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Hello,
BP seems revolutionary, but I’m still trying to figure out what’s possible and what isn’t. I hope someone will be kind enough to answer the following:
1. Can the profile pages be redesigned
2. Can other plugins be added in the profile pages(such as a BumpIn chat box)
3. Can users send private messages to each other
Thanks for your guidance
Topic: Some coding questions.
Looking for help with getting the bp_core_get_avatar when all I have is the $user_id
bp_core_get_avatar($activity->user_id,1); doesn’t seem to do it for me.
$activity->user_id = sql read from the wp_bp_activity_sitewide table
Which should I use in the wp_bp_activity_sitewide, the date_cached or the date_recorded
In the same database wp_bp_activity_sitewide, why is the content pre-compiled information, makes it *really* difficult to make a custom output when the fields do not have all the information because its already made into the content.
adding ‘excerpt’, blog_id and post_id would give it more of an ability for people to customize.
bug: when posting a comment on a blog as admin it stored the primary_link as just “#comment-2” instead of the full site URL then “#comment-2”
Of all the solutions, Burt’s plugin seems to work best, and of course if we can redirect the login page to whatever page we want to, it would be even better.
However, the only problem I have encountered with Burt’s plugin is that after I upload it, I can not access the dashboard as the administrator either! To get in the admin area, I have to remove the plugin again. Perhaps, there is a shortcut of something to avoid this.
Sorry Burt. The questions don’t seem to end. But I guess that’s how human beings have continued to evolve, eh?
Thank you
Vida
I don’t know why you’re not allowed to post an URL – it works fine for me.
And I’m all out of ideas, sorry. Hopefully someone else can help you with the more technical questions you have.
I have seen this question come up before, but I can’t quite solve the problem at my end with existing answers.
1) The confirmation email going to the user after signing up comes out as: cyrkabiz@box359.bluehost.com (as you can see I am with bluehost too) and this email address is NOT so pretty! Can I change it to my domain name with a couple of simple steps? Please?
2) Can I send my users straight to Buddypress Profile page after they long in? I would like to avoid the WordPress back-end here and only use Buddypress’s interface and pages, because they are much prettier and easier for users to deal with.
I think once I solve these two things, I will then live happily ever after
Thank you so much;
Vida
After upgrading to wpmu 2.7 and bp 1.0b2, with bbpress 1.0.6 alpha, i can no more change group avatar.
By cliking on “change avatar” i receive a 404 error.
Also, i’m unable to post on forum. I changed nothing in respective config.php.
I also observed that:
In wpmu, global settings goes to /wp-admin/options-general.php, who shows a page with some options settings.
bbpress admin, settings links to wp-admin by this url: /wp-admin/options.php
here are all options settings, including several buddy_live_cache “serialized data” (disabled in an input box)
Strange is, that the options.php link is only linked from bbpress settings and not in wpmu/buddy
Is this something issued by WP or wpmu ?
Where is the direct access to options.php ?
Topic: What Host Do You Use?
I been rtying to get this to work on 1and1 hosting for a while now with bad results. I have posted a few times here but it seems people are either unable or unwilling to help at all. So my questions is for everyone and its what host do you use for your BP install? If you got everything working just fine let me know what host and if you found problems with a host please also let me know. Thanks
Topic: installing into co.cc
Hi! I’ve been working with wordpress for sometime but as soon as i heard about buddy press i changed to wordpress MU and now i’m somehow stuck on the installation of buddy press because i have some questions.
They said that buddypress couldn’t be installed in a subdomain. Is it true? will it work on a co.cc domain?
Thanks for this awesome project, I’m serious, I am so AMAZED about it!
Thanks!!
Greetings fellow admins of social networks, and those starting up their own network.
Currently I’m the webmaster of a very active social network for online gamers, and video game enthusiasts. We have been online for over 3 years, with over 12k registered memebers, gaining a new members every day. We have been using a very out of date social network platform which I prefer not to name at this time. We are transitioning over to Buddypress, and have had amazing feedback on the beta site we have been running for almost 3 months now.
