@karmatosed : with buddypress default theme it works absolutely OK. No problem at all.
@hnla : as for this issue the home page is displayed in a odd way , so I have enabled the admin bar for guests for the time being ….
I’m doing all the testing in my demo install in localhost …
after the issue is resolved, I will agian disable the adminbar for guests … 
After updating to buddypress 1.2.6 from 1.2.5.2 , my site does not show admin bar for guest user(as admin is disabled for loggedout users) , instead inplace it shows a white space …
Logged in users can view the admin bar correctly , but non-loggedin users or guest users cannot see the admin bar , instead of the admin bar there is a white space in place … !!!
What I don’t understand is why CAN I see the admin bar when I visit your site?
As this is a custom theme have you actually tried asking the wpmu guys for support? as per my suggestion on the other thread.
As I presume the other thread is finished with and my snippet of code of no use I will close that thread as it only serves to confuse if it runs on.
@AnindyaRay: Hmmm what happens just as a ‘test’ with the default BuddyPress theme and your site? I always use the BuddyPress default theme as my ‘baseline’ test.
Does this only work if your SMF installation is at the same location as your Buddypress installation? Because I am setting up with a different hosting service and I’d really hate to have to install SMF on the new host and upload the tables just to deleted everything.
yep groups and forums are not roles in the strict sense of WP roles and capabilities, which is what I guess I meant in my initial comment.
“Except for Groups and Forums where users can be given more roles.”
to clarify – this is internal buddypress “roles” (group admin/mod) not plugging into wp_cap/roles
With the limited exception of BP groups, BuddyPress offers only one role — that of user. The forums are controlled by bbPress code, integrated into BuddyPress, but it’s bbPress that is in control of offering additional roles. Even when bbPress is relaunched as a WordPress plugin, forum roles will still be controlled by bbPress.
BuddyPress is a social layer that sits on top of WordPress. As such, the notion of user and author are synonymous. What does all of this mean?
With the exception for BP groups mentioned above, BuddyPress is a user-centric platform where there are currently no-jointly owned or controlled subsets of data. Ignoring the overall Site Administrator, in BuddyPress, there is a one-to-one relationship between a given piece of datum and a single owner of that datum. The key is who owns data. That person is the one with ultimate control (ignoring the super admin). Even with groups, the original group creator is the owner of the group–at least until he or she adds another admin. Group mods do not own the group data, they just help to manage it. Now, if the original group admin leaves the group, the new admin becomes the sole owner.
So user roles are irrelevant to the operation of BuddyPress as it focuses on users and not user roles. It is a social networking layer after all and not a content authoring and management layer like WordPress.
“as far as I’m aware BP does not create any roles or specific capabilities.”
Except for Groups and Forums where users can be given more roles.
Thanks for the code @carlosepp, I have a question
“This code detects automatically the browser language and defines the language.”
How effective is it and does it work sitewide (not only with the buddypress blog but with all the navigations bar of the network’s blogs)?
Hi All,
I am developing a BuddyPress plugin that manipulates both BuddyPress and s2member.
I have built it so that it adds a special css to the page to hide information if they are free members on their profiles. For example:
s2member_level1
Can’t see their Premium Fields when they view their profile. Works.
s2member_level2
Can see premium profile fields
The trouble is that the current script checks the current user roles. I need to check the roles of the user the profile belongs to because if the user of the profile is not s2member_level2 then other users should not see premium fields too.
I hope someone gets what i am trying to say and can help
Roles and capabilities are a WP factor not BP, as far as I’m aware BP does not create any roles or specific capabilities.
If you want a good role manager plugin I would suggest Justin Tadlock’s one ‘Members’ however ‘capsman’ may well suit your requirements.
Sorry I didn’t explained myself very well.
I don’t want to replace the activity page by an other one.
Here’s my current buddypress menu : Home (activity) | Members | Group | Forums | Blogs
Here’s what I would like : Home | Activity | Members | Group | Forums | Blogs
Home would be a page similar to the home page of blasft (it’s an example), where there will be different design and will encourage the visitors to register an open a blog.
On this page they will be :
– tags used in all the blogs,
– latest blogs posted
– others stuff to create a good looking portal
Best regards,
@karmatosed : I disable all plugins except Buddypress , but the issue persist , also tried with fresh blogs-mu theme , still didn’t help
Hello people!
I have begun a website for my company to connect people who have worked at the company in history and I wanted to use buddypress but the plug-in is getting to work on my nerves right now 
!
At the moment, I have an issue with the sign-up-registration form. I have created a registration form for the website and made two different groups. the form contains a part for personal information and one for web information like links to twitter etc. The problem here is that I can show the registration fields on the web-page but when I fill in the blanks and press submit, not all information is taken into the database.
