[Jeff Sayre]

@Mohit

Perhaps Burt or John will have a different take on this, but since you have the helper plugin installed and are still having this issue, then it could be an issue with an outdated libxml library.

Which version of libxml2 and PHP is your server running?

If it is not what is recommended in that article I linked to in my first post, then you might want to upgrade and see if that solves the problem.

[peterverkooijen]

I’m now trying to add firstname, lastname and email address straight to the database tables of my mailing list. I’ve added the queries to the function I had put together here:

function synchro_wp_usermeta($user_id, $password, $meta) {

global $bp, $wpdb;



...



$wpdb->query("INSERT mailingusers SET users_id='$user_id', group_id='1', signup_date= UNIX_TIMESTAMP(), firstname= '$firstname', lastname= '$lastname', email_address= '$user_email'");

$wpdb->query("INSERT mailingcdata SET cdata_id=NULL, user_id='$user_id', cfield_id='1', value='$company'");



}

add_action( 'wpmu_activate_user', 'synchro_wp_usermeta', 10, 3);

This mostly works, except the for the email address. $firstname, $lastname and $user_id are all correctly added to the table, but the email_address field stays empty.

Can anyone spot the problem?

How can I “call” the user’s email address upon ‘wpmu_activate_user’?

Adding a $user_email argument only produces missing argument errors. I’m out of guesses…

$current_user->user_email doesn’t work either:

$wpdb->query("INSERT mailingusers SET users_id='$user_id', group_id='1', signup_date= UNIX_TIMESTAMP(), firstname= '$firstname', lastname= '$lastname', email_address= '$current_user->user_email'");

[peterverkooijen]

Styling the signup form is supposed to become a lot easier in the upcoming version 1.1.

To get my signup form somewhat in line with the rest of the site I had to hack core files. Details of my attempts here.

[r-a-y]

Hey DJPaul,

My post was off-topic; you’re right, I’ve copied and pasted my above post and created a new thread:

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-migration-when-bp-11-gets-released

Feel free to delete my previous post now (and this one as well)!

[Paul Wong-Gibbs]

r-a-y; that’s a question for a new topic. If I could move posts I’d start one for you, but I can’t, so if you make a new thread I’ll repost this response into it later…

The best way is for you to duplicate your database and site, and perform an upgrade using the current trunk, and see what issues you run into. This is also needed for valuable testing / bug reporting as necessary.

XML-RPC BBPress has been removed, totally. Again, install a test installation of trunk – on the Forums Setup page of the admin menu, there’s an option to either set up a new installation or to use an existing database.

I tried this for the first time last weekend, and setting up a new forum installation was as easy as pressing one button – it’s amazing.

The upgrade button I haven’t tried yet, but it requires you to put in a path for your existing BBPress bb-config.php file. As long as you are using the latest version of BBPress, I can’t think of any issues – possibilities are the server not being able to read the files in a different folder, but if your server is working with the XML-RPC at the moment, then that’s not going to be an issue.

So, “how would that work?” AWESOMELY.

[Mohit Kumar]

Thanks Jeff for help

i added that plugin and followed the steps once again everything is good

But i cant get it to fix.The problem is on bbpress side topics are showing perfectly fine but its in the groups that tags are showing

[Paul Wong-Gibbs]

Like I said, at this question on the WPMU forums / search on the WPMU forums.

Back when BP was pre-beta, I used to use the following code on a test installation. I post it here just to try to counteract this notion that it is “impossible” to change the welcome text email. Please note I am not supporting this code and I’m not even saying that it will still work. YMMV.

http://buddypress.pastebin.com/f284e0aab

[Paul Wong-Gibbs]

Original posters:

a) Yes, but please discuss this on https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/modified-mail-message-registration.

b) Yes I believe so, but this is a WPMU question so you are best searching on the WPMU forums

c) Yes, it’s in the theme files. You can edit these at the moment and it might be easier to do in BP 1.1/trunk.

[Paul Wong-Gibbs]

This is not only resurrecting a 4 month old thread – of which you yourself have found several duplicates – this is more a WPMU question that BP. Use https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/modified-mail-message-registration for discussion on this area, i’m closing this thread.

[Jeff Sayre]

I’ve never heard of Flutter. But the link you provided to the Flutter plugin on the WP plugin repo appears to be for the single-user verison of WordPress and not for WPMU. That could be the issue.

Also, if you visit the homepage for the company that created Flutter, there is a link at the bottom to an alpha version for Mu.

I’m changing this to “not a support question” as you are having issues caused by a 3rd-party plugin (and one that is not supposed to work with WPMU at that) and it has nothing to do with BuddyPress not functioning properly. I’m also moving this to the “Third Party Components & Plugins” forum and out of the “How-To and Troubleshooting” forum.

[r-a-y]

Hey Jeff, this is kind of moving a little off-topic, but how would existing BP users with bbPress installed migrate to the new system for v1.1?

We’re using bbPress for main , general discussions as well as BP group forums.

So when BP 1.1 gets released and I want to keep the existing bbPress install, but want to use the updated BP forum code… how would that work?

I’m guessing I would have to rely on some form of legacy compatibility and keep on using XMLRPC? Or leave the existing bbPress install alone and use the new BP forum code (which is some form of embedded instance of bbPress within BP, if I understand correctly)?

[Jeff Sayre]

The appearance of various tags like p and /p on your forum posts used to indicate a problem with your xmllib library on your server. Read this post for information on the bug and how to fix it.

