Correction to the code above: In most cases it’s probably safer to just remove this from the INSERT query for ‘mailingusers’ (or whatever your mailing list uses):
users_id='$user_id',
In ListMessenger this ID is incremental. If you force it take the same ID as used in WordPress you may get nasty errors.
can a user define his blog category on singup?
@Robert, edited the post to reflect this little typo. Thanks for the catch!
@Toly, you’re correct, but my post was still a little off. Thanks for helping clarify!
@Matt Kern, that is correct. You can also do something like…
bp_core_load_template( 'fun/chubacabra', true );
…if you want to put all your chubacabra files in a directory in your themes root.
@JasonG, we’ve got an awful lot of stickies. I’m going to add it to the Wiki instead :cough: 
@everyone, this method shouldn’t change much by the time BP1.1 comes around, but keep an eye out just in case.
r-a-y, I did what you said. And I found out that it’s, Albertus MT Light. But that one costs 45$. Is there any other way to edit it?
I like it! So simple!
Can we should sticky this?
BP 1.1 will probably be released within a month; I’m not sure of the timescale.
DJPaul,
How do I optain this 1.1 version? As I can only find the 1.0.3 version.
Regards,
Martijn Kouwenhoven
The original file has not been released. Also in BP 1.1, this area has been replaced with a text heading rather than a graphic.
Probably not, but you could probably edit the text yourself!
One way of doing this is by cropping just the text as an image and running it through WhatTheFont to identify the font and then making your textual edits (providing you have the font in question!)
Hey r-a-y I tried to get to burts website and download his XMLRPC- debugger but his site is down or something it just says address can not be found. I have the same problem you did where I can not post to the group forum but a new forum gets created for the group on the forum’s main page. Not sure what to do at this point. Maybe you can send me an email with the debugger so i can check for the errors that are causing this.
I also tried downloading a new xmlrpc file and replacing it with my current one but no help there it was the same file size.
Thanks for any help or guidance to a solution,
Aaron.
Oh I am using all the up to date wpmu buddypress and bbpress software available.
It’s in the core.
/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-core/bp-core-settings.php
I was hoping it was something somewhat easy. I totally think my students would love having their own social network. High school students are familiar with it as part of their daily routine. Unfortunately, I have to host other sites besides my class site. If I could get just to work for http://chargertech.edisonchargers.com/maclab/ and not the other sub-domains, I would be one happy camper.
As for the server. It is a quad-core Xeon Xserve with 4 GB RAM. It is pretty nice for hosting a few class sites, plenty of power.
@John James Jacoby, i DL the zip from the trac. I can also confirm that there must be some issue with the trac zipper, because i don’t have a bbpress directory in buddypress/bp-forums/ directory.
@Andy: Should i still report this issue in trac?
I have another issue with the Side Wide Activity widget. It doesn’t show the status updates and some other things. Could this also be due to an issue with the zipper?
Hey gyonis,
For #1:
You’ll want to turn off blog registration and also set the default user role in WPMU to be “author”; that way everyone will be able to make a post on the root blog.
You can do this by going into your WPMU admin area and navigating to “Site Admin > Options”. Set “Allow New Registrations” to “Only user account can be created”. And set “Dashboard User Default Role” to “Author”.
For #2:
You’ll want to use some type of customized post screen plugin such as Flutter or my personal favorite Custom Field Template.
That should get you going!
You might also want to read this thread which talks about how to create a community blog.
You could put it in functions.php, but (and I am copying this from the BP codex), you should use bp-custom.php because:
(bp-custom.php) gets loaded with all the rest of bp automatically by bp during each page load. If you don’t have one already then create one in /plugins/buddypress. So we’ll pretend that we have done just that and that our three new functions are going to be loaded with the rest of bp.
The reason you have not found much on this on these forums, is because this questions are in WPMU’s domain. Have a search on their forums as these components aren’t provided or controlled by BuddyPress.
@John James Jacoby, i DL the zip from the trac. I can also confirm that there must be some issue with the trac zipper, because i don’t have a bbpress directory in buddypress/bp-forums/ directory.
@Andy: Should i still report this issue in trac?
I have another issue with the Side Wide Activity widget. It doesn’t show the status updates and some other things. Could this also be due to an issue with the zipper?
Good stuff, thanks John.
bp_core_load_template( ‘chubacabra’, true );
that would look for chubacabra.php in the home directory, correct?
It does not have to match the slug, I assume?
Makes sense. When I saw the filename (theme-options.php)… I figured this was a custom generated css file that was pulling in settings from the admin side. I guess the theme needs more testing maybe? Anyway… you could add “#post-entry li blockquote {color:#000;}” anywhere and it should work. Using the BuddyPress “custom.css” file or “site-wide.css” files might make sense if you don’t plan on changing the theme and don’t want to mess with the theme files.
Hey driz,
Check out /wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-core/bp-core-templatetags.php.
The function for bp_login_bar() is there… create your own function based off that and modify it to your liking!
Create this new function in /wp-content/plugins/bp-custom.php and then call on your new bar in your BP member template.
I have to say that using the multi-site plugin (paid vesion) + some creative rewrites can help achive 90% of what you want.
You can have two installs running. Of course, they have to be put into two different locals, used with a different database owner, etc…
The biggest problem you would run into would be if your server can handle the ram requirements.
I would not try this and expect performance ‘good enough’ unless I was on a dedicated hosting.
On a grid like ours, SOMETIMES we have to do a full on separate install. In these cases we also worry about our entire caching structure which bloats up considerably. A mitigation for this would be using S3 for storage, and we are moving our entire grid to the clouds. Our grid has been processor focused than storage (we started out as a high computational structure). Sorry for the off-topic.
Robert – the example.php is meant to be replaced with whatever name you’re using for the slug/load_template.
I’m using this to group members/groups/blogs into a community page.
