Could anyone explain why BuddyPress forces username to be in lowercase / numbers only? When creating WordPress users, we can add uppercase, hyphens… So why does BuddyPress have this limitation, and how can it be removed?
Thks
@chrismitchell You will only see the menu if you use WordPress MU.
I tried using the bp-custom.php file in the wp-content/plugins/ folder, but I could not get it to work.
Could anyone upload an example version of this that I could tinker with to fit my needs?
My problem is I am running WordPress 3.0 RC1, with WPMU and Buddypress installed. Avatars work on the main blog, but not on sub-blogs, so I need to figure this out. For the sub-blogs only the Mystery Man appears.
I’ve just installed and set up Buddypress on a brand new WordPress install. I have 2 issues. One is that as i am logged in as the admin I don’t get a “Site Admin” Option below the “Buddypress” button on the left menu, as i’ve installed an auto group setter plugin but i can’t set the auto group up without that option. And issue 2 is that i have installed the sharing documents plugin to allow people to upload files. Is there any way to allow people to download / view these files as currently its coming up with a 500 internal server error.. is it a problem on my server or is it something i’ve missed?
Any help would be great.
For a while now, I’ve been running a community site using WordPress and bbPress. Given that I allow any user to create an account and write blog posts on the WordPress side, as well as post to the bbPress-powered forums, I’m thinking it might make sense to upgrade the whole thing to BuddyPress, which seems better designed for what I’m doing.
But I have some questions before proceeding. Mainly, I’m concerned about what will happen to my bbPress forums. Will those be folded into the BuddyPress installation as individual groups? My concern here is that my users frequently use the forums for play-by-post role-playing games and they have a lot of links between forum threads as a result. It would be a real pain if those links had to break during the upgrade process. If the links would break, is it possible to leave bbPress running as a set of forums even after the rest of the site is updated to BuddyPress?
Thanks,
Aaron
@yocalif
You could try this plugin: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-coming-soon-page/
It has options to allow visitors to subscribe via email, link to your Twitter/Facebook pages, launch date countdown…
@ffemtkl – to customize those emails, what about trying this plugin:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/new-user-email-set-up/
When you were importing info, were you importing checkbox data? That was alsop problematic for me and I have no idea what format I should prepare that data so it goes in nicely….
I would like a foursquare plugin that create a new custom profile field in BuddyPress for the user to enter their Foursquare RSS feed then buddy press displaying the latest checkins of a particular user.
Here’s link that could be amend for BP
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/foursquare/
Thanks for the reply.
I know how to disable buddypress components, my bigger question is how to display everything in the wordpress backend (which I see you asked about at the end of your reply). The reason that I want to do this is because I have several other user related tasks integrated into the backend, and I want buddypress there as well (mostly just for uniformity).
-Joe
Okay, after literally hours of phone calls, trial-and-error, google searches and bugging the tech guys at my hosting company I finally found the fix. I’ll outline here in case anyone has this same issue in the future.
First of all this is a HUGE wordpress-mu issue. There are tons of folks out there with the same problem, which is apparently related to folks on dedicated servers.
The problem I finally realized was my FTP client couldn’t actually change the read/write on blogs.dir
I kept doing a chmod but didn’t see that it never took. Once I realized the problem I found out that somehow wordpress-mu creates new files/folders dynamically using apache:apache as the owner:group. So the server then denied the creation because it wasn’t the right “owner” for those permissions.
Here was my fix (hopefully I haven’t mucked up my security too much doing this).
1) I turned off safe mode in Plesk. I’m hoping since I’m the only one in there, this won’t be too big of an issue.
2) I used an SSH login session to go to my wp-content directory
3) I did a chown OWNERNAME:GROUPNAME blogs.dir -R command
4) went back to my FTP session and did a chmod on the blogs.dir folder recursively
Now it appears to work (*fingers crossed*)
So i’ve plugged in the Facebook OpenGraph plugin from http://www.sociable.es/facebook-connect/
So once that plugin is up and running and a user logs in with facebook connect it pulls down thier image and seemingly attaches it to the user account.. the image is visible when im in the wp-admin->Users panel
So my question is how can i get buddypress to use the wordpress avatars i see in the users panel instead of the buddypress avatars?
any suggestions?
what i have tried already:
Buddypress->General Settings->Disable avatar uploads? (Gravatars will still work)->Yes
After this setting is changed the comments on a forum post still seem to use the Mystery Man default avatars..
any direction on what i could do to get the facebook avatars i see showing up in the site instead, i would be greatful
Mike
@themeanwhile – you can enable or disable the various components so if you want Activities only, enable that and disable other components. After you activate BuddyPress, go to the new BuddyPress menu item on the left column of dashboard, and go to
a) General Settings – these are your choices
Base profile group name:
Full Name field name:
Disable BuddyPress to WordPress profile syncing?: Yes No
Hide admin bar for logged out users?: Yes No
Disable avatar uploads? (Gravatars will still work): Yes No
Disable user account deletion?: Yes No
Disable global forum directory?: Yes No
Disable activity stream commenting on blog and forum posts?: Yes No
Default User Avatar – For users without a custom avatar of their own, you can either display a generic logo or a generated one based on their email address
b) Component Setup
Activity Streams – Allow users to post activity updates and track all activity across the entire site.
Enabled Disabled
Blog Tracking – Tracks blogs, blog posts and blogs comments for a user across a WPMU installation.
Enabled Disabled
bbPress Forums – Activates bbPress forum support within BuddyPress groups or any other custom component.
