Hi all, I have searched for a similar issue on this forum and can’t find anything to help. Bit of housekeeping first:
– WPMU Version: WordPress MU 2.7.1
– Buddypress Version: 1.0
– Fresh Install, not an upgrade
– WPMU running in a sub-directory called ‘site’ on my domain: http://www.mydomain.com/site/
– No other plugins running
– My own customized theme and the standard BP theme share this problem
My problem is this:
Users can join groups fine on my site but if a logged in user clicks on the ‘leave group’ link an Internal Server Error (500) is generated. The user remains a member of the group so the database is not being updated. No other information about the problem is given to the browser, and I don’t think that I can get access to my host server’s error logs.
This site is my first time using WPMU and Buddypress and I don’t really have any idea what is causing the problem. I was hoping that someone else out there has had the same problem and can shed some light on the issue.
Thanks
Thanks for the information J J J !
Gaetan
hello, im pretty new at setting up tables.
how do you set up the KEY part of the table. is there a radio button that select like a PRIMARY KEY for me to make the field a KEY?
please help.
Hello Codyb,
There you have two websites where you can find some BP themes:
http://www.buddydress.com/
http://www.freebpthemes.com/
I’m happy, 1st time I can help someone there;-)
Gaetan
let me reiterate, I’d like a new theme that still has the social networking look to it. I like the current one I’m using, but the orange, white and silver are just a little dull. I’d like a new theme that stays with the social networking look. Also is there a way to change the socialNetwork logo to something else?
Where can I go to get “official” buddy press themes? Right now I’m using the default buddypress member theme, but I’d like a new color scheme and some new eye candy. Any ideas where to find some good ones?
guys, either way you will have to “touch” the code. this is your default theme that you are setting up for all blogs. if you make it your default theme for all users, you will just need to download the files, then upload after any future buddypress/wpmu upgrades. while i agree, i don’t like to hardcode links either, you are going to have to modify the code with something different than it is now either way. this theme that we are setting up isn’t a buddypress supported theme. we are just modifying the default home theme for our use.
I created the translated file buddypress-mysite.mo and uploaded to the bp-languages folder. However when I place the below code in bp-custom.php and upload to the plugins folder it gives me an error
define( ‘BPLANG’, ‘lance’ );
if ( file_exists( BP_PLUGIN_DIR . ‘/bp-languages/buddypress-‘ . BPLANG . ‘.mo’ ) ) {
load_textdomain( ‘buddypress’, BP_PLUGIN_DIR . ‘/bp-languages/buddypress-‘ . BPLANG . ‘.mo’ );
}
I am guess its something to do with the fact that I have not replaced ‘lance’ with my own website label. What should this label be and where can I find mine?
Thanks.
We’ve installed buddypress + wordpressmu on our server. We’ve also installed RPX module foe WordPress. It’s working fine for login and allows user to login without sign up.
But we want to have it on sign up screen and replace the existing signup process with RPX and redirect the user to custom welcome page. Is there any work around for it?
Codyb and John James Jacoby
I read through https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=2664&replies=19#post-14700 and noticed something…
The first two lines in my .htaccess file is different to that explained in the post. Also, the “RewriteBase /” is missing the “wp/” at the end. I’m hesitant to delete the file like Codyb did unless you guys think it’s OK to do.
My .htaccess reads:
AddType application/x-httpd-php5 .php
AddHandler application/x-httpd-php5 .php
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
#uploaded files
RewriteRule ^(.*/)?files/$ index.php [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !.*wp-content/plugins.*
RewriteRule ^(.*/)?files/(.*) wp-content/blogs.php?file=$2 [L]
# add a trailing slash to /wp-admin
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^.*/wp-admin$
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ $1/ [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule . – [L]
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(wp-.*) $2 [L]
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(.*\.php)$ $2 [L]
RewriteRule . index.php [L]
#<IfModule mod_security.c>
#<Files async-upload.php>
#SecFilterEngine Off
#SecFilterScanPOST Off
#</Files>
#</IfModule>
John James Jacoby
I found the error logs section and the only entries are the following:
[Wed May 13 03:49:22 2009] [error] [client 66.249.71.46] SoftException in Application.cpp:544: Directory “/home/bucksboa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/buddypress” is writeable by group
[Wed May 13 03:49:18 2009] [error] [client 66.249.71.46] SoftException in Application.cpp:544: Directory “/home/bucksboa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/buddypress” is writeable by group
Doesn’t mean much to me. Sorry, I’m a novice… but on a steep learning curve!!
@Kunal17
Is the bp-custom.php file something that I download or create?
You create it yourself, and place it in “/wp-content/plugins”.
What is the ‘mysite’ language translation as defined in the tutorial?
That is a sample definition that I used for the tutorial — you can use whatever you want. Just make it a label that makes sense to you and your site.
Still wondering about the command to convert .po to .mo. How is that run and from where?
Running that command requires that your web server have basic GNU gettext support — if you don’t know if it’s supported, ask your host (it’s pretty standard on most Linux servers).
Running this command also requires command line access to your server via a program like PuTTY (Windows), Terminal.app (Mac), or from inside an FTP program and requires that your server support “msgfmt”. If you do not know how to run commands like this, or don’t have command line access to your server, please see Translating WordPress for other software options for converting language files (like Poedit).
@Craig dean
Also not understanding the conversion of the po. to the mo. using the run command. Is it a ftp app command. Just not sure.
See me answer above. I also updated the Codex page with these notes.
@Mstoppay
my bp-custom.php file wasn’t loading. Once I moved it out of the buddypress folder and into the plugins folder the language change worked… anyone know why that is?
