[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 8 months ago]

I believe “Create a group” is not in the BuddyBar menu.

Navigate to your groups directory (eg. example.com/groups), there should be a “Create a Group” button there.

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 8 months ago]

How did you upgrade from WP 2.0.4 to WP 2.9.2?

Did you do incremental WP upgrades?

Are you using any other plugins on your test install?

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 8 months ago]

You need to create a group to create a forum.

Try creating a group.

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 8 months ago]

Did you read the instructions in step 3 of BP Template Pack?

You’ll have to add some CSS overrides or modify some BP templates.

If you can provide a link to your WooThemes site with BP enabled, we could perhaps troubleshoot this.

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 8 months ago]

I’m closing this thread because it’s related to this one:

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/email-notification-not-working

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 8 months ago]

Did you enable pretty permalinks?

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 8 months ago]

Locking this as this is for BP 1.1 and older.

Blogadera, please create a new thread and we’ll discuss from there.

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 8 months ago]

Cool, do let us know what CSS you added to make the default BP theme compatible with IE6.

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 8 months ago]

@muratk

MU doesn’t add tables for every user. It only adds tables for another blog.

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 8 months ago]

Yes, that would work as well

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 8 months ago]

Haha, true true, Modemlooper!

Maybe as a child theme then.

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 8 months ago]

@Ann Christine

Did you configure the SMTP plugin correctly?

Here are some instructions:

http://ericlbarnes.com/how-to/wordpress-and-google-apps/

The email bug on the BP site I was working would not send any BP email to a GMail account, but would send to all other email addresses. I thought it was semi-related to the issues you and ruthlessbookie were encountering.

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 8 months ago]

3sixty, it might be good to document your IE6 journey and perhaps we can get your CSS included in core.

Suggestion for you, use the * html CSS hack to target IE6 specifically, then you wouldn’t need to use expressions, which isn’t valid CSS.

So your above code would look something like:

* html .post img {width:400px;}

If I have some time, I’ll look at creating an IE6 CSS patch.

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 8 months ago]

Login to the WPMU backend, navigate to “Appearance > Custom Header”.

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 8 months ago]

Add this to your CSS:

body {padding-top:25px !important;}

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 8 months ago]

No need to edit a template file for this.

Try adding the following in your theme’s functions.php:

function my_member_username() {

global $members_template;



return $members_template->member->user_login;

}

add_filter('bp_member_name','my_member_username');

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 8 months ago]

I believe the BP default theme was not coded with IE6 in mind.

The problem is IE6 doesn’t support the position:fixed CSS attribute.

One way around this is to put this in your child theme’s CSS:

* html #wp-admin-bar {position:absolute;}

Besides, no one likes IE 6

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 8 months ago]

@ruthlessbookie

My response was to Ann Christie.

Try manually installing BP. SimpleScripts isn’t the best way to install WP(MU)/BP.

Yes, make sure to backup your DB as well if you want to keep your content!

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 8 months ago]

I ran into a similar issue recently on a BP site I was working on.

I used this plugin:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/configure-smtp/

with a Google Apps email account.

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 8 months ago]

Your style.css should look something like this:

/*

Theme Name: YOUR CHILD THEME

Description: My child theme.

Version: 1.0

Author: YOU

Template: bp-default

Tags: buddypress, two-columns

*/



/* import default BP style */

@import url( ../../plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/style.css );



#header {background:url(YOUR IMAGE URL HERE) no-repeat;}

Your child theme’s functions.php should look like this:

<?php

function my_remove_bp_actions() {

remove_action( 'init', 'bp_dtheme_add_custom_header_support' );

}

add_action( 'init', 'my_remove_bp_actions', 9 );

?>

Make sure you activate your child theme in the WP admin area.

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 8 months ago]

Use:

<php if(is_user_logged_in()) : ?>YOUR LINK<?php endif; ?>

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 8 months ago]

Unfortunately, there’s no hook in the “My Account” menu to add custom items so you’ll basically need to duplicate the bp_adminbar_account_menu() and add your changes, then remove the bp_adminbar_account_menu() function and add your custom function.

The following guide tells you how to do this:

https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/modifying-the-buddypress-admin-bar/

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 8 months ago]

I think the above code is for a subdirectory MU install.

If you’re using a subdomain MU install, let me know and I’ll modify the above code.

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 8 months ago]

Hmm… I had to do something like this recently for a BP site using a child theme and I didn’t have to add the !important declaration.

This is what I did:

In your child theme’s functions.php, add the following:

function my_remove_bp_actions() {

remove_action( 'init', 'bp_dtheme_add_custom_header_support' );

}

add_action( 'init', 'my_remove_bp_actions', 9 );

This removes the custom header support from the BP default theme.

Then in your child theme’s style.css, add:

#header {background:url(YOUR IMAGE URL HERE) no-repeat;}

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 8 months ago]

To redirect your old member URLs, try putting the following line in .htaccess:

RedirectMatch 301 ^/members/(.*)$ http://example.com/$1

Change example.com to your site.

This goes right above the following line in .htaccess:

# add a trailing slash to /wp-admin