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It doesn’t seem to work anymore with the new RC2 … Any idea to make a link to a member profile from a WP theme please ?

Erich73-

Toni is using the P2 theme. You can get it here: https://wordpress.org/extend/themes/p2

Bbn-

Rather than trying some fancy install via packaged tarballs, I’d suggest a plain, simple install from scratch. Even though you went back and, as you state, “tried to do a more careful replacement of the files,” try a clean-slate install.

Delete everything, including your MySQL DB–assuming you don’t have any important data. Then, download and install WordPress Mu 2.7.1 from here. Get it working before attempting to install BuddyPress.

Once it is working, download BuddyPress and follow the readme.txt instructions.

Looks like this is happening to a lot of sites

I understand your frustration. But, when I search Google for “Failed+opening+required+’BP_PLUGIN_DIR”, I can count exactly 6 actual sites with this error and then several comments within blog posts that indicate the same issue.

Combine that with the half a dozen reports in the BP Forums for this issue, and you get maybe 15 people–assuming none of these people have commented in multiple places. That is not “a lot of sites”.

Okay, never mind, I’m a moron! I had not activated the Buddypress plugin.

Looks like this is happening to a lot of sites:

http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en-us&q=Failed+opening+required+’BP_PLUGIN_DIR&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

I ran into this same error message this morning. In case it helps, here’s how it happened to me.

I had MU 2.7 installed on a ubuntu server and MU 2.7 also installed on a local dev installation of ubuntu (both 8.10, if that matters). I upgraded the dev MU to 2.7.1, then installed buddypress. worked great. then I tarred up the dev installation, copied it over to the server, and overwrote the old 2.7 MU non-buddypressed install with the dev files. Ran the upgrade (at http://veryhandso.me/wp-admin/wpmu-upgrade-site.php). Tried to preview the buddypress theme and end up with the error mentioned above.

I then backed up and tried to do a more careful replacement of the files as outlined on the upgrading wordpress page (https://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_WordPress). Still no love.

Thanks for any help. Grateful newbie.

Ben

Maythil-

Look for this line of code in the header.php files of both your bphome and bpmember themes:

<div id="search-login-bar">

<?php bp_search_form() ?>

<?php bp_login_bar() ?>



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

</div>

Kit-

Okay, I just fired up the default bphome theme and see that what you’re trying to change is indeed the standard CSS setup. So, once again, you get to create a custom theme!

Follow the same procedure as before. Make a backup of the standard bphome theme, rename it to something new, and make the changes I’ve outlines above. They should flow through to your customized bpmemebr theme as well!

Codyb-

Just for good measure, I would log into WPMU’s backend and reselect your bpmember theme. This has worked for some people.

If that does not work, then I’m afraid it’s back to square one. Delete everything, including your MySQL DB, download a new copy of WPMU and follow the install instructions for MU. Then, once WPMU is up and running, manually download BuddyPress, and follow the install instructions in the readme.txt file.

It sounds like a pain, but since this is a fresh install without any data worth keeping, it should go pretty quickly. Something must have gone wrong with your install.

Let me know how what happens.

Kit-

That is correct. Make a copy of the bpmember theme, rename your copy, make whatever changes you want to it, and you have–in effect–a custom theme! Just make sure you keep your new theme in the /wp-content/bp-themes/ directory.

Once ready for use, log into WPMU’s backend and navigate to “BuddyPress > General Settings > Select theme to use for BuddyPress generated pages”. You should see your newly-named theme as an option in the dropdown box. Select it, save, and you’re ready to go.

It’s worth doing and it is easy.

Sorry, still new to BuddyPress forums…

WPMU 2.71

BP 1.0

No custom themes

No 3rd party plugins

Not sure how to find errors in log files…

bento

When posting a support issue, please indicate the following:



* Which version of WPMU you're running

* Which version of BuddyPress you're running

* Whether you're using customized themes

* Whether you are using other 3rd-party plugins

* A list of any errors showing up in your log files

* Other errors

Dworldon

When posting a support issue, please indicate the following:



* Which version of WPMU you're running

* Which version of BuddyPress you're running

* Whether you're using customized themes

* Whether you are using other 3rd-party plugins

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* Other errors

Since I can’t peer into this site’s base.css file for the theme I’m wondering how to change that attribute … ?

Ah, but you can!

For all CSS and template design issues, I highly recommend that you use the Firefox browser with the Firebug Add-on. WIth FIrebug installed in Firefox, you can see where page elements inherit their CSS–the file names, the file contents, etcetera. You can even make changes to the CSS selector parameters and see how that affects the design.

So, when you pull up any buddypress.org page, or any webpage at all, you can use Firebug within Firefox to see how the CSS selectors are styled.

Kit-

The theme where this is located is in bpmember, not bphome. I’m just not firing on all cylinders today.

Are your instructions to show me how to do that?

Yes, you can make these edits in the bpmember theme directly. Just make sure that you have a backup before changing.

Also, please realize, that if you alter the standard themes and do not rename them, then the next you upgrade BuddyPress, you will lose your theme changes if you copy over the default themes.

Codyb-

Thanks for the detailed response!

A few more questions:

1. Did you copy over to WPMU’s root the .htaccess file that comes with the download?

2. Did you select the BuddyPress member theme in WPMU’s backend via “BuddyPress > General Settings > Select theme to use for BuddyPress generated pages”?

KitWit-

Okay, I’ve made a mistake. I did not even notice that you had linked to the members’ theme, not the home theme.

My widget is for the home them. What you’re asking about is not a widget. It is a coded into the /directories/members/index.php file in the bphome theme.

You can make your own custom theme, edit this out, and get what you want:

<div class="item-meta"><span class="activity"><?php bp_the_site_member_last_active() ?></span></div>



<div class="field-data">

<div class="field-name"><?php bp_the_site_member_total_friend_count() ?></div>

<div class="field-name xprofile-data"><?php bp_the_site_member_random_profile_data() ?></div>

</div>

Just make sure to place your custom theme in the proper place and then select it in WPMU’s backend via “BuddyPress > General Settings > Select theme to use for BuddyPress generated pages”

We don’t have sufficient information to provide any assistance. Please answer these questions:

1. Which version of WPMU are you running?
2. Did you upgraded from a previous version of WPMU, and if so, from which version and how?
3. Did you have WPMU functioning properly before installing and upgrading BuddyPress?
4. Which version of BuddyPress are you running?
5. Did you log in as site admin in WPMU’s backend and activate BuddyPress?
6. Do you have any plugins other than BuddyPress installed and activated?
7. Are you using the standard BuddyPress themes or custom themes?
8. Are there are errors in your server’s log files, and if so, what are they?