Yes, as of BuddyPress 1.0 the “bp-custom.php” should be placed in the “plugins” folder instead of inside the BuddyPress directory, as noted by Andy in this thread. Thanks for the reminder — I updated the Codex page to note the correct location.
Note also that if you use the “Automatic upgrade” option to update your BuddyPress install, make sure to backup your language files first since they could be removed during the upgrade process (see this thread).
I’m developing a customised buddypress member theme and a directory view special for artists, musicians and multi media interested people.
This is my fun learning project to get deeper into wordpress and buddypress theme design and plugin development.
The hole website is still in beta mode. So don’t aspect it to work 100%
http://rheinrauschen.de (In the moment just firefox ie will come al last)
I will give the theme and plugin’s step by step to the community.
For this I have to wait for some bug fixes, the stable bp-events component. Better forum integration and many more….
I can create a blog on http://ma.nutwork.com.au/ (the site I’m developing) so I have a few questions.
It seems that when I create the blog that it is created. I get all the confirmation emails etc.
1. Why does the alias, which is given to me in my email, not work ? Do I need to set up something special on my server? http://stevebuddypress.ma.nutwork.com.au/
2. Although it says that the blog is created, how can I check? Should there be new entries in my database? Should there be new file on my server? This would be good to know for troubleshooting.
Thanks!
Thanks for the report.
Proves once again that BuddyPress alone works fine, but sometimes plugins don’t play nice.
So far WP Super Cache and qTranslate are the two white-screen causing culprits in the past two days.
Nothing, yet.
If you currently have integration working between BuddyPress and bbPress, you’re upgrading at your own risk.
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. 
I’ve read a few reports that upgrading was easy and there are few enhancements for WordPress MU integration, but I haven’t put my hands on it yet and won’t have time until the weekend.
We’ll be doing some testing with bbPress 1.0 as the versions progress and do our best to stay in the loop.
@Frecking Wildchild: The problem with qTranslate is currently being addressed, kind of. Let’s hope these issues aren’t because of another URL re-writing plugin.
qTranslate also won’t play nice with BuddyPress because of a few issues I addressed in a recent BuddyPress core patch. I’m using qTranslate for a multilingual project I’m working on that also uses BuddyPress, so I’m learning the ins and outs of qTranslate as I go also. I’ve modified it to work as a site-wide plugin similar to BuddyPress, and I’ve created a patch/plugin to allow users to specify their default language in their user preferences.
BuddyPress won’t play nice with a whole lot of language switchers or URL hi-jackers yet, but it will as improvements are made to the core.
Well, a component can be considered a type of plugin similar to any other WordPress plugin, except instead of hooking into WordPress alone, it’s hooking into BuddyPress AND WordPress.
Widgets are accessories, more or less. They aren’t 100% necessary, but most people welcome them as they’re an easy way to include whatever content it is that your plugin is supposed to spit out, on whatever pages that someone has enabled widgets to be displayed on.
A new component is needed when BuddyPress simply doesn’t have the capability that you want or need. The two next components currently in development are status updates (think twitter) and photo albums (think flickr.) Those are functionalities that don’t currently exist in BuddyPress.
Now both of those components may/will have their own widgets also, to do different things. The status update widget may incorporate the ability for the blog author to update their status from their blog, or it might display x amount of recent updates, or both. The photo album widget may include the most recent x photos, recent photo comments, etc…
In the case of BuddyPress, most widgets will come as part of a component. The component will bring in new functionality, and the widgets will allow that function to be displayed without knowing any HTML or PHP.
@WillPCG & Sgoetz: Do you got qTranslate installed by any hand? If so, check out the post at https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=2693#post-14750 which is started especially to this 404 problem caused by qTranslate.
@JeffSayre: It’s a glad thing I can mention the sunrise plug-in works perfectly with Buddypress as before; it was qTranslate which seemed to be the culprit.. So we’re already a step closer to the solution (as mentioned one post above) …
Thanks for the extensive help though, since development and problem-solving starts with ruling anything of special parameters out.
I guess qTranslate was very special and overseen….
ps: Do you have any idea why we both are marked “inactive” on the forums? I don’t feel idle at all :p
@all: I’ve found the culprit of the entire 404 soap which has been terrorizing my screen the last few weeks (smashes drums): It’s Qtranslate!
Any of you having the same problems while qtranslate is installed? Check out the topic at: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=2693#post-14750 which is started especially to this solution.
Bryan868, the short answer is there are some larger changes in the WordPress.org 2.8 and 2.9 pipeline that have been strongly hinted at recently. Those changes won’t make their way into WPMU necessarily at the same time, so we’re mostly safe for now using WPMU.
BuddyPress will continue to get updated as WordPress versions change, however because there are a lot of dependencies there, and lots of distinct differences between a .org install and an MU install, it isn’t just flipping a switch and making it go.
It is going to happen, just not as soon as most people wish unfortunately. Hopefully everyone that’s salivating at the chance to open up their own .org sites to start adding friends and making profiles can understand the dev process and try to be patient.
I know it isn’t exactly what everyone wants to hear, but it’s the straight forward truth of the matter as it stands today. It may change tomorrow, but that’s where it is now.
Not sure if this is a WPMU or a buddypress question (since it falls in register.php which is a buddypress file)
In my buddypress install, whenever a new user registers, the option is set at ‘Gimme a blog’ as default. Is there a way to set it at the other option instead?
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yup… my bp-custom.php file wasn’t loading. Once I moved it out of the buddypress folder and into the plugins folder the language change worked… anyone know why that is?