I still am not clear on what’s happening. Presumably, you are using a BP-compatible theme, such as BuddyPress Default. Users should then be able to access BP content by clicking on links like Members, Groups, etc. What do users see when they view your site? Do they see the theme that you have installed? Or a blank page? What happens when one of these new users attempts to view a page like http://example.com/members? I think that we need a clearer sense of what’s going on before we can suggest a solution.
Do you have any plugins installed that restrict member access to certain parts of the site? For instance, are you using some method of keeping non-members from accessing pages like example.com/members?
Do I need to switch off the buddypress theme before deactivating buddypress?
I would like to share with you my longstanding vision for the jMonkeyEngine community website. Over time this vision has been refined through the possibilities and limitations found in BuddyPress and the WordPress ecosystem, the growing needs of the community I tend to, and the added insight and technical aptitude of my fellow core drivers.
I believe in BuddyPress; with some luck, it will grow up to do great things. With this hypothetical case study, all I hope to do is shed some light on some of the neat things that could be made possible “when BuddyPress grows up“:
@DJPaul These are the plugins im using:
Add Logo to Admin
Akismet
BackupWordpress
BPAlbum
BP-Youtube Feed
BP Profile Search
BP Redirect to Profile for Buddypress
BP Xtra Signup
BuddyPress Announce Group
Buddypress Auto Group Join
BuddyPress Block Activity Stream Types
Buddypress Community Stats
Buddypress Mandatory Groups
BuddyPress Mobile
Buddypress Moderation
BuddyPress Registration Groups
BuddyPress Restrict Group Creation
BuddyPress RSS Character Fixer
Buddypress Topic Mover
Capability Manager
Custom Profile Filters for BuddyPress
Email Login
Erocks Dashboard Lockdown
Fast Secure Contact Form
Forum Attachments for BuddyPress
Mail From
PHP Exec
Simple Page Ordering
Twitter Goodies
Users to CSV
W3 Total Cache
Welcome Pack
WP-Invites
WP-TwitterBadge
WP Activate Users
@sladkoe6ka
cannot help with specific widget, but I assume that you should add missing per_page parameter, e.g.
bp_has_members( ‘include=2,12,46,233,365&per_page=22’ )
see the link to codex above.
Inquiry bumping – addition query: has anyone else received a call-time error for other areas of buddypress?
@mercime , can you describe the way widget display users?
First of all I have notices that users are shown in random order.
The problem I have at the moment is that I put 22 users to display, but only 20 are displayed. Does it mean that there is a 20 users to show limit? Does it mean that remaining 2 users will be shown later, when next shuffle would happen?
== when I make a text widget of any type they only seem to show on the main page. ==
That is strange, I see no evidence of a text widget in the home page nor in the inside pages, did you already delete the text widget?
Troubleshooting –
1. Deactivate ALL plugins except BuddyPress. Now add text widget – not Adsense, just a regular one – and I believe the regular text widgets will show up in all pages. It might just be that your Adsense plugin is not working as expected or has got a conflict with other plugins installed in your site.
2. Deactivate ALL plugins except the Google Adsense plugin and change theme to default twentyten theme. Add the adsense widget. If the Ads don’t show up, then you have to resolve this issue at the WordPress.org forums https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks and reference whichever Google Adsense plugin you are using
Added a version which is stable and all errors sorted out. Only thing left to do; is work on the styling of the main nav bar as anything other that of ‘home’ selected doesn’t reflect the selected colour..
The guy reviewing my theme has pointed out that there should be a option to disable/enable the admin bar. Iv’e documented this in the readme.txt so Im not going to bother with it and he also pointed out that having a crap load of menus will kinda break the theme – if you want to use that many menus, good luck! link to the menu
I specifically included the custom menu/drop down menus as to reduce ‘cluttered menus’.
In early BP versions, there used to be a few handy pre-populated profile fields – including a country list (I think).
Would be nice to have them back. As @djpaul suggests, some SQL and a bit of plugin coding should do the trick…. Paul: is there a nice schematic of the xprofile tables available?
Timing! I suspect the thumbnail is getting created by your plugin after the BuddyPress activity create hook.
I’ll clarify when I say “upgrade BuddyPress”, I mean update the files and reactivate the plugin, then visit the plugins page in wp-admin. Then before the next step, deactivate BuddyPress. You won’t need to toggle between the BP Default theme during this.
Backup everything — entire web root folders and the SQL database. Check the backups work. It never hurts to keep a backup of the backup somewhere, perhaps on another computer. The idea being is that if you have to delete everything and start out from scratch, you know you’ll be able to get back to where you are now.
You will have to re-build your theme, as the BuddyPress theme structure changed since the version you are using. You’ll probably be able to keep your WordPress theme, but you’ll essentially have to build a new BuddyPress theme, or be happy with using the (new) default BuddyPress theme. You can check out the default theme on http://testbp.org/.
I would suggest you get your theme sorted out before you upgrade.
It’d be massively easier starting from scratch with a new BuddyPress installation, but I’m assuming you can’t do that. The upgrade process from this old versions will be complex. Definitely do it in steps, don’t jump to the latest version.
