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Only note to consider with this members-only plugin is that it redirects users trying to get to the main blog/site, but if they have URL’s to other “pages” members pages, etc… they can get to those directly. The redirect doesn’t apply to those pages/sections. (at least not yet)

If you find a solution to this problem wpmu/buddypress-wide, please let me know. I’m looking for a similar solution.

First of all, this is not to do with working with BuddyPress – if you just run WPMU, you’ll find exactly the same thing happens. WPMU Domain Mapping works fine, as I use it on my site.

The “problem” is that your web browser remembers that you are logged in because of cookies. Cookies can only be read/written by pages on the same domain, therefore an authentication cookie on domain1.com can’t be read on domain2.com.

There seems to be an issue with bp-themes in the wp-content/bp-themes directory. There does not appear to be anywhere to activate theme.

According to instructions in the readme, BuddyPress themes (other than the default ‘bpmember’ theme need to be activated before they are used).

Based on the instructions in the readme in the bp-themes directory I looked for a menu “Site Admin -> BuddyPress”. This menu doesn’t exist (although this is the menu that the instructions say is needed to activate Buddypress Themes).

I then went to the “BuddyPress -> General Settings Menu”. This has a dropdown list “Select theme to use for BuddyPress generated pages”. This dropdown is listing the wordpress themes and not the buddypress themes like bpskeleton which comes with the 1.02 download. There is nowhere I can find to activate the BuddyPress themes so that they appear in this list. In the dropdown above, I tried selecting one of the themes listed e.g. “wordpress mu homepage”. Once I apply it and go to the buddyPress-generated pages like “/members”, “/groups” or “/blogs” I see this message:

You do not have any BuddyPress themes installed.

Please move “/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/” to “/wp-content/bp-themes/” and refresh this page. You can download more themes here.

Note:

My installation is a clean install from wpmu 2.8.1 with buddypress 1.0.2

Brian-

I see that you are new to the BuddyPress forums. So, first things first, welcome!

Now, so as to help you more successfully navigate these forums, a few rules of the road. First, look at the sticky topics at the very top of the main forum page. There are a lot of useful, key pieces of advice that can be found there.

Second, posting in a 2-month old forum that is marked resolved will most likely not get you very far. Why? Because many of us skip over forum threads marked as resolved, looking to spend our time on issues that are still bothering members. Please read this thread for more tricks of the trade

Third, be careful when looking to follow advice in threads that are more than a month old. BuddyPress is a new platform and as such is evolving rapidly. What worked a few months ago, may no longer apply as better, easier to implement solutions get added to the core functionality. Therefore, if you cannot find a relatively recent thread on a topic, it is best to start a new thread just to make sure things have not changed–or to learn the proper way of doing something if they have changed

Finally, as to your question:

Where is the core? It is mentioned everywhere in this forum and I can’t find it for the life of me.

The core files are the primary BuddyPress files that are found in /wp-content/plugins/buddypress/. Whereas some of them start with “bp-core-“, in general, all of the files found in the /buddypress/ directory are considered core files.

Is it possible with this plugin to have the user actually choose from a preselected sub-list of what tags they want to add?

Example:

1. I create category ‘church affiliation’

2. under that category I create sub-cats like

-catholic

-lutheran

-baptist

-etc

The user then selects ‘baptist’ so the tag ‘baptist’ is added to their group/blog. Then I could create a widget to display all the groups/blogs belonging to tag ‘baptist’… that would make it really easy to sort the members.

The reason I ask about sub-cats is because I am concerned that if they put in their own tag I could end up with either misspellings etc that would end up ‘orphaning’ the group/blog from that category.

There are only a ‘short list’ of categories that I want to ‘force’ the user to choose from such as above. There are many other categories that I would like to add, where user input of the tag itself is preferred, which is obviously the way the system seems to work now.

I can see a ‘future’ where I could somehow tie the category questions to a page the user is presented with after registration like many other sites do. That way from the get go I can sort brand new groups/blogs properly.

We already have something like I describe above for the members profile itself, just curious if this would work for groups/blogs as I don’t seem to find the same type of category choices when creating a new group/blog

thanks again for such a great plugin. I can really see using this one a lot!

If you are referring to theme changes, you can control it from following files

bp-themes/bpmember/directories/blogs/index.php

bp-themes/bpmember/directories/blogs/blogs-loop.php

bp-themes/bpmember/directories/groups/index.php

bp-themes/bpmember/directories/groups/groups-loop.php

bp-themes/bpmember/directories/members/index.php

bp-themes/bpmember/directories/members/members-loop.php

@Lriggle,

To add Forums to the navigation menu, here’s a basic workaround:

Go to header.php and find the section where the rest of the navigation is (it should start with this code:

<ul id="nav">

Add the code below (customized for your site) along with the other navigation links:

<li><a href="URL of FORUM LOCATION" title="Forums">Forums</a></li>

This code needs to be between the

<ul>

and

</ul>

tags to work.

Also, remember that the navigation items are in a specific order, so put the link to the forums where you want them located. In other words, if you want the forums after the Home button, make space and put it there; if you want it after the Members button, make space and put it there. You can tell what each navigation does by the slug (e.g., BP_MEMBERS_SLUG is the Members button).

Hope this helps.

To add Forums to the navigation menu, here’s a basic workaround:

Go to header.php and find the section where the rest of the navigation is (it should start with this code:

<ul id=”nav”>

Add the code below (customized for your site) along with the other navigation links:

<li><a href="URL of FORUM LOCATION" title="Forums">Forums</a></li>

This code needs to be between the <ul> and </ul> tags to work.

