[@tracedef Participant 16 years, 11 months ago]

I have the integration set up but each time a new group is created I have to repeat step 8, I have to uncheck and save “enable forums” and then recheck and save again for forums to work…. is this normal?

[@tracedef Participant 16 years, 11 months ago]

Getting the same error on new signups.

http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a22/tracedef/257error.png

WPMU 2.7.1

BuddyPress 1.0.1

LiteSpeed

[@tracedef Participant 16 years, 11 months ago]

@Burt: Thanks, I tried that setting already but when users try to register at my register page they get, “You must first login, and then you can create a new blog. ” …. So they aren’t allowed to register a new account…. any ideas?

[@tracedef Participant 16 years, 12 months ago]

In a similar post Andy said that it was basically just CSS changes if somebody wanted to give it a go. He didn’t offer up the code, but basically said go for it, it somebody wanted to take the time to do it…

[@tracedef Participant 17 years ago]

Can someone confirm that they are not having issues with new groups posting to group forums without using the settings hack above?

[@tracedef Participant 17 years ago]

Thanks Burt, that did the trick!

The clarify, this adds a menu link to user’s profile page when they are logged in using their name as the anchor text. Then it adds the “selected” class to dynamically highlight the link only when the user is on their profile page, otherwise there is no “selected” class and the link is not highlighted ….

Thanks again.

T

Final Code:

<?php if ( is_user_logged_in() ) {



if ( bp_is_home()) { ?>



<li class="selected"><?php bp_loggedinuser_link () ?></li>

<?php } else { ?>

<li ><?php bp_loggedinuser_link () ?></li>



<?php }

} ?>

[@tracedef Participant 17 years ago]

Is the bbPress 1.0 Release Candidate ok, or is stepping back to alpha 6 required?

[@tracedef Participant 17 years ago]

It definitely looks awesome and moving the nav bars to the top makes a lot of sense in terms of utilizing space a little bit better… the default theme is awesome as well though, Andy and whomever was involved with that did a great job…. which isn’t always the case with default themes….

[@tracedef Participant 17 years, 1 month ago]

Done. thanks!

[@tracedef Participant 17 years, 1 month ago]

Also noticed that <?php bp_page_title() ?> doesn’t play well with All in One SEO Pack or Platinum SEO pack if titles are set to be re-written as all BP pages then have no titles……

[@tracedef Participant 17 years, 1 month ago]

Another though regarding SEO, when a user goes to their profile >blogs > recent posts, all of their posts are repeated verbatim, creating a second copy of each post in addition to the original post on the user’s blog.domain.com blog. It would be a good idea to noindex / follow these pages or better yet, include only titles to prevent duplicate content….

[@tracedef Participant 17 years, 1 month ago]

I ended up simply pasting the index.php code into home.php … hope this helps someone else….

[@tracedef Participant 17 years, 2 months ago]

Correction:

<?php if ( is_user_logged_in() ) {

if ( strpos($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], "/members/{$current_user->user_login}/") !== false ) { ?>



<li class="selected"><?php bp_loggedinuser_link () ?></li>

<?php } else { ?>

<li><?php bp_loggedinuser_link () ?></li>



<?php }

} ?>

[@tracedef Participant 17 years, 2 months ago]

Thanks! I don’t know how to make a function, but I did get help from Ron at musupport.net…. this is what we ended up with. I like it because it personalizes the link with the persons name which is a strong call to action for them to look at their own profile and notice a lot of the functionality that otherwise goes unnoticed if you are just looking at the groups, members or blogs pages……:

<?php if ( is_user_logged_in() ) {

if ( $displayed_userid == $current_user->ID ) { ?>



<li class="selected"><?php bp_loggedinuser_link () ?></li>

<?php } else { ?>

<li><?php bp_loggedinuser_link () ?></li>



<?php }

} ?>

[@tracedef Participant 17 years, 2 months ago]

I had this same question…. keep hearing that for full integration BBPress and BP must use same database. I had originally installed in separate db’s because keeping them separate seemed to make more sense to me…

[@tracedef Participant 17 years, 2 months ago]

Hmmm. Interesting feedback. I haven’t launched our site yet, but was initially using the “allow users to choose password” plugin above but then took it off…. I will have to reconsider… I figured most websites just generate the password for you, so usability should be the same, but now that I think about it, I’m wrong… most websites actually let you choose….. at least the ones I’m recollecting do…I’m sure there are exceptions…

[@tracedef Participant 17 years, 3 months ago]

Yep, I was confused about this for a little while too… if BP can’t find register.php in your home theme it defaults to wp-signup.php….. should have known to make sure all BP files had an equivalent in the theme I was building…

[@tracedef Participant 17 years, 3 months ago]

I would try activating default Buddypress theme and see if the issue still occurs so that you can be sure it is not an issue with your theme…

[@tracedef Participant 17 years, 3 months ago]

J.

Good answer! Now I can get on to finding some other way to break stuff! Thanks for the help.

[@tracedef Participant 17 years, 3 months ago]

Yeah, was down yesterday too….

[@tracedef Participant 17 years, 3 months ago]

Mine does the same thing… I was thinking it might be because my buddypress is not in the root, it is at /community/ or because my blog is at /blog/ …. changing my blog to /blog/ did require me to get creative because example.com/wp-register came up with a blank page but if I went to example.com/blog/wp-register/ it worked ok….. not sure if this helps or is even related…

[@tracedef Participant 17 years, 3 months ago]

I haven’t even looked at my own site yet, was looking at testbp.org … afraid to see what mine looks like after I’ve had my way with it and integrating the buddyrpress-home into my existing theme….. I would do the work myself but I am sooooo painfully slow… there’s probably nothing I hate more than css browser compatibility….

[@tracedef Participant 17 years, 3 months ago]

I haven’t even gotten to IE6 yet, testbp.org has issues in IE7 …. there’s no black or white here, it isn’t cross browser compatible…. I would post screenshots, but why? Just take a look for yourself….be sure to change browser widths as well….from the text on buttons falling off of buttons to columns eating each other and beyond… you wouldn’t build a website for a client with these defects would you? For that reason, these issues will be fixed, whether it is here or within the natural progression of the BP build….

Also, ignoring IE6 is not an option for most…for the obvious reasons….

[@tracedef Participant 17 years, 3 months ago]

Regarding Databases… I’m thinking that performance will be better for installs with lots of users if BBPress is kept on its own database…. let me know if my thinking is wrong here….

[@tracedef Participant 17 years, 3 months ago]

Awesome, working on it now…. also, I’m assuming that you start off with a new database for BBPress and only integrate for the user tables? In step two of BBPress setup, the last checkbox is for “Show advanced database settings” and says “If your bbPress and WordPress installation do not share the same database, then you will need to add advanced settings.” ….. we don’t want to share the same database for the installs do we?