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WordPress and bbPress use several cookies to ensure your identity across all directories and areas that are important to the applications. When those cookies are out of alignment, things start working strangely like you describe.

The best thing is to check the cookies that your site is dropping, review the information inside them (typically with Firefox) and see if there are any places that are obviously incorrect or pointing to the wrong locations. Then, you use those global variables to adjust the settings back into place.

This is one of those bugs that’s difficult to diagnose, difficult to direct you to a fix, and hard to explain where to even start.

It’s also PIVOTAL that all of your separate applications (WPMU, BP, bbP) are all correctly installed/upgraded to begin with. If you’ve never gotten to a point where they were playing nice together in the first place, it will be extremely hard to figure out what’s wrong.

The documentation/codex area provides a ton of documentation that can help you with all of these things, but there is no magic button you can press to make this happen.

There are dozens of functions and loops that need to be installed and addressed on several files and themes to make all of BuddyPress work the way it does. All we can do is document them for you, and let you give it a try yourself. It’s up to the growing audience of BP developers to start creating themes for 1.0, and that will eventually happen, I guarantee it.

If you’re in over your head and desperate for a theme asap, it may be time to hire someone to help you out. If you’re not looking for custom functionality and simply want a revamped BP theme, I might suggest joining the WordPress developers mailing lists and asking some WP professionals for assistance. Otherwise right now we’re pretty lenient about users asking for specific requests here (meaning we will lock the topic but we won’t delete it or spam it.)

Hi

I have bought some great premium wordpress themes and I want to upgrade one to use for Buddypress 1.0 post RC2 release. I can use the skeleton for the members profile.

What I need are the hooks to turn a wordpress theme into a Buddypress theme.

I think this was available for RC1 but with the changes to RC2+ we will need the updated hooks.

I have searched for this but can’t seem to find it.

Any suggestions.

Regards

Mark

The Google Maps Quicktags plugin

http://www.remotesensingtools.com/2007/08/22/wordpress-plugin-google-maps-quicktag/

takes care of this problem (which would also affect embedded Google Maps).

There are a few multi-database WPMU plugins out there that help scale a website exactly like you’re talking about. I think the one that most people use is called HyperDB but I have no first hand experience with it. From what I understand, it’s also what wordpress.com uses to spread things around.

A few users here have some solid knowledge of this, and hopefully they’ll chime in to give you some more specific suggestions.

This is a cookie integration issue with bbPress. You should be using bbPress 1.0 Alpha 6 for the easiest login integration.

Basically WordPress isn’t dropping the bbPress admin cookie. You need the integration plugin for WordPress to drop those cookies, if I remember correctly.

\”it would be similar to the service offerd by wordpress.com\”

But WordPressMU does this by default when a user gets their own blog.

Getting each one to have their own *separate* BP is the issue.

Why not just stick with the one install, have each troop make their own ground and their own blog? This way they have theor own sace, but can still interact with the entire site at large.

Heh. Of course, I hope you at least TRIED to google that query, Enlightenmental1. I’d hate to think you hadn’t.

I googled, and found this thread https://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic.php?id=5827 which was started about a year ago by a suspicious chap under the name of “apeatling.” Rings a bell but I can’t quite place it…

The link’s dead but if you ask him nicely he might still have the code elsewhere.

Do I need to translate WPMU first ?

Look in the link that DJPaul provided. There is a WordPress translation of Arabic already. I’m not sure what additional work you’d have to do for WPMU. Most likely translation of some of the admin pages. But, I’m not a localization expert.

What will be different because Arabic is RTL language ?

As long as the themes that Arabic users are using properly reference some type of right to left CSS file, then this should not be an issue. Look at rtl.css to see how that works.

Also, look at this relevant BuddyPress thread: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=245

Check out https://codex.buddypress.org/translations/ for starters – there’s a link taking you over to the main WordPress site with further details.

@JohnJamesJacoby: I’ve tested this with the bphome theme, visible on beta.artistplug.me ; I’ve also tested with a standard install, copying over the database data … since then things got wicked… — also tested copying over the functions.

I’m very sure you are on to something ; how can we verify everything gets passed well through these functions ?

I also wonder for how far and reliable the WordPress XML export/import functions work towards a succesfull migration for 10 RC1 blogs towards BP v1.0 ..

BuddyPress requires a WordPress Mu install, so no matter what, it can’t be a 1 step process (thus ruling out the 1-click install). Even if they could do it, BuddyPress lacks the history of successful version releases, support networks, and popularity that WordPress, Drupal, and ZenCart offer.

I’ve just done an integration and there was no mention of this plugin. bbPress has a WordPress Integration section in the admin where you can map the WP user roles to the bbPress user roles.

One thing I noticed though is that if you copy the

define(‘COOKIE_DOMAIN’, ”);

line to wp-config.php as the guides suggest, you loose the single sign-on between the site and your WPMu created blogs. I also saw the need to hack bb-settings.php as outlined in the comments to this blog post: http://theeasybutton.com/blog/2009/04/25/integrate-bp-bbpress-wpmu/

What are your findings?

update: with wp-hooks-filters-flow.php I get the following errormessage:

82. comment_post

* Priority 10 :

1. bp_blogs_record_comment()

2. SearchUnleashedPlugin->comment_post()

Catchable fatal error: Object of class SearchUnleashed_Widget could not be converted to string in /webserver/wordpress/wp-admin/wp-hooks-filters-flow.php on line 62

Maybe anything related with the problem, breaking off the database upgrade process of buddypress?? I’m wildly guessing now since I’ve been debugging like crazy…

@Bercy Just install your WordPress MU in a different directory; create a new database, preferably with a new user for security and you\’ve got it working …

With a fresh user and database you won\’t be overwriting your existing bp\’s.

If you want to use the same userdatabase and share it serverwide, use the same database but change the prefix per buddypress installation.

Hope that has answered your question with virtual hosting & wordpress ..

I wish it was as easy to migrate existing data towards upgraded BP\’s

In the realm that anything is possible, yes.

But currently the activity feed strips out any html and anything it thinks is an image. Mostly to avoid mucking up the feed with huge images, etc…

The best answer I have for this for now, is that BP1.0 is the jumping off point without too many bells and whistles. It shows how to intertwine WordPress MU installs together to become a basic social networking structure. In theory you could certainly add all sorts of activity feed filters and ajax and images and fancy things to it, but there is no on/off option for images.

Same problem – spinning icon when I try to add a friend.

PHP Version=5.2.9. Just installed BuddyPress and MU for first time today (May 3, so I think I have BuddyPress 1.0). Hosting at HostNine.com with typical CPanel.

Website with issue: http://3wcloud.com/wordpressmu. I have turned on the ability to add new users if you want to see what is happening.

Thanks,

Neal Walters