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Change the permission on the theme’s folder? Is there a .htaccess file in the theme’s folder? Consider deleting it or commenting out all the lines so it has no effect.
First, forums are generally part of a group. You cannot create forums outside of the group paradigm unless you install bbpress and integrate bbpress with wordpress. Generally you don’t install bbpress and buddypress because buddypress will take over bbpress when you turn on the forum component in buddypress.
Second, if #1 is true then you have to decide what groups you will create or let your users create the groups. You can create groups for each resort, maybe even each board manufacturer, or board style, etc. You have to make those kinds of design decisions yourself or explain to your members how they can create their own groups.
Once you create a group, part of the creation or administration of the group is the decision to enable the discussion forum. Once the forum is enabled, then discussion can take place under that group. Yes all the forums can be listed in a directory, but once you get some traffic your users will click a forum link or topic link and be taken to the group that the forum belons to.
I hope that helps.
There is a plugin by Brajesh that is designed for Activity replies. Not sure if it works for forum replies. Download and try it. http://buddydev.com/plugins/buddypress-activity-comment-notifier/
I also wonder if you couldn’t write the code to respect the site_id similarly to code that enforces security. Where as in security you don’t show something if the user does not have access to it, you could do the same while checking the site_id a user is viewing; if the content does not belong to the site_id I am viewing then it would not be part of the query results, etc.
Something that could help organized a large community is group hierarchy. Meaning large communities are made up of smaller communities and those are a community of groups and those are groups of even smaller groups.
Using Boy Scouts as a metaphor, Boy Scouts of America is divided into Coucils; Councils are divided into Districts; Districts divided into Sponsor Organizations; Sponsor Orgs sponsor Troops, Packs, Ships, Crews, etc. Troops are divided into Patrols, Packs into Dens, etc.
Members of one of the lowest level groups can move among groups at the same level and as the members age they will move into the next level, etc. Members can also be members of multiple groups, but not the same level unless they transfer to one at the same level.
I, too, would love to have this. I settled on WP because of BPs promise to run in wpmu. That promise was inconsistent with the reason for installing wpmu and thus was misleading.
I would hope that the description of bp be changed or the capability to respect the site_id of a multisite install would be reflected in bp some day.
Until then, I am stuck with projects that cannot reach their vision because of limitations “built into” bp. And I am not a strong enough programmer to make the change myself.
Seems to me that ANY plugin, buddypress or otherwise, should have to respect the site_id designation in order to be WPMU or WP3.0 Network certified.
I installed WPMU and buddypress after reading that buddypress was wpmu compatible. Now we find that it really isn’t.
How far off is this capability?
Sorry to hear about your father. My prayers go out for him and for your peace.
I am looking forward to this! AND, after looking around your site (theme is looking good!) I wish you all the best in your endeavor! Your are bringing some creative and honed skills to the recovery community! I hope your site provides the help many people need! God Bless!
Congratulations on your first contribution!
While I love the idea of grouping groups into groups I wonder if you could answer a design question for me?
Why did you not simply add a “parent” column and then provide a dropdown with all the groups in a “parent” selection option when creating any group?
I would want to add someone to the bottom-most group and implicitly they would belong to all parent groups. This option would keep all the group functionality regardless and you would not have had to add extra code decyphering the group “type”. You could email everyone in a “country” group or just a “city” group if that was how they were “linked”.
@seland – is it possible that the extension php_curl is not enabled?
Well, thank you for the insight, however, it did not work when I followed the tutorial step by step exactly either. I moved it after reading and going through the latest upgrade experience of having a modified file deleted upon upgrade. The path was definitely wrong in what I posted and it has been corrected, however, I still do not have my custom language text being used on the site.I want to know what I can add to some php file that will display the status of the language file and provide a better path to explore for fixing this situation.
Thank you for the help.
Thank you for your interest in helping me.
Yes, here is my code:
define( ‘BPLANG’, ‘myrelative’ );
if ( file_exists( ‘/wp-content/bp-languages/bp-family-‘ . BPLANG . ‘.mo’ ) ) {
load_textdomain( ‘buddypress’, BP_PLUGIN_DIR . ‘/wp-content/bp-languages/bp-family-‘ . BPLANG . ‘.mo’ );
}And, yes, I do have the folder and files under the bp-languages folder directly off wp-content rather than under buddypress in order to preserve the modifications.
