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@svenl77

Hi. Once you’ve made your changes, create a patch, and then upload to https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ (you will need to make a new ticket — one ticket per patch/idea). Then one of the core team will take a look and give feedback/commit as necessary.
As @dennissmolek said, if a child theme has customised, for example single.php, it is important that this change does not render a duplicate sidebar. I am looking forward to see your suggestion.
Also, how much work would it be to make the sidebar go on the left? Is it just a case of changing the CSS or is it lots of work?

We’re trying to keep backwards compatibility for the theme as much as possible, as we encourage people to create child themes of it ad don’t want to annoy theme developers.

In general regarding custom post types: we have plans to do this everywhere for BuddyPress 1.4. I am sure that once we are closer to the release of 1.3, we will communicate details for 1.4 on the bpdevel.wordpress.com so everyone can discuss. That may be an appropriate time to kick-start the old groups-as-an-object ticket.

Anyone interested in UI should keep an eye on tickets marked as needing UI input: https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/query?status=%21closed&keywords=~needs-ui

Perhaps we can add some more reports to the Trac. Are there any on https://core.trac.wordpress.org/report that you would find useful on the BuddyPress trac?

EDIT: just added report 17 — “Needs User Experience / UI Feedback / Designs”

https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/report/17

@r-a-y ‘s https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/oembed-for-buddypress/ is going into 1.3: https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2707

in addition to what @paul gibbs has to say…

this is the answer you need guys: it helped me out too…

Here is solution:
1) delete buddypress.
2) It might be useful to check if the tables for bbpress were deleted. Check also there is no bb-config.php in the web root folder.
3) reinstall buddypress
4) change ‘TYPE = MYISAM’ to ‘ENGINE = MYISAM’ in /wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums/bbpress/bb-admin/includes/defaults.bb-schema.php before creating groups and using forums.
5) create groups and test forums.

And I find it here: https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/bbpress-posting-errors-missing-database-tables/?topic_page=2&num=15

a member @fladnag pointed this out in a different thread…

this is the answer you need guys: it help me out too…

Here is solution:
1) delete buddypress.
2) It might be useful to check if the tables for bbpress were deleted. Check also there is no bb-config.php in the web root folder.
3) reinstall buddypress
4) change ‘TYPE = MYISAM’ to ‘ENGINE = MYISAM’ in /wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums/bbpress/bb-admin/includes/defaults.bb-schema.php before creating groups and using forums.
5) create groups and test forums.

And I find it here: https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/bbpress-posting-errors-missing-database-tables/?topic_page=2&num=15

a member @fladnag pointed this out in a different thread…

@fladnag thank you soooo much for that reply… believe me, i found atleast 10-15 forums talking about this issue… but no one put it asa neatly and precisely as you did… thanks!

Hi @johnjamesjacoby

we are kind of new to all this… How to start? I will check out the latest version via svn. That’s fine. But how to check in? Commit? Push?
Should I add the complete theme as .zip file on a ticket? I guess the size will be too big.
I would like to write this patch, I’d like to start with some easy job to slowly go into all this. So the sidebar bug is an easy startup.

@dennissmolek, i guess we can keep it update save (backwards compatible) by asking if the sidebar is already active
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/is_active_sidebar

Some more newbee questions:
Where do I add my other subjects? The sidebar was just one example of a long list we would like to discuss and write patches for.

Should we open a ticket for every idea we’d like to change?

Sorry, if some of the questions are already answered in other forum threads.
Maybe it would be a good idea, to write a guide to become an active part on the project.
Thanks for all, we are excited to start

First of all, do not use ALL CAPS to post your issue in this forum, it’s not kosher.

Second, what do you mean you “cannot get the links to work”? You have to be more specific than that – like link redirects to home page or to blank page, etc.

Third, pretty permalinks are required in BuddyPress installations. mod_rewrite must be enabled in your server.
Deactivate BuddyPress and any BP plugins you have installed, change to WP default theme – twentyten – and resolve permalink issues at WordPress forums before activating BuddyPress again.
https://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks
https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting
https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/before-installing/

@janismo @Aliceembroid @el_terko @phoenon @4ella @digte WordPress and Buddypress finally registered it https://buddypress.org/community/groups/buddypress-comments-collapse-and-expand/

*edit: If you plan on installing this plugin, please note that you must undo any changes made that were previously discussed within this forum topic.

if you want to customize the page, you can copy down the /plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/members/single/messages down to your own theme (put it in /themes/yourtheme/members/single/messages ) and edit away.

I spent another five hours today trying to figure out a way to get this fixed for BuddyPress 1.3, I couldn’t figure out a solution that worked in all situations. It’s pretty much the same problem as https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1726

But……. https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/attachment/ticket/2299/iis.patch

If you can try that, @tejaswi2008, and either comment here or on https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2299/ that the patch there works, I’ll drop that into BuddyPress 1.3. I don’t know how to force my dev installations to use almost pretty permalinks, so I can’t test it.

If you’re talking about the buddybar, read this: https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/modifying-the-buddypress-admin-bar/

If you’re talking about the WordPress 3.0 admin bar, that’s different.

In either case, you want this code: `groups_is_user_member( $user_id, $group_id )`

I have it on my setup right now. I’m not sure that it’s doing anything for BP, to be honest, but I also don’t know how to check I looked at the plugin page on my wp-admin side and it’s all `./wp-comments-post.php` down the board.

Cookies for Comments works, though.

@Timothy Tarmon Jr am still trying to see what am i doing wrong. its not working for me right now.

regards

Apparently there are some known problems with BuddyPress and “almost pretty” permalinks like index.php/whatevers. @djpaul was looking into it last year, and IIRC his quick ‘hack’ was to pull index.php from the permalinks and use .htaccess to work around it. Though I don’t know what your .htaccess would look like for that

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/how-to-display-if-the-user-is-online-or-not-in-the-forum-topic-and-profile/#post-99951

It’s because the admin username that you set up with for your hosing account is different from the one that buddypress mentions to, which is “admin”. Not sure why this happens, but here is how to solve it.

Install this plugin: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wpvn-username-changer/, and change the username to “admin”. You don’t have to change it to admin, but that’s what it says on your profile to mention to, “ @admin“.

Thanks @digte , let me look into it and if I am able to post it there I will post a link.

*edit, wordpress approved the plugin, I have a link to the plugin as soon as possible

By the looks of that site – you need to enable pretty permalinks which is required for buddypress….

To fix this problem, enter the WordPress admin panel > Settings > Pemalinks – set to any configuration other than the default configuration. The mod_rewrite must be enabled on your server for pretty permalinks to work

And a link to your site will help. “it still ain’t happening.” isn’t much to go on to help troubleshoot.