[Trent Adams]

Best bet if you find a bug or an enhancement would be to post it on http://trac.buddypress.org with your login from these forums. It might not be known yet and the reporting might help get it fixed.

Trent

[Alex]

Yeah I definitely think this should start as a BP component. A route I was looking at was taking the URL of that item, because every item has a unique URL; comments, blog posts, forum posts etc.

What I was thinking was having a link next to each one which saves that URL (using AJAX) into a table as a new row: user_1_favourites.

Each item would have three pieces of data,

* the item name

* the item URL

* what type it is (forum topic, blog post etc)

Then the user could visit example.com/user/favourites and see/manage their favourites.

But… I’m a PHP newbie and haven’t even written a WP plugin before… help? lol

Cheers,

Alex

[gogoplata]

I ended up dropping bbPress all together tonight. I’ve got respect for everyone who’s developing it but it progresses too slowly and SimplePress is a lot more advanced right now, particularly for non-technical end-users. I ended up just installing simplepress and getting rid of group forums until bbPress adds more advanced functionality or the community takes off and pumps out additional plugins.

Personally I’d like to see Automattic acquire simplepress and merge the two products.

[John James Jacoby]

bbPress is a standalone product, similar to WordPress MU and WordPress.org. The idea is to keep everything modular, and allow people to pick and choose what they want to use.

I think that the way that the Forums are implemented into BuddyPress will change once BackPress because a more mature API.

In the meantime, the forums work almost exactly like the wire does, but for groups instead. Groups also have their own wire, so in reality having a forum is a little redundant until someone takes the initiative to introduce some more functionality into the BuddyPress forum area.

[Burt Adsit]

Chad. On the bp side that’s what it would say in the admin area if it’s working. You got back what it should show. Your installation and configuration passes a couple of tests.

1) bp is talking to bbpress. Your configuration url, username and password were recognized by bbpress as valid. What it doesn’t check is the role that the user in bbpress plays. It has to be an ‘administrator’ role in bbpress to allow forum creation. Anything less will fail on the bp side with the usual cryptic error message. Make sure your ‘connection’ user has the proper role.

2) xmlrpc is working between the two applications. This is good.

What I don’t understand about your situation is that you say that the problem is intermittent. If it works once then it should work every time if nothing has changed in your configuration between posts.

Are bp and bbpress installed on the same server? Asking to see if anything could interrupt the communications channel between the two.

When testing posts, are you using the same or different users?

When testing are you using the same group forum to test things?

When testing do you create a group and have the ‘enable forums’ checkbox checked so that the group and the forum are created at the same time? Or do you go in afterward and enable the forum after group creation?

[John James Jacoby]

You’re correct, it should be “bbPress Forums”

I am sort of out of ideas really. The tools and topics we’ve linked you to should be enough info to troubleshoot a non functioning situation. Hmmm…

[Jeff]

Thanks egerrits! Works great except I can’t seem to post forum topics for events. Also, possible to change the map size/zoom?

I am definitely looking forward to group events too. If possible, it would be great to have Group-Event-Forum integration also

[chadfrancis]

Hey there. Finally had time to go into it. It actually took me a little time to figure out how to work your plugin. I think I did it right: I put oci_bb_say_hello.php into my-plugins in bbPress and oci_bp_say_hello.php into plugins in WPMU. Activated the bbPress one first, then went into WPMU and activated that one. It returned that the plugin could not be activated because of a fatal error: string(13) “Hello from BB”

Sooo I’m not sure if that’s what you mean by bbpress says ‘hello,’ but the group forums still aren’t working, so if that’s what’s supposed to happen, I guess I have different problems.

I’ll tell you one more thing I’m experiencing. People keep mentioning “Group Forums” in the admin area to edit the forum url and login info. I don’t see that, just “bbPress Forums,” but it seems to be the same information. Am I missing something there? Thanks for your help!

-Chad

[jlin]

Thank you for your response.

~ I’m using WordPress MU 2.7

~ Not using subdomains for blog.

