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Jeff,

it would making TESTING much much easier, if you could set-up a BP-website including your plugin.

Please grap a domain and a cheap server and put BP onto it including your Privacy-plugin.

Then a bunch of us can test it. This would be most effective and we can set permissions, and can feedback to each other.

Like: hey, can you see my profile or is it hidden ? No, I can not see your Profile, bla, bla, bla…..

Let me know if you need a domain-name, I still have a few laying around….I can just point it to your webhost…..

Blakicemg,

Did that method work for you? I am trying to do the same thing: merge BuddyPress with an old WordPress theme

Hey Paul. Thanks for weighing in.

Yes… I wonder about that as well. If we should all be friends of not. The specific case here is that with this community, we are all friends in real life and we all know each other in real life. And it’s a very important community. We are a volunteer organization that falls under the umbrella of the Provincial Emergency Management Office. So it may make sense for us to all be “connected”.

That said, BuddyPress already shows you activity from everyone and already show you all members in the membership directory. So that’s great. And having specific “friends” (as opposed to just everyone) adds another layer to the social context which could be useful. My issue mainly is that I cannot send group invites to non-friends. So we have committees which need to have certain members in them… and I can’t invite them because we’re not friends.

But maybe that’s just an education issue. We are only in “test drive” mode right now. When we officially launch and I sign everyone up… I will need to do some education on how to add friends, make groups, join groups, etc. Especially with this group… since many are not what you would call “computer savvy”. LOL.

ah! that was it, thanks!

You have to add a define line in your bp-custom.php.

Say you have your languages files called piglatin.mo and piglatin.po.

Upload the files to /wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-languages/.

Then this is what you’d put in your /wp-content/plugins/bp-custom.php:

define( 'BPLANG', 'piglatin' );

if ( file_exists( BP_PLUGIN_DIR . '/bp-languages/' . BPLANG . '.mo' ) ) {

load_textdomain( 'buddypress', BP_PLUGIN_DIR . '/bp-languages/' . BPLANG . '.mo' );

}

I agree that it’s a big step forward from a usability point of view. The two column side navigation confuses everyone at first (and second) glance. And constancy is critical in user interface design. Floating the admin bar is a great usability idea too. And the “New Post” and “New Group” buttons on those directory pages is absolutely brilliant. That’s a huge leap in usability. People are always very confused with the current Forums directory page. So that’s all great! Very good work.

What I’m really missing though is all the beautiful little details from the previous design. Those ‘speech bubble’ arrows on the title backgrounds (although they were somewhat overused). The nice gradients on the title backgrounds. The beautiful (and useful) little icons in the navigation. The beautiful rounded buttons with their little arrows, icons, checkmarks and busy cursors. And just the overall brand feel of the yellow orange and grey. It really was (and still is) a beautiful design. But generic makes more sense for a default theme. Like the Kubrik theme for WordPress. And easier theme development is always good. I also recognize the the new theme is a work in progress.

I also used “PO edit” and changed some text within this editor. Then I uploaded via FTP to my server, but the words did not change.

So is PO-edit for MAC only ?

Is there any other better editor for changing these language-files ?

I do not have a MAC, just plain Windows XP Home.

@johnjamesjacoby I made tons of major changes to the verbiage, upoaded my new po/mo files.. but like @jamesyeah it didn’t change anything on my site.

Two options… look into the Kaltura plugin:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-kaltura-media-component/

Or just search for a regular (non-BuddyPress) WordPress plugin and host the video contest on the main blog (as opposed to living within the social context of BuddyPress).

Would you mind sharing this function?

This could be very useful in cases where the community is not just online… but also a real community… i.e… local volunteer organizations where everyone knows everyone in real life. In that case… it may make sense for everyone to be a friend of everyone. I love that BuddyPress shows you activity for all members (not just friends… like twitter)… but really dislike the fact that you can’t send out group invites to non-friends. In the example above (a real community where everyone knows everyone in real life)… it makes sense to be able to invite anyone.

Lovely!

I like what I see. Much more Facebooky.

The main thing is that the userbar/optionsbar is no longer vertical. It’s a huge improvement for me! Now I won’t have to edit that much of the code.

Did you by any chance copied/replaced this install from another place? If you did, maybe you haven’t updated your wp-config and some other files.

Only other option beside that I can think of is that your server/host doesnt support mod_rewrite..

Both unlikely since your admin area does work. Try disabling buddypress and see if your normal wpmu pages work..

This problem occurred even though I had desactivated all plugins (including BP) before upgrading. And the Buddypress menu showed in the admin menu though I had not yet been able to reactivate BP due to the bp-activity error.

Like David Lewis, deleting the “active_sitewide_plugins” value in the wp_sitemeta table sorted it out.

This plugin did not work for me and many others, there was an error in 1.0.3 that stops you from selecting the name fields when setting up the plugin, It seemed to only effect certain people so may be worth a try. I will have to wait until the next version though.

All of which comes back to my question above… can anyone recommend a GUI po/mo editor for Mac that works? Or is poedit the only option out there?

The best possible option right now is using JJJ’s BP Member filter:

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/bp-member-filter

That way you can let your users filter users by name or profile field. This way if you search for “Tom” in the field First Name, you will get correct results.

Since JJJ is working on improving this plugin, I think it’s meant to become a core functionality in the near future. Until that time comes, I think this is a pretty good alternative for solving your problems Mike

please check this:

https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/1431

Do we have any information for how many widget areas there are in this new theme?

POEdit for mac is not that buggy… until you decide to edit a .po file… ROFL

so keep it closed!

@djpaul re poedit. I must be missing something. seems to work fine for me. what issues do you notice and is there a better mac po file editor you like?

Do you mean hosted blogs aren’t working? Were they working before installing BuddyPress?