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Thinks its just in General > Settings… check the box for Membership “Anyone can register”. That gave me the register page.

I’m experiencing virtually the same problem. See waterwaywatch.org. The site is based on WP 2.92 and Buddypress 1.2.3 then Buddypress Widget Theme. I have tried various flavours of Buddypress with a variety of other themes aa well as trying to install as a sub-directory and in the root. The current trial is roo-based.

Looking at your website you will see that when you click on the links that work the url on is based on the root and the other contains a reference to /index.php/. When you click on other menu items – say members – the url is based on the root – thus /members/ . Clicking on that gives a raw 404. If you change that to /index.php/members/ you will find that you will get a page from your website that just says ‘Page not found’. (On my website I don’t get ‘page not found, I get the home page).

Now the bad news. I have shown that this is somehow related to /index.php/ but despite playing with this for the past week, I haven’t been able to figure out what is wrong – let us hope that someone here will take the clue and figure out the answer.

One other thing – if you create a new folder in the root called, say, /members/ and place a dummy index.htm in there, then as expected clicking on Members will open that page.

All this suggest to me some sort of mis-redirection – can anyone help?

Cheers

Will

General Site Tips:

1. Try private testing with a focus group (not your designers or developers).

2. Don’t add too many features, determine the level of request and see if they fit with the spirit of the site.

3. Don’t be afraid to make the site live. Just get the site out there and let users provide you feedback. I know clients that test, refine, etc. and it never makes it out the door.

Social Network Tips:

1. Facebook, Twitter, and social networking integration is important. Please love to login with other accounts.

2. Create a way for users or even visitors to easily locate interesting people straight from the homepage.

3. Make sure search is simple, easy to use, and as powerful as possible. Finding connections should be a no-brainer.

4. Social networks grow the best when people can invite other non-users into the network.

5. Social networks also grow quickly when members can share links, media, etc. with those within and outside the network.

6. Give incentives for people to come back to the network. Awarding users for actions (like Foursquare) is an interesting way to do this, although there are plenty of other examples that can fit your particular network.

7. Avoid long registration forms at all costs.

Hi MrMraz, I installed the old plugin since a few weeks and I haven’t had the occation to see how it works, simply because it is not obvious straight away that this is more of a BP component, such as Groups and Forums.

I scratched my head off trying understand HOW to create a link (and I am not the only one https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/is-there-a-buddypress-plugin-that-can). To me it wasn’t clear that you need to manually create a link to the Links directory or something like that, wich mean you need a place in your navigation to put “Links”, along with Members, Forums, Groups (wplace that I don’t have on my site).

Anyway, I got two basic problems (with 0.3.2). I already got a page on my site called “links”. I’ve changed the buddypress-links.php file, line 24:

from

define( ‘BP_LINKS_SLUG’, ‘links’ );

to

define( ‘BP_LINKS_SLUG’, ‘members-links’ );

which I find more appropriate for my site. But I noticed the warning message:At this time, it is not recommended that you try to override this!

So, what am I to do?

Another problem is that when I try to create a link i got the error:

Warning: require_once(single/forms/details.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in …(mypath)/wp-content/themes/(mytheme)/bp-links-default/create.php on line 22

I’ve checked the file and that line was not coded properly:

require_once ‘single/forms/details.php’;

instead of: require_once (‘single/forms/details.php’);

Did it work for everybody else, that way?

Otherwise, I am going to test 0.4, since I see that there is a feature to “Create link directly from user profile and group pages”.

I’ll let you know.

Hi MrMraz, I installed the old plugin since a few weeks and I haven’t had the occation to see how it works, simply because it is not obvious straight away that this is more of a BP component, such as Groups and Forums.

I scratched my head off trying understand HOW to create a link (and I am not the only one https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/is-there-a-buddypress-plugin-that-can). To me it wasn’t clear that you need to manually create a link to the Links directory or something like that, wich mean you need a place in your navigation to put “Links”, along with Members, Forums, Groups (wplace that I don’t have on my site).

