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1) posting this in another thread is not going to get anyone to answer your questions any sooner: in fact, the opposite is more likely.

2) some web developers, myself included, consider IE6 an unsupported browser due to its poor standards support. Consider upgrading to IE7 or 8, if you don’t want to switch to firefox.

3) IF this is a problem with the default themes, then once you resolve the issue please consider creating a patch and submitting it on trac.

Amyuk and Dworldon-

A few initial questions:

1. Are you logging into WPMU\’s backend as the site administrator, and not just as a user with administrator privileges?
2. Did you go to \”BuddyPress > General Settings\”, re-select the member theme, and then hit save? Do this even if the theme is already selected.
3. Are there any errors in your log files? If so, what are they?

You’ve posted this on another thread as well. wpmu forum is where you should ask these kind of questions.

WillPCG-

Okay a few additional questions:

1. Are you logging into WPMU’s backend as the site administrator, and not just as a user with administrator privileges?
2. You’ve mentioned 404 erros in your other thread. Are there any errors in your log files? If so, what are they?
3. Did you go to “BuddyPress > General Settings”, re-select the member theme, and then hit save? Do this even if the theme is already selected.

No questions will be answered without bp and wpmu versions being mentioned.

A few questions:

1. Are you using the public release of BuddyPress–version 1.0?
2. Are you using a custom theme?
3. Did you read the section entitled “Upgrading the Theme files” in this BuddyPress Codex link?

good job

To clarify for future questions around this area: did you have GD disabled, then you enabled it, and then you also had to re-upload the pics?

Or did you just re-upload the pics without making *any* changes?

Is the height parameter a must, or can you leave it like (800, )?

No. You cannot leave the parameter blank. You could pass a variable into the space if you wanted, but it must have something.

When I tried to remove one WPMU folder I got the error message

“500 Can’t Remove Directory. Permission denied”.

A few questions:

1. Have you checked the files / folder permission on your WPMU install? You should be able to delete everything that you personally upload to your public_html. Although, with shard hosting, there could be issues with apache owning certain files and folders.
2. Are you using an automatic WordPress Mu install option from your hosting company? I’m not sure if any hosting companies offer that option for WPMU, but it’s worth asking.

The answer I got was WPMU does something at the Apache level and that I can’t do much about it unless mine is a dedicated hosting service.

1. Have you contacted tech support for your hosting service provider and asked for their help? This WPMU forum post may prove useful in talking with tech support: https://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic.php?id=3173&replies=3#post-19388
2. Have you considered changing hosting companies or upgrading to a more robust hosting plan? A VPS perhaps?

WPMU really does not do too well on a cheap hosting plan. Here is sage advice from andrea_r, a WPMU guru: http://wpmututorials.com/news/choosing-a-host/

I have a new installation now.

I think the width problem is to be fixed elsewhere.

Please consider these:

As far as figuring out what’s going on with your CSS, this is where the Firebug tool comes in very handy! It takes awhile to learn how to use it. But once you do, you can determine where a given div or class is pulling its instructions from and then temporarily override those selector parameters within Firebug and see how that affects the overall layout. It is a very powerful and useful tool!

Concerning CSS issues with IE6: my personal opinion is to not worry about supporting that browser anymore. It is just a big pain and too much work for too little return–less than 20% usage ( http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp ). Again, that is just my opinion.

OK, responding to my own questions, just not to create work for anyone else who ends up here in the future.

I had a bug in my NginX conf file. For all CSS files that were in subdirectories off the root, I was sending those files through PHP rather than just returning them. That caused the Content-Type to be set to “text/html”, rather than “text/css”.

That’s why it worked without a Doctype (quirks mode kicked in), and failed in Firefox and Chrome with the Doctype in.

Okay, the number is not created by the code I asked yo to try. It is created by the previous code. The “You” is created by the code I provided.

A couple of questions:

1. Do you have three, separate user accounts each with a different email address?

2. Are you logged in when trying this out? If so, log out, clear cache, and try again.

3. Would you paste your misbehaving code in http://pastebin.com/ and provide a link?

Atle-

First of all, I would recommend copying the Recent Blog Posts widget and modifying the copy. Otherwise, the next time you upgrade BuddyPress, your changes will be gone. When done, place your new widget in /mu-plugins/. Call it something different so that you can easily recognize it in WPMU’s backend.

Okay, now the code changes:

1. How can I limit the excerpt in the widget

   If you look in that widget, you’ll see that the function bp_create_excerpt() is called to create the excerpt. This function is located in bp-core-templatetags.php. The number of characters is determined in the function’s arguments.

   Copy that function, place it in your new widgets file, and rename it. Change the number of characters to your desired limit. Then make sure you reference the new function instead

2. Is there anything I can do to exclude the main blog from this widget?

   In the widget, the fucntion bp_blogs_get_latest_posts() is called. This function is located in bp-blogs.php. It relies on a method get_latest_posts() located in bp-blogs-classes.php.

   Thinking out loud, I suppose you could set up a variable that excludes the Admin blog and pass it as a parameter into the bp_blogs_get_latest_posts(). The other option is to create a custom class and method and rewrite the query to exclude the main blog.

   Haven’t tried either. So, I’m not sure the best approach.

You probably did not get any response concerning this issue since it is a WPMU plugin-specific problem and not BuddyPress.

If you have specific questions about a given WPMU plugin, the best place to ask them is usually on the WPMU forum. In fact, the creator of the WP Super Cache plugin, Donncha, will be more likley to see your question there than here!

We keep testing and liking the bp-events. Some questions arose, though:

Is there a way to show the ending time of an event only when it is set? ( For a workshop knowing the end makes sense, for a party it could be the killer )

How can we turn off birthdays being transformed into events automatically?

Works for me!

couple questions:

when using fbconnect to regiser, the welcome pack is bypassed

any thoughts?

and the default message is super-cool, how long til that’s complete?

Some initial questions:

1. Which versions of WPMU and BuddyPress are you running?
2. Did you make any modifications to core BuddyPress files?
3. Do you have custom code in bp-custom.php that attempts to modify the admin bar?
4. Are there any errors in the error logs? If so, what are they?