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I’m having a little trouble understanding the Buddypress admin bar. When i upload a custom wordpress theme, and activate it, the admin bar integrates perfectly with the wordpress theme.
http://www.capitalistdog.net is a good example of what I’m talking about.
However, once I follow the steps on the following codex page, the formatting of the admin bar gets messed up. http://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/upgrading-a-buddypress-1-0-theme-for-buddypress-1-1/
This is happening on a local machine, so I can’t show you, but here’s a screenshot of the error. I’ve highlighted the admin menu with a white box http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/8669/44663371.jpg
I have copied over the CSS from the bp parent theme for the Admin Bar, and pasted it into my custom themes css, but the problem persists. This problem is persistent on all custom themes that I test, it always works at first, until i follow the steps in the codex.
Any idea where i’m going wrong? Thanks for any help
Topic: CLASSIFIEDS COMPONENT news
Hi…Big news here.
But (in parts) bad news :
I was cleaning the code of my plugin, which is at this point almost finished.
I was trying to find a reliable way to handle categories and tags : my code is working but categories and tags are in 2 different custom tables (the code is a little dirty); there is no admin page to manage them…
Well, I was looking at how WordPress was handling them because I wanted the code to be strong enough to keep maintaining my component in future easily.
Then I start to look at the taxonomy system.
Then I saw that WP 2.9 will include custom post types…
And then… I’m half disappointed, half excited :
Half excited, because “custom post types” means that you will be able to define new post types (-actually, there is just “pages” and “posts”), like, let’s say … “classifieds”.
That means that you will be able to use the WP dashboard to write a classified like you write a post, and use categories and tags for those classifieds as you do for a post. Those categories or tags will not be those you use for your posts but custom ones just for your “classifieds” post type.
The wire for a classified is no more necessary as you can will be able to use the core comments system with your classified.
Idem for pictures that you will be able to upload and attach directly from there.
That also means that you will be able to search,filter and display those classifieds with the same functions that you do for your posts.
Well, well, that means that this is a big step for WordPress…
But this is also a disappointment for me because that means that lot of the time (several months so far – not full time of course, and i’m an autodidact) I spent to write my plugin was useless as now, the WP core will be able to do by itself a lot of what I wrote in my plugin.
So I think that it would be a wide decision to wait that the custom post type stuff came and to… almost start writing a new plugin from scratches.
Yes, some pieces of my work will still be reusable to make all this “buddypress-friendly” (attach classifieds to groups, notifications, etc), but 95% of my actual code will potentially be useless as WP core function will do the same, and better.
But from what I read, we don’t know exactly when all that stuff will came. Some parts of the functions will be available in WP 2.9 but it’s not sure that the whole thing will be usable in that version, neither we know when WPMU 2.9 will be out : in the trac, they say
I really see no reason we cannot get this into 2.9 since a large majority of the work has been completed already. Even if we only get some of the basic functionality of this into 2.9 it would still be a big help and a basis of something to build off of for 3.0.
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Well… think the best thing to do should be :
STEP 1 :
Sleep. Cry. Sleep. Howl.

STEP 2
-restart from scratches if I feel the courage for it

-write a new plugin that creates a new blog just for Classifieds at the plugin’s activation.
-All the members of the BuddyPress installation would be members of that blog and so have the capability to write posts.
-Use the posts on that blog as the “classifieds” displayed in the BuddyPress site.
-Control the data sent – number of images used in the post, number of chars, post boxes displayed, etc).
-Add the BP features for notifications, activity, “attaching” classifieds to groups and so.
-use that blog as the basis of my plugin; then
STEP 3
This will be able to make the component ready for WP 2.9 or WP 3.0…
There shouldn’t be lots of stuff to modify in the code. change the post types of the posts in the custom blog to “classifieds”, move them to the main blog and add specific capabilities to decide who can do what. Example : you could be able, as subscriber, to write classifieds but not posts or pages.
And why not differenciate classifieds written on the main blog and classifieds written on a user’s blog, if any (ex. company blog).
STEP 3b
Add a BP-friendly posting system ?
So here’s where I am.
As I said I’m feel a little sorry.
Maybe I should have though of handle the data from my component from a blog from the beginning. But that when we make mistakes that we go further !
The good thing is that I learned a lot about WordPress & BuddyPress and that I know now what I can do with it, and i’ll release my own BP project soon or later. And that once that custom post type system will be available, writing the classifieds component should be a piece of cake, or almost.