My questions, and thoughts lie not in the technical abilities of buddypress, as they have all met and exceeded my expectations, but in the user experience. As I have been active on this forum testing and answering questions when possible, I have a very solid understanding of the ways in which components interact, and what each part does. My concern lies in the user experience. What I think buddypress greatly lacks is instructional wording.
What my concern is that buddypress lacks the ability for an administrator to integrate words of advice and help along the way for new members. We have had members publish very personal things to the wire posts, thinking that only they could see it, like a private message, and have quickly come to us to have us remove them. There is no place for me to correctly enter in some words of caution, about wire posts showing up on the homepage.
There are many sections of buddypress, where just 1 or 2 lines of text would go along way to get members interacting and being social. For a new member, who is new to the whole idea of social networks, and has never friended someone before, it would be nice to explain to them the benifits to having friends, such as the ability to post on their wire.
What I’m asking for is support to have more actions added, for example: wire_post_form_instructions, or even better would be a admin panel, where all of the sections could have text areas to enter descriptions and advice. Some social networks might want to use this to link to help pages, or how to videos, others may want to put in reminders of user agreements, and some may want to be just quick and simple, such as “any post here is public, to send a private message, use the message feature”.
I know buddypress is still in the early stages and I’m really enjoying watching it grow an mature, but now is the time we need to make some decisions about what we want the user experience to be, and how we are going to lead our members to be the best members they can be.
If anyone has some suggestions or thoughts about this, please reply to this post, as I think it is important that this issue doesn’t get overlooked as everyone starts to roll out social networks using buddypress.
Thanks for you thoughts,
Brad
Hey, newbie here to the whole WordPress / BuddyPress world. I have an existing on-line portal/mag/social network at http://www.doorQ.com. We’re looking at moving the entire thing from its limited dotnet framework over to the open source BP. We know there will be a few issues with the data conversion, but I have some people comfortable enough with SQL to make that work.
What I was looking at is combining the social networking with the magazine features, to try to replicate what we have going now. I wanted to use a theme like this: “www.woothemes.com/demo/gazette/” as the main page for the site, have a few of the social networking aspects pop up on that page (like most recent or active members along with their icons) and then have a second page that aggregates all of the social network activity.
Make sense so far?
Here are my questions:
1) If I use the gazette or similar theme, make it the default theme for the BP install, and add the various components to the appropriate theme folders, I can then draw on the PHP script to add whatever buddy features I’d like to any of the pages created by that theme? Like having the currently on-line members appear on the page?
2) For what is now the BP home page — listing recent activity, users, etc — I can then hard code that as a page on the site, so that, from the main magazine page, there is a link that says something like “Social Network?”
I want everything to be interlinked, the way things are now, on my existing site. In theory, this should work, right?
Good questions all. You may be the first to answer them.
Post a trac ticket for the mod notification not turning off issue. It’ll just get lost and not fixed otherwise.
Topic: Reporting & Fixing Bugs
Firstly I just want say thank you to everyone out there for reporting bugs. I’ve been amazed at the level of input and feedback within the community. It’s great to see this level of enthusiasm for a project so new.
Just a reminder – if find a bug, please search on http://trac.buddypress.org to see if it has previously been reported. If you think you’ve found something unseen, start a new bug ticket – http://trac.buddypress.org/newticket and explain the steps to recreate the problem. Please be as descriptive as possible.
Help with bug fixing is always appreciated. If you decide to tackle a bug, please log into trac with your support forum credentials and assign the bug to you. Once you have fixed the bug, please submit a patch/diff file so that the changes can be approved and merged with the trunk. If you search on google for ‘creating patch files’ you will find useful guides.
If you have trouble creating patch files, code snippets can also be helpful in the bug comments area.
Please post any questions in this thead.
Topic: noob has some questions
These are probably some really noob things to ask but:
I can’t get past the home page, every link leads to 404 – Not Found
This includes my profile, news, members, etc
I have everything on a Wamp test server, maybe something is configured incorrectly?
Also, how does one configure the content on the news and members site? Is it similar to the widget system for the home page?
Is it possible to get rid of the gray login bar completely, including for logged out users?
If you are online and are not busy and feel like assisting me with some issues/questions with BP please contact me. Yahoo! IM: team_lethal_racing or email carl@realfam.com
