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My point was that as long as you have all the correct files backed up there is really very little risk.
I don’t see any particular reason that you would have any problems.
Regarding the update notice. That is strange. Do you get update notices on other plugins and WordPress?
Btw, is there any reason that you are not just upgrading to WordPress 3.5.1 and Buddypress 1.6.4? These are the versions that are the best tested and that you are most likely to be able to get specific advice for.
Regarding a manual update. Yes, just deactivate and delete (after backing it up of course!) the Buddypress plugin and then upload the new one and activate it.
I can’t imagine it will be all that bad 🙂
Thanks for your reply: you’re right of course – there’s not loads of stuff in the widget areas that will be lost, so I can always manually restore them – not ideal though… I guess it’s not really obvious to me regarding the correct way to do stuff for ANY buddypress upgrade when you have a child theme etc. Of course I can revert to previous db and files – but then I wouldn’t have made any headway…
I think it would be good to have some sort of framework for users like myself who are not actively Buddypress developers, but who do use WordPress as developers. There possibly is something, somewhere but for the life of me it ain’t obvious.
Also – something confusing me is that the Buddypress documentation suggests that there will be an upgrade notice for Buddypress in the network admin plugins area – but I don’t have this. I guess what I do is to manually remove the old Buddypress, then upload the new Buddypress and then activate the plugin? Then, hopefully, the BP wizard will retune the database afterwhich I get on with all the tweaking – moving files to my child theme, altering the language files etc.
Again … any pointers appreciated!
Ok so here is my code for adding an activity feed on the submission of a form i have. NOthing happens what so ever on the form submission. Can anyone help?
Im using wordpress 3.5 and buddpress version 1.6.2
$project_link = 'http://www.example.com/member/'.$user_name.'/portfolio/view/?project='.$project_id.'';
$params = array(
'action' => 'new-project',
'content' => 'here is a new activity',
'primary_link' => $project_link,
'component' => 'my_component',
'type' => 'my_type',
'user_id' => $bp->loggedin_user->id,
'item_id' => $bp->displayed_user->id
);
do_action( 'bp_activity_add', $params );
Actually what I meant to say is that a child theme is not required but if your modifying your theme files whether it be the “Responsive WordPress Theme” or some other wordpress theme to work with buddypress then my instructions are correct. @modemlooper your great but it is still best for people to make child themes even with BP 1.7 beta 1. Reason being for example is when they update their particular theme from wordpress or they made a lot of changes in the child themes style.css, header.php, or footer.php etc. In any other instance then I am correct. my case it was a plain Jaine wordpress responsive child theme and it work perfectly! We can’t discount the value of a child theme for update reasons so we need to get clear on this! Maybe I suppose with the compatibility layer it is now a wordpress.org issue but people do need to be aware of it when installing buddypress because its a little different now but its not rocket science either!
Hi @hsutliff
To take care of the second, there’s a plugin we’ve built aplugin, BuddyPress Media. Do check it out. It’ll sort out the uploading and sharing of media.
Regards.
Hi@evo252,
in the BP 1.0 branch there was a CSV based country field in xprofile.
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/branches?order=name#1.0/bp-xprofile/prebuilt-fields
Take a look in the code and see if you can build something for 1.6.4 or 1.7.
Since 2008, Google Map became a must have. And IMO it’s a better geoloc tool as a simple city/country dropdown witch only prevent end users from having to write themselves the name of their city and their country….
Doing this is much more complicated as you think. Over 160 countries on earth and millions of cities. What kind of server do you need to just store these informations and to make them work together ?
Typing country and city is the same effort as typing name and first name for the end user. Let them write and use something powerfull, existent and easy to use and show AND effort less for you too.
Spare your time and made it simple so far ! 😉
Give this plugin a try: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-user-profile-map/
Or search another map plugin : https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search.php?q=map
@modemlooper its not required for the buddypress side of things but it is for the wordpress theme updates side of things unless you wanna loose the changes you may have made to the header.php, footer.php, functions.php, style.css etc.
@modemlooper But what if you have a wordpress theme like The Responsive Theme for instance and you want to make drastic changes to it. Wouldn’t it still be a better idea to make child theme? When I say child theme I mean just basically making a child theme for a wordpress theme not a buddypress theme.
As long as you make a child theme of the theme you are using with BP 1.7 beta 1 then the style.css and functions.php should still be fine when 1.7 is out. Since 1.7 has the compatibility layer building a child theme for a regular wordpress theme is all you need to do but if your going to modify any of the buddypress templates you will need to copy over
yoursite/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress into the root of your child themes folder.
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I don’t see why you would have any problems.
The themes are made to work first with WordPress, then with Buddypress.
If you are worried just set up a test site and check them out on a site with WordPress and no Buddypress installed.
I hope this helps.
Hello All,
Im wondering if a BUDDYPRESS CHILD THEME, for example “FRISCO” usable as a BLOG Theme? Are Child Themes, even BP-Default compatible as a generic WordPress Blog theme?
My scenario,
1) Latest Version of WP, BP installed
2) Multisite Mode.
3) Using BP-Default theme on TLD (www.mydomain.com/ )
4) I would like to use FRISCO on my other blog (www.mydomain.com/DRIFT )
QUESTION:
1) is using a default BP childtheme as a blog cause problems?
2) is using bp-default as a blog theme on my other blog cause problems?
@djpaul Thanks! That worked like a charm.. I promise.. i didnt cross post it on this forum. 🙂 — Ok.. so from now.. i promise to ask Welcome Pack questions on WordPress.org — and not here 🙂 Thanks Again!
