Fix for bb-config.php when using “deep integration”
How to currently, correctly include WordPress within bbPress and NOT throw a 404 in IE.
Add to beginning of bb-config.php:
if ( !defined('ABSPATH') & !defined('XMLRPC_REQUEST')) {
define('WP_USE_THEMES', false);
include_once( '/absolute/path/to/yourdomain.com/wp-blog-header.php' );
header("HTTP/1.1 200 OK");
header("Status: 200 All rosy");
}
@Matt, I think that if it’s partially working, than chances are something is amiss somewhere. Are you using deep integration or no?
I think that your homepage display, whatever that is, is the abnormal one Adam. The admin bar is supposed to fit across the entire width of the display. That’s the normal behavior. You can modify this by creating a file in your home theme folder called site-wide.css
That needs to live in a directory called /themes/<your theme directory>/css
Within that file you can put any css you’d like to control the appearance of all bp components.
I can’t find the fbconnect or skeleton member theme files. 
maybe I’m just coffee’d out and need a break today. 
I have this installed and working great, but the facebook connect button seems to screw up the css in internet explorer…it pushes the members/blogs/groups search and the default login together, so there is literally no space between the two, and the facebook connect button is all the way to the right of the screen. Is there any way around that?
Also, I have my BuddyPress theme in a subdomain: (community.mydomain.com), and when you click a member’s name who used Facebook Connect to sign up, their avatar does not work in the member theme…instead it just shows the default avatar monster things.
Should my member theme be showing up as community.mydomain.com/members/user1 or just mydomain.com/members/user1? Because currently it’s the latter, and everything works fine except the Facebook Connect Avatars.
Thanks!
I actually modified the theme so that it doesn’t show an empty box if the stripped version is empty. I can’t find where I do that check though, and I’ve looked through bp-activity-widgets.php, bp-activity.php, and bp-activity-classes.php. I’m fairly certain I just check the length of activity and if it’s 0 or null, I don’t create the paragraph element.
NyQuil has my brain foggy today
Anything is possible if you can program in php. See the new skeleton theme download at: https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/create-a-buddypress-member-theme/
That’s if you are talking about the member theme. The home theme is just a normal wp theme and there are tons of docs and sites dedicated to helping you with that. Google is your friend.
No the full name is displayed by default throughout bp Lucifix. You’ll have to create your own theme to override that behavior.
you can…
do this.. mark fields as private, change your profile fields to dispaly public only, and then use the values to generate a customer profile box.
You can easily get profile values directly, and can perform any calculations you want based on these values. But I’m sure it might be a little confusing to show these, so you need to have them marked as private. These private fields will not be shown once you modify the profile member theme.
Hope that gives you some ideas,
Brad
would be nice if this topic dived deeper into apeatlings comment “Attach it to the action ‘signup_extra_fields’ and it will show up” how does one do this? or is it better to leave this to the uber php geeks?
good idea on changing the wp-signup.php
lets mark this resolved..
bottom line is if you want to use wp-recapatcha you need to install it in mu-plugins
thank you all for your help.. I’m going to start working on my theme now..
Hmmmmm…now that I look at things a little bit closer, this may be a Facebook Connect issue.
Take a look at my most recent facebook user. If you look at http://community.beardownarizona.com, you’ll see the facebook avatar is working fine. Now click that user to go to the member page ( http://beardownarizona.com/members/beardownmember/ ). The image no longer pulls over.
Now, go to http://community.beardownarizona.com/members/beardownmember/ … Now the image works fine.
This only seems to happen with Facebook Connect users, since all the other members’ avatars (ie. http://beardownarizona.com/members/admin/ ) seem to pull over to the member theme just fine.
Very weird.
Thanks for the help! Under “Path” for my root blog, it’s just “/” (without the quotes of course). Uner Blog Options, “Siteurl” shows “http://beardownarizona.com/”, and “home” has the same thing.
When you say my Member’s header.php doesn’t match my home theme, are you referring to my BuddyPress home theme (ie. the community subdomain)? How would I match them?
The BuddyPress install is in the MU plugins, with the Member theme in /wp-content/member-themes/buddypress-member, and the BP Home theme in my theme’s directory. Are you saying I can’t have the BuddyPress home theme in the subdomain at all? Everything is working fine, including friend requests, wire posts, etc. It’s just that there’s no “community” before the member pages.
I’d even consider hard-coding it if that’s an option.
Thanks again.
For example, what is the easiest way to call ‘recent blog posts’?
My next question is about calling the different sidebar widgets to where the sidebar code was. I believe this was where I got stuck the last time. What is the best way to go about doing this with the right code?
Thanks John James. Those are some valuable tips. I’ll give that a shot and dive in. Much appreciated.
I’m running 1.02b… I was waiting for the official full release before upgrading…
Okay, I missed putting plugin-sidebar.php in the theme folder. I’ve added that in. The extra content div was from the theme integration with BP. I’ve pulled that out.
Nothing changed though. It’s still failing to call the sidebar functions. I too don’t even see them listed with firebug. It’s ending right after the directory script.
