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Topic: Language file load evidence?
How can I tell if there is a problem with the loading of a language file I have created?
I used POEdit to modify the buddypress.pot file and saved the changed file as bp-family-myrelative.pot and POEdit created a bp-family-myrelative.mo when I saved the file.
I am using Windows server 2008 and do not know about a msgfmt application that I can run. Is it in a special folder? Is that a unix only app?
Bottom-line is that the language changes I made (to change group text to family text) is not reflected in any of the buddypress/wpmu menus or text. I have restarted the server apps several times and do not see any changes taking affect.
Any ideas?
Hello all,
I’m having problems trying to get the buddypress to work properly on my “Less Is Less 1.4 by Miguel Santirso” theme. Whenever I click on the menu it brings me to a blank error page. (Menu as in the buddypress buttons.)
I’ve installed the buddypress plug-in along with the buddypress template pack to correct the maligning that occurs.
It then prompts me to: “You should update your .htaccess now.” along with, “By default WordPress uses web URLs which have question marks and lots of numbers in them, however WordPress offers you the ability to create a custom URL structure for your permalinks and archives. This can improve the aesthetics, usability, and forward-compatibility of your links. A number of tags are available, and here are some examples to get you started.”
At the bottom it also states: “If your .htaccess file were writable, we could do this automatically, but it isn’t so these are the mod_rewrite rules you should have in your .htaccess file. Click in the field and press CTRL + a to select all.”
Then I’m suppose to paste:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /organic/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /organic/index.php [L]So I created the .htaccess file, pasted the script above in there and uploaded it to my sever.
Once uploaded, my entire site doesn’t work and goes to a white error page.
My question is, what exactly is it that I change in the permalink settings when it asks me to do so?
Thanks in advance.
Hi,
I have read through http://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/customizing-labels-messages-and-urls/ on how to create a language file for BP so I can change labels etc. I’m using Poedit to create a new mo file and have created a bp-custom file to call the mo file. But my question is, where do i put the mo file? I have put it in bp-languages but this doesn’t seem to work or make any difference to any labels/menu names?
Any help would be fantastic
tks
jamesPART 3 – STRONG -vs- WEAK METHODS
When it comes to spam on BP sites, you’ll see all sorts of stuff posted on blogs saying “change [whatever] on your site and your spam problem will disappear”.
Truthfully, a lot of these tricks will actually work …for a while… but eventually, the spammer makes a minor change to their bot, and they’re back in business. In fact, many of the leading blog spamming packages include sophisticated logging features to catch the errors that “uniquely configured” blogs generate and help the spammer quickly fix the “problem”.
If we’re going to have a reliable anti-spam solution for BuddyPress, we should probably focus on “Mathematically Strong” methods, not on “Obfuscation” and “Moving Things Around”. That way, we won’t have to constantly change our spam protection methods.
Changing Page Slugs
Many people recommend changing the page slugs on BP installations to reduce spam. While this is certainly easy to do, you of course need to give your users *links* to those page slugs somewhere on your site so they can actually visit the pages. And if users can follow the links, so can a spam bot.
Changing page slugs is kind of like boarding-up the front door of your house, installing a new door in the side of your house, and then attaching a piece of string from the front door to the side door of so everyone can find the new door.
The “change your page slugs” approach seems to come from the “change your admin menu URL” technique. Changing your admin menu URL is actually a *strong* protection technique. Since there is no link to it anywhere on the site and you’re the only one that knows the URL, it’s like having two passwords on your admin login. An attacker would have to try billions of URL’s to find it.
Not so with all the other URL’s on your site. They have to be linked off other pages so your users can find them.
Adding Fake Form Fields
Many people recommend adding a few extra fields to forms throughout your site (sign-up, login, post to group, etc) and “hiding” these fields using CSS. If any of the “trap” fields are filled out, in theory, you’ve just detected a bot, because a normal user would never see the fields and fill them out.
This approach *might* defeat a very simple bot that searches every web page it can find for forms, and fills every field in every form with random spam; but it will not defeat a bot that understands CSS or is specifically targeted at BuddyPress, especially considering that BuddyPress is *open source*.
Don’t think bots can analyze CSS? Read this: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=66353
A bot designer can simply read through the BP source code and discover the names of the fields that should be filled in and the names of the fields that should be left empty.
To use our “house” analogy, adding extra form fields is like installing 3 front doors on your house and rigging two of them with grenades …then hanging a big red “out of order” sign on the the two rigged doors so your friends don’t use them.
Obviously if your friends can read the signs, so can your enemies.
JavaScript Proof of Work
Javascript proof of work (Wp Hashcash) defeats spammers by making visitor’s web browsers solve a math problem in JavaScript before they are allowed to post.
