@oceandoctor You probably could work around this by uploading two avs for each of your users, or just going with one of the default avs like ‘identicons’. (Site Admin > BuddyPress > Default Avatars)
I haven’t tried *turning off* a custom av though. One bp thinks you have one, you have one. If you want to run a generated av like identicon, try deleting the custom av and then configuring bp to use a stock one.
Avs come in to flavors. small and large. 50×50 and 150×150. Named: myfavav-avatar1.jpg and myfavav-avatar2.jpg. Once again bp remembers the url to these avs once uploaded and cropped. The easiest way to hook up to bp is to name them the same as the existing goofy avs. Just replace them.
Hey, all.
At this point, I am not liking the Group Forums. I’ve gotten them to work, but it seems like the users have to dig too deep to get to each one. A general forum, where a user has an overview of all the areas and new posts, seems more usable. But this is just me.
So I’m not using Group Forums but want to integrate a general bbPress forums with my site, ie. in looks and navigation.
What is the best way to do this?
Currently, I am approaching it by giving the forums and the main site the same styling (header, etc.). I have had to hard code in the page navigation (about, home, members, blogs, etc.) in a page navigation bar across the top of the forums. It is so rough right now that I don’t really want to give you a link to it. 
But I would do so privately, if you would email me: wardeh.subs@suchtreasures.com.
Am I right in thinking that this is the best I can do?
Nicola, how have you integrated the general forums with your BP/WPMU install (at http://buddypressdev.org)? Because the “BuddyBar” goes away when I click on your general forums, I think we have the same setup.
And a third question: Are general forums integration in the works for BuddyPress? Anyone know?
How could I get the BuddyBar to show up at the top of my Forums? This is a general forum, not group forums.
I’ve looked at Nicola’s general forums (http://buddypressdev.org/forums) and he doesn’t have a BuddyBar at the forums, yet he does on the main site. That’s my situation now. I would like to get the BuddyBar showing in the forums.
Hope this makes sense.
Any ideas?
@seanzyville, you got a nice clean site, a nice change from the BP home page.
How did you use the custom theme to replace the BP home theme.
Because I’ve got a custom theme I want to use?
Site Admin > BuddyPress > Show admin bar for logged out users: NO
Easy? You mean like going to McDonalds and getting a cheeseburger easy?
Or going to the store buying all the fixings, coming home and making a cheeseburger easy?
Line 34 of bp-activity-widgets.php is the spot that echos the sitewide activity stuff you see. The loop around it uses the var $item which is of the flavor ‘array’ containing amongst other things the condiment : $item. If you use the proper kitchen utensil : bp_core_get_avatar( $item, 1 ) you are well on your way to making a normal size burger. That gets you the 50×50 avatar.
If your really hungry you could use bp_core_get_avatar( $item, 2 ). That gets you the big avatar.
So, is it McDonalds today or the kitchen?
I think Charlie Stout’s talk about farming in relation to bp has made me hungry.
http://charliestout.testbp.org/2008/12/22/want-to-expand-buddypress-expand-gravatar/
Hi, how can i remove the BuddyPress menu bar? Here is my site http://www.modelsorg.com
Thanks,
Shaun
I tried uploading the BuddyPress beta version.
I got the following error message on ALL pages when I upload the plugins to mu.plugins:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function site_url() in /home/blogpeor/public_html/wp-content/mu-plugins/bp-core/bp-core-avatars.php on line 18
Any thoughts?
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Hi Trent,
I finally gave up on cookie integration and went with just the wordpress integration. I got farther along in that I can post topics now with no errors, but adding a reply gives the dreaded red “There was an error posting that reply.” Looking over your last post gave me pause though. Are you saying to install only wpmu and bbpress, get them working, then install buddypress? Maybe I’m just tired, but the instructions from bp-forums/installation-readme.txt dont’ seen to follow that route. Makes sense though. I keep saying I’ve attempted this for the last time and moving on, but I find myself pulled back in once more with a faint glimmer of hope. I hope this isn’t the definition of insanity (always expecting different results).
Thanks for all your time in helping us.
I’m at a loss how you would work a shopping cart into BuddyPress (from a conceptual, not technical standpoint). Are you trying to create an environment where everyone has their own store? If that’s the case, you could easily adapt a standard ecommerce theme into a Buddypress compatible one and make that the one and only blog theme for users. Just curious.
I liked : http://www.screamings.com
and a coulpe of other ones too.
I love buddy press but i am a little green on it.
Still werkin on it check it out: http://www.social.hiphopdashboard.com
also peep http://www.hiphopdashboard.com
Still trying to tweak them both but let me kno what ya guys think.
