BuddyPress.org

You need to look at the following:

https://codex.wordpress.org/Meta_Tags_in_WordPress
and the file bp-forums-templatetags.php in the bp-forums folder

You can then build your forum SEO tags, just the way you want, in your theme’s header.php file

Is this plugin going to continue to be supported or has the author decided to deprecate it in favour of bp core development? (rumors)

Just installed it on a plain vanilla, WP 3.01, BP 1.252, no other plugins, default bp theme.

It won’t accept any links. Looks like everything works until hitting the Finish button. Complains about completing all fields. All is complete except that hitting the Fetch Details button does nothing. I can see a momentary flash of a Description field sometimes before it complains about completing all fields, but no description field is actually presented for input.

I have found other questions about no response on hitting Fetch Details, but I have seen no solution.

With WP Debug turned on, BP Links also renders a bunch of “deprecated” errors and and index warnings — which I don’t care about as they don’t *appear* to have any functional impact.

This is a marvelous plugin and it appears that many are able to get it functioning fine.

Since I have nothing unusual or complicated going on, any suggestions about what might be the problem.

You should ask these as two separate threads:

For adverts – I suggest the following:

Build your child theme with ad zones (perhaps as widgets in sidebars). Use OpenX or Google Adserver to manage your ads, and integrate the codes appropriately.

You can put any logic you like into your child theme templates to make decisions on which advert to display. Of course, this isn’t trivial, otherwise Google wouldn’t put invest so much time and resource building Adsense! If you use Adsense (or equivalent) code snippets, they will automatically display adverts based on the content in the user’s profiles.

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Yes, you can modify the words. See this article: https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/customizing-labels-messages-and-urls/

@johnwinch42

If you are converting an existing theme to BuddyPress, you should probably take a look at this plugin: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-template-pack/

It’s not something I’ve used, but there are a number of developers who go that route.

Have a look at the plugin / instructions. Also search on this forum for bp-template-pack, there are lots of threads.

I suggest upgrading first to the latest version of BuddyPress: https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/upgrading-from-10x/

And then using something like the Media+ plugin.

You will have to do some theme re-work for compatibility with 1.2.x, but you’ll be making it a lot easier on yourself for any changes.

If you don’t want to upgrade, it might be worth putting 1.1.3 in the thread title, to solicit more direct help.

@joseffb I’ve tried that and it works but is not 100% The problem is WPTouch is made for a blog not groups, profiles and forums and various edit screens.

I’m putting together a simple default mobile theme based on the default BP theme. It’s not ready yet as a BP theme has many files to go through to make it look right.

@crashutah It would all depend on the audience – total WP/BP newbies or WP.org site owners no BP yet or BP site admins who need a little more help before launching. If I were to give a BuddyPress presentation on why BP rocks in an hour, i would make it interactive – with audience participation

– Knowing audience level in WP/BP experience would help you give a better presentation – possibly getting list of attendees off the database from registration to your specific module is powerful information to have, if registration for Utah and/or Vegas were set up to allow that

– Spend a few minutes with the overview of BP – testbp.org – native components included – then include minimum server requirements like mod_rewrite, pref LAMP server, GD library, PHP5.2+, etc.

** include a live presentation of WP and BP installation in 6 minutes or less – get them involved and let them time you, and since you are an experienced developer, you could do it in less than 4 minutes

– Note that even if installation can be easy and fast, it’s the customizations in terms of theming and added functions via plugins that make the site unique and stand out. The special customizations are what makes a difference between a “free” site with a $20,000++ WP/BP site.

– Compare BP showcase sites with default WP/BP install and explain how some customizations can be done either via custom functions, free/paid plugins or by hiring coders/programmers.

** A live 5-minute lesson on how to create a bp-default child theme, upload to server and activate it
** If you prefer, create a custom function live, upload to live site that you created earlier, so audience can see the changes brought on by function or plugin
** If you’re strong in theming, you can also show live how to add some styling in style.css to effect minor/major changes to theme

– Q and A session – 10 minutes or less

– Your contact information – some attendees might prefer to hire you rather than create the site themselves.

Good luck and have a great time!

So you want a user blog theme that resembles your Buddypress theme?

Read this:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/creating-extending/forum/topic/bp-blog-theme-as-default/

Yes, I can see there is a problem with permalinks for your main blog. Although, the permalinks in sub-blogs seem to work fine.

What happens if you de-activate your theme, and try using the default BuddyPress theme… do they work in that case?

What type of server are you on? Can your site write without problem to your .htaccess file?

Yes, the display is off in Safari as well, and the page load times were ridiculously slow.

p.s. If you have any problems with this theme, it looks like you bought it from wpmudev (judging by the copyright notice), so it might get a better response if you ask direct on their support forums

It’s probably in your theme file under index.php or footer.php Although, I couldn’t see what you’re talking about really. At least not at the bottom of the page. Also, the toolbar thing at the bottom isn’t working quite right in Google Chrome. The display is off.

