I have been folowing development since BP was just Andy. I am in the midst of rebuilding our radio network site on BuddyPress. I’m about half way through the process. It’s coming along.
The Head On Radio Network
Sam
You need a SVN client to do svn co https://svn.buddypress.org/trunk. Then in future you can run svn update to update to the latest “trunk” copy. It’s a bit hard to go further into specifics as I don’t know what Operating System you use, but have a google around if you get stuck.`
was not trying to be rude, sorry if it came off that way. This script was used with the Beta 1 of BP without issue, so whatever changed in the Beta 2 that is related is what I need to find a workaround for. Just asking for some guidance/assistance. The script is textbook php so it works fine from that respect…. I have 2 databases in mySQL, 1 that is for the WordPressMU and Buddypress, and another that I created separately for another part of my site….the second database is the one the script is calling.
Any thoughts?
Hi.
What error do you get when you try and create the groups?
There’s a sticky that details the BBPress integration (https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=471).
You configure how you want new blogs to be created in the admin tool of WPMU (IIRC).
@MartinNr5,
That’s the mystery. My member-themes folder contains a directory called ‘buddypress-member’ and that’s it.
I don’t have a buddypress-home folder there.
I think there is a function that is defined to look for a file here: /wp-content/member-themes/buddypress-home/index.php
but cannot, because the location doesn’t exist.
I’m wondering where this function is and how to redefine it.
Jessica
You could try and create a hidden blog and change the theme for just that to see if you can manage the widgets. Alternatively post a link to the theme you’re using and I’ll give it a spin on my setup.
As for the avatars… Do you have the “blog.dir” folder in your “wp-content” folder?
I haven’t tried switching the theme – that one was chosen so the menus across the top would be easy. Perhaps I could give it a try, though I am reluctant… Also, Martin, you are correct – I am using Safari and FireFox and have the same issue across all with the avatars.
Looking at the path you’re posting above (/wp-content/member-themes/buddypress-home/index.php) it seems as if you’ve selected the BuddyPress home theme as the default theme for your member pages and not the actual member theme.
I’m not sure how you’d be able to do that though.
What are the contents in your “member-themes” folder?
Hi,
everything works on the bbPress side with umlauts. Whould it be possible to use the same filters for the BuddyPress side of the forum?
Best,
Karl-Heinz
I’ve created a request for this here: http://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/453
Just posting to the forum as well as few check the trac for feature requests (including myself 
).
Nevermind, after some digging I found this feature request that explains that this isn’t possible yet: https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/309
Feel free to close this thread. 
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?
Hi guys.
Sorry for my bad english but good old germans aren’t that good in speaking foreign languages..
Is there any possibility to center whole buddypress so that you have “white” space on the left and right? I think this would look some kind of more “Professional” and could allow a better advertising system. Does anybody know which divs and classes have to be changed to achieve that?
Thanks, Dennis
Hi,
I’m updating an old WPMU site with avatars to BuddyPress. Obviously when I install BuddyPress it doesn’t pick up the old avatars, and this is the problem.
As I only have 50 users I could potentially manually update the avatars for everyone (as I have a copy of the original avatar files) if only there was a way.
Anyone have a suggestion???
Ya, the same thing is happening on my site using buddypress. Site wide activity’s RSS is not loading.
Hi,
I am trying to make the bbpress front page to look like my buddypress page so it looks a bit more integrated, and I can add a tab “forums” to the main navigation which will bring me from wordpress mu font page to bbpress front page.
For this, I need to display the buddypress admin bar on top of the bbpress front page. Is this a possibility? Do I need to load the entire wordpress header? (is this even possible from a sub directory?)
Thanks for your help
Hi,
I am trying to make the bbpress front page to look like my buddypress page so it looks a bit more integrated, and I can add a tab “forums” to the main navigation which will bring me from wordpress mu font page to bbpress front page.
For this, I need to display the buddypress admin bar on top of the bbpress front page. Is this a possibility? Do I need to load the entire wordpress header? (is this even possible from a sub directory?)
Thanks for your help
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.
I thought they’d be widgets, but when I go to the dashboard for that blog (showcase for example) it says there are zero widgets being used (in the appearance section).
Within the Showcase section (a blog on the site) you can’t see down the left and right side bar is says ‘archives’ ‘categories’ and ‘recent posts’? Just in case, here is the address directly to that section:
http://mobiusmanitou.com/showcase/
I’ll check on the avatars/graphics library as you mention.
Thanks!
Laura
