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@madyogi

Your questions are really better asked in a new thread, not in this thread.

To help you get started, have a look here:

BuddyPress Codex

You may have issues accessing that link at this time. It is a known issue that is being investigated. But, once it’s accessible, you will find many resources there to help you get started.

Not sure. If it’s like WP, then around every three months, so the next one should then be beginning next year. The plugin will be available earlier, I guess.

Hey all. I have just been hired full time as a web developer and videographer for a major medical school. The idea is to create a site that will recruit more young people to go into healthcare related fields.

Anyway, I want to use WPMU and Buddypress as the architecture for content management and some social networking components. I have a good bit of WordPress experience, but am completely new to BuddyPress. I am right now in the process of developing a totally custom theme for the site.

There is a lot of content outside just the main blog and the BuddyPress components. The wordpress functionality is basically complete and I’m now starting on the BuddyPress portion. I’m a bit confused as to how to step into the theme development. Is there a good explainer somewhere that might help me understand how exactly the BP components are called or hooked into what would otherwise be a standard WP theme?

I would not be able to share the custom build with the community as it would not have any applicability outside this site, but once I get my feet wet, I would be happy to help develop a more generic theme to donate to the cause.

I think that’s an awesome idea too… for messages like “site will be down for maintenance on Wednesday” or whatever right on the homepage. I plan on using BuddyPress for our Regional Search & Rescue team… so it would be great… when a call goes out… to put the search information right on the homepage (for members only of course)… i.e. “All members please respond immediately to 123 Main Street… blah blah blah”.

So I looked into this. Just poked around in the /messages/ folder for a bit. Didn’t take long to find the required line of code. Try sticking this in your home.php file.

<?php bp_message_get_notices(); // (admin created site wide notices) ?>

I was looking at http://www.dailywp.com/jobpress-wordpress-theme/ which is in use at http://jobs.smashingmagazine.com/. I was wondering if it was compatible with WPMU and Buddypress.

I would definitely interested in ur jobboard component!

If you have a look at the roadmap you can see that in the next major version we can expect fine grained privacy control.

I believe Jeff, one of the moderators here, is working on a privacy component, that might make it into core. I don’t know when he will release it, though.

In the meantime, you can copy registration/register.php from your parent theme to your child theme and add a sentence that profile pages are publicly accessible, so it’s not a good idea to save any credit card details…

Jeff, thank you for your solution. I think I might be missing something minor.

Here is what I did:

I upgraded to Buddypress 1.1.1 and activity feed has gone missing as well.

Right now in bp-activity.php I have

define ( ‘BP_ACTIVITY_DB_VERSION’, ‘1800’ );

I searched the meta_key entry “bp-activity-db-version” and it was set to 1300.

Should I change that to something below 1300?

I set it to 1297, logged into wp-admin and hasn’t made a difference after initiating some activity.

Anyone a idea?

Thanks!

George

There is a plugin called bpPicture who can do that !

http://manojkumar.org/bppicture-album-plugin-for-buddypress/

Lucky you. I had to install a plugin and edit CSS files to get rid of that ugly thing at the top. My guess would be that removing the Buddybar is a feature of “Arthemia Premium theme”.

I have not seen anyone on the BuddyPress forums reporting that they are using this plugin. You are the first that I’ve seen.

From the error message, it looks like WPMU has an issue with some code in the plugin. It could be caused by another plugin you’ve installed being incompatible or simply a bug within the plugin itself.

Your best bet is to contact the plugin developer, tell them about the error, and ask whether it works with BP v1.1.1.

Line 19 is

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

Odd.

Do you have buddypress installed in /wp-content/plugins/buddypress/ ? Does the bp-core.php file exist in that directory?

If it is, check user/file permissions.

This code is extremely old for an old version of BuddyPress but it *might* give you some ideas – http://bp-dev.org/plugins/bpdev-tinymce/

I have not heard of this specific behavior before. Are you using a custom theme or the default parent/child theme that comes with BuddyPress? Have you deactivated all other plugins except BP to see if that makes a difference.

When having issues with BP, you need to boil everything down to the the lowest, common denominator–use the default BP theme and deactivate all other plugins except BP. If the issue goes away, then you most likely have a problem with a custom theme, a plugin conflict, or both.

Andy is aware of this issue. It is some difficult-to-track-down bug with the server(s). He is working with the server admins to see if they can figure out what’s causing it. It has nothing to do with WPMU or BuddyPress–in other words, installing BP will not cause this issue on your server!

Well, I appreciate the sentiment but I do not consider myself the most important. That is why I’m sleeping now.

To reconfirm what both Paul and John said above, Andy is the only official core BP developer. There are no other official core developers at this time. The rest of us play our various roles, trying to pitch in where we think we’ll have some positive impact.

From those who file bug tickets and offer patches, to those who create new plugins and themes, and to those who answer questions in the forums and IRC, it is truly the contributions of the overall community that make and will continue to make BuddyPress a strong product.

Irrespective of application, the MooTools framework and the jQuery toolkit do not always play well together.

So, it is not that MooTools is not allowed in BuddyPress, it is that since jQuery is the Javascript library selected to be used in BP, you may have issues when trying to get MooTools to function properly in BP.

A couple of suggestions:

• If by chance you are using Slimbox make sure it is Slimbox2 and not Slimbox1, as the latter relied on the Mootools framework. Slimbox2 was rewritten to utilize jQuery.
• The use of the “$” can be a big source of the conflict. Both MooTools and jQuery attempt to claim the “$” as their own.
• Finally, if you are not running the latest version of MooTools, upgrading may help as version 1.2.3 introduced framework compatibility mode. Read more about it here:

  http://mootools.net/blog/2009/06/19/mootools-123-released/

@designodyssey

Yep, the template overlap is the issue, and this should a major design concern in the architecture I suggested: to design the buddypress functional theme layer in such a way that it overlaps as little a possible with different parent themes.

And yes, this is a future release issue.

If i can help you wih french i’m ready, just PM me.

@Arghagain

buddypress 1.1 DB has not the same number of tables as 1.03… hope you made a good dump before you upgrading. Downgrading was not a good idea !

First thing to try when a blank SWA is to reload the WHOLE activity directory content… and to verify that you’re using the good template system for bp 1.1.1 !

If you donwgrade, take care on the db version number in wp1_options table and control also the content of wp_user_meta table !

Forum tables, if i read correctly your post – but i don’t know of a bb1.1.1 so i suppose you speak about buddypress(bp) – have now wp_bb_ prefix…

Old bb forum tables have bb_ prefix… and there activity were not in BP SWA.

When upgrading bp from previous version, old forum tables are not overidden and depending of what you choose during upgrade process for foum – integrated or separated – the new forum tables are created but stays empty – sorry, with only one test content.

The new (BP 1.1) site wide activity use only one activity table.

wp_bp_activity_user_activity_cached

The old system (< 1.1) use 3 tables:

wp_bp_activity_user_activity_cached

wp_bp_activity_user_activity

wp_bp_friends_activity_cached

Also take in mind that sometimes upgrading tooks a while to appear. I don’t know why, but it’s so….

Trac ticket created on https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/1251