One final note: the actions look appropriate for removing top level nav items like “My Account”, etc but the Sub Nav items in MyAccount are created in a loop, as are their own Sub Nav items so you’d have to remove them from the source….which I am still looking for
went back and forth trying everything. Deleted the group forums I was able to create that only worked with the wp admin account, now can’t get them back…
Setup a new group, and only then can I create topics that give me an error message saying:
“There was an error posting that topic.”
They do create in forums, but I get an error, and I am not able to create topics or posts with other accounts other than the admin???
hey Chris,
i just find this article below through bluehost tech support. Now we have to figure out where this code exists in WPMU and/or buddypress.
http://helpdesk.bluehost.com/kb/index.php?x=&mod_id=2&id=231
Problem
Why do e-mails from my webpage come from < username > @ < box# > .bluehost.com when I have specified otherwise?
Solution
This is because our servers require you (or your script) to use a properly formatted, valid From: header in your email. If the From: header is not formatted correctly, empty or the email address doesn’t exist on our server, the from address will be changed to <username>@<box#>.bluehost.com. To stop this, you must change the script you are using to correctly use a valid From header.
Examples of headers that should work would be:
From: user@domain.com
From: <user@domain.com>
From: “name” <user@domain.com>
Examples of headers that will NOT work:
From: “user@domain.com”
From: user @ domain.com
Alternative for PHP Users:
– You can also modify which account should be used when sending out using the mail() function. Inside the local php.ini file, you will find a line of code that looks something like this (around line 601):
sendmail_from = mail@yourdomain.com
Be sure to uncomment this by deleting the ‘;’ before the directive. Also, the account you use must be a valid created account.
This setting is turned on. Additionally in the “Options” Menu I have it set to “Enabled. Blogs and User Accounts can be created”
Sub Domains Do Not Work When User Creates Account.
How do I fix this?
I just know from a users perspective that they’re going to forget to write something, and then wonder why they get a big red error message on the next screen, that right now doesn’t tell them why, it just says “There was a problem..” or something similar. I like to idiot-proof things as much as possible.
I don’t see a Groups > Admin link, where is that? And using my User account, when I went to the backend, all that was there was the dashboard and a link to the Profile (WP not BP) / Personal Options section. That’s why I was saying there’s a need for a link in the front end, since Users can create groups but not edit them, unless I’m missing that Groups > Admin link you mentioned.
Thanks for the reply,
I do not have access to server and my host is a friend of mine he is away.
I can access cpanel logs and get the last 300 errors. 300 like this.
6:14 2008] [error] [client **.**.**] File does not exist: /home/blogfred/public_html/wp-content/themes/structure/images/create_account_button.gif, referer: http://blogfred.com/
I can actually create new accounts and login as normal but not able to login to admin or accounts pre WSOD.
You can bite, thanks for asking
I wanted a domain that would some how give the site some sort of identity. For me, Fred is the opposite to John Doe and the “keyword” blog fred had something to do with it.
We’re with ya here plock. Gotta go look at the code and see why that error msg would happen. Hang in there.
Back. Q? Is this your profile wire or a group wire? You said ‘my wire’ so I have to assume it’s your profile wire. Right? Going away again.
Back. Q? Can you create new wire messages in your profile? There isn’t too much difference in the create and delete functions. There is an additional, new kinda security check in the delete function however. It might be getting confused.
Do me a favor. Reload your home page. Start from scratch. From the adminbar go to ‘my account’ > wire (not .. > wire > all posts) and select that from the menu. Try to delete a wire post. Still getting the error?
The only components that pay attention to the new security thing are wire and groups. If groups has a bug setting that security thingy (technical term) or somehow it’s not getting cleared and reset properly, then bp will think that you do not have permission to delete a wire post. It’ll then deliver that error msg.
Try adding a new wire post and then deleting it. Give it a try please.
Sorry, didn’t quite get where you were getting that URL from! Looking at TRAC, it look like andy disabled it because it wasn’t working very well with IE, but didn’t disable the call to add the menu. I will create a ticket on this, but until it is fixed, you can edit:
/bp-xprofile/admin-mods/bp-xprofile-admin-mods.php
on line 9, it has:
add_action( 'admin_menu', 'xprofile_add_account_tab' );
just change that to:
//add_action( 'admin_menu', 'xprofile_add_account_tab' );
Haven’t tested that, but should work.
Trent
my users have no role. the blog they create when they open a account or after they open when they create a new blog it still shows page not found errors when viewing the blog or trying to edit it in any way. I dont want them to be admins at all i just dont understand why buddypress keeps attaching my name to every account i make. The information i also input when making a new member is useless as it is never saved. and must be redid in edit profile.
I’m not sure I understand. Let me say what I think you are saying.
You installed mu and bp. Created some user accounts and then created blogs for each user. You wrote some posts on each of those blogs. The posts are showing up on those blogs as expected.
(I’m back) I just signed up for a blog and posted to my new blog. The new post shows up in the ‘recent’ area on your home theme. When you setup mu those ‘hello world’ posts just show up as part of the install process.
