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I’ve seen reports of this kind of error before and couldn’t figure out why BP_PLUGIN_DIR was not defined when they are running code that looks for it’s existence. Now I think I get it.

BP_PLUGIN_DIR not being defined is a problem with that particular blog not running bp-core.php code where it’s defined. This is the code that is causing the error:

require ( BP_PLUGIN_DIR . ‘/bp-core/bp-core-signup.php’ );

BP_PLUGIN_DIR has to be defined before it gets to functions.php. I don’t think they can be running wpmu 2.7.1 beta and bp RC2.

Trying to run your theme on RC1 maybe?

really thanx Burt. Please Stu-art, try to overwrite your functions.php with the default functions.php of buddy press. I’ve just reuploaded the file, maybe it was corrucpted while zipping or uploading.

i see html and css of the default theme too. Profile members are correct, the only thing it is that they are left aligned and not center aligned. in your screenshot there is no css attached, maybe you have some browser setting that ignore css?

1) What version of bp?

2) Are you using the bp home theme?

Any widget will work in the bp home theme. It’s just a normal wp theme that has places to stick widgets. You can download any number of widgets from the wp plugins directory to place in those widget enabled areas.

The bp home theme displays the recent blog posts for the main blog, if that is where it’s running, under the ‘News’ button.

If you upgrade your theme to the version that is in RC2 you can take advantage of the new member template functions that are available to you. The directories now have their own little templates located in /buddypress-member/directories/<directorytype>/<directorytype>-loop.php file.

Then all the template tags you find in /bp-core/bp-core-templatetags.php are available to you. That particular function you were using doesn’t exist anymore. The underlying call still works which is:

BP_XProfile_ProfileData::get_value_byfieldname( $field, $user_id );

so

BP_XProfile_ProfileData::get_value_byfieldname( ‘One Line Summary’, $user->user_id );

Should work. I encourage you to look at the new directory code and templates.

Are you using the wpmu 2.7.1 beta and bp trunk? The error leads me to believe one or the other isn’t so. See in here: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=2190 there’s a post about getting the most recent bp and wpmu.

You might want to talk to the theme author. Perhaps they have seen this error in relation to the theme before.

Okay, first a couple of questions:

I have a fairly vanilla instance of the latest wpmu release…

1. What does this mean? The latest release of WPMU is 2.7. Is that what you’re running?
2. Also, which BuddyPress trunk revision are you running?
3. Are you running any other plugins besides BuddyPress?
4. Did you follow all the instructions in the first post of this thread that pertain to custom themes?
5. Did you read post eight in this thread?

Regarding the code line that seems to be throwing the problem, that would indicate that you do not have the proper permissions set on the blogs.dir directory. See question 5 above.

What versions of WPMU and BP are you using, have you had this working before – if so what have you changed to cause the broken behaviour, are you using a customised theme – have you edited at all? etc.

@Josh9989

I think one of the reasons there is a separate Member’s theme folder/CSS is because it is such a unique thing (ie. it’s not typical WordPress), whereas the blogs and site itself can use any old theme (with some exceptions).

The only thing that you really have to pay attention to is how you display the three columns that the member’s section is displayed in by default. By simply editing those widths, how they “float”, and other basic CSS attributes, you can easily change how they fit within the page and you can easily match your blog theme.

Hope that helps…

I don’t think there is Mawjoud, but you can use any simple text editor for something like a simple CSS file. There are also lots of free text editors like TextWrangler that are good for code editing (nice and color coordinated)

Is there a way to edit the relevant templates (and .css) right from the dashboard, as there is within the single user WordPress?

Hi all.

I just installed the bbpress forums and integrated to my wordpress mu 2.71.beta site. I a looking for help as to how to place the buddy-press theme to the forum? Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks,

Brian Katz

http://www.mekudos.com

i see the right css

Okay, next question:

1. Did you follow the instructions in the first post here under the section heading “If you are using your own customized themes”?

my browser has had a “ten minute” of madness .-) now i see it correctly.

i’m a bit confused: with ff it’all ok. using explorer i see a big red Alice header (Alice is an italian telecom company) and the layout is messed up. It could be my browser’s fault, but i’ve never had this issue with other sites.

hi, using ie7 i have some problems: there is no enough space for the columns and so i see the “welcome” column under the other two.

However, why are you using the Alice header?

I\’ve noticed that virus issue on your site.

You got the VIRUS on your site!!!!! http://www.buddydress.com