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If you use the latest trunk it will work fine.

Problem: [Members], [Groups] or [Blogs] links not working after this update.

Solution: read on ..

I have just spent all day trying to make it work with my custom theme. It finally works the way it should so I just thought I\’d post the solution here in case someone else is having the same problem.

I upgraded by following the instructions step by step including the costume theme updates and everything went smoothly. My custom theme is based on the default BP theme but heavily modified.

As I said everything worked fine except when I clicked on [Members], [Groups] or [Blogs] directories I was getting \”Access Denied – you don\’t have permission blah blah ….\” message.

I found out the updated default Buddypress members theme is missing page.php and there was a new directory \”directories\” added which contains the pages for [members] [groups] and [blogs]

So everyone who\’s having the same problem as I had, just copy the \”directories\” from the latest bp members theme and put it in your theme. Style it to match your theme look and that\’s it.

I hope that helps.

EDIT: Andy, maybe it would be a good idea to mention it in the upgrade instructions above

In your theme look for header.php. There you can change the names of the links.

For example:

<?php _e( \’Blog\’, \’buddypress\’ ) ?>

Change it to

<?php _e( \’My Blog\’, \’buddypress\’ ) ?>

Remember to change it in your members theme too.

Note that this will only change the text not the actual link. So it will show [My Blog] but it will still go to yoursite.com/blog

here.

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=1877

blog only displays posts of the root (admin blog).

blogs is a directory of members’ blogs.

There is similar thread, and I’ve seen the solution. Search for “member slug” or “member url” etc…

Hi this was straight forward and fixed a few issues i had with images showing up… I don\’t know if you mentioned it but with your custom theme you also need to update the functions.php within your \”theme\” folder aswell as the function.php within the “bp-theme” folder… well I was getting alot of errors till i did that… very straight forward up grade Thanks

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I, too, have been investigating Amazon EC2. I will be using Amazon’s S3 for a site, but have not yet determined if I want to also take advantage of Amazon’s Compute Cloud services. Either way, here are a few links that might point you in the right direction:

1. This guy is already doing what you want to do. He runs his WordPress-based site on EC2 using S3. He talks about the process in this article. Perhaps you could contact him for more details if needed.

This Web Site is Now Hosted on Amazon EC2 & S3

2. Information on using Amazon’s S3 with WordPress Mu:

– http://tantannoodles.com/toolkit/wordpress-s3/

– https://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic.php?id=6351

– http://www.ringofblogs.com/2008/04/12/off-loading-wpmu-theme-files-to-amazon-s3/

Good luck! Let us know if you get this working.

Ok so i just uploaded my svn and it has messed up a few things like the admin bar is displaying funny on the bottom and my profile nav buttons and options nave buttons are now displaying funny..

Currently i am runing bp 1309 and a stable zip uploaded wpmu 2.7

My site Spots kenya is part of a final year degree project and so its quite important that when i reach the handin (May 15) it is fairly stable.

The question I have are these..

1) Should i revert back to a svn previous to 1303 and just work with that or…

2) Should i start from scratch quite literally… I have no users at the moment so my database can be scrapped.

3) if i start from scratch i assume that i…. c o svn.automattic.com/wordpress-mu/trunk/ into what a) my root OR b) a folder eg wpmu then transfer the files to spotskenya base or root. c)

4) once i have wpmu running perfectly i can then

a) co svn.buddypress.org/trunk/ to say /wp-content/buddy press

b) use symbolic links to /wp-content/plugins —- guide here ( https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/installing-through-svn/) which needs to be updated to plugin btw.

c) or just transfer (which will not update latest svn changes.

5) Re upload my bp-spotskenya-theme to /wp-content/bp-themes/ (WHAT CHANGES NEED TO BE MADE THE THEM ?)

Anything that i ahve missed?? Please say…

Sorry if this is all really basic but i am learning as i go but really do need to get it right as its quite a chunk of my degree..

thanks so much..

hi Sgrunt,

I’ve installed the latest trunk’s version and the FaceBuddy Theme for 1281 trunk

I ve got a blank page for the facebuddy home when i try to install the theme.

put the files within the bp-themes and themes directories.

do you have any ideas to fix it ?

