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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
Hello,
I currently run a social network using DZOIC Handshakes. I am very impressed with BuddyPress, and have a couple of questions I hope you can answer:
– Is it possible to transfer the database of Handshakes to BuddyPress (members, blogs, forums etc.)?
– Could I buy a customized skin for BuddyPress?
Thanks in advance!
dang, and i was hoping to do some coding tomorrow while I’m off. what will I do when you aren’t here to respond to my questions?
enjoy your days off!
Topic: Pre-Built Profiles
The prebuilt language, country and state fields don’t work on my install. I’m assuming that they create profile questions with pre-populated answers. When I try to ‘Add’ them I get this error:
Wrong parameter count for fgetcsv() in …/mu-plugins/bp-xprofile/bp-xprofile-classes.php on line 288
I am a newbie. Am I missing something?
gpo1, nope. I’ve got too much on my plate right now. I’m not going to be able to do much else except get a site launched by the 1/1/09 deadline.
I talked to Andy about enabling bp to use standard wp widgets in the member theme. Got a couple of ideas but no time at the moment to play with them. The problem is that mu deals with *one* theme per blog. The members theme is sort of this invisible theme that lurks in the background. mu doesn’t even know about it. Only bp knows about it. It *is* bp.
The way I understand that widgets work is:
Register a ‘sidebar’ in mu with a name. 1,2,3 or ‘BP Member Profile’, ‘BP Member Blogs’. The sidebar gets registered to a specific blog id.
register_sidebar(array('name'=>'Main Sidebar',
'before_title' => "<h3 class='widgettitle'>",
'after_title' => "</h3>n",
));In theme code call mu’s sidebar launcher fn.
<?php if (!function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar('Main Sidebar') ) : // begin primary sidebar widgets ?>I just had some questions that I didn’t have time to investigate. When can I call call register_sidebar()? Any time I want, anywhere I want? I see it done in theme functions.php.
When I access any bp member theme functions do they execute in the blog id 1 environment? I think so.
If I register some bp member theme sidebars in bp code will it show up in the mu backend? I think so.
Seems like only the site admin who owns blog id 1 will be able to add widgets to the member theme. Well that’s a *good* thing. This is a feature.
Lots of questions and unknowns right now and not much time to explore answers. Have at it! Have fun.
Hi Andy, Trent. I just assumed that I’d be able to send a msg to any user in the bp community. Friend or not. I saw the ‘send messge’ button in the user profile area now that you mentioned it. If I assume that, then run of the mill users will assume that too. Then I get to field the ‘why doesn’t it work questions’.
Ya know it’s gonna happen.
The group create not completing only happens on my DV server. Works fine on my windows box.(sigh)
I had group forums up and running on the windows box. Installed latest mu trunk and bp beta and that is not working now. Went thru all the integration and setup instructions as per the readme. No soap.
Hell, my windows mu install *was* talking to the forums on my DV bbpress install and locally. Now nothing, nowhere.
It’s lonely out here in the field.
Hey. Well I’m getting closer to finding out a solution for my group forums problem. I know by digging deep into the bowels of the code that group forums is using, that in my case, it is eventually winding up at doing a curl_exec() call looking for the header from the bbpress install. It uses that to figure out the ‘pingback’ url for bbpress. It’s part of the xmlrpc stuff that we have to enable to get it to work.
This curl_exec call is part of a very common php lib that is used to go do http GETs and other nice things. That curl_exec() call always returns 404 on my linux dedicated virtual server box.
I’ve been beating my head against why this is happening for days now and sent off a tech support email to my host. This is the conversation between us.
Howdy,
I’ve got WordPress MU 2.7 trunk installed on my DV and it uses the curl_exec() function to grab some stuff from the returned header info. It’s not working at all on my DV. It always returns 404 even for a valid url.
This works fine on another box I’ve got running. Same code just different environment. It seems like curl isn’t working right here.
I tried a little test script as follows:
<?php
// create a new cURL resource
$ch = curl_init();
// set URL and other appropriate options
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, “http://ourcommoninterest.org”);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
// grab URL and pass it to the browser
curl_exec($ch);
// close cURL resource, and free up system resources
curl_close($ch);
?>
Can’t get more basic than that. The url it is trying to get is to a valid domain on my DV. This script returns an ‘apache test page’, not the normal results I’d expect if I visited with a browser. WPMU is up and running at that above url.
Trying a different url such as http://ourcommoninterest.org/bbpress/ gets back 404. This is also a valid working url on my DV. I’ve been trying to figure this one out for days without luck.
Any help would be appreciated muchly!
Burt
My host Media Temple’s response:
You are getting this 404 error when running curl on the server because ourcommoninterest.org is set to the default domain for the ip address. When the server does a curl on this domain it looks in the host file and brings up 127.0.0.1. This localhost address isn’t setup on the (dv) because it is in a virtual environment so it brings up the 404 error.
You can either use the ip address when referencing this domain through curl or create a new domain and set that domain to be the default domain. If you have any further questions regarding your (mt) Media Temple services, please feel free to contact us at any time.
My confused reply:
Sorry Frank. I’m new to this so I’m not getting the explanation or the solution. Let me echo back what I’m not hearing very well.
When curl_exec() is run from the same box the domain is hosted on, it goes out and gets results from 127.0.0.1 (localhost) when querying ‘ourcommoninterest.org’?
When I run the same curl_exec() with the same param ‘ourcommoninterest.org’ on a different server, it goes out, gets dns resolution, finds it on the DV at media temple, doesn’t get 127.0.0.1 but gets the ip address for ‘ourcommoninterest.org’ and is happy to return the results it finds there. (not 404)
I’m actually trying to get a result back from the url ‘http://ourcommoninterest.org/bbpress/’. So to bypass the hosts file problem I can just use ‘http://whatevermyipaddressis/bbpress/’ to get the results I’m looking for?
Ya lost me completely on creating a new domain and setting that to the default domain. This would be a dummy domain that I just create thru plesk and still leave ‘ourcommoninterest.org’ hooked up to it’s current ip address?
(welcome to noob tech support)
This just happened a couple of minutes ago and frankly I’m no closer to understanding a solution. The only thing I can gather from all this tech noise is that it’s a result of being hosted as a dedicated virtual server.
Topic: A few basic questions
Hi,
I’m looking to install a nice clean NEW WPMU installation for our faculty, around 1500, along with projecting the installation of buddypress once it goes into production (I’m waiting for the added security pieces). Does anyone have recommended hardware for around 1500 faculty with some heavy, some light and some no users. I want to do the hardware request right, and not have to nickel and dime once the the server is up. I’m most curious in storage, RAM, and any other information is willing to share. I’m not interested in a hosting service. the WPMU will also be used for distributing faculty web pages through WP blogs.
Also, will there be any fee associated with buddypress once it goes live?