If I feel it, i’ll start to rewrite it soon as I explained it in step 2. But I have a lot of work now so I’m not sure I will be able to do this at this moment. I’ll tell you about it in a few days.
Anyway, RIP (for the moment) my-custom-component
You can still see some pictures of the work achieved here : http://dev.benoitgreant.be/2009/11/18/classifieds-component-postponed/
hi,
we are trying to move our bp to a subfolder.
http://www.interconnectit.com/719/migrating-a-wordpresswpmubuddypress-website/
this website is giving away great info but we are not moving to another domain, so we can’t use their tool to simply change the name of the domain. what we need to change is domain.com to domain.com/wpmu and in most of the tables of the database, domain is separately inserted from it’s trailing part /sub/sub/folder.
Therefore, i’m not sure running a sql find/replace with domain.com to domain.com/bp will do any good..
when i change the main blog’s url on wp_blogs on the database it looks like it’ll start working but then i get a blank page without any errors…
is there something you want to share that could make our lives easier?
Gigya seems like a very nice solution for social network login/signup. You can connect existing accounts (on WP) (this to me is the killer app — users having their BP account connected to their other social network accounts), users can signup with various services once you have the APIs configured on their site, you can use the widget to let users invite friends from their other networks.
Very nicely-thought-out, rich developer doco on the Wiki, and a pre-existing standard WordPress plugin (and I’ve found some hints via Googling that it works with MU as well).
I fired them off a support email yesterday to ask if they were willing to look at BP integration on their end a bit, but haven’t heard back.
Given that the FBConnect plugin here doesn’t really do the job, and this offers a lot more (FB, Yahoo, Twitter, Myspace, etc) I wonder if anyone else is looking at this (I’ve got everything connected up in the background, but am chasing configuration issues), and if so, if you want to share notes.
Have a look if you haven’t, let us know what you think. And if you’ve got it working with BP, please share how you did it?
I’m running buddypress 1.1.2 on WordPress MU 2.8.4a
For some odd reason when I create a multiselectbox under Profile Field Setup, people on the users end are unable to select more then one item on the list. If they choose more then one, only one of the selects is highlight after you save.
This take’s place on two different sites which are on two different hosts using different templates.
Anyone come across this?
Unable to receive activation or lost password emails.
Although WPMU now tells me everything is installed and working I’m not able to register using the buddypress frontend.
From my php log:
Request exceeded the limit of 10 internal redirects due to probable configuration error. Use ‘LimitInternalRecursion’ to increase the limit if necessary.
New install using
WordPress MU 2.8.5.2.
Buddypress 1.1.2
PHP 5.2.6
Thanks
Topic: h-mag.com
First off I would like to thank the BuddyPress team for developing an amazing tool for creating a social media network. For the past 4 months I’ve been developing a companion site for a magazine that we’re launching here in Hoboken, NJ. Using BuddyPress, WordPress MU, and a ton of various jqueries, I designed a site allowing our future readers to join in our community, add events, classifieds, images, and post comments on our articles. The site is set to launch in a few days:
The current front page: http://www.h-mag.com/temp
and our community: http://www.h-mag.com/community
i’ve a problem with the import of existing users from a wordpress (normal) blog, this blog have some users and i want to have all in the new site whit mu+bp but when i try to dump the tables wp_usermeta and wp_users but users are in the site but are not on BP, and directory of members is empty.
someone can help me? Thanks.
WPMU version: 2.8.5.2
BP version: 1.1.2
WP normal version: 2.8.5
Topic: Avatar upload fails
When I try to upload new avatars to a new WPMU+BuddyPress installation the following message is displayed:
Upload Failed! Error was: Unable to create directory /var/www/vhosts/terrywassall.org/httpdocs/blogs/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/avatars/3. Is its parent directory writable by the server?
There is a folder called:
blogs.dir 4.00 KB rwx r-x r-x Nov 6, 2009 apache apache
but it is empty and I do not have write access to it of change permissions
Installation versions:
WordPress MU 2.8.5.2.
BuddyPress Version 1.1.2
I would be grateful for any suggestions.
).. So they might really like a custom made plugin, which stays away from their core setup… I think there would be quite a few people really happy with your plugin as is, and you can continue developing a new plugin on the side… 