Hi everyone!
Really excited about this project! I believe that document editing and collaboration is a key feature to many professional networks and this feature will be a killer addition to BuddyPress and help lots of people. Great work!
The details are as follows:
WordPress Version: 3.1
BuddyPress Version: 1.2.8
Theme: Buddy Press Default 1.2.7 By BuddyPress
I am using WordPress for first time
I know some HTML.
I do not know PHP at all.
@David thank for the code.
I would like to create a Submenu for that theme.
I have got still problem to create a child theme. It would be helpful if someone could help me with it.
I need it soon for my coursework.
I would be thankful for any quick answer.
um, if you’re using phpbb, why use buddy press?
Kind of defeats the whole point, no?
Doesn’t matter, not looking properly. Idiot!
For some reason the Buddy Press Template pack won’t run the setup guide to make my template compatible. All I get when trying to access BuddyPress as a user is redirect to the homepage.
Any reason it won’t run? A Buddy Press compatible template works fine so nothing wrong with Buddy Press.
This is a heavily customised theme. Generally the support forum here helps with matters related to the running of BuddyPress and the BuddyPress default theme.
Although it almost certainly an issue with the themes styling to determine that absolutely one should drop back to the BP default theme to check if the issue still persists.
Fixing styling issues with third party themes is slightly beyond the remit of this forum but someone may take a look for you and offer some suggestions (presently I am without the two aforementioned afflicted browsers)
picking back up on this thread: dropbox as a cdn has sped my site up, minify would have been useful as manually combining all those files would make upgrading plugins a nightmare. from my understanding caching on buddypress is difficult as the pages change too often, so caching gives odd results, blogs don’t have the same problem
I don’t know of anything like that. You’d probably have to investigate if there is a bbPress plugin you could use. You’d have to use an external install of bbPress for BuddyPress for this (not as trivial to integrate as the default forum installation is).
Er. I would certainly have stepped it through into 1.2 first, then the latest version. I don’t know if you can go from 1.1 to 1.2.8 in one go.
Which admin bar? WordPress’ or BuddyPress’, or?
== Buddypress was not there nor was the section to configure it. ==
The Super/Network Admin has a separate new panel in WP 3.1. Click on Network Admin link in upper right hand corner and you’ll find the BuddyPress button in admin menu.
== OK but the site was totaly broken ==
Deactivate all plugins and change theme to default WP theme. Know that many BP plugins and themes from way back 1.1.2 are not compatible with current WP/BP versions.
== Do I need to upgrade a number of times ==
Nope. Just upload BP 1.2.8 and WP 3.1 manually i.e. via FTP or cpanel, etc. Access wp-admin, then go through the upgrade process. Btw, curious why not start from scratch?
I have decided my buddypress site will live again (after about a year on mothballs) and began the upgrade process. WPMU 3.1 installed fine but when I tried to upgrade Buddypress from 1.1.2 to 1.2.8 it appeared to update OK but the site was totaly broken. When I went into the plugins list Buddypress was not there nor was the section to configure it. Clicking on the members menu link did not do anything. Do I need to upgrade a number of times to get up to 1.2.8?
=== syntax error …. on line 1 ==
open up your bp-custom.php file and make sure at the top that there’s an opening
`<?php`
without any space or line before that.
At the bottom, make sure that you have a closing
`?>`
Did anyone resolve this? I have BuddyPress 1.2.8 installed on WordPress 3.1 (not multisite). I am using the default theme. I have not installed any other plugins. Seems I’m in the same situation as munman. mod_rewrite is enabled.
From your wp-admin, go to general settings of buddypress….
@nexia
If all you want to do is replace the bp-adminbar with the new WP version, simply add this to your functions.php file:
`remove_action( ‘wp_footer’, ‘bp_core_admin_bar’, 8 );
remove_action( ‘admin_footer’, ‘bp_core_admin_bar’);
show_admin_bar(true);`
Hi apologies is this is an easy question, I am a newbie.
I set up a WordPress site with BuddyPress, I want it to work like a virtual learning system for schools. My trouble is i want each group to represent a subject in school. i.e. Math, History, English etc. I want to be able to add students to the different groups only via a code. So if a student goes to my site they should be able to only join groups if they have a unique code for the group. This would mean that different students could be given 6 codes and that would sign them up for 6 subjects.
