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@sbrajesh

It would actually be very cool if users could have options to change background image or color, either just in their profile or, click, apply the change to the whole site.

@sbrajesh – Now you’ve done it. We’re cooking up with more feature requests
… add option to change background for groups as well?
Thank you.

@sbrajesh

Thanks. I’ll give those additional snippets a try tomorrow

@mercime, thank you
@naijaping thanks. That is easily achievable. If you are using Bp-default theme, you can use this code in your functions.php
https://gist.github.com/1034872
That should do it.

Thank you @sbrajesh. Just tested it and it’s working as advertised, cool.

@pcwriter
Thanks Patrick. Will sure do that in update. It was something I did in an hour, so could not do much.
btw, you can do your own css section using some code (here is an example)
https://gist.github.com/1034853

just putting that in functions.php or bp-custom.php and you can modify it

@LPH2005

@mercime beat me to it… darn these beautiful days and my bicycle!

@sbrajesh

Nice job… works great! You da man… as usual
Maybe an update could include an option to have the chosen background image stay fixed on screen or scroll with pages?

@mercime

In your case I think it’s impossible.

As I know, you can only make multiple wordpress installation with single login only if you are using a single database. Therefore, if you want there is BuddyPress with a single user credential on each WordPress installation, then it’s only possible if you are also using a single database.

Hi Folks – this thread seems to have answered a similar question. I had BP installed and then just activated WPMU. I noticed BP only works on the main site and this thread appears to confirm that you can only have one instance of BP correct?

Are there any plans to expand that to work with all the sites made with WPMU or is that not something that would work?

It’s because the number of words/characters in the excerpts are not the same. Since you’re using a child theme of premium Genesis theme, I suggest that you get the free support included in your purchase of the theme/child theme and inquire about how to increase/decrease number of words/characters in the featured excerpts. While you’re there, might as well get find limits for the title for featured articles as well since there could be times where your post title would be longer than one line.

An alternative would be as simple as making changes to your stylesheet to set the height of the featured article containers so assuming you’ve got the same number of articles on the left as well as on the right, all will be leveled to same height. In your case, add something like this to your child theme’s stylesheet:

`#content .featuredpost .post {
height: 150px;
position: relative;
}`

`#content .featuredpost .post a.more-link {
position: absolute;
bottom: 5px;
right: 5px;
}`

Adjust height of `#content .featuredpost .post` to taste.

EDIT – @hnla, here I go again, took too much time to answer the question

@pcwriter ‘s https://buddypress.org/community/groups/add-all-nav-links-to-bp-adminbar/

@BlueInkAlchemist – I would download a copy of BuddyPress and then manually re-upload files via FTP or cpanel, etc. Only activate BP and with the bp-default theme, check if yoursite.com/register goes to default BP registration page.

If you mean reinstalling WP from scratch, then information in DB will not be preserved unless you back up DB and save to your computer.

Did you by any chance, install WP manually or did you install WP via webhost script like fantastico or simplescripts, etc? Those webhost scripts have been the bane of some WP installs which have problems or cannot upgrade to multisite or which get major hiccups making BuddyPress work in their install. In that case, then I would definitely reinstall from scratch and check out the tables I can import from the DB backup I made from previous installation.

ooh, Since the thread was regarding cosmic buddy I misunderstood that. sorry.
Isn’t Randy Candy a child theme of BuddyPress ? If yes, then you won’t need to update much. It should be some simple fix.

@naved

Do not play around with caching plugins until you have your site running correctly and effectively, simply addressing the basics of server configuration and site should produce a site that is responsive enough for most purposes, caching will be effective if and when your site traffic starts to really grow.

Those automated speed test tools provide examples of what you can do to improve things so you will need to work your way through the list googling if your not sure what it’s referring to. gzip compression ought to be enabled as it has a big impact on page loading, you need to ask your host if they can enable mod_deflate for your site or all sites. One thing to remember is that automated tools are always just a guide and they can tend to talk nonsense sometimes so you have to know how to interpret the returned advise.

By the way tested your site and you score is not as low as you report it’s up around the ’80’ mark so not sure what you are reading, and indeed the site seems to perform within expected parameters.

Hi @boonebgorges Thanks a lot for the reply – no I actually have root on my server. So I went in and copied all the WP 3.1.3 files and installed manually, editing the connection strings myself in wp-config.php

For Buddy Press I copied the files via FTP to /plugins and installed from there. I do indeed have phpMyAdmin access. It looks like the tables are there and I can create groups and post updates in them. It’s just when I enable forums then that page shows no topics displayed. Likewise when I got to post in a public group via that group’s Forum tab it will also error. I’ve tried every solution I could read in here all day long to no avail Even clicking and unclicking the group’s permission to allow discussion forums.

URL: http://stangnation.com
Forum Link: http://stangnation.com/forums

I’ve tried a number of permalink structures as well – I am currently using /%category%/%postname%

I CHMOD /plugins/buddypress to 755. I made sure of course the bb-config.php is accurate and in the root. BuddyPress SQL tables are on the same db as WordPress is..

Really stumped here…

@dubsel
Get the update from here https://github.com/sbrajesh/cosmicbuddy
It supports activities/reply.

I have tried all that. Is there some bug with the latest WP and BuddyPress that just means it doesn’t work right now?

@rhuan.barreto, @ikn0w2, @sidjags
This link might help: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-plugin-updates/page/32#post-88185

I just tried that tip above, in addition to many others. Didn’t work. Still can’t post new topics in forums. I have setup 2 public test groups, CHMOD 755 all buddypress files.. I am so depressed lol