Holamigos,
I’ve just installed buddyPress at http://cscomm.org/ for a friend. I put WordPress at http://cscomm.org/wordpress/ as I always do. If you check that second url, you’ll see half a page of HTML. It starts in the middle and ends with . Any idea what’s going on?
Thanks in advance – Callum.
Hi,
I am new to BuddyPress but not to WordPress, I am merging BuddyPress with a Twenty Ten child theme, and have a lot of it working, when testing Edit Profile in the localhost setup, I have this link: /members/admin/profile/edit/group/1 and it works fine.
On the live website the link is: http://digitalraindrops.net/members/admin/profile/edit/ which is not working.
If I type in the group/1 then the link works, how do I move 67 existing database users / members to group I ?
http://digitalraindrops.net/members/admin/profile/edit/group/1
Any advice on this or the merge in general, is most welcomed.
David ( http://digitalraindrops.net )
I’m on WordPress 3.0.1 single site install
Don’t just cut and paste my comment and edit in the word “NOT” – it will confuse people.
On my default installation post titles DO work correctly, but page titles don’t work.
If they don’t work on your installation, please make this clear in your reply. I’ll have to leave you to figure out why that is giving a problem on your install, or someone else to step in with thoughts.
I’ve posted the page title problem separately.
In my default installation, the post is working correctly: posts like “Hello World” BUT they are NOT getting the title of the post added to the title tag (albeit at the end of the string)
Look at this URL: [Edit]
I see the title tag is “My blog | Home” – what do you see?
“You are right about pages though: pages such as About are not getting the correct title tag set.
I’ll report this as a separate thread.”
Thank God! I hope you get this. I think you are using wpmu, I use wordpress.
Thanks, Mikey3D
There is a much easier way to do this. To have widgets only show up on certain pages I just use this plugin, Widget Logic: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/widget-logic/
@lordsnake
Some thoughts:
1. Forums – WordPress are developing a new approach to forums, releasing bbPress as a plugin. A beta is due mid September, with a key BuddyPress developer leading the initiative. Have a Google / Bing and check that one out
2. Tutorials – I suggest creating these in a sub-blog dedicated to tutorials (each tutorial is a separate post in the blog – video / image uploading is then no problem). Maybe use a forms plugin (e.g. gravity) if you want front end posting. There should a standard WP plugin that allows post ratings
3. Job Board – these is a plugin out there from @travel-junkie : https://buddypress.org/community/groups/third-party-components-plugins/forum/topic/introducing-jobboardr/
4. Community Store – check out some of the WP extensions for e-commerce. Shopp and WP-commerce seem to be the main contenders
5. There is a facebook connect plugin (have a search in these forums) and @modemlooper is doing some work with twitter. It depends whether you are talking about connecting accounts (e.g. facebook connect), or simply sharing activity on social sites (facebook like, tweet this, etc.). There are loads of plugins / code snippets you can install for sharing (check out shareThis and their snippets for WordPress)
Cheers, Roger
Installation – https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/install-buddypress-on-a-secondary-blog/
Theme – themes at rocketthemes look good and if you have HTML/CSS mojo, you can make it work with https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-template-pack/. If not, a BP compatible theme or a BP child theme would be the way to go.
Before performing such a major upgrade (both WordPress and BuddyPress), you should backup your database. Next, it is always best to be safe than sorry. Deactivate all plugins. This means BuddyPress too, as it is a WordPress plugin. Once WP is up and running, it is time to upgrade BuddyPress. You should read the additional details here: https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/upgrading-from-10x/ See the “Upgrading from 1.1.x to 1.2.5” section, paying special attention to the notes on the theme files.
Finally, you need to upgrade any BP-dependent plugins before reactivating them. If any of these have not been upgraded to work with at least BP 1.2.5, then they should not be reactivated. Nicola’s plugins are very outdated and will not work with the current version of BP.
thanks, this is quite useful to address the issue to block out everything. what i was after is a little more fine-grained. for example there are out there a few plugins which use wordpress roles to limit access to posts or even categories. can anyone suggest a way of using a buddypress group or a field from the extended profile to limit access to posts/pages (rather than activities like forum posts etc?
i understand that if one is not member of a private group they cannot see the group activities in the stream, but how to make certain pages only accessible based on buddypress group membership?
many thanks!
