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@pcwriter Thank you very much, extremely useful!
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/limit-the-size-of-user-updates/#post-72559

This is inspiring two years eh? I’m just getting my feet wet with BuddyPress, and I’m trying to work towards something similar (a custom theme that I want to build to suit my own specific needs, but then give to the community for free). I look forward to trying out your theme, and who knows maybe build some child themes based on it.

Now back to coding I go.

In subdirectory network – Multisite with subdirectories http://examplesite.com/ – http://examplesite.com/subsite1 – http://examplesite.com/subsite2 – http://examplesite.com/subsite3 etc etc. and say with define ( ‘BP_ROOT_BLOG’, 3 );? in the wp-config file Should buddypress plugins like say “bp profile map” be network activated or activated in subsite 3 in order to get them to work or does something else have to be done. Any help very much appreciated

Hi:
I am running wp 3.1.1 and buddypress 1.28 in live beta. I am having what sounds like a similar problem. I can create groups fine, and post updates fine. Forums are turned on and enabled, including in the group checkbox.
When I post a new topic, I get the “There was an error creating topic” and “There are no posts for this topic”. The url is …/groups/forum/topic// which looks suspicious to me. But then when I click on the Forum tab, all topics and groups are listed, but again, when I click on the topic title I get the “There are no posts for this topic” msg. The url is of the form … /groups/group-title/forum/topic/forum-title/.
If I click on the Forum tab and then a group title, I am brought to the forum and it lists the topics and the url looks like …/groups/group-title/forum/, and I see the “Post a new topic” form. And again, when I click on the topic title I get the “There are no posts for this topic” msg. This time the url is of the form … /groups/group-title/forum/topic/topic-title/. When I again post a new topic, I get the “There was an error creating topic” and “There are no posts for this topic”. url is …/groups/group-title/forum/topic/topic-title/.
If I click on My/Groups or on the group list in the sidebar I can post updates and replies Ok.

So, everything seems to be there, but the navigation seems messed up and too confusing for anyone to use. Because this is still a beta site I tried deleting all groups/forums disabling them, deactivating most everything, including buddypress, and I have re-installed bbpress and the configure file is in the wp root dir. a few times. It is possible I installed a new bbpress one of those times instead of using the existin bbpress that came with buddypress. Any suggestions greatly appreciated!

I can’t believe I’m going through this all because buddypress doesn’t support post thumbnail. An it’s not the only issue I’m having either. Buddypress is great providing you don’t want to change anything expect a few colours.

Thank you @hnla

@magcindy you place the import line in your WP theme’s style.css file.
The registration page is now by default at http://yoursite.com/register

It’s alright mercime was just having one of those moments :p

the @ import was automagically converted to an ‘at mention’ link (this forum really needs a proper code display ) I’ve edited the post and added a space between @ i

If you look at the main style file in bp-default you will see how it imports the various stylesheets required you need to do this but using directory notation to navigate back up the directory tree to find the bp-default file

I’m looking at the annotated revision log https://trac.buddypress.org/browser/branches/1.2/bp-blogs.php?annotate=blame&rev=4066 I can see why Subscriber blogs aren’t showing up. What I *can’t* see is why they ever should have been. It looks to me like the code has always intended for Subscriber blogs to be excluded. A recent change in WP blog role management must have made the code finally fulfill its intended purpose.

How to fix: You could write a short plugin that runs every time add_user_to_blog fires, and adds the blog to the BP user’s list using bp_blogs_record_blog(). Ideally there would be a more configurable way to make this work; it’s worth an enhancement ticket on trac.

The short plugin would work something like this. Totally untested.
`function bbg_add_subscriber_to_blog( $user_id, $role, $blog_id = false ) {
global $current_blog;

if ( empty( $blog_id ) )
$blog_id = $current_blog->blog_id;

if ( $role == ‘subscriber’ )
bp_blogs_record_blog( $blog_id, $user_id, true );
}
add_action( ‘add_user_to_blog’, ‘bbg_add_subscriber_to_blog’, 15, 3 );`

The other part of the equation is to sync the whole shebang, which will have to be done once. Something like this (also untested) might work:
`function bbg_record_existing_blogs() {
global $bp, $wpdb;

if ( !is_super_admin() )
return false;

/* Truncate user blogs table and re-record. */
$wpdb->query( “TRUNCATE TABLE {$bp->blogs->table_name}” );

$blog_ids = $wpdb->get_col( $wpdb->prepare( “SELECT blog_id FROM {$wpdb->base_prefix}blogs WHERE mature = 0 AND spam = 0 AND deleted = 0” ) );

if ( $blog_ids ) {
foreach( (array)$blog_ids as $blog_id ) {
$users = get_users_of_blog( $blog_id );

if ( $users ) {
foreach ( (array)$users as $user ) {
$role = unserialize( $user->meta_value );

bp_blogs_record_blog( $blog_id, $user->user_id, true );
}
}
}
}
}
add_action( ‘admin_init’, ‘bbg_record_existing_blogs’ );`

Be forewarned that the latter function should only be run once; comment out the add_action() after it’s done its work. And it’ll only run if the Super Admin visits a Dashboard page. And it might be resource intensive, as it will recheck blog membership for every blog on the system. Use at your own risk.

=== all the possible available (BP I think) links appear in the far left of the bottom of the footer. ===

I believe you’re referring to the BP Admin Bar. I assume you used the BP Template pack plugin to make your WP theme compatible with BP. You will also need to load the styling for BP admin bar via @import.

`/*
Theme Name: Name of your Theme
… etc
… etc
… etc
*/

/* Load the default admin bar styles */
@ import url( ../../plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/_inc/css/adminbar.css );`

I’m also interested in this. Since people often create forum topics in the wrong groups, it’s not usual to have to move them around (using @dwenaus Topic Mover plugin). Moving the topic breaks links to it (in notification emails, activity stream, etc.)

Any suggestions on how to change the slug or how to somehow avoid this problem of broken links for moved forum topics?

What do you want to be in the links page?

Use the buddypress links plugin https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-links/ it adds that tab to groups

@brentjacobsen – Do you have access to your PHP/apache error logs to see where exactly the memory error is happening? How much available memory is being allocated to PHP? Remember that the more custom PHP code you pull in (with plugins, elaborate themes, etc…) is the bigger that buffer gets, and eventually it’ll pop once it hits the limit. That limit may get reached at different times for different users depending on the number of groups they’re in, the number of pending invitations they have, the page that is trying to be displayed, etc…

This will be a non-issue when the bbPress plugin eventually replaces the stand-alone version currently included in BuddyPress. Until then, the next version of BuddyPress will continue to work the same as before in this regard. Props @djpaul for being on the case.

here you go: http://teleogistic.net/2011/01/group-announcements-tab-in-buddypress/

It’s not to do with a global. It’s to do with calling the parent class’ WPDB(), and the fact that WP 3.2 is only supporting PHP 5+, the deprecated PHP4-style class constructors have been removed.

BuddyPress has recently patched these in trunk