I just can’t tell if the file is even being loaded and whether there is a problem with it.
@gregfielding – you are getting closer to a vision I have of the “net” – Imagine each person has their own “buddypress” and their friends have theirs – all on separate servers – friends are “linked” across the net via BP – my own activity feeds my friends canonically on their “what are my friends up to” page – my groups can be joined by my friends, but they do not have to be members, just request membership and wha-la they are members of my group – I can send email to the group – each one is separate, I can post updates which send email – etc.
Basically, you completely do away with the behemouth server farms by enabling creation of lite BP cells that are all linked together. How do you make that happen?
@boone – unfortunately I do have trouble on my installs. When I am creating a group – if I check to have a Group Blog while in the create group steps I get an error at the end and the group is not created. If, however, I do not check the Group Blog option during create, but then go to admin settings and Group Blog and check the box after the group is created, the app always creates the Group Blog successfully.
I don’t know if my issue is related to my subdomain choice or something else, I have just found a work around that gets what I want, except for the tabs not working, when I create a new group.
Another option:
Stage 3 – Simply complete the group creatoin process. Make sure everything is completed on the back end so that step does not get overlooked.
Then write some code that will check how many members there are: if there is only one then display some text every time the group is viewed by the one member that says: “No one has joined this group. Invite your friends or check here to no longer see this prompt.” Then add a checkbox that turns this simple prompt on or off.
If the prompt is on then include a link to the Invite Anyone or Send Invites page.
By doing this you would somewhat separate the function of creating groups from the Sending invites. Granted, sending invites is probably something many people would like to do when they create a group but with the current flow this is causing some backend inconsistencies and groups are not actually getting created in the database. My suggestion might eliminate the disconnect?
Question relating to upgrading in general: why do some plugins come back activated to one site when they were activated site-wide prior to clicking Upgrade automatically?
Question relating to upgrading in general: why do some plugins come back activated to one site when they were activated site-wide prior to clicking Upgrade automatically?
I agree, lack of communication has been the biggest problem.
Now we have a word from Erwin.
Interestingly, he did not respond to anyone. Lack of communication.
I am interested to know who the other developers are and whether we have permission from Erwin to continue this work, i.e. do the things he has not time for, etc.
The more people that contribute, the less time each individual will have to give away. Spread the load, let us help or give us permission to take over.
I agree, lack of communication has been the biggest problem.
Now we have a word from Erwin.
Interestingly, he did not respond to anyone. Lack of communication.
I am interested to know who the other developers are and whether we have permission from Erwin to continue this work, i.e. do the things he has not time for, etc.
The more people that contribute, the less time each individual will have to give away. Spread the load, let us help or give us permission to take over.
It actually seems like the Invite-Anyone plugin is able to accommodate almost any type of invitation possibility. Good work. I have always thought that if we are going to woo people away from fb then we will have to have a way to invite and manage invites within buddypress.
Thank you for this plugin.
It actually seems like the Invite-Anyone plugin is able to accommodate almost any type of invitation possibility. Good work. I have always thought that if we are going to woo people away from fb then we will have to have a way to invite and manage invites within buddypress.
Thank you for this plugin.
Hmm . . . perhaps I should not have posted . . . it appears that the plugin is no longer generating the error for me. Sorry about that!
Hmm . . . perhaps I should not have posted . . . it appears that the plugin is no longer generating the error for me. Sorry about that!
I am getting this:
Warning: in_array() expects parameter 2 to be array, null given in M:\webs\the604adventure.org\wp-content\plugins\invite-anyone\invite-anyone\invite-anyone-cssjs.php on line 8
Warning: in_array() expects parameter 2 to be array, null given in M:\webs\the604adventure.org\wp-content\plugins\invite-anyone\invite-anyone\invite-anyone-cssjs.php on line 46
on multiple pages throughout my site. I have updated, no change. This plugin is activated site-wide.
