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In reply to: Making Member/Group Lists Require Log-In
WillPCG-
Some people reported issues when upgrading from RC1 to RC2. There were a few fixes on the second page of that thread. Make sure you read the entire thread.
Good luck! We’ll look for your update.
Hum. My mistake, I thought that I saw only one of your threads marked as resolved. Oh well. At least progress is being made.
In reply to: Media Library: duplicate declarationI switched to the BuddyPress default themes… still failed with the media library duplicate, but I can add friends
Well, one problem isolated. So, this particular issue appears to be caused by your custom theme. Make sure that you compare the header file in the bpmember theme, or even the bpskeltonmember theme, with your custom header file. You could be missing a key line or two.
Concerning the duplicate declaration error: were you running an older version of BP before–like RC1? If so, did you delete all your old BuddyPress files from /mu-plugins/, this includes theme files.
In reply to: .css problems with blockquoteelegantjohn-
There are all sorts of strange CSS issues with your theme. You really should be using Firefox with the Firebug Add-on to help you debug your CSS problems.
As for the blockquote element within your blog posts, the width of this is set to 230 pixels in your CSS.
Also, deactivate all plugins, except BuddyPress, and see what affect that has on your layout. The geopress plugin seems to be causing some display issues.
In reply to: WordPress and WPMU to Merge?@Jedbarish-
Should I convert my wp sites into current wpmu setup or wait until they merge the codebase to start from there?
I would wait to see what transpires.
Once a user (student) has registered, you cannot change their username. Well, not without some fancy behind the scenes stuff. You can, however, have them change their display name. In the default BuddyPress install, this is automatically set to required when a user registers. It does seem like all 48 of your students do have their real, full names entered in that field.
So, it is just these 4 students. My guess is that they used their real, full names when registering their username. So, as an example, “John Smith”, instead of “johnsmith” or “smitty2cool”. If you look in MySQL’s backend and see this for the usernames of these four students (using my example):
John%20SmithThen this is what happened. They used their real name, space and all. Now, the existance of the space in usernames can cause issues in WPMU. But, that is a different topic.
when I look at comments made by the students, I get only their usernames
Do you mean comments to blog posts displayed in BuddyPress themes, or comments seen outside of the BuddyPress environment?
In reply to: Move Login Fields into Buddybar (Adminbar)I’m sorry, I mistyped. I should have said 60% of my traffic, not the Internet.
The versions of IE where it is misaligned is 8.0, 7.0, 6.0, and 5.5. Basically all of them.
Have you looked in the members theme in the /css/ie/ directory? Also, does your custom member theme have links to the IE style sheets in your header.php file?
I saw a joke on Twitter the other day. To parapharse: the universe was created in one day. It took the other 5 to get it to work on Internet Explorer. Thanks, Trent!
Getting themes of any platform (not just WordPress) to work in all versions of IE can be frustrating and tricky at best, impossible at worst. I would focus on optimizing your users’ IE experience on IE8 and IE7. Some designers are not even supporting IE6 anymore. I wouldn’t even worry about IE5.5 Of course, this is only my opinion.
In reply to: Messaging Functionality Not Working.dan.imbrogno-
Thanks for detailing the solution. Please set the light to green on top, and we’re good to go!
In reply to: Making Member/Group Lists Require Log-InTry this: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=1651
As far as your second, question, I don’t think that is currently possible. Perhaps someone else knows otherwise.
In reply to: Media Library: duplicate declarationConcerning your answers In this thread.
Did you install WPMU as a directory or subdomain install? subdomains
Did you follow the detailed instructions in the WPMU’s readme.txt file about subdomain installs (listed under the heading DNS).
Did you upgraded from a previous version of WPMU? If so, from which version? Yes,I upgraded wpmu when I upgraded bp to 1.0 (not sure what previous version of WPMU was)
This could be an issue. You need to follow a specific WPMU upgrade path. If you do not, you can have all sorts of issues. See these links:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_WPMU
https://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_WordPress_Extended
Do you have any plugins other than BuddyPress installed and activated? 3 plugin widgets of my own that display posts from the database
…AND…
Are you using the standard BuddyPress themes or customized themes? customised themes
To help you figure out what is going on, you need to distill your install down to the lowest common denominator. This means stripping out all extra stuff and focusing on the barebones environment.
So, you need to deactivate ALL plugins except BuddyPress. You need to use the default themes that come with BuddyPress. If the problems go away, then it is related to your custom theme and/or one of more of your plugins.
Here are a few more questions:
- Which hosting firm are you using?
- Did you manually install WPMU + BuddyPress or use a one-button installer?
- There have been a few changes over time to WPMU’s wp-config.php file. If you simply used an older file this could also cause problems. Always verify that the config file you are using is up to date by comapring it to the config file that comes with each, newly downloaded WPMU install package. Did you use the wp-config.php file that came with WPMU 2.7.1?
What is the status of this issue?
You have several threads in which you’re asking for support. These could all be related.
https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=3000
https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=3001
https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=3002
So, let’s confine this discussion to one thread. It will make it easier to provide assistance. I’ve posted a reply in the thread below. Let’s keep the discussion there for the time being:
https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=3000
If you do not receive a response within 24 hours, just post a kind reminder to pop your issue back up near the top. All the moderators volunteer their time. We have paid work that usually takes priority!
@Pinastro-
Please read the posts in this thread: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=2957#post-16157
In reply to: Most Links don't work – What am I doing wrong?Mcmc-
Have you resolved your issue? I’ll wait another week, then close down this thread if I hear no response.
