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  • #7408
    Jean-Pierre Michaud
    Participant

    there is no answer to this question, but i have a major need for a breadcrumb navigation list, possibly integrated to http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/breadcrumb-navxt/ …

    i use a complete different theme than the ones provided with BP, and the theme is actually nesting a breadcrumb, but when i visit any of BP component, the breadcrumb is empty…

    i think it could be based on the function bp_get_page_title(), but i’m not sure.

    90% of the elements used to create the breadcrumb are there but also the url of the site is always built the right way, so i suppose it could be a snap to do it someway…

    the only thing needed actually is a list in

    • the same way we navigate thru WP usually…

    can someone work this out? *(i’d be ready to donate if someone can do it perfect…)

    #55816

    In reply to: Future of BP

    David Lewis
    Participant

    @gaz: Yes, with the default theme you get a main navigation bar that focuses on BuddyPress features (Members, Groups, Forums). So in that sense, BuddyPress “takes over”. But there’s also the “Blog” link which links to your WPMU main blog. WPMU is nothing more than Posts and Pages. So it’s all still there.

    But yes, the main navigation is BuddyPress-focused when using the default theme. However, that is easily changed. Simply create a child theme with a custom header.php file. Your navigation could then be… Blog, About, Products, Contact, Customer Care… whatever you wish. Perhaps those BuddyPress links (Members, Groups, Forums) would be either in a separate navigation bar (like the bottom bar on Facebook) or maybe subsections of a “Community” menu. Or what have you. It’s all very do-able.

    Unfortunately… you are also correct that there are very few custom themes right now. And no purpose-specific themes. BuddyPress is too new. So your choices are to either a) roll up your sleeves and be prepared to do a ton of learning and research or b) hire someone.

    And Site Architecture is critical of course. It seems like you have a good idea of what you want to do but you’ve started out by taking a default BuddyPress install and working backwards from there. A good sanity check (if you haven’t already done so) is to sit down and sketch out exactly what you want… what sections… what navigation bars… what functionality… etc. Draw it all out (again, if you haven’t already). Then work from there.

    I think you’ve made the right choice. It’ll just require some work. WordPress and BuddyPress are so much more flexible and better supported than the other open source alternatives. It’s worth the effort.

    #55802

    In reply to: Future of BP

    Mike
    Participant

    All I can share from personal experience is this: It’s real easy to get lost in all the gloss. About two years ago when I was hunting down low-cost, self-hosted, white label social networking software, I narrowed it down to two choices, Elgg and Dolphin. What I loved about Dolphin was how intuitive and pretty the whole backend was — you could easy drag/drop/rearrange different menu items and easily swap out your pages/columns/widgets. You could even change the sizes of certain page elements with just a few mouse clicks. It was almost like a Square Spaces for social networks. But then came more research. And upon that research, I found that Dolphin has some of the ugliest code ever written. On top of breaking tons of add-ons during upgrades, there also wasn’t (and probably still isn’t) an active support group available — more like a commune of helpless, p/o’ed customers who were all experiencing the same bugs. That’s not to say that it’s useless. I’m sure it works fine for a good handful of users who dumped a lot of money into development. But it became apparent that I needed to look into Elgg instead.

    Now, Elgg does everything it says right out of the box 100% and we had instant love affair — http://www.michaelkuhlmann.com/category/elgg-vs-buddypress/. The whole installation took me about 10 minutes and there wasn’t a single problem… until I tried to re-design it. It was virtually impossible creating an entirely different layout. In fact, I have yet to see an Elgg-powered site that looks completely custom-made like the BuddyPress-powered VW TDI Truth & Dare site. Again, I’m sure Elgg fulfills the needs of many of its users – and probably a lot more so than Dolphin – but when it came to theming the software, it just fell a bit short. Although I could see how it could seem *ahead of the game* with its ease of use and drag’n’drop capabilities, it really isn’t compared to BP.

    So BP came right along just as I finished *theming* — I should actually just say “colorizing” – my Elgg installation. Immediately, I dumped Elgg and switched to BP. I had seen what Andy did with ChickSpeak several months before the BP/Automattic venture was announced, so it looked quite promising. Then, the first release came out. First, I had trouble installing WPMU. Next, I had trouble installing BP. Following that, I couldn’t figure out how to get forums up and running. I sounded just like Mythailife – frustrated to the core. But I also remembered what an amazing difference a few months of development did to WordPress going from version 2.3 to 2.7, so I decided to stick around.

