I looked and unfortunately I couldnt find what I needed – I am new to all this so I dont know much about code and CSS etc.
My theme requires a bit extra work to make BP pages appear correctly. All BP pages seem to show up with transparent background due to my theme, so I need to find out what files to edit (and with what code) to force a white background on BP pages? is it the template files or the CSS (I am using BP template pack).
Links are below. What files should I be editing to make sure there’s a white background on BP pages? Thanks.
How pages and stories normally appear (white background)
http://www.txmma.com/?p=3075
How buddypress appears (no white background, want to force one though):
http://www.txmma.com/wordpress/
“how can multiple users write in that blog under their own names?”
Right. Basic WordPress – https://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities#Contributor
“but how can they enter the writing zone? “
Simplest way – if your users are logged in your BP install as contributors, they can go to bp-admin-bar at top and move cursor to “My Blogs”, which has a dropdown to list of blogs. When they hover over JuConnect link, the flyout nav will show the link “Add New Post” where they will be brought to the Post > New Write panel.
Please forgive me – I’m a relative newbie, and many of the existing support threads don’t seem to entirely apply to my instance of WSoD.
I have a new site (http://www.societelumieres.com/) that has BP 1.2.2.1 running on WP 2.9.2 with a BP theme installed. I had everything up and running fine before I left for vacation (and other users were able to access the site). When I tried to login just now, the entire site, Admin, front page, everything, was inaccessible.
I can see the files via FTP, but I’m not sure where to start to try and solve the problem. I’d rather not nuke the site if I don’t have to.
I have the following plugins installed:
akismet*
author avatars*
bp-blog-author link*
bp-community-blogs
bp-events
bp-groupblog
bp-template-pack
bp-wiki
buddypress (etc)*
buddypress-maps*
cd-bp-avatar-bubble
podpress
role-scoper
search-engine*
welcome-pack
wordpress-mu-secure-invites
wp-hashcash*
wp-super-cache
Because I can’t access the admin pages (and its been a couple of weeks), I can’t say for sure which plugins are active, but I did asterisk those I’m fairly certain are active.
@DJPaul‘s plugin https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/welcome-pack/ – working well in BP 1.2.4.1
There is the Members Widget which shows the “Newest” “Active” and “Popular” Members, then add a text widget on top of that to welcome members.
Plus you could always add this code in home page and style accordingly – http://wordpress.pastebin.com/Rvx4ZgWF – change title and avatar sizes to taste
@DJPaul Any way of modifying your Welcome Pack plugin to accomplish what I want? In addition to this BuddyPress post, I’ve created on here, too:
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/407338?replies=1
I had the exact same problem (two wordpress blogs installed on one server, and suddenly only the front page worked but none of the other ones. But it was only the pages on ONE of the blogs that didn’t work–the other one worked completely fine). I spent 4 hours pouring over my css scripts and coding in the .php files thinking there was something faulty there; I checked and rechecked every single setting to see if I had checked or left unchecked some box or option. Couldn’t figure it out.
Then I went to my plugins and remembered that I had downloaded a plugin (a YouTube/video plugin). I deactivated it and wham-bam!!! my pages started working again. So it must have been the plugin.
Try deleting any plugins you may have downloaded.
I have had the same problems and the proposed solutions here do not work for me either.
For now I have just used the older version of bp-core-avatars.php from https://trac.buddypress.org/browser/branches/1.2/bp-core/bp-core-avatars.php?rev=2876#L109 which has worked although there may be knock on affects from using the old file that I am unaware of.
There is also a thread here about it https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/how-to-show-avatars-uploaded-via-buddypress-in-wordpress-mu/
Paul.
Thanks Kaberi,
You are doing a great job chasing this down. I will try using the older file although there must surely be some knock on affects that we are unaware of yet. Will try it now.
It is kind of mission critical because the whole blog thing is clearly not working from a user perspective.
Thanks again.
Paul.
