This may not still be the case, but I was under the impression that external-group-blogs was not compatible with the latest version of BP. That may have changed although I haven’t seen an update to the plugin since it started glitching under 1.2.3. I believe @apeatling received a bit of fraternal ribbing from @modemlooper among others, so he may have fixed the problem.
I doubt they are using WordPress pages. Would be a pretty odd thing to do creating a bunch of fake pages to mask the URLs for the different BP sections.
Yes, my WordPress 2.9.2 works just fine without buddyPress (what’s why i post here).
Just for now I use WordPress 3.0 RC1 and BuddyPress 1.2.4.1. Thanks God, it works!
The problem with Nicey is that it’s a child theme which uses bp-sn-parent theme and it doesn’t exist in BP 1.2.4.1 anymore.
“The screen shot you see was for version 1.x in which buddypress bp-sn-parent theme had vertical menu and so had bp-nicey(It is a child theme)
In current version of buddypress the parent theme does not offer a vertical menu and so it is not in bp-nicey.
Please take a look at the backward compatibility plugin and bp-sn-parent theme for the vertical menu.”
http://buddydev.com/buddypress/bp-nicey-a-simple-and-clean-child-theme-for-buddypress/comment-page-1/#comment-1695
Backward compatibility plugin (https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-backwards-compatibility/) disables link functionality from main menu in my installation, so it’s not an option. Not compatible with WP3 just yet? Re-factoring and css creation doesn’t sound like an easy solution either 
Yep, thanks a lot @dwenaus, that was fast and effective
I have updated, reactivated, and works perfectly now.
Cheers.
@r-a-y – Thanks for the tip. I do not get the error message anymore. You plugin seems to work except for one place, the header. There are still 3 links that still link to the subdirectory. I guess I am just going to go with a child theme (does not look to hard to setup) to fix that issue. Hopefully with WP 3.0 and the new BP coming out, this issue will be corrected.
I could be wrong, but I’m guessing the bp.org site is running a bleeding-edge version of BuddyPress, since it appears that URLs like /communitiy/members are using WordPress pages.
My advice? Wait for BP 1.3.
nah, I have found a solution:
change the line which I mentioned above to this:
$userid = $wpdb->get_var(“SELECT post_author FROM $blogPostsTable”);
and then find line starting $grav_img = and change it to:
$grav_img = get_avatar($userid, ’80’, ”);
and your gravatars will be working fine.
Front end creation will prove critical and make the next generation of buddypress way more usable and flexible. If users have to go to a blog dashboard to do something as simple as share a photo or a movie review (examples of custom post types), it’s going to turn people off.
We need front end ability…and, come to think of it…we need it for regular old-fashioned blog posts too.
@boonebgorges and his work may help with both
1. Under BuddyPress, Profile Field Setup, you can add a new field or field group, including text box type fields. As stated on that admin page, “Any fields in the first group will appear on the signup page.” An URL entered will be picked up as a link in the profile’s public view.
While setting up profile fields, have a look at Custom Profile Filters for BuddyPress https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-profile-filters-for-buddypress/ with which, among other features “Administrators can specify certain profile fields that link to social networking profiles.”
2. See BuddyPress External Group Blogs https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/external-group-blogs/ with which individual users might include RSS in group and site activity streams even without blogs being enabled. See BP External Activity https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-external-activity/ for more admin options, or even FeedWordPress https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/feedwordpress/ for user blogs.
@Dwenaus WOW!!! you are great!!! Thank you very much!!!!
@jeffsayre ‘s right. We figured it out thanks to his McGruff The Crime Dog Hook Sniffer plugin. I highly recommend if you want to do some serious under-the-hood looking
@kiwipearls the only product I’ve fond effective (about 95%) is the antl-splogging @ http://wpmudev.org – it’s a premium membership site on he expensive side, but it’s working for me. (btw ~ i’ve used all the methods you listed above) – my thinking is that sploggers are hiring people to setup their blogs and answer captchas…
Guys,
Got it, the culprit.
BuddyPress Announce Group <- this plugin was missing things up. Making add a reply and post new topic appear for non logged in users.
Cheers.
Would love some help with Tweetstream. This (plugin) is the reason we decided to go with BuddyPress. The streams pulled for one day, and now they are not. I’ve disabled, re-enabled the plugin. I’ve turned-off all other plugins. I even switched back to the regular theme from the BP Column theme. Nothing seems to make the updates come back. I get no errors and everything else with the plugin looks like it’s working. Is there anyway to force an update? Does it happen periodically… Is it a cron issue? Using 2.9.2 and the lates plugin. Thanks.
anyone for help? I am lost.
@0815t – ok it is internationalized you can create a .mo file and put it in a folder called lang in the plugin folder and it should work. I have yet to create a .pot file. but will when it is updated in the repository.
@ffemtkl – that’s because you probably have some whitespace at the end of the PHP closing tag. Delete anything after ?> and see if that fixes your problem.
@chiron
1) Wherever your bbPress theme is, add a functions.php. eg. my-templates/MY-BB-THEME/functions.php… if you’re using Kakumei, then it would be /bb-templates/kakumei/functions.php.
2) The path has to be an absolute filepath and not a URL. eg. /var/www/wp-content/uploads/avatars/. I’ve tried to guess where your WordPress install is using $_SERVER, but you might need to adjust this for your particular install.
@0815t – I can internationalize it for your pretty quickly. I’ll update it later today probably.
I tried TDO mini-forms but it crashed my site. and kept on giving me 0=error. Are there any other similar plugins that might work?
@0815t – what version of wordpress and buddy are you using? does the problem happen when other plugin are turned off. Are you logged in as admin or as another user?
Have a look at or refer to https://codex.wordpress.org/AJAX_in_Plugins. I’d also suggest you do a find-in-files in BuddyPress for “wp_ajax_” to see how BuddyPress does it.
ok, to update a database table on ajax updates, I think I need to add the action to ‘wp’, something like:
function data_to_add() {
global $bp;
if ( !is_user_logged_in() || $bp->current_component != $bp->activity->slug || $bp->current_action != 'post')
return false;
check_admin_referer( 'post_update', '_wpnonce_post_update' );
add_my_data('100', '200','6');
}
add_action('wp','data_to_add', 3);
however, it still doesn’t work. any ideas?
@DJPaul maybe you would know? how are you doing it with your new version of the achievments plugin?