Because everyone knows spam bots can’t run JavaScript.
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1124949
http://www.scrapebox.com/
http://blogcommentdemon.com/
http://www.senuke.com
http://www.botmasternet.com/more1/Except when they can.
There’s also the issue of what to do with visitors that don’t have JavaScript enabled.
The WordPress and BuddyPress development teams have put an epic amount of work into ensuring both platforms will work reliably when JavaScript isn’t available. Requiring users to have JavaScript to post any kind of content to the site nullifies much of this work.
Proof-of-work was a great idea back in 1997 when spammers ran hundreds of attack threads from a single server and solving the JavaScript math problems slowed it to a crawl.
In 1997, we’d be dealing with a single spammer running 1000 attack threads against the site. Because the spammer was running 1000 threads, each of which would have to solve the JavaScript problem, they would effectively be penalized 1000 fold over a normal user. The end result is they would only be able to run a few threads before their computer slowed to a crawl and their spamming abilities would be sharply limited.
Epic win for site.
Unfortunately, things are different in 2010.
Spam bots have become the tool of choice for basement SEO marketers. Instead of a few members of the “spam elite”, we’re dealing with tens of thousands of “do it yourself” spammers each running 1 attack thread using the new “automatic backlink software” they just picked up for $29.00 off some random SEO website. Instead of fighting one spammer splitting their resources across a thousand threads, we’re fighting a thousand spammers running a single thread dedicated *just to our site*.
Skipping a ton of math, what this means, is that in order to cause a spammer a 1-second delay while their computer solves our JavaScript challenge, we have to cause each of our *legitimate users* a 1 second delay while *their* computer solves our JavaScript challenge. And, considering the 3 to 5 second database lag I see on 90% of the BP sites I visit, the challenge would need to take much longer than a second to have any merit at all …otherwise page refresh time would be the limiting factor, not the JS challenge.
So what happens when a user visits the site using a computer that is much slower than a typical desktop …say a mobile phone or an old laptop? The challenge would take proportionally longer to complete. A challenge that requires 5 seconds to solve on a desktop PC, could take 30 seconds on an iphone …and 30 second response times would not make for an enjoyable user experience.
Overall, proof-of-work challenges are probably not a good choice in the 2010 Internet landscape.
Mathematically Strong Methods
In the next post, I’ll cover the specific details of the methods I’ve proposed for the BP spam solution, and why they will defeat most spam attacks.
^F^
Is it possible to add a php link integrating the plugin with buddypress? It could be great linking loading avatar page and other buddypress functions (profile, change datas ecc. The main link are here http://stateofaffairs.info/archive/create-profile-menu-buddypress/)
There’s a widget that could do it (http://www.samsarin.com/blog/2007/03/10/samsarin-php-widget/) but an implementation or hack would be great appreciate!
Thanks a lot!
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/sidebar-login/
Ps. At the moment i’m trying on http://www.cinebaleno.it but as you see the “carica foto” (upload avatar in english) is on the left out of the login widget and obviously it doesn’t work if a user isn’t logged in…
Thanks!
Hi,
I’m redesigning the buddypress theme to suit the needs of my site. As I’m not using many of the features of Buddypress I specifically want to streamline the buddypress profile menu (id=”object-nav”) and submenu (id=”subnav”). My idea is to have all the links from the subnav display within the object-nav menu.
I’ve done this by writing the following plugin function:function xf_add_nav_edit_profile() {
global $bp;
$nav_item_name = “Edit Profile”;
bp_core_new_nav_item( array(
‘name’ => $nav_item_name,
‘slug’ => $bp->profile->slug . “/edit/group/1”,
‘position’ => 21,
) );
}
add_action( ‘wp’, ‘xf_add_nav_edit_profile’, 2 );There is one mayor problem with what I am doing, I don’t know how to correctly call the Edit Profile page slug so I’ve resorted to a horrible concatenation ($bp->profile->slug . “/edit/group/1”). The result is that when the user clicks on the tab, he is redirected to the appropriate page but the tab does not get highlighted when selected. Can anyone tell me the correct way to call the edit profile slug? It would also be great if someone could tell me the Change Avatar Slug.
