BuddyPress.org

well work out how to encourage all those others to help?

Tech forums nearly always function around a core dedicated team that answer the majority of questions, a team that is often no more than a half dozen strong, 99% of forum users tend to be seeking help rather than trying to help, that’s just the way of things sadly, it was meant to be otherwise but the road web development has taken down the templated, copy ‘n’ paste, script snippet, library code has ensured that there are more people stuck at a a level of knowledge that they will not seek to escape.

my response is based on I’m a complete noob, lots of people had read the post which asking a simple question and I would guess 75% view could have taken the time to answer. There is no way to build a responsive support community if only 2 or 3 people are answering all the questions. I have a some experience with phpbb3 and a little with SMF& Joomla, the questions at those support sites usually get answered quickly. Hard questions could take days.
The main point it is blessed are those who give, not just receive.

When you integrated this with Thesis what version of BuddyPress were you using? Were you using WordPress MU or regular WordPress?

I’ve been playing around with this today. I am running regular WordPress 2.9.2 with Thesis 1.6 (need to try 1.7 but he really changed things there).

I installed the BuddyPress Template Pack plugin and went to work.

I don’t think you do the thing with the bp-custom.php file anymore, right?

I followed the instructions and copied all of the templates to my /wp-content/themes/thesis_16/ folder.

Then I started digging into how Thesis outputs its content and started updating all of those templates with different HTML markup and calls to Thesis functions to get headers, footers, and sidebars, etc.

So I got the pages like Members, Groups, Activity, etc. looking OK, but not pretty. There is going to be a TON of CSS development needed to make this look as pretty as it all does here.

The thing I’m not yet clear on is how to get it all to flow under one tab like it does here with the Community tab?

And I have LOTS of other questions….and work to do to make it fully functional and tightly integrated into the navigation and flow of the site.

Is it even worth it I’m wondering?

Just thought I’d share. I’d love to find out someone has already done ALL of this and can provide instructions, or files…would be worth something I think!

@LPH2005 Cool. What did you use to embed the Practice Tests at http://www.thechembook.com/practice-tests/ and what application did you use to create the tests? I’m liking it a lot. Just answered some questions and managed to guess some correctly

Probably caught this during your modifications – the link “Chemistry Text” leads to headers not sent page at http://www.thechembook.com/wiki/index.php/TCB:_Chemistry_Online_Textbook

Here is a simple guide:
http://sparun.in/a-simple-buddypress-guide/

Here is a more involved guide:
http://premium.wpmudev.org/the-buddypress-manual/

Hope it helps… BTW, I’ve posted questions that have gone unanswerd on this site for days..(some weeks) Sooner or later somebody answers, if not -that’s the way it goes when you’re not paying for support and your using an open-sourced product. The guys at http://premium.wpmudev.org/ offer paid support if you need it. Also the guys at http://bp-dev.org/ will hire out for projects. The core group of coders here are pretty amazing…

After seaching for a month as to what the best social site software is for my use, I kept coming back to Buddypress because it allowed me the freedom to do what I wanted… The others were very restrictive in their “canned” solutions. I’m pretty happy so far. AND very much looking forward to the major update of WordPress 3.0 Stable, coupled with Buddypress NEW Stable… it looks as though all of the problems that I have had are going to be fixed in a month or so…

@yocalif

Yes, BP takes time to learn. I’ve been working with it for a few weeks and discover something new every day. This support forum is checked all of the time and I try to follow answers given by several key people.

http://img814.imageshack.us/img814/4856/allinoobkidknife.jpg doesn’t appear to be an image. So, first, find an image and use the html img tag (See http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_IMG.asp ). You can even use the height restriction to limit the size of the image.

In terms of links, simply add the full URL into the post and it is automatically converted to a link. (See http://www.iusmentis.com/technology/www/relativeurls/ ).

Always worth a quick search as many questions have been covered before, work through this thread paying partiulat attention to r-a-ys comment
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/changing-group-tab-display-defaults/

• Why when I log into buddypress.org am I automatically taken to my profile instead of either staying on the page I’m already viewing or taken to the front page? How can I change this?

