[@symm2112 Participant 16 years, 10 months ago]

I tried the plugin but it doesn’t include the ability to embed media. It should work fine if you just need to post but if you need to attach and upload files, I don’t think this one will work.

[@symm2112 Participant 16 years, 10 months ago]

So is there anything that can really be done at the moment on your site? If you can’t work on themes because none are 1.2 compatible except for default right now, and plugins aren’t working because backwards compatibility isn’t there, can you do anything?

[@symm2112 Participant 16 years, 10 months ago]

@marius,

I’m having an issue where when I go to the blog link on my menu bar, it appends whatever link I’m going to. For instance, if I click on the blah group, the url is http://www.blah.com/groups/blah. If I then click on the profile page, my new url is now http://www.blah.com/groups/blah/profile, click on events and then it’s http://www.blah.com/groups/blah/profile/events. Have you ever seen this before and any idea what I need to do to fix it? This is exactly the plugin I need but for my site.

Thanks!

[@symm2112 Participant 16 years, 10 months ago]

I’m almost embarassed that I didn’t realize that. I’ve been so focused on trying to learn or at least understand php that I overlooked and was looking for functions and variables.

Thanks.

[@symm2112 Participant 16 years, 10 months ago]

The gravity forms is the same situation as TDO in that whenver a new group blog is created, before you can use the form, you would have to create the form for it to hook into. With the way you’re talking about, it works beautifully if you’re using this for your main blog, but if you want to use the group blogs, it won’t show up because the forms are blog specific. I played with embedding the form I created into my sub blogs template and kept breaking the site until i realized that the form i created on my main blog did not exist in my sub blog.

I’m following your ideas in here very closely because we’re both in the same situation.

[@symm2112 Participant 16 years, 10 months ago]

@daan77

The reason that option works there is because it’s for posting to the main blog but it doesnt work without manual intervention if a user creates a new group blog. embedding the form on the page doesn’t work because the form is not global, it’s specific to the blog. This means that you have to create a new form for it to work anytime a new blog is created, which defeats the purpose. I found posthaste which doesn’t add the features but at least it can be embedded in your templates that your blogs use so that as soon as it’s created, it can be used.

[@symm2112 Participant 16 years, 10 months ago]

The trac suggestion made a lot of sense but this is what the code is in my header.php. I thought about my situation and the reason I can’t use the global nav option is because with this configuration, the home function seems to work as does the blog slug, but the members, groups, etc all point to sub.domain.com/members, which is obviously wrong since it should be pointing to domain.com/members. I would like to keep the home and blog slugs pointing to where they are, but fix the members and rest of the links to point to my root domain slugs.

<li<?php if ( bp_is_page( ‘home’ ) ) : ?> class=”selected”<?php endif; ?>>” title=”<?php _e( ‘Home’, ‘buddypress’ ) ?>”><?php _e( ‘Home’, ‘buddypress’ ) ?>

<li<?php if ( bp_is_page( BP_HOME_BLOG_SLUG ) ) : ?> class=”selected”<?php endif; ?>>/<?php echo BP_HOME_BLOG_SLUG ?>” title=”<?php _e( ‘Blog’, ‘buddypress’ ) ?>”><?php _e( ‘Blog’, ‘buddypress’ ) ?>

<li<?php if ( bp_is_page( BP_MEMBERS_SLUG ) ) : ?> class=”selected”<?php endif; ?>>/<?php echo BP_MEMBERS_SLUG ?>” title=”<?php _e( ‘Members’, ‘buddypress’ ) ?>”><?php _e( ‘Members’, ‘buddypress’ ) ?>

<?php if ( function_exists( ‘groups_install’ ) ) : ?>

<li<?php if ( bp_is_page( BP_GROUPS_SLUG ) ) : ?> class=”selected”<?php endif; ?>>/<?php echo BP_GROUPS_SLUG ?>” title=”<?php _e( ‘Groups’, ‘buddypress’ ) ?>”><?php _e( ‘Groups’, ‘buddypress’ ) ?>

<?php endif; ?>

I guess these functions are being declared elsewhere but I’m not finding them, even in the functions.php. Any thoughts?

Also, for plugin commander, it’s not so much the plugins that I’m worried about as much as I am wanting to set a standard widget configuration for all sub blogs that get created rather than have them blank on blog creation.

also, on a side not, does anyone know what the wp_content_dir would be on a sub blog? I created a sub blog with a wordpress theme that created thumbnails automatically. The instructions say to upload some folders that it creates them in to wp-content/uploads but obviously there is no wp-content on a sub blog since the files are set to blogs.dir/6. If I put them in that folder, should that read it properly? Is there another variable that I should use to point that to blogs.dir/6/files?

I looked at the bptest.org but I didn’t see anything like the front end I was looking for. Posthaste seems good I just wondered if it was easy/possible to actually put the post box on the site.

Thanks again for all the help.

[@symm2112 Participant 16 years, 10 months ago]

Thanks for this post because what you’re describing, I’ve been basically going through the same motions. We have a band fan site that has been on a single wp install with just news with almost 1300 members. We wanted to give more interaction so we’re converting to buddypress. I really didn’t want them to be able to create blogs so I really just wanted the bp functionality but when I saw that the only group interaction was really just the wire and forums, I wanted a little more. With this thread, I’ve already implemented some of these ideas. I didn’t go with the p2 theme idea because I want the themes alike across all blogs but I did find the posthaste plugin that allows you to add a quick press like post box to the group blog page while still using your existing theme. It doesn’t have the ability to insert images but I’m looking for a workaround on that.

Basically I just wanted to second everything that he’s said in that these ideas are basically to give a little more features than the default bp groups while not giving them full blown access to create blogs.

Thanks for all the ideas everyone!

[@symm2112 Participant 16 years, 11 months ago]

I love this and have implemented the KalturaCE server on my server but when I try to activate the plugin, I get a “missing KS” error. Is this something normal or is there something else I need to do to activate on a KalturaCE server?

Thanks for all you do.

[@symm2112 Participant 17 years, 5 months ago]

I’m having a problem I can’t get around. The integration seemed to go just fine but here is my process.

1. Create a group, including discussions.

2. Forum is created just fine. I can go INTO bbpress and create a topic and see it listed on the group “active forum topics”

3. HOWEVER, if I try to click on the link on the group page to either go to the “see all” link for forums or click on the topic itself, it doesn’t find it. It seems to be a permalink issue. I’m using name based permalinks for bbpress but I’ve tried all of the settings with no luck. It knows that SOMETHING is there, it’s just not creating the right links and I don’t know where it’s going wrong. Has anyone seen this?