You can use any WordPress theme for the home/blog theme, yes. You’d only need a customised or Buddypress-specific theme for the member pages.
Hi All,
I just installed buddypress and try to get the navbar at the top of my website:
http://www.allumette.org
Can you help me getting it back. It’s there on the dashboard and on the wordpress theme but not on the one I am trying to work with.
Thanks
“themes” is a themes folder for WordPress(MU); whereas “bp-themes” is a themes folder specific to BuddyPress components.
To be more specific, “themes” styles the blogs; “bp-themes” styles the member profiles and groups.
ReadWritePoem’s blog posts is from the main, primary blog… it’s a simple template loop from WordPress… nothing elaborate there. In fact, looking into it further, they do not have member blogs! So if you’re familiar with regular WordPress, you’ll know how they placed the blog posts on the front page.
I’m trying to learn how to customize BP but I feel I don’t understand the fundamentals that make BP what it is. Why are there two theme folders (bp-themes and themes) and do I need to edit files in both? How does this site place blog posts on the front page? Looking through the admin panel in widgets, I noticed there wasn’t a drag and drop function for “blog posts”.
I’m familiar with customizing WordPress themes but Buddypress seems different. I would appreciate some guidance as I feel I’m missing something obvious.
To build better interactivity and organizations of Wires, I think it is necessary to build threaded Wires just like WordPress multi-threaded comments. It’s good to keep track your replies from friends at their own topic.
Here is a plugin that “forces users to provide first and last name upon registration” and stores them in wp_usermeta.
Would this plugin be compatible with Buddypress? Looking into it now…
Hi guys
I have been running my website on buddypress for a few months and it has been doing very well in my niche market.
With the further development of Buddypress and WordPress MU i have reached a stage where i HAVE to upgrade to take advantage of the great improvements.
The dilemma now is that i don’t know how to upgrade and which versions of Buddypress is compatible with which version of WordPress MU? And where do i get these versions and how?
My site is running on WordPress MU 2.7 and Buddypress 1.0-RC1. and i am using the 1st version of Darkpress by buddydress.
Can anyone please assist me with this and what steps i need to tae to make this a successful upgrade?
Regards
Stef
ps. the site is http://pokershuffle.co.za
A majority of the registration protection you would want to do currently comes from the WordPress side of it; captchya’s and what-not.
I’ve seen it happen on a few BP sites I’ve done for clients already. Seems to come with the territory unfortunately.
Thanks Jeff Sayre!
The plugin has a very messy structure. I’ve tried with $bp added to global in several functions in the plugin, both in the main file and the file with the form. Nothing has any effect.
Are there any downsides to adding $bp if it’s not strictly needed? Can you make any plugin “Buddypress ready” by just adding that $bp to global?
I did get regular wp data working with help from their forum. I had to add this to the php:
global $current_user;
get_currentuserinfo();
Does Buddypress have something like that? Anything else I can try?
General theming guidance is beyond the scope of these forums as it really is more an issue of learning how to use CSS and WordPress/BuddyPress template loops to create the design you are after.
But, to help get you started, here a few links:
- Advice on using the default BP themes or Skeleton Theme that comes with BP
- A great tool to use while designing your theme.
- Basic how tos on WordPress theme design. NOTE: this link pertains to wordpress themes in general, not BuddyPress themes. But, you should really understand WP theming before you set out to do a BP custom theme.
I install BuddyPress and it is wonderful. But I want to show some recent posts on the front page, not just the admin’s post but also some users’ posts.
I think it will make my WordPress-mu a multi-user CMS site.
How can I do it? Is there any plugin to use to abstract information from sub blogs?
Any free theme to study?
Make sure to patch your version manually.
wp-login.php: is_string() used in this code versus empty().
185 function reset_password($key, $login) {
186 global $wpdb, $current_site;
187
188 $key = preg_replace('/[^a-z0-9]/i', '', $key);
189
190 if ( empty( $key ) || !is_string( $key ) )
191 return new WP_Error('invalid_key', __('Invalid key'));
192
193 if ( empty($login) || !is_string($login) )
194 return new WP_Error('invalid_key', __('Invalid key'));
Slashdot:
http://it.slashdot.org/story/09/08/12/1353211/WordPress-Exploit-Allows-Admin-Password-Reset
Online downloads of both regular and mu contain the fix.
