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Thts the same issue I get, no pages, it just takes me to the front page. My post is here https://wordpress.org/support/topic/342962?replies=2#post-1320596

We have installed wordpress and buddypress in our site.

After the last buddypress update we discovered that USERS can´t upload avatars.

Once they select the file and click UPLOAD they receive “(Error when uploading! The error was The file type does not meet security policies. Try another)”

BUT admin user can upload avatar without problems!!

We are using WordPress MU 2.8.6 and BuddyPress 1.1.3

Thanks!

Francisco

Parent / Child is pretty simple. A child theme can be as simple as a single style.css file with a link to another theme (it’s parent) in the comment section at the top of the file. i.e.:

Template: bp-sn-parent

Done. Now you can make your own styles to override the parent styles. And additionally… as you probably know… you can override any parent template file by placing a template file of the same name (and location) in the child theme. That’s about it.

And I would assume that any wordpress functions / constants / etc. that refer to template locations (other than the blog_info(‘stylesheet_directory’) will refer to the parent.

I think a directory page might make more sense than a sidebar list. What happens once you have 100 documents? Also, it would really make sense with the rest of the BuddyPress world. You could have tabs for “all documents” and “my documents”. You could have sorting by “active”, “recent”, “popular”. etc. And you could have “search” of course. Maybe not to start… but you know… Phase 2.

And how could anyone hate the WordPress backend?! It’s awesome!!! Show them Joomla… then their heads would truly explode. But I understand how being taken into a completely different interface would be jarring. And I think it’s a huge bonus that this will all work on the front end. Nice.

I answered this above. No. There is no parameter for the template tag bloginfo() called “child_theme_directory” or anything similar. To write in the child theme directory, use “stylesheet_directory”. That works. For a full list of parameters that this tag will accept, please read the manual. They’re all listed under the header “Parameters”:

https://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/bloginfo

p.s. Looking at the codex page above, I see there is a parameter call template_url. No idea of that will write in the parent or child dir. But it’s one you haven’t tried I think.

I’m basically one-week new to BuddyPress and but I agree, right now, it’s a bit difficult to be theme agnostic since you have to provide the page templates yourself. We’re going to have to work with Andy and the other devs to find a way to start moving more toward the way WordPress does it:

https://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Hierarchy

This way your plug-in’s action, i.e. create new link, just uses the template framework’s create.php page and you don’t have to provide your own. Same with directories. There should be one directory.php file in a theme and every directory uses it.

Granted this is a huge task But maybe we can spur it via Links since Links is kind of the poster child for BP component plug-ins. I’m available to help hammer that out if any devs catch this thread.

This is BuddyPress centric forum, so if you are having wpmu problem, you should visit he forum at mu.wordpress.org as there’re more users than we have here on buddypress.org

Also please read and follow the step by step guide on asking question on forum.

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/help-us-help-you

We are happy to help, but without enough information we can’t.

holy crap, so what happens when i want to add a page like http://www.trination.co.cc/store like that and the page is made in wordpress?

I’d be fine with an index / directory page. That page could perhaps even use sorting / filtering (at some point) similar to the BuddyPress directory pages in the latest default theme… i.e. most active, most recent… my wikis, all wikis… etc. And if you’re leveraging WordPress functionality… another way to organize the wikis would be by tags and categories… perhaps with a sidebar widget and a dynamic directory page depending on which tag / category you click on. Lots of ideas

Does anyone else know/care? I get the same problem with TEMPLATEPATH.

I can’t make any sense of the information on Function Reference/locate template.

I need something that works in includes. Like this, but for the child template folder:

<? include TEMPLATEPATH.'/directories/members/featured.php'; ?>

bloginfo() doesn’t work there.

EDIT:

Again, this sort of works:

<? include get_bloginfo('stylesheet_directory').'/directories/members/featured.php'; ?>

But that’s just awkward. Is there really no template tag for the child theme folder?

Ok. I’ve fixed it.

The mailer checks the domain name used. I won’t exted on this issue.

