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Is this plugin going to continue to be supported or has the author decided to deprecate it in favour of bp core development? (rumors)

Just installed it on a plain vanilla, WP 3.01, BP 1.252, no other plugins, default bp theme.

It won’t accept any links. Looks like everything works until hitting the Finish button. Complains about completing all fields. All is complete except that hitting the Fetch Details button does nothing. I can see a momentary flash of a Description field sometimes before it complains about completing all fields, but no description field is actually presented for input.

I have found other questions about no response on hitting Fetch Details, but I have seen no solution.

With WP Debug turned on, BP Links also renders a bunch of “deprecated” errors and and index warnings — which I don’t care about as they don’t *appear* to have any functional impact.

This is a marvelous plugin and it appears that many are able to get it functioning fine.

Since I have nothing unusual or complicated going on, any suggestions about what might be the problem.

@crashutah:

As @djpaul says live demos are the modern day equivalent of “don’t work with animals and children”. Great if you can make it work, but so many opportunities to go wrong.

You are talking about why it rocks, not an installation tutorial, so I’d also steer clear of any talk about platforms and servers. As @mercime points out, showcasing is where it’s at if you want to talk rocking.

I’d go with the following structure:

1. Whet their appetite with a quick showcase of a few real world sites

Use different types of sites – I see 3 main types in practice:- just niche social networks, pretty much the default BuddyPress with a little bespoke styling; complimentary ones where the niche social network is still obvious but there’s some additionality like a magazine (hmag, tasty kitchen, or our own Hello Eco Living or Fisherbook); and the ones where the social network is in the background supporting the main function (Travel Oregon, Volkswagen, GigaOM).

You could also show by vertical – in education (CUNY), big companies (Daily Telegraph Blogs)

Keep this short and sweet – leave them wanting more!

2. Tell them what they get out of the box

Do it with visuals of a group, activity stream, etc.

3. Tell them what they can add to the box (plugins)

Just a few strong examples – easy to appreciate ones: – e.g. EventPress (running your own event registration) and Media+ (photos, videos, who doesn’t want that!)

4. Finally walk them through one of the most exciting sites in more detail

Use screen dumps / graphics throughout (it doesn’t need a bullet anywhere – although a couple of big number slides is nice – a la Steve Jobs)

Ask them questions throughout to engage attention – “Who’s ever built a site where it would be great if they could get visitors registering?” – then show them an example in BP. “Have you ever wanted a twitter like stream on your site?”. “Have you ever wanted a site where your visitors could post from the front end, and see responses in real time?”, etc., etc.

This way, you’ve got them thinking already: oh yeah, I need that in my site, imagine what we could do if we added this, etc. You’ve painted the picture for them.

And for a bit of humour – you could always risk a live activity stream playing in the background – where a buddy sends a few ‘helpful’ messages as you talk.

Hope that helps!

No it is not Helga -re read my questions carefully writing to the file is done by the server not the human. Can you re read Rogers comment we need o know if permalink issue you mentioned is with BP deactivated.

@svetka812 – these questions are also better asked in the forum “how to and troubleshooting” rather than “requests and feedback”

@svetka812

Hi Tatiana – it would be better to ask this as 2 separate questions in the forums (one about images, and one about text). Also make the title a bit clearer, as that will get more people to help you (“activity stream 1.2.5.2” is too general).

To get more help and quicker: I suggest you create two question threads, something like: “how do I stop small images from blog post excerpts getting enlarged in the activity stream updates?” and “Why are my blog post updates missing paragraph breaks when shown in the activity stream?”

My quick thoughts:

images
The problem with image sizes is because a core function in BuddyPress is forcing activity images, that don’t have their height or width set explicitly, to be 100px high. The function causing the problem is bp_activity_thumbnail_content_images().

I’ll raise this as problem in the forums or maybe bug trac.