PS The old version of bp-core-avatars.php seems to do the trick – thank you for that. Have not noticed any drawbacks yet but there must be some. Hopefully a fix for the new file will appear. In the meantime, thank you again.
Wordpress 2.9.2 BuddyPress 1.2.4.1
After an edit/update of a thread in my forum, I am now getting this message when I try to create a new thread “There was an error when creating the topic”
Although the thread creation was no problem until I performed the edit/update, I deactivated plugins and still have the problem.
My questions are:
1) any clue where to fix this?
2) if I reinstall the forums, will I lose forum content?
Thanks!
Alex
I have compared both the test server and the live server configs, disabled mod_security, checked different other settings and found NOTHING until I stumbled upon a pretty hidden error log of this client and there are a couple of different DB errors like [06-Jun-2010 10:46:25] WordPress database error Unknown column 'spam' in 'where clause' for query SELECT COUNT(ID) FROM wp_users WHERE spam = 0 AND deleted = 0 AND user_status = 0 made by require, require_once, do_action, call_user_func_array, bp_core_do_catch_uri, load_template, require_once, bp_get_total_member_count, bp_core_get_total_member_count
so its definitely a wordpress issue and not a server issue. here is a bigger part of the error log, just in case anyone has some feedback on this: http://pastebin.com/tx5gaEWG
gettign weirder and weirder:
the test site has these fields inside the wp_users table:
Full Texts ID user_login user_pass user_nicename user_email user_url user_registered user_activation_key user_status display_name spam deleted
the live site these:
Full Texts ID user_login user_pass user_nicename user_email user_url user_registered user_activation_key user_status display_name
After adding the two missing fields: spam and deleted, all is good 
Does anyone know when those fields were supposed to be added? I which WP version? or does BP add them? I’d like to figure out where this went wrong…
@wordpresschina – I also tested over the weekend and it worked great for me. But I have one issue I would love to be able to solve…
The e-mail sent out to the new users is the standard WP e-mail (with username, password (sutogenerated) and link to standard WP login screen) and not the one from BuddyPress. I would like to do the following.
1) Change the text of the e-mail.
2) lead people to a custom login page
I know this is not part of the plugin for Ning, but any help would be greatly appreciated.
By the way, unfortunately I cannot help you with your two issues, I don’t mind that the username is the name (it actually helps me) and I am not importing any date information, so I don’t have the issue. The best I can do is wish you the best of luck.
Any help on my two above issues would be greatly appreciated.
Kalman
Just to clear up what @mercime and @hnla said, BP 1.2.4 was, in fact, released to not only fix outstanding issues in the 1.2.x branch, but to also improve support for WP 3.0:
This highly anticipated version provides fixes to 74 reported tickets and adds improved support for WordPress 3.0 to help ensure a safe and worry free upgrade. (https://buddypress.org/2010/05/buddypress-1-2-4/).
There has been a ticket reported as stated in a earlier post to this topic. From looking at Trac, it looks like there might be a 1.2.5 release since WP 3.0 won’t be out until mid-June at the earliest, and the BP 1.3 branch can’t really be finalized until WP 3.0 is stabilized/finalized. This is obviously an issue people are having, so if anyone wants to go and add some info to the ticket about your setup it would likely help get the issue resolved.
@r-a-y I have BP on several installs of WPMu (all latest versions) with the same results. http://terryhall.biz (root site) & http://wp4seo.com (secondary site) – the avatars are not active links but the user name has a link ~ http://geeky.terryhall.biz/author/mrcleam which is not pulling avatar from http://terryhall.biz/members/mrclean –
Comment avatars are working. This was not a problem in BP 1.2.3 ~ is the “bp_root_blog” a new feature? Seems to be related to capability….
@yocalif The wordpress version should be showing at the bottom when you login to the dashboard. For buddypress, you can go into the plugins and it’ll list each plugins version number.
What is the best way to import export
from: wordpress2.9.2+buddypress1.2.4.1 — http://www.example.com/oldpath
to: wordpress multisite+buddypress1.2.4.1 — http://www.example.net/newpath (multisite subfolder)
I’m already familiar with the import export feature of wordpress but what about the buddypress user data?