Thanks for the suggestion. Do you plan to test with buddypress? Since the developer has no immediate plans to support wpmu I’d like to know if it works with wpmu and buddypress before shelling out any money.
i found a solution below for anyone else that needs it, but it didn’t work 100%. i can now search for all my members, and they all show up when you click on a letter in the member directory but the total count and list of initial members doesn’t show up when you click on the main “Members” link from the front page. ideas as to why?
here is the solution I found if you are migrating an existing site to buddypress. run these 3 separately against your database in this order:
(#1) insert into wp_bp_xprofile_data (user_id,value) select ID,user_login from wp_users;
(#2) update wp_bp_xprofile_data set field_id = “1” where field_id “0”;
(#3) update wp_bp_xprofile_data set last_updated = “2008-12-24 11:39:36” where last_updated = “0000-00-00 00:00:00”;
this will allow your existing wordpress users to have some initial buddypress profile data in order for the member directory to work properly.
Just wondering if anyone of you gurus have intentions to develop a shopping cart/ecommerce component for buddypress. I know eshop is supposed to work with wpmu, but I installed it and just didn’t “get it.” I love what instinct’s wp ecommerce has, but I installed that and, although it seems to have installed properly, I’m getting errors. I know there’s much discussion over at instinct forums on whether it works, will work or won’t. Their getshopped.com is exactly what I’d like to do, but they seem to be staying pretty mum as to their secrets. In the wpmu forums they indicated that they were developing for wpmu, but that was about a year ago I think. All that crap being said, is anyone thinking about a cart for buddypress? Thanks.
if several languages are installed both on wpmu and bdpress
do users can choose their language indenpendantly ?
Howdy – I see the forums work here at buddypress, and I was trying to get them to work on my site –
I’m running:
wpmu 2.65
bbPress 1.04 alpha
and the current combo download –
Do you have a site with the forums working, and if so what did you do to make it happen?
Cheers,
E
in profile there is a way to make people to choose their first language.
it would be great to link this with an available language transmation of buddypress.
Thanks David. I thought it might be useful to let people know that the bp core and all the lovely components can be accessed from any theme, any time. It ain’t rocket science, it’s programming.
I’m not too familiar with pastie. I’ve just used it a couple of times. It’s browsable? I just though it was a net wide scratch pad.
Nicola! I posted the same stuff over at buddypressdev.org too.
both the first and the second link works well.. try download it directly here http://buddypressdev.org/download/3
Due to the holidays over here, i haven’t had a chance to look at this but if it works well done. BTW, I tried the link on your .org site first and got a 404.
There is more than one way to skin a cat – in fact your example is very close to the v.0.1.0 example i created a few days back. Both of these work for VERY simple components. Nice to see a slightly different execution. The more ways we can show this, the faster people will learn. Good job!
Hi wardeh. I was checking the ‘topics with no replies’ and saw you here. All by your lonesome self. How goes the battle this week?
You don’t want to turn off groups but you just don’t want the option to create more groups to be available. Well, you want group creation to be a site admin thing only. Hmmm…
I went and looked at the member theme code and finally arrived in the core code and lo and behold Andy was thinking of you! There is an unused option for the menu items. ‘site admin’ only. You’ll have to modify one line to turn off the group creation option for everyone except you.
In the file /mu-plugins/bp-groups.php at line 205. This currently reads:
bp_core_add_subnav_item( $bp, 'create', __('Create a Group', 'buddypress'), $groups_link, 'groups_screen_create_group', false, bp_is_home() );
Change that line to read:
bp_core_add_subnav_item( $bp, 'create', __('Create a Group', 'buddypress'), $groups_link, 'groups_screen_create_group', false, bp_is_home(), true );
That change adds the ‘true’ parameter at the end which normally defaults to ‘false’. It’s the ‘site admin only’ sees this menu item flag.
Merry Christmas. 
As David Bisset for BP-Test, i wrote a very basic component for BuddyPress called bpdev-example that you can find in the link at the end of the topic
This isn’t really a plugin but is a starting point for developers. The difference between bpdev-example and bp-test is :
bpdev-example is a minimalistic extending component that includes all in one php page.
Users don’t have to add files on member-theme. (with this feature, given that it works on plugin-template.php, if someone uses a member-theme different from the default, he doesn’t need to touch the code).
Here a support page for BPDEV-EXAMPLE : http://buddypressdev.org/forums/topic.php?id=7
And here you can download it: http://buddypressdev.org/plugins/bp-example/
As soon as possible I’ll write an HOWTO for it.
Nicola Greco
JA teniu la traducció de Buddypress al català .
Una salutació
http://www.buddypress.cat
