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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.)

Well, we got a couple of options here.

1) hack the theme and git rid of the content div in the header.php. That means changing all existing templates that rely on that content div being gen’ed before it gets to them

2) hack the directories and all other code that just assumes that they are responsible for gen’ing their own content divs and leave the theme header.php alone

3) get a different theme

Yep. Thanks for the tip. This is goofy though. We gotta get Andy to solve the 404 problem. I shouldn’t have to create a dummy page and have to deal with that as well as the 404 problem. Some themes are hardcoded to display the pages that exist. What if I don’t want to have any pages? (I don’t)

Is there a ticket for this?

(he asks too lazy to go look)

@liljohn I’m not certain what you mean by creating custom page templates.

This existing blog is a normal wp 2.7 blog? Not mu. If that’s the case then I had a normal 2.7 blog in a subdirectory of a mu 2.6.2 and now a mu 2.7 install. mu was installed in the root and the single user 2.7 was in a subdir under that.

Both seemed happy to coexist. Never had any problems but didn’t really play that much with the 2.7 normal install. I was just fooling in the backend and testing themes under 2.7.

The buddypress-member theme is what styles the users’ profile pages (with profile, activity, groups, messaging, etc.).

It is what you see at testbp.org for your own profile, or if you click on any other member’s avatar.

It is not for the members blogs. It is not for the home site. It is just for the profile “member” area.

Howdy, can I jump in for a sec? Go to Plesk > Domains > ‘yourdomain’ > log manager

There’s an option there in the middle ‘Lines of log file to be displayed (from the end of the file)’. Put in 100 or something resonable. Then select error_log.

I honestly don’t know where all the instances for this is (plus “wire” appears in the urls, etc.). First start would be checking out the bp_wire_setup_nav function in bp-wire.php file in mu-plugins.php. That at least would change the menu names. Then I would imagine you would have change text in the BuddyPress user themes…

It is only a matter of time!

I have hacked the member theme to suit my site, but it is nothing outragous!

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