Thanks
Chopo
ok…ive seen this before, but there was one thing missing. what im trying to do, is display a specific menu on certain pages in the right panel. i got the menu up, and it works on the home page, but my problem is with the user profile (in this case, the logged in person) and a memeber profile ( friend, and or nonfriend) i want the menu contents to change depending on which page your on. So, if im on my profile, i see my menu, if im on a friends page, a different menu, and lastly, if on a non-friends page different menu displyed lol. i know…
i was using an if statement like so:
<?php if ( is_home() ) { ?>
<h5 id=”panel-title”><?php _e( ‘home’, ‘buddypress’ ) ?></h5>
<ul class=”hook_menu”><img src=”<?php bloginfo(‘template_directory’); ?>/images/local/category-arrow.gif” />
Menu for home
<?php } elseif ( bp_is_user_profile() ) { ?>
<h5 id=”panel-title”><?php global $current_user;get_currentuserinfo(); echo ” . $current_user->user_login . “”; ?></h5>
<ul class=”hook_menu”><img src=”<?php bloginfo(‘template_directory’); ?>/images/local/category-arrow.gif” />
Menu for another member or my friends profile
<?php } elseif ( bp_is_my_profile() ) { ?>
<h5 id=”panel-title”><?php global $current_user;get_currentuserinfo(); echo ” . $current_user->user_login . “”; ?></h5>
<ul class=”hook_menu”><img src=”<?php bloginfo(‘template_directory’); ?>/images/local/category-arrow.gif” />
Menu for my profile
<?php } ?>
im not sure what tags to use for my profile and other profiles…anyone know? thanks a bunch ahead of time!
oh also, whats the tag for displaying that members name, not the loggedin user, but your friend?
My site uses Atahualpa theme 3.4.6. I installed Buddypress and followed the instructions in the Buddypress Template Pack for converting my theme to use Atahualpa. Basically this involved replacing the Buddypress “get_header” command with the Atahualpa “get_header” command. I made this change on all of the Buddypress index.php pages in the Atahualpa theme folder.
The problem is that the Buddypress menu completely overlaps the Atahualpa menu and renders it nonfunctional. Making the changes to the Buddypress index.php files does not seem to remedy this problem.
Can anyone tell me what steps to take to move the Buddypress menus down or over (or put them beside the Atahualpa menus) so that I can use Buddypress with my Atahualpa theme?
Many thanks.
Jim S.
Hi,
I’ve added buddy press to a website I am working on (www.ynpnnyc.org). I have added the Theme Packet compatability plugin and made all the changes as suggested and I don’t see any changes. Si there something I missed. This is what the buddypress pages look like:
I followed the instructions closely. If you look at the homepage, you’ll see the menu should appear on the right. But with buddypress pages it doesn’t. I’ve read through the forums and haven’t seen or understood anything I could do differently.
I would appreciate your help.
Thank you,
Dana
I already had a WP site (http://cureuphoria.com) for which I wanted to integrate the community features of BuddyPress.
So I opted for integrating BP with BP Template Pack.
Now, after a constructive talk with Mike Pratt and some good advise, I am considering to change the whole set up and having BuddyPress running as main installation and integrate the rest of the WP stuff into it.
First, I’d like to know what are the pros and cons of the two setup.
And especially, what I should do to change configuration from WP with BuddyPress integrated via BP TemplatePack to BuddyPress child theme with WP pages and stuff (I may use multiple blogs when 3.0 is out to lay out some sections, instead of going with categories and stuff).
For the moment I got BP running “under” Curemates section in Cueuphoria.
Now I want to have the homepage with activity streams, Curemates for members, adding Groups and Forums on the main menu, get rid of the previous Forum (already turned it off).
Any thoughts?
The menu colors are driven by the .css file, located here:
/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/fishbook/_inc/css
* Section “ul#nav li a” (no quotes) controls color of non-active menu tabs
* Section “ul#nav li.selected a” (no quotes) controls color of active/selected menu tabs
color = tab text color
background = tab background color
* Section “#wp-admin-bar .padder” (no quotes) controls top bar of color above header
Now, if I can determine how to get the active header tabs to change for static pages, I’ll be happy. Any ideas?
Regards… Tom
[My 1st BP post]
Hi,
Using WP 2.9.2 and BP 1.2.1.
BP does not show members profile pages if nicename contains “-” character or nickname has space and we cant found this members with search…
For example this link work fine: http://hpv.sitesi.ws/members/hoba/
Try one of them this link, it will go to homepage…
http://hpv.sitesi.ws/members/gerial-tusu-yok-mu/
http://hpv.sitesi.ws/members/asl-hpv
http://hpv.sitesi.ws/members/doktor-guven
http://hpv.sitesi.ws/members/esin-yaban
My installation process:
I installed Buddypress 1.2.1 plugin from plugin menu. Then upgraded to 2.9.2. then changed my permalinks to non-default. Activated the standard bp theme. Setup an old bbPress forum. All members from bbPress.
My site is http://hpv.sitesi.ws
Any suggestions?
