[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 17 years, 3 months ago]

Noticed that you’re installed in a sub directory, might that have anything to do with it? Last I read WPMU had to be installed in the root, but that may have changed.

Does this happen if you use the default MU theme?

Otherwise, yeah this is a new one.

Do me a favor, and in your wp-content directory, make a directory called “_temp” and move ALL of the files in your mu-plugins directory in there EXCEPT bp-core.php and the bp-core directory. Does that make sense? When you’re done, mu-plugins should contain…

• ./bp-core
• bp-core.php

Then try and see what happens. Maybe there’s a plugin getting in the way, and this will tell us if so.

Also, can you check the contents of the .css files in your buddypress-home/css/ folder? Is it possible they did not get correctly uploaded? Maybe try deleting them and reuploading them again from a good source file on your computer.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 17 years, 3 months ago]

Finally tracked this one down! OMG was it hard!

Basically, using /%category%/ doesn’t work in the permalinks anymore, if it ever did in the first place. That was my problem the entire time, and now I can safely rename my /blog to /news or /cheese or /beer or whatever…

Phew… Should this be tracked? I’ve confirmed this on a stock install of BuddyPress/WPMU also to confirm.

Also, that function you mentioned, basically bypasses archive.php, category.php, etc… And only serves up index.php and single.php…

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 17 years, 3 months ago]

Yeah haha I noticed that too, thanks! Fixed.

Thanks for giving me a direction, I’ll totally check that out and report back what I figure out.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 17 years, 3 months ago]

Yeah that’s what I’d expect for it to be anyhow. I wasn’t exactly sure who to talk to, and I didn’t want to bother anyone specifically.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 17 years, 3 months ago]

I would maybe think a good utility would be to hook into the visibility of the forum in buddypress, and simply hide the forum on disable, and show it on enable. Then again, since that is a core BP function, it wouldn’t really know how to do that without your plugin. Hmm…

About the ‘original admin user,’ when you first install wpmu, the user with the name ‘admin’ is created. Then when you integrate bbPress into it, you typically use that same ‘admin’ as your key master user.

Is there an easy way to follow the path that creating a group forum topic takes? For some reason right now they’re not communicating because even if I create a topic in bbPress, BuddyPress doesn’t load it.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 17 years, 3 months ago]

Yes, it is certainly not working correctly for me then. Crud. Yeah even when I try to post in the group forum through buddy press, it doesn’t work… Hmms… I’m going to need to retrace my steps this evening and see what is amiss…

I understand what you’re saying about non-group forums, and that makes perfect sense. I may eventually migrate all of my forums to be group forums, but we’ll see how things go…

Question. If I edit the group and disable the forum all together, what should happen? Currently, it seems to do nothing. It doesn’t delete the forum, and it doesn’t hide it from the view of bbPress. It just hides it from the BP group forum area.

This may be a silly question to ask at this point in the game but in the bbPress forums area of the site admin where it says “The username for the user (with admin rights) that you created for BuddyPress integration” is it safe to assume that this is the original admin user?

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 17 years, 3 months ago]

@terry, thanks that actually worked perfectly, and it also cleared up another problem I was having too.. I was still including wp-load.php instead of the header only. This is a perfect work around until a plugin is made.

Much obliged!

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 17 years, 3 months ago]

That’s actually kind of neat, and it would be a good starting point to port over to BuddyPress. The fact that it’s a “premium” theme however probably doesn’t put it under the GPL, so a new method might need to be arranged.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 17 years, 3 months ago]

Sorry for the confusion. I’m juggling a few ideas so I’m probably not communicating in a straight line right now.

Check out http://delsolownersclub.com/discussions/topic/great-job-john for an example…

Basically some of the people logged in and posting in my forums were converted over from a wordpress.org install, and they have yet to update their buddypress profiles with real name info, so using this plugin, their names don’t show up at all, and neither do their avatars as they haven’t uploaded one yet either. Make sense?

And yes about your template… If you look at the front-page.php or forum.php files, you’ll see that the usernames still fall back on the bbPress username of ‘admin’ instead of your name as ‘Site Admin’ if that makes sense? Striving for uniformity, I’d like to get all of the names displayed the same.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 17 years, 3 months ago]

@steve, haha whoops! I honestly read your post and thought you said groups… I retract my previous statement then, considering I started this topic, you’d think I could stay on track.

And that’s a good point about blog authors and admins. What if one resigns? Etc…

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 17 years, 3 months ago]

@stevefdl, I don’t think I agree with you there. It’s a nice option to have, and gives the group a customized feel. What do you do when the owner changes their avatar? How do you make them cross aware? Seems like a hassle considering it’s possible to not even have either/or capability installed.

I would think taking the group avatar code and making it work for forums wouldn’t be too difficult, but I’ve been known to be wrong before.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 17 years, 3 months ago]

Installed and working. Yay!

