BuddyPress.org

So I’ve figured out that its my hosting company that’s having a problem with BuddyPress. I’m currently looking for another hosting company and will add my url when I’ve sorted it out.

Still excited, and not as frustrated as before

Sounds great.

I’m still playing around, and looking for the most appropriate hosting company to sign up with to host my WPmu and Buddypress sites, but if a BuddyPress for WordPress is out, that will solve much of my curreny problems with hosting companies

My problem was some of the fetures. like when you click on a letter to do a search… say we click the “v” to search with users that start with a v it would just sit there with the loading image and never load. it does with with all the ajax fetures it seems.

Haha no you’re not, you’re learning.

Plus you have Hugh Laurie in your profile picture, so you can’t be THAT stupid.

I understand what you want to do, but there isn’t an easy way to do this. Members can name their blogs whatever they want, plus you can create blogs for whatever reason you want. BuddyPress is the only the exoskeleton of your site. WPMU is responsible for building the URL’s for your member blogs. The closest possible solution to what you want to do that I can think of, would be to insert “memberblogs/” before the content of each new blogs “site-url” in the wp_*_options table, but to be honest I’m not sure if it works that way.

Hard to say, but I’ve had bad luck making BuddyPress work on php4 since I started using it.

By “bad,” I guess I mean “no.” Haha!

This should just be under

Site Admin->BuddyPress->Full Name field name

In my .htaccess file, I had to force 1and1 to provide php5:

AddType x-mapp-php5 .php

AddHandler x-mapp-php5 .php

To get rid of 500 errors and out of memory errors, in my /wp-admin/ I put this in php.ini (create it if it doesn’t exist):

memory=40MB

upload_max_filesize=10M;

post_max_size=20M;

I’m not sure what you did exactly to make this so broken, but I can tell you how I did what you’re trying to do.

1. Copy “buddypress-home” theme to a temporary folder.
2. Rename “buddypress-home” to “buddypress-user”.
3. Delete “buddypress-user/home.php”.
4. Open “buddypress-user/style.css” and at the very least, rename the theme to include something with the words “User Theme”
5. Upload this theme, and activate ONLY it in your admin panel.
6. Make sure that theme is the ONLY active theme. This ensures users will only get that theme provided to them at default.

That should do it.

Hmm i couldnt get buddypress to work at all on 1and1. Im not saying it dont, just wondering how you got it to work.

If you don’t mind using sub-directories for WPMU, I’ve had pretty good luck using 1and1 so far. Had to hack .htaccess and force some extra memory in my php.ini file, but so far so good.

For the record, I would put Andy’s code in bp-custom.php, located in the root of your BuddyPress install.

Which version of BuddyPress are you using?

no problems with hostgator, just have to ask for the mod rewrite if you have a reseller account, not sure how it would be for a smaller package, but they pretty much rock in terms of support — 3 years and counting.

Anyone think it’s a good idea for me to make a call and ask them to embrace the BuddyPress community?

I’m looking for a host and I’ve narrowed it down to either TMD hosting, http://www.tmdhosting.com

or Media Temple

http://mediatemple.net/webhosting/

Does anyone have any experience with both these hosts, and the ease of hosting multiple buddypress installs on their servers.

Which is the better in scalability?

Thanks

Haroun

I am looking for exactly the same information.

Is there a way to setup default widgets for blogs using the buddypress-home?

Any code snippets are welcome!

As to your first question:

Look in the loop in your theme’s index.php file for this:

<p class="date"><?php the_time('F j, Y') ?> <em><?php _e( 'in', 'buddypress' ) ?> <?php the_category(', ') ?> <?php printf( __( 'by %s', 'buddypress' ), bp_core_get_userlink($post->post_author) ) ?></em></p>

Make the necessary changes.

As to your second question, look for this also in the same file:

<div class="widget" id="latest-news">

<h2 class="widgettitle"><?php _e( 'Blog', 'buddypress' ) ?></h2>

Change the word “Blog” To whatever you like.

Please note: if you plan on sticking with BuddyPress’ standard themes, you will lose these changes the next time you upgrade BP. So, either you live with that and make the changes again with each upgrade, you create your own custom themes (possibly by simply copying the current themes and renaming them), or you never write over the theme files when upgrading.

The second option is the best in my opinion. But, with each upgrade, you should still evaluate any changes that may have been made in the new standard theme as they could be important.

Before I updated my BP install last week, I noticed some similar odd search behavior. I, too, was running r1324 before I updated to the then latest trunk. After updating, the issue has gone away. I have not looked in trac to see if there was a specific bug that fixed this or if it was something else I did

However, if you have not yet read this article, you may find it interesting.

Google Custom Search for BuddyPress / WordPress MU