[@lph2005 Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

@Mike – naw – I wouldn’t tell the kids to interact – those were my words. If I told them to interact then the site would be a wasteland

My students are pretty open so I’ll ask for more details. They just finished re-writing the learning guides for next year’s students. This was their group responses to the most important parts:

http://www.thechembook.com/2010/04/30/chemistry-learning-guides-survey/

Since they were open to doing that survey then maybe I can get them to do a list for me about how to fix the BP layout. After all, my students have been building that site for 3 years. The wiki has over 500 articles written or edited by them.

But this year’s students have been very different – they are strongly opinionated. And when they don’t like something then they fold their arms. I call it their civil disobedience moments.

[@lph2005 Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

If I may so bold – I’m a recent installer of BP – and getting my head wrapped around the program took a little time. My students’ reaction may be of some value. They hated the default theme (1.2.3). They refused to even register and many complained that I had ruined the site. Once I put up a simple front page (moved to static page – and didn’t show blog postings) then the activity went up. Finally, I installed CubePoints,with an incentive and some kids registered – but are refusing to interact.

In fact, over half the students didn’t turn work in this weekend on the website – so it’ll be interesting to hear the excuses for such a low turnout.

In contrast, the adults (teachers and parents) all were strongly positive about the changes. Many prefer the default theme: one adult stated that the tabs cleared up navigation problems and they loved the activity stream.

HTH

[@lph2005 Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

I have a site also receiving tons of activity stream spam and agree that an admin link with “Mark as Spammer” on the stream page is a great idea.

[@lph2005 Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

I ended up removing buddypress and the site loads fine and things upload properly. As soon as I activate the plugin then I cannot upload. There must be a setting somewhere that is causing a problem.

[@lph2005 Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

Oh – man!

I found the problem. The setting Enable discussion forum within group settings was not checked. Postings work now

[@lph2005 Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

I have WP 3.0 beta 2 and BuddyPress 1.3 svn installed and do not see a way to get members to have blogs. Maybe this is missing in the settings area?

[This is a test installation and not live]

[@lph2005 Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

I decided to checkout the svn 1.3-bleeding edge version of buddypress. It installed like a dream. Activated immediately and was able to choose options.

dev.layneheiny.com appears to be working with WP 3.0 beta 2.

[@lph2005 Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

max_executiion_time is 30.

After the upgrade of Plesk to 9.5, I decided to change the php.ini file directly and increased the memory_limit to 96M. Installation still fails.

Update: I’ve now set the php.ini file to 256M and executive time to 45. Installation still fails.

[@lph2005 Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

Thank you for hanging in there.

php package is 5.2.13-1.el4.art as shown in Plesk 9.3.

Update: I see that Plesk 9.5 is now available. I’ll update the base packages and see if this influences the buddypress installation.

[@lph2005 Participant 16 years, 2 months ago]

Hi,

Yes, master value is set to 32M and the page you had me build forced the change to 64M. I was pretty sure the configuration changes were taking effect but your suggestion was a good one to confirm.

Right now, the test site is sitting at 256M and buddypress continues to fail on activation.

[@lph2005 Participant 16 years, 2 months ago]

Yes, I am able to change the PHP memory limit and I went way up so something else must be the issue.

[@lph2005 Participant 16 years, 2 months ago]

Hi Ray,

I’m sorry, I should have updated my original post last night. I actually went all the way up to 256M and still could not get past the error.

[@lph2005 Participant 16 years, 2 months ago]

Hi Ray,

I’m sorry, I should have updated my original post last night. I actually went all the way up to 256M and still could not get past the error.