[@oldskoo1 Participant 17 years, 3 months ago]

Hi,

Yes i downloaded and installed RC1, i merged my existing templates and found the usual errors like missing functions and hidden form field values.

However as you have mentioned it, leave it with me i’ll make sure i haven’t done anything silly.

Also, is the trunk the live SVN code? If so would the fix for permalinks be available now?

I take it the trunk is just ongoing bug fixes and new features are frozen or branched, so it should be safe to use?

Thanks burtadsit

[@oldskoo1 Participant 17 years, 3 months ago]

Well i think i should add that with my permalink structure the same problem applies to the profile page too.

You have a recent activity bit on the profile page and the blog links are also linking incorrectly.

However there is an additional bug, its using “you” in the link instead of the members name for the url, obviously this only happens when a member views their own page.

its doing something like this

http://URL/you/2009/03/11/post_name/ – where “you” should be the members own URL and of course the date is also wrong, its picking up the date of when the post was created, not when it was dated (as in my case we are posting and setting the date in the past).

Cheers

[@oldskoo1 Participant 17 years, 3 months ago]

Cheers

As part of my job i’m responsible for implementing software solutions, most of it web based. So i guess you could say i’m used to finding bugs with systems when signing off projects.

However, i do also know it can be incredibly frustrating to team members that the constant bombardment of new bugs can be overwhelming when they already have enough on their plates.

I’m testing every part of the BP system because i think its a superb bit of software and i want to launch a site on it for a hobby of mine in my spare time. I’m probably finding more bugs than normal because i’m hacking it around a little bit and trying to customise it.

[@oldskoo1 Participant 17 years, 3 months ago]

Thank you sir!

[@oldskoo1 Participant 17 years, 3 months ago]

Developers using faked host file domains

This only applies if you are developer with a PC and a development server and you are faking domains in your hosts file.

As part of the bbPress integration procress you have to login to wp-admin > bbPress forums and then you need to put in the URL of the bbPress forums so WPMU/BP can connect to them.

Now if you are using a faked domain from a hosts file on your PC but your code is on a dev server and that faked domain DOES NOT exist in DNS then you must add that faked domain to the hosts file of your dev server.

If you don’t WPMU will not connect to bbPress until that domain exists in DNS or you fake it on the server too. Because, you enter a full URL in the settings that allow WPMU/BP to connect to bbPress. The server looks up that URL, it doesn’t exist in DNS and therefore won’t connect.

[@oldskoo1 Participant 17 years, 3 months ago]

This may help, i use it in IE as an include/.

http://getfirebug.com/lite.html

[@oldskoo1 Participant 17 years, 3 months ago]

parkcityxj

Are you using a custom members theme?

If so it won’t be RC1 compatible.

You might be able to patch the groups module to get the forums working…

Download RC1 – open members theme folder, copy the groups folder, paste it over your current groups folder and it might fix your problem.

Of course, backup your current groups just in case.

[@oldskoo1 Participant 17 years, 4 months ago]

tomorrow is over in 1 hour here in the UK.

at least it will be available when i get up – then i begin my social networking quest.

[@oldskoo1 Participant 17 years, 4 months ago]

21 hours since the announcement!

;0

i have just setup my new debian/nginx server with php fastcgi with eAccelerator, built in memcache and have my re-write rules sorted.

All i need now is rc1

[@oldskoo1 Participant 17 years, 4 months ago]

Thanks for this guide, very helpful!

I was trying to get this working myself before i found this.

2 things that were a must for me…

Alpha version on bbpress was the only version that worked

Don’t touch the cookie integration, skip that bit and just do the DB integration.

Oh and there is a problem with duplicate content if you care about google spidering it if users find the default forum and link to it.

There just add a robots.txt file with

User-agent: *

Disallow: /bbpress/

You could probably put a header redirect on it too to stop people using it and only using the bp side.

[@oldskoo1 Participant 17 years, 4 months ago]

I’ve been looking at this recently too

I read somewhere the demo BP version on this site is on a basic VPS and it has about 3k members. Basic VPS’ tend to be about 384MB ram and dual or quad core processors. The timer in the html comment in the footer says it loads most pages in 1 to 1.5seconds.

Anyway, whilst researching this people recommended

– WP Super cache

– PHP cache : APC or eAccelerator

Then

– PHP Speedy may also be an option

– Nginx is a lightweight web server which may help

And if you have something like 10k+ users you would probably be better off installing the multi-db plugin. Hyper DB is the free one i think.

And if you have silly amounts of users

– Multi-db across a few dedicated servers and

– Perbal: think thats a front end proxy that forwards on requests to various web servers.

[@oldskoo1 Participant 17 years, 4 months ago]

Ok i found a few sites that made a bit more sense and i pieced all the bits together.

I downloaded the POT file fomr the bp SVN.

Downloaded a program called POEDIT

Created a new catalog from the PO file

Made my translations

Save the file which created an MO file

Eventually figured out i needed to upload my MO file to the bp-languages DIR in the mu-plugins DIR of WP

Then i opened up bp-core.php and found the line

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if ( file_exists( ABSPATH . ‘wp-content/mu-plugins/bp-languages/buddypress-‘ . get_locale(). ‘.mo’ ) )

load_textdomain( ‘buddypress’, ABSPATH . ‘wp-content/mu-plugins/bp-languages/buddypress-‘ . get_locale() . ‘.mo’ );

(`)

I couldn’t find out anything on get_locale() function that mean’t anything to me so i just removed get_locale() and replaced it with my .mo filename.

[@oldskoo1 Participant 17 years, 4 months ago]

It is possible to change the wire name, it takes a while to go through the files but i did this for the blogs links too.

Just don’t change the URL’s or function names or else you will run into trouble.

Just look for where the scripts print out the word wire. The code is logical and organised so its not hard to find, just takes a while as there is quite a lot of code.

Problem is, when there is an update its very likely all your changes will be undone.

[@oldskoo1 Participant 17 years, 4 months ago]

Defiantly,

I have already skinned up a members theme, home theme and a host of blog themes for my users.

Its not hard at all, infact just like normal wordpress themes so expect to see a load available soon.

One thing i wish was easier was controlling the page names / urls buddy press assigns as default.

I have manually changed all references but when i upgrade my changes will be reversed