Also, remember that the navigation items are in a specific order, so put the link to the forums where you want them located. In other words, if you want the forums after the Home button, make space and put it there; if you want it after the Members button, make space and put it there. You can tell what each navigation does by the slug (e.g., BP_MEMBERS_SLUG is the Members button).

Fairly straightforward.

Hey all, first time poster in the BP forum, be gentle! I usually surf the forums before posting and seem to be able to figure things out, but I can’t with this one…and like always I imagine it’s as simple as the nose on my face!

my site momchatter.com, on the groups, blogs, members pages I’ve figured out that it’s the “narrowcolumn” css that I want to get ride of…and I’ve looked for it in all the .css files that you all mentioned here..any thoughts? (course I have a 3 year old to disctract me so I may not of looked hard enough, even using “find”)

Thanks!

Hi! … first of all, sorry for my bad english!

I’m on a linux server, y have MU 2.7.1 and BP last svn, so i have all the last versions.

Mi GD library (i think):

GD Support enabled

GD Version bundled (2.0.28 compatible)

FreeType Support enabled

FreeType Linkage with freetype

FreeType Version 2.1.7

T1Lib Support enabled

GIF Read Support enabled

GIF Create Support enabled

JPG Support enabled

PNG Support enabled

WBMP Support enabled

XBM Support enabled

BUt…

I’m having a problem with de avatars at the registration of a new user, and at the creation of a new group. It’s strange because:

At registration, every works fine, but, when i must select de mini avatar something strange happens with the arrow to chosse my part of selection … but i can continue … then, i chosse the big avatar without problems … but, after this, when i continue to finish registration, it goes to this location http://www.example.com/activate?key=7eceeb07e9659d4a&cropped=true and doesn’t find any page there … So, I refresh the page, and it goes to the homepage example.com, and the registrated user is ok! he can login, he has the avatar fine … everything! whats can happen?

With de groups happen this:

When i create a group, in the step of uploading an avatar every works fine, the upload, the the mini avatar selection is fine too, and finally when i choose de big avatar selection and click on “continue” to last step (invitation steps) it sends me a 505 error sometimes or a “are sure? try again” page. (it happens in here: example.com/members/admin/groups/create/step/3). So i must use a default group avatar to create, is the only way to create the grupo.

After this if i go to config of this group i just create, and i go to change the avatar for a new one (not a default one), i can do it without problem…

The change of avatar works with this: example.com/groups/groupname/admin/group-avatar, and it works fine … the error of the gruops aparently is with de step 3 of group creation (but what can i do with it?) and the error of registration avatar i have no idea.

Any suggestions?

Thanks a lot!

LEandro from Argentina!

GRACIAS!

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.

This is exactly what I’m trying to do – create a private, members-only site that could be either invite-only or have the registrants moderated by the admin. I would think this scenario would be pretty common with many groups – companies, orgs etc.

I’ve spent the past day and a half combing this forum and others looking for the solution. FYI, I’m not a PHP programmer, but I can copy and paste code when necessary. The closest I’ve gotten is with 2 methods:

– the plugin that Trent posted that PW-protects the member pages. It does allow new registrations but it doesn’t protect the home page or the groups.

– the More-Privacy-Options plugin mentioned above, with the “Site can be viewed by registered users only..” option turned on. The problem I’m having with this one is there’s nowhere for new people to apply/register. So if you’re a non-member and you go to any page (including the registration page) you get the login screen, which doesn’t have a Register link. I’m guessing there must be a workaround for this, but haven’t been able to find it yet.

Which brings me to another problem that I’m having, which is how to invite non-members into the site. I’ve got the “Invite Friends” plugin installed and it seems to work ok, but it’s only for the administrator, which is ok for now, but eventually it would be good to be able to allow site members to invite new people in. I see this as an option in the settings, and a link in the Friends sidebar.

Using a common example, Facebook is pretty much doing all of this now. So non-members arrive at the base URL to a landing page with an intro message, where they can register for membership. Plus existing members can invite (via a link in the friends area) non-members to join up.

Sorry to hijack this thread, but I’ve been wanting to change the groups URIs, and ok, so I know that groups is hardcoded in.

But I tinkered around with it and basically created a GROUP_SLUG and set that, in my case, to “projects”. Everything works fine (I had to change a few template things but otherwise it’s ok) except I have a teensy weensy problem with the catchuri function

So now all my pages are something like siteurl.com/members/username/projects/action

(siteurl.com/members/username/projects/, siteurl.com/members/username/projects/my-groups, siteurl.com/members/username/projects/group-finder. You get the idea)

And it works fine until I create a wordpress page called projects, then for some reason siteurl.com/members/username/projects rewrites to siteurl.com/projects, which in my case would be the wordpress page instead of the groups memberpage. I’ve tried taking a look at catchuri, and playing around with the is_page function, but even if I try to name the page something else, like say “projects main”, it still ends up trying to add the template into the page, which naturally fails and ends up with the 404 template.

I also don’t know if it’s related, but my wordpress mu is in a subdirectory, which looking at the catchuri code, doesnt seem to deal with subdirectories at the first explosion of the uri to rewrite (but I may be mistaken), so before the explosion of the actual site_uri function, $bp_uri[component_index] ($bp_uri[0]) actually returns me the subdirectory that my wp mu is in. I’m not sure if this is a bug and/or if it affects muy uri rewriting, but I thought I’d mention it.

p.s. when I delete the projects page, members/username/projects rightfully shows me the my-group template.

you can take a look at it here http://donicethings.org/beta

If anyone could help me I’d be most grateful, thanks!