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@johnjamesjacoby said: because no one is testing the branch and no one is reporting back how various fixes have affected them.

I really dropped off on the bug hunts and running sites off of trunk (2 locals and a live). Since 1.2.x hit – my focus shifted onto contract work and building out plugins for such. I don’t see myself getting back into that groove until 1.3 is the next milestone. ( i’m still on WP2.9 )

As for everything else – this thread reminds me of the discussions on bbPress.org a year or so ago when communication on that project went dead – and the pitch forks came out. I think some of the frustrations come from wanting BP to bake a cake and run our errands. But at the end of the day – we all benefit from a freely available software package that can be shaped like playdoh. (nothing cool happens until you mash up the colors or eat it)

@nuprn1

Something isn’t quite right on my attempt:

Installed the plugin https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/syntaxhighlighter/
Added the add_filter to line 113

Attempted to insert php code
http://www.thechembook.com/groups/announcements/forum/topic/php-code-test/

A single line number shows … but no code.

I also see that it looks like you have something else installed in your forums. What did you do to get the editors showing?

As always, thank you.

Changed theme to default to see if something else is interfering … still no code.

Any thoughts or suggestions?

@dennis_h (“If you believe BP causes more problems that it solves why do you use it?”)

I chose Buddypress primarily to manage member lists for my projects and give members online profile pages and ways to interact with other members online.

The first version of my site was a mix of WordPress + PunBB for the members list. When Buddypress appeared it made sense to consolidate everything on WordPress/WPMU/BP.

An early annoyance that cost me six weeks last year was lack of built-in support for firstname + lastname, which made Buddypress hard to integrate with my mailinglist script.

I now have the basics kinda working; all the dumb stuff that should work out of the box, like a user-friendly registration process, etc. Upgrading to 1.2 would mean having to start all over again.

@Peterverkooijen

If you believe BP causes more problems that it solves why do you use it? If you don’t like the features why don’t you turn them off?

Everyone should be developing BP in a direction to fit their needs. If you want a site worth visiting you can’t use out of the box solutions.

I don’t mean my questions to be augmentative or polemic, I just want to know what it is that BP provides that makes you endure your admitted frustration.

@dennis_h (“What is so lacking in BP that would cancel out everything that is right with it and cause it to die out?”)

Member management, privacy/security, a coherent vision of what Buddypress is and isn’t, …

I was never 100% happy with Buddypress 1.0, but worked around the problems in my custom theme and hoped the issues would be fixed in 1.2 and beyond. But the issues are not being fixed. The newer versions only add more confusing features and BBpress seems to have taken over.

So I’m sticking with 1.1.3 and develop that further in a direction that works for me. It seems to work fine on WP 3.0. I need a reliable base for my projects. BP is all over the place.

😆 it is stickied it just doesn’t actually stay at the top of the lists. it’s going to get very boring bumping it every five minutes Paul.

I will attempt to get an outline topic posted to the bpdevel post, hope others will too!.

We do not have enough information to help you. Please answer these questions: https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/when-asking-for-support/

this wording is in your language-files

…/wp-content /plugins /buddypress /bp-languages /

check files with extension .pot / .po / .mo

you can work those files by using a software called “POEDIT”

@romik84 – I saw your post on here:
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/415399

I haven’t looked too far into this, but there doesn’t appear to be a “wpmu_new_blog” filter:
add_filter('wpmu_new_blog', array(&$cets_wpmubt, 'set_new_blog_topic'), 101);

However, there is an action called “wpmu_new_blog”, maybe that is what the plugin author meant?
add_action('wpmu_new_blog', array(&$cets_wpmubt, 'set_new_blog_topic'), 101);

The one unifying theme out of these 76 posts is the lack of leadership so the key question for @matt and @apeatling is how does the current state of BuddyPress compare with the early days of WordPress? Would WordPress have been as big of a success if no one was working full time on it?

Right now it seems that BuddyPress has no full time resources… Open source works well at scale and yes while we all need to do more, Automattic also needs to tell us how serious they are about this effort and how much they are willing to invest to get the community at the scale it needs to be.

@johnjamesjacoby sorry, my mistake, just looked in trac & the ticket has only been there a week, thought it was there longer. It was mentioned here on the forums a lot longer & I did notice it on the WP3 RC builds, my fault for not diving into trac & adding the ticket sooner.