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I don’t have a problem with paragraph breaks in the activity stream. My blog posts are being shown correctly with the breaks. I’m using a default installation of BP1.2.5.2

Paragraphs can be removed by a filter in WordPress / BuddyPress. Have you made any changes to your functions.php or bp-custom.php to turn off the ‘autop’ filter? i.e. do you have any code like this in those files:

add_action(“init”,”remove_autop_filters_from_activity”);
function remove_autop_filters_from_activity(){
remove_filter( ‘bp_get_activity_content_body’, ‘wpautop’ );
remove_filter( ‘bp_get_activity_content’, ‘wpautop’ );
}

Perhaps there is something in the blog template you are using that is doing this?

Ask this one about paragraph breaks as a separate question in the forum (and include my comment).

Cheers, Roger

@damainman this is an oldish thread and unlikely to provoke a response. did you have an issue/problem? If so them post a new topic as it will get a better response, having first searched the site as this particular issue may well have been covered more recently.

@christinarule

Point of general forum nettiquette: It is a frowned upon practice to ‘Hijack’ another’s post, this is due to the confusion it can introduce to the thread where you have multiple replies to different questions asked.

Please always start a fresh topic with your question unless you are responding in some fashion to the OP’s question.

Arx Poetica did you find your answer?

@ri-kun please avoid doing this in future, sometimes questions don’t get answered, sometimes that means you have to think about them again, perhaps they had obvious answers, perhaps a search would find the answer, sometimes reposting and rephrasing the question is required, what isn’t acceptable is to demand attention in the fashion that you have and is likely going to result in your thread being locked leaving you to have to repost, but you will have done your rep little favour in the process

Oh and fyi – emoticons or smilies please ‘lolz’ is derived from l33t or txt speak and most coders/developers dislike that language also ‘lolz’ carries a particular meaning it’s meant to be laughter with sarcastic overtones! not. I hope, what you intended?

Have a look at the functions in bp-core.php, bp-core-templatetags.php :

You can call functions such as bp_core_get_username, bp_core_get_user_displayname, bp_member_avatar, bp_member_profile_data

There is a list of template tags being developed, (https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-discussions/buddypress-template-tags/), but I tend to resort to using find in files in my editor (Coda) and trawling the BuddyPress files.

I understand @johnjamesjacoby is doing work to significantly enhance the API for future BuddyPress releases

I suggest asking your group id questions in a separate thread

People The community , must as a whole, stop this practice of hijacking threads we now have three questions running in the same thread this practice isn’t tolerated on most tech forumsd due to the confusion that thread dissolves into.

The first thing all three of you must check is that your permalinks are working correctly and that the server can write to the .htaccess file

how can I enable network mode?

I alow multi users to blog on one blog. There’s no easy way to show a New BlogPost button it seems that with network mode it can be done, but how can I switch it on?

It’s not as straightforward as it ought to be there appear to be issues with the order of loading at least what is easily doable from functions.php becomes problematic as a plugin – I have had to wrap the remove_actions in a bp-init function and that provokes other questions as there appear to be conflicting docs on this aspect, most remove_actions I can get to work, site-logo refuses to play ball.

@hnla

Thanks. I sometimes do tend to shoot first and ask questions later

I doubt I can help much, but I’m sure whoever does help will need more details. Here are a few follow up questions for you.

How did you try to install buddypress, exactly? Did you add the plugin from wp-admin or by uploading to the plugins directory via ftp? Were you able to activate the buddypress plugin? i.e., when you say you just “tried to install” it, is that because it gave some error directly (and therefore you never saw buddypress in action at all or altered the default settings), or because you haven’t been able to log into wordpress since then?

Hopefully with some more details, one of the generous wp/bp gurus on here will be able to sort you out.

there are a few Q&A themes that exist already that you could use. Add BP plugin. Create a frontend form that submits questions as Posts with the member poster assigned as author and the comments for the post(?) are your answers. The community layer is the community layer just allow only members to submit questions and answers. Add plugins like ratings and page views and you’re set.

you could go with groups or forums but they are limiting when you consider what can be done with a full blog. So if you are on MU, just create another blog just for QA. that way you keep them separate from the blog and other things. I think post types are great…but at the end of the day you begin filling up your main site admin with tons of stuff. I like spreading the post type and plugin weight across different blogs(or sections)…but if the site is only going to be QA (no blog, no nothing else) just do the same thing but on the main site.

on your bp language change the “wrote a new post” to “added the question: ” or whatever and you’re set again!