[@stwc Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

I just came to your profile to request friending, and you’d sent one to me already! For some reason Private Messaging seems to be broken here at the moment.

One other thing I just noticed — I don’t see a Links filter button on my Sitewide Activity widget, but there’s one on your site… Is there a config page I missed somewhere or maybe a small bug?

[@stwc Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

OK, added it to my site — I must say, I’m very very impressed. If only all plugins were this polished and had as much attention to detail.

Minor bug — on the Links page (for me), the dropdown filter for Link types is misplaced at 1024×768 screensize, but that’s a minor CSS tweak, so no worries.

[@stwc Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

Wow, this looks very very nice. Thanks for the work — I’ll be throwing it into the mix right away!

[@stwc Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

Thanks for the confirmation!

[@stwc Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

Hope that helps — and thanks again! I really want to keep Achievements, and my site’s just starting to ramp up…

[@stwc Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

Another bug report on BP 1.1.2 for Achievements (non-fatal, I think). When inviting new members to an existing group, after selecting the checkbox beside the username and the ajax-indicator finishes spinning, this error appears inline above the new user/avatar in the invites list:

‘Warning: Missing argument 2 for dpa_handle_groupinvitation() in /home/.unger/wonderchicken/jobsee.kr/community/wp-content/plugins/achievements/dp-achievements/dp-achievements-defaultachievements.php on line 187’

[@stwc Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

For what it’s worth, I ended up disabling Facebook connect as I approach site launch. It’s been characterized quite a few times as bare-bones, and it pretty much is. It works great for signups, but allows people to bypass filling out any profile fields, and accounts created using it cannot be logged-in-to once its been disabled (without a manual password reset by the admin).

I’d really (really!) love to see a more integrated, fully-featured version (and may end up putting it together myself eventually if nothing appears and I learn more about how the guts of BP work), one that integrates a little better with BP profiles and allows people to login ‘normally’ to accounts created with it if they want — I think it would be a great tool to smooth the already low speedbump to user account creation, but I got scared about what would happen if I start (as I hope) to get a lot of signups and it breaks in future.

[@stwc Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

Just a bump to hassle you, DJPaul….wondering if you’re still planning a 1.1.1 compatible version (I really like Achievements!)

[@stwc Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

Bummer. I’ve been planning to use FBConnect for user signup ease-of-use, assuming that since Andy Peatling was one of the people credited with its development it was semi-rock-solidish, but if not, then maybe I ought to rethink that…

Guess maybe I’ll try shedmore’s hacks for the moment, although I do have user blog registration enabled. I’d love to hear from anyone who has any ideas for making that bit work along with the FBConnect, too.

[@stwc Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

Thanks for this — waiting for word from DJPaul on this before implementing your hacks, just in case.

[@stwc Participant 16 years, 8 months ago]

Excellent, thanks!

[@stwc Participant 16 years, 8 months ago]

Resolved by changing permalink structure. Very strange, must be a bug, but I’ll take any win at this stage!

More here: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/single-blog-post-display-issue-new-11-install?replies=8#post-25392

[@stwc Participant 16 years, 8 months ago]

Yay, thanks for that. Really weird, but it worked.

My permalinks were set to custom structure:

/blog (not editable)/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/

Setting it to ‘Day and name’ fixed it.

[@stwc Participant 16 years, 8 months ago]

Added info to the ticket.

https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/1164

[@stwc Participant 16 years, 8 months ago]

Also, to respond to the your slightly preremptory response in the other thread, it would seem that it is wise for us, as users, to await some kind of response from dev/mods as to whether something is indeed a bug before posting a new ticket, wouldn’t it? Rather than flooding the trac system with ‘I CAN HAZ CSS’ type problems?

Until just now, the only response offered by mods or anyone to two threads on this topic was the single word comment ‘Link?’ earlier, which implied that maybe you guys’d have more to say on it.

Fair enough. Doing support is enough to make even the sanest among us want to kill puppies, I know.

[@stwc Participant 16 years, 8 months ago]

Right, I have the Trac thingy open in another window and was just coming here to copy the info into a new ticket.