    Up until now, I can easily say that BP has made strides in development. Out of the dozens of forums that I’ve visited, BP has *consistently* given the most support to its users in a timely fashion – FOR FREE. I have to stress the complimentary tech support part, because a lot of people tend to demand an answer to every single question immediately after they’ve posted their question, which is ridiculous. And if that speaks to you, here’s what you are getting – again – FOR FREE:

    – A social networking system built on top of one of the best open source publishing systems, which means you’re also inheriting tons of great functionalities like WordTube/MapPress/eCommerce/Facebook Connect

    – Loads of documentation including WordPress for Dummies and the upcoming book BuddyPress for Dummies (books are not free, of course, but they do count towards documentation)

    – Support forums, development roadmaps and overall project transparency

    – Ability to customize/theme BP exactly the way you want it to appear

    – Dozens of available plugins

    – Did I mention that this is built on WordPress?

    If you don’t have the luxury of time to wait for support-related questions or still feel like this project is lagging AND you have deep pockets, there’s always Crowdfusion and Anahita. Otherwise, don’t get lost in the gloss, because BuddyPress is the next-best-thing to come out of the Automattic vault.

    #7402
    jazgold
    Participant

    Filters for the activity feed are important, and there are currently a few, but I need to extend that functionality.

    My users need to be able to filter activity by categories like:

    • Family,
    • Philanthropy,
    • Business… etc.

    I simply want an activity item to have the same categories as the post item it points back to (if it’s a new post item or a related comment).

    I see that there’s a plugin for categorizing everything, http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bpcontents/ , such as entire blogs, or users, or groups… but first off, it doesn’t extend to activity items, and second it is more focused on allowing users to actively categorize things – mine is passive, categorizing automatically, and simply giving users the ability to filter their lists.

    so i came up with a few options, and i think i know which i have to take, but i figured i’d ask the experts, because well… you always have better ideas:)

    1. (least flexible, and messy) modify the component or action fields of the activity items to include the cat, like “new-blog-post-PURPLE.” simple, and i can use the current filtering techniques and get_activity functions, but things can only have one category.

    2. don’t modify anything in the database, but make a separate function with a custom MYSQL query that looks at the activity items and inner joins all the way through (to the post and then to it’s cat relationships) and return only those with the proper cats… ( allows multiple categorization and no database manipulation, but nothing is cached so it seems like a big drain on the server, and a fairly complex mysql statement to figure out)

    3. make a separate Activity-Item-To-Category relationship table. this would bring down the drain on the server per-load a bunch, and allow for multiple categories per activity item… and it would utilize the categories already in the system… but still it would require a custom get-activity function and mysql call to make use of the new db table. this is the one that i think i’ll need to go with however. seems like the most flexible.

    i’m actually hoping that i’ll be able to make use of the core bp classes to render the actual activity feed… for example the time_since function and whatnot.

    but any suggestions for alternate routes, or perhaps simply tips to expedite it?

    Thanks

    #55739
    madyogi
    Participant

    Alright, I’m super-close now it seems, but I still need a bit of advice. It seems that what I have so far works in every case but search pages and 404 pages.

    The way it looks to me, every bp_is_…_component() tag returns true for all wordpress is_search and is_404 queries. So, two questions:

    1) What is it about all the bp pages that trigger the 404 and search conditionals in wordpress?

    and

    2) How might I differentiate the two cases?

    #55723
    Xevo
    Participant
    #55706
    David Lewis
    Participant

    Also… with regards to highlighting your tabs… those links should all be getting classes assigned via WordPress which you can then hook into to style (i.e… something like .current_page)

    #55684
    Bowe
    Participant

    “Tell them to learn English? I doubt that Gravatar is gonna translate it’s site just because some people don’t wanna learn English..”

    That makes no sense whatsoever.. The guy is asking a normal question about making his site more user friendly for people who speak a different native language, it has nothing to do with his users… why do you think that multilangual plugins are so widely used for wordpress.. you could have just answered the question without the unneeded remarks about his users and “foreign” users in general..

    #7384
    123flashchat
    Participant

    Hi all,

    I would like to add a chat plugin named WordPress Chat Plugin for 123 Flash Chat into this website. But i couldn’t add. It says the way to add a plugin in here is the same as the WordPress.org.

    I am so confused about this.

    I even don’t know how to add this plugin in WordPress.org.The explaination in WordPress.org is so confused me.

    Could you help me?

    Thank you!

    #55665
    peterverkooijen
    Participant

    @Chouf1, the code is not for uppercasing; it’s making sure firstname and lastname are stored consistently in the different places where WP/WPMU/BP stores names.

    Why is it too much to ask for consistently, reliably stored firstname + lastname in the WordPress world? Uppercasing should be part that imho. It’s utterly ridiculous to have to do that in CSS. Is that even official CSS? Do all browsers support it?