Anyway, I got two basic problems (with 0.3.2). I already got a page on my site called “links”. I’ve changed the buddypress-links.php file, line 24:

from

define( ‘BP_LINKS_SLUG’, ‘links’ );

to

define( ‘BP_LINKS_SLUG’, ‘members-links’ );

which I find more appropriate for my site. But I noticed the warning message:At this time, it is not recommended that you try to override this!

So, what am I to do?

Another problem is that when I try to create a link i got the error:

Warning: require_once(single/forms/details.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in …(mypath)/wp-content/themes/(mytheme)/bp-links-default/create.php on line 22

I’ve checked the file and that line was not coded properly:

require_once ‘single/forms/details.php’;

instead of: require_once (‘single/forms/details.php’);

Did it work for everybody else, that way?

Otherwise, I am going to test 0.4, since I see that there is a feature to “Create link directly from user profile and group pages”.

I’ll let you know.

I’m pretty new to Buddypress but thinking about implementing S2Member as well. It looks very good but one thing I’m trying to do is allow my premium members to display more information about themselves than free members.

I think I might be able to restrict free members from accessing a certain field group in their profile so that they just can’t submit the particular details such as Location and Occupation but that seems a little messy.

I’m trying to setup a directory based site for Alternative Therapists such as Reflexologists, Nutritional Therapists, Accupunctuists, Yoga Teachers, etc, etc. I’m doing it for a client and she really likes the idea of having a social network side to the site as well because the therapists will be interested in networking with eachother and their potential clients (free members) will also be able to find them and ask questions or just read what they have to say.

Unfortunately, however, because the search functionality in Buddypress seems quite limited not only is it difficult to narrow down a search for a particuar kind of therapist in a particular location, but it also doesn’t seem possible using S2Member to show only premium members.

I’m thinking I might either have to scrap the idea of using Buddypress or else integrate separate directory pages but if I do that it probably won’t be very easy to tie their details for each system together.

Sorry for the long post – but said it was best to explain it fully to see if anyone has any experience of trying to do something similar or has any good advice.

Hello to everyone following this thread. I just released version 0.4 of my Invite Anyone plugin, which, as promised, adds the invite-by-email feature.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/invite-anyone/

Here’s what’s new:

– “Send Invites” tab added to the Profile section

– “Send Invites” has two subsections: Invite New Members and Sent Invites

– On Invite New Members, users can enter email addresses, a custom invitation message, and check off some groups that the invited member will receive invitations to when they join the site

– On Sent Invites, users can see all the invitations they have sent, as well as whether or not the member has accepted yet

– When a user accepts an invitation, they receive invitations to all groups to which inviter(s) have invited them, as well as a friendship request from each individual who sent an invitation

– A link is added to group Send Invites pages that goes to the profile Send Invites page and pre-checks the group’s box

– There’s a Dashboard panel for sitewide admins that allows them to control some of the default behavior of the Send Invites page, as well as the visibility of the Send Invites tab. You can create a blacklist of users who are not allowed to send email invitations (good if you have spammers in your community!), limit by blog role, or by length of time since joining the site.

It’s been fairly thoroughly tested, but it’s possible (likely even!) that there are still annoying bugs. Please let me know if you find issues or have suggestions.

