[2864451]

Im confused as i dont understand the first steps about creating a user for bbpress with administrator.. How do I do this?

[Jeff Sayre]

Kit-

I’m sorry you’re having troubles with your theme folders. To be clear, I want to make sure that you realize that you were not, as you state:

advised to change my “bphome” name to preserve it in case of future BP upgrades.

I assume you’re talking about the discussion we had in this thread you asked:

I assume renaming the theme is simply changing the name of its folder?

I responded:

That is correct. Make a copy of the bpmember theme, rename your copy, make whatever changes you want to it, and you have–in effect–a custom theme! Just make sure you keep your new theme in the /wp-content/bp-themes/ directory.

Also, in this thread where I advised you to:

Follow the same procedure as before. Make a backup of the standard bphome theme, rename it to something new…

This means, rename your backup to something new, not change the name of the original theme folder.

Furthermore, as per a private conversation you initiated with me on May 6 via the members messaging system, I state that:

Make sure that you make a copy of both bphome theme and bpmember theme. Your customizations should be done in copies, not the original. 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.

And, as we were talking about CSS issues in that private message and you stated that you had WordPress theming experience, I assumed you knew that the primary style file in BuddyPress, style.css, would need to reflect your new theme’s name.

If you were confused by my advice, I do apologize. But, if you had done what I advised, you would have made a copy of the original theme and altered the copy. As I stated in my private message response to you, do not alter the original theme files.

[jfcarter]

Okay, so here’s what I’ve done:

1. Added this code to the beginning of the bb-config.php file (I have WPMU installed at the root):

require_once( $_SERVER[‘DOCUMENT_ROOT’] . ‘/wp-blog-header.php’ );

2. Added this code to the bbPress footer (before the closing /html tag):

<?php wp_footer() ?>

3. Added this code to the bbPress header (before the /head tag):

<?php wp_head() ?>

4. Added this code to my bbPress header theme:

<div id=”search-login-bar”>

<?php bp_search_form() ?>

<?php bp_login_bar() ?>

<div class=”clear”></div>

</div>

The result: I am getting a white space above the bbPress header where the bar should be and the login bar is showing up in that space. But there is no CSS flowing (I changed the buddybar color) and I don’t see any of the buddybar menu items.

Hope this helps those who are newly joining the conversation.

Any further help would be appreciated.

[KitWit]

Maythil–

I was advised by someone ON the forum to do it! I was making changes and asking questions, and was told by a moderator to be sure and “create a new theme” by “changing the theme name,” so that’s what I did!

And I did change the name back to the original, and as I noted in the last post, nothing happened. Still blank!

This isn’t an absolute disaster, though, since what I changed was on a test version of the site I’m developing, but if someone could outline the proper procedure for making a theme name change (I have only made minor modifications of the CSS files in my BuddyPress home theme), that would be great. Or point me to where I can find that information. Thanks!

[Maythil]

Just change it back to “bphome” and try.

It’s not advisable to change names of folders and files.

I am surprised that, if you were “advised” to do so,

why didn’t you consult the forum before doing it?

If it is a prerequisite for future upgrades,

BP would have been the first to bring it to your attention, right?

[Dworldon]

Codyb and John James Jacoby

I read through https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=2664&replies=19#post-14700 and noticed something…

The first two lines in my .htaccess file is different to that explained in the post. Also, the “RewriteBase /” is missing the “wp/” at the end. I’m hesitant to delete the file like Codyb did unless you guys think it’s OK to do.

My .htaccess reads:

AddType application/x-httpd-php5 .php

AddHandler application/x-httpd-php5 .php

RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /

#uploaded files

RewriteRule ^(.*/)?files/$ index.php [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !.*wp-content/plugins.*

RewriteRule ^(.*/)?files/(.*) wp-content/blogs.php?file=$2 [L]

# add a trailing slash to /wp-admin

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^.*/wp-admin$

RewriteRule ^(.+)$ $1/ [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d

RewriteRule . – [L]

RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(wp-.*) $2 [L]

RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(.*\.php)$ $2 [L]

RewriteRule . index.php [L]

#<IfModule mod_security.c>

#<Files async-upload.php>

#SecFilterEngine Off

#SecFilterScanPOST Off

#</Files>

#</IfModule>

[Lance Willett]

@Kunal17

Is the bp-custom.php file something that I download or create?