I think we’re saying the same thing in two different ways.
Colors, yes. bbPress, yes. BuddyPress integration, No. 
Take a look, at where youre writing in, it is still 100% bbPress
So, they have a theme for it in the same colors as buddypress
They don’t. Not one that’s meant for BuddyPress anyhow.
Remember this website, while orange, isn’t using BuddyPress.
Why inventing the wheel again ?! If it seems, that the creators of BuddyPress already have such ‘orange’ theme for bbPress
No I understand, and I would certainly reshape my theme to match the orange one of BuddyPress also. Seamless integration is the goal.
Currently there is no “Default Blog Widgets” plugin, but I’ve thought long and hard about making one.
Currently hard coding the sidebars is our only option to do this. It isn’t difficult, but it does involve some knowledge of HTML and WordPress/BuddyPress functions.
There are however tons of articles in the WordPress codex on how to do this, as well as write ups from random WordPress enthusiasts all over the web that explain very well how to do this.
The way I did it, was to copy the buddypress-home theme files into a new directory called buddypress-user. Edit the style.css file and rename the second theme to whatever you’d like. Delete home.php. Delete the sidebar code in functions.php. Go into sidebar.php and delete the widget function call. Still in sidebar.php, start editing and inserting your HTML and php functions.
Goto Site Admin->Blogs and click Edit on your root blog for me.
Under “Path” what do you have set there?
Then under Blog options (wp_1_options) under “Siteurl” what do you have set there? And under “Home”?
I noticed also that you haven’t edited your Member theme’s header.php file yet to match your home theme. Your member theme still wants to direct you to yourdomain.com/blog, instead of blog.yourdomain.com, which is weird because I see you have a subdomain installation in your WPMU.
It feels like there’s a few different things going on, so lets check those settings first.
Remember, http://community.beardownarizona.com is supposed to be the root of your blog, not the root of your BuddyPress install. The root of your BuddyPress install should just be http://beardownarizona.com. If you install BP in a subdomain, but also enable subdomains for your blog, you would need to have http://john.community.beardownarizona.com, if that makes sense?
What version bp are you running?
The directories require two files in your theme folder plugin-template.php and plugin-sidebar.php
It doesn’t look like the sidebar is being generated at all. In firebug the div for it doesn’t exist. You’ve also got two ‘content’ divs that wrap the two directory widgets. Somehow you’ve got an extra one in there.
The sidebar is generated by the fn bp_blogs_directory_blogs_content() calling do_action() and triggering the sidebar function bp_blogs_directory_blogs_sidebar(). It doesn’t seem to be happening.
I’m running the latest trunk (r 1197), and I installed the plugin into my /plugins folder so an example path is /wp-content/plugins/bp-fbconnect/bp-fbconnect/wp-facebookconnect/common.php.
I am running the BuddyPress theme in my “community.mysite.com” subdomain, so I’m trying to activate it through that dashboard, not the mysite.com dashboard.
However, when I go to activate the plugin, I get the following fatal error in my plugin menu:
Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.
Warning: require_once(/home/zmdy/public_html/wp-content/wp-config.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/zmdy/public_html/wp-content/plugins/bp-fbconnect/bp-fbconnect/wp-facebookconnect/common.php on line 11
Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/home/zmdy/public_html/wp-content/wp-config.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/zmdy/public_html/wp-content/plugins/bp-fbconnect/bp-fbconnect/wp-facebookconnect/common.php on line 11
error logs show:
[Mon Mar 09 22:39:58 2009] [error] [client 76.187.253.103] PHP Fatal error: require_once() [<a href='function.require'>function.require</a>]: Failed opening required '/home/zmdy/public_html/wp-content/wp-config.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/zmdy/public_html/wp-content/plugins/bp-fbconnect/bp-fbconnect/wp-facebookconnect/common.php on line 11, referer: http://community.mydomain.com/wp-admin/plugins.php?error=true&plugin=bp-fbconnect%2Fbp-fbconnect.php&_error_nonce=1a91b34821
[Mon Mar 09 22:39:58 2009] [error] [client 76.187.253.103] PHP Warning: require_once(/home/zmdy/public_html/wp-content/wp-config.php) [<a href='function.require-once'>function.require-once</a>]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/zmdy/public_html/wp-content/plugins/bp-fbconnect/bp-fbconnect/wp-facebookconnect/common.php on line 11, referer: http://community.mydomain.com/wp-admin/plugins.php?error=true&plugin=bp-fbconnect%2Fbp-fbconnect.php&_error_nonce=1a91b34821
Need some help…could it be a bug with installing this into a virtual domain?
I added one (<?php do_action(‘fbc_display_login_button’); ?>) to the member page in the userbar and it shows up fine, however, when I log out of the facebook page under my member profile it will not let me log out. I can only log out through the homepage.
And for some reason when I paste that code under another blogs theme it won’t take it, could it be something to do with this part in the style sheet?:
/*
THEME NAME: Other
THEME URI: http://website.com/
DESCRIPTION: others only
VERSION: 1.1
AUTHOR: none
AUTHOR URI:
*/
