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Meanwhile, I’ve tested the BP demo of this one /loginradius-for-wordpress/ and it doesn’t duplicate the user. But I prefer not to use a external service.

So, I found this one buddydev.com/plugins/buddypress-facebook-connect-plus/ (thanks to @mercime) and it looks perfect for what I’m looking for. Any of you have used it? if you do, does it duplicate the same FB user in wp_users? and does it work fine importing users Facebook data to BuddyPress profile?

Thank you very much for your help and if I find more usefull info about this, I will post it here 🙂

@fivehead

You are should add it to bp-custom.php
If you don’t have this file:
https://codex.buddypress.org/developer/customizing/bp-custom-php/

@bluellipse What version did you upgrade from? The BP Default theme has been responsive since BP 1.5 and we’re on BP 1.6.2 so this shouldn’t be a surprise. Are you using a bp-default child theme or using the BP Default theme?

@Roman, I’ve seen a similar fix out there on the interwebs, but it didn’t work for me. Yours looks to be tweaked a bit from what I’ve seen, so I’ll give it a go. Where did you put this bit of code?

Hi @fivehead
I had already found decision for me. This small hack completely fixed avatar and group avatar problem for my site in MULTIBLOG mode:

`
/* This fixes the MULTIBLOG avatar problem */
function nfm_bp_avtar_upload_path_correct($path){
if ( bp_core_is_multisite() ){
// $path = ABSPATH . get_blog_option( BP_ROOT_BLOG, ‘upload_path’ );
$path = ABSPATH . ‘wp-content/uploads/’;
}
return $path;
}
add_filter(‘bp_core_avatar_upload_path’, ‘nfm_bp_avtar_upload_path_correct’, 1);

function nfm_bp_avatar_upload_url_correct($url){
if ( bp_core_is_multisite() ){
$url = get_blog_option( BP_ROOT_BLOG, ‘siteurl’ ) . “/wp-content/uploads”;
}
return $url;
}
add_filter(‘bp_core_avatar_url’, ‘nfm_bp_avatar_upload_url_correct’, 1);
`

this post is continued from https://buddypress.org/support/topic/still-having-trouble-with-forum-main-page/

@harvey1233 please keep to one thread for the same topic. Closing this post in favor of https://buddypress.org/support/topic/currently-attempting-to-create-a-forum-on-my-main-page-and-unable/#post-149606

Recently we have updated to the new BuddyPress 1.6.2. Ever since the upgrade, the confirmation email is not going out to members attempting to register as new members. Our site is http://rotarymeansbusiness.com/. We now see that others are having this problem. We did not have this problem before the upgrade. We also use the plugin “Buddypress Pending Activations.

Please advise,

Wayne Rowlands

Good call, @Roman. Defining both fixed one problem, but introduced many more.

Delving deeper, I believe that multisite is designed, on purpose, to keep things separate amongst network sites. That includes avatars, group avatars, etc. That is why each site has a separate upload directory (wp-content/blogs.dir/3/files/avatars, wp-content/blogs.dir/4/files/group-avatars and so on…).

By default, each subsite’s upload path is something like wp-content/blogs.dir/5/files. And the home site’s upload path is wp-content/uploads. If no root blog is set (which @Roman pointed out that we can’t set a root blog AND enable multiblog), then the code will set the current site as the root blog and grab that site’s upload path. For example, if I’m on site 5 of a WPmultisite/BPmultiblog install, the site will look to pull files from the wp-content/blogs.dir/5/files folder. Accordingly, it will find any files that were uploaded to that directory, from site 5. It won’t find your avatar, because you likely uploaded them via the home site, and those avatars reside in the wp-content/uploads folder.

While this design probably works for most implementations, it does not suit my purposes. I need to show avatars and group avatars across all sites (sounds like you both do as well). With that in mind, here is the path I’m heading down:

The Network Admin Sites/Settings page (accessible via wp-admin dashboard at wp-admin/network/site-settings.php?id=4) allows you to update the “Upload Path”, “Upload URL Path”, and “Fileupload URL”. For my project, I modified all subsites to be the same as the home site upload path: “wp-content/uploads”, “http://example.com/wp-content/uploads”, and “http://example.com/wp-content/uploads”, respectively. HOWEVER, you can update them until you are blue in the face, but you will never successfully upload to the directory you update to. This is because WP overwrites these custom upload paths with the default upload paths mentioned above. This is done on the last line of wp-includes/ms-settings.php. As @Andrea Rennick points out on wordpress.org, this was done to protect ourselves from…ourselves by hosing things up in a multisite environment. On that same WP thread, @cooliojones proposed the fix of commenting out the last line in wp-includes/ms-settings.php, which is ms_upload_constants();.

YES, it’s a core hack, and NO it’s not the ideal solution, but I’m plowing forward with it anyway because I don’t want my project to die while I throw on my One Love cape and try to solve all the BP/WP integration problems of the world. I guess you have to ask yourself which is more important to you: common avatars across sites OR maintaining separate upload directories across sites?

Hope that helps.

As a last second, chuck it into the end zone and pray…Since I only need group/avatars to display across the multisites, I’m thinking it would be ideal if there way some way to define separate upload paths for group/avatars from all other uploads. Anyone have the golden ticket for that?

Related Reading:

i am also seeing a discrepancy between front end activity time stamps and what is shown in wp admin. i think whats happening at least for us is that the wp admin area is showing gmt time regardless of the local time. example:

latest post:

published – 13:54 local time (GMT-8)
front activity entry – 54 minutes ago
wp admin activity time stamp – 9:54 PM
current time – 14:48

current version of bbpress/buddypress/wp/multisite

What versions of bbPress and BuddyPress are you using, and which is displaying the wrong time?

Going to close this thread; BuddyPress doesn’t have any ads in it, so it’s either another plugin, your theme, or — most likely — malware on your computer.

Yes plenty are using it on production sites, doesn’t mean though that there isn’t work involved in getting/keeping it running, WP/BP may work out the box but that’s only the beginning of things and issues are a fact of life with any application.

Looks like it is displaying the time in GMT. Now if I can change that.
My settings under general is for CDT.

Mine is showing 6 hours ago for a forum entry I just entered.

See lists of BP-enabled sites https://wordpress.org/showcase/flavor/buddypress/ and http://www.bpinspire.com/

@harvey1233 – I don’t see any hypertext ads on this site or on justinharvey.com. I think something has infected your browser or your PC.

I have a register page in my pages but it just redirects back to the homepage so really I dont have a register page?

@jchamp311 That happens by default when you’re logged in naturally. Log out first to check out register page 🙂