Thanks for helping, Roger,
What is the code for bp_custom.php file or function.php file that will works as WordPress title?
WordPress title for “Hello world!” is…
Hello world! | My blog
BuddyPress title for “Hello world!” is…
My blog | Home
How could anyone possible use BuddyPress plugin for WordPress without having a headline for title of each their own posts and pages? What is so wrong about this simple problem?
Ok Guys! I found the solution for IIS Server! There is a problem with the ‘mod_rewrite’ function, it does not work. Here is the solution and I tried it and it works. Please take a look at http://www.kylecaulfield.com/permalink-for-wordpress-iis-6-mod_rewrite-fixed-free
The result of my new Buddpress can be viewed here http://www.unitedcasting.de/
Sorry for the try above, but it’s no really good solution, so I switched into the original theme file of Buddypress theme.
Many hours today for this result and nobody knewed that. Maybe a problem of Windows worker like me 
interestingly, it has been deprecated in WP3.0 and replaced with is_super_admin:
https://codex.wordpress.org/WPMU_Functions/is_site_admin
It’s still used in numerous places in the BuddyPress plugin though
Ok, I found one hint in Buddypress German Forum of WordPress, see http://forum.wordpress-deutschland.org/buddypress/73994-seite-nicht-gefunden-members-usw.html
I post there a solution for the normal menu. The ‘index.php’ file is missing in the permanent structure, maybe there is something different between the WP English and WP German version of 3.0.1. So all of you have the URL http://www.yourdomain.com/groups/. Please change it in your Browser to http://www.yourdomain.com/index.php/groups/ and check if you’ll get a page. Change ‘yourdomain.com’ in your real domain. See my page http://www.unitedcasting.de/index.php/groups/ – it works.
But now I’ve to search for the links under ‘MyAccount’ and ‘Notifications’. Maybe someone knows where the file is safed. Thanks.
When I have installed WordPress 3.0.1 and I clicked the “Hello world!” post and the title tag is fine like…
Hello world! | My blog
When I have installed BuddyPress 1.2.5.2 and I clicked the “Hello world!” post and the title tag is WRONG like…
My blog | Home
Who is the responsible the core of BuddyPress title tag that has no headlines every posts and pages? Did Matt Mullenweg know that your BuddyPress altered the title tags of WordPress?
Hi Chaps,
got a new community rebuild on the go and am feeling quite enamoured with wordpress so far so thought I would try buddypress instead of Dolphin which I was originally planning on using. I am however having trouble finding out if all the plugins I need exist as am not getting and results when searching and others I am findng lots of results and not sure which to choose. If I give a list hopefully you guys can point me in the right direction. I realise some of these things may be wordpress plugins rather than wordpress plugins or that I may need to get some customisation done.
1. Forums – I have found the forum plugins, but wonder how they compare to the popular standalone forums like SMF or PHPBB.
2. Tutorials – This one I am having trouble with. The site is for developers and want a section where they can write tutorials or do video tutorials, and these can be voted on by other users so I can have a top 20 or whatever.
3. job board – a section where employers can post jobs and members can post their CV/availability
4. community store – where users can sell their applications through the site. I am pretty open as to how this one would work, either the site handles everything or I just host the descriptions and a link off to paypal buy now or something similar.
