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It’s okay to do anything you want with the theme files, just as you would do in WordPress.

You don’t need the loader.php stuff if you don’t want to, however, it does add some extra functionality, such as cross theme CSS and the ability to selectively load styles.

You should also read this:

https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/using-the-buddypress-themes/

Just for reference, what size community do you need before you have to start using multiple db’s?

I think that if multi-db was under gpl, i may to be interested to develop on it

Credit for the above code too burtadsit by the way

Been waiting to get the site just right, it is close, but not perfect: http://phoenix.fanster.com

Hi bergsten

thanks for the plugin, essential for any network

I installed the 2.0b2 version on my BP, put the php code you gave above (add_action(‘bp_custom_profile_boxes’, ‘bp_google_maps_profile’, 6) in the index.php from the directory /wp-content/member-themes/buddypress-member/profile, exactly here :

‘<?php if ( function_exists(‘bp_send_message_button’) ) : ?>

<?php bp_send_message_button() ?>

<?php endif; ?>

</div>

<?php add_action(‘bp_custom_profile_boxes’, ‘bp_google_maps_profile’, 6); ?>

<?php bp_custom_profile_sidebar_boxes() ?>

</div>

<div class=”main-column”>’

It’s working but a little buggy : the map shows two time as you can see here :

http://vivre-en-autarcie.com/members/admin/profile/public

something else is bugging.

the button update your position leads to a page that doesn’t exist with slug: update-position

the integration function works fine : I can edit a map where all markers my users are shown ; that’s great

thanks for any help

Hey gang, thanks to the help of you here, I have managed to work through some things and am now proud to show a site that I’m developing:

http://grungepress.com/

Keep in mind that it’s not done, and I haven’t had a chance to customize the forum template, as I’ll plan to match that with the main site.

The “BuddyBar” is by default not shown to visitors that are not logged in. You can change this in the BuddyPress settings, at http://example.org/wp-admin/wpmu-admin.php?page=bp_core_admin_settings

Mine does the same thing… I was thinking it might be because my buddypress is not in the root, it is at /community/ or because my blog is at /blog/ …. changing my blog to /blog/ did require me to get creative because example.com/wp-register came up with a blank page but if I went to example.com/blog/wp-register/ it worked ok….. not sure if this helps or is even related…

I basically started going through what changes were made to your plugin since it last worked, and started replacing code block by block. Once I could debug the XML request, it gave me some eyes in the back of my head so to speak, to watch what I couldn’t otherwise see.

So basically, it sounds like there is something in the xprofile field, and/or something in some users meta info that the XML parser just doesn’t like, so it gets caught up and returns a crappy value? Is that a good guess? You think it’s time to just rip through the user meta and see if anything looks suspicious?

Here’s a question. What if there are users that haven’t yet updated their profiles in BuddyPress? They were converts from a wordpress.org install, and if they haven’t returned since then, BuddyPress doesn’t have a “fullname” for them yet, and they also don’t have xprofile info. Could that break this somehow? Is there a way to watch this user by user and have it spit out an error when it finds a bad value?

Also, just for the record. I’m using BuddyPress RC1, bbPress Alpha6, and WPMU2.7. Is it possible there was a trunk update that you’re using that I’m not that maybe gives you different results than me?

More specifically, if I comment out line 335 in oci_bp_groups_forums.php…

//$user['xprofile_' . $group->name . '_' . $field_obj->name] = array('group' => $group->name, 'name' => $field_obj->name, 'value' => $field_obj->data->value, 'type' => $field_obj->type);

And run the group import, it works without error as well.

If I put a switch on the $field_obj-> name…

switch ($field_obj->name) {

…and only retrieve the custom title and forum signature, the groups import also works (still not for all users though, only groups.) I think it may be tripping over a specific type of field. I’m going to guess the textarea field, but that’s totally a blind guess with no merit or motive what-so-ever.

Okay, so I dipped into phpMyAdmin and deleted ALL bbpress live info, all bbGroups info, and uninstalled all of the plugins completely to get back to 0.

I installed all of the plug ins. Confirmed that BuddyPress could see the bbPress forums. Created a topic, verified on both sides that it was updating. All successful communication from both directions.

Then, I installed 3.0 of the bbGroups plugin. All of the previous stuff that was working, still works.

bbGroups .3 still will not import any group data.

Reverted back to .24, clicked import. Success with no other modifications other than replacing the 3 plug in files.

That is quite interesting, Trent. So you have to wait until 2.8, but the question is, if it will then be possible to add BuddyPress and split the databases afterwards, when the DB gets really big?

(To be honest, the multi-db plugin is the only interesting for me at wpmudev premium, and until they don’t support buddypress I will probably not become a paying member.)

Great explanation Trent. For me it seems like BuddyPress without a multi-db is like shooting yourself in the leg; nothing good will come out of it, if the site will grow big in a short time. Multi-db is of my opinion a must, but is seems like we will be waiting for it quite long time

My process above was using deep integration. Even if an XMLRPC request looks for the xmlrpc.php in the bbpress install directory, it still loads bb-load.php, which loads bb-config.php, which loads all of wordpress before proceeding to load the remainder of bbpress. If an XMLRPC request is being made from buddypress to bbpress (like when viewing a group forum from within BP), I don’t want to reload all of buddypress again invisibly, if that makes sense?

That’s why I did…

if ( !defined('ABSPATH') & !defined('XMLRPC_REQUEST')) {

in bb-config.php, to prevent reloading ALL of wpmu and bp just for a quick xmlrpc peek.

What I don’t get is why it works in every version but this new one.

Short answer, it was written to use anything other than the main WPMU install domain. Even though the MSM plugin allows you to almost run “additional” WPMU instances (virtual), the plugin suite doesn’t work that way. You would have to actually create another install for social.domain.com and run BP or hack the code up which I am sure would be a wreck. Don’t think there is an easy way around this one I am afraid.

The buddypress home them you mean? Just treat it like any other theme and put in an RSS widget to display your feed. Since the member theme isn’t editable in the admin, it requires more, but the buddypress home theme doesn’t.

Trent

Trent, thank you for your instructions. It got me much further in integrating buddypress and bbpress. Unfortunately I still run into the “There was an error posting that reply.” error. I’ve tried everything with no luck, now I think it might have something to do with the fact that I’m running Buddypress/BBPress on a Windows machine (in Apache though). Can anyone confirm this? I enabled the CURL extension for PHP, but that didn’t help.

I tried the Buddypress and BBPress versions from the SVN respositories, still no luck. Anyone got suggestions left?

You might want to look at this: https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/creating-a-custom-buddypress-component/

It’s the dev guide for creating custom components in bp. It also has a complete skeleton component with lots of comments in the source code. Might help.

WordPress detects the currently enabled theme’s root and css directories via the bloginfo(‘template_directory’) and bloginfo(‘stylesheet_directory’) functions.

To call the css and images from the home theme in a member theme template you would have to hard code the path references as “/wp-content/themes/buddypress-home/styles.css”.

Personally, as hard coding is generally a bad idea, I would suggest simply copying the elements you wish to use from the home theme directory to the member theme directory and reference them the usual way.