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@socialbandit SVN or beta zip is the same procedure. With incremental updates from SVN I know what files were modified. I can’t keep track of them individually. That’d be a nightmare. SVN updates come through files from here, files from there. All over the place. When I’m ready to update I do the whole shebang.

I don’t know how others do it.

No deactivation is needed. I’m usually up at 3am so I do it then. That probably doesn’t make a diff though. It’s not 3am in Moscow.

css changes on updates? I’m not sure what you mean by that.

Permissions on the /themes/buddypress-home/css/<files>?

So with SVN is it just a simple case of dropping the desired component or files into mu-plugins folder. Can you just add the individual files or do you have to have the whole component?

Do we need to deactivate the current components first.

What about css and the like. Will we will still need to fiddle with them??

Hi Andy,

I tried updating the home and member themes…but dont see any success. I’m getting the following error when I select the buddypress theme from the ‘design’ console:

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Fatal error: Call to undefined function bp_search_form_action() in /home/thekartn/public_html/chennairunnersorg/site/wp-content/themes/buddypress-home/header.php on line 33

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I’m using WordPress v2.6.5 and the latest version of Buddypress (downloaded from the website on 1st Jan ’09). Is there a compatibility issue? Thanks in advance for the help!

Karthik

I wouldn’t mod a function, I’d add a filter. Hang on while I look for the filter name. (brb)

OK, what I think you’ve done is change the ‘Full Name’ profile field and called it ‘nickname’ in the BuddyPress settings area right?

So, in bp_fetch_user_fullname() it sets up a filter for us:

apply_filters( 'bp_fetch_user_fullname', stripslashes( trim( $data ) )

You’d need to create a function something like:

function my_nickname_filter($name) {

return strtolower($name);

}

And register the filter with:

add_filter('bp_fetch_user_fullname', 'my_nickname_filter')

Hopefully bp uses the bp_fetch_user_full_name() fn everywhere. Can’t see much reason to create it if it didn’t.

I see these hooks all over the place. Andy has done gone filter happy.

After you upload your files to the server, login as site admin into the backend of the primary mu blog. If any database changes need to be made they will occur then automatically.

The beta gets updated when they bump the beta version and release it. The svn version will be the freshest version you can get.

I’m confused you don’t seem to have any buddypress components in use at all. If you visit the BuddyPress menu in the backend admin under ‘Site Admin’, you’ll see an option to turn on the admin bar: Show admin bar for logged out users: yes/no.

Yes would turn it on and allow visitors the option to login or sign up. If you don’t have that turned on then how you log your users in is entirely up to you.

It is a little confusing. There are two themes to deal with.

A blog theme : bp home theme or wpmu theme

A member theme: bp member theme

The bp home theme is optional. It runs as a regular wpmu theme. If you don’t run this on a blog you are running a standard wpmu theme.

The bp member theme is *not* optional and it’s not a normal wpmu theme. Doesn’t even install in the regular place. Is never activated by a blog or site admin. At the moment you have no choice but to run the bp member theme.

The setting in the backend ‘buddypress > select theme to use for member pages’ is irrelevant at the moment. In the future when you or others develop alternative member themes, that is where you would select them.

You have two themes. One mandatory member theme and a choice of what blog theme to use.

(I’m learning from wardeh. Be simple and clear.)

Yep. Thanks for the tip. This is goofy though. We gotta get Andy to solve the 404 problem. I shouldn’t have to create a dummy page and have to deal with that as well as the 404 problem. Some themes are hardcoded to display the pages that exist. What if I don’t want to have any pages? (I don’t)

Is there a ticket for this?

(he asks too lazy to go look)

@liljohn I’m not certain what you mean by creating custom page templates.

Oh, good!

I created pages for Members, Blogs and Groups.

Wow. Now I see what you are saying wardeh. I created a page with the same slug as the members directory and the 404s go away. Lovely. Thanks! Now I have to see how that broke the css.

Yep, you’re right wardeh. I’m doing all sorts of whacky things to get rid of the 404 problem with directories. Never thought of doing that. I gotta try it.

Back in the day, I created a bunch of pages in mu and bp had major problems with them. Caused all sorts of havoc. Guess it’s been resolved. Thanks!

This is a forest and trees thing with me. I just moved on to other pressing problems and the directory 404s just became normal.

Hi,

I’m trying to localize my BuddyPress installation.

I use WPMU 2.6.5 lecactus-edition (Russian edition).

I install latest BuddyPress over it.

Then, i download russian laguage for BuddyPress (buddypress-ru_RU.mo and .po files) and upload it in bp-languages. Nothing happen.

After that i copy them to wp-contentlanguages, and new language appear in WPMU settings. Strange thing, but it’s displayed as “bu”. Probably becouse i already have “Russian” in that menu, coz i use translated WPMU. Anyway, if i chose “bu” or “Russian” – nothing happen. I check wp-config: there is define (‘WPLANG’, ‘ru’);

Whats wrong?

Really good work, send it tu buddypressdev.org/add-plugin !

@grizzlyGroundswell none of your websites appear to work..

Burt, you wrote:

yoursite.org/members

yoursite.org/groups

yoursite.org/blogs

You don’t have to create pages for these. bp hooks those urls and tries to display the appropriate directory using the plugin-template.php file.

But I beg to differ. I can’t tell you anything about the why or when, just that if you DON’T create these pages, the title of the page shows as “yoursite >> Page not Found”. Yet all the page content still loads fine without the page being created.

So if it is just a workaround for now, or whether it is the right way to make it work, creating the pages makes this error go away. (I noticed it on your site, too, just this morning.)

The buddypress-member theme is what styles the users’ profile pages (with profile, activity, groups, messaging, etc.).

It is what you see at testbp.org for your own profile, or if you click on any other member’s avatar.

It is not for the members blogs. It is not for the home site. It is just for the profile “member” area.

I don’t have the solution, but I do have an observation: the general.js file in my buddypress-combo.zip file is s zero byte file. If this is the javascript that handles cropping, then this could be your problem as well.

I have done exactly what you are talking about at http://buglenotes.com. I set default role to Author, turned off new blog creation, and then modified menus as nec to remove personal blog options (so as not to confuse). I also renamed the News menu item to Blog. Now everyone contributes posts to a “central” blog. So far so good. Of course, this could all backfire after launch

any news on this ?