WP: http://wordpress.org/download/
WPMU: http://mu.wordpress.org/download/
I’m using the WordPress P2-theme for this functionality. It won’t be integrated into Buddypress like the status update (since it’s a WP theme), but its the right thing for me. You might want to consider it.
Hi!
I’m altering the bp-member-theme to go along with P2. But these two components lay inside of a theme I’ve made with artisteer. There’s a lot of hacking code to make it all work but I’m beginning to like the result.
The reason I’m editing bpmember is that I want horizontal navigation and not vertical. This has been quite easy to edit but has taken me some time. I’ve had no experience with BP before and just a little with WP.
I’ve written about putting P2 in another theme before. You can find it here:
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/294161
Anyway.. Editing P2 is way simpler than editing the whole of bphome/bpmember. It all depends on how much you want integreated in one “seamless look”.
Best of luck!
What *is* /engine/start.php, because it’s not WordPress?
Hi: I wonder if this is WordPress MU or buddypress specific? When running a search in the search section, I get the following error: Any idea where I should look?
Warning: require_once(/home/tatazara/public_html/engine/start.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/tatazara/public_html/search/index.php on line 16
Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required ‘/home/tatazara/public_html/engine/start.php’ (include_path=’.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php’) in /home/tatazara/public_html/search/index.php on line 16
Easy no.
A. On your Hosting Control Panel point the new URL to the same folder as where you have everything now. Then go to the admin settings and change the URL on both WPMU and BBPress. It will log you out and you have to log in. Install plugin broken link checker https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/broken-link-checker/ and have fun changing all the URLs.
there is another option it involves setting up a new SQL and exporting everything and importing… bbpress has a pluging for you to export and import, I never used it so I don’t want to recommend it.
Thanks, I’m making a note of these suggestions.
The WP widget idea will most likely wait to another future version as I don’t know how to use the WordPress widget class, and I won’t have time to learn it before Sunday.
I got the fatal error after deactivating the BP plugin and reactivating it. You have you delete the the BP plugin and themes and/or other files you moved out of the BP folder. (example BBpress-plugin and bphome theme) After all that fresh install.
Seems most people that were previously loving the FaceBook/WordPress bridge have shifted their attention over to RPX as a better alternative for allowing users to register and login from anywhere.
Regarding the FaceBook Connect plugin (and most others really) someone will usually come along and take it over when they have a personal need that is bad enough to do it. Tends to happen with most abandoned projects as time goes on.
I’m sure Andy will chime in as to whether or not he plans to support it going forward.
No idea what’s happening, but my advice would be to disable all plugins, check and recheck the existence of all of the BuddyPress files in their correct locations, and try again?
You need to have the WordPress language files in wp-contents/languages first, before WordPress will give you the option of changing the site and blog languages to something other than default. Once you have the files there, set your Site Language in Site-Admin->Options, then set your blog language in Settings->General.
Basically BuddyPress will follow whatever WordPress MU is set to do, but it cannot tell it what to do (yet).
WordPressMU has a specific way of handling language settings that involves a function that overrides the typical get_locale().
DJPaul, I tried out the code you posted in the link above on my dev setup.
I just renamed the file to example_achievements.php (from phps), and uploaded to muplugins to see what it does. When I try to log into wp-admin, it shows me all the code from the file I just uploaded as well as the following error:
Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/kunal17/public_html/jainkunal/wordpressmu/wp-content/mu-plugins/example_achievements.php:1) in /home/kunal17/public_html/jainkunal/wordpressmu/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-xprofile/bp-xprofile-signup.php on line 5
Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/kunal17/public_html/jainkunal/wordpressmu/wp-content/mu-plugins/example_achievements.php:1) in /home/kunal17/public_html/jainkunal/wordpressmu/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 865
I am running WPMU2.8.2, BP1.0.3
Hello everyone,
I’m in the development stages of a big project. We are working on setting up WordPress/BuddyPress/BBPress as a replacement for drupal. So far it’s been great. All functions are working the way we’d expect them to…. EXCEPT… one little thing… for some unknown reason our Buddypress themes stopped loading on all Buddypress related pages. This doesn’t seem to affect anything in term of functionality… just looks really bad.
Check it out here: http://www.myforeskin2.org/members
The theme loads on both WordPress and on BBPress… just not on BuddyPress. I’ve tried changing themes, clearing cache, deleting and resinstalling themes… nothing.
Any idea?
