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Howdy. I’ve never modified the default mechanism. No that you’ve brought it up, looks like I will. Ugly. Been awhile since I faked a new user registration. One more thing on the list.

I took a look at wp-signup.php and it calls the theme’s header and footer and has it’s own internal css. We gotta modify that or go get a plugin. It doesn’t know anything about your theme’s sidebars.

yew. not good. my member theme stopped working yesterday for no apparent reason. not as bad as a trashed db but same results. i changed something in header.php, uploaded it and things stopped functioning in bp’s member theme.

checked the file

checked the error logs ‘Fatal error: no such thing as bp_search_form()’. ‘eh?

checked the file in a hex editor

deleted the file on the server and re-uploaded

replaced the file from svn

replaced the file from my backup

had to reinstall all the bp code

dunno.

Howdy. If you make the bp home theme available for your users they can choose it. It wasn’t designed for that but it’ll work though. It’s just a widget framework. Hang anything you want on it.

I don’t think a Twitter-like functionality will be added to the BP core but this can be done now with around 10 minutes of work.

All you’d need to do is create a blog such as whereareyou.domain.com. Then add all existing users as authors and auto-add new users as authors to the blog (see this post for details on doing this, it only takes a minute). Finally install and tweak the prologue theme to suit your site. The updates users post to the blog will automatically show up on their profile like other blog posts.

This is a really basic implementation of a “Twitter-like” functionality, but with a little tweaking this setup works really well.

i have had buddypress running on mine since it was available, i am still seeing bugs but nothing too major

http://hyrxx.com is my main site but im running the buddypress home theme on http://launch.hyrxx.com – this is an interesting way to have it setup i know but also it may give ideas to others who want a separate part for buddypress, i am still considering moving my blog to a subdomain and putting buddypress on the main page but for this to happen i want to learn to theme it and i need it to be extremely perfect

my site is about me and teenlife so please look but dont touch unless you interested its more of a niche kinda thing that most of you wont understand but i posted since i wanted to show my installation, i hope for it to grow and make a proper social network within my freinds, i want to encourage them to all blog and create relationships using wp and bp, feedback apprieciated robbie@hyrxx.com

Don’t know. Normally a <div class="clear"></div> is used in a theme to init a new area in the browser for floating divs. Defining the .clear class in css as clear{clear:both;margin-top:20px;padding-top:50px;} or something like that allows css control over the cleared region.

You can override it by redifining .clear in your custom.css file. If this is the only place it exists then it probably was a quick stopgap measure to fix something. Maybe it’s just legacy stuff that hasn’t been removed yet.

Who knows.

Is there a way to have this allow anyone to see the hometheme/homepage, and then make them login to see anything else….i.e. Myspace? Right now when you go to the site you get the login page only and thats not too informative. thanks.

Are you guys running a sandbox based home theme? I did a search for that message and it only appears in a wp theme based on ‘sandbox’. This is not an mu or bp message.

Been playing with .htaccess?

Any luck with limiting the number of members?

What do your error logs say? There was a problem like this on windows. style.css in the home theme just make a call to ../css/loader.php which loads the css for the theme. You are not getting any of the css that is in that ../css/ directory. Gotta be a reason.

Error logs will tell you.

Permissions on the /themes/buddypress-home/css/<files>?

@kellylind I’m not running the home theme but it sounds to me like that is what happens with an excerpt that isn’t being filtered completely. The recent blog posts widget displays an excerpt. It’s not stripping the [caption][/caption]s because bp uses the standard wp striptags() function.

If you are the adventurous type I found this on the wp forums. Same problem you have.

$text = preg_replace( '|[(.+?)](.+?[/\1])?|s', '', $text )

Looks like it’ll work. Ya gotta mod the bp core to get it to work though. I’ll put in a ticket for this in Trac. You can wait or you can modify bp_create_excerpt() in bp-core.php.

Hi Andy,

I tried updating the home and member themes…but dont see any success. I’m getting the following error when I select the buddypress theme from the ‘design’ console:

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Fatal error: Call to undefined function bp_search_form_action() in /home/thekartn/public_html/chennairunnersorg/site/wp-content/themes/buddypress-home/header.php on line 33

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I’m using WordPress v2.6.5 and the latest version of Buddypress (downloaded from the website on 1st Jan ’09). Is there a compatibility issue? Thanks in advance for the help!

Karthik

The 404 for members, blogs and groups directories is a known problem. It’s been reported in Trac. A workaround (thank you wardeh) is to create three dummy pages with the slugs:

members

blogs

groups

Doesn’t matter what you put in them. It won’t display.

The diagonal display is due to the fact that the member directory css needs to be modified to fit your theme. The directory css files are located:

members – /mu-plugins/bp-core/css/directory-members.css

groups – /mu-plugins/bp-groups/css/directory-groups.css

blogs – /mu-plugins/bp-blogs/css/directory-blogs.css

I’m confused you don’t seem to have any buddypress components in use at all. If you visit the BuddyPress menu in the backend admin under ‘Site Admin’, you’ll see an option to turn on the admin bar: Show admin bar for logged out users: yes/no.

Yes would turn it on and allow visitors the option to login or sign up. If you don’t have that turned on then how you log your users in is entirely up to you.

It is a little confusing. There are two themes to deal with.

A blog theme : bp home theme or wpmu theme

A member theme: bp member theme

The bp home theme is optional. It runs as a regular wpmu theme. If you don’t run this on a blog you are running a standard wpmu theme.

The bp member theme is *not* optional and it’s not a normal wpmu theme. Doesn’t even install in the regular place. Is never activated by a blog or site admin. At the moment you have no choice but to run the bp member theme.

The setting in the backend ‘buddypress > select theme to use for member pages’ is irrelevant at the moment. In the future when you or others develop alternative member themes, that is where you would select them.

You have two themes. One mandatory member theme and a choice of what blog theme to use.

(I’m learning from wardeh. Be simple and clear.)