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‘WP Symposium’ may be closer than we thought

Looks like ‘WP Symposium’ is due to be an alternative to Buddy Press. But it looks a long way from being ready. Will have to hope that Transposh version 0.7.0 works and move away from Buddy Press before the site gets too many users. If Multi Language remains an issue.

This post is gold dust, to allow users planning to choose BuddyPress (like us), to re-consider.
At worst, we can review the activity for a ‘Buddy Press alternative’ and re-think if there is a lot of others discussing the same. Which there is.

Seeing current developers less than sympathetic and learning on the side of ‘take it or leave it’, we do enough, is very valuable.

Whilst ranting is negative, it should show the impact bad software and upgrades has on a user, once they have chosen to adopt a solution (trusting it). For open source to work, it has to maintain it’s ‘hard won’ reputation. Surely… it may be rude to ‘demand’ things of a open source software, but only if that software is aiming to be a cut under ‘paid for options’.

Without confidence, business users will go back to choosing the big names. With the old comment… “no one loses their job for choosing Microsoft”!

Everyone appreciates the hard work by contributors and understand their need to earn. However the damage that can be done, is aligned with the benefits. Or more. Damaging the dedicated ones, who hope their knowledge, and efforts, will lead to work from big business.

If plugin makers are not in for the long term, or stall, the host solution is only any good if others step in and such weaknesses are not accepted.

Saying that, whilst the author appeared to be happy with it not being perfect, it has been said that ‘Transposh version 0.7.0’ works to make Buddy Press Multi language.

It is the adopters risk, to go ahead if a Multi language Buddy Press is important. Which it is to most (many). But this post can help with that decision!

That directory doesn’t exist normally, it was discussed as a better solution to the usual plugins/buddypress/languages location due to overwriting

I think that page has been recently edited and I will track down the culprit and ask they edit and make things clearer, I wrote the Poedit section and at the time there was iirc clearer steps on file location alternatives.

For the moment try following the steps outlined saving the file in buddypress folder and editing your necessary files – the example code snippet that sets your language file to use – until clarification can be sought on new steps.

@imjscn Jenny have you tried googling on ‘nofollow’ links? before asking Andrea_r how to do this or better still have you implemented my advise earlier in the thread for a robots.txt file implementation? and other tip/s?

It’s important to tell us what you have tried other than add plugins – not everything is solvable using plugins and this aspect really requires a few approaches as has already been said.

Did you track down any of the threads on this support forum that go into great detail on the various approaches one can take, a good one is to set a referrer trap in .htaccess so that direct linking to the register page is prevented and register will only accept requests that have an accompanying referrer in the header that comes from your site – mentioned in one of those threads with example code iirc

One click installs should be outlawed!

WP/BP is a manual thing and one has to learn the basics for manually ftp-ing or SSH-ing to install these two apps

@thecoup well done for tracking down that issue, I find this hilarious as this is another ‘Host’? recommended by WP. What exactly had been changed or upset with wp-config to cause this issue?

I reproduced the problem and found a solution.

bbforum is not creating its tables or entries after using the one-click install on Dreamhost. Dreamhost’s one-click install yields a unique wp-config.php file with several differences that might be the problem. bb-config.php settings were fine.

A manual installation fixes the problem.

@cmroybal – you might be able to fix wp-config.php. If that doesn’t work, a fresh manual installation will definitely do the trick. It isn’t too difficult. You can create a database within Dreamhost (rather the phpmyadmin), and upload WordPress via ftp. After that, it takes about 1 minute for the WP install.

For those of you wondering if the problem related to multisite — it does not. I have that working as well.

“There was an error when creating the topic” really should say “There was an error because of a one-click install.”

Yeah, this issue has already been reported on Trac:
https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/2681

@risi @modemlooper – Just added a sticky for this over here:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/oembed-for-buddypress/forum/topic/embed-ly-plugin-support/

@thealchemist

I just replied to your query at bp-tricks
Here’s the same answer: bp-custom needs to go in your /plugins/ directory, not /buddypress/
Hope it helps!

@thealchemist @zkwc @djpaul

Hurray!

The code snippet works just fine in functions.php. That’s good news for a theme designer: no worries about a theme overriding a user’s custom configurations in bp-custom.php.
Now I’m off to add “Group Landing Page” as an option in my new theme. It’ll be incorporated with the theme’s “Alternate Header” option too.

Then I’ve got to adapt the code to work with member profiles. My initial attempts have failed, but I’ve been known to be persistent at times

For future reference, here’s the code snippet to add to functions.php or, if you have created it, bp-custom.php.
You can see it in action here: http://rspacesandbox.org/ Click any group.

`function redirect_groups_to_forum() {
global $bp;
$path = clean_url( $_SERVER );
$path = apply_filters( ‘bp_uri’, $path );
if ( bp_is_group_home() && strpos( $path, $bp->bp_options_nav ) === false )
bp_core_redirect( $path . $bp->bp_options_nav . ‘/’ );
}
add_action( ‘wp’, ‘redirect_groups_to_forum’ );`

This looks great! I’m having a truly difficult time getting these profile groups to appear….will definitely be trying this out on a site I’m working on now – http://nextstarathlete.com

@jvoss – I’m wondering – do these pofile groups also appear within buddypress after you’ve registered?

@thealchemist just this. in your custom css. change the colors the way you want.

`
div.activity ul.item-list li{ background: #F7F5ED; }
div.activity ul.item-list li:nth-child(odd) { background: #F2EFE5; }

`

Specifically for BuddyPress? No.

But since BuddyPress runs on WordPress, and since wordpress has a lot of plugins, try that.

@thealchemist I know that if you copy and paste code from here it sometimes doesn’t post exactly as it should. So if you did that try typing it exactly as shown instead of copy and paste. Not sure if that’s the issue though, but just trying to help.

Glad I could help you all find the information. @pcwriter if you find that it works PLEASE let me know. I am somewhat savvy when coding but not savvy enough and I’m scared to try it for fear of breaking my site. Wuss, I know. Buddy used to give admins the option of showing the ‘wall’ or ‘activity’ or not and now that feature is gone and it’s confusing ALL, not just some, of my users. And they never know where to post, the forum or activity.

@marco I can’t even FIND that code anywhere in my files. So I can’t insert your sample.
@hnla The link you provided no longer goes anywhere. Would you please offer me your approach?