Thanks for such a quick response.
That’s exactly what I did, was create pages with slugs identical to what is found in bp’s navigation bar.
I am really excited to see where this project is going. Bp is already an excellent product and I cant wait for more future releases.
Thanks a bunch guys!
Thanks burtadsit.. but that means If I have to make 50 blogs (which I do) and I use the same theme and all, I will have to activate the sidebar widget in each blog separately… God .. that’s painful..
Anyway, buddypress rocks !
When I enabled Thesis, I had to manually add pages for News, Blogs, Members & Groups. Everything appears to work until you click on one of the created Pages. (Blogs, Members & Groups mainly)
I’m not sure what ‘manually add pages for…’ means. You don’t need to add anything except the files plugin-template.php and plugin-sidebar.php which come with the bp home theme. Look in the home theme dir for those two. Just drop them into your theme’s directory.
Those files have action triggers in them that display whatever directory your user chose. Members, Groups…
If you are not running the bp home theme then within your theme you provide links to all the directories you want to be available. The urls would be:
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.
What you’ve done is create mu pages with slugs that mimic the bp urls for the directories. Clicking on what you expect to be a page in your theme, fires off one of those urls. bp sees that it’s a bp internal reserved name for one of the directories and tries to oblige by displaying the directory. It can’t find that template file plugin-template.php and complains loudly.
Ya just can’t have pages named those things.
What you will have to do is override/skin the css for the directories if you want them to display in accordance with your theme.
I have done a fresh install of wordpress mu / buddypress. I was wanting to use the Thesis theme but have run into a slight snag of sorts.
When I enabled Thesis, I had to manually add pages for News, Blogs, Members & Groups. Everything appears to work until you click on one of the created Pages. (Blogs, Members & Groups mainly)
It doesn’t load Thesis, I get the following:
“To enable the blog directory you must drop the “plugin-template.php” file into your theme directory.”
I did and it only loads the ‘bp_template_content’ from what I can gather.
How can I incorporate this into the Thesis theme.
Note: Thesis does have the ability to use hooks in the theme. I however need a little guidance on how to do so.
From the Thesis release info:
New Page Template Functionality and Hooks
In addition, some of you may encounter situations where you need to create your own page templates. By using the new “Custom Template†page template, you’ll gain access to a new hook, thesis_hook_custom_template, and you can use that to inject anything you want into the #content_box (the space between the header and footer of your site).
4+ hours on this and I am ready to shoot my computer… lol
hi, daniel
buddypress is in beta release when all the components have a stable release the support/help/guide/faq come but at this time is a good idea working on code and codex.
Hi all,
I would like to create a sitemap.xml file to help search engine with buddypress sites. My first idea is to test “Google XML Sitemap” wordpress plugin and see what happens. The plugins work find but only parse the main blog posts. it is logical.
So, I would like to extend the plugins by adding Buddypress support.
For me, the only think very revelant to include in the sitemap is the group’s pages (url like http://www.mysite.com/groups/GroupName) and forums of the group.I don’t believe members page will be a good help for search engine.
It will be also possible to include page for buddypress plugins with a lot of content.
What do you think about that ?
Thanks
Olivier
Two things I’d like to figure out how to do:
1. When setting up a new group, “News” is currently a required field. But there’s not usually news to write about at that point. So I’d like that to be optional (if it’s there at all).
2. Have the Group Settings edit area accessible from within BuddyPress frontend. Admins and moderators would be able to edit. Flipping back and forth to the backend is a pain in the butt and, more importantly, “Users” can create groups but not edit them (as far as I can tell).
Any help would be much appreciated!
I’m not able to get this to show up on my register page. It shows up correctly on the comments pages. Ideas what I can try?
I’m pretty satisfied with the wmpu 2.7 beta and buddpress 1.0 beta. What are your thoughts on going live on my production site? Is it worth the wait for wpmu 2.7 to be out of beta? What about buddypress? I know wpmu is supposed to be out in early January.
When will buddpress realistically be out of beta?
I am also having this problem. I found these two support tickets that describe this problem a little better.
Cropping via the “Change Avatar” Screen causes cropping area jumping
Avatars are randomly lost
Hi Guys,
Just wondering if anyone is creating a support/help/guide/FAQ document for users of your site?
I plan on creating one, or at least utilising someone else’s.
If anyone else is going to do this please let me know and maybe we can share the work and make it available to other BuddyPressers.
Also if anyone has the same for WordPress do tell
wpmu 2.7
bdpress combo
bbpress : alpha 04
I do not know if it is standard or due to a bug so i did no create a ticket for this.
