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I am not trying to compare facebook or ning to BP. I am merely trying to highlight that users will ultimately make comparisons, whether webmasters or developers like it or not.
Most casual users of the internet are you used to the facebook experience where you do everything from the front end. Lets say if i want to use Buddypress to set up an organic farming community for example I am going to have many of my users getting confused with having a backend and a front end and all of the options and admin stuff in the backend.
Most of my users of my hypothetical site are 40 to 50 somethings who hardly know the difference between the front end and the back end and have only recently discovered Facebook. So I will find them struggling and complaining with using the site. So I will have to set up my network on Ning instead, where so many other 40 to 50 somethings have setup groups. It would be better for me to have my own private site but what choice do I have.
Buddypress is an excellent idea but having it religiously follow the dogma of wordpress when its aimed at being a platform for community sites, is ultimately going to cause some issues. All I am merely suggesting is tailoring WP to make it fit to the requirements of users.
Obviously human politics creep in everywhere and as a result this as well as technicalities Andy has his hands tied when it comes to forking WP for example. So why not turn BP into a separate project all together by integrating BP and WPMU into one package and stripping out some of the WP centric things like most of the backend. It can still say based on WPMU on the box but it won’t look and feel so much like WP to the end user if you see where I am getting at.
After all how many people who use BP will also want to use the WPMU only features on their site. Once you set up a social network you can’t go back to just being a multi-user blogging site. So stripping out the WP centric features surely won’t be an issue in the context of running a social network.
This is a serious issue! Its the weekend so everyone is probably relaxing hopefully when the week starts we will see a solution come out.
@Nexia I hear you but nothing is set in stone and politics shouldn’t get in the way. Why can’t Automitic consider then forking WordPress to create a standalone BP with most of the interfacing hooked into the front end.
The worst thing to happen is to have users complain that this isn’t as simple to use as Facebook or even Ning.
This is a good idea, perhaps an Ajax popup or a standard form so that the functionality is like Facebook with no backend. Unfortunately sites like Myspace and Facebook have kind of set the standard that is expected for useability for end users. Some of my members find the WP backend a bit too technical and complex, some couldn’t even post because they didnt know where to start.
I am going to start another thread suggesting this to see what everyone thinks. Even though Buddypress is giving me some headaches I am starting to see its future potential especially for micro communities.
As we say here in South Africa “Eish!” (pronounced “aysh” and no its not a swearword)
I checked everything and my users blogs are all set to public. Even the root blog seems inaccessible which why I presume I can’t even see the “front page” with all the widget areas, the only thing that is working is the groups section
Heres how I ended up in this pickle:
I have had some issues here and there with 1.1.x but otherwise everything was working fine before I migrated to 1.2…
Then I decided to updgrade to 1.2 without checking to see if there would be issues. Immediately after the upgrade I had some problems where my theme was broken. It didn’t occur to me that 1.1.x themes might be incompatible with 1.2 and so I thought it was my theme. I was getting an error saying that “bp_group_pagination_count() ” does not exit in “mytheme/groups/group-loop.php”
Upon inspecting the logs and looking in the trunk code in TRAC I discovered what I though to be typos in the code. The code in “groups/ground-loop.php” in TRAC said actually called a function with the “bp_groups_pagination_count() ” note the change from “group” to “groups” in the function name. So I thought I had it sorted. I edited my them and changed the function call to bp_groups_pagination_count() and all seemed well except that I couldn’t see my user blogs or my other pages ( which have custom slugs). I also noticed that when I visit my site it lands me on the “groups” section.
So I deactivated 1.2 and deleted it using the backend thinking that if I completely remove my upgraded BP 1.2 and start from scratch it would all be good. Then I went to install “new plugins and to the search to search for buddypress and then I installed 1.2 all over again. I also installed the backwards compatibility plugin which I updated just now as well. Then I started to get the same problem and noticed that I couldn’t even edit the root blogs posts from the backend and neither can the users edit their blogs.
After scratching my head I went to go and look within the database tables and I can see that the posts are still there, so its clearly and issue with rendereding the content through BP. Because when I deactivate BP press completely and go back to Kubrick I can suddenly see all my content by going to the links to the different pages directly.
So my site is in limbo at the moment ,which is all part of the fun I guess. I hope that helps you Andy and whoever else is looking into this.
No doubt the other users will have followed a different path to get to where I am but I feel its something to do with the migration to BP 1.2 that has somehow altered some data somewhere that effects the output when BP is active together with the backwards compatibility plugin
I have determined my problem is due to the fact that I upgraded to 1.2 and my custom these is 1.1.x compatible.
Where can I find a guide for what needs to be changed in my theme to make it 1.2 compatible, because when I go to my site it doesnt show the frontpage anymore but goes straight to the Groups Page.
I can’t even view some of the other pages either.
Ive done the upgrade from 1.1.3 and I have this same problem, buddpyress is giving me endless issues.
I have tried deleting and then reinstalling the plugin and the problem is even worse now the site is completely dead
I have been looking through the sources and I see there are typos in the names of the functions being called! and I’m slowly but surely working my way through them
Spam is becoming a serious threat to Buddypress. We need to create a dedicated Spam section to help people fight it.
Ever since I posted my site here in the showcase thread I suddenly had a flood of spam
Hi thanks. I will check it out. The reason I asked why nobody was helping was that I posted threads about this in the past month and they never got responded to so I have been patient.
