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Great — glad to hear it. Sorry to have missed your previous questions.

where do i upload the .po file to??

Anywhere on the server, it doesn’t matter.

what does this command do exactely

It takes your PO file and creates the MO for you.

did you mean.. ”and added the buddypress-spots.mo file there…”

Yes.

i have already set up in wp-config.php will this clash with what you have said to doo..

Hmmm… that I don’t know. I don’t use those configuration settings, myself. I would suggest commenting them out and testing your site. If the language file changes are still working, go ahead and delete those lines from your wp-config file.

Overall the language file is a better long-term solution since you can make changes for other labels there as well if they come up in future versions, whereas those custom definitions are only specific to a few labels.

1) bp widgets are available to all blogs. There isn’t a way in bp to restrict blog admins from using whatever widget is available to them.

2) The plugins that are located in /mu-plugins run on all blogs and don’t need activation by the site or blog admins. Plugins located in /plugins need to be activated on a blog by blog basis.

3) The avatars are located in /wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/1/avatars/1 and should not be set to 777 but 755 and the apache user for your server must have write permission in that directory.

*Nothing* that you have control over should have 777 settings on your server. It’s a security hole.

Stupid people are the ones who don’t ask questions and live in ignorance.

Hey Manoj Kumar

great plugin… couple of questions

no matter how I format the user data, I always get “1 Error” and “processing complete”

example

username|firstname lastname|email@email.com => 1 Error

also, I’ve changed the “Full Name” profile field to be “first name” and added an additional field for “last name”… how does that change the format?

like this now?

username|firstname|lstname|email@email.com ?

thanks for your help

Remember guys (and I realize this is no excuse) but neither BuddyPress nor bbPress are even 1.0 yet. As soon as function calls and display functions are finalized and tweaked for a stable 1.0 release, you’ll see tons of themes and templates and frameworks.

The opportunity currently exists for anyone with the time and motivation to swoop in and start blasting out themes for both platforms, but they would do it knowing that they may have to go back and redo some things after 1.0 is out.

I think right now everyone is waiting for the ball to drop, because no one wants to do the same work twice. I’d love to release my bbPress theme, but I have 0 time to answer questions about it or support it, and that’s not fair to anyone either.

Make sense?

A lot of this comes down to your budget, so you’re going to get a wide array of answers here.

You’re going to need at least php5, and to do subdomains you’ll need to be able to see if they allow you to add a wildcard for that too.

Currently I use 1and1 for most of what I do, but I have to use subdirectories because they don’t allow for wildcarding like that. I also need to force php5 in my .htaccess files because they default to using php4. Blech…

But, so far nothing has ever crashed, I’ve never lost any data, and their prices are relatively cheap compared to some other shared hosts…

This is one of those questions where everyone is bound to give you a different answer, so be prepared to either get a wide variety of responses, or none at all.

AFAIK the answer to both questions is no, not at this time. Sorry.

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….that means having to go over the user’s entire output…. and make a serious of highly-subjective decisions about what is and is not acceptable.

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you’re right Donnacha… good thinking

@ Nicola

your workflow looks good to me…

would the [Report This] link dynamically insert the reported user’s info?

like:

– Username being reported

– username of the person reporting(in case questions need to be asked)

(if user reporting isn’t signed in, show something else…?)

– a place for the reporter to describe what’s offensive

– perhaps checkboxes of where the offensive content is (blog, wire, events, etc)

That could then be written to a DB table and called back for the admins on the dashboard

(almost the same as the blog comments feature…. delete user, mark report as spam, warm reporting user, warn reported user)

that would be pretty cool…

@timschmi: That sounds really nice! I just have some questions and I would appreciate if you could answer them, if you have the time.

Will it use a wikifarm installation where the main installation is in /wiki/ and when a new wiki is created it will create an independent wiki in /wiki/examplewiki/ using the wiki-engine in /wiki/ or will it simply create a new group in the main wiki /wiki/?

Will it use the user authorisation from the wpmu/bp-database or the built in system?

Will you need someone to test it? (I’m no programmer but i would love to help in anyway i can.)

Will it be available for download?

This is a problem with a plugin so support questions should go to wherever you got that from. In general though, there are functions such as is_home is_single etc. If you only want the gallery JS on your homepage, you’ll need to use is_home as a check wherever the plugin includes its JS.

There’s a small function floating around in the forum that should help you:

function oci_login_redirect($redirect_to, $set_for, $user){

$redirect_to = bp_core_get_userurl($user->id);

return $redirect_to;

}

add_filter('login_redirect', 'oci_login_redirect', 10, 3);

Just put that in your mu-plugins/bp-custom.php.

Credits goes to burtadsit.

I just solved problem number 1 this week (by calling bluehost- they fixed it for me over the phone in under 10 minutes), but am still having your same problem number two!

Any help??

Well…I hate to ask such seemingly infantile questions, but…

I have had wp-recaptcha working fine on the buddypress registration page on http://sportsblognet.com/sbn-start.php (WPMU 2.7/BP RC-1)

now to the questions…

Did you apply for a wp-recaptcha Key?

Did you adjust the settings to work on the registration form? (check two boxes in the settings)

Did you place wp-recaptcha in mu-plugins?

I have had no problems and it worked “out-of-the-box” no core files needed to be edited.

I’m assuming you did all of these things, but the hacking of bp-core-signup.php was not necessary for me, so I had to confirm.

Alright, got xmlrpc all worked out. I was make an assumtion in Trents directions that was not correct. I found this doc and it answered a few questions I had.

https://trac.buddypress.org/browser/trunk/bp-forums/installation-readme.txt (btw – this link should be made much clearer in the BP install docs. Maybe make is a sidebar nav link)

Still trying to integrate cookies. Anyone got any words of wisdom on that one?

I would recommend installing WPMU in the root directory, and modifying home.php in your buddypress-home theme to best match your existing site while still incorporating most of the typical, familiar BuddyPress links.

To answer your questions, WPMU gets installed in the root directory, and BuddyPress is installed in the wp-content/mu-plugins/ directory. (Check codex.buddypress.org for install help.)

The BuddyPress homepage is the home.php file I mentioned above. The files in your root directory are just functionary place holders to help tell WPMU/BuddyPress what content to get from the database and then to tell them which theme files to display that data with.

You are asking in a support forum why design decisions were made and why, considering the evolutionary nature of software, bp ended up as it did. As an end user of bp I have absolutely no idea how to answer either of those questions.

The real answer is that things don’t have to be like they are if you don’t want them to be. Come up with an enhancement and share it with us. That’s the beauty of open source under a GPL license.

Code is Freedom.

I’m seeing quite a few questions about this popping up lately. I’m no fan of an abundance of stickies but perhaps this one deserves a spot in the limelight?

Or should we trey and start some sort of FAQ thread (and, in the process, figure out a way to stop it from becoming completely unwieldy)?