Hi, that is just what I (and think a lot of us) need. Nothing yet about the widget code?
P.S: In this moment I’m using BuddyBar widget (https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddybar-widget/) plugin is not as good as @naijaping code but do its job. A god thing about this plugin is than give You a Log in form and after log in, it changes to something like @naijaping widget.
Hello,
I am currently developing a new site within the next week, which will use a WordPress theme (not buddypress compatible) plus a Buddypress integration. The question is how I should go about developing it, since Buddypress 1.7 is coming out soon. Could I install the Buddypress 1.7 beta, make some style/functional modifications to it, and then update to the official release once it’s out? Or will I lose all of my work?
Thanks,
Ethan
If you’ve found a bug in the code, please report it to https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org.
Hi I’m getting my knickers in a twist here about the order of play for updating.
I’m going through the steps towards upgrading Buddypress:
1) I’ve successfully upgraded Frisco (Buddypress child – with my own customisations), and my blog sites theme (Twenty Eleven – with child theme).
2) I’ve upgraded from WordPress 3.3 to WordPress 3.4.2.
3) My intention is now to upgrade from BP 1.5.5 to 1.6.
I’m worried that in this last part of the process I am going to lose my theme settings – i.e. sidebar widgets and menus etc. The concern is this: if I go through the upgrade wizard, I will then be “activating” the Buddypress default theme – and this entails losing all the widgets I’ve set up. I’ve just had to re-upload the database to retrieve widgets having upgraded wordpress and then activated Buddypress before the child theme (my mistake, I think? it’s hugely confusing to understand and get the order of play correct in this Russian doll set-up)
So… what’s the order of play? If I go through the upgrade process via the wizard, will I then lose my database settings for widgets? I can’t re-upload the database to the prior version as I understand from the documentation that this will be changed in the upgrade process.
It’s very confusing and would love some more documentation on upgrading and the correct order of play in the Buddypress documentation (perhaps I will be moved to write it!).
Any help truly appreciated … I’m feeling queasy about this …
My site is: ageofwe.org
Looks like it is achievable but not without its headaches and a considerable effort.
Found this article relating to what you ask, ‘I think’ …
http://alextheafrican.wordpress.com/2012/03/10/how-to-add-an-image-field-to-buddypress-extended-profile-fields/
Though I can not say how, secure/suitable it will be to current Buddypress versions, perhaps ask the guy who wrote it, if it is still a valid solution.
From a recent post by Boone this duplicate content may be related then to 1.7’s aggressive loading of styles, and scripts theme authors are going to need to add:
add_theme_support(‘buddypress’)
to their themes functions file, preferably hooked to ‘after_theme_setup’
but this will depend on how this theme has been configured to work with BP if at all?
http://bpdevel.wordpress.com/
Perhaps something like Buddypress Media?
A quick Google –Â https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-media/screenshots/
Hi there,
I’m currently working on a WordPress Site that uses BuddyPress & Group Email Subscription.
We want Users to be notified by email when a post is created (They are currently grouped by category).
Currently the post gets added to the activity stream. Users get email digests about forum posts, “What’s New” updates, but not posts in relevant categories.
Could anyone point me in the right direction for the code that adds a post to the activity stream, so I can see if I need to add some more logic about categories for the Group Email Subscription plugin?
Many thanks.
So I’ve been having an issue with the latest version of WordPress/BuddyPress. My profile section shows a “Page Not Found” at the end of the loop.
Has anyone seen anything like this before? If so – how can I fix it?
I’m using sitewide bbpress forums on my buddypress install. Somehow one topic got moved to the trash bin in the bbpress. When I click topics, I see the topic, and click edit, and it says:
Wordpress Failure Notice
Are you sure you want to do this?
Please try again.
Any ideas?
I get this error Sorry, there were no forum topics found.
& when I try to post a new topic in a group i get this error in a red box (There was an error when creating the topic) please help
WordPress 3.5.1.
BuddyPress 1.6.4
http://gossipmoms.info
I can see you have created a mouse over drop down menu with the community page as the parent. As I’m sure you are aware, the community page is one that you created yourself, not one that Buddypress created during the BP wizard installation.
You have no content in your community page because you have not added any. If you need some, you could add some but I would suggest that if you don’t, you should just add a custom link instead.
The way to do this is to navigate to WP/Appearance/Menu’s:
In the custom links widget located in the left sidebar add a # as the URL and in the label box add the text – Community. Then add to menu and replace your current Community (Page Menu) with the new one. (Remove the old one and delete the community page if it is no longer needed.)
Other than that, all seems to look OK, your drop down menu with all the BP pages is showing and links to their pages seem in order.
I hope this is the answer you were looking for, sorry if I have misunderstood your question in any way.
As a suggestion perhaps you should consider altering the CSS in the theme to adjust your menu text. It is very hard to read. (The drop down links visibility are just fine) As for how to go about that, I would suggest asking the theme author over at Elegant Themes.
Also, if my answer was the one you were seeking, I would advise that the WordPress forums would be a better place to start in the future. (Unless, your question is directly BP related of course)
🙂
Latest version of WordPress : important things as I am testing Buddypress 1.7 but not finding
1 . How do I let a site member block another site member from posting to him/ seeing her profile and activities?
2. How do a site member makes her blog post / photo viewable/taggable to a friend/friends only?
3. How to post comment to a blog post from activity ( see oxwall.org) ?
The Privacy plugin that was there is broken and by searching here, and wordpress org and by Googling I have found no clue so far. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
