are stuck with really otherwise it will be hard for anyone to help, be specific when creating threads on forums as it will get a better response if we know what to help with.

You need to get the template pack process underway – if you haven’t already – and then post back, also might help to keep the progress live on your test site.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 8 months ago]

In case anyone unaware: The issue is corrected now and the zip contains requisite files.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 8 months ago]

The ‘Role’ attribute was described and proposed for XHTML for machine extractable data, as used by WP it’s in the html5 guise I think, sadly under (X)HTML the attribute is undefined and not valid. perhaps 1.3 ought to change and follow the trend and use the plain HTML dtd

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 8 months ago]

Might be best if the pcwriter example was changed vis a vis the template and file name to match the upcoming bp-deafult, but perhaps it doesn’t really matter?

Just spotted this class name diff as well in 1.3 it’s `

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[@hnla Participant 15 years, 8 months ago]

didn’t think to link to an example from SVN – I’ve the brain of a slug at times.