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I think we’re saying the same thing in two different ways.

Colors, yes. bbPress, yes. BuddyPress integration, No.

They don’t. Not one that’s meant for BuddyPress anyhow.

Remember this website, while orange, isn’t using BuddyPress.

No I understand, and I would certainly reshape my theme to match the orange one of BuddyPress also. Seamless integration is the goal.

Currently there is no “Default Blog Widgets” plugin, but I’ve thought long and hard about making one.

Currently hard coding the sidebars is our only option to do this. It isn’t difficult, but it does involve some knowledge of HTML and WordPress/BuddyPress functions.

There are however tons of articles in the WordPress codex on how to do this, as well as write ups from random WordPress enthusiasts all over the web that explain very well how to do this.

The way I did it, was to copy the buddypress-home theme files into a new directory called buddypress-user. Edit the style.css file and rename the second theme to whatever you’d like. Delete home.php. Delete the sidebar code in functions.php. Go into sidebar.php and delete the widget function call. Still in sidebar.php, start editing and inserting your HTML and php functions.

Goto Site Admin->Blogs and click Edit on your root blog for me.

Under “Path” what do you have set there?

Then under Blog options (wp_1_options) under “Siteurl” what do you have set there? And under “Home”?

I noticed also that you haven’t edited your Member theme’s header.php file yet to match your home theme. Your member theme still wants to direct you to yourdomain.com/blog, instead of blog.yourdomain.com, which is weird because I see you have a subdomain installation in your WPMU.

It feels like there’s a few different things going on, so lets check those settings first.

Remember, http://community.beardownarizona.com is supposed to be the root of your blog, not the root of your BuddyPress install. The root of your BuddyPress install should just be http://beardownarizona.com. If you install BP in a subdomain, but also enable subdomains for your blog, you would need to have http://john.community.beardownarizona.com, if that makes sense?

What version bp are you running?

The directories require two files in your theme folder plugin-template.php and plugin-sidebar.php

It doesn’t look like the sidebar is being generated at all. In firebug the div for it doesn’t exist. You’ve also got two ‘content’ divs that wrap the two directory widgets. Somehow you’ve got an extra one in there.

The sidebar is generated by the fn bp_blogs_directory_blogs_content() calling do_action() and triggering the sidebar function bp_blogs_directory_blogs_sidebar(). It doesn’t seem to be happening.

I’m running the latest trunk (r 1197), and I installed the plugin into my /plugins folder so an example path is /wp-content/plugins/bp-fbconnect/bp-fbconnect/wp-facebookconnect/common.php.

I am running the BuddyPress theme in my “community.mysite.com” subdomain, so I’m trying to activate it through that dashboard, not the mysite.com dashboard.

However, when I go to activate the plugin, I get the following fatal error in my plugin menu:

Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.



Warning: require_once(/home/zmdy/public_html/wp-content/wp-config.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/zmdy/public_html/wp-content/plugins/bp-fbconnect/bp-fbconnect/wp-facebookconnect/common.php on line 11



Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/home/zmdy/public_html/wp-content/wp-config.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/zmdy/public_html/wp-content/plugins/bp-fbconnect/bp-fbconnect/wp-facebookconnect/common.php on line 11

error logs show:

[Mon Mar 09 22:39:58 2009] [error] [client 76.187.253.103] PHP Fatal error:  require_once() [<a href='function.require'>function.require</a>]: Failed opening required '/home/zmdy/public_html/wp-content/wp-config.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/zmdy/public_html/wp-content/plugins/bp-fbconnect/bp-fbconnect/wp-facebookconnect/common.php on line 11, referer: http://community.mydomain.com/wp-admin/plugins.php?error=true&plugin=bp-fbconnect%2Fbp-fbconnect.php&_error_nonce=1a91b34821

[Mon Mar 09 22:39:58 2009] [error] [client 76.187.253.103] PHP Warning:  require_once(/home/zmdy/public_html/wp-content/wp-config.php) [<a href='function.require-once'>function.require-once</a>]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/zmdy/public_html/wp-content/plugins/bp-fbconnect/bp-fbconnect/wp-facebookconnect/common.php on line 11, referer: http://community.mydomain.com/wp-admin/plugins.php?error=true&plugin=bp-fbconnect%2Fbp-fbconnect.php&_error_nonce=1a91b34821

Need some help…could it be a bug with installing this into a virtual domain?

I added one (<?php do_action(‘fbc_display_login_button’); ?>) to the member page in the userbar and it shows up fine, however, when I log out of the facebook page under my member profile it will not let me log out. I can only log out through the homepage.

