@Socialpreneur
I my self is new to buddypress and its template, I have however found out that side-wide.css REALLY means side wide, meaning, all members pages are affected aswell,
As an example, if you add the css \”widht:900px;border 1px solid #000000;\” to you body through side-wide.css all members pages will be 900 px wide and have a 1 px border around them.
If you just want to tweek the buddypress template and not change it completely, put the extra css in custom.css. This well give you the same effect but not effecting you member blogs.
You do need to upload the custom.css to both the home theme and member theme for the changes to work in both templates.
Hope it helps.
Erwin, first of all, thanks for all of your hard work on the plugin!
I uploaded events version .55 into a fresh install of MU with the latest BP trunk.
I was able to save the events correctly. I’m also able to see the events in the widgets.
But I have 2 Issues:
1) Directory – There is no ‘events’ folder under /bp-themes/buddypress-member/directories. So, when I select Events on the navigation tab to display the events directory, it defaults to ‘members’ and doesn’t display anything but the sidebar.
2) When I go to the events detail page (by selecting from the widget), It has the correct url and displays the blog sidebar, however… no details show. I have reread your instructions about 23 times 
and think I have everything correctly. Does this sound familiar? I thought it was with member themes, but everything looks good.
Thanks
If you just downloaded it from bp.org then it’s RC1. If you are not using svn then you can by getting a client app like TortiseSVN for Windows. http://tortoisesvn.net/
The url to get the latest source is: https://svn.buddypress.org/trunk
Running the trunk version of bp requires you to be running wpmu 2.7.1 which is only available by svn at: http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress-mu/branches/2.7
There have been changes in the member theme directory and bp’s move from the /mu-plugins dir to the /plugins dir in wpmu.
Not a stupid question at all.
Hey Guys,
interesting discussion you’re having here. I’ve done something quite similar on http://schmink-tipps.net — It’s a pure hack solution based on a custom blog theme, though. So: Really looking forward to your plugin, Sebastianmacias!
Hi John,
Thanks, I don\’t know how to do what you are suggesting. The theme seems to work, it\’s just that it asks blog owners to configure their widgets. Is there any way to pre-configure the widgets?
Best,
Dainis
PS: Or to do it automatically?
That function relies on being in a group template object context. It isn’t in one in the header yet. That function only works in the theme content area after this: <?php if ( bp_has_groups() ) : while ( bp_groups() ) : bp_the_group(); ?>
If this has indeed reverted, and it’s not because of any plugin or custom theme you may have installed, please report this as a bug on trac.buddypress.org.
Where do I find the heading in the code base?
Seobrien, the widget content is stored in the database, not in any of the plugin or theme files.
Log in to your admin site, click Appearance -> Widgets, and look for a Welcome widget there.
Once you enable the widget, click “Edit” next to the Welcome title. That should open up the widget for editing, and you can enter any title and text you wish.
See a sample screenshot.
If for some reason you can’t edit the widget as normal, you can also access the content of the Welcome widget directly in the database, by looking in the “wp_1_options” table for an field with an “option_name” of “bp_core_widget_welcome”.
See this post in the thread Robert linked to: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=1994#post-10563.
You need to be using the WPMU branch.
I’m thinking it could be this, “Read the instructions I just posted in the first message. Please also make sure you are not using the MU trunk, but the 2.7 branch.” I thought last week I had read to make sure I was using the MU trunk.
However, you can use it on WPMU hosted blogs. You just have to change the login link on your hosted blog to go to the main site\’s login page. Essentially you would have to do something similar for the BP login bar on the default theme. Offhand I am not sure if you need to use a redirect but I think you could just copy the special login form from the main site\’s login.
I decided against using this plugin on y site as the code is immature and doesn\’t santize variables properly. Doable for any half way competent programmer, or you can pay me some money.
(sorry for two posts, writing this on iPhone and didn’t want to loose any.)
Check this post:
https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=1994#post-10705
It may be related and hopefully you’ll find some answers there.
