I have for you made a Trac ticket for the suggestion of allowing Group slugs to be set.
From a quick Google search it appears that, yes, WordPress slug titles need to be improved to support i18n efforts. All the WordPress slugs – including the BuddyPress group threads – go through sanitize_title().
A patch for sanitize_title() to support i18n slug names for the WordPress core is the way to go. I don’t understand what’s required as I do not know much about i18n, so I’m leaving this alone.
Okay I get it now;-) Thanks Jeff. Have a nice weekend.
Please usehttps://buddypress.org/forums/topic/how-to-create-a-forum-that-isnt-associated-with-a-group/ to continue this
discussion
MU isn’t that much different in my experience.
I’d say YES. You should at least know basic of wpmu before using buddypress.
Starting with group slug problem:
https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/group-slugs-when-i18n-environment
BuddyPress should offer options to set group url (slug) to be %postname% or %post_id%. Otherwise they should add a new text field to edit group slug upon creation of groups.
Next is activity excerpts bug:
https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/654
Once it was fixed with 1.0 series, now it happens again on 1.1
If you have technical skills to submit patches on these, please do so. I may be able to help you find bits of code, but I can’t write anything from scratch.
For some reason…no matter what I try, I can’t inject SPECIFIC variables via the xprofile_set_field_data function….I run this function (below)
ONLY AFTER running two conditionals to make sure
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ONE the buddypress globals are set
and
TWO the check for the xprofile function passes
Both conditionals pass (as expected) then go to my test function below
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End result — The echo statement appears correctly…but nothing is appearing in the field values for the user – I am pulling my hair out??????
Sample
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function BP_Insert_Test($wpuid, $age) {
$age = ’22’; // Should appear in the profile
echo(‘user id is ‘ . $wpuid . ‘ and userdata is ‘ . $age);
xprofile_set_field_data(2, $wpuid, $age);
}
Any ideas?
good question !
How to search for content within “Blog” ?
I just created a TRAC-ticket for enhancement:
https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/1206
I’ve attached a tentative patch on the trac:
https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/1134
Feel free to help test!
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My sign up page appeared once I merged the BP default theme with my root WP theme as per https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/upgrading-a-buddypress-1-0-theme-for-buddypress-1-1/. The styling isn’t quite fixed, bu tthe sign-up fields and buttons are all there, which was the point of my question above.
Have started a new thread with my leftover queries at https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/merging-bp-default-theme-with-wp-root-blog-theme
James
I tried reading through and searching the forum before posting this. Unfortunately there isn’t a detailed description of everything for BP like the WordPress Codex, its a bit frustrating. Reading through the code usually works but that takes a lot of time and coffee 
https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-discussions/buddypress-forum/ that link doesn’t really say much except describe what the forum plugin is all about.
I have been playing around with the integrated forum and I don’t like the way you have to associate forums with groups and stuff. I want to have something like this forum on this site, like the standard forum structure you get.
A forum with a root thread in which categories can be made and child threads can be started. Like what Vbulletin, Phpbb and SMF et al has.
What I am trying to figure out is if its possible to do this with the integrated forums or should I go to the standalone Bbpress installation.
Thanks Andy
I’ve done all that several times, no luck
Downloaded BP from svn just in case something corrupted with .zip but nothing changed. Still the same annoying white page…
I’m giving up for now , it’s just frustrating, I was planning to use BP on a project and I’ve been waiting for this release eagerly.
When I have some time I will test this on a live server see if better luck.
Hello,
I am using WooTheme’s Newsport on a WPMU 2.8.4a install with BuddyPress 1.1.1 (www.threesheetsnw.com).
I’d like to spend some time this weekend integrating BuddyPress 1.1.1 into my theme and was wondering if anyone had any more thoughts on the best approach.
Sepecifically, should I hack Newsport theme and add the Buddypress Templates (as recommended by BuddyPress) or …
Create a child theme, leaving Newsport alone, and including the BuddyPress templates in that child (as recommended by Detective above)?
I know that WooThemes use frameworks for its themes.
Thanks much for helping with this brave new world!
Marty
I once wrote some code which adds a setting to the BuddyPress administration panel. It was probably the very first BuddyPress plugin I ever wrote and I should touch it up and put it in the repository. In the meantime, see it here:
http://luftslott.org/2009/06/buddypress-option-to-limit-or-remove-the-possibility-to-mail-out-notifications-of-wire-updates/
Delete the plugin, refresh your plugins admin page. Re-upload the plugin, re-activate. Make sure you are using 1.1.1.
Thanks Allenweiss.
I ‘d seen the thread you mention but it didn’t help, my problem is with fresh install.
Looking closer in my log file I ‘ve seen this from yesterday :
PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function bp_page_title() in /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/wpmu/wp-content/themes/bp-sn-parent/header.php on line 9
I don’t know if it is related since I ‘ve not been able to replicate this today, although my page still goes blank .
Hope thelps
Thank you guys
Thanks for pointing it out… I still have the white page issue.
Besides that, I get a “server dropped connection” error, like my server would shut down everything or something.
Cheers
Forums are are now fully integrated and attached to groups that can be created and controlled by any registered user.
https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-discussions/buddypress-forum/
By default, there is no need to be registered in a (public) group to post. You must only be on the group page to access to his forum.
If you are admin, you can create a hidden group of course and invite all members you want.
@ The thing is I want a site wide forum like this site has. I you want you have to create it. This iste use a custom page as far as i know.
@ So does that mean I have to create a group and add everyone to it ?
i think you’re going to do things twice if you don’t read this forum first before asking
.
they have been talking about this here http://bit.ly/1bnh5
maybe that will help you (it solved my problem).
Hello
I have buddypress 1.1.1 with WordPress Mu 2.8.4a.
When I try to add a friend says to me: ” The friendship cannot be tried ”
That I do?
I share your pain – not local but on a remote server…
I get the same blank screen after trying to activate bp and haven’t found a solution/help nowhere.
Hope one of the bp-gurus heard about this problem and knows a solution…
Cheers
Well I wasn’t very successfull in getting help here.
I should add that i get no server error logs for this. It just goes boom …
Any ideas anyone ?
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You get the forum activated in the backend under BuddyPress->Forums Setup. You can find the information that makes up your frontpage in a file called home.php in your child theme folder. The forum stuff you find in directories->forums->index.php. You could copy everything, except the sidebar bit over to home.php, but there’ll probably be some CSS issues, cause home.php is completely widgetized. So it’ll make more sense to package the forum stuff up as a widget and drop it in the first-section sidebar.
The rest (memberlist,groups,mesageboards) is set up automatically for you by BuddyPress.
Happy Coding!