~ Buddy Press – Core: 1.0-RC1 / Friends: 1.0-RC1 / Activity: 1.0-RC1 / Profile: 1.0-RC1 / Groups: 1.0-RC1 / Blogs: 1.0-RC1 / Messages: 1.0-RC1 / Wire: 1.0-RC1 / Forums: 1.0-RC1 /

Thanks again for looking into this.

[John James Jacoby]

At second glance, the reason I asked is because I’d like to update all of the xprofile user info that I want visible in the forums, into the bbGroup array, even if they are NOT in any group.

I think that using your array for my purpose isn’t really “right,” but it will work once I can get non-grouped users to have a bbGroup array.

I haven’t had time this week to come up with what I consider a “real” solution that doesn’t piggy back on top of yours, to pass all xprofile info from bp to bbp.

Your bbGroups really does work perfectly for people that are in groups, just not people that aren’t I think. Ha!

[Burt Adsit]

John, hang in there. Been moving myself and my laptop to a diff town past 3 days. Getting setup again. I think I’m hooking the ‘xprofile_updated_profile’ action.

…

Yep. In 0.22. Should work. Lemme see exactly how much of ‘changing’ the profile that actually covers.

brb.

[John James Jacoby]

Where would I want to hook into, to update the bbGroups array whenever the logged in user edits their xprofile data?

[Dfa327]

You are a LIFESAVER!!!!! For sendmail I had my domain bound to 127.0.0.1. I changed it to the ip the domain maps to and BAM!!! THANK you SOOOOOO MUCH:)

[ichbinsdennis]

Have a look at this..

I figured out how to fix the problem with width in IE!!!

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=1421#post-7005

[Paul Wong-Gibbs]

Not allowing user to choose a password is a WPMU “feature.”. Suggest you look at their forums as I can imagine this being a fairly common request.

If your BP install is not emailing a password, check that your server has a working MTA installed and that PHP is configured for it correctly in php.ini.

[dhargraves]

Updated to trunk: wp-content/mu-plugins/bp-xprofile/bp-xprofile-signup.php

Still not working. I’ll work on other components next. If anyone knows what specifically I need to upgrade, let me know. I tried all of bp-forums and bp-xprofile. Did not work.

[Trent Adams]

@ArmchairGeneral, if you find something that will help with cross browser compatibility, could you create a ticket with your fixes on http://trac.buddypress.org ? Just login with username and password from these forums.

Trent

[Trent Adams]

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=1382

[John James Jacoby]

No config setting, however I believe Trent recently posted about a plugin that he made that does this.

Take a few moments to search around as I know this was just referenced within the past few days/week. More than likely in the Enhancement forum.

[John James Jacoby]

@brandtd, back from the dead… Looks good and I like the colors a lot.

Something I noticed is that the page links in your main navigation start with “www.” when it doesn’t need it. If you’re using RC1 then that is hard coded and you can just omit that and be good to go.

@Andy, question that I didn’t see asked… For the recent forum widget, are you using the existing widget for non-mu WordPress, or did you make a special one for BuddyPress?

[Trent Adams]

It means that you are using a plugin that hasn’t been updated with the new changes that are in one of the Sticky’s in this forum! Most plugins were setup to work with the latest Beta release, but if you upgraded past that (which you did), you need to ask the plugin author to update their plugin.

Trent

[John James Jacoby]

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=1427

[MartinNr5]

Also make sure that you read through the entire thread Trent started because there’s a lot of useful stuff buried in the following posts.

[plrk]

Indeed, you should be reporting it to the plugin author.

Since some time, there as been a change in the structure of $bp: see this topic.

You should edit that line to instead read:

$profile_link = $bp->loggedin_user->domain . $bp->profile->slug . '/';

[ngsonst]

absolutely! i would appreciate that. go on and take them!

another question, would you mind taking a look at this topic: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=1417 . i stuck on that, after fixing the described problem i want publish the widget to.

thanks in advance!