Since I converted my db from a wordpress.org install, not all of my users have converted their information, i.e. real names, etc… Is there any way to have a fall back and use the nicename in the event no real name exists? Also, if there is no avatar uploaded, it doesn’t seem to use the generated avatar for me. The idea would be to have everyone use an avatar eventually, but alas my user base can be slow to adapt…

Do you have a way to do the user names in forum.php, functions that are usually topic_last_poster() and $topic->topic_poster_name? I suppose if the user->ID of those people is within $topic then it’s pretty straight forward eh…

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 17 years, 3 months ago]

Er, I meant “white matte” duh… Ha ha! I could just make my own… I would just rather not totally reinvent the wheel…

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 17 years, 3 months ago]

I’ve noticed this too with blogs and groups as well.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 17 years, 3 months ago]

I just wish I knew how to get bbPress to stop wiping out all the BuddyPress/WPMU filters and hooks. Incorporating them together is so easy, but making them play nice together isn’t…

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 17 years, 3 months ago]

Alright, so I went through and triple checked all of my site_url related settings, they were fine. So I moved all of the plugins from mu-plugins to _temp (except the core) visited the site, then moved them back, and all appears to be well. Is it possible that BuddyPress just got confused? I’d say it’s probably more likely that I’m going crazy…

Next up… If I use the above blog_to_news function, I’ve got it working in the navbar, but the widgets in the blog still point to “blog/…” rather than “news/…” Funny thing is that they load just fine because I never updated the permalink structure to say “/news/%category%/%postname%/” but once I do that, it goes back to post 1 and doesn’t work again.

So even if the permalink and HOME_BLOG_SLUG match, filtered or not, if it doesn’t route to “yourdomain.tld/blog/…” then it doesn’t want to use anything but index.php.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 17 years, 3 months ago]

Well that seems a little silly… I wonder why that is… Not being a pest, and certainly not being critical of anyone’s work, but it’s just odd is all…

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 17 years, 3 months ago]

Back from the dead, but I have a weird avatar cropping issue also. The images upload/crop just fine, but the *resize* of the draggable area of the crop tool itself does not follow the mouse. I can move it fine, but if I try to resize it, it just goes wherever it wants to. I’ve checked the CSS and it is the same as stock in terms of relative and absolute positioning of the drag areas.

Suggestions?

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 17 years, 3 months ago]

Seems the answer to this problem was much simpler than my above psychotic rant, but I don’t quite have a good fix yet…

The problem comes from using this function in bp-custom.php:

function blog_to_news() {

return 'news';

}

add_filter( 'bp_home_blog_slug', 'blog_to_news' );

Using that, it seems, causes the whole thing to be a mess. I’ve echo’ed the HOME_BLOG_SLUG, and it is in-fact “news” so that isn’t to blame, but if I remove that little snippet of code, problem solved. But I really want my “/blog” to be “/news” without problem. Hrm…

Also, and this might be common knowledge that I just now am figuring out, it seems that to switch from subdomain to subdirectory (in the event you only have the 1 main blog installed, editing wp_config.php define('VHOST', 'yes'); to define('VHOST', 'no'); will switch that over for you. Phew!)

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 17 years, 3 months ago]

Yes sir, this is exactly how I have mine. It is from the latest RC1 functions.php file it appears. (Side note: what does it do about archives, etc…?)

Back on topic (mostly)… Here’s a question, and maybe this is the culprit. I’ve asked over on the WPMU forums and so far no one has bitten so maybe I’ll theorize here.

I have two domains, testdomain.com, and testdomain2.com. testdomain.com originally had wordpress.org 2.7 installed on it, integrated with bbpress.org 1.0a6. I backed up my database and started my conversion process.

When I installed WPMU and BuddyPress, I did so at testdomain2.com and I am confident I used the subdirectory option. Then when it was working and I had the test database all restored from my afore mentioned backup, and working with all the integration and everything, I moved all of the files from testdomain2.com, to testdomain1.com. With a few hours tweaking, everything appears to be working, but this and the fact that it is now installed as a subdomain install instead of subdirectory.

Now, I can’t tell what the difference is between the two installs (subdirectory and subdomain.) The .htaccess files are the same, the database is the same, and the files all appear to be the same as well. What the heck does WPMU do where to have it know the difference? Could that be part of my problem? Ah!

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 17 years, 3 months ago]

No objections here, then again I wasn’t the one with the issue.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 17 years, 3 months ago]

Awesome thank you very much. Curious if removing the “- Forum” from the forum name of a group forum has any ill effects on it? I hate the redundancy but am afraid to break it.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 17 years, 3 months ago]

Wow no way? Crap I just spent two days modifying all of the CSS from every little plugin and file! Arg haha!

Does site-wide.css get loaded last in order, so that it can over-ride any of the previous stylings?

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 17 years, 3 months ago]

@mikepratt, Burt nailed it on the head, but I’d like to add that I think many people are still stuck in the forum world, and haven’t peeked their heads out to see that social networking has evolved in the past 5 years or so. I know on lots of car or video game forums, it’s basically just a free for all chat fest, and trying to convert those minds into using BuddyPress or WordPress alone is too big of a change; I’ve tried it twice now with little success. Having a dedicated familiar looking forum but using BuddyPress to emphasize the social atmosphere helps those stubborn users transition a little easier and allow them to fallback on the features of a dedicated forum in the event it doesn’t work out.

@burt, I noticed on your Common Interest site that you have the forums separated between public and group. I would like to do something similar, and am curious as to how you did so. Also, is there an easy way to tap into the profile fields/user information from BuddyPress and display it as post author information in bbPress?

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 17 years, 3 months ago]

Make sure you’ve replaced your functions.php with the new ones from the theme in the combo pack. That did it for me.

If you’ve modified your functions.php, then obviously just take your personal additions, add them to the new one, and replace the file with the new one.