In reply to: How the Online block can appear as a a gridThis is a CSS issue. I have not tried this out, but you can use this as a basic idea. There are different ways to do this. This is just a quick stab at a possible solution for you, to get you down the road. You’ll need to adjust based on your desired cell size and how and where you’re placing this grid in your theme.
If you are not using FIrefox with FIrebug Add-on, you will want to do so. It will make it a lot easier to tweak your CSS.
In your site-wide.css:
div.cells {
width: 50px;
float:left;
padding: 2px;
}In your theme:
<div class="cells">1st user avatar</div>
<div class="cells">2nd user avatar</div>
<div class="cells">3rd user avatar</div>
<div class="clear"></div>
<div class="cells">4th user avatar</div>
<div class="cells">5th user avatar</div>
<div class="cells">6th user avatar</div>
<div class="clear"></div>
<div class="cells">7th user avatar</div>
<div class="cells">8th user avatar</div>
<div class="cells">9th user avatar!</div>You’ll need to mess around with the padding and figure out how you want to position each avatar within its cell.
Also, instead of hard coding the grid dimensions within your theme, you could use a looping structure, allowing you more flexibility in setting the grid dimensions. For example, you could easily change the grid from a 3×3 dimension to a 4×8. The next day, switch it to 6×6. You could change the size automatically based on certain parameters.
Rebootnow-
If your issue is resolved, please set the light to green above and we’re good to go!
In reply to: bpContents 1.0 Alpha 2 ReleasedBurt, congratulations on yet another nice, feature-rich version!
In reply to: BlogsLogin to WPMU’s backend as site administrator. Go to “Site Admin > Options > Allow new registrations” Choose the setting you want.
i was drunk when I chose this UN
You cannot change your username, but you can change your displayed name. Maybe not a bad idea. Of course, you can also reregister.
In reply to: Avatar image problem – other fixes don’t workUploading and cropping avatars appears to go fine – it even displays the proper thumbnail for each..they result in broken image links.
According to your posts, you have no problems uploading and cropping an image file. They get added to the blogs.dir directory. Otherwise, you would not be seeing them displayed, as you state.
But then you state this:
I look at that directory and the other images are there, but *not* the jpg (ie, owen3.png)
[later you state]
the jpegs seem to be what are missing. libjpeg does itself seem to be working as we can upload and crop jpegs elsewhere.
Look at the link you’ve provided. Those two-digit numbers preceded by the % sign are a two-digit hexadecimal representation of special characters in the URL encoding.
%20 --> equals a space
%27 --> equals an apostropheSo your URL really looks like this:
noisepages.com//File 'wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/avatars/21/owen3.jpg' is not an imageNotice the space after the word “File” and the apostrophe before the “wp-content”. You also have more special characters after the jpg file extension.
Basically, this link is stating this:
'wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/avatars/21/owen3.jpg' is not an imageWhat file type are you initially uploading for use as your avatar? Is it a jpeg or png? What size?
In reply to: BP is still way too buggyI’m surprised to still see things like the articles of the BP blog spilling over the right sidebar
If you are using a custom theme, that may be the reason. If you are using the default BP theme, then please start a new thread so that we may investigate.
However, the display issue that you’re describing does not equate to BP being “way too buggy.”
the fact there still isn’t a funding system for the development of plugins and features. The idea of funding is like taboo or something
BuddyPress is an open source project. As such, you are free to provide financial assistance to any plugin developer who is willing to take it. In fact, some developers have a “Please Donate” badge on their websites.
Having this website facilitate such donations is beyond scope of the project. It would create a management nightmare as tax code could potentially require the reporting of such distributed fees and the paying of taxes on collected fees. This is a volunteer run site. Any distraction away from supporting BP would lessen the quality of our users’ support resolution.
In reply to: Errors after trying to move filesIf you really do have data on your dev server that you need to move to your production server, and assuming that you do not have any hardcoded URLs, then there are a few ways that this may be accomplished. I’ve never tried this with a WPMU installation, but this first article worked fine with a single-user WP domain migration.
http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/10/01/how-to-move-wordpress-blog-to-new-domain-or-location/
The next two articles are from the WP codex. I am not sure if they are fully applicable to WPMU, I’m providing them just for reference. As always, back up your data, back up your data, backup your data.
JZuk01-
As Nicola states, we need more information. Please look at this post:
In reply to: what is the function control posts loop?flylv-
Welcome to the BuddyPress forums. Here are some resources that should answer your questions?
https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/custom-buddypress-loops/
In reply to: Errors after trying to move filesZenimot-
Do you have data that you created on your development site that needs to be live on your production site?
Did you hardcode URLs in custom php files or theme files?
In reply to: Group and forum problems…Sugarmindy-
A couple of thoughts / questions:
1. How many times have you reinstalled WPMU + BuddyPress?
2. Did you use the same MySQL DB each time or did you start with a brand new, fresh DB?
3. You mention in point 2 of your most recent post that you’re basically making a custom theme. You changed the code in leave-group-confirm.php. In my mind, changing any code in the default themes means you’re making a custom theme.
So that we can distill this issue down to the lowest common denominator, please select the default BuddyPress themes (bphome and bpmember). If you do not have unaltered versions of these default themes, get them and install them in the proper place. This way, we can rule out theme issues as a source of your problem.
In reply to: Blog Directory and Member + GroupsMal-
Glad you got it all working!
As you discovered, in WPMU’s backend under the BuddyPress menu group, there is a place to pick which member theme you want to use.