Now I tried reinstalling buddypress and I am still getting the problem. Fatal error with no indication of what the error is. Its messing up my site. Could it be a WPMU problem.
Here is my post on another thread regarding the same issue: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/cannot-activate-bp-12-fatal-error-cannot-redeclare-bp_loader_activate
How come nobody can give me any insite into whats going on. I’m seriously getting stuck and wanting to abandon buddypress for some other system.
I am having major problems with spam as well. Ironically it started as soon as I put my link in the showcase thread on this forum. I think the spam bots are looking there for easy targets as well.
Why do people make spambots that don’t even advertise stuff and just waste everyone’s time filling sites with meaningless crap. Is it like they are trying to sabotage Buddypress?
How does one submit domains and sites and IP addresses to spam traps.
Here is the original thread I posted when it happened.I couldn’t find it through search??!! I had to go through old posts to find it. Can anyone shed some light on this?
This is exactly what I have had. I created another thread about this. What happened in my case was that after updating from WPMU 2.8.x <2.8.9 to the latest WPMU 2.9.1 I still get a fatal error. However it doesnt say anything about not being able to redeclare bp_loader_activate() any more it just says fatal error like I have highligthed in my other post.
Where in the database does BP retrieve the link for the avatar?
Am I correct to assume that the url to the avatar is somehow stored in the DB as part of the users profile. What is the name of that field?
What I am actually looking at is having a way (regardless of using Open ID or or) to have members who sign up to one buddypress site I own, automatically become members of other sites I want to set up.
Then different social networks could aggregate together. Sort of like a buddypress multisite. In otherwords what wordpress mu is to wordpress, I am looking for something that will allow me to host several social networks under one container and you automatically have access to the others.
Kind of like Ning, but without Ning, because I could set everything up on Ning, but I don’t like my data being owned by a third party.
If we could develop a on containter for buddypress multisites and then a way to link those containers together and provide openID integration a lot of bases could be covered. What do you guys say? If you catch what I mean.
You can go into the header.php file in your template and do it in there
<li<?php if ( bp_is_page( BP_MEMBERS_SLUG ) ) : ?> class="selected"<?php endif; ?>><a href="<?php echo get_option('home') ?>/<?php echo BP_MEMBERS_SLUG ?>" title="<?php _e( 'Members', 'buddypress' ) ?>"><?php _e( 'Members', 'buddypress' ) ?></a></li>You can change
_e( 'Members', 'buddypress' ) ?>"><?php _e( 'Members', 'buddypress' )to
_e( 'Analyists', 'buddypress' ) ?>"><?php _e( 'Analysts', 'buddypress' )bump
I know exactly what you mean. IE has always been terrible with standards and full of bugs.
Make sure you remove any commented out selectors from your CSS as IE ignores the fact that you commented them out.
Your best bet is to use a separate style sheet for IE browsers. You can do this by adding conditional comments inside <head>
<!--[if IE6]>
put you stylesheet link here for IE 6 only
<![endif]-->or you could use this to detect browser higher than IE6
<!--[if gte IE 6]>
put you IE 6 and above stylesheet here.
<![endif]-->Only IE parses these conditional comments so firefox, chrome etc will ignore them.
This works pretty well and allows you to support many browsers. Remember Firefox is more of a power user thing. Most lay people tend to use what comes in the box ie IE. So you can expect to see a lot of IE6 and IE7 browsers visiting your site.
Very nice colinloretz. Did you do a custom core in Ruby on Rails or did you use an existing framework like Community Engine. I have only dabbled in the past with Ruby on Rails and am looking at dabbling further. What made you make the switch from ROR to Buddypress? Curious to know.
Same here I have been looking at doing a rewrite of the dashboard side for users, because not everyone is a seasoned wordpress user.
I just posted in another thread a similar issue. After upgrading one of my user’s avatars is completely blank. When you inspect the page source what do you see in the img tag for that user. In my case the src=”” which means that nothing displays
I also have a strange problem. All my users have their avatars showing except for one member who has nothing at all and just the alt attribute displaces. When I check the page source to see what BP is spitting out I see for this one particular user the src attribute of the img tag for the image is null (” “).
I presume this user tried uploading their own avatar and it failed somehow. I am trying to get the users avatar to defualt to mystery man but I can’t seem to find where to do it.
Any suggestions
This is an interesting topic, one that concerns me too because I have been looking at the various options out there. I must say that BP is still somewhat in its infancy, I have been waiting for another project to open up their codebase namely Anahita Social engine, but maybe its me I just don’t like it when things get built on top of eachother and that project appears to be built on top of Joomla. BP is also built on WPMU and I am still trying to see if that will be a good or bad thing.
What concerns me is when things get built on top of eachother that it opens up security holes. WordPress itself has had its fair share of vulnerabilities but has proven to be a good platform so I having something built on top of that is something I am ok to live with.
Something I have been looking at is Community Engine which a Ruby on Rails (ROR) based community engine as the name says. Anyone got any experience with that?
Well done on the book. It sounds really cool. There aren’t enough Buddypress themes out there. I am working on a custom parent theme, would like to share it once its done but its nowhere near ready for release.
Why don’t you set up a website and put that address in the book and then link to or keep copies of the theme on your site. That way if sites go offline you won’t end up with dead links in your published work.
How about trying this http://wpmudev.org/project/featured-blog-widget
