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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 ?

I honestly don’t know where all the instances for this is (plus “wire” appears in the urls, etc.). First start would be checking out the bp_wire_setup_nav function in bp-wire.php file in mu-plugins.php. That at least would change the menu names. Then I would imagine you would have change text in the BuddyPress user themes…

I did some investigation at the BuddyPress xp-profile component and it doesn’t look like you can override or add the “field types” in the profile (“text box”, “date selector”, etc.) without editting the core files. Which means it’s off of my short-term list to make this into a plugin. It’s a shame, my solution would be great to add for social networking or anything really.

I suggest (1) perhaps using the “settings” panel for the user to add these variables (I did an example recently of this) or (2) do socialbandit’s hack.

Andy – can we build in a way to override the field types for profiles? If “date selector” is a custom object it’s possible we will be coming up with more.

It works for the main blog too, thought the search function isn’t all that useful given there would only be a single blog but all the other functions work with the main blog.

All you’d need to do to get this setup is to change the default role for the main blog from subscriber to contributor and disable blog registration. Also, you may want to hack at the code to remove things such as the blog directory, the list of user blogs, etc. but this is optional.

It is only a matter of time!

I have hacked the member theme to suit my site, but it is nothing outragous!

explorewithme.com

I tried to use a third party theme and added some code as per the instructions in the member-themes-readme.txt in the memberthemes folder. I had many problems but then soon realised that my theme was only compatible with wp 2.7.

I think that if there were to be a template club it may start with BP.

Now doubt, like anything else wp related, there WILL be a plethora of BP template sites popping up soon.