Gpo1:
Just like with vb, I had another commercial program ‘bridged’ to wordpress. What this means is that a person registers using vb, and is auto registered in wp db, as well as other programs. Logins are also unified, so only one login is required sitewide.
Within the bridge code for each program there are extra db fields created that sync everything together. This means that user ‘xyz’ for vb is also user ‘xyz’ for wp and other software.
What this allows me to do is virtually anything I want.
For instance:
I can actually query the database for user ‘xyz’, not only am I able to find everything user ‘xyz’ has done in wp/bp but also vb and other software.
Then say I want to display all the vb posts, video’s, photo’s, from user ‘xyz’ inside of buddypress. Well it’s easy to pull the data because the programs are synced.
Now it’s just a matter of bringing that info into bp, which is the reason I asked the question in the first place.
Hope this makes sense.
Hi Guys
I have started off with Buddypress now. And now it is time to expand it.
Can somebody help me define some terms?
When is it suitable to create a widget?
When is it needed to create a component?
What is the relationship between a widget and a component?
What is the process to adding extra data to the buddypress wire?
Basically I have vbulletin hooked to wordpressmu properly so that wordpress is aware of the user who is actually posting in vbulletin.
I want to add the vbulletin posts to the buddypress wire, so that when a user makes a post in the vb forums, it is automatically added to the wire like it currently does for bbpress.
I suppose I need to know which file generates the wire, and also what format I need to export the data from vb in so the wire will pick it up.
Vb is just the first step, I also have full video/audio/photo software tied together with wp/bp now. Eventually I can forsee a number of different programs tied together, and I need to figure out how to go about adding this data to the wire.
thanks
I’ve just recently installed WordPress MU and BuddyPress, and they are both quite awesome. I’m looking for a way to show X number of recent posts on the main page (from all blogs sitewide), but only if they contain a key such as a Custom Field or maybe even a certain tag. Any suggestions on how to do this or the best way I should go about getting this done? Maybe even help with it? (not likely, I know 
) Thanks for any help.
From your admin dashboard
– Select BuddyPress from the left sidebar
– Click Profile Field Setup
– Setup your profile fields
Users will then be prompted to fill in this info when they signup
When I create a new user account it is suppose to send the password to the email address that is provided by the end user during sign up, but its not sending any email? Do I have to have an email server setup on my webserver in order for it to work? Also is there a way to change the socialNetwork logo on the main screen of the buddypress default theme homepage?
has anyone seen, or used, a buddypress/WPMU plugin that will send email reminders to users daily, say 9am?
Anyone else see a need for something like this?
Bbn-
Rather than trying some fancy install via packaged tarballs, I’d suggest a plain, simple install from scratch. Even though you went back and, as you state, “tried to do a more careful replacement of the files,” try a clean-slate install.
Delete everything, including your MySQL DB–assuming you don’t have any important data. Then, download and install WordPress Mu 2.7.1 from here. Get it working before attempting to install BuddyPress.
Once it is working, download BuddyPress and follow the readme.txt instructions.
Looks like this is happening to a lot of sites
I understand your frustration. But, when I search Google for “Failed+opening+required+’BP_PLUGIN_DIR”, I can count exactly 6 actual sites with this error and then several comments within blog posts that indicate the same issue.
Combine that with the half a dozen reports in the BP Forums for this issue, and you get maybe 15 people–assuming none of these people have commented in multiple places. That is not “a lot of sites”.
Okay, never mind, I’m a moron! I had not activated the Buddypress plugin.
I ran into this same error message this morning. In case it helps, here’s how it happened to me.
I had MU 2.7 installed on a ubuntu server and MU 2.7 also installed on a local dev installation of ubuntu (both 8.10, if that matters). I upgraded the dev MU to 2.7.1, then installed buddypress. worked great. then I tarred up the dev installation, copied it over to the server, and overwrote the old 2.7 MU non-buddypressed install with the dev files. Ran the upgrade (at http://veryhandso.me/wp-admin/wpmu-upgrade-site.php). Tried to preview the buddypress theme and end up with the error mentioned above.
I then backed up and tried to do a more careful replacement of the files as outlined on the upgrading wordpress page (https://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_WordPress). Still no love.
Thanks for any help. Grateful newbie.
Ben
Codyb-
Excellent!
So there was a rouge .htaccess file gumming up the works. Those dang invisible files are tricky!
I had the same issue is this bug https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=2664&replies=19#post-14700
and I ended up finding the solution. Go to that bug and see if it helps
I had the same issue is this bug https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=2664&replies=19#post-14700
and I ended up finding the solution. Go to that bug and see if it helps
GREAT NEWS!!!