Here’s the code for a sub menu on the right side of the header with subnavigation:

Header.php

<div class="navwrap">

<ul id="dropmenu">

<li<?php if ( bp_is_front_page() ) : ?> class="home_active"<?php endif; ?> class="home">

<a href="<?php echo site_url() ?>" title="<?php _e( 'Home', 'buddypress' ) ?>"><?php _e( 'Home', 'buddypress' ) ?></a>

</li>



<?php if ( 'activity' != bp_dtheme_page_on_front() && bp_is_active( 'activity' ) ) : ?>

<li<?php if ( bp_is_page( BP_ACTIVITY_SLUG ) ) : ?> class="activity_active"<?php endif; ?> class="activity">

<a href="<?php echo site_url() ?>/<?php echo BP_ACTIVITY_SLUG ?>/" title="<?php _e( 'Activity', 'buddypress' ) ?>"><?php _e( 'Activity', 'buddypress' ) ?></a>

</li>

<?php endif; ?>



<li<?php if ( bp_is_page( BP_MEMBERS_SLUG ) || bp_is_member() ) : ?> class="members_active"<?php endif; ?> class="members">

<a href="<?php echo site_url() ?>/<?php echo BP_MEMBERS_SLUG ?>/" title="<?php _e( 'Members', 'buddypress' ) ?>"><?php _e( 'Members', 'buddypress' ) ?></a>

</li>



<?php if ( bp_is_active( 'groups' ) ) : ?>

<li<?php if ( bp_is_page( BP_GROUPS_SLUG ) || bp_is_group() ) : ?> class="groups_active"<?php endif; ?> class="groups">

<a href="<?php echo site_url() ?>/<?php echo BP_GROUPS_SLUG ?>/" title="<?php _e( 'Groups', 'buddypress' ) ?>"><?php _e( 'Groups', 'buddypress' ) ?></a>

</li>



<?php endif; ?>



<?php wp_list_pages('sort_column=menu_order&title_li&'); ?>

<li class="tricks"><?php echo preg_replace('@\<li([^>]*)>\<a([^>]*)>(.*?)\<\/a>@i', '<li$1><a$2><span>$3</span></a>', wp_list_categories('echo=0&orderby=name&exlude=181&title_li=&depth=2')); ?></li>

</ul>

</div>

CSS that goes with it:

/* Navigation */

.navwrap {

-moz-border-radius:8px;

-webkit-border-radius:8px;

background:url(_inc/images/top_bg.png) repeat scroll left top;

float:right;

margin:43px 0 0;

padding:10px 10px 3px;

}



#dropmenu,#dropmenu ul {

font-size:15px;

line-height:1.5em;

list-style-position:outside;

list-style-type:none;

position:relative;

width:100%;

z-index:300;

}



#dropmenu a {

color:#FFFFFF;

display:block;

font-family:nevisBold,"Trebuchet MS",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;

font-size:13px;

margin-left:2px;

padding:0 10px 0 17px;

text-decoration:none;

text-transform:uppercase;

}



#dropmenu a:hover {

border-bottom:4px solid #EFEFEF;

color:#555 !important;

text-shadow:0 1pt 1pt #FFF;

}



ul#dropmenu li.selected a,ul#dropmenu li.current_page_item a {

list-style-image: url(_inc/images/home.png);

}



#dropmenu li {

float:left;

padding-right:4px;

position:relative;

}



#dropmenu ul {

display:none;

position:absolute;

}



#dropmenu li ul a {

-moz-border-radius:8px;

-webkit-border-radius:8px;

background:#FFF;

border:1px solid #333;

float:left;

height:auto;

margin-bottom:1px;

margin-top:5px;

padding:3px;

width:150px;

}



#dropmenu ul ul {

top:auto;

}



#dropmenu li ul ul {

left:12em;

margin:0 0 0 10px;

}



#dropmenu li:hover ul,#dropmenu li li:hover ul,#dropmenu li li li:hover ul,#dropmenu li li li li:hover ul {

display:block;

}

Finally some javascript that you can put in your footer for some nice effects:

<script type='text/javascript'>

jQuery(document).ready(function() {

jQuery("#dropmenu ul").css({display: "none"}); // Opera Fix

jQuery("#dropmenu li").hover(function(){

jQuery(this).find('ul:first').css({visibility: "visible",display: "none"}).show(268);

},function(){

jQuery(this).find('ul:first').css({visibility: "hidden"});

});

});

</script>

You should tweak the .css and remove some unneeded images/padding/margin etc. Good luck dude!