    In most software for grownups firstname and lastname fields are at the top of the members/users table, part of the core of the application, the heart of member registration and management. In the WP/WPMU/BP world it’s a messy afterthought, stored halfheartedly in three or four different locations, in different ways, without any synchronization between them. Aaarrrggghhh.

    Before a WordPress user account is activated, it is stored in the wp_signups table; there’s a meta field storing various things. Have you checked if its that one?

    That’s one of the two places where the lowercase version of the name is stored. My code above updates names with uppercase in the usermeta fields.

    My question is which code stores them in xprofile or wp_signups. Where should I apply my nameize() function to get clean names in xprofile?

    Cleaning them up before they’re stored in wp_signups would do the trick as well, because I think the xprofile data is taken from there. I don’t think the wp_signup data is used for anything else later, so it has a lower priority to me.

    Edit: Of course I’m not trying to uppercase all chars of the name, just the first ones, as used to be custom in western culture. FYI, here’s the nameize function I use:

    function nameize($str,$a_char = array("'","-"," ")){
    //$str contains the complete raw name string
    //$a_char is an array containing the characters we use as separators for capitalization. If you don't pass anything, there are three in there as default.
    $string = strtolower($str);
    foreach ($a_char as $temp){
    $pos = strpos($string,$temp);
    if ($pos){
    //we are in the loop because we found one of the special characters in the array, so lets split it up into chunks and capitalize each one.
    $mend = '';
    $a_split = explode($temp,$string);
    foreach ($a_split as $temp2){
    //capitalize each portion of the string which was separated at a special character
    $mend .= ucfirst($temp2).$temp;
    }
    $string = substr($mend,0,-1);
    }
    }
    return ucfirst($string);
    }

    Edit2: The CSS solution only works on the first name. The last name still starts with lowercase. Any easy CSS trick for that? I don’t think so.

    Apparently the same CSS trick is used in this forum, which would explain why my “username” – cough, spit – is displayed as ‘Peterverkooijen’ instead of ‘peterverkooijen’ as I had entered it. Why is that kind of mess considered acceptable?

    #55653
    Paul Wong-Gibbs
    Keymaster

    Before a WordPress user account is activated, it is stored in the wp_signups table; there’s a meta field storing various things. Have you checked if its that one?

    #55647
    ph23man
    Participant

    I ran into this exact same error:

    Fatal error: Cannot redeclare bp_activity_install() (previously declared in …/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-activity.php:19) in …/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-activity.php on line 52

    If you have a failed upgrade, I recommend reverting to a “clean” backup of your files and database from before you upgraded Buddypress or attempted reactivation.

    Here’s what I did to successfully upgrade from BP 1.0.3 to 1.1.2:

    1. Switch to a non-BP theme, i.e. WordPress mu Homepage 1.6

    2. Deactivate ALL plugins (you’d probably be okay by deactivating only BP-dependent plugins but I did this just to be safe)

    3. Delete Buddypress plugin files (/wp-content/plugins/buddypress) via wp-admin or FTP, either is fine

    4. Download the Buddypress 1.1.2 zip and upload the new files to your plugins folder

    5. Activate Buddypress plugin in wp-admin

    I can’t comment on what changes you have done to your install or what plugins you’re running but I had similar problems with the upgrade and the steps above allowed me to successfully upgrade BP.

    #7381
    stoppays
    Participant

    I’ve gone through WordPress’s Codex but I can’t grasp how remove filter functions:

    http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/remove_filter

    Lets say that I’m trying to remove ‘bp_add_friend_button’

    I’m guessing that the $function_to_remove would be bp_add_friend_button

    Where do I find out the following info what the $tag and $priority?

    #55637

    The BuddyBar is an adaptation of the bar that was previously included in WPMU, which was a watered down version of what you see at wordpress.com. It can be restyled, replaced, or totally removed if you so choose.

    Paul Wong-Gibbs
    Keymaster

    No, but it’s been well discussed that WordPress and BuddyPress do a relatively poor job dealing with i18n issues.

    #55619
    Xevo
    Participant

    For wp wiki, you have to use the backend editor, since it’s officialy made for single wordpress. But since you have to/can make a different theme for the blog, you could try making it front-end.

    Edit: I found an easy solution for this as well, there’s a front end editor plugin.

    https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/front-end-editor/screenshots/

    #55618
    21cdb
    Participant

    Do users have to log into the wordpress backend in order to write a wiki post, or is there kinf of frontend editor?

    #55600

    You can create a custom home theme and replace the blog avatars with a default image of your own if you’d like. And choosing the creator is obvious to you, but might not be what someone else wants. The creator of the root blog is the admin account, but I always create a new user right away and use that new user as my active account.