[@stwc Participant 16 years, 8 months ago]

More information in hopes that someone will address this. It is quite clearly a bug somewhere along the line.

Looking at page.php in bp-sn-parent, the loop is simply not running, or not finding any posts.

Throwing in a piece of text before the loop, and that text appears on the page (individual post to the admin blog), fixing the layout, although the post content itself is not displayed.

<div class="page" id="blog-page">

<p>THIS IS SOME STATIC DEBUG TEXT</p>

<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

On the other hand, throw something in after the loop begins, and it gets swallowed like a black hole along with any post content. This

<div class="page" id="blog-page">

<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

<p>THIS IS SOME STATIC DEBUG TEXT</p>

displays nothing.

The really weird thing is that the main page of the blog lists the posts just fine. It’s only when looking at an individual post that it fails.

I’m really trying to be helpful with this bug reporting here: any ideas from anyone?

Come to think of it, I’m a little confused as to why it’s page.php that is running at all in this case, but it absolutely is.

[@stwc Participant 16 years, 8 months ago]

I posted about that yesterday, here, 2 posts down the list. https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/no-output-from-the-loop-on-bp11-admin-blog

Glad to see someone else is having the same issue (sort of). Means I’m not losing my mind!

[@stwc Participant 16 years, 8 months ago]

So, nobody has a similar problem or any ideas? Bummer.

[@stwc Participant 16 years, 8 months ago]

Thanks! I was just going to ask you about it!

[@stwc Participant 16 years, 8 months ago]

Oh dear god, it’s back, but only partly. The blog root at this moment is NOT showing the problem, single posts ARE. I guess this is intermittent, which is even weirder. Colour me completely lost now. Marking the thread back to ‘unresolved’ again.

Linky: http://jobsee.kr/community/blog

[@stwc Participant 16 years, 8 months ago]

I am utterly confused now.

After a couple of hours of futzing around to no avail, I just hit up the page to copy the link for you because I was to lazy to type it out, and the content is suddenly, magically there.

Good result, but I wish I knew why. I’ll mark this as resolved, I guess!

[@stwc Participant 16 years, 8 months ago]

No sweat, and thanks. It works perfectly fine so far, actually, bar that minor bug.

[@stwc Participant 16 years, 8 months ago]

The one thing I’m wondering about, once 1.1 drops (looking forward to tomorrow, Andy!), is how my users (if the site I’m building takes off) will adjust to the overall way of thinking that Buddypress (and social apps in general these days) tend to bring to the fore.

What I mean is that the interaction model is more things-are-presented-to-me and less I-am-searching-for-things. The way my brain works, I tend to organize myself mentally in the latter way — I want to find a piece of information or a conversation or a comment or something, and am hungry for a clear way to get to it. A more static way of viewing the structure, I guess. I’m old.

But Buddypress and (to pick an example, Facebook) are more about the ‘flow’, I think. About jumping in and having ‘oooh shiny!’ moments, and moving more fluidly through the web of interactions.

They’re both perfectly good ways of organizing things, of course, and for the tasks at hand, Buddypress is great. I guess my worry is that it will be confusing for users when it comes to things like forums and the traditional architecture of them, but I’m hoping that with 1.1 it will all come together smoothly. I’m really excited about the future of the app and WP in general, and very hopeful that the site I’m working on (which I’ll pimp when it’s ready, of course) will gather a vibrant userbase. The community I’m targetting really needs it.

Edit: reading this which is, I guess hot-off-the-presses doco, I’m thinking running a traditional forum using bbpress alongside the group-attached forums might be an option, if it’s not too confusing. I’m guessing it’d be pretty easy to port the Buddypress styling over to the ‘sidecar’ forums to make it all look right… we’ll see!

[@stwc Participant 16 years, 8 months ago]

I’m going to be running Buddypress in a subdirectory with subdirs off that for user blogs (if I enable them — still haven’t decided) and I have a couple of other standalone WP installs in other subdirs of the site (off the root) for different parts of the overall site functionality (with a static index page in the root). I’d also love to be able to have the Buddybar show up for registered users in the other WP installs, so any ideas would be a great help.