Then you install bp. After bp is installed and working, then your blog posts show up. It doesn’t pick up pre-bp install posts.
Everything seems to be working ok there. You are farther along than others are. Now the real fun begins. 
Oh, I bookmarked your site. Let me keep the blog. I’ll be back. I just want to know what the heck you are doing. I have no idea what that welcome msg implies.
Nope. I’ve reproduced it on windows. Not on linux. I can’t figure out how parts of a member url: (cotreball.com/members/lmmartin) are getting into the group url. Lemme go check some things…
OK. I did reproduce your problem. You are logging into a subdomain on your site. You are going to ‘my account’ > groups > create a group and then do all the steps to create a new group/upload the avatar. I did that and it’s using a trash url to find the avatar. This only happens when you are logging directly in to a subdomain and not the mu root blog.
It’s using the wrong url when it stores the avatar url. It is using your ‘mysite.org/members/lmmartin’ for the url and it should be using ‘mysite.org’. The avs are there, it just thinks they are somewhere else. I’ll put in a ticket to trac. This is fixable now.
Like I said. You are not doing anything wrong. Try logging out. Going to the mu root blog cotreball.com. Logging in there and then creating a group.
When you are viewing your site, not the backend admin area, from the menu bar at the top of the screen My Account > Groups > Create a Group. If you don’t see a menu bar then you have to flip the Site Admin > BuddyPress > Show admin bar for logged out users switch to ‘yes’.
ya i reinstalled and followed the steps carefully during installation now i can create new blog thanks for ur reply friend…
Now how can i create a new user account in local host??
I know that much. Unfortunately all the .htaccess modifications I’ve tried has just redirected me back to the user profile. Like I said, I changed the Blog URL stuff in the MySQL db, but I haven’t gotten anything to work. I’ve already set it up so each user can only have one blog that is created at account setup and is named the same as their username. Can anyone at least point me in the right direction for what files I would need to edit to do something like this?
Thanks.
It’s crudely possible by just setting ‘only user accounts can be created’ in site > options. Then everyone is a ‘subscriber’. mu doesn’t have a variable setting for default user roles. subscribers can only comment on posts. Gonna hafta manually change them to something else.
See: https://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic.php?id=2292
for a discussion on this topic.
I wanna do something similar. I want to create a blog for each group at group creation time (optionally). All group members to have author/contributor roles.
Groups are the most important component in bp for me. Groups should have a wire, forum, and blog. And a bowling league. Bowling leagues are important too.
Make sure the js and css files on your server are set to 755. Everywhere in bp. I just went down to root and did:
chmod -R 755 mu-plugins
from within /wp-content
Also, we would have to create an account on your system to view your profile. Can’t just go look at that url.
Boy, I thought this was going to be a go until I got this: when trying to create a group:
Warning: require_once(/home/ramona/public_html/wp-content/member-themes/buddypress-home/index.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/ramona/public_html/wp-includes/theme.php on line 822
Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required ‘/home/ramona/public_html/wp-content/member-themes/buddypress-home/index.php’ (include_path=’.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php’) in /home/ramona/public_html/wp-includes/theme.php on line 822
I’m logged into buddypress as the admin
I just installed fresh this morning – buddypress-combo
Fresh install of bbpress-1.0-alpha-4
Fresh install of wpmu trunk r1574
As a side note I also got an error trying to access user account, but I’ve posted that elsewhere here.
It looks like it’s almost pudding, but not quite. What am I missing?
nicola if you create this plugin and want to publicize on BuddyPress Italy site u’re welcome.
Another member of BP IT staff is coding a plugin to invite friends from other social network and contact from the mail account like gmail, msn, ecc.
@apeatling
in the read me it say something like enter the “admin” credintials you just created in the wpmu group forum area.
I figured it out quickly (second time), but it should really just say “Administrator” their, because most of us have “admin” as our account on wpmu.
Other than that, everything is pretty simple now. A lot of individual simple steps.
In WPMU site-admin options did you set new registrations to only blogs only which would require you to be logged in and hense stops the ability to create a user account?
Trent
installed, integrated, user created, upgraded to admin, pluggin installed, plugin activated, xml etc enabled, pingbacks enabled, wpmu->group forums updated, group created, (if I missed something in the list I did it…read the install several times) error message received:
“There was an error posting that topic.”
The forum was created for the group
I am running BP on a shared account.
For people that it is not working for: Are you sure the new user you created in bbpress for BuddyPress to use has admin privileges in bbPress? Basically the account that you enter into site admin > group forums?
I replaced the trunk and now I do have a blog button but now my member-theme is not functioning. The template doesn’t show up under site admin > buddypress section or in the actual member site. I created a new database, reinstalled MU and the new trunk but still can’t get the member page running. Which of course when you are on the members site it is the home website and the my account and my blogs don’t work. I get the following error.
Warning: require_once(/home/frugal/public_html/wp-content/member-themes/buddypress-member/index.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/frugal/public_html/wp-includes/theme.php on line 472
The installation is like the first I had I don’t know where to go now with it.
maybe a problem with users permissions? mi admin account can create the blogs and other users not