@yocalif
For buddypress, you can start with the readme.txt in the downloaded file
For WPMU, you can start with this: https://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WPMU
Ok I’m totally new to BP and WP, and I’m frustrated. I am a traditional forum kind of guy, I have setup several phpbb, smf, joomla, etc sites and or forums. I think in typical outline structure. But so far finding answers here at Buddypress is an exercise in frustration.
!st question: This is from support at TMDhosting, who are installing BP & WPmu for me,
quote:Would you please let us know if you wish to have the new blogs for your WordPress MU as :
* Sub-domains or * Sub-folders
I tried to find an answer in documentation http://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/setting-up-a-new-installation/
NOT…
How about searching via google using site filter…. NOT
How about using search in the right column next to documentation categories on the link above, NOT…. tried the word “domain”, and got blank page, tried the word “folder” and also a blank page.
How about looking in the support groups, I chose the Install Buddypress support group, nope nothing there.
Ok surely if I search entire site using the search box. Result is multiple pages of results but so far after 5 pages I can’t find this topic.
Enough on how to install BP…. lets move on to Getting Started?
What is the first thing I should do after BP is installed? How the hell do I know, the documentation link has nothing,
The Support FAQ has nothing?
What is really frustrating is there are hundreds of BP sites installed and operating, so people have figured this stuff out, and I can’t.
It seems a little logical organization is called for…….
First item, “how to get help when you need it”?
I just tried this on WordPress 3.0 RC2 and Buddypress 1.2.4 and have exact same issue as @brett (3 weeks ago). If I type activity after the main url I can see the stream… Trying to upgrade to 3.0 to fix the timestamp issue with personal messages, but this issue is worse so re-loading back to 2.9.2 until this issue is resolved….
Thanks LPH.
We’re running WordPress MU version 2.9.2
Buddypress version 1.2.4.1
Active plugins include:
BP Contents Version 1.0
BP Group Calendar Version 1.2.1
Welcome Pack Version 2.0.3
Akismet Version 2.2.9
All in One SEO Pack Version 1.6.11
BuddyPress Album+ Version 0.1.7
Contact Form 7 Version 2.2.1
Embedded Video Version 4.1
PollDaddy Polls Version 1.8.7
Really Simple CAPTCHA Version 1.1
Remove BuddyPress AdminBar Version 1.2
Seo for Buddypress Version 1.2.4
WordPress Hashcash Version 4.5.1
WPaudio Version 2.2.0
And yes I’ve checked and rechecked permissions and that all appears to be fine. Just not sure what I could check next? Thanks for your help!
Hi Kaberi,
Same problem here. Has anyone got any idea how this might be solved? Everything else seems to be working perfectly.
Perhaps there is a setting somewhere I have not got right, but given you testing, seems that it is not me or my settings.
Love BuddyPress but this is quite a big issue IMHO, any suggestions to solve it would be warmly welcomed.
Paul
PS Am using subdomains for guest blogs, could that be the issue?
Hi,
I am having trouble searching for a group from the directory. Normally when you hit letter A, the groups listing will return all groups starting with A. But instead it will list all groups regardless the letter I search from. I am using bp 1.2.4 with wordpress 2.9.2. The members search is working perfectly only the group.
Does anyone knows how to fix this please? or where is the function that does the search so I can look it through
Thanks for helping
“Is this post by Andy Peatling (“”No firstname/lastname because this does not work for a lot of international users.”“) still the official position or have things moved on?”
Nothing has changed, so I assume it remains the official Automattic position and have given up on Buddypress. I’ll continue to develop my sites as “custom code” on WordPress 3.0.
Has anyone tried this yet? Experiences so far? Things to watch out for, test?
I haven’t tested this myself yet. Getting my customized 1.1.3-based version of Buddypress to work on 3.0 is my Summer project. Not looking forward to it…
