[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 10 months ago]

I’ve also been working on integrating a WYSIWYG editor for BP as well (but with image upload functionality).

Have tried nicEdit and DSRTE, but I’ve run into various issues with both, which is why I haven’t released it.

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 10 months ago]

Sounds like someone exploited a WordPress vulnerability on your site.

Are you using the latest version of WPMU / BuddyPress?

If so, did you upgrade?

You might want to read these posts:

https://wordpress.org/development/2009/09/keep-wordpress-secure/

https://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_My_site_was_hacked

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 10 months ago]

@bcbccouk

That’s the exact approach I took (although I removed the admin screen because I don’t really care for it). It works wonders.

+1 for randomising the names and values. I’m going to take that bit of code!

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 10 months ago]

Yup, no problem about the next version. Definitely not urgent!

Just wanted to let you know what I thought on initial activation.

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 10 months ago]

Like I said, you’d need to create an xprofile field called “Zip Code”.

And then you’ll need to manually call the weather widget using the manual WP widget function call (i forget what this is at the moment) and pass the logged-in user’s “Zip Code” (provided they have filled it in). You can definitely pass arguments / settings to widgets manually.

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I’d imagine you would create an xprofile field named “Zip Code”, otherwise how else are you going to grab the logged-in user’s zip code?

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 10 months ago]

You’d have to manually call the widget in question and call the ZIP code from the xprofile field of the logged-in user.

You wouldn’t be able to set this from the WP backend.

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 11 months ago]

You’re right about reason #1.

Re: reason #2, it shouldn’t make friend requests, it should automatically sign you up as a friend. At least that’s the case on the older version of Welcome Pack working with BP 1.0.3.

We use this feature much like the way Tom from MySpace is friends with everyone. Try the latest version of Welcome Pack for BP 1.1+.

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 11 months ago]

You have to add a define line in your bp-custom.php.

Say you have your languages files called piglatin.mo and piglatin.po.

Upload the files to /wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-languages/.

Then this is what you’d put in your /wp-content/plugins/bp-custom.php:

define( 'BPLANG', 'piglatin' );

if ( file_exists( BP_PLUGIN_DIR . '/bp-languages/' . BPLANG . '.mo' ) ) {

load_textdomain( 'buddypress', BP_PLUGIN_DIR . '/bp-languages/' . BPLANG . '.mo' );

}

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 11 months ago]

Why not use DJPaul’s Welcome Pack and select everybody as friends?

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 11 months ago]

Love the new theme!

Can’t wait to play around with this.

I love the fact that activities drive everything, however less emphasis is placed on the profile (unlike before).

What I would like to do is put friends and groups so they are on the same page.

The “Blogs” tab shouldn’t show up if the user doesn’t have any blogs associated with their account.

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Looks like the new activity permalinks are following the minimalistic layout of Twitter.

Cool!

Won’t be long before someone either makes a plugin or creates an xprofile field for users to change the background of it

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Can’t wait!

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 11 months ago]

It depends how much you have altered.

However, if you’re creating your own child theme off of the bp-sn-parent theme, make sure you have a footer.php (or sidebar.php or whatever) in your child theme folder.

Your footer (and other files) will stay intact on upgrades.

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 11 months ago]

FYI, here’s the demo of BP on standard WP:

http://bp.scottkclark.com/

Plugin isn’t released yet AFAIK.

At least this allows standard WP folks to test out BP before the merge, I can see this greatly helping development timelines for those looking at standard WP for social networking.

For updates, follow the developer’s Twitter account:

http://twitter.com/scottkclark

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 11 months ago]

Good question, Sclough.

I’m wondering about this myself as I upgraded from the old, separate install of bbPress as well.

Your steps sound about right. Can a mod or someone else confirm?

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 11 months ago]

Erich, I replied to your ticket on Trac about this, but thought I’d post my response here as well.

In practice, Forums are for focused discussion. Forum posts are not threaded and you must visit the actual forum post to reply.

Activity updates are freeform and have no real structure, but are threaded and can be replied to without having to visit the actual activity permalink.

However, I’m guessing (like you) that most people will reply to activity comments, instead of the forum topic.

The creation of activity comments have made the forums component somewhat less relevant now.

This is kind of related to a ticket I opened about the usability factor of having too many ways to communicate:

https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/1419

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 11 months ago]

Originally posted by Jeff Sayre:

That should be just enough time for everything to blow up.

Nicely put!

Looking forward to the beta as well.

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 11 months ago]

Recorded BP sessions from WCNY are up:

(Thanks for Andrea from WPMUTutorials.com for the links and to the Internet Society – NYC chapter for archiving)

Unconference (Mike Pratt & JJJ) – http://punkcast.com/1686/m4v/1686-14_wcnyc_unconference_buddypress.m4v

Ignite session (Andy Peatling) – http://punkcast.com/1686/m4v/1686-17_wcnyc_ignite_buddypress.m4v

Hyperlocal Journalism, Meet BuddyPress (Ted Mann) – http://punkcast.com/1686/m4v/1686-10_wcnyc_hyperlocal.m4v

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More sessions from WCNY can be found here:

http://www.isoc-ny.org/?p=970

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 11 months ago]

Thanks for re-bumping this (even though this is more of a MU issue).

I actually just encountered Peter’s original problem during an export/import.

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 11 months ago]

From what I remember, BP Contents doesn’t allow you to setup member categories…

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 11 months ago]

If it’s just the CSS you’re worried about, why not just call the CSS file directly into the bbPress theme and see what happens?

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 11 months ago]

Check to see if you have a call to get_footer() in your templates.

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 11 months ago]

Try JJJ’s BuddyBar in bbPress plugin:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddybar-in-bbpress/

Or the manual method:

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/bp-admin-bar-on-bbpress-front-page-1#post-18626

If all else fails:

http://dev.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2009/10/12/displaying-the-buddypress-admin-bar-in-other-applications/

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 11 months ago]

You could do this by editing the profile template and adding a friends check conditional…

Something like this:

<?php

global $bp;

if (is_user_logged_in() && friends_check_friendship($bp->loggedin_user->id,$bp->displayed_user->id) ) : ?>

SHOW PROFILE CODE IS HERE

<?php else : ?>

<p>You need to be friends with this member in order to view their profile</p>

<?php endif; ?>

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 11 months ago]

Upgrade to the latest version of WPMU and this will be fixed.

If you don’t want to upgrade immediately, you can edit one file to fix it:

https://trac.mu.wordpress.org/ticket/900

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 11 months ago]

I think the general guidelines in the WP thread are good guidelines the BP community could adopt.

Of course, WP has a ton more developers/supporters, but we could start small!

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 11 months ago]

I like the new activity commenting; this is light years better than what we currently have.

I know you’re still working on this, Andy, but forum topics and activity threads are duplicated.

Forum topics / responses should not have activity commenting enabled. If a comment is made, perhaps add it as a forum reply instead?

Great work! I can’t wait for this to be released.

EDIT: Forgot to mention that blog activity comments should be actual blog comments as well… probably a little tricky here. A possible workaround could be to add a “Community Reactions” block to the blog post in question where activity comments would be listed? Kind of like a trackback or something?