You create it yourself, and place it in “/wp-content/plugins”.

What is the ‘mysite’ language translation as defined in the tutorial?

That is a sample definition that I used for the tutorial — you can use whatever you want. Just make it a label that makes sense to you and your site.

Still wondering about the command to convert .po to .mo. How is that run and from where?

Running that command requires that your web server have basic GNU gettext support — if you don’t know if it’s supported, ask your host (it’s pretty standard on most Linux servers).

Running this command also requires command line access to your server via a program like PuTTY (Windows), Terminal.app (Mac), or from inside an FTP program and requires that your server support “msgfmt”. If you do not know how to run commands like this, or don’t have command line access to your server, please see Translating WordPress for other software options for converting language files (like Poedit).

@Craig dean

Also not understanding the conversion of the po. to the mo. using the run command. Is it a ftp app command. Just not sure.

See me answer above. I also updated the Codex page with these notes.

@Mstoppay

my bp-custom.php file wasn’t loading. Once I moved it out of the buddypress folder and into the plugins folder the language change worked… anyone know why that is?

Yes, as of BuddyPress 1.0 the “bp-custom.php” should be placed in the “plugins” folder instead of inside the BuddyPress directory, as noted by Andy in this thread. Thanks for the reminder — I updated the Codex page to note the correct location.

Note also that if you use the “Automatic upgrade” option to update your BuddyPress install, make sure to backup your language files first since they could be removed during the upgrade process (see this thread).

[Sven Lehnert]

I’m developing a customised buddypress member theme and a directory view special for artists, musicians and multi media interested people.

This is my fun learning project to get deeper into wordpress and buddypress theme design and plugin development.

The hole website is still in beta mode. So don’t aspect it to work 100%

http://rheinrauschen.de (In the moment just firefox ie will come al last)

I will give the theme and plugin’s step by step to the community.

For this I have to wait for some bug fixes, the stable bp-events component. Better forum integration and many more….

[John James Jacoby]

Freaking Wildchild, the topic you’re linking too doesn’t exist.

Also, the “Inactive” thing is a forum bug at the moment.

[wildchild]

@WillPCG & Sgoetz: Do you got qTranslate installed by any hand? If so, check out the post at https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=2693#post-14750 which is started especially to this 404 problem caused by qTranslate.

[wildchild]

@JeffSayre: It’s a glad thing I can mention the sunrise plug-in works perfectly with Buddypress as before; it was qTranslate which seemed to be the culprit.. So we’re already a step closer to the solution (as mentioned one post above) …

Thanks for the extensive help though, since development and problem-solving starts with ruling anything of special parameters out.

I guess qTranslate was very special and overseen….

ps: Do you have any idea why we both are marked “inactive” on the forums? I don’t feel idle at all :p

[wildchild]

@all: I’ve found the culprit of the entire 404 soap which has been terrorizing my screen the last few weeks (smashes drums): It’s Qtranslate!

Any of you having the same problems while qtranslate is installed? Check out the topic at: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=2693#post-14750 which is started especially to this solution.

[Jeff Sayre]

Misterfunk74-

Posting a new request for support in a thread that is marked resolved is not the best way to get help. Why? Because those of us who offer help tend to skip over resolved posts and look for threads that need our attention.

If you’re still having an issue, then please start a new thread. Here are some support guidelines to get you started: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=2676

[Burt Adsit]

Well, when I did this for bpgroups I just piggybacked onto the groups component. bpgroups records new topic and post activity that is directly created in bbpress. Since bp group forums was already recording the activities, I just had to simulate the same thing.