>> I don’t know of a way because this is up to the theme designer and bp.org theme is set this way. The default theme is not.

• I have tried multiple time to upload an Avatar here at bp.org and always get this error msg.
“There was an error handling that image, please try again.”

>> Yes. This is a pita. I use images *not* square and this works.

• I have stated I’m a wp/bp noob, my previous sites were forum or cms sites using phpbb3 or SMF, or joomla, so I am super frustrated with bp forums no bbcode, no preview, no easy way to add categories or subcategories? Here at bp.org how do I quote someone, or post an image , or post a link?

>> Again, bbpress installation on bp.org is default. On your own installation you can add plugins to a “my-plugins” directory under wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums/bbpress

>> A better solution on your own installation is to install the buddypress plugins for the forums (such as Forum Attachments for BuddyPress).

Update:
I decided to try to post with an inline image and it worked.
http://www.thechembook.com/groups/announcements/forum/topic/test-of-inline-images/

Example for this site:

• How do I know if plugins will work with the latest version of BP 1.2.4.1 if the plug-in show (Requires: 2.9.1 BP 1.2)?

>> Hopefully you have a test environment and are not trying to change things on a live site. Otherwise, have backups and try the plugin. If it fails then there is a process to go through to remove the plugin.

The best part of the buddypress.org site is the support given by other people using the product.

@wordpresschina – Thanks for the suggestion, this is exactly what I was looking for. I really do not understand one thing. Why when someone wants to register they get redirected to the Buddypress version of the registration, but when someone wants to login they go to the standard WP login page? Maybe there is something wrong with my install

Unfortunately, I am importing very basic information so I am not having the same issues as you. The only “special” info I am importing is for s drop down selecting menu. It should be noted that it does not force matching, meaning if the field requires 1 – 10 and the CSV file has 12, it will import the 12. The import only really matches up the columns. FYI… if you type something wrong in the top row like Website instead of “company website” the import will actually create a new xprofile field.

Hope this helps (or at least answers some questions.

@r-a-y Cool, thanks. Many thanks also for addressing ticket #2427

@mercime – Just looked into this bug… and found the problem! Check out ticket #2431.

@jujunkie should you encounter the bug which @r-a-y mentioned above, do this
http://wordpress.pastebin.com/WCmvpvnU

There’s currently a bug in BP where if you have a role less than administrator, your blog and user role will not show up under “My Blogs”.

“how can multiple users write in that blog under their own names?”
Right. Basic WordPress – https://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities#Contributor

“but how can they enter the writing zone? “
Simplest way – if your users are logged in your BP install as contributors, they can go to bp-admin-bar at top and move cursor to “My Blogs”, which has a dropdown to list of blogs. When they hover over JuConnect link, the flyout nav will show the link “Add New Post” where they will be brought to the Post > New Write panel.

@justbishop @finni3 – @r-a-y has the answers to both questions in other forum topic I found helpful

@jujunkie – hi there, you should be able to get free support from theme authors after purchasing that premium theme. I don’t know what files they have in there but here’s giving it a try:

“how can i create a button besides the ABOUT button to easily point out the blog?”
I assume that your theme has a home.php (most premium themes do), so follow #2 instruction here – http://www.nathanrice.net/blog/creating-a-blog-page-with-paging/ – take care to delete the space between less than sign and question mark in the posted codes

“how can multiple users write in that blog under their own names?”
Do you mean you want to set up your installation as one site with many authors – you’re not giving them free blogs? Then you should at least make your users “Contributors” – where you have to approve each post before in order for the post to be published – or “Authors” whose can publish their posts without any moderation.

“how can the titles or summaries of those posts be shown in the homepage?”
Looks like your home page is widgetized in the left column. Go to Appearance > Widgets and get the “Recent Posts” widget on left side and move to appropriate widget name.

This is the bookmark on my browser:

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/

as well as

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/creating-extending/forum/