[3125432]

Hi –

I see Scott Baio raised the same issue in a thread reply posted just 40 minutes before this one:

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=2516

It would appear this issue remains unresolved. Concur? Thoughts?

Thanks,

Brian

[John James Jacoby]

Regarding installing bbPress, you will probably need to create a page in your primary blog with the slug of “forums” before WordPress will allow access to it.

[prguy85]

Sorry for the continuous posts. I just tried to add the bbpress into the site. I unzipped it on the server, renamed folder to /forums and when I type it in, it says site doesn’t exist…something that didn’t occur before WordPress Mu/Buddypress.

[honewatson]

I had a related problem which I resolved temporarily by renaming the ‘bpmember’ directory in wp-content/bp-themes to ‘default’:

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=2835#post-17511

[takuya]

@Jeff, you’re not getting the point. It’s not about custom BP slugs.

This permalink (or post slug) problem is something I hate about WordPress not being friendly to international users. Unlike wikipedia or amazon, WordPress seems to have a character limitation when used other than English, like Hindi or Asian characters.

So to answer your question @slicktig1, the only possible solution at this moment is to edit each by each through phpmyadmin. However with some hacks you should be able to edit category slugs if you search wpmu forum.

On group slugs, this is bp function, so not sure if the same wpmu hack applies or not. But at least there should be an alternative method to use postid than postname. (This is something we have to ask core developers).

[Jeff Sayre]

21cdb-

Do you have two different accounts on bp.org?

As far as the redirect loop question, it could be caused by many things. So, a few questions:

1. Did you install WPMU as a directory or subdomain install?
2. If a directory install, is it in root or in a subdirectory?
3. You were having install issues beforehand. When you finally got this to work, could there have been old, incomplete install data leftover in your DB? Or, did you install into a fresh, new DB?
4. What errors are you seeing in your server’s log files?

I did a quick Google and here are two links that explain a couple of possible causes:

https://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/9252/page/2

http://bradleyland.net/2009/04/wordpress-mu-redirect-loop-during-install/

[Andy Peatling]

Yep, simple fix, will do that in the morning.

[@ChrisClayton]

i noticed that too!

[Burt Adsit]

I wasn’t really thinking of tables. More like .htaccess. I don’t see any bp related issues. You might be better off asking for help at https://mu.wordpress.org/forums/

[Jeff Sayre]

@sandeepdude

I have not seen Pcrain in the forums for quite some time. I doubt you’ll get a response. This thread was started 8 months ago. Since then, the BuddyPress codebase has changed considerably and the solutions presented in this thread may be out of date.

If you have not yet read this thread, please do so.

To your point, a proper privacy component is in the works. It will be available as a plugin on a future version of BuddyPress.

[Paul Wong-Gibbs]

And try reading burtadsit’s post here.

[Paul Wong-Gibbs]

Florian, if the test isn’t working, then the group forums ain’t gonna work.

You need to confirm with your host that they support remote procedure calls (and XML-RPC specifically)? It might be that they are not allowing remote calls to be made to the same server.

[Florian]

I could fix the last error by switching to PHP5.

The sayhello test and the group forums are still not working, though.

[Florian]

I just noticed that every attempt to post something in any (non-group) forum leads to a screen filled with the following error message:

Warning: cannot yet handle MBCS in html_entity_decode()! in /[path to bbpress]/my-plugins/buddypress-enable.php on line 53

[Jeff Sayre]

Anointed-

You already have an active thread on the same topic here: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=3146

What you are reporting is related to this known bug. You can read more about that bug here: https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/775

[Jeff Sayre]

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.

[3125432]

Hi,

Where is the core? It is mentioned everywhere in this forum and I can’t find it for the life of me. As a result, I am stuck, unable to follow the wonderful suggestions here.

I am using WordPress MU 2.7.1 and Buddypress 1.0.1

Thanks,

Brian

[3125432]

Hey:

I have read and reread this forum post to discern how to find and edit the nav bar names.

