I had to put BP-dev plugins inside /plugins/buddypress/
however, not all of them work now…. my profile widgets do not show up in the “show widgets” area of the appearance>widgets>
the “widget area” shows up on the profile page, but i cannot add any of the widgets in
appearance>widgets> from the wp-admin backend
should i just add these sidebars to the functions page?
am i missing something? are they in wrong spot?
@Seobrien — wrong instructions, maybe? Follow my link: https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/customizing-labels-messages-and-urls/.
There is no mention of “mu-plugins” in the page, and you have to make sure the “spots” part of the file name to match your own site’s nickname or label.
Having worked through the thread, my understanding is that this is the set of directions to follow in RC1 yet it failed to change anything:
1. Write in new language to msgstr within buddypress.pot and save as buddypress-spots.mo (wp-content/mu-plugins/bp-languages/buddypress-spots.mo)
msgid “Group Wire”
msgstr “Group CHANGED”
2. Create custom file bp-custom.php (wp-content/mu-plugins/bp-custom.php) as such:
<?php
define( ‘BPLANG’, ‘spots’ );
if ( file_exists( BP_PLUGIN_DIR . ‘/bp-languages/buddypress-‘ . BPLANG . ‘.mo’ ) ) {
load_textdomain( ‘buddypress’, BP_PLUGIN_DIR . ‘/bp-languages/buddypress-‘ . BPLANG . ‘.mo’ );
}
?>
What am I missing?
Version updated to: 0.5.2
Okay, there have been a few testers of my Featured Members Plugin (widget). Thank you to all who provided feedback. I plan on submitting this plugin to the WP Plugin repository next week. So, if you have tried this plugin (or plan to try it) and have issues with it, please let me know before then.
I have made a few updates to the plugin:
1. I applied BuddyPress Changeset 1244 ( https://trac.buddypress.org/changeset/1244 ) to address localization issues.
2. I corrected a minor coding issue that had no performance impact.
Also, this version of the plugin has been tested up to WPMU 2.7.1_beta1 (r1722) and BuddyPress trunk (r1324).
If you plan on using it with the standard BuddyPress theme, you will have formating issues if you place the widget in the center or right columns and select the large avatar size. Basically, the member name gets pushed below the avatar. If that is an issue, either select the small avatar size or look at Mesgains solution above.
Follow-up: I’ve posted a better instruction set with code examples: Customizing Labels, Messages, and URLs.
For anyone interested in customizing labels and messages (like renaming “Wire”) for example, I’ve posted a full instruction set with examples to the Codex: Customizing Labels, Messages, and URLs.
Ezra, Seobrien, Timothy, and others interested in customizing labels and messages — I’ve posted a full instruction set with examples to the Codex: Customizing Labels, Messages, and URLs.
Looks like this was fixed in Changeset 1157. Therefore, the bug still exists if you’re using RC1.
You have two choices:
1. Either upgrade to the latest trunk (as Burt says) following these instructions: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=1994
2. Or, wait until WordPress MU 2.7.1 is officially released and an official BuddyPress RC2 zip is available.
@Socialpreneur
I my self is new to buddypress and its template, I have however found out that side-wide.css REALLY means side wide, meaning, all members pages are affected aswell,
As an example, if you add the css \”widht:900px;border 1px solid #000000;\” to you body through side-wide.css all members pages will be 900 px wide and have a 1 px border around them.
If you just want to tweek the buddypress template and not change it completely, put the extra css in custom.css. This well give you the same effect but not effecting you member blogs.
You do need to upload the custom.css to both the home theme and member theme for the changes to work in both templates.
Hope it helps.
Erwin, first of all, thanks for all of your hard work on the plugin!
I uploaded events version .55 into a fresh install of MU with the latest BP trunk.
I was able to save the events correctly. I’m also able to see the events in the widgets.
But I have 2 Issues:
1) Directory – There is no ‘events’ folder under /bp-themes/buddypress-member/directories. So, when I select Events on the navigation tab to display the events directory, it defaults to ‘members’ and doesn’t display anything but the sidebar.
2) When I go to the events detail page (by selecting from the widget), It has the correct url and displays the blog sidebar, however… no details show. I have reread your instructions about 23 times 
and think I have everything correctly. Does this sound familiar? I thought it was with member themes, but everything looks good.
