BuddyPress.org

Dan-

I’m going to make just a few comments now. I’ll look at this in more detail tomorrow.

It look’s like you are using the default themes that come with BuddyPress–bphome and bpmember. Is this correct?

Pardon me if you know all this already but, when a user (one of your students) logs in, a link appears in the upper right corner of the buddybar with a link to their profile page. This link displays either their username or nickname. What is displayed depends on whether or not a nickname has been entered by the user. For all but four of your students, there is no nickname.

Now, when a student clicks this link, it will take them to their profile page. Once there, they can edit their profile. In the default BP install, there is a “Full Name” field in the profile that can be filled in.

WordPress Mu uses this data for the display in the backend–your picture #2. If the “Full Name” field is blank in their profile, then you will only see data in the “Username” and “nickname” fields, with the username used as the nickname. If a user has add anything to the “Full Name” field, then Mu will use that, and if it can, split it automatically into a “First name” and “Last name”.

The fact that 4 students have data in these fields indicates to me that they went to their profile page and clicked “Edit Profile” and then added their full name to the “Full Name” field. It is not a mystery.

Finally, when logged into WPMU’s backend, go to the “BuddyPress” menu group. Once there, click on “General Settings”. You will see a field named “Full Name field name”. Then, click on “Profile Field Setup”. There, you will see all of the currently-setup profile fields that your students can utilize. You can add, edit, or delete fields. You can make certain fields required.

You should spend some time not only in the WPMU’s backend, but also in the members’ area of BuddyPress to see how all of this works.

I hope this helps.

My suggestion would be to take the working CSS from your base.css file inside your member theme, and put it in your hometheme’s site-wide.css file.

That way it will always apply itself to the entire site regardless of theme.

you can categorize your content.

This means that you can as site or single blog admin,

– sort the blogs by thematics (fruits, pets, music,etc related)

default BP sort all blogs by name. The plugin sort them additionnaly by theme.

– each member can asign himself to one or more thematics

default BP sort all members by name. The plugin sort them additionnaly by theme.

– create categories as well.

Here you create a category food – for the fruit theme, a category animals for the pets blogs, a category cluture for the music blogs, and so on…

And a tag system follows all your settings over the whole site. Also a few widget to display the work nicely.

Looks like a portal structure. And it is so far. Still alpha, but great possibilities for the future i think.

I switched to the BuddyPress default themes… still failed with the media library duplicate, but I can add friends

Well, one problem isolated. So, this particular issue appears to be caused by your custom theme. Make sure that you compare the header file in the bpmember theme, or even the bpskeltonmember theme, with your custom header file. You could be missing a key line or two.

Concerning the duplicate declaration error: were you running an older version of BP before–like RC1? If so, did you delete all your old BuddyPress files from /mu-plugins/, this includes theme files.

Ok now i became the right output !

I didn’t use the bpmember theme, but facebuddy…

So i put the bpc template directory into it and it works.

Think to tell in the readme file, that each member theme must be charged with the oci-content folder, not only the default bpmember theme.

So another question: what about translation ? Can you provide a .po or a .pot file for the plugin ? Or a list of all expression, phrase,etc that are already localised, so i can create the pot file myself. I have not much time to search througt all files…

THANK YOU. One beer for you at this time.

elegantjohn-

There are all sorts of strange CSS issues with your theme. You really should be using Firefox with the Firebug Add-on to help you debug your CSS problems.

As for the blockquote element within your blog posts, the width of this is set to 230 pixels in your CSS.

Also, deactivate all plugins, except BuddyPress, and see what affect that has on your layout. The geopress plugin seems to be causing some display issues.

Once a user (student) has registered, you cannot change their username. Well, not without some fancy behind the scenes stuff. You can, however, have them change their display name. In the default BuddyPress install, this is automatically set to required when a user registers. It does seem like all 48 of your students do have their real, full names entered in that field.

So, it is just these 4 students. My guess is that they used their real, full names when registering their username. So, as an example, “John Smith”, instead of “johnsmith” or “smitty2cool”. If you look in MySQL’s backend and see this for the usernames of these four students (using my example):

John%20Smith

Then this is what happened. They used their real name, space and all. Now, the existance of the space in usernames can cause issues in WPMU. But, that is a different topic.

when I look at comments made by the students, I get only their usernames

Do you mean comments to blog posts displayed in BuddyPress themes, or comments seen outside of the BuddyPress environment?

I’m sorry, I mistyped. I should have said 60% of my traffic, not the Internet.

The versions of IE where it is misaligned is 8.0, 7.0, 6.0, and 5.5. Basically all of them.

Have you looked in the members theme in the /css/ie/ directory? Also, does your custom member theme have links to the IE style sheets in your header.php file?