On my different bdpress installs, the pages
At the begining no problem with that, but some users on one platform are creating websites using wordpress as cms more than blog and so using pages.
and they feel a bit disapointed that their work do not appear in activity.
where somethings not so important as MR 1 and Mr 2 are friends are presented there.
the great feature would be to be able to choose what is shown in activity.
But for pages ? is it coded that way in buddypress ? or is it a bug ? a problem only on my installs ?
TRENT
You said: `
I have a ticket on the Buddypress specific feeds already. Just have to watch this ticket:
https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/213 `
Is that 3 weeks old?
If anyone has a work around for this, let me know.
burtadsit
As far as the tracking down session.save_path in the php.ini and go chown to apache:apache ?? I’m assuming since I can’t find that file.(i.e., it doesn’t exsist in file manager) I would need someone to do some root access work. Because everything you just said is foreign to me.
I made another test user and all seems fine. I only saw that error in the first hour after the install. Any possability it just went away and won’t come back? I’m hoping.
Beside the Rss Feed Problem,
BuddyPress is great.. Very easy to change the css layout and locate files.
Sure would be nice to have member rss feeds though.
Looking forward to any new tweeks, plugins, etc…
Yesterday while i was talking with Andy, Trent asked him a good question how can we make a subnav private? In a my post on bpdev i talked about it. If you’re starting doing plugins (starting from BPDEV-EXAMPLE, for example)
Here the post link: http://buddypressdev.org/starting-developing/make-a-subnav-page-private-with-bp_is_home/
I hope it can be useful
Hi everyone.!
I just installed a brand new installation of Buddypress. This is actually the first time I intalled Wpmu using subdomains, and everything seems to be ok. There is just one small problem when entering the blogs.
When I type in:
http://blogname.blognetworkdomain.com I just get a blank screen….
When I type:
http://blogname.blognetworkdomain.com/index.php everything works just fine.
I’m just not quite sure what the problem might be. Has anyone of you guys experienced something like this with your buddypressinstallation?
You have some plugin conflicts it looks like since you are also using nextgen-gallery which might also be calling some libraries. Try disabling it and see if buddypress is able to upload and avatar and crop it.
hi,
i use wordpress mu 2.6 in http://ulagam.net. i installed buddypress yday and after which the registration failed to work. i couldnt find any php error.
i fill up all form details and press submit button, it asks for blog details. then i fill them up and then goes back to first page. can some body help?
Folks
If you are using an alternate home theme, and existing links to an author’s profile takes them to either an archive page or the WPMU backend (eg. <?php the_author_posts_link( ); ?> ), how can this be replaced with a link to the member’s profile page in Buddypress?
Cheers
Trent, I don’t think it is the first reason, as I am using the buddypress-member theme, just not the home theme.
Could be the second. I’ll try what you said later and let you know. Thanks!
You are not using an older version of hyper-db or the multi-db plugin from wpmudev.org premium are you? Both need to be patched to work with functions and delta-db. Latest trunk of hyper-db works, but multi-db plugin needs to have a few functions added to it until they release a version for 2.7 and/or buddypress integration.
I have a ticket on the Buddypress specific feeds already. Just have to watch this ticket:
https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/213
Trent
@wardeh – I haven’t actually tried that plugin with a custom member theme, but it might not be working for 2 reasons.
First might be because the plugin is calling $is_member_page, it might not work unless you have all the functions included with the normal buddypress-member theme.
Second reason might be because the header('Location: ' . get_settings('siteurl') . '/register'); is calling the register page on the main theme that doesn’t exist? Maybe change that line to header('Location: ' . get_settings('siteurl') . '/wp-signup.php'); and see if that works?
The bbPress plugin should work if you are calling it out of /my-plugins/ but I am pretty sure you have to have the <?php bb_head(); ?> in your template header as well as <?php do_action('bb_foot'); ?> in your template footer.php.
Let me know, as the bbPress plugin is just a “redesign” of the force login plugin found in the bbPress forums.
Trent
I have a dedicated server, and it’s funny after about an hour this error code just magically disappeared.
Next issue is now with the fact that all rss feeds, do not validate with feedburner and other rss validators like http://feedvalidator.org/
How come all rss feeds are not valid feeds?
such as my-domain/members/admin/activity/feed
and all other feeds of buddypress.
But if I use
my-domain/?feed=rss from WPMU alone
I get Congratulations!
This is a valid feed.