It’s not any one plugin that does the job. Here’s how I do it.

Create a new blog (let’s call it Test) and set the privacy (more privacy options needed here and bp-mpo-activity-filter to keep it’s content out of the stream) to “only blog admins can see this blog” (this is necessary, but keeps things clean since nothing should get added to this blog).

Use new-blog-defaults to set the blog defaults including menus that the users cannot use.

Members is used to set capabilities of the admin (I don’t change the role of the new blog just the admin’s capabilities) so the admin is “like” an editor or author, but I can still let them change their themes (theme changing is very important to young users).

Wpmu-plugin-manager lets you set which plugins to allow users to use and which ones are automatically turned on (I always turn on Ozh’s Admin Menus for example). Turn on any plugins you want to use and tweek their settings and any other blog settings.

Then Adminimize to further hide menus the users don’t need (it only hides menus, but most users will never find them anyway). Adminimize is great for simplifying the write panels for posts and pages too. Any plugins I don’t want users to change settings on I can make sure they don’t have access to by making sure the menus are hidden.

Now use new-blog-options under the site admin menu and give it the blog id of Test and check off any of the database fields you want new blogs to have (make sure the Members and Adminimize ones are checked). Maybe this isn’t exactly what you want, but it is probably the best overall way to simplify blogs for younger users.

Also since I use these with classes, I just import my whole list from a spreadsheet using DD Import Users as subscribers on the main blog. I use limit-blogs-per-user and set the site-admin/options to 2. Now users can create their own blog, but can only create one blog of their own. This saves me a lot of time, but still gives the users a fair amount of freedom with their blogs.

It isn’t a perfect solution. I would like to see some of the overlapping capabilities put into one plugin for cloning blogs. I would especially like to see the ability to have different templates (ie base blogs to clone from) so that I could have one setup for say grade 1 students and another setup for grade 5 students.

Hope this is useful to someone.

I’m trying to integrate P2 in the bp-groupblog plugin. Haven’t tried BP theme template pack.

P2 apparently only works on a regular blog index.php. On a group home (and probably other BP pages like members home etc.) it can’t find the right blog and the Ajax breaks.

The fix probably involves setting the blogID somewhere and changing settings in P2’s js.php. If it’s possible at all…

@Michael

You can change this with a little .htaccess magic.

Say your Buddypress is setup in the following sub-blog – hxxp://example.com/community

Find where your wp-config.php file is located and in the same directory there should be a .htaccess file. Open it up in a text editor.

Above the line:

# add a trailing slash to /wp-admin

Add the following:

RedirectMatch 301 ^/members/(.*)$ http://example.com/community/members/$1

RedirectMatch 301 ^/groups/(.*)$ http://example.com/community/groups/$1

RedirectMatch 301 ^/blogs/(.*)$ http://example.com/community/blogs/$1

RedirectMatch 301 ^/forums/(.*)$ http://example.com/community/forums/$1

This should correctly redirect your old BP links to the new ones.

—

@JJJ

In the example above, is there anyway I can use:

hxxp://example.com/register

Instead of:

hxxp://example.com/community/register

I don’t mind hacking a few core files to accomplish this. If not, I can always theme the registration / activate pages to match the WPMU root blog.

I’ve only spent a few minutes looking into this so far and I haven’t found a way.

I don’t have a solution for all your problems but assigning different “user” types to your site is easy:

– Create a xprofile field in your BuddyPress admin. For example: What kind of user are you:

a. Swimmer

b. Skater

c. Surfer

– Install the BP Member filter plugin: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/bp-member-filter

– Users can now filter members on the member directory page to find certain usertypes

The only thing you might want to look into is to show/hide specific xprofile fields for different groups. That’s more advanced and requires some new code to be written by someone

Good luck!

edit: Maybe if you combine both tips from Boris and me you just got your solution

ps: I’m interested in the jquery profile fields stuff as well.. sounds handy!