0) Disable BuddyPress and all other plugins. Revert to standard WP theme. Get WPMU upgraded to 2.9.2.
1) Get BuddyPress updated to 1.1.3.
2) Get new theme ready (or use BP-Default) and then upgrade to BuddyPress 1.2.4
3) Upgrade WPMU to WP 3.1.1 (latest version)
4) Upgrade BP to 1.2.8 (latest version)
You’ll need to test this upgrade process / order of events before you have a go on your live site. Set up a local test site, or on a test server, and try this there. I haven’t done any upgrades like this (keeping the data from an old version), but good luck
Hello experts!
I’ve been given the task of upgrading an old setup of WordPress Mu & Buddypress. I see that Worpress MU is no longer a separate project and BP too has undergone several changes. Following is my current setup –
Wordpress MU: 2.7.1
Buddypress: 1.0.2
The site is hosted on MediaTemple Grid Service and I don’t see clever ways of backup (like taking server image). I need your inputs and how to proceed with this upgrade. I also need tips on backing up the site so that I can get the things back in case things go wrong.
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I have the “buddypress-colours” theme which is a really simple theme with just a few CSS colors and some images. I am trying to override the header background image (of the default theme) so that I can make it red instead of blue. I’ve successfully changed the image in wp-contentthemesbuddypress-colours_incimages, but browsers are still loading the image from the bp-default theme. If I change *that* image, it works. Any idea how I can successfully implement the override?
I made it!
Here is solution:
1) delete buddypress.
2) It might be useful to check if the tables for bbpress were deleted. Check also there is no bb-config.php in the web root folder.
3) reinstall buddypress
4) change ‘TYPE = MYISAM’ to ‘ENGINE = MYISAM’ in /wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums/bbpress/bb-admin/includes/defaults.bb-schema.php before creating groups and using forums.
5) create groups and test forums.
And I find it here: https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/bbpress-posting-errors-missing-database-tables/?topic_page=2&num=15
Am attempting to implement some of the ideas from this forum, particularly those from the post https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/buddypress-spam/?topic_page=3&num=15#post-69499
Would really appreciate some guidance in order to do this correctly. Some of this may appear stupid –
My Set up is the following-BuddyPress installation on a subsite.
a) Multisite with subdirectories http://examplesite.com/ – http://examplesite.com/subsite1 – http://examplesite.com/subsite2 – http://examplesite.com/subsite3 etc etc.
b)BuddyPress installed on a subdirectory. say on http://examplesite.com/subsite3
c) So that there is a consistent signup interface I have redirected the signup of http://examplesite.com/ from http://examplesite.com/wp-signup.php to http://examplesite.com/subsite3/register via a plugin Quick Page/Post Redirect. Before doing this the signups at http://examplesite.com/ were going to http://examplesite.com/wp-signup.php and from anywhere else were going to http://examplesite.com/subsite3/register.
Question 1
With regard to
1)# BEGIN ANTISPAMBLOG REGISTRATION
2)RewriteEngine On
3)RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} POST
4)RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} .wp-signup.php*
5)RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !.examplesite.com. [OR]
6)RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^$
7)RewriteRule (.*) http://examplesite.com/goaway.html [R=301,L]
A) In line 4 what do I replace .wp-signup.php* with ? Is it .register.php* ? or is it .subsite3/register.php ?? or is it something else ???
In line 5 do i replace !.examplesite.com. with anything ? say !.examplesite.com/subsite3. ???
Question 2
With regard to “changing the register slug”
A) does this mean changing the name of the file register.php ??? or something else ??? and inserting define( “BP_REGISTER_SLUG”, “your-registration-slug” ); with the new name replacing “your-registration-slug” say retsiger.php or with some other name?
Would it then be necessary to go into the plugins like say Buddypress Humanity and change any references to register.php to whatever its name has been changed to or is that taken care of by the define( statement )) ??
Question 3
If the site was http://www.examplesite.com/ instead of http://examplesite.com/ would there be any changes to your advice ?
Question 4
In my .htaccess file there is already a line “RewriteEngine On” . Do I still include line 2 of the above?
Question 5
Is there any particular place in the .htaccess file where the above code should be inserted ?
Many Thanks
@r-a-y, I found a little incompatibility with your code, and with The “bp unread posts” plugin, it seems that this code is making it not to appear
`function bp_unread_posts_record_activity() {
global $bp;
global $forum_template;
if ( bp_has_forum_topic_posts() ) $bb_this_thread = $forum_template->topic->topic_id;
if (empty($bb_this_thread)) {
return $null;
}
$bbtype = ‘last_visits_user_’;
$bbuser = $bp->loggedin_user->id;
$bb_this_visit_time = strtotime($forum_template->topic->topic_time);
$bb_last_visit = bb_get_topicmeta($bb_this_thread, $bbtype . $bbuser);
if($bb_last_visit != $bb_this_visit_time) {
bb_update_topicmeta($bb_this_thread, $bbtype . $bbuser, $bb_this_visit_time);
}
}`
what is making it not appear?
the “add featured thumbnail” option on the editing screen doesnt show up… its wierd because it works on my local machine but not on the server…
Yes. Any WordPress plugins that extends the user authentication should work just fine with BuddyPress 