And for some reason when I paste that code under another blogs theme it won’t take it, could it be something to do with this part in the style sheet?:

/*

THEME NAME: Other

THEME URI: http://website.com/

DESCRIPTION: others only

VERSION: 1.1

AUTHOR: none

AUTHOR URI:

*/

I have to give you props for this one–that is sick! It works sweet…

I just have a question, when I use another home theme or blog theme the facebook icon doesn’t show up??? Might you know why it wouldn’t show up in a different theme that is based on the buddypress home theme? Thanks

How do you install this on custom theme and also in future can FB-connect feature invite FB friends etc?

I added padding to the bottom of the members and blogs and it fixed my issue with it showing up offset to each other.

This is what I added to the theme CSS.

ul#members-list.item-list li, ul#blogs-list.item-list li, ul#groups-list.item-list li, ul#featured-member-list.item-list li, ul#recent-posts.item-list li {



padding-bottom: 10px;

line-height: 1.5em;

overflow: hidden;



}



ul#featured-blog-list.item-list li {



padding-bottom: 10px;

line-height: 1.25em;

overflow: hidden;



}

http://sportsblognet.com

How do we make this work on a custom theme?

Hi Everyone

I am familiar with WordPress Mu however new to Buddypress and one of my clients wanted a ning.com type site however using ning, you do not own the system and there are many limitations.

So I dived into buddypress in the last week and on my 4th install sorted out all the requirements to get a nice smooth WP Mu + Buddpress + bbpress system integrated.

The system is still in development as the social networking aspect is only one part of this sport coaches membership site. I am still trying to get YM Membership plugin to work on it as it needs to be a paid membership site.

Here is the site: http://networkofcoaches.com/noc

I learned several important lessons:

1. If an existing wordpress install is present 1 level down such as in the root folder then WP Mu will not install until you temp disable wp-config.php and wp-blog-headers.php in that existing installation

2. When installed WP Mu in a sub folder as I have it ./noc you cannot use the sub-domain installation and must install WP Mu using the sub folder option. If your WP Mu is in the root of your domain then you can use sub domains.

3. WP Mu and Buddypress are relatively simple however integrating bbpress is a mission. I used these resources and it works now perfectly: http://umwblogs.org/wiki/index.php/Integrating_WPMu%2C_BuddyPress%2C_and_bbPress

and

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/basic-integration-screencast

4. Now going to use bp-test to add extra top level menu options

My wishlist:

1. A themes upgrader system to modify WP themes for buddypress

2. Top level menu built in editor

3. Paid membership script integration and/or JV Manager2 (Fantasos) integration

4. Video integration especially All-In-One-Video

5. RSS and Twitter feeds

6. Easier homepage and widget editing (so far I can only add widget to the left column, even if I add one to one of the other columns, the system then adds it to the left column?

7. When a user request is received, unless you are already logged in you get a forbidden page, this should rather go to a login page and then process the friend request. My very 1st test user was very concerned over this forbidden page

Overall, I am very impressed. It is a little technical but once you have one successful install it is much easier.

I have a large free WP Mu system that I will be adding WP Premium plugins to and will market with Buddypress and bbpress installed. Keep an eye on http://besteportal.com

In fact I will have Buddypress integrated in a week and feel free to grab an account, in fact you will be helping me test the load on the system if you signup and play around as there are only 4000 blogs currently. I will be adding many additional functions to this site and it will effectively be a wordpress.com type offering however with Buddypress social networking and a few of my tricks.

A question I have is if I use the WP Premium multi db plugin which can split the WP Mu database into as many databases as you want to vastly improve efficiency and performance, then how will Buddpress+bbpress respond as it shares the same database. Perhaps I should have used a seperate database for bbpress?

Keep up the great work BuddPress!

Best Regards

Mark

Felix, the kinks are that I have a few pages that need incorporating, and I’d like to find something better to do with the bbPress login, registration, and profile pages, like redirect them cleanly to the BuddyPress equivalent.

You can check out where it’s at right now at my live test platform but do me a favor and don’t register unless you’re actually a Honda del Sol owner.

http://delsolownersclub.com/discussions/

Note to self: Setup actual test platform soon.

I would have thought so, you need to edit the template though to reflect this. Secondly, about redirecting, I managed to do this, although I can’t remember exactly off the top of my head but I believe I editted this file:

wp-content/mu-plugins/bp-core/bp-core-signup.php

I THINK from here is where I made the changes to redirect. Hope this helps, sorry its not accurate!

Regards

DW

I like my solution, I just built a general forum plugin, using the forum code from group forums and adopted it to work on a general level.

http://gorgeousgamers.com/beta/forums/

(disregard the large error, I have a ticket out for it, otherwise I need to hand edit a file everytime I do an update from svn)

Brad