I am using WordPress MU 2.7.1

Buddypress 1.0.1

Facebuddy theme

Burt says: “- header.php in both the home and member theme dirs bp_nav_items() > bp-core-templatetags.php function bp_nav_items() ” but when I look in my files in the control panel, I can’t find it anyhwere.

I know this is super easy but I think I am missing a very basic file breadcrumb trail.

wp-content -> themes -> facebuddy-home-theme -> ?

I have looked in file after file for Burt’s mention of bp-core-templatetags and there is no bp-core that I can see anywhere or any kind of templatetag. What am I missing?

Thanks,

Brian

[John James Jacoby]

What DJPaul said, is true.

2.8+ versions of WordPress/WordPressMU do NOT need to use the cookie variable above.

[Jeff Sayre]

@chouxpastry2002-

You have asked two different question. I’m not sure which of those you are still looking for an answer.

As Andy stated, since this is an open source project, any documentation that currently exists on how to use BuddyPress or how to develop for BuddyPress can be found in the Codex. The information is growing but incomplete. It is up to the all-volunteer community to contribute to that documentation.

As far as media uploading, this will come with time. There is, however, a wonderful 3rd-party plugin that Manoj Kumar has developed in which you might be interested.

[Florian]

Thanks for the quick reply and the debugging options!

This is the result:

“-32300 >> transport error – HTTP status code was not 200”

I guess that is not good.

xmlrpc.php is reachable and returns 200 on a GET (although it seems to require POST)

[Paul Wong-Gibbs]

Could check to see if XMLRPC is working on your server. Download http://ourcommoninterest.org/downloads/xmlrpc-sayhello.zip which Burtadsit wrote.

And to steal some words from Lance Willett:

The test consists of two files. The first file is a bbPress plugin that you activate in the bbPress plugins area that acts as a XML-RPC server and responds to a simple “say hello” type call. The second file goes in the root of your MU setup.

This test bypasses all the “bbpress_live/discover_pingback_server_uri()” stuff that might be giving you problems. If this works then the issue is most likely in that area and could be a host/server problem.

To load the test, first install the “oci-bb-sayhello.php” file to your bbPress install root in a folder called “my-plugins” (create the folder if it doesn’t exist). Then log into bbPress and activate the plugin. Next, drop the “oci-bp-sayhello.php” file into the root of our MU install so that you can navigate to it easily. Then load “your-site/oci-bp-sayhello.php” in a browser and see what the output is.

[Paul Wong-Gibbs]

@John: worth making a note here that when WPMU 2.8 comes out, we need to take out that WP_AUTH_COOKIE_VERSION define.

[Jeff Sayre]

I am glad your issue is resolved! If that is the case, please set the light to green in both this thread and this one.

By the way, this is the particular question I asked in the other thread that you did not answer. I asked:

You also are saying that you did not touch the code or CSS within those two theme directories at all.

From your post above, it appears that you did indeed touch the CSS and that is what caused the problem.

As to your last question:

I take i need to be more selective in what put in sitewide.css is it not possible to just copy base.css and edit that?

Since you are in essence making a custom theme every time you touch a single piece of code or CSS in the default themes, you should follow this approach.

Make a copy of both bphome theme and bpmember theme. Give them new, unique names. Your theme customizations should be done in these copies, not the originals. That way, if you have issues with your custom themes (and we all do when working on customization), you can switch back to the standard BP themes to see how things should work.

[Burt Adsit]

There sure is. Kinda.

$forums = bp_forums_get_forum();

if ($forums){

foreach ($forums as $f){

.. do something with each forum like..

$topics = bp_forums_get_topics($f['forum_id'], 5);

.. do something with each topic ..

}

}

bp_forums_get_forum() returns bbpress forum records. Same info as in the bb_forums table.

See:

/bbpress/xmlrpc.php

/buddypress/bp-forums.php

/buddypress/bp-forums/bp-forums-bbpress-live.php

/buddypress/bp-forums/bp-forums-templatetags.php

The BP_Forums_Template_Forum template loop class iterates over one specific forum.