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I’m running IE (8 even) and that’s not the problem with Laura’s site (nor have I’ve seen it on my own setup).

The registration steps works fine, it’s the end result that is the problem.

Buddypress is not unusable software. I suggest being a bit more polite if you come looking for help, especially to the official Buddypress forums.

It’s because you’re trying to shoehorn a PHP script into your theme. Either one of the PHP variables you use in the snippet in bold is used elsewhere by Buddypress – thus getting weird conflicts – or it’s to do with one of your mysql_ function calls, possibly mysql_select_db().

blogs.dir and some other folders will probably need to be chown’d to the user and group that runs the webserver. Apache2 by default (I think) uses the nobody user account, so I’m assuming that’s what your host uses.

Whilst 777 will let everything access it, from a security perspective, you should really go for 755 permissions and check that the owner/group of the files is the same as that of the webserver.

BTW if you’d have tested uploading an avatar on a plain WordPress MU install, you’d have had exactly the same problem. This isn’t buddypress.

sgrunt: if there is a suspected problem with IE, you should detail a report at https://trac.buddypress.org/ so people can check and confirm and fix it.

i think you should modify both the buddypress home and the member theme: the base.css file or the custom.css file for both themes. Change the body, the left, right, center column width, and the narrow and wide column.

for the avatars: i’ve noticed that there is a problem with internet explorer. It just does not show the button for going to the next step. Try with Mozilla and see if it works

(You don’t need to insert code, just copy and paste the text straight into the post.)

It seems as if I’m not skilled enough to help you further as I have no idea what this could be.

I see that you have a custom theme though. Can you try and revert to the default BuddyPress theme and see if that works?

Ya, the same thing is happening on my site using buddypress. Site wide activity’s RSS is not loading.

Hi again.

I didn’t realize that it was the “sub-blogs” that you we’re talking about when I posted but now I know what you mean.

That kind of functionality is usually handled by widgets but perhaps it’s hard coded into the theme. Are they there no matter what theme you use?

As for the avatars, I’m not sure I’m on the right track to be honest now that I’ve done some digging. The path for your avatars (http://mobiusmanitou.com//avatars/4/alien20-avatar1.jpg) is not even close to the one on my setup (http://komiformguiden.se/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/avatars/3/elder_sign_small-avatar1.jpg).

Why those differ I have no real clue to though. Perhaps Trent, Burt or Andy can chime in on that.

Hi Laura.

Are you talking about the so called “widgets” that display information on your site (I can’t see the items you mention when I visit it)? These are responsible for showing, among other things, categories, recent posts, comments, and so on.

You can remove these from the WordPress admin page, under the Appearance section.

As for the problems with the avatars I’m not sure (I created a test account, MartinNr5, feel free to delete it if you wish). There might be a problem with the graphics library on the host that you have your site with so that the images isn’t processed properly.

Can you check with them to see if they support the minimum requirements for WordPress and buddypress?

Hey, Guys –

I just launched it on http://www.mobiusmanitou.com.

Now http://wikiroma.it has got the social BP community: http://wikiroma.it/index.php . I will work more to customize more my theme in these days.

I’m waiting the BuddyPress final release before starting

Ok, now I can’t edit my old post so here’s how I did it.

I use Poedit and it has a method for updating my current .po file from a .pot file. Just select “Catalog” -> “Update from POT file…” and select the new bp .pot file in the 1.0b2 release.

@kazama: What Andy said above, update your “buddypress-home” theme to the latest version and it will solve your problems (it did for me).

Nevermind – I figured out that the .pot file has changed for 1.0b2.

Now I need to find out how I merge my current work with the new file.

I just set up a new project… :

http://MusicScrub.com

Ok, I’ll throw my hat into the ring…

As for now I’m running a standard bp theme site on WPMU 2.7 and bp 1.0b2 that I’m gradually translating to Swedish (55% there). For the non-swedes here it’s a community for people working out.

I’ve semi-launched it a couple of weeks ago so there’s just a few users but the site will stay intact so if you’re A) Swedish and working out feel free to join.

Go look-see: http://komiformguiden.se

@burtadsit and kapil.bp,

I was searching for an answer of adding (or subtracting) main nav buttons, and came across this post. Very helpful and led me right to an interim answer. So, thank you.

However, if a hard code nav changes into bp-core-templatetags.php, then I would be sorry when upgrading if I wasn’t paying attention. So, this prompts my next question, is there no dynamic way to add (or hide) nav buttons? Of course there’s always a way, but one that exists?

Maybe this could be accomplished by adding a nav options section to the BuddyPress home theme? Or a BuddyPress-specific nav plugin?

Any takers?

sorry…i should be more clear..

I meant that I set up WPMU2.7… and placed all those files in /blogs ….i chose to install it in /blogs … then, I put buddypress in /mu-plugins. Im with you so far.

Actually, my site is working fine…BUT….if I click the tab for the HOME page… (which for me should be at /blogs)..it doesnt show the home page…instead it shows the collection of blogs on my site. What is missing is that I never see the HOME page with widgets, members, groups, etc (because my HOME page is found at /blogs …does that make sense)?

if not.. take a look here: whybrasil.com/blogs

please help (i know this is simple, but please help…)

In wp-content/themes/buddypress-home/css/base.css remove the max-width attribute from the body (line 37 currently).