The .htaccess error log I seen above gave me the hint. I just removed the .htaccess from the /var/www/html folder and had it recreate it on its own and BuddyPress is now working!!!!! Thanks so much for everyones help. Hope this helps to solve other peoples issues!!
also seeing this error in my error_logs
/var/www/html/.htaccess: order not allowed here
I made a few changes to my httpd.conf file and now I’m getting the following error message when trying to access anything under the My Account tab
Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
Please contact the server administrator, codyw725@codyconnect.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.
More information about this error may be available in the server error log.
If group pages were group-editable… this would be extremely useful for people who’d like to use BuddyPress as an Intranet / collaboration tool. Buddypress is great but it’s mostly just about community… not sharing files, content, photos, collaborating, etc. Now that 1.0 is out though… I’m sure a lot of this will be coming in time… either via plug-ins or new core development.
No that makes a lot of sense, but does this mean I have to enable VHOST? Right now I believe I have it disabled. I don’t think that Drupal is mucking this up because I also run eyeOS (cloud operating system) as a subdirectory on my webserver, no issues. It seems a lot of people have or are having this issue, but I haven’t seen a solution for it yet. Really weird
Ahhh… The truth, shall set you free…
Any possibility that the Drupal install is mucking this up? I’ve got no experience with that one. 
(To explain what’s going on, this isn’t a matter of directory structure, because those directories are virtual; they don’t really exist anywhere. There is no physical folder anywhere in your install called “members” or “users” or anything. The URL is caught by .htaccess and WordPress, and is virtually re-written to match the content it is displaying.)
Does that make more sense? I know it’s hard to understand and have faith in at first, but I promise it’s totally fine. 
Cyclzone,
You need to edit core BP files to accomplish this. I’m not sure how this will effect overall BP performance, though.
First thing to do is locate the file “bp-core-catchuri.php” in /buddypress/bp-core/. Open it up.
You’ll want to comment out lines 36 and 37 which look like:
if ( BP_ROOT_BLOG != (int) $current_blog->blog_id )
return false;
Next, you’ll want to change line 92 to read like the following:
if ( ($bp_uri[0] == BP_MEMBERS_SLUG) || ($bp_uri[1] == BP_MEMBERS_SLUG) || in_array( 'bp-core-ajax-handler.php', $bp_uri ) ) {
That should do it.
Only problem is I have a main site already utilizing the codyconnect.com root structure utilizing drupal 6.8 so I can’t dump all the contents into that directory because drupal is using it already. SI this a themes issue or a permissions issue? I just don’t understand why its not creating the directory structure. I keep seeing people talk about slugs and stuff like that, but I’m new to all of this and just don’t know if I’m missing something obvious. I can get to the dashboard just fine, but anything under the BuddyPress tabs at top under My Account kicks out the 404 error
I’m having trouble with IE. Most of the testing I’ve done is with IE8, but 7 has the same problems, although I haven’t tested every case.
For example, when uploading an Avatar, after “Crop Full Size and Save” (Step 3 of group correction, in this case) I get “Are you sure you want to do this? Please try again”
I get a lot of 404 errors:
404 error on 4th step of group creation.
404 Error when attempting to search member list
404 Error if you accept a friendship request (request is granted though).
Firefox works in all of these cases. I’m sure there are more problems, but I haven’t tested it enough.
My installation is unusual only in that it is running on IIS6, which has hosted WordPress MU flawlessly for 6 months. I am using subdirectories for blogs. Does anyone have any ideas?
WordPress MU 2.7.1 (2.6.3 -> 2.7 -> 2.7.1)
BuddyPress 1.0 (fresh install, no upgrade)
Standard BuddyPress member theme.
Modified BuddyPress home theme to block access to anyone not logged in (the problems existed before this change was made)
Sitewide plugins: cets_blog_defaults, LDAP Authentication Plugin-in, MU Multi-site
Codyb: Don’t install WPMU in a sub-directory, can you try installing in the root if possible?
Yes I do. Basically I wanted my site to be accessible using the address http://www.codyconnect.com/wp so in my /var/www/html I renamed the wordpress-mu to wp
I downloaded buddypress and placed it in /var/www/html/wp/wp-content/plugins/buddypress
Then I moved /var/www/html/wp/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/ to /var/www/html/wp/wp-content/bp-themes/
Its almost like these directories should be created by default when you create a user, but their not. I’m not sure if I’m missing something obvious here or what. Here is my .htaccess file in /var/www/html/wp/
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /wp/
#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>
That ain’t part of BuddyPress, that is WPMU. And it’s not hard to find – it’s here: http://example.com/wp-admin/import.php
