I just found some strange bug caused by site-wide.css of my buddypress home theme.
Some of other themes in wp-content/themes directory is also loading the site-wide.css from buddypress-home theme, making themes contain unwanted elements defined in the css.
I thought site-wide.css only affects bp-themes, and it should only affect that way.
I was trying to add a new field called ‘author’ to group. It was just a text field. I changed the source of
bp-group.php,
bp-group-classes.php,
bp-group-filters.php,
bp-group-templatetags.php
After uploading, the field appears as normal
But it gives error as “There was an error saving the field. Please try again buddypress”
Hope someone will help me
the 200usd is from the specifications shown below:
– get the current media plugin
– adapt it for buddypress
but if the specs are different, the cost will change
ELLOandfriends is a social networking platform for students of English linguistics based on Buddypress.
http://www.elloandfriends.uni-osnabrueck.de
Dear Burtadsit,
Let me put it this way.
With IE6 I see a display that is 800px wide.
This is excatly what I want regardless of the browser I use.
In a previous installation I did some CSS modification to get the 800px width.
In general it was working well with Firefox and Chrome as well,
But “My Profile” (with its 4-column layout) still showed the old wide screen.
How/Where can I do the necessary width changes?
Is there a specific CSS for this page?
You will be helping me a lot if you have a solution for this.
I settled for Buddypress after trying out all the well-known social network softwares (inluding those with a price, like SocialGo). I think this is the best. I just can’t let it go on account of a display-width problem.
HI, Burtadsit,
I am using wordpress-mu-2.7 and Buddypress Combo.
Because BuddyPress is not even 1.0 yet, it means that a lot of the code has evolved and changed quite a bit since the beginning. There have been almost 1400 code revisions since tracking started.
Choosing to develop a plugin for BuddyPress right now means staying pretty close to the bleeding edge of the development cycle because chances are that your plugin could be broken tomorrow through no fault of your own. Most current plugin authors are aware of this, and there has been pretty good response time to bugs and fixes. Usually within a day or so.
There are a couple of files that can be used that bp looks for. You\’ll need to create them. In the themes, if you create custom.css in the /css directory it overrides the css for each theme. Also in the home theme or your custom theme if you create a file called /css/site-wide.css that overrides all css generated by bp.
That way you don’t need to modify the distributed css files and your upgrade experience will be much happier.
If you can afford to wait until RC2 comes out before installing BuddyPress, it’s coming soon and might save you some headaches as well. And I don’t just mean like someday soon, I mean like really soon. 
Hi
Profile / members pages uses a separate theme and thus you will need to modify its css as well, under /www/wp-content/member-themes/buddypress-member
Perhaps someone will write us a global css plugin that allows css editing from WPMU dashboard?
Regards
Mark
Candace81,
I’m going to guess that WordPress MU 2.7.1 doesn’t play nicely with BuddyPress RC1.
However, I’m going to try them out and see if I run into these same issues.
If you can give me a half-hour to install and configure and get back here, that would be awesome.
Worst case scenario, I’ll point you in the direction of how to download the trunk. BuddyPress RC2 will most likely be out by the end of the week (still have some minor things to test and clean-up before release.)
That would be wpmu from here: https://mu.wordpress.org/download/
And bp from here: https://buddypress.org/download/
Those two would be the latest official releases. Where did you put bp? That version of bp should go in /mu-plugins. You should have a bunch of files like bp-core.php, bp-<whatever>.php in that dir and also a bunch of subdirs like /mu-plugins/bp-activity, /mu-plugins/bp-<whatever>
That what you have running?
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I\’ve installed BuddyPress RC-1 and WPMU v2.7.1
Thanks so much for your offer to help! If I can get this to work, I\’ll definitely be recommending it to everyone I know. I\’ve been looking for something less complicated than Joomla/CommunityBuilder for 2 YEARS and had no idea WP was expandable…so this is great!