Also make sure you have the theme in the right directory. member-theme directory should now be called bp-themes
@Lance,
Done it may times, just done it again, here’s the infor for the new forum from
id creator_id name slug
17 1 Lance Group8 lance-group8
“groupmeta” data:
id group_id meta_key meta_value
65 17 total_member_count 1
66 17 last_activity 1239056228
67 17 theme buddypress
68 17 stylesheet buddypress
There is only one entry in the bb_forums table:
forum_id forum_name forum_slug forum_desc
1 Test test qwswsq
This is driving me nuts!
BeLogical – do you have a link to view your site? It could be as simple as a missing CSS rule for the “selected” class, meaning the PHP code is working fine in the theme but the selected element isn’t getting any specific styles.
John, is your site-wide.css working? When I create one, it breaks the layout of member theme contents…
alright, same outcome problem but with a little twist:
4) Edit \”settings\” to enable xmlrpc and pingbacks (both)
can\’t do as I do not have these checkboxes anywhere, not in bbpress nor wpmu.
bbpress works fine by itself but obviously is not connected as the bp theme does not translate and getting the dreaded error in groups when I try to post a topic.
so, where should those checkboxes be? up to there I followed all points and also 6) and 7) seem fine.
any hint appreciated!
downloaded all 3 installs within the past 3 days, so all should be the latest.
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I got it, I changed the following line on the functions.php file of my theme directory
if ( function_exists(‘register_sidebar’) )
register_sidebars(2);
I changed the “2” and just wrote any number (7 in my case) and I was able to see more sidebars. Members widget was somehow in sidebar 4!
I deleted it and thats it!
Hope it helps!
function my_fix_linking(){
remove_filter( \'bp_the_profile_field_value\',
\'xprofile_filter_link_profile_data\', 2 );
add_filter( \'bp_the_profile_field_value\',
\'my_filter_link_profile_data\', 2, 3 );
}
add_action(\'bp_member_theme_functions\', \'my_fix_linking\');
This code seems to be wrong. Anyone can figure out another working code?
<br />
function my_fix_linking(){<br />
remove_filter( \\\\\\\'bp_the_profile_field_value\\\\\\\',<br />
\\\\\\\'xprofile_filter_link_profile_data\\\\\\\', 2 );<br />
add_filter( \\\\\\\'bp_the_profile_field_value\\\\\\\',<br />
\\\\\\\'my_filter_link_profile_data\\\\\\\', 2, 3 );<br />
}<br />
add_action(\\\\\\\'bp_member_theme_functions\\\\\\\', \\\\\\\'my_fix_linking\\\\\\\');</p>
<p>function my_filter_link_profile_data($field_value,<br />
$field_type = \\\\\\\'textbox\\\\\\\', $field_id){<br />
if ( \\\\\\\'textbox\\\\\\\' == $field_type)<br />
return $field_value;<br />
else xprofile_filter_link_profile_data($field_value, $field_type);<br />
}<br />
If above code is used, textareas will not show any contents although the data is still available on the database. If you modify the above code to only disable textareas, then textboxes will disappear.
BBpress is modifying the code too much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’m using the latest version of Buddypress, downloaded only a few days ago, I’m using my own theme and was playing about with registering the sidebars, I thought perhaps I might have assigned Members to a sidebar I am no longer using but when I reactivate these sidebars which I am no longer using it says there are no widgets registered to them.
Is there a way to reset all the widgets so that none are being used? or any other solution?
I think you should first get firebug and determine what is overriding the image size in your custom theme.
Some people will want to keep everything in bp and only use group forums. Don’t want their users going out of bp. Perhaps they don’t want to create another theme for bbpress. Keeps the forum solution simple.
Keeping all group forum activity in the group *is* the purpose of bp’s group forums.
There isn’t a forum in the demo other than the individual group forums.
Follow these instructions, you will need to update WPMU too.
https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=1994
Where is the link to the latest trunk version and it’s version number?