It’s a minor bug in MU. When you add a page template to a currently active theme, it can;t find it. Select a different theme, then immediately select the right theme again. Then when you go back to select a page template it shoudl be there.

@anointed, I think the best way to do something like this would be to extend the existing multi-site plugin(s) and introduce a method to either serialize the sites that users belong to and add it to a _usermeta field, or insert/update/delete blog_id/site_id to the _usermeta every time a user is added or removed and check against those meta’s on every page load if the user is logged in.

The problem comes from situations where site-admins technically are users on all sites, and how to deal with collisions where users can be added to blogs without being added to sites, if that makes sense?

What you would need to do is hook into all of the places where users can be added/removed from blogs, and add your own actions to those functions to perform your special tasks, which-ever you choose to do.

Then… Once that’s all done… You’ll need to modify the members directory to sniff out only the users that are in those _usermeta values that you assign them to. In my opinion, this is a modification of the kind of magnitude best left for professionals or tinkerers with lots of extra time to test and make sure you don’t corrupt the relationships between users, sites, and blogs.

There are functions already to see which users are already part of which blog_id’s, but that doesn’t really work for all users across any particular group of blogs based on a site_id. I haven’t needed to do something like this myself so I can’t say for sure, but I haven’t seen a core function to find users belonging to particular sites… It would require first checking the wp_blogs table for all blog_id’s matching your site_id, and then checking the roles and caps for users that match.

Hi @ all, I build the Seo for Buddypress plugin.

When I saw this discussion, I decided to write an article about Seo.

(Sorry for my terrible English, I hope I will be able to bring my thinking on the point.)

First of all, Search-Engine-Optimization and Link-marketing is hart and long work.

If you aspect to do nothing and become a good ranking and search results,

forget about it.

The way google ranks content of a website is not explained in a small forum article.

But I will try to explain you the most important.

Seo is marketing ! Most keyword marketing.

So you need to have harmony between your Title, Meta Description and the Content of the page.

A clear title (for human understandable) and a real description, where the Keywords also are used in a understandable sentence.

Google knows English and many other languages. And it can realise if you wrote a real sentence, which is unique in a way and has something to do with the content of the page.

If your Title, Your Meta Description, Your Keywords (not so important any more)

are filed in correct, and the main keywords are in the title and the description and comes back in the content of the page, than google knows that this content is real and has something to say.

Google does not like generated titles and descriptions with no sense.

Or even just copying the content from the website in the description is not the way google like. Also google do not like if your description looks similar all over your site.

For example:

If we looking at the Profile Page.

If you always have the sentence:

This is a profile page from my social network for pet lovers.

Google will find this sentence with every users profile on your site.

So if you have 10 members, Google will have 10 times the same sentence.

Google won’t find this sentence attractive. It will think all your member pages are not interesting and will mark your site with duplicate description.

This will be very bad for you!

If you would write a user name in:

This is a profile page from “name”, one user of my social network for pet lovers, google would like this more.

But still the sentence is to similar. Just one word has changed.

All the other look the same. In the end google will mark your site with duplicate description

again.

So if you would have a sentence like this:

This is “name” profile page he has a “ped”. He likes “Interests”. He comes from “…” and is looking for “…”

Google would love every user profile.

Every body has different ped’s, hobby’s, comes from different places and so on.

In this fact google would mark your profile pages as made from a human.

This is real Search-Engine-Optimization

You see what I want to explain.

Title, Meta Description and Content must be meaningful!

For this I build the Plugin.

It gives you the possibility to make a unique meaningful Title, Meta description and keywords-marketing for all sites and parts of your Social Network.

For this you have to think about every part of your website to feed the needs.

The special tags in the plugin for example group-name, user-name, event-name are your place holders to create descriptions from your content.