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I followed all of the install instructions and the BuddyPress admin area doesn’t show in my WP admin.
Also, I got the following error when I tried to view it on the live site:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function bp_search_form() in /home/purit0/public_html/blog/wp-content/themes/buddypress-home/header.php on line 36
I don\\\’t know anything about PHP so I have no idea how to fix this, please help! I was really hoping to make this live today and am severely disappointed it doesn’t work straight out of the box. I deleted and re-installed twice already. 
Thanks for any help you can provide.
I was getting nothing because the class methods are not designed to be called from a template loop. Not using a user id defaults to the current user id viewing the member theme page and that’s not valid for anything inside a template loop.
Anyway I posted a ticket with a fn to get at the current loop user id. https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/684
Here’s is mine http://blogcastor.com with a custom theme
in the buddypress_home theme css folder
Warning: require(.. [snip] .. /buddypress/bp-core/bp-core-signup.php) [function.require]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory .. [snip] .. /functions.php on line 70
If you are seeing this error then you are installing RC2/trunk verson of bp in /mu-plugins. That more recent version of bp requires to major things:
1) wpmu 2.7.1: http://mu.wordpress.org/download/
2) RC2/trunk bp does not live in /mu-plugins anymore. See the INSTALL-README.txt for details. It must be installed in /wp-content/plugins/buddypress and activated like a wp plugin from the wpmu admin back end Plugins menu. Activate site wide.
If you see something similar to the above error only with: Warning: require(BP_PLUGIN_DIR/bp-core/bp-core-signup.php) then please go to the wpmu back end admin area Plugins and activate the BuddyPress plugin.
try adding a direct link to style sheet in header
<link rel=\”stylesheet\” href=\”http://illdesigned.com/user/wp-content/themes/buddypress-home/css/base.css\” type=\”text/css\” media=\”screen\” />
If you mean on a user’s profile page, i.e. http://example.com/members/13hulyo/, you can’t. This will be an enhancement that might come in future versions of BuddyPress. You can edit the source files and change the order I believe but a) I don’t know how to do that b) you will have to make the change every time you upgrade and c) so I don’t recommend.
Auwagner-
I\’m running the latest WPMU (2.7)
Then you’re not running either WPMU 2.7.1-beta1 or -beta2?
If that is the case, then this is the issue. WPMU 2.7.1 has been required since BuddyPress r1303.
Fortunately, you’re in luck! WPMU 2.7.1 was just officially released this afternoon. Read this ( http://ocaoimh.ie/2009/04/21/wordpress-mu-271/ ) and get it here: https://mu.wordpress.org/download/
That link disappears when you don’t have the blogs component activated. Deactivate in the wp back end BuddyPress > Component Setup
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I have buddypress installed and mostly working correctly with one exception. When someone creates a new blog, they are given an address that looks like this:
newuser.mybpsite.com
But when you visit that link, you get an error that says:
DNS error – cannot find server
I think it could be a problem with my .htaccess file or how permalinks are set up or some other setting I have missed, but I am just not sure. I haven\’t been able to find a solution in the forums, so potentially I am just looking for the wrong terms. Could someone help me out? Here is a copy of my .htaccess file:
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>’
Jeff, thanks for responding…
1) Fairly vanilla means i have only buddypress, plus 2 other plugins. I’m running the latest WPMU (2.7)
2) Trunk is 1324
3) bp-events and eg-twitter
4) This was a fresh install of the trunk, so no upgrade. It’s an environment that I created to test things. I have moved over activate, register, plugin-sidebar and plugin-template to my new theme’s home directory, plus the 3 functions in functions.php. Is there anything else I should do for a customized HOME theme?
5) I’ve read them a ridiculous amount of times changes to htaccess, bp-core-avatars haven’t worked unfortunately
Permissions are 755 on the blogs.dir folders. I’m just combing through to see if I missed anything. I have deactivated all the plugins and i’m still looking around.
