[@sbrajesh Participant 16 years, 11 months ago]

hi Donnacha

Let me clarify first.

It is not the case.the bleeding version of Buddypress can be installed from the downloaded archive from

https://trac.buddypress.org/browser/trunk

I have done it successfully on my local windows install(I run your great work wpmu on my local windows for testing )

Please try uploading a stable release of buddypress in wp-content/plugins and see ,if it is appearing ?

If not,then must have something to with the server,

If yes, then further investigation will be required,may be a word from Andy or someone who has done it on Mac will be great.

[@sbrajesh Participant 16 years, 11 months ago]

you are most welcome

[@sbrajesh Participant 16 years, 11 months ago]

no,the forum(the one which you have not installed externally) is associated with groups.

When you create a group and allow associating forums with it, you can manage that forum from the Group admin screen.

That’s what Xevo pointed.

Hope It helps.

[@sbrajesh Participant 16 years, 11 months ago]

the problem seems to be because of multibyte character set(As far as the error is showing).

here is a similar problem reported for forum and Andy suggested to upgrade to php5.

https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/658

Checkout there

Hope it helps

[@sbrajesh Participant 16 years, 11 months ago]

hi Donnacha

I tried the trunk version on revision 2163.

If you are logged in as site admin,the buddypress will be listed in your plugins,if you are logged in as normal admin,It will not be listed in your plugins.

Hope it helps.

[@sbrajesh Participant 16 years, 11 months ago]

ok,here are my thoughts and I will like to go into more details,so would love to hear from everyone of you who has / or is facing this issue.

1.De activate buddypress/buddypress dependent plugin

2.Upgrade buddypress

3.activate it sitewide .

I hope,if you de activated it before upgrading,activation will not generate error,as I have tried on 3 different installs,and I believe the root cause of the error is the sitewide activated plugin upgrade mechanism.

So,It will help everyone ,if the people who go through this ,post their experiences here.May be it can help in investigating further the causes.

[@sbrajesh Participant 16 years, 11 months ago]

this is not a problem.

Please remove/delete the older one (you had renamed) and go again to plugins.activate the new one.

btw ,there will be a small information saying buddypress v 1.1.3 on the plugins page,you may look for that

Edit:This is my reply for your previous post about redundancy,I just found your new post too.

[@sbrajesh Participant 16 years, 11 months ago]

is buddypress 1.1.3 or any prior version is in mu-plugins dir.

It will be better ,if you can post the complete error.

like unable to declare in /home/myaccount/whatever/wp-content/plugin/bp-activity style.

[@sbrajesh Participant 16 years, 11 months ago]

Well,I had seen this issue so many times,so I experimented.

If your plugin is activated sitewide(which is almost true in case of buddypress) ,It is going to give you at least one such error(try with other sitewide activated plugins by upgrading them).

So this is not an issue with the buddypress but the problem is with the updating/activation of site wide activated plugins in wpmu as far as I see.

Easy work around(if you don’t want to see this problem)

1.Login to dashboard

2.deactivate buddypress

3.upgrade buddypress

4.Activate again

You will never find this problem again.

[@sbrajesh Participant 16 years, 11 months ago]

obviously yes.Just turnoff the blogging and let the users register for the username only.So you have all the features except the blogging there.

and as far as server requirement is concerned,when blogging is turned off,the database size is small enough for your server and load is just ok ok.

Again,this is what I think with my experiences, and I think,wpmu+buddypress is best suited for your need(better than elgg ,as the wp community is much more versatile than the limited options available with elgg).

[@sbrajesh Participant 16 years, 11 months ago]

for default theme, you can look here

bp-sn-parent/status/post-form.php

here you will see the line and the code for the form.If you are using different theme(other than bp-default ,checkout yourtheme/status/post-form.php

It should be there.

[@sbrajesh Participant 16 years, 11 months ago]

have a look at this plugin.

