[@rogercoathup Participant 16 years ago]

BuddyPress only has very limited forum support. A bbpress plugin beta was scheduled for Sept 15 but has not materialised yet.
You are right that this site’s support area would be better served by an independent forum implementation. It’s very difficult to follow threads and find previously discussed topics.

[@rogercoathup Participant 16 years ago]

@hnla – Might work well on the home page – you log in, and the sidebar immediately shows you a set of posts that are targeted to your interests.

Personalised content if you like.

It’s a useful snippet of code to bring posts relevant to some metadata (in this case an interests list). You could see it in other scenarios, e.g. you create a group about “Liquorice Allsorts” and a routine like this could pull in all relevant blog posts.

@tak5haka – impressed you stuck with it through the upgrade issues.

[@rogercoathup Participant 16 years ago]

amongst other things, you are doing an assignment there (, not a test for equality (=. Bracketing the logical parts that belong together would also make your code easier to read.

[@rogercoathup Participant 16 years ago]

@rossagrant – cartoons were in house by the client.

[@rogercoathup Participant 16 years ago]

@anindyaray – to write your own theme for BuddyPress, you will need to have a basic knowledge of PHP. The PHP ‘if’ statement is fairly fundamental.

Checking the tutorial on the PHP site would be a good start: http://www.php.net/manual/en/index.php – then your questions on here can be BuddyPress specific, rather than PHP, allowing this forum to help you (and others) more effectively

[@rogercoathup Participant 16 years ago]

Just when you are logged out

[@rogercoathup Participant 16 years ago]

merci @Chouf1 – oui, notre client a des problèmes avec le RSS feed

[@rogercoathup Participant 16 years ago]

stats plugins can also be a big problem

[@rogercoathup Participant 16 years ago]

Search this forum.. It’s a known problem with the 1.2.6 upgrade

[@rogercoathup Participant 16 years ago]

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/buddypress-1-2-6-adds-extra-padding-top/

Solution towards bottom of the thread

[@rogercoathup Participant 16 years ago]

put this in the gallery group

[@rogercoathup Participant 16 years ago]

You should set your slugs in wp-config.php

Comments should be fine in bp-custom.php – there must some error in the way you have the file set up

Ps you are right that functions.php is theme specific, and bp-custom.php is install wide. However there are also order of invocation issues.. They don’t happen at the same place in the initialisation.

For slug and URL mods have a read of the documentation on here

[@rogercoathup Participant 16 years ago]

@pcwriter

No, any new template tags will not be recognised by your 1.2.5.2 installations.

I’m dismayed by the 1.2.5.2 -> 1.2.6 decision making – with users unable to use 1.2.5.2 themes on 1.2.6. You’d expect some new features in a minor subversion upgrade, some additional template tags you could take or leave, but not for the behaviour of key regularly used functions to be changed overnight (e.g. the multiple friend button issue).

It’s been an issue for us with how on earth we can handle existing bespoke client implementations, but you raise another problem for generic theme developers – you’d have to have two versions of your theme.

[@rogercoathup Participant 16 years ago]

remove the space from the username – not sure how you managed to get one in the first place; I thought BuddyPress prevented usernames with spaces

[@rogercoathup Participant 16 years ago]

Did you look in the documentation section before posting, or use the search?

This has been covered many times in the forums, and there are sections to read in the Codex Documentation on how to check your site is configured properly.

e.g.
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/users-are-not-receiving-mail-on-registration/

[@rogercoathup Participant 16 years ago]

@pcwriter – Yes, the performance thing was interesting.

Quoting his SEO recommendations (@mikey3d) as though he were an authority, wasn’t so clever.

Here’s a link from seomoz.org (they make their money knowing about SEO): http://www.seomoz.org/knowledge/url – they are also open to reasoned debate about whether they are right or wrong!

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As for your link problem – that’s because your activity stream items are ‘compiled’ when the activity was created – not when it is displayed – when it was created, you had your old permalink structure (so, that’s what got displayed).

It’s more luck, rather than design, that Otto’s permalink structure also maps your old permalink structure to the same pages as your new structure. I’d happily take the lucky break though!

My thoughts:-
If you don’t have a lot of activity already, and don’t expect a huge huge site (with performance worries!) – then go for the SEO friendly (/%category%/%postname%/), and accept a few of the old permalinks won’t work.
If not, stick with the Otto settings that are working at the moment

[@rogercoathup Participant 16 years ago]

Your site was working fine when I went to it… clicking through to the profile worked without problem from the members directory.

Note: though your url is wrong in this thread… there should be a space (%20) between the “the%20duke”.

Which edit menu is giving you the problem? Maybe that one is stripping out spaces.

As a warning, I’d always be cautious about allowing usernames (not display names) with spaces

[@rogercoathup Participant 16 years ago]

And is it the activated theme on your BuddyPress site?
Do the other BuddyPress links work.. Members, groups, activity?
Hover over your profile link – which URL is it trying to send you to?

[@rogercoathup Participant 16 years ago]

It would be fine, if Otto wasn’t misinformed about SEO. Having a meaningful category name in there does help, and having your postname (keyword rich) as close as possible to start of the URL helps.

Either that, or seomoz, and lots of other SEO experts are completely wrong.

[@rogercoathup Participant 16 years ago]

Try changing your permalinks to /%category%/%postname%/

Can you do that, or do you get an error message?

If successful, do BuddyPress links now work
If not, you need to configure your server correctly for WordPress before using BuddyPress

[@rogercoathup Participant 16 years ago]

Have you installed / activated a BuddyPress compatible theme, eg bp-default, on your BuddyPress site?

[@rogercoathup Participant 16 years ago]

have you used firebug to inspect?

Which theme are you using? Have you tried with bp-default?

Does it show in safari / ie / chrome?

One thought.. Is the table marked up correctly? V4 of firefox is much stricter re: table markup needing to be valid. Have a search of firefox site for details on that one

[@rogercoathup Participant 16 years ago]

Did you look in the documentation on this site before posting?

Look at BuddyPress template tags in the documentation section.

[Edit: having told you to look there, the function you actually need is missing. Try bp_is_my_profile()]

[@rogercoathup Participant 16 years ago]

it should be including jQuery v1.4.2 fully.

If you have a problem with append, it’s probably the way you are using it. It’s impossible to tell though unless you post more information about your configuration, javascript and error message.

[@rogercoathup Participant 16 years ago]

if you are just changing text:

https://codex.buddypress.org/buddypress-site-administration/customizing-labels-messages-and-urls/