@thekmen Where was the ticket in the Trac? I comb through the trac myself once a week and put tickets in the milestones that I can personally work on. Anyone else is free to grab a bug, move the milestone up, and patch it themselves all the same. This bug may have existed, but it wasn’t on the trac before 1.2.4 was released. If it was and we missed it, then we fix it now. We even put out 1.2.4.1 to fix a bit of code that snuck in that belonged in 1.3 without anything being said about the activity stream yet.

@erich73 Not a bad idea, but that kind of setup comes with added responsibility. I would love for someone to take that initiative and setup a BuddyPress testing farm of various installation types and domains if anyone is interested? TestBP.org is sort of a different animal too because it’s still hosted on a shared box with other sites that need to remain up to the world. Yes, it’s a testing ground, but it can’t be broken for /live/ testing and cripple the server either.

@hnla – The cool thing about child themes is you can move templates around wherever you want! Just make sure you change the pointer to that file!

@Peter,

I do agree 100%.
– Put the social-layer onto the Core features of WordPress: BLOGGING & MULTI-BLOGGING
(being able to blog without the need to access the DashBoard, the DashBoard is very complicated for the average internet-user).

– Put in the must-haves for a Social-Network: Privacy and extended User-Profiles.

– Let the Plugin-developers do the rest and the talented ones of them will make lots of money…….

I am sure Automattic agrees on that one 100% as well.

@JJJ

“……because no one is testing the branch and no one is reporting back how various fixes have affected them…..”
“……I typically have 5 or 6 different local test installations that I work from….”

Can we get a few more test-websites online (probably with different set-ups) at which we ALL can test the bleeding-edge-version ?

Currently it is hard to test new fixes at testbp.org as this website has no MultiSite-Blogs and also some other features disabled.
testbp.org is more a marketing-website than a testing-platform.

There are many people here who would like to do testing, but it is hard for a non-coder to set-up a local install at his computer as this know-how is simply not there for a non-coder. But having a few online-websites to do the testing, this would be possible even for non-coders.

Just try to imagine for a minute: you are not a coder and have no experience in PHP and are not able to install WordPress or BuddyPress at all.
Like myself, I do like testing very much and have reported a few TRAC-tickets in the past, but I do have no clue about PHP or how to setup a BP-installation.

Yeah, you have 5 or 6 different local test installations that you work from, but we are not able to go and test on your local installs and report feedback.
I do have one live-website, but I would not dare to test the bleeding-edge-version at my own website, as I even do not know how to install the bleeding-version at my own website
.
Put your different local-setups online and I am sure many non-coders will go and test.

Many thanks,
Erich

@johnjamesjacoby pointless argument but the activity on front page error was known for weeks before WP3.0 was released. I know the hassles of point releases but thought easy solutions like those posted in trac would have warranted one by now if you want to keep all of us encouraged to keep WP up to date for various reasons still working with BP. Any new users to BP since WP3.0 could easily be led to believe it just doesn’t work so walk away.

@hnla When there’s no tickets in the trac for that milestone, it’s a safe bet that the community at large feels it’s safe to proceed. So, we did it that way with 1.2.4 and the activity feed on the front page broke. The branch was there to test for months and lots of people worked hard to patch what they found, which is the reason 1.2.4 happened. I forget the numbers exactly, but 1.2.4 fixed something like 70 known issues, but it created 2 other annoying bugs at the same time that WP3.0 was launched. I typically have 5 or 6 different local test installations that I work from, with varying amounts of data between WordPress/MS/subdomain/subdirectory/Windows/Linux/English/Spanish. I do my best to run code through as many different variations as I can, but sometimes random bugs just slide through. The activity on the front page was one of them.

@andrea_r My puppies are snuggle thieves. They just take snuggles whenever they want them. Blame any lack of BuddyPress progress on my pups.

Sean, if you can wait a few more days an updated version of BP will be released to fix this issue and a few others.

OK – for a non-developer (sorry!) – can someone provide a step-by-step? Do you just add this patch to functions.php?

This might help:

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/wordpress-3-0-buddypress-1-2-4-1-and-activity-stream-as-front-page-possible-fix/?topic_page=2&num=15

https://trac.buddypress.org/changeset/3066

Can this be marked as a sticky?