However, I believe the buddypress-enable.php plugin in earlier versions of BP ( 1.0 and 1.0.1 ), was meant to fix that issue. But, for other reasons, this helper plugin is still required to make bbPress function properly in 1.0.3. So, make sure that you overwrite the existing version of the buddypress-enable.php file with the one that comes with 1.0.3 (found in /buddypress/bp-forums/bbpress-plugins/).

Also, make sure you read and follow the instructions in the installation-readme.txt file found in /bp-forums/.

With regard to XMLRPC, going forward, the communication between bbPress and BP v1.1+ will no longer depend on XMLRPC.

[Mohit Kumar]

I think it is related to XML RPC any help guys

[peterverkooijen]

What is now the recommended approach for editing the activation/signup emails?

Other threads about this:

Modified mail message registration

Use full name in confirmation emails

control of new user activation email

[Jeff Sayre]

First, before doing anything, always read the readme.txt file that comes with the install package–this includes the WPMU and the BuddyPress packages. It has important information–especially about what you need to do with the theme files.

Since BuddyPress resides in its own directory, I would suggest deleting the old install. You should not have any issues if you do this. Why? Because any of the plugins, themes, or custom code that you may be using should exist outside of the BuddyPress directory. Before deleting the BP directory, you need to make sure that you deactivate it in WPMU’s backend.

Furthermore, just in case, it is always prudent to have recent backups of your custom themes and your plugins before deleting anything. You want to be absolutely sure that if you accidentally delete the wrong files or directories, that it will not be a big issue since you can simply copy them back. I also suggest that you have a recent copy of your wp-config.php file and even the .htaccess file (assuming that you have plugins installed that may have altered the default congifg).

Since this is a fresh install, I would also suggest starting over with a new DB. If you already have data that you wish to keep in the DB–because you’ve been running WPMU for awhile in a production environment–then your only option is to manually delete the BP tables in the DB before reinstalling BP.

Also, since you are having specific issues with the activity tables, you will need to follow my advice in this post to get the activity tables to reinstall.

As always, before doing anything that affects the DB, please back it up. This also includes backing up your DB before each and every upgrade.

FYI:

https://codex.wordpress.org/Backing_Up_Your_Database

https://codex.wordpress.org/Restoring_Your_Database_From_Backup

[Jeff Sayre]

This question is asked several times a month. It is a custom theme made by Andy. It will not be made available.

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/the-theme-for-this-site

[Jeff Sayre]

David is correct. The album component is not mentioned on the current BP roadmap.

David was part of an interesting discussion we had about the album component in another thread the other day. For those of you who are interested, here is my response about the lack of an album component mention in the roadmap.

[Jeff Sayre]

Are you asking if an albums component comes as part of BP’s core in v1.1? If so, the answer is no. Here is more information on that issue.

[Jeff Sayre]

I would contact _ck_, the author of that plugin and ask if BuddyPress support will be added. You can post a suggest here.

[coldjippie]

These are some good news! Thanks a lot!

Does the 1.1 version also support the photo albums?

Greetings

coldjippie

[omgitsrfb]

some time back when i first installed bp, some of the db tables failed to be created and i followed directions in a thread on this forum and created them in sql. but the first couple of blogs that i set up prior to running the sql show no member blog created just like yours. flipping the privacy options don’t correct the problem. they just don’t show up under the profile page at all.

but the posts show up on sitewide posts for some reason

[r-a-y]

(I believe what I’m about to write is relatable to the topic at hand; if not, feel free to close the thread!)

I’m just starting to grasp the whole concept of multi-sites.

From what I’ve read, it’s exactly what I want to do.

But I need some clarification.

Here’s my setup, I have WPMU+BuddyPress installed in the root:

hxxp://www.example.com (blog_id #1 should be shown here, including all its posts, categories and pages)

I want all subsequent blogs to be created from

hxxp://blogs.example.com

So that new blogs will have a subdirectory under that subdomain.

eg. hxxp://blogs.example.com/newuserblog/

Single sign-on should work across the root and subdomain.

From those that have responded to me on the WPMU forums, this should be possible with the multi-site plugin.

—

Now for the BuddyPress questions!

Okay, so let’s say I login to BuddyPress (which is installed in the root instance of MU) and I want to create a new blog from “My Account > Create a blog”, would BuddyPress be creating this new blog under the new Site instance (eg. the subdomain Site – blogs.example.com? This is what I would want to do. I’m guessing this would require some core hacking.

Also, if I go to hxxp://www.example.com/blogs, would this show blogs from the blogs.example.com subdomain?

—

Thanks for reading! Hope to hear some feedback!

[Jeff Sayre]

The fact that, as you say, “everything works lovely” when you switch to the bp-default theme, indicates that BuddyPress is functioning properly. So, you have an issue with your custom theme.

Any WP theme will work as a BP home theme as long as some additional files are included. With v1.1 of BP, basically the version you downloaded from trunk, BP switches to a parent/child theme architecture. So, you need to make sure the custom theme you are using can function as a parent theme.

Look at the various files in the BP parent theme — bp-sn-framework. My guess is that your custom theme is missing many of those files.

More information of the new parent/child theme architecture: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/details-about-the-new-theme-architecture

[Paul Wong-Gibbs]

If you can wait maybe a couple of weeks to a month for BuddyPress 1.1, you’ll be glad to learn that BuddyPress 1.1. won’t use XMLRPC anymore.

[Peter Jeshua]

Okay… I re-uploaded the BuddyPress plugin. Maybe I was out of sequence where I did bbPress last instead of the BuddyPress plugin last on my install? Who knows, but now the elusive “Forums Setup” is showing up where it should in my Dashboard.