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MartinNr5

I think it may be that I have just made a public fool of myself at a more professional level than I have ever achieved before.

I have not gone back to look, but assume that the reason nothing is being seen is that the member theme only comes into play when there are members and groups and things up and running and that its absence for me is that this is totally new and blank as a site.

In that case, I apologise for wasting people’s time and would only say that my public humiliation has at least shown me that the people on these forums are prepared to help, even when they must suspect they are dealing wih an idiot.

I think that is a good recommendation.

Thank you for taking the time and trouble to help on this.

burtadsit

Thanks for the reply.

What I meant was that if I install the member theme as per instructions on install (in wp-content) it does not show anywhere on admin or user control panels. I can only make it show by putting it in themes, which I know is not where it wants to be.

It shows as being the default user theme in admin options, but it does not show as being there.

Setting up a user account defaults to the Mu Kubrick theme.

I suppose the point I am making is that if I follow the install instructions, the theme does not seem to be there.

MartinNr5

Thanks for coming back on this.

I have actually now deleted the whole Mu and BuddyPress set-up (as it is new) and downloaded the latest. I have gone through the install guide again and…same problem.

I fiddling around last time, I forgot to mention that when the Member theme is installed in wp-content it does not show up at all in themes control panels. It is only when it is put in themes directory that it registers in the themes admin but it does not show in Ajax preview and results in blank page if installed.

The last time, I recursively changed all permissions to 777 of every file in desperation, but still no joy.

For what I want to do, a constant theme across all blogs and sites is the ideal, so I want to get this to work. It allows the BuddyPress Home theme OK, by the way.

Hope there might be a clue there somewhere.

Any help appreciated. Thanks.

I activated it for community.domain.com but the links kept going back to domain.com not community.domain.com within its own theme. I cant find anything to insert the static links to keep buddypress theme within its own subdomain itself.

Alright, so I went through and triple checked all of my site_url related settings, they were fine. So I moved all of the plugins from mu-plugins to _temp (except the core) visited the site, then moved them back, and all appears to be well. Is it possible that BuddyPress just got confused? I’d say it’s probably more likely that I’m going crazy…

Next up… If I use the above blog_to_news function, I’ve got it working in the navbar, but the widgets in the blog still point to “blog/…” rather than “news/…” Funny thing is that they load just fine because I never updated the permalink structure to say “/news/%category%/%postname%/” but once I do that, it goes back to post 1 and doesn’t work again.

So even if the permalink and HOME_BLOG_SLUG match, filtered or not, if it doesn’t route to “yourdomain.tld/blog/…” then it doesn’t want to use anything but index.php.

Seems the answer to this problem was much simpler than my above psychotic rant, but I don’t quite have a good fix yet…

The problem comes from using this function in bp-custom.php:

function blog_to_news() {

return 'news';

}

add_filter( 'bp_home_blog_slug', 'blog_to_news' );

Using that, it seems, causes the whole thing to be a mess. I’ve echo’ed the HOME_BLOG_SLUG, and it is in-fact “news” so that isn’t to blame, but if I remove that little snippet of code, problem solved. But I really want my “/blog” to be “/news” without problem. Hrm…

Also, and this might be common knowledge that I just now am figuring out, it seems that to switch from subdomain to subdirectory (in the event you only have the 1 main blog installed, editing wp_config.php define('VHOST', 'yes'); to define('VHOST', 'no'); will switch that over for you. Phew!)

Yes sir, this is exactly how I have mine. It is from the latest RC1 functions.php file it appears. (Side note: what does it do about archives, etc…?)

Back on topic (mostly)… Here’s a question, and maybe this is the culprit. I’ve asked over on the WPMU forums and so far no one has bitten so maybe I’ll theorize here.

I have two domains, testdomain.com, and testdomain2.com. testdomain.com originally had wordpress.org 2.7 installed on it, integrated with bbpress.org 1.0a6. I backed up my database and started my conversion process.

When I installed WPMU and BuddyPress, I did so at testdomain2.com and I am confident I used the subdirectory option. Then when it was working and I had the test database all restored from my afore mentioned backup, and working with all the integration and everything, I moved all of the files from testdomain2.com, to testdomain1.com. With a few hours tweaking, everything appears to be working, but this and the fact that it is now installed as a subdomain install instead of subdirectory.

Now, I can’t tell what the difference is between the two installs (subdirectory and subdomain.) The .htaccess files are the same, the database is the same, and the files all appear to be the same as well. What the heck does WPMU do where to have it know the difference? Could that be part of my problem? Ah!

Andy, I found if I drop that into “wp-content/member-themes/buddypress-member/css/custom-components/” it loads as you say.

It’s changed things somewhat … http://doorqtech.com/members/jodyw1/… but I still have to figure out how to get to look like this: http://doorqtech.com/groups

@john, I included some template tags in the bbGroups package that demonstrates some of that theme’s use of bp centric features. I didn’t include the forums feature because it was specific to the theme. I’ll just zip up that theme and post it on my blog for you to look at the code. Gimme a few.

OK. It’s here: http://ourcommoninterest.org/downloads/oci.zip

You should just be able to unzip that in my-templates. One thing though. bbPress doesn’t seem to have a functions.php file that gets run in each theme/template as wp does. So I had all the template specific code being launched from my oci_bb_group_forums.php plugin. I’ve got all the template code living in oci_bb_custom.php so it get loaded up automatically. I included my oci_bb_custom.php file in the template zip. Just drop that in my-plugins and it’ll be loaded by the bbGroups plugin in bbpress.

If you look at the front-page.php file you’ll see how the forum list is generated.

<?php oci_forum_list('open', 'Community Forums', false); ?>

<?php oci_forum_list('readonly', 'Group Forums', true); ?>

<?php oci_forum_list('hidden', 'Private Forums', true); ?>

That fn is a little out of date. I used to have an option in there to generate identicon avatars for all forums. Even the forums that weren’t bp related. I took that capability out. What it does do now is display avs for the currently logged in user’s groups only.

This is the error Fatal error: Cannot use object of type stdClass as array in /home/blogpeor/public_html/wp-content/member-themes/buddypress-member/functions.php on line 13

If I modify “Custom.CSS” so that it includes the color scheme from the rest of the site, is that going to work?