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We just went life with our new portal for young people:

http://www.young-people.ch

(sorry, it’s german, but you will see the functions…)

Those “specials ” are implemented so far:

– totally customized theme (home and member)

– home theme with special friends-activity stream when logged in (like on facebook)

– lots of user generated content (media-reviews directly connected with amazon, ressources, downloads, etc etc). I used the TDOMiniForms Plugin for that…

– special use of the premium-plugin “upgrades”. Instead of having to buy credits for more blog-space you earn credits by submitting articles to the public

– some bp-dev components (subscribe to blogs, etc)

It still has some bugs, but hopefully they are solved after the beta. The old Portal (running on Lotus Nots – how wan’t to believe that ) had 2500 Members. Right now every minute there are registering new members…

Check it out and post a feedback in my wire …

Andy, do you mind commenting on this?

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=2009

I want to know what direction to take in converting my component. If there will be an “official” version, I might wait.

Lastly, will our components be “Future Proof” like the themes from here forward?

https://buddypress.org/blog/news/why-your-buddypress-themes-are-future-proof/

Thanks for your input!

@Justme1-

If you do not have that line in your wp-config file, it means you used an older version. I just checked a new WPMU 2.7.1 download and the wp-config-sample.php file has this additional line in it.

Anyway, this line goes in the section that starts with this comment:

/** The Database Collate type. Don’t change this if in doubt. */

As far as your last question, yes. You will have lots of issues using the BuddyPress themes until BuddyPress is successfully activated.

Okay, a few questions:

1. Which versions of WPMU and BuddyPress are you running?
2. You say that you were “beginning to alter the colors”. I assume you’re using the default BuddyPress themes and you only worked with the CSS files. Is that true? Or, did you make changes to some of the php files as well?
3. Are you running this on localhost or a remote site?

Chris-

Let us know how it goes.

You’re right, Jeff, that seems to be the last option. Thankfully, this is on a test install. The part that makes me nervous is, what happens if this happens on my live site, too? Cleaning house wouldn’t be an option there. It’s a conundrum. If I discover anything I’ll certainly pass along the news.

Thank you, John, Paul, and Jeff, for giving me your time and help on this.

Okay, at this stage I’d say it’s time to clean house.

If this is a test dev install–meaning you do not have it in production mode–then I recommend deleting absolutely everything. This means the database file as well.

Install a clean, new copy of WPMU 2.7.1 plus BuddyPress RC2 and see what happens. After WPMU is properly installed, then install BuddyPress RC2 using the plugin browser as described here: https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/installing-buddypress/

Let us know how that goes.

Barry, I feel what Magi182 says is worth a try.

That’s why I asked you whether you had followed suggestion posted on this page.

One thing I saw was that …/user/your name looks critically different from the corresponding page at my site, and the @import directive in your page looked odd to me, though I knew what should be there only from Magi182’s suggestion for replacement.

In fact I too wanted to say “You’ll keep running into problems trying to do more advanced stuff on their [Godaddy’s] servers”. That’s a very savvy, pragmatic advice.

I certainly think you can resolve your problem soon.

i think the problem your having is the fact that p2 is not a “buddypress theme”

like in the main theme how it has a large widget area and 2 small ones, and also has a BLOG tab where the main blog is

the problem your having with p2 (and any other standard wordpress theme) is the BLOG tab is displayed on the main page rather than a large widget sidebar, as the recent blog posts thing is actually a widget, if you put this widget in your p2 sidebar you will see a direct comparison between the 2

currently you cant have a p2 “theme” that aggregates ALL blog posts like the buddypress widget does,

all the users will be posting to the main blog if you want them to use p2, and if you do then the current skin should be fine? it was designed to show comments

im sure you could add some nice jscript to add collapsing comments? this would probably bring better functionallity to your site if you didnt want the comments taking up the whole page?

I upgraded to WPMU 2.7.1 using the automatic upgrade so I assume it is the new wp-config.php file. However, I looked in that file and did not see the additional line that you mentioned. I added the line myself, however, there is no change.

Yes, I did the Site Admin > Upgrade when updating everything. I did it again just now to make sure; no change.

And… if you make these changes to the BP core files, don’t forget to save them when updating BP.

Oh, and BTW, upgrading to the paid godaddy hosting will most likely fix the ad code injection issue you’re having; but I would concur with the negative comments about godaddy — paid or not — as a host for a buddypress project. You’ll keep running into problems trying to do more advanced stuff on their servers. That’s just not the market that they’re serving.

I haven’t tested this, but you should probably be able to edit

/wp-content/themes/buddypress-home/style.css

delete the @import directive that is there and instead add:

@import url(css/base.css);

@import url(css/custom.css);

This might hose some of the functionality added by loader.php, but should be the easiest place to make the change.

Dear Barry,

I took some time to check the two links you have provided.

It works well with IE6, but not with Firefox.

Now, there must be a clue in that.

In the meantime, have you posted a ticket at Godaddy

or followed the suggestion given above by other members?

Another thing is:

You say you are using \”godaddy economy hosting\”

but Godaddy says \”This page is hosted free, courtesy of GoDaddy.com\”.

This is some confusion.

Is your WPMU/BP ensemble in the root directory?

If not, what\’s the name of the folder where it is installed?

I ask this beacuse I can\’t use Firefox\’s \”view page source\” to see http://illdesigned.com .

It\’s a flash page, and I never use any Adobe products.

@Chris-

Still thinking here, but a few more questions:

Are you using the new wp-config.php file that comes with WPMU 2.7.1? Or, did you use and older version?

If so, there is an additional define line added to WMPU’s config file:

define('SITE_ID_CURRENT_SITE', 1);

Also, before installing BuddyPress, but after upgrading WPMU to 2.7.1, did you got to Site Admin > Upgrade in site admin and finish the upgrade?

Awww thought we had a lead for a min

Sorry, I misspoke! This particular install is running completely “normal”, from the root domain.

Hmm. Might be subdirctory related. What’s the name of your subdirectory btw?

Just installed trunk 1401 and the problem persists. I feel like the answer is either right under my nose or far beyond anything I would understand. Either way, I’m clueless.

Again, for the record:

BP 1.0 RC 2, trunk 1401

WPMU 2.7.1

Standard BP member theme at /wp-content/bp-themes/buddypress-member/

Standard BP home theme at /wp-content/themes/buddypress-home

.htaccess is in the root

No errors in log.

When going to the URL /members, /groups, /blogs, I get the message:

You do not have any BuddyPress themes installed.

Please move “/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/” to “/wp-content/bp-themes/” and refresh this page. You can download more themes here.

If it matters, I’m running WPMU in the subdirectory, not subdomain, way.

I think that’s all the information I know.

Yes, .htaccess is in the root of the install. I’m running the BP theme straight out of the box, no alterations.

I’m going to try upgrading to the latest trunk and see if anything gets unclogged..

Edit: ignore this

Make sure you have a .htaccess file in the root of your install.

Make sure which ever theme you’re using as your home theme has the functions.php from the buddypress-home theme. It’s responsible for doing some funky routing of some pages.

I’m going to check the trunk out now on a fresh install and see if I can duplicate anything.

Pugins page says I am running BuddyPress 1.0-RC2. /plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/ no longer exists and /bp-themes/buddypress-member/ is confirmed.

An edit to my initial message: I’m running trunk 1387, not 1381.