It should be helpful

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-profile-filters-for-buddypress/

[@sbrajesh Participant 16 years, 11 months ago]

well,The userbar and options bar are included in header.php using the following code

<?php if ( !bp_is_blog_page() && !bp_is_directory() && !bp_is_register_page() && !bp_is_activation_page() ) : ?>



<?php locate_template( array( 'userbar.php' ), true ) /* Load the user navigation */ ?>

<?php locate_template( array( 'optionsbar.php' ), true ) /* Load the currently displayed object navigation */ ?>



<?php endif; ?>

Check your header.php and you can remove it from there or assign somewhere else.

For editing userbar/optionsbar ,have a look at the userbar.php and the optionsbar.php

Check out them and change manually as you want.

[@sbrajesh Participant 16 years, 11 months ago]

hey,well,I guess,A little experimentation is required.

I am leaving for today ,so will take a look at it tomorrow and post the sample.

anyone else till then ,if you know post please,

[@sbrajesh Participant 16 years, 11 months ago]

great

[@sbrajesh Participant 16 years, 11 months ago]

ok,so here you go.

The links are displayed by

bp_get_displayed_user_nav()

You can modify it using the following code inside your functions.php

global $bp;

if(!bp_is_home())

$bp->bp_nav[110]=array ( 'name' => 'test','link' => 'test/', 'css_id' =>'test','show_for_displayed_user' => 1 ,'position' => 110 );

replace test with your link/component name

Then create some function to handle the link,as shown in the example component.

Again remember,when you are viewing other’s profile ,the function

bp_get_loggedin_user_nav()

and

bp_get_displayed_user_nav()

Uses same global variable

$bp->bp_nav

to render the navigation,so The link will appear in the userbar for logged in user and in the options bar for the displayed profile.

Have a look at the code of the two above mentioned methods to look for a workaround.

[@sbrajesh Participant 16 years, 11 months ago]

well, you can ,but it is hardcoded in the bp-activity/bp-activity-templatetags.php

Open this file

and take a look at the function

bp_activity_template

You will see something there

like

$this->pag_links = paginate_links( array(

'base' => add_query_arg( 'acpage', '%#%' ),

'format' => '',

'total' => ceil( (int)$this->total_activity_count / (int)$this->pag_num ),

'current' => (int)$this->pag_page,

'prev_text' => '«',

'next_text' => '»',

'mid_size' => 1

));

Change the mid_size value from 1 to what ever you want.

Hope it helps.

[@sbrajesh Participant 16 years, 11 months ago]

hi

That thing(adding extra menu to options bar) is possible(well,I think so),But The options bar is component dependent when a user is logged in and is on his/her profile.So how do you plan to add extra item to option bar,for which component you want to add this extra nav there ?

[@sbrajesh Participant 16 years, 11 months ago]

yeh,Travel-Junkie is right.There should be no clash between the name of functions declared in parent theme’s functions.php and child theme’s functions.php

[@sbrajesh Participant 16 years, 11 months ago]

look at the optionsbar.php and userbar.php inside your theme directory

[@sbrajesh Participant 16 years, 11 months ago]

Is that a premium theme ?,I don’t have access to it,so my opinion may not be good enough.But I hope,you can achieve it using the following approach.

1.Do some css modification,that can help you to make it 2 column

if not then.

Look at the function

bp_get_the_profile_field_options in bp-xprofile-templatetags.php, Here resides the logic for what you are looking for.

But Note,editing this is not a good idea,so better try it using css.

[@sbrajesh Participant 16 years, 11 months ago]

wow,that’s great Andy

[@sbrajesh Participant 16 years, 11 months ago]

Well, This component is excellent at showing you how to add the links in userbar/options bar have a look at

bp_example_setup_nav() ,It is doing the same you want,but for a dummy thing.

bp_core_new_nav_item,this is the methods which allows to to add links to user bar.Investigate a little more, you will see show it works

[@sbrajesh Participant 16 years, 11 months ago]

btw,try to re save the permalink ,and It will be hopefully solved.

try this

Dashboard->settings->permalink

and just click save.

Go and check,this should solve your problem.In WordPress Mu 2.8.x I have seen this as a common issue and after re saving the permalink ,the problem went away most of the times.

[@sbrajesh Participant 16 years, 11 months ago]

Yes, you are right.You need to create a custom component.

here is a great way to start.

Download the skeleton component from here and have a look, you will see ,how can you do it.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-skeleton-component/