I saw a joke on Twitter the other day. To parapharse: the universe was created in one day. It took the other 5 to get it to work on Internet Explorer. Thanks, Trent!

Getting themes of any platform (not just WordPress) to work in all versions of IE can be frustrating and tricky at best, impossible at worst. I would focus on optimizing your users’ IE experience on IE8 and IE7. Some designers are not even supporting IE6 anymore. I wouldn’t even worry about IE5.5 Of course, this is only my opinion.

Concerning your answers In this thread.

Did you install WPMU as a directory or subdomain install? subdomains

Did you follow the detailed instructions in the WPMU’s readme.txt file about subdomain installs (listed under the heading DNS).

Did you upgraded from a previous version of WPMU? If so, from which version? Yes,I upgraded wpmu when I upgraded bp to 1.0 (not sure what previous version of WPMU was)

This could be an issue. You need to follow a specific WPMU upgrade path. If you do not, you can have all sorts of issues. See these links:

https://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_WPMU

https://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_WordPress_Extended

Do you have any plugins other than BuddyPress installed and activated? 3 plugin widgets of my own that display posts from the database

…AND…

Are you using the standard BuddyPress themes or customized themes? customised themes

To help you figure out what is going on, you need to distill your install down to the lowest common denominator. This means stripping out all extra stuff and focusing on the barebones environment.

So, you need to deactivate ALL plugins except BuddyPress. You need to use the default themes that come with BuddyPress. If the problems go away, then it is related to your custom theme and/or one of more of your plugins.

Here are a few more questions:

1. Which hosting firm are you using?
2. Did you manually install WPMU + BuddyPress or use a one-button installer?
3. There have been a few changes over time to WPMU’s wp-config.php file. If you simply used an older file this could also cause problems. Always verify that the config file you are using is up to date by comapring it to the config file that comes with each, newly downloaded WPMU install package. Did you use the wp-config.php file that came with WPMU 2.7.1?

This is a CSS issue. I have not tried this out, but you can use this as a basic idea. There are different ways to do this. This is just a quick stab at a possible solution for you, to get you down the road. You’ll need to adjust based on your desired cell size and how and where you’re placing this grid in your theme.

If you are not using FIrefox with FIrebug Add-on, you will want to do so. It will make it a lot easier to tweak your CSS.

In your site-wide.css:

div.cells {

width: 50px;

float:left;

padding: 2px;

}

In your theme:

<div class="cells">1st user avatar</div>

<div class="cells">2nd user avatar</div>

<div class="cells">3rd user avatar</div>



<div class="clear"></div>



<div class="cells">4th user avatar</div>

<div class="cells">5th user avatar</div>

<div class="cells">6th user avatar</div>



<div class="clear"></div>



<div class="cells">7th user avatar</div>

<div class="cells">8th user avatar</div>

<div class="cells">9th user avatar!</div>

You’ll need to mess around with the padding and figure out how you want to position each avatar within its cell.

Also, instead of hard coding the grid dimensions within your theme, you could use a looping structure, allowing you more flexibility in setting the grid dimensions. For example, you could easily change the grid from a 3×3 dimension to a 4×8. The next day, switch it to 6×6. You could change the size automatically based on certain parameters.

I’ve made myself a personal copy of the BuddyPress.org theme without some of the features like bbPress design tweaks and such to mainly see what it took to make it. Really makes you appreciate CSS since it seems like 99% of it was just CSS changes.

I’ve been wrking on doing some updates to http://www.wannanetwork.com also.

I’m working on around 4 different BuddyPress powered websites with more scheduled. The themes being designed will probably have some sort of public release as well.

This is an initial mockup for one of themes that will be release to the community:

http://blogsupplier.com/images/mockup.jpg

Jake,

I think you can definately achieve what you need using Buddypress. The home page does not have to be community focused at all and can be as flexible as any WordPress run website (you will have to install some way for members to access the community tho). You just have to customize and install the theme you need as the home theme.

bp member theme works little differently from wordpress themes. I think you should open another thread under feature request category, letting developers know you want/hope this feature.

to Jfcarter

we have the same problem – but i think after reading the post replies here and trying to analyze everything i realized and was able to bring what you MIGHT like to see in your forum section ..

use the bb default template in folder bb-templates

kakumei

bb-config.php

put code below

require_once( $_SERVER[‘DOCUMENT_ROOT’] . ‘/wp-load.php’ );

in the header.php that you mentioned include the get_header

this is how buddypress template files using bphome in your wp-content/themes

instead of using <?php wp_head() ?> use the one below

<?php get_header(); ?>

<div id=”search-login-bar”>

<?php bp_search_form() ?>

<?php bp_login_bar() ?>

<div class=”clear”></div>

</div>

it works for me but i have to edit more on the templates

http://morebearing.com/forums/

…still in the dark here…

Try the default themes, report back if that works or not.