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Hi. Basics: What version of WPMU and BuddyPress are you using?

Also: What version of MySQL is your server running please? Also, I have heard BlueHost supports only subdirectory installs as it doesn’t support wildcard subdomains, so can you confirm you’re trying the subdirectory install?

If that last question makes no sense, try removing your WPMU / BP install and databases and try reuploading/reinstalling manually, not using SimpleScripts. A search on this forum has revelead at least one person saying that their problems on BlueHost went away after they did a manual install.

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=2953

You are not doing anything wrong. Stop trying to do it right.

Groups only comes in these flavors: active, newest, popular, random

https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/custom-buddypress-loops/the-site-groups-loop/

I’m using that plugin as well and I’ve asked that same question here on the forum with no success. However, whether you’re using that sidebar plugin or not, I’m still having trouble getting a clear answer on how to replace WP code linking to the author in your custom theme to the profile page in Buddypress.

In other words, how do I change <?php the_author_posts_link(); ?> from my custom home theme to <‘author’s buddypress profile link’> in order to reach that author’s profile page?

Thx

The default sort order for directories is ‘active’. It dispays the most recently active first in the directory. You can change that by using a different sort order in your theme. See the docs for the loops here:

https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/custom-buddypress-loops/

In the default theme, the loop for members is controlled by /bpmember/directories/members/members-loop.php in the function:

bp_has_site_members( ‘type=active&per_page=10’ )

Changing type=active to type=alphabetical should get you there.

Questions without all the needed information such as bp, wpmu version numbers, a link to your site, get ignored.

My car won’t start. Why won’t my car start? Lack of information leads people, who are willing to help, to move on to somebody who is providing enough information to actually help them.

These are some pointers to help get you started.

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=2543

go in BuddyPress -> Component Setup -> bbpress forum and check “disable”.

Maybe have a look in this file, lines 586 (more or less):

/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-core/bp-core-templatetags.php

https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/751

Hey Erich,

i know a developer who is able to achieve this. They wrote me a private message on the german buddypress forum as a reply to my post:

http://forum.wordpress-deutschland.org/buddypress/48801-buddypress-international-benutzerdatenbank-teilen.html

Maybe we could work somehow together to get something suitable for both of us. If you are interested in the developer write me a PM and i sent you the details (you can write in german if you want).

You are using WordPress instead of WordPress MU. BuddyPress requires WordPress MU currently.

Jason–

Do you mean that your home page style isn’t showing up in the members and groups pages, i.e., you are still seeing the “Social Networking” logo and the orange, rather than your green theme? That you want those pages to match your home page theme?

If that’s what you’re concerned about, you have to change your CSS in a different place for those areas. They aren’t controlled by the same CSS that manages the main page of your Buddypress installation.

Your CSS for the groups and member pages are in the wp-content/bpthemes/bpmember folder. Your logo (logo.gif) is in the bpmember/images folder.

Make your changes there just as you did with your base.css for your bphome theme and you should be good to go.

Burt-

Very nice indeed! I’ll put this in the unofficial Skeleton Component v1.3.

i’ve instaled wp-recaptcha with the instruction in readme file but the error messages aren’t shown… any idea to resolve this problem? thanks

So as per the bit of error msg you posted (possibly unrelated to the blank avatar icon I think but anyway):

[Wed May 27 11:52:40 2009] [error] [client 66.249.71.151] File does not exist: /home/thehsm/public_html/wp-content/plugins/membership-site-memberwing/function.require-once

That is a) a garbled filename/file path and b) not part of BuddyPress. I suggest talking to the author of that plugin to try to find out what’s going on. There appears to be some specific instructions in that plugin’s readme.txt about where to locate the memberwing.php file.

Thanks for the clear answer John James Jacoby.

I vote and added a long comment. The registration process is the heart of the system imho. I really hope it gets upgraded to a more mature standard before even thinking about adding lots more ‘cool’ features and ‘widgetizing everything’.

A more mature, flexible and extendable registration system would dramatically broaden the possible uses of Buddypress.

Dennyhalim-

I just took a quick visit to the Hoard Hunter plugin page. This is what is says about:

Hoard Hunter is an online treasure map game designed and developed for people who would like an easy (and fun) method of fund raising online. The system comprises of a custom plugin and integrated theme. The Hoard Hunter site is powered by WordPress MU (though the system will also run on standard WordPress) and uses a number of WordPress plugins to provide additional functionality.

My First thought is that I would not even attempt to use this with BuddyPress. This looks like a complicated plugin that relies on many other plugins and its own custom theme to do some complex stuff. It is ripe with problems waiting to happen.

Also, it is not clear if this plugin suite, as it really should be considered, works with WPMU 2.7.1. You need to contact the developer and ask. There does not seem to be an activity on that plugin’s thread for almost 6 months and the images do not load on the website. This is never a good sign.

As is stated above, Hoard Hunter is a “system [comprised] of a custom plugin and integrated theme” and it relies on “a number of WordPress plugins to provide additional functionality”. You are dealing with a potentially large mess here in figuring out what is going on.

As John and I both suggested, you need to deactivate the Hoard Hunter plugin and all other plugins that Hoard Hunter is using. Furthermore, you need to switch back to the default BuddyPress themes. In other words, to troubleshoot this issue, you need to strip down your install to the lowest common denominator and see if the problem goes away.

So, just using the BuddyPress plugins and no other WPMU plugins, and just using the standard, default BP themes, does the problem go away. If so, you then start working your way backwards, adding a plugin at a time until either everything works or you find the problem.

It could also be an issue with Hoard Hunter’s “integrated theme”.

I hope this is just a development install and not an ongoing WPMU community to which your trying to add BP. If it is an ongoing community, perhaps you should stick with what you have and forget using BP.

If you wish to continue troubleshooting, and you have important data to protect, please make sure you know what you are doing, that you are comfortable with troubleshooting this issue. You’ll need to make backups of your database, your themes, upload directories, plugins–in other words everything. Why? Because there are no guarantees.

the latest version of bbPress is required so (RC-1).

if you have MU+BP up and running see this doc https://trac.buddypress.org/browser/trunk/bp-forums/installation-readme.txt is the instruction to install and integrate bbPress in MU and BP.

As far as I know, currently this is not possible. It is more a WPMU issue than a BuddyPress issue.

However, there is a future enhancement ticket in trac to provide this functionality via BP. I do not think it has high priority on Andy’s list, but you never know!

Until then, you could look into using this premium plugin.

1.. make sure the template file for your member theme contains /friends/index.php and everything is kosher there.. and then make sure that you don’t have another page/post named friends, and you don’t have a url rewrite rule for friends in your. htaccess file.

2. the avatar upload is most likely due to misconfig of the GD Library.

try here – https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=2454

3. default for the home page? did you change the theme? can you put up a link?

Alpha version of a social network for African journalists/writers/bloggers/ etc. Using buddypress theme which is really great and clean with minor tweaks. Is this the first buddypress site in Africa?

http://grubstreetgang.com