The first part with personal information is skipped and the form only takes the information of links etc. into the database. I call the form on screen with this :
if ( function_exists( ‘bp_has_profile’ ) ) : if ( bp_has_profile( ‘profile_group_id’ ) ) : while ( bp_profile_groups() ) : bp_the_profile_group();
With this entered, the form shows all the fields but does not remember the filled fields when clicked on the submit button. I have tried many solutions but it is not really working for me
I hope someone can help me with this (for me) very strange issue.
hi all,
I am trying to add to the main site of my BP installation four more roles, which would have the same capabilities as default BP subscriber (another crazy idea).
There are several plugins to achieve this, as I see, at the moment best one is (however it does not have default role for super admin):
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/capsman/
The issue is that I can not find list of roles capabilities for the default BP installation. I mean superadmin can do….., author…., subscriber… and so on.
Are roles in BP the same as WP?
If I have multisite activated, do I need to search for some WPMU roles?
thank you!
@hnla – Yet Thanks for trying to help !
@anindyaray I still don’t really get what your actual issue is looking at your site as a logged out /anonymous user shows the adminbar but beside that , and obviously as you state above, you are using a custom theme so no my fix won’t work for you I and most of the others can only provide solutions based on default BP theme or core actions we or this forum can’t really support custom themes especially premium custom themes you must take issue with those themes to the original authors.
However the padding in you case is on the body so perhaps you need to revise the code I wrote for you and substitute ‘body’ for ‘#header’ and see if that works?
@AnindyaRay : Well I get a JavaScript error on your page when testing with firebug and that certainly could be making your adminbar get grumpy. My advice would be to using firebug track down what is causing that by turning off all plugins and widgets and extra code you’ve added then adding it in one by one. I usually opt for the ‘all off’ dramatic approach myself as saves time building up as oppose to one by one off. Up to you though.
@Maryke: Depends if your child uses the default BuddyPress one and has any core / major files changes in it. If it’s just CSS or additions to code then probably not but if it’s changes to code you’d have to check for anything that could be different. Generally if using default theme as your parent you’ll at least be 99% ok just depends on how extensive you’ve got in your child which I can’t really say.
If only people didn’t believe that Email protocols and services were such a simple thing, the post above by deadpan10 gets closer than most to understanding some of the potential issues and that it’s NOT necessarily a WP/BP one.
Correctly set up email with correct and proper dns records might go some way to resolving issues many have, interestingly it’s pointed out that even given a correct SPF record Hotmail still appears to have issues, I have no answer to whether it’s the activation link but it’s an interesting notion.
Was just back here after 3 months 2 weeks later ..curious to know if anybody has got the answer surprisingly after 3 months and 2 weeks later nobody but nobody has answered it! Anyways i left using buddy press after my last post 3 months back by the way thanks @JustinCA for fighting my war. Hope you must have left buddy press too…nice Forum guys and nice CMS
Hi,
I installed BuddyPress 1.2.6 on top of a new installation of WordPress 3.0.1. on a new domain, but I can’t get user blogs to work properly (I use sub folders for blogs).
First the blogs directory did not show up when clicking ‘Blogs’ in the menu. I am not sure if this is a build-in functionality, so I solved this issue by installing the plug-ins ‘BpDev Recently Created Blogs Widget’ and ‘add widgets to page’.
But, I also have another blog related problem: when I create a new web site/blog for a user, no theme is applied to the blog (example here: http://sprogforummet.dk/test/). I tried to apply a default theme in wp-config, but that didn’t make any difference.
Any suggestions on how to solve this? (WordPress is installed in the root domain. I had the same issues in a sub domain, and I hoped that installing on a new domain whould solve the issues, but id didn’t).
Any help/suggestions is much appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Johnny
@hnla
Thank for your help
I’m using wp 3.0.1 and bp 1.2.6 , with theme named “Blogs-mu”
I’m tried putting the code snippet provided by you in the function.php of the theme file which didn’t worked,
and also tried putting the code in bp-custom.php in plugins directory , which too didn’t helped
actually it happen nothing , no errors also , so it seems to me I’m pasting the code correctly !
@abarro – disablng the 25px top padding from admibar.css will cause some overlapping if the theme header have some thing else at that near top position, but for your case its ok because you have disabled the adminbar completely.
I have the same problem
but in my case the bb-config.php is in the same directory as wp-config but I still get the error message. also the bbpress forum does actually work, but it is just that buddypress cannot see it and does not work from within buddypress. My wordpress installation is in a folder not the root of the html docs
When you go to the section about installing bbpress it always files, to do with the location of bb-configure.php
I am stuck at the moment
How stupid am I?
Just changed
body {
padding-top: 25px;
}
to
body {
padding-top: 0px;
}
at adminbar.css
der!
Doesn’t work for me neither.
Prior to upgrading to 1.2.6
I had followed wpmu.org website recommendation to ad this line to wp-config.php file:
define( ‘BP_DISABLE_ADMIN_BAR’, true );
And that had worked, no 25px padding on top…
Then I uploaded and tried everything you guys said and it didn´t work.
I even changed define( ‘BP_DISABLE_ADMIN_BAR’, true ); to functions.php file…
any ideas?