    When you first install WordPress and see the default theme, is your first response to say “it’s obvious the sidebar should be on the left side.” The default BuddyPress themes are designed to include all of the functions of BuddyPress to guide everyone into how to customize the use of them to do what you want and look how you want it to, just like the included WordPress themes do.

    Sure, people have made ultra elaborate theme frameworks, but don’t expect that to come bundled in the BuddyPress core. You’ve got options if you don’t like what you see, so explore them. :)

    BuddyPress doesn’t modify any WordPress tables or data. It does add a few entries to your _options though. The easiest way to “uninstall” BuddyPress is to drop the tables it creates when it installs. They usually start with “wp_bp_”.

    Very few WordPress plugins have a real “uninstall.” Most of them pollute the WordPress tables with their data and when you deactivate and delete that plugins files, their settings and data still remain in the database. It took me a while to get used to that too, coming from a world where if you don’t need something, you get rid of it; But it doesn’t hurt anything keeping it there, and it even helps sometimes if you decide to revisit a plugin that you deleted 6 months ago.

    In the coming weeks I may write a plugin to import existing blogs into the wp_bp_* tables, but the risk with that kind of thing is just like any other aggregator, it will be a very heavy routine that goes through all users, all blogs, all posts, and all comments, and feeds them into the BuddyPress tables for future use.

    #55596

    @nonegiven:

    No one is forcing you to use WordPress and BuddyPress, and if it doesn’t suit your particular needs then it isn’t the right tool for the job, and that’s okay.

    Multilingual blogging and content management is a relatively new need, and as more people speak up and help out in areas of need, things like this eventually do make it into the core product

    Remember that there are very few people that can do multilingual development, and even less that can do it well. It isn’t that no one cares, it isn’t due to lack of funding (you mean people get paid to do this? ;) ), it isn’t because the need isn’t obvious, it’s because things are prioritized in the order that the WordPress community votes on, and for 2.9 the votes said media was the top priority.

    We’ll get there, I promise. But before we can do that, we need to finish some of the work we’ve already got first. :)

    Just registered on your site as “guest”

    When I attempt to create a group. The “previous” and “next” buttons are always there. You’re correct to assume part of the problem is with the avatar cropping tool, because the issue isn’t with groups, it’s with user avatars too.

    Your bug in the trac wasn’t deleted because I responded to it a few hours ago also, but saw the post here and figured it would be the easiest way to find you…

    Are you able to upload images to your WordPress blog?

    I haven’t seen an issue like this before, so this looks like a configuration issue of some kind. I know you’ve said you’ve tried this on a bunch of hosts, but something isn’t jiving on your installs.

    Can you try the updated version of WordPressMU (2.8.5.2) and see if the problem continues?

    @gazouteast

    Do you have a link to your install that I can join and try to diagnose? I know that there have been issues with the cropping tool, but the current tool is one that now comes included with WordPress and is being used as part of the media editing update coming in WordPress 2.9.

    #55559
    Xevo
    Participant

    I now have re-installed wpmu, buddypress and bbpress (all newest versions). But it still won’t work. I also used buddypress Forum Setup.

    See the site here: http://xevodesign.nl/talkmore/

    The only 3 differences between this setup and the one I did on my localhost (which worked), are that I installed on my localhost, I used my localhost root and the wpmu version.

    Edit: Never mind, got it working, used the bbpress-integration plugin. Strangely enough I didnt have to use this before on my localhost.

    #55558
    Xevo
    Participant

    I might’ve found the first bug, I’m not sure if buddypress/wpmu/bbpress or one of my plugins is the problem though.

    I have a stand-alone bbpress and integrated it with the bbpress install. But now the cross-login doesn’t work anymore. When I login to buddypress/wpmu I’m not automatically logged in to my bbpress, I checked if I maybe made a mistake with my KEYs, but those are correct.

    Since this worked perfectly fine with wpmu 2.8.4a, I’m geussing it’s wpmu’s fault. I’ll test some more and I’ll try to see if I can track down the problem.

    Btw, the plugins I have installed are:

    – Plugin Commander

    – WP Wiki (already tried disabling, no effect)

    #55557
    carinallc
    Participant

    Ok, WordPress has the ability sometimes to make me feel really stupid.

    By disabling the admin bar, you lose the ability to create groups. Doh.

    Another change it would have been nice to have noted somewhere, and another reason why I’d pay good money (REALLY GOOD MONEY) for a technical deep-dive reference book on BuddyPress

    But, because the admin bar doesn’t fit the asthetics of the site we’re building, I need to find the code that makes up My Account, My Blogs, Notifications and Visit and make them part of our new header so that functionality stays intact.

    Thanks for your help DJPaul! Would you know offhand where I might find that code?

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