Enabled Disabled
Friends – Allows the creation of friend connections between users.
Enabled Disabled
Groups – Let users create, join and participate in groups.
Enabled Disabled
Private Messaging – Let users send private messages to one another. Site admins can also send site-wide notices.
Enabled Disabled
Extended Profiles – Activates customizable profiles and avatars for site users.
Enabled Disabled
I would suggest you set up a test install so you can check the features for yourself.
“Of course, activity filters, profile page, friends page, settings page, etc, would also need to be migrated to display in the backend.”
Why? If you want to make the BP Activity section private, you can add conditional tags for is_user_logged_in …
I have Friends (15) on my profile but no one is listed under it. How do I reset it or fix it.
WordPress Version 2.9.2
BuddyPress Version 1.2.4.1
Take a look at this one.
https://codex.wordpress.org/Dashboard_Widgets_API
Specially the section which describes how to remove the widget from dashboard.
You might want to put your code in bp-custom.php/as a plugin so that it affects all the blogs on your network(if you have allowed multiblog) otherwise just putting them in functions.php of your theme will suffice.
sjParticipant
wel i went to wordpress and created a page named settings … and i defined a template file into child theme root named settings so thats giving me the out put i want…
is there a way to organize the template into like a folder named settings ??
is it required for wordpress that a tempalte file should always be in primary root directory of child theme ?
@jujunkie should you encounter the bug which @r-a-y mentioned above, do this
http://wordpress.pastebin.com/WCmvpvnU
what about xmlrpc? i’m working on a receiver plugin which allows profile activity updates and a new blog post updates (ie, if someone sent an update from an external wordpress blog when a new post is published)
Hi All,
I have just create a wordpress website http://www.msgcafe.com
here i have some problems
1. Forget password option is not coming along with user login
2. When user somehow reach this page http://www.msgcafe.com/secure/wp-login.php?action=lostpassword
and ask for password reset … the page come is like http://www.msgcafe.com/secure/wp-login.php
what i need (A) lost password come along with login and (
when user fill it he will get link of my main website to login http://www.msgcafe.com/secure/
all in all default wordpress Login / forget password / register will not come anyhow.
Pls Help
3.
@Giovanni I just used Invite Friends plug-in here http://talkpian.com/wordpress/ and getting Fatal error: Call to undefined function bp_core_add_subnav_item() in /home/talkpian/public_html/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/invitefriends-plug-in/bp-invitefriends.php on line 49
I’m using wordpress 2.9.2 with buddybress Version 1.2.3 …
please help if you have some solution…
@Giovanni any update available now? I just used Invite Friends plug-in here http://talkpian.com/wordpress/ and getting Fatal error: Call to undefined function bp_core_add_subnav_item() in /home/talkpian/public_html/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/invitefriends-plug-in/bp-invitefriends.php on line 49
I’m using wordpress 2.9.2 with buddybress Version 1.2.3 …
please help if you have some solution…
what about a rewriterule before the htaccess wordpress stuff?
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/(mydirectory).*$ [NC]
RewriteRule . – [L]
I think this is sort of the thing asked by driz a week ago (not sure if we are looking for the same thing as I am not up with the terminology).
What I am trying to do is have buddypress on my landing page and a few sub pages. However I then want to have other pages with no buddypress/wordpress integration. Hard to explain what I am looking for…..
http://www.mysite.com = buddypress
http://www.mysite.com/thispage/ = still buddy press
http://www.mysite.com/otherpage/ = not buddy/wordress
Curious as to how do I make this happen. I tried for a bit on my own, created the page in the public_html dir the way I wanted but even my 404 came up buddypress.
Can anyone point me in the right direction?
Thanks, Jason
Hi guys. I rewrote my BuddyPress Classifieds plugin.
Now it will be called Your Classified Ads and will be compatible with WP & BuddyPress.
It works with custom post types !
It begins to work very well for WP installs; I started to include functions for BuddyPress.
I need serious people with php,wp & buddypress skills to help me
1) to finish the code for WP and debug it
2) to adapt it for BuddyPress.
because i’ll not have time to finish it alone.
I did try to have a very clean code with separate files for each “group” of functions. Think i’m on the good way.
You can see a (little) demo here. Guest posting works but fires a bug when you send the form. But it works 
http://dev.pellicule.org/wordpress/?post_type=yclad
Just installed the plugin on WP 2.9.2 + BP 1.2.4.1 and as jpl888 points out on the WP forum, it can work with a little fettling:
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/399989
To install it I added the code from the pastebin link: http://pastebin.com/bw0suXwe to my members list page (members/index.php), changed the bp_filter_profile_field(”) argument to be the name of the profile field I wanted to filter on and on testing it, I got hit with the following error in the logs:
`PHP Warning: Parameter 2 to bp_replace_members_filter() expected to be a reference, value given in snip…/wp-includes/plugin.php on line 166, referer: snip…/members/`
So I found the bp_replace_members_filter(…) method at line 265 in the plugin file bp-member-filter.php and removed the ampersand from the 2nd parameter so the method signature becomes:
`function bp_replace_members_filter( $has_members, $members_template )`
After that filtering works for me where the profile field to filter on is a select box. Filtering on a multiple select box does not work for me, and as posted earlier filtering on checkbox profile fields is not yet implemented.
Be warned though, I just checked the error log and removed the ampersand from the param and it then worked, I don’t know if that change will have any other side effects. I can see that it means I’m telling PHP that the method now expects a value rather than a reference, and that appears to be what BP is giving it, but beyond that…
