The “modifying the WordPress bar” tutorial says
“Any custom code that we create can be placed in a file called bp-custom.php. It gets loaded with all the rest of bp automatically by bp during each page load. If you don’t have one already then create one in /plugins/buddypress.”
OK, done that. I’m now getting an error after the first creation screen, and this error in my logs
WordPress database error Unknown column ‘avatar_thumb’ in ‘field list’ for query INSERT INTO wp_bp_events ( , referer: http://domain.com/members/admin/events/create/
It appears as though the plugin isn’t creating that field in bp-events.php, I can’t find any reference to it anyway, and then in bp_events_classes.php, avatar_thumb and avatar_full have commands to have information inserted into them in the save() function.
I added the necessary lines to add those fields in the sql create and everything works…
Read through this WPMU Codex article on changing your site URL. It should provide the assistance you need.
You could make a custom login page with BP trunk like…
define('BP_LOGIN_SLUG', 'login');
function bp_show_login_page() {
global $bp, $current_blog;
if ( $bp->current_component == BP_LOGIN_SLUG && $bp->current_action == '' ) {
bp_core_load_template( 'registration/login', true );
}
}
add_action( 'wp', 'bp_show_login_page', 2 );
Then put a template file named “login.php” in your frameworks registration folder and steal some code from the buddypress login form to help with getting started…
There’s a few examples online on how to redirect the WordPress login page with .htaccess. Could give that a shot too?
This is going nowhere. I’ll just hack core file; replace wp-login.php and wp-admin/profile.php with copies on login.php and account/profile.php (?) and then search/replace all links.
I f***ing hate WordPress registration/member management!
Does anybody know if there is, or someone is developing a donation (paypal) plugin for bp? My site members are mostly charity, and it would be great if each of them could add donation button on their profile page.
I know there plenty of donation plugins for wordpress, but I haven’t heard of any for bp.
– is it possible with BP to disable the “Wire” ?
Yes…this can be disabled per group at the group creators discretion.
– is it possible to use P2-theme in your “Group-blog” ?
I don’t know, I have not use the P2 theme yet, but I imagine it should be no problem.
– are there any language-related wording in your plugin (at the user-interface) which need to be translated when I would like to run your plugin for a german-language-website ?
Yes, a language file is included which you may translate using the wordpress guidelines.
@Mariusooms
– can I have a Group-Blog instead of the BBPress-Forum ?
– I would like to disable User-Blogs for each single user, but instead have a Group-Blog using P2-theme. Does this work with your plugin ?
– Is your plugin compatible with BP-version 1.1 ?
– what is the difference from your Group-Blog-plugin compared with the one from Burt ?
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-community-blogs/
Many thanks,
Hi all: Ive been struggling with this one for a few weeks now and had some very knowledgeable folks to email some ideas, but mostly criptic and mysterious. Question: what file(s) in what directory needs to be tweaked to edit members’ blog page? In this page of a member (http://tatazara.com/palmanice/) – the blogger currently goes there and sees “Please log in and add widgets to this column. Add Widgets”
etc…. where is this page/CSS/PHP or whatever format, its name and directory location so rather than have these “Add Widgets”, I’d like to have simple words like “write your story here”, email your friends there, etc…
Also: is it simple to force widgets like “Site Wide Posts” in ALL blogs in the site without giving the blogers the option to remove them, sort of lock them.
I checked a bunch of WPMU forums, and not so clear either so I am hopping wordpress gurus could provide simple directions….
Thanks a mil.
Are you using the BuddyPress Skeleton Component as the framework with which to code your plugin? If not, you should download it and see how the example code that adds an admin page to WPMU’s backend is written.
The example code is in bp-example-admin.php.
Hi everyone,
I’m a newbie on WordPress & Buddypress. I’m trying to write a plugin a I have some troubles.
My plugin has some admin options and I’m registering them by using add_menu_page and add_submenu_page.
These options are functions written in my plugin-admin.php file. They are all mostly forms, so I have some actions to do with them.
Well, my troubles come when I try to submit these forms.
This form, for example:
<form name="category_edit_form" id="category_edit_form" method="post" action="?page=bm_contests_save_category">....
Does not work.
Function bm_contests_save_category is not one of the functions of any of the menu_page. Do I have to register it? How do I do that?
Thank you very much for your help. Hope I have explain my problem clearly enough.
Best regards.
Is there a series of tests that we can perform to make sure that the WPMU+Buddypress upgrades have completed without any damages? WordPress says all upgrades went off well but I am still concerned about finding problems later.
The new feature to select an existing blog is now available. We also fixed some other bugs.
There is only one (known) bug left, which we will squash on Monday. Namely member roles are not set upon creation, but they are set when saving the 2nd time around form the admin as explained in the readme.
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-groupblog/
When it’s ready, it’ll be available through the BuddyPress/WordPress theme repo, so everyone can have at it.
You could modify the home.php file and rip out all the extra code. Home.php will always act as the front page of your website, regardless of your WordPress settings.
@ John James Jacoby
Thanks for the info! I’ve verified that all my Keys and Salts are the identical, and double checked that the deep integration code given here (https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddybar-in-bbpress/installation/) has the correct path.
I’m not sure where else to check for cookie issues.
I’ll look into the redirection plugins for my other issue.
Thanks!
All right, I got it. bp must be always in the parent directory:
mydomain.org/wordpress-mu/
Pheeew.
Quick update:
After activating the theme on the first blog, it still shows the same error msg.
my structure looks like this:
/wordpress-mu/firstblog/
/wordpress-mu/secondblog/
…
/wordpress-mu/community -> where bp should run
Hi everybody
I know this is kind of an endless topic – at least it seems so, when I read the threads over at mu.wordpress.org…
My questions is the following – could it be, that some plugins do not work with buddypress, because it is not using the wp-signup.php?
That is what I tried:
– rename or even delete the wp-signup.php…
– Using a captcha on my registration page (register.php)
– I installed the hashcash plugin with signup-protection activated (without aksimnet), but it seems, that it doesn’t do anything – I still get spam registrations.
Any ideas? It is very anoying…!
I post this here, because I think this is just a great community of helpers!!!
Add your register_sidebar() functions code from your existing WordPress theme’s functions.php file to your BP Member theme’s functions.php file.
Then your WordPress sidebar should show up.
I am using it here at: http://duvar.fenerbook.com
I had to get rid of the “blog authors” link from the adminbar, because of too many authors and also page loading was slow.
I have the wordpress video plugin (enabled site wide) which works well with p2 theme and member blogs as well!
http://www.daburna.de/blog/2006/12/13/wordpress-video-plugin
Hope it helps.
This is not a BP question, but a WP theme question! A quick Google of that function took me to https://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_list_pages.
Five minutes reading revealed:
All list items (li) generated by wp_list_pages() are marked with the class page_item. When wp_list_pages() is called while displaying a Page, the list item for that Page is given the additional class current_page_item.
So, apply a style to .current_page_item.
I would try to prevent member registration through .htaccess:
http://wpmututorials.com/how-to/spam-blogs-and-buddypress/
If not .htaccess, then try WP Hashcash, but I prefer the simplistic method of blocking through .htaccess. This will block most spam signups, but of course you can’t block everything! 
Thanks to Darcy Norman for the original tip!