[@jeffsayre Participant 17 years, 6 months ago]

Okay, all you developers out there. I’m sure you have an opinion. We’ve only heard from six members and I know there are more of you lurking behind the code somewhere!

Come on out. Tell us your thoughts and opinions!

[@jeffsayre Participant 17 years, 6 months ago]

Danielfelice-

Okay, a few more questions:

1. Are there any errors being reported in the error logs? If so, what are they?
2. Are you using the default BuddyPress themes with no changes at all?
3. Did you use the new WPMU config file, or a config file from an older version?
4. Is buddyPress-home theme installed in /wp-content/themes/ ?
5. Is buddyPress-member theme installed in /wp-content/bp-themes/ instead of /wp-content/member-themes/ ?
6. Did WPMU work fine before BuddyPress was installed and activated?
7. Do you have any WPMU plugins other than BuddyPress installed? If so, have you tried deactivating them to see if that makes a difference?

[@jeffsayre Participant 17 years, 6 months ago]

Nicola-

You are correct! That is an important point.

I should have mentioned that I use this technique only with my custom themes, not with the standard BP themes.

[@jeffsayre Participant 17 years, 6 months ago]

Jessica, you’re very welcome! Thanks for the kind words.

[@jeffsayre Participant 17 years, 6 months ago]

Home theme:

wp-content/themes/buddypress-home/

Member theme (for RC1):

/wp-content/member-themes/buddypress-member/

[@jeffsayre Participant 17 years, 6 months ago]

Stu-art-

If you want the favicon on both your home and member pages, you must stick this code in the head sections of both header files.

[@jeffsayre Participant 17 years, 6 months ago]

@Nicola-

Remember:

<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>

won’t work fine because the template url changes when you’re in pages that use the member theme

This is what I use on my dev site and it works just fine. No need for an extra php file, just a simple, single line of code in the head section of the header file.

[@jeffsayre Participant 17 years, 6 months ago]

The main (home) page would have to use a customized theme that is simply a splash page (spalsh screen) that gives basic information about your site and a place to login and sign up.

Once a user has logged in, it would then go to the BuddyPress home page–which you could also customize if you want.

Read this thread for how to Secure components from non logged in users.

[@jeffsayre Participant 17 years, 6 months ago]

It has to be somewhere between the opening and closing head tags

<head></head>

It cannot go in the body section.

Also, I assume that you\’ve followed the standard directory structure for the themes:

'/wpmu/wp-content/themes/buddypress-home

[@jeffsayre Participant 17 years, 6 months ago]

My mistake. You need to put the forward slash back since bloginfo(‘template_url’) does not append it.

You have the favicon.ico file in the root of the buddypress-home folder?

[@jeffsayre Participant 17 years, 6 months ago]

Please provide the exact line of code you’re using.

[@jeffsayre Participant 17 years, 6 months ago]

@Stu-art

Two thoughts:

Is your favicon file in actual .ico file format, or did you just rename an image file?

Remove the forward slash before favicon.ico

[@jeffsayre Participant 17 years, 6 months ago]

@Jimcipriani

Okay, I read your request differently.

<>I need 2 groups of Groups: Practice Groups and Offices</>

By this, do you mean that your client has employees that fall into what they term practice groups? Such as, lawyers or doctors who are “in practice”. If so, then how many practice groups and how many offices do they have?

The best way to do this would be to disallow the creation of groups by anyone except the site admin or a few, select group admins–for lack of a better term. Then the group admins would create all the necessary Practice Groups and Offices groups, making them public or private as needed.

Since it seems that you are simply dealing with nomenclature, it is overkill to create a new component with the exact same functionality but with a different slug name.

[@jeffsayre Participant 17 years, 6 months ago]

Search for the CSS selector “#header h1 a”

[@jeffsayre Participant 17 years, 6 months ago]

More questions?

1. By latest WPMU, do you mean latest public release?
2. Have you customized the theme in any way?
3. Have you tried disabling all but the BuddyPress plugins?
4. Where exactly do you have the BuddyPress plugins installed?
5. Have you tried re-uploading from scratch?