The function bp_activity_record() in bp-activity.php does the grunt work. It takes about a zillion parameters. Here’s how I did it:

$activity = array(

'item_id' => (int)$group_id,

'component_name' => 'groups',

'component_action' => 'new_forum_post',

'is_private' => 0,

'secondary_item_id' => (int)$post['post_id'],

'user_id' => (int)$post['poster_id'] );



// create a group obj that the rest of bp can use, play nice

$group_obj = new BP_Groups_Group($group_id);

groups_record_activity($activity);

groups_record_activity() in bp-groups.php takes an array param and if you look in there it eventually calls bp_activity_record()

You’ll have to figure out how to translate all the params that takes into the table colums and eventually into what you see displayed. There aren’t any docs for the activity streams as far as I know.

[Anointed]

Yes, I mean the activity stream on the buddypress homepage that shows updates whenever a person adds a blog post, forum post, posts to wire etc…

Basically I want to add posts from vbulletin there, and once I figure that part out, I can then extend it to audio/video updates from the other system.

[Burt Adsit]

anointed, you can just disable the bbpress group forums component in the bp back end.

bp_forums_new_forum() in bp-forums.php is called by:

groups_new_group_forum() in bp-groups.php is called by:

groups_create_group() in bp-groups.php

and

groups_edit_group_settings() in bp-groups.php

[symm2112]

I’m having a problem I can’t get around. The integration seemed to go just fine but here is my process.

1. Create a group, including discussions.

2. Forum is created just fine. I can go INTO bbpress and create a topic and see it listed on the group “active forum topics”

3. HOWEVER, if I try to click on the link on the group page to either go to the “see all” link for forums or click on the topic itself, it doesn’t find it. It seems to be a permalink issue. I’m using name based permalinks for bbpress but I’ve tried all of the settings with no luck. It knows that SOMETHING is there, it’s just not creating the right links and I don’t know where it’s going wrong. Has anyone seen this?

[Jeff Sayre]

Erich73-

Toni is using the P2 theme. You can get it here: https://wordpress.org/extend/themes/p2

[Jeff Sayre]

Bbn-

Rather than trying some fancy install via packaged tarballs, I’d suggest a plain, simple install from scratch. Even though you went back and, as you state, “tried to do a more careful replacement of the files,” try a clean-slate install.

Delete everything, including your MySQL DB–assuming you don’t have any important data. Then, download and install WordPress Mu 2.7.1 from here. Get it working before attempting to install BuddyPress.

Once it is working, download BuddyPress and follow the readme.txt instructions.

Looks like this is happening to a lot of sites

I understand your frustration. But, when I search Google for “Failed+opening+required+’BP_PLUGIN_DIR”, I can count exactly 6 actual sites with this error and then several comments within blog posts that indicate the same issue.

Combine that with the half a dozen reports in the BP Forums for this issue, and you get maybe 15 people–assuming none of these people have commented in multiple places. That is not “a lot of sites”.

[Fernando.borba.br]

I am looking for almost the same thing… I need to add “Forums” in the Navigation. As soon as I find out, I let you know.

[codyb]

I had the same issue is this bug https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=2664&replies=19#post-14700

and I ended up finding the solution. Go to that bug and see if it helps

[codyb]

I had the same issue is this bug https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=2664&replies=19#post-14700

and I ended up finding the solution. Go to that bug and see if it helps

[Dworldon]

Sorry, still new to BuddyPress forums…

WPMU 2.71

BP 1.0

No custom themes

No 3rd party plugins

Not sure how to find errors in log files…

[Anointed]

maybe it will be easier to understand if I phrase my question a different way.

what part of what file do I have to comment out in order to setup buddypress groups to ‘NOT’ create a group forum when the group is created?

I’m sorry for such a simple question, but I have spent the entire afternoon reading through the buddypress code and so far I cannot figure out what file creates the groups forums when a group is created.

I’m sure once I know, it’s gonna be one of those duhhh kinda answers LOL

[mattlay]

Reading down the thread I have become a bit confused as to what I need to edit and where. Perhaps a summary with all necessary code could be posted for the simple among us.