This is to answer the original question:

I can tell you exactly what this is…

You are missing the information from the functions.php file in the latest trunk of buddypress-home. You are most likely using a functions.php from your own custom theme, which creates the redirect above.

Without that data the registration and activation won’t work.

I can tell you exactly what this is…

You are missing the information from the functions.php file in the latest trunk of buddypress-home. You are most likely using a functions.php from your own custom theme, which creates the redirect above.

Without that data the registration and activation won’t work.

3. I doubt there is one. I suppose you could read through the Trac if you were very desperate. Most of the stuff has been bug fixes; short of some of the theme changes and this plugin directory change, I can’t think of anything that’s a “new” feature.

BuddyPress member themes should be located under /wp-content/bp-themes/.

Please note, just recently this changed. Before, the BP member themes were installed under /wp-content/member-themes/.

Of course, it depends on which version of BP you’re running, but you should check to see if you have a /bp-themes/ or a /member-themes/ folder under /wp-content/. Then, make sure that you have an actual member-based theme installed in that folder.

Never mind. I saw the problem when I was typing it. Now only leads me to the question did my co-worker install BP wrong??? Because I see an mu-plugins folder in wp-content, and all of the BP folders are in there?

You know the same thing is happening to me. I am trying to customize a theme. I know that the problem above has something to do with the problem I am having. What is happening is when an account is created you can log in, and see your blog. You can also get into the blog admin, but when you try to go to: My Account -> Profile — It says:

“You do not have any BuddyPress themes installed.

Please download the Default BuddyPress Theme and install it in /wp-content/bp-themes/”

In the BuddyPress settings the “Select theme to use for member pages:” is empty. I’ve been trying to figure out what is going on but I’m lost.

Now one thing I didn’t know if it was an issue or not was the path for the bp-themes folder is located in: /wp-content/mu-plugins/bp-themes/

The buddypress-member folder is in there. Could that be an issue? I personally did not install WP MU and Buddypress, so I wouldn’t know if it was some type of problem with installing everything.

If you are just using the default templates you will just be able to overwrite everything from RC-1 to RC-2 and then the same for 1.0 shortly after.

Using other themes from the default or your own theme will require some tweaking going from RC-1 upwards, but this is only because we are currently pre 1.0 and there are some last minute improvements.

Using the default BP Theme, latest WPMU 2.7 and BP Trunk … the FB Connect button is not showing when logged out as expected.

After activating the plugin and creating a fb application for my blog, I don’t see anywhere to enter the API Key or Application Secret. The only option in buddypress is to activate, am I missing something?

On the FB side, are there mandatory settings that need to be inputted other than Connect URL and Base Domain?

you have to put thoses lines in your wp-content/member-themes/buddypress-member/profile/profile.php to make it work like you want

you add this test :

<? global $bp;

if ( ‘is_friend’ == BP_Friends_Friendship::check_is_friend( $bp->loggedin_user->id, $bp->displayed_user->id ) ) {

?>

before thoses line

<?php if ( function_exists(‘bp_send_message_button’) ) : ?>

<?php bp_send_message_button() ?>

<?php endif; ?>

end then close the test

<? } ?>

Place this link tag in the header file of your home theme and member theme.

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/favicon.ico" />

The above is just an example. Make sure the path to your favicon is correct.

If you don’t have a favicon, here’s a site that makes a favicon out of any graphic file you provide: http://www.html-kit.com/favicon/

You can upload a new favicon.ico to replace the one that comes with the theme OR you can edit the header.php file to point to a new favicon.

Good suggestions, and I think for the time being we’re all waiting for the 1.0 release before we start documenting code. Until then, any of it is subject to change at any point.

Once 1.0 is out there is a benchmark to start documenting from, in my opinion.

I can give you a hint though, check out the /css directories in each plugin, check out the member-theme, the buddypress-home theme, and you can also create a file called “site-wide.css” and put it in your /css directory for your home theme, and put all of your site-wide CSS changes in there.

Please disregard my comment posted in error

Best way to do this would be to copy the bits of the member-theme that make the userbar and optionbar, and then add them to a new theme that you create.

This is possible to do with just some hybridizing of the two themes and mating the pieces of them that you want together.