To let our local mailserver work correctly, we can do it by changing the validate_user_signup() function.

This function is located in: /wp-signup.php file, check it at the line 267 or something similar.

We must tell wordpress to consider valid our mail domain name without restrictions.

This can be done by modifying the user account check line:

We must replace the sentence

if ( $errors->get_error_code() )

by

if ( $errors->get_error_code() && $_SERVER[‘HTTP_HOST’]!“localhost.YOURDOMAINNAME” ).

Doing this, WP will accept any mail and user name if sent from our local domain.

Notice that WP won’t warn us about any registration error by doing this.

If you create by mistake an account, you can erase this sign up by editing the signup table in your wprss database using phpmyadmin.

I hope it can help anyone else.

BP-DEV guy “Nicola” has something like this “aggregator” but I think its broken at the moment.

its a good idea though!

I use WP-O-Matic instead of FeedWordpress it has some pretty advanced features — a cool feature it has is REGEX so you can do some fancy rewriting of a feed and relinking.

(*just a thought)

On a regular WP blog, combining https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/add-link/ with FeedWordPress allows site users to add their feeds to the site without access to the dashboard.

I think this is a good idea.. Now that I know that you are working on this, this is what I’m going to do on my site

1: Let users fill in their external rss feed adress (which then gets feed into FeedWordPress like you said)

2: Create a default blog theme which matches with my site layout

Now you have a seemlessy integrated blog which also imports external posts.. sweet!

Keep us updated!

Nope. But there are lots of other parameters that template tag will accept:

https://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/bloginfo

Gotcha. Before you had said you only wanted posts from the Administrator on the homepage… which would be you… so that’s where I was coming from.

The solution is almost the same however. If you’d like to do this without any plugins… just one little line of code… you could do this in the “loop” on your home.php file.

<?php query_posts('category_name=Featured'); ?>



[your wordpress loop here]



<?php wp_reset_query(); ?>

The loop by the way is simply a bit of code that iterates through all the posts for a particular page and displays them. So on the homepage… the loop shows ALL posts by default (up to whatever number you have configured in the dashboard… so the 5 most recent perhaps). If you click on a tag… then the “loop” shows all the posts with that tag. By setting up a custom query on the homepage… you are simply modifying the collection of posts that the loop will iterate through. So that little line of code simply limits the posts that the loop will iterate through as being posts from the category named “Featured”.

What I wonder as I look at this is wouldn’t it be easier to take a robust plugin for wordpress and make it work well with MU/Buddypress. That seems like a better place to start, especially if the original author can point you to the right places in the code.

I mean the functionality of a good calendar plugin should be pretty well understood at this point. Priorities and roadmap might be trickier, but the end goal should exist in the PHP if not WordPress world.

This raises my recurring question of how hard is it to turn a quality PHP script into a good plugin.

I guess that would work. Seems like a very round about method however and you’re creating lots of blogs and database tables and such that you don’t need if all you want to do is have only YOUR posts show up on the homepage. It that’s the goal… just your posts on the homepage (and it sounds like that based on your last post)… then this is very simple. The solution is already above. Just add that query before the WordPress loop on your home.php file. So simple:

<?php query_posts('author=1'); ?>

and reset the query at the end of the loop:

<?php wp_reset_query(); ?>

This assumes that your admin account had an author ID of 1… which is safe to assume.

Here is a slightly more complete example. But really… this is an extremely simple loop. You’ll probably want more stuff in there… like tags, dates, categories, etc. But this loop will work to show only posts by author ID 1. I just figured it would be good to see what I’m talking about in more context.

<!-- custom query -->

<?php query_posts('author=1'); ?>



<!-- the loop -->

<?php if (have_posts()): while (have_posts()): the_post(); ?>

<h3><?php the_title(); ?></h3>

<p><?php the_content(); ?></p>

<?php endwhile; else: ?>

<p>No posts.</p>

<?php endif; ?>



<!-- reset the query -->

<?php wp_reset_query(); ?>