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The Welcome Pack plugin allows you to suggest Groups your users should join at sign-up. It doesn’t force the issue, but does make it easier for you to highlight groups that really represent the basis for your community.
If you only have one blog (not MU) then you won’t need a plugin for this. When you go to subscribe to the feed in firefox (blue rss button on the right-hand-side of the address bar, you should see three options: one for the activity feed, one for blogposts RSS and one for blogposts Atom Feed. Another option I find useful is looking at the feed via Safari. I find that because Safari has it’s own RSS reader you can get an immediate look at the actual feed address by clicking on the RSS button at the right hand side of the address bar, where in firefox you are prompted to subscribe via a third party program ie: feedly, google reader etc.
@ben found out the “random” links are a feature, not a bug. If you want to control what words become links and which do not, install the Custom Profile Filters for Buddypress plugin. This allows your users to identify which words become links, making it much more intuitive. https://buddypress.org/community/groups/custom-profile-filters-for-buddypress/
You need wpmu, or WP 3.0 with multisite activated in order for your members to maintain their own blogs. Someone else will need to field the other questions.
I’m having a similar issue (Profile includes 4 required textboxes and a dropdown selection menu). WPMU 2.9.2, BP 1.2.4. Deactivated any profile related plugins (profile privacy, Custom Profile Filters) with same result: “There was a problem updating some of your profile information, please try again.” BUT, even though the red error box pops up, and the profile seems to need editing (changes don’t appear and textboxes are still active), if I click on the profile link along the top, the changes I have made show up.
Any suggestions on how I might be able to narrow this error down a bit further to help troubleshoot?
Mine is incorrect +2, not x2, so the glitch isn’t uniform.
I’m having the same issue. At first I thought it was counting hidden groups that I couldn’t see on my group page, but Using the Group Management plugin I’m able to see the groups, and there are no hidden groups on my site (unless they are hidden from that plugin as well).
I”m running BP 1.2.4, WPMU 2.9.9 and Groupblog 1.4.4, and I’m not seeing this instantaneousness:
Here’s my process. User Requests Membership. Membership is Granted. User goes to the group profile page, then clicks on the Blog link. I have that blog link on the group profile page set to automatically go to the Blog front page, rather than the themed bp stream (if it matters, this is a P2 themed blog).
At this point user is looking at the groupblog, but is not logged into it yet (cannot post). Meta is available on the sidebar so they attempt to log in and get redirected to their other, previously established blog (which wpmu does when you attempt to sign in on a blog you don’t have access to). They sign in (to the other blog, although that can’t help, but perhaps they don’t notice that the subdomain has changed on the wp-login.php page) then sign out, then go back to the group profile page, click on the Blog link again, and the User is already signed into the groupblog and can post. It looks like it’s working, but the blog still doesn’t show up in the buddybar (default role is author).
Is this the process? Can it be streamlined somehow? Am I doing something incorrectly?
This may not still be the case, but I was under the impression that external-group-blogs was not compatible with the latest version of BP. That may have changed although I haven’t seen an update to the plugin since it started glitching under 1.2.3. I believe @apeatling received a bit of fraternal ribbing from @modemlooper among others, so he may have fixed the problem.
Here’s that plugin I was referring to: https://buddypress.org/community/groups/bp-profile-privacy/
I use a Profile Privacy plugin created by http://www.jfarthing.com/. Sadly, the link to the plugin in my dashboard comes up 404 in the wp repositorty, and I can’t seem to find reference to it on his site. That said, the plugin allows for you to manage who can see certain fields in the profile (everyone, friends, user). When profile fields are set to “user” only the user and the site admin can view the info. Perhaps an attempt to contact jfarthing will met results. Good luck.
This is a huge issue no? I would assume that a large portion of BP users are running WPMU, given that BP until just recently didn’t run on a single WP install. I’m certainly glad I poked through the forums before upgrading tonight (as I had intended to.) Hope there is a fix soon. Perhaps a note on the main blog is in order once this is sorted.
This would be helpful on my site as well. Anyone know how to accomplish this
The Rate Forum Posts Plugin https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-rate-forum-posts/ does something like this. You would need to tweak it a bit to aggregate the three tiers you are looking for, but it’s a start.
You could use the Custom Profile Filters for Buddypress plugin. I know it’s not exactly what you are looking for, but it would enable you let your users identify themselves in one of your 5 categories, then that word they have selected will become a link that will take them to a page will all of the other users who also selected that category.
Perhaps this plugin will give you the building blocks you need to create the solution you need.
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-profile-filters-for-buddypress/
Before updating buddypress you should always deactivate any plugins that require BP in order to work.
At this point the only solution I have would be to go in through FTP and remove any offending BP plugins from wpcontent/plugins. You don’t have to delete them necessarily, just get them out of the plugins folder and refresh your site. Copy them into a folder on your desktop so you can re-establish your plugins after you have finished the upgrade.
Once you have the upgraded version running, then start to rebuild your plugins by pulling them back in to the plugins folder (again via FTP), then reactivate them (ensuring that BP is active before you enable BP specific plugins) one by one in the plugins menu under admin until you are back in business.
Resolved. Still puzzled, but resolved.
Disabling all of the plugins (BP last), then re-enabling BP seems to have fixed it. Now I’m going to activate the plugins one by one to see if there is an offending source. Is this worth it, or should I consider the issue resolved?
More info after more poking about.
I’m running 1.2.3 with WPMU 2.9.2 so it’s NOT the issue that was popping up in 1.2 where the missing description was creating a missing blog, although apart from that the issue seems the same:
The blog is public.
I went in through the back and entered a tagline (just in case)
I disabled then re-enabled the Blog tracking component and I’m about to deactivate, then re-activate BP to see if that refreshes anything.
A bit more info to ponder. In the users profile it indicates they have Blogs (0), but the blog posts they have written by accessing their blogs through blog.url.com/wp-login.php show up in the activity feed.
Can anyone help me out with this? Is it a WPMU issue and I should be asking that forum? What triggers BP to identify a blog with a user and insert it in the Profile under blogs, and in the Admin bar.
This user had the blog listed in the admin bar previously, and now all that appears is the Create A Blog! prompt.
I’m not sure if this helps, but I have just recently changed the # of blogs a user can have from 4 to 2 in the Site Admin panel in WPMU, but the user in question had only one blog to begin with.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Can you post this function after you get it worked out for the code-inept members of the community. I’m trying to do the same thing, in combination with this function.php line Andy posted in another thread.
<?php
function disable_name_change( $data ) {
if ( 1 == $data->field_id )
$data->field_id = false;
return $data;
}
add_action( 'xprofile_data_before_save', 'disable_name_change' );
?>We’ll, there’s my learnin’ for the day, time to turn off the brain.
Thanks for the tip. I need to stop providing advice beyond my pay-grade. Just trying to give back.
Cheers.
Dumb idea, sorry. The implementation of mu is probably activated upon installation, given how different the databases look. You’ll need to reinstall regardless.
WordPress 3.0, scheduled to be released in May, is going to combine WP mu and WP into one, so potentially you should be able to upgrade your WP 2.9 install into a multi-user site after the release. Not sure if that’s easier for you then starting again with a WPmu install. Depends on how deep into things you are I suppose.