[@jeffsayre Participant 17 years, 6 months ago]

The issue was initially presented as a well-defined problem:

BuddyPress developers need a common place to share code snippets

Now, the conversation has transformed into a bigger-picture discussion. That is always good in my mind.

Burt and Andy bring up valuable points. As Burt points out, we are on the verge of something interesting. We have an opportunity to use the social-networking tools of BuddyPress to create something unique and wonderful in the developer community. Andy offers very specific, compelling reasons on why and how we should indeed use those tools.

So, I propose that we need to reframe the originally-stated issue like this:

What is the best way for BuddyPress developers to leverage the power of BuddyPress to create a vibrant, useful developer resource?

[@jeffsayre Participant 17 years, 6 months ago]

Mascix, this is really a WPMU question. I suggest searching the WPMU forums and if you can’t find the answer, then start a new thread there.

[@jeffsayre Participant 17 years, 6 months ago]

DJPaul-

Just a couple quick thoughts specific to BuddyPress:

1. Has x number of friends. Triggered at each admin-set interval such as 25, 50, 100.

2. Has joined x number of groups.

3. Has started x number of groups.

4. Has contributed x number of group wires

Each of these are basically milestones that could be set in the backend. As each milestone (achievement) is reached, a new icon could be displayed in the user’s profile.

Nothing fancy. Just quick ideas.

[@jeffsayre Participant 17 years, 6 months ago]

Having problems uploading an avatar? Do they turn black? Do they not show up at all? Does the cropping tool malfunction?

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=302#post-1212

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=1960#post-10404

Some good advice on how to change blogs.dir directory permissions: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=1153

Here is a rule of thumb. You do not want to try uploading too big or too small of an avatar file. By default, BuddyPress sets the small avatar at 50 by 50 and the large avatar at 150 by 150. So, if your source image is smaller than 150 on at least one of its dimensions, you could have issues with creating the large avatar. If it is smaller than 50 on at least one of its dimensions, you could have issues with creating the small and large avatar.

Finally, if you are still having issues after following the linked advice, you may have a WPMU plugin conflict–especially if you are using any plugins for image manipulation or display. Here is a list of plugins that can cause conflicts that users have reported to date:

1. NextGen Gallery
2. WP-cycle
3. lightbox
4. Dynamic Content Gallery

To figure out if you have plugin issues, follow the standard WPMU protocol for determining plugin conflicts.

[@jeffsayre Participant 17 years, 6 months ago]

I agree. A technical blog is different than a codex page is different than a code snippet. I like the idea of using whichever makes the most sense. I also think a dev group forum would be very useful.

However, I believe we are specifically talking here about where to host a code snippet library.

[@jeffsayre Participant 17 years, 6 months ago]

Burt, there is no all of the above on this test

[@jeffsayre Participant 17 years, 6 months ago]

Anointed-

As Rayni suggests, you can add a given thread to your feed reader. And, as Toly points out, the feed icon is right after the thread title–although perhaps we need to make it bigger

How in the world do I get to the page that shows all the theads I have participated in?

On the forum’s homepage, look at the top, for the “Forum Listing” heading. In the second sentence below that heading, that reads, “You can also view your started and replied topics,” there is a link to accomplish just that.

[@jeffsayre Participant 17 years, 6 months ago]

Lance, thanks for doing this!

I prefer option three (3), the self-hosted code snippet library. I agree with your assessment of the benefits of controlling our own snippet repo. Also, I think that we should use pastebin.com since, like WordPress, it is licensed under GPL.

[@jeffsayre Participant 17 years, 6 months ago]

Joe, you’re welcome–and I didn’t think that your were nagging I was just being thorough!

If you’re not comfortable with upgrading to trunk, I’d suggest waiting until a packaged zip of RC2 comes out. If you are comfortable, then give it a try! I think it will solve your problem.

Good luck!

[@jeffsayre Participant 17 years, 6 months ago]

If you are using the standard BuddyPress Home theme that came with the BP trunk, then in each column of the homepage (left, center, right) you should see the following message:

Please log in and add widgets to this column.

You need to log in as admin and then go to Appearance > Widgets and add the “Recent Blog Posts” widget to whatever column you want.