Thanks
https://buddypress.org/extend/plugins/
‘BuddyPress Groups for bbPress’. That’s a bbPress plugin, so be sure to install it in the right place. It’s made by a suspicious chap called Burtadsit, so watch out 
I don’t remember that particular issue being fixed but obviously it has. It’s not happening in the trunk. You can login to trac and post bugs or suggestions for enhancements. That’s the place that gets attention.
https://trac.buddypress.org/newticket
Same login as here.
Just gave it a try with the newest trunk and still experience two errors:
1 – When saving changes in an existing or saving a new event: “There was an error saving event details. Please try again.”
2 – When trying to view existing events: “Sorry, the event does not exist.” (http://dev.q-tipp.org/buddypress/events/cafe-bukarest)
This is in the pipeline to come in future releases of BuddyPress (after v1.0).
I finally got a site up: http://thevictorygarden.us
Not much content yet. Just really a concept. Any tips, ideas or guidance will be most appreciated. If your starting a garden this spring, please do join. I’d love to see where we can take this. Thanks.
Just released version .55 of bp-Events plugin on my website (see first post in this thread for the address). If it tests positively (ie. it DOES work with latest trunk properly) I will upload it to WordPress plugins (and BuddyPress’s) later today.
Version .55 has some bug fixes, some CSS fixes and profile birthday event integration as well as group events, which was a popular request.
Hey Lars,
See this thread: “after login redirect to another page” for ideas and a plugin that provides this functionality.
Hi Tutsie,
This type of change would typically be done with a plugin. Keep in mind that this isn’t a BuddyPress customization as much as it is a WordPress MU one.
I did a quick Google search for “change wordpress admin profile link” and found a few places you could start.
In this WordPress forum topic is some code that would change the behavior of the profile link (albeit for a different reason); this method of changing the admin behavior isn’t recommended, however, since it requires hacking a core file. A plugin would be much better since it doesn’t require changing the core file (and having to stress about updating your WordPress MU code later).
Depending on how much you want to work on this, you could download these two plugins: WP Hide Dashboard and Admin Menu Management, open them up in a text editor, and look at how they change the menus in the WordPress admin area.
Plugins do two things: (1) they provide a new functionality and (2) they hijack the normal WordPress behavior and perform the functionality described in the plugin instead.
Hope that helps…
I guess I’m a little confused as well.
I know that bp-loader.php was added to the repo and included as part of the BP package in Changeset 1311, but I thought it simply managed the “loading” of activated BP components.
All custom plugins need to reference bp-core.php.
@Trent,
Turns out the problem wasn’t of my making at all and I was doing everything correctly!
So why didn’t it work?
My hosting provider doesn’t allow rpc calls to the same server, so I ended up splitting the installation, WMPU and Buddypress on my main domain and bbPress on another domain on a different server.
All works great! If you want to read the saga it’s all in its own thread here: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=2027
SOLVED!!!!!
Searched for \”cannot yet handle MBCS\” in the forum and came up with Trent\’s post about the same error, once again I\’m running PHP 5.2.9 it wasn\’t that, a quick tweek to line 53 (based on Trent\’s advice)
so I edited /my-plugins/buddypress-enable.php and changed line 53 from:
$post_text = html_entity_decode( $post_text, ENT_COMPAT, \”UTF-8\” );
to:
$post_text = utf8_decode($post_text);
Worked brilliantly – actually fixed the errors on both sides (BuddyPress and bbPress)
Well… It’s working kinda!
Forums are created, topics can be made on either side, and replies to topics created
However when I created a topic or reply to a topic in BuddyPress I get
“There was an error posting that topic.” or “There was an error posting that reply.”
they are created though.
And on the bbPress side, when I create a topic, or rpely to a topic, I get:
“Warning: cannot yet handle MBCS in html_entity_decode()! in /home/sites/my-partyonparty.biz/public_html/forums/my-plugins/buddypress-enable.php on line 53”
once again, they are created tho.
How about bbpress plugins in the forum working on buddypress CMS, would it happen?
It’s my intention to make bbPress integration with WPMU and BuddyPress even simpler and better over time. Many changes have already been made to both WPMU and bbPress core to help BuddyPress along and that cooperation will exist in the future.