You need to go into your theme and edit the theme files (.php – probably index.php or home.php for this page, or something similar)

Always when encountering issues with BP and you are using a custom theme the first step is to drop back to using the bp-default theme to establish whether the fault is in general with BP or with the custom theme.

You really need to check the link that was posted as it contains a fair bit of pertinent info that might be needed.

I have the exact same problem as cristina.
running wp 3.0.1. on localhost (using WAMP to run it) with several different BP enabled themes (I blamed the themes at first) but no matter what the theme the permalink structure and the Buddy press seem to collide giving me the ever popular “Not Found The requested URL….was not found on this server.”

I am not very computer literate. The htaccess file is in the root
# BEGIN WordPress

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /wordpress/
RewriteRule ^index.php$ – [L]
# uploaded files
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?files/(.+) wp-includes/ms-files.php?file=$2 [L]

# add a trailing slash to /wp-admin
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?wp-admin$ $1wp-admin/ [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^ – [L]
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(wp-(content|admin|includes).*) $2 [L]
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(.*.php)$ $2 [L]
RewriteRule . index.php [L]

# END WordPress

But what I am ever going to do with it?
index.php is also in the root and like .htaccess I have no idea what it says in it.
<?php
/**
* Front to the WordPress application. This file doesn’t do anything, but loads
* wp-blog-header.php which does and tells WordPress to load the theme.
*
* @package WordPress
*/

/**
* Tells WordPress to load the WordPress theme and output it.
*
* @var bool
*/
define(‘WP_USE_THEMES’, true);

/** Loads the WordPress Environment and Template */
require(‘./wp-blog-header.php’);
?>”

@porscheheritage :

you can do this very simply from your wp-admin backend –

Goto “settings … reading … front page displays:”

[if you want to do anything more complex, child themes (as suggested by @crashutah) aren’t too much work – you can create a bare bones one just with style.css , and inherit everything else from the bp-default theme. If you are making any mods to design / layout of your site, this is the way to go anyway.
https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/ ]

Didn’t mean where the actual files were located that is a given they have to be in the plugin folder. More what I was trying to establish is that you were not trying to do something out of the ordinary such as BP running on a sub blog of the main blog install.

So you have an absolute basic default install of WP/BP? WP installed in main document root of the site and BP activated as a plugin of that primary WP install?

When you try changing your permalink structure after saving do you get any messages returned along the lines of not being able to write to .htaccess , although I guess if it’s taking a manual ‘index.php’ it must be?

Can you tell me what the page is I’m looking at when I land on the site as it’s not a buddypress default layout or what looks like a child theme, I’m assuming that you haven’t activated BP or rather left BP activated.

What version of WP 2.9 are you running is it MU to enable user blogs?

Have you created a BP theme for use with the site, obviously BP needs a BP enabled theme in order to function correctly.

TBH I think that you need to try and patch up your differences with the developer you were working with or failing that find another that can get into the core site and establish what exactly is what. That you state you were just meant to be the designer suggests that this is not something you should be trying to sort out, generally a frontend developer would run a job the designer supply them with necessary graphics for layout along with layout impressions. What does the client say about the developer not having finished things or are you running this job and subbing out the development WP side of things.

@ghostchild

(appended here so that other participants can read the answer)

In reply to your message saying that you still don’t see the tab in the subnav, I could be wrong but I would be inclined to think that your problem is not caused by the WP/BP versions (I am running the latest ones) but by the theme you are using.

The “Events” nav is posted in the member profile through this call (in bp-events.php)

/* Add ‘Events’ to the main navigation */
bp_core_new_nav_item( array( ‘name’ => __(‘Events’, ‘bp-events’), ….. [stuff removed here]

In order for this to work, your theme (wp-contentthemesyour-theme-herememberssinglehome.php) should contain this call in the “right” place

bp_get_displayed_user_nav()

e.g. If I take this line away from my theme (I decided to turn a regular WP theme into a BP compliant theme thanks to BuddyPress Template Pack), then the “Events” tab no longer shows up (and a few others disappear too).

So you might want to verify your theme. Is it truly BP-compliant?

@Bonlu – make sure you have WordPress set up for multisite: https://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network

Then take a look at the recent site wide posts widget (in your wp-admin backend: appearance… widgets)

You need to develop your child theme so that it allows for the widget to be embedded on the home page, or take a look at the code in the widget and implement your own version in your home page template;

Developing your own child theme: https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/

Just create a child theme: https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/

Then, you’ll want to overwrite the header.php file on line 79. Here’s the documentation for the wp_list_pages: https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_list_pages the exclude parameter should work for you. If you don’t know the pages’ id, you can use this plugin: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-show-ids/