The problem is that i want each code to only be able to be used once. So if Student A puts in ABC123 as a code, he gains access to Math and then Student B cannot use the same pass to get access to the Math Group. Student A could add 5 more codes that would allow access to 5 other specific subject groups.
I know this sounds hard and I would say it will be but it is for content protection.
Thanks in advance to any help any one has.
How to make a link of Author’s blog posted? Example John James Jacoby’s member:
Activity | Followers (158) | Following (24) | Groups (18) | Author (11)
Thanks, Mikey3D
hello ..is there a way to pull up a drop down list when you start typing @ ? like on twitter ..it pulls up a certain amount of followers i think limit is 500 ….. so instead of memorizing someones name like your friends for example when you go to type the ‘@’ it pulls up a list then drills down for every character you type after @ ….does anyone know how to do this? @DJPaul
as it’s not a “major” rework on BP to simply use the new 3.1 wp-admin-bar instead of the BP version, why isn’t it already included in the latest release, as there is already something to handle it? the code is not so different, we simply need to make a version for 3.1 … am i the only one interested in this?? i didn’t see anybody asking for it yet.
i can handle it if nobody at Buddypress is able to do it… rofl there is just no action in where we would be able to handle it in “bp_core_load_admin_bar” … someone started the job without adding any flexibility for it.
*(and yes i’m ahead of the timeframe, i don’t care, this question is not even in the roadmap, so i would do it if you don’t care)
Upload bp-custom to wp-content/plugins/bp-custom.php
not the BP plugin folder
Hello,
I’am using BuddyPress with MultiNetwork and I let the users to create 1 blog if they want, but the normal users can create blogs with some rules. For example, can’t create an blog with multiple words like: “example-of-blog-name”. The only possibility is “exampleofblogname”.
THe problem isn’t with the installation, because I as admin can create with any name.
Anyone know how can I fix it? 
Hi,
Thanks, your instructions seem simple enough but i get the following msg after uploading a file called bp-custom.php to the buddypress plugin folder exactly as you said:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING in /srv/samenm3/www/www.samenmetkok.nl/wp-content/plugins/bp-custom.php on line 1
What does that mean?
Thank you!!
These automated bots are usually just that, automated that are programmed to look for specific strings in search engines that return a list of buddypress sites and then harvested. I was getting hammered with 20+ blogs getting created a day that was spam. I tried ever plugin and .htaccess tricks known to man and none of them worked. I was tired of all of the spam I was getting so I put on my tin foil and went to war. I was determined to win this war and to stop 99.9% of automated spam dead in its tracks.
First I went to cpanel and under the “Website Traffic” on the left side of the page and clicked “View all traffic” then clicked on my domain name.
When the statistics page for that domain loaded I looked on the left hand side of the page for “Search Keyphrases”, this will show me a list of the keyphrases that was used to find my site.
I found all the keyphrases that was used by the spammers to find my site in the search engines and here is the list of the keyphrases.
1. intext create an account username required email address required blog details inurl register
2. to start connecting please log in first. you can also create an account. .cr. blogs
3. allintext create an account account details profile details blog details yes i d like to create a new blog
4. yes i d like to create a new blog
5. “blog url required ” inurl /register
6. “yes i’d like to create a new blog”
7. intext create an account blog details inurl register
8. to start connecting please log in first. you can also create an account. .be.blogs
9. inurl register yes i d like to create a new blog
10. intext blogs create an account username email address blog details inurl register
11. to start connecting please log in first. you can also create an account. .de.
What I did was I went downloaded the buddypress to my desktop and open every file with NotePad++ and started searching for “create an account; blog details; yes i d like to create a new blog” Once I found those strings, I changed the name to something else and on the registration page I removed the “yes i/d like to create a new blog” along with its checkbox completely and i searched everything with the word “blog” and changed it to something completely different. I Also renamed the “bp-blog.php” and the /bp-blog/ folder.
Make sure to search through the other files in the buddypress folder for anything calling the “bp-blog.php” and the /bp-blogs/ and rename it accordingly.
It has been a week since I done this and I have yet to be spammed. I went from 20 a day to zero overnight by doing this.