This plugin is in an early state.

0.6.6

Buddypress changed allot in the last versions, and I had enough to do to keep it working.

In the next versions I will add all the special tags, who are needed.

If all the special tags are added, I will make a global configuration.

That means If you install the plugin, a most common Seo optimization will be there.

And the Special Tags will be used by default.

Then you have your full automatic Seo optimization.

But this would be never so effective, as doing it properly by hand for every part.

At the moment, buddypress does not add descriptions and keywords at all.

So if you use the plugin and have static descriptions because of the missing special tags in this early state, don’t worry.

Its still better to have a description then have no at all.

There are many other thinks I will integrate in the Plugin in the future, xml sitemap for all buddypress sites, alt tags for images and much more…

Also I will write some more articles about Search-Engine-Optimization. If needed.

I’m looking forward to BP-tricks.com from Bowe. Maybe I will have the chance to go deeper in Search-Engine-Optimization there.

I hope I could make thinks more clear!

Hi Andrea_r, waiting for videos to your session/s at http://wordpress.tv/event/wordcamp-new-york/

I tested your theme in a site under development.

WPMU 2.8.5.2 + BP 1.1.2 + bbpress installed via BP one click

Main site with MU Sitewide Tags Pages

BuddyPress main site in blog-ID-2 at http://members.example.org/

Thank you for the clean theme. Without looking at code, i.e., checking it out like a newbie who activated the theme, following are some quick notes:

1. wp-admin-bar – Text (e.g. Org Members) of link to BuddyPress site ( http://members.example.com) shows up in backend (dashboard etc) but does not show up in front end. The link block is there and clickable to main BP site, but the text does not show up. Still, the wp-admin-bar shows correct links to main BP site, etc. throughout the site including sub-blogs.

2. Footer widgets only showing up in only in blog areas – is this the intention?

3. h1 – cannot find it anywhere in the theme. Need at least one h1 per Post or Page

4. Main Nav – link to Forums was not generated to show BP main site nor other subblogs nor main site, while link to a newly activated “Events” plugin page was generated to show in the main nav across all sites. (the link to Forum shows up in this install when I use child theme)

5. Main Nav – like the official bp-child theme, activating the theme in sub-blog for groups or individual members does not show correct links to main BP site features like member/group/blog directory. In order for one theme to be used throughout the site, conditional statement will be needed to show correct links to main BP site conjoined with respective blog’s navigation links.

Quick scan in main BP site (blog_id_2) to see how theme works in different sections

6. Members Section

– directory page – 2 columns – ok

– My own admin individual profile page – skeleton set up with 2 columns where in left column is avatar, options bar and user bar boxes. But there is a large space on the right side as if missing a 3rd column. Checked links in options bar resulted in two columns with links except the ff which has a missing left column – Edit Profile page, Change Avatar page

– If I click on another member’s individual profile page – left column as two user bar boxes unlike the link to my profile which has the options bar and user bar. In addition, when I also am missing the left column with options/users boxes in Blogs link page, Friends link page, Groups link pages plus the Events link page is incorrect and goes to front page of site

7. Groups Section

– directory page – 2 columns – ok

– Group individual page – skeleton set up with 2 columns – but there is a large space on the right side as if missing a 3rd column plus the page is missing all sub-navigations for Creating a Group, Creating forums etc

That’s it for now. As mentioned above, didn’t look at codes “behind the scenes” at this point, only the functionality if newbie user activated it.

Good luck

I’m having a similar issue. All the links in the Buddypress bar that link URL/wp-admin/~~ work such as most under My blogs admin but under My account all the links that include URL/members/~~ don’t work. The only one that works here is Log Out. There is no members directory so it just defaults to the homepage. I’m sure there is something simple I missed but can’t for the life of me find it. I uninstalled and reinstalled Buddypress and it’s the only plugin installed. I’m running buddypress 1.1.1 using the default theme installed through the c-panel.