5. integration with services like facebook, twitter linkedin etc
@hnla
I may have found some clues here:
http://adambrown.info/p/wp_hooks/hook/wp_get_nav_menus?version=3.0&file=wp-includes/nav-menu.php
And from here:
http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/3.0/wp-includes/nav-menu.php
… there are these nifty tidbits:
function wp_get_nav_menus( $args = array() ) {
$defaults = array( ‘hide_empty’ => false, ‘orderby’ => ‘none’ );
$args = wp_parse_args( $args, $defaults );
return apply_filters( ‘wp_get_nav_menus’, get_terms( ‘nav_menu’, $args), $args );
}
function get_registered_nav_menus() {
global $_wp_registered_nav_menus;
if ( isset( $_wp_registered_nav_menus ) )
return $_wp_registered_nav_menus;
return array();
}
Looks like these functions should call whatever nav menus are set in the backend in 3.0 but, as I’m still VERY wet behind the ears when it comes to understanding what functions can actually do… 
Seems I am bearer of good news for the BP community
Buddypress courseware beta is ready !
http://sushkov.wordpress.com/2010/08/14/the-big-beta-download-link-is-on-the-rig/
Event press, buddypress aware events plugin schedule for release August 16th
http://kunal-b.in/eventpress/
Demo here: http://kunal-b.in/eventpress-demo/bp/
“I suggest you install the SEO buddypress plugin. It’s gives you control over the titles.”
I knew you would say that but I don’t want plugin SEO BuddyPress. It has to be in core BuddyPress or function. WordPress does fine with titles. I don’t want to bother the contributors to do SEO title.
How BuddyPress can miss the most important thing the title? Is there other solution?
There’re no title headline of posts and pages.
Ex: Post:
URL: mysite.com/hello-world/
Title tag:
My blog | Home
It should be
Hello world! | My blog
Ex: Page:
URL: mysite.com/about/
Title tag:
My blog | Home
It should be
About | My blog
Why is that BuddyPress mess up the title?
WordPress 3.0.1
BuddyPress: Version 1.2.5.2
Theme: BuddyPress Default 1.2.5.2
Thanks, Mikey3D
PLEASE HELP: When I click “Activate” for the BuddyPress plugin, my WordPress Admin screen goes white. I am running WordPress 3.01, Twenty Ten is my active theme, Askimet is my only other plugin, I installed BuddyPress 1.2.5.2. This has happened twice. I first installed BuddyPress automatically, from WP Admin and then tried to activate the BP plugin. The screen went white and I lost access to my WordPress Admin. On my site, the BuddyPress navigation appeared as an unordered list of text links (all of which give me a “Not Found” error when I click on them). I then deleted all files in my site directory and restored the files and database from the backup I had (cautiously) made before the BP installation. I then manually downloaded the BP files and uploaded directly to my wp-content/plugins directory. When I again tried to activate the BP plugin, I got the same result as before. Now I still have no access to my WordPress Admin and have a non-functional BP site.
Well, here’s a solution that worked for me:
// User Description
$user_meta = get_userdata(bp_displayed_user_id());
echo($user_meta->description);
I’d really like to display the WP user description in the BuddyPress member-header.php.
Seems like it should be easy to do?
My regular WP tricks aren’t working in the BP template.
Suggestions?
yes I have visited the authors forum found no actual solution , approx 4 month ago somebody asked there the same question , and the answer from the author was as follows :
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Hi,
Sorry, if I answered this in another method. I can’t recall. But this looks like you either did one of two things:
1. Have a space at the end of your bp-chat/chat/config.php file or
2. You didn’t chmod 777 your bp-chat/config directory
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it didn’t worked for me ; firstly there is no config.php chat directory , its actialy is under chat/lib directory ………
and as I’m using it in localhost windows host the option 2. is not needed … but in case of option 1. there was no extra space in the lib/config.php , yet it didn’t worked….
I visited the authors profile here , but it seems the author in inactive for a certain time as its showing no recent activity .
this version of buddypressajaxchat is said to be working fine with wp 3.0 , but I have also tried it with wp 3.0, but again didn’t worked ……..
any solution would be much appreciated as I’m craving for this plugin as there no much self-hosted chat for buddypress…..
p.s. = Phpfreechat plugin – https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/phpfreechat/ – is working very fine with the present version of wp and bp
I need to create a custom home page in BuddyPress – it’s a fairly complex splash page, so the custom home page will need access to the complete WordPress/Buddypress API (it can’t be a static home page). I’ve looked at these instructions (http://www.wordpressmax.com/customize-wordpress/custom-page) for a custom WordPress home page, but my custom page templates are *not* showing up.