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@mexxa84 what you want is blog on the activity section right where ur user can write blog just frm the front end of ur bp site?
the same i m also searching for …one click post is probablly the one bt it is not running in my case try that …may u can help me with that

Yes to an option with admin settings, which sets the limit in php, with a js counter. Not everyone is going to want this, and it’s critical that the site dev has full control over character limit, not to mention that different spoken languages can have quite different character counts for similar semantics.

@modemlooper – I’ve gone back to your script. For some reason it was running super slow for me the other day when testing, but then I found that @nahummadrid ‘s method breaks the form submit when javascript is disabled, so I’ve gone back to it, and it’s super snappy. Pilot error on my part, clearly.

Actually the nahummadrid method issue could be regarded as a feature in a sense, since it would prevent circumnavigation of the script limit by disabling js in the browser The problem with that script without js appears to be the (depricated) form name, which has been specified with a hyphen and not camelCase, and doesn’t work with the inline onkeyup/onkeydown call. I’m not one for inline scripting anyway, so modemlooper’s is the one for me now.

@djpaul – I’ve had problems logging into trac, and am fried for time, but we’re launching at the end of the month, and then I’ll have the time to engage with trac properly and post the bugs that have cropped up during the site build and testing. There are a few (eg. the multiple nested tags bug when any buddypress user content is edited – just have a look at the source code of this comment!). The fact that the whats-new form only works properly once between page refreshes is a bummer… On subsequent postings, the submit button has to be clicked 5 – 15 times before it fires (confirmed with fresh vanilla install in firefox, camino, safari and opera).

Adendum – going back to the first method (nahummadrid’s). The problem with modemlooper’s method (as things stand with the whats-new bug) is that once an update is posted, if the user then wants to reply to an update before refreshing the page or navigating away, the comment reply form character limit is temporarily broken – the reply counter no longer works, and the reply limit doesn’t work either.

Agh! This really should NOT be this hard. This has to be due to the plethora of identical nonce ids, no?

After much prodding, testing, checking and more, we located the problem. If Zend Optimizer is enabled, BuddyPress will not install. As soon as we disabled it, we had a perfect install of BuddyPress. Woohoo!

I should also note that we had memory set at 150mb prior to install and actually boosted it to 256mb just to see if that was an issue. But, it made no difference until we disabled ZO.

I appreciate everyone’s insight and help. Hopefully, this information will help others struggling with this installation issue. Thanks @stwc and @lph2005 for your time and energy.

@siken

I’ve tried this plugin and have noticed a few hiccups also (like message notifications that don’t go away). Bugs are to be expected in new plugins, so it’s best to contact the plugin author about the problem.

However, that’s running BuddyPress 1.3.

BuddyPress 1.2.8, which is the current version, does have a couple of small issues that we’ve noticed so far with WordPress 3.2, mainly with javascript in the BP-Default theme. If anyone spots any more, please let us know. We plan a same-day release of 1.2.something with WordPress 3.2 to address these.

You can get the latest in the 1.2 series from https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/4550/branches/1.2?old_path=%2F&format=zip (at time of writing. SVN is https://svn.buddypress.org/branches/1.2/)

500 is a server-side error. It may be PHP memory-related, it might not be. You need to look in to your web sever’s error logs, or ask your host to do that for you.

== I tried to modify it per the community instructions and broke the site. ==

I hope you backed up DB before activating the plugin. It was for WPMU 2.9.1.1, BuddyPress 1.2.1. http://teleogistic.net/code/buddypress/bp-import-blog-activity/

@katemgilbert

It’s not that the profiles are broken, but that the activity and @mention permalinks for prior events aren’t updated. New activity will have the correct, new link, while prior activity links will be broken.

I’ll let you know if I have any more luck with this!

You can do all that when you transform your single WP into a multisite installation by creating a network with subdomain structure https://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network
Multisite support forum – https://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite

“same content” – if you mean that each user has a portfolio page, or about me page, a contact us page, etc. this can be achieved by creating a custom theme which you can designate as the default theme for each new subsite created by your members.

Create a network/go multisite before installing BuddyPress plugin if you want to add social networking features – https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/before-installing/

@aces thanks for the link to create a network

@flynn basic troubleshooting – deactivate all plugins except BuddyPress and change to bp-default theme. In all probability, your users can create groups. Then activate plugins one by one and then your custom theme (if any) to see which one causes the group creation hiccup.

You appear to have run out of memory…

If you can control memory through .htaccess then I recommend adding `php_value memory_limit 128M` .. or some other value …

For what it’s worth, I recently tried using mod_php (with XCache and W3 Total Cache, no object caching or minifying) and everything worked except the Activity stream. PHP 5.2 FastCGI seems to be the go, for me, to keep things happy.

You might start out small. Install BuddyPress and enable just the activity stream; disable everything else. Make sure that the theme css works well with the activity stream. You’ll need to install the BuddyPress template pack. After you are satisfied with the activity stream then change WP install to multi-site. You’ll want to lock it down so that you control creation of blogs – so that you don’t have to deal with splogs. Once you have that working then you can add a few other BP features – private messaging, etc.

Do you have a link to where you are installing or is this a local test installation?

This is the process I use for installing fresh copies of WP and BP.

Install WP
Change .htaccess to increase memory size and redirect to www
Login to admin panel
Set Permalinks
Go to /wp-admin/plugin-install.php — search for buddypress and install
Set theme
Go to /wp-admin/plugin-install.php – search for buddypress template pack
Install BP pack
Go to wp-admin/admin.php?page=bp-general-settings and save settings
Go to wp-admin/admin.php?page=bp-component-setup and save settings
Go to wp-admin/admin.php?page=bb-forums-setup and setup forums
Create Group
Create Forum
Create Test post

Please understand that bbPress, bbPress plugin, bbPress BuddyPress are all different products.

@Bowromir Hello Bowe, tried to reach you on BP-Tricks, but thought I’d try you here.

Or if anyone has any hints on how to make this possible please let me know…

We started working with External Member Blogs, and now looking to extend it in a good way.

I was wondering if we can associate feeds with a certain group or category – kind of how Digg member feeds work (they require you to choose a category). We would like members to choose a group or category where all feeds would post in. Please let me know if this is possible, something you may consider working on, or some hints on how we could work on it from here.

Thanks for your good assist with this.

Also, if anyone is up for working on some other savvy feed ideas
please contact me and let me know the best way to keep in touch.

– Jeff – Jeff@Vybee.com

I knew why you would do it but how will you eliminate duplicate content between members and unique items in the search engines? Use robots.txt:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /members/

EDIT: @gregfielding has similar problem “Help with redirect for root profile change” that I didn’t tell him.

Remember that Buddypress is in essence simply a plugin that requires a WP install to run on thus you have a blog the main WP blog, there is no option as such for it it exists either on the front page or as mercime points out is moved to another page in the static front page scenario.

try having a read of this guide and following the steps outlined and then if you get stuck someone will help you along.
https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/bp-template-pack-walkthrough-level-easy-2/

@triznic have you tried to work on what I posted above?

get_sidebar appears in footer.php for the intrepidity theme https://themes.svn.wordpress.org/intrepidity/1.5.1/footer.php so following the structure of your theme onto the activity/index.php file, you don’t add any get_sidebar calls in the other BP template files