BuddyPress.org

There are two popular solutions for regular WordPress (not sure how they would work with BuddyPress… I guess they would only translate the blog portion of the site). The two options are WPMU and qTranslate. WPMU make a separate post for each language while qTranslate puts all languages in one post separated by special comment tags. I found the management of a WMPU blog to be confusing. qTranslate has a simple tabbed user interface… so within your edit page for your posts… you get a tab for each language.

Exact same problem as described.
I did a clean 1.2.3 install running on WordPress MU 2.9.2. I followed the how-to as presented on this page, and changed the permalinks setting to something other than default.

A .htaccess file is indeed created, and the buddypress installation does run. However, when I try to visit the about page or the members page, I get a 404 error stating the page doesn’t exist. The link is correct (http://localhost.localdomain/wpmu/members/ i.e.) , but it simply doesn’t show anything.
I can’t visit a members profile either, it simply stops everywhere outside the mainpage.

I’m using the default Buddypress theme btw, nothing changed on my side.

First of all, we may need more information. If what I suggest below does not resolve your issue, then please answer these questions: https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/when-asking-for-support/

The error message that you have posted is strange. BuddyPress does not have a file called bp-cores.php. You mentioned that you made some file modifications. Did you open up the file bp-loader.php? I would look in that file on line 19 to see if you accidentally added an “s” to bp-core. Line 19 should read:

require_once( WP_PLUGIN_DIR . '/buddypress/bp-core.php' );


If you see that there is an “s” but you are sure that you did not change it yourself, I would suggest deactivating then deleting BuddyPress. Then redownload BuddyPress and reinstall. Make sure your are downloading BuddyPress from this site

Finally, when trying to debug BuddyPress, always use the default theme and deactivate all other plugins. You need to isolate what is happening within BuddyPress.

The issue is that usernames cannot have a space. Read this old thread: https://buddypress.org/community/groups/miscellaneous/forum/topic/when-logged-in-to-buddypressorg-some-links-do-not-work/

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/sitepress-multilingual-cms/
This plugin claims to do the job. It claims to be easy as well.

Quote:

WPML’s showcase includes samples of blogs, full websites and even multilingual BuddyPress portals.

Hi @Vendetta, Did you manage to solve this problem? As in fix the blank avatar screen yet keeping Facestream as well?

I am having exact same issue but still couldn’t solve it. Appreciate your help.

Cheers.

@Dwenaus I am running version: 1.3.2, there is no plugin update alerts showing for it so I am assuming this one is the latest.

I think there should also be more info about this issue in the Requirements section of buddypress.org – I read them, and assumed that shared hosting would be ok, as there was no warning.

@3sixty: I experienced exactly the same misbehaviour in my blog = invitation sent, membership requested by the blog member, confirmed twice somehow and… boing, 2 memberships of the same member in a single group.
Is it still there in your blog or could you fix it?

I wonder if it was sufficient to simply delete the doubled/second group-member-relation entry from the MySQL wp_bp_groups_members table? Or does this have any negative side effects?
A more gentle alternative could be to set the group_id field of this entry to a non-existing group 999 or so. Shouldn’t do any harm unless the 999th group is created and an uninvited member pops out of nowhere…

Cheers,
Hans

I finally sat down and read through the whole discussion. Some great points. I don’t know how possible it would be to do this, but what about multiple streams? @Sadr made a great point that the activity stream should have elements that users could subscribe to or not subscribe to. Right now there is one stream that either has too much information or doesn’t have the right kind of information. With multiple streams, each of which could be put on a different page or within a different area on a main page, the information flow could be tailored by each site designer and user to serve their needs and the needs of their communities.

Another point that was brought up was navigation, now I know that this is partially the theme setup, but in a default install even if a user is redirected to their groups, it is still another click away to a the groups wiki, blog, forum or documents or whatever your groups are based around. It needs to be easier to place the sub areas of a Buddypress site where you want them. Maybe the new menus in WP 3.0 address this (I haven’t had a chance to play with them much) but navigation needs to have small blocks that can be quickly and easily rearranged in order to design navigation paths that fit your community. And navigation is all about menus; activity streams are a form of navigation if they send you quickly to the information you are interested in. Couldn’t the profile, for example, be more widget ready so that either admins or users could pick and choose the pieces they want (think iGoogle).

@Peterverkooijen made a good point about members profile / privacy. It is possible to do it now to a certain extent, but this needs to be easier and more comprehensive.

As many people said the users are who are important and poor UI will drive people away, but Buddypress is used in such a wide variety of situations, that it needs to be easy to customize for each communities needs. To use an analogy I don’t want Buddypress to be like Moodle, for example; if you’ve seen one Moodle site you’ve seen 98% of all Moodle sites. The strength of WordPress is the ease with which one can customize not just the functionality but the looks and UI of the site, let’s not lose that.

Sameast, Ditto!!
I to am having this issue, hopefully “SOMEONE” can assist us both in this issue….

@jhilton

The post below should help for creating your Community tab. David’s code worked flawlessly for my site; you can see the result here: http://rSpace.org

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/how-to-edit-headerphp/?topic_page=1&num=15#post-45900

I wouldn’t let it disenchant you – there will always be people saying “buddypress should be X and should not be Y”. The one thing we can agree on is that BuddyPress is a purely awesome collection of tools that you can pick and choose to build your own social network.

I must admit that I all the template redirection of BP and WP are somewhat magical and mysterious to me.

What about just requiring the template? If you’re using the BP Group Extension API, you need to have a display() method; the content of the method could be to require the necessary template file. That’s what the BuddyPress Group Wiki plugin does.

It’s helpful to look at a few plugins that have robust templating for their display: Group Wiki, Group Documents, and Group Blog all do it differently, but maybe they’ll point you in the right direction.

gtn,
They shared hosts get you with the “unlimited bandwidth” Unfortunately, they don’t tell you that the CPU and Memory is limited. Shared hosts will only take you so far with BP, but then you’ll have to grow into something larger. Although, that’s a good problem to have. I wonder if someone won’t start a company just helping people scale BP beyond a shared host solution.

Anyone else like my idea of a separate group? Seems like it would be valuable since it’s an important part of the BP decision process.

You’ll find this useful.

@JeffSayre: thanks.

Yup. This is precisely the point I’ve made about buddypress.org (a point that will apply to many of our own sites as well) many many times before, and is at the heart of my reluctant but growing disenchantment. Agree, 100 percent.

Have a look at https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/conditional-template-tags/ for details on the template tags. It’s a little out of date but should suffice.