Dear Mark!
I have just installed BuddyPress 1.2.6 along with WordPress 3.0.1, installed translations for both and put `define (‘WPLANG’, ‘pl_PL’);` inside wp-config.php. Everything seems to work fine, even if only the BuddyPress translation is in place.
@nooi
If I’m not mistaken, I believe you’ve been inspired by http://www.workathomemommies.com/ 
If you want to learn how to widgetize a page so you can put whatever you want on it, here’s a great tutorial:
http://wpmu.org/how-to-widgetize-a-page-post-header-or-any-other-template-in-wordpress/
If you just want to style the appearance of blog posts on your frontpage, you can do that through CSS.
There are any number of great resources and tutorials in the vast wilderness of cyberspace to help you learn what you need to know. To help you identify exactly what you need to change in your theme’s CSS to get the effect you want, I highly recommend installing the Firebug for Firefox addon:
http://getfirebug.com/
Hope this helps!
@rogercoathup
I agree – of course ensuring that the main keyword is prominent in url, title & description is a good thing; that’s one of the ways SEs determine the relevance of content… and up goes the pagerank (Otto does come off as being a “bit” opinionated on that point, doesn’t he?)
But he does illustrate a valid point about performance and WordPress’ rewrite rules. Here’s an interesting discussion on trac about URL routing, and how to improve same (over my head, but interesting nonetheless):
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/12935
Try changing your permalinks to /%category%/%postname%/
Can you do that, or do you get an error message?
If successful, do BuddyPress links now work
If not, you need to configure your server correctly for WordPress before using BuddyPress
Hi Paul, as far as permalinks are concerned, mine are configured to “/index.php/2010/10/24/sample-post/”
As far as I know, my server is running IIS and the wordpress and buddypress versions are 3.0.1 and 1.2.6 respectively
Thanks for the help!
Why would you change permalink structure?
Never start the custom permalink string with any of these %postname%, %category%, %tag%, or %author% because the performance reasons.
Otto said…
Firstly, it’s really not any better for SEO to have the category in there, or to have just the postname there by itself. And anybody who tells you differently is wrong. If you disagree with me, then no, I’m not interested in arguing this point with you; you’re just wrong, period, end of discussion.
Glad you resolved it on your own. Btw, forgot to add, you should also install BP Template Pack to get BP components working in your WP theme – https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-template-pack/
Can’t find tags. The only thing find is a tag template, and this is what it shows, if it’s right, I still don’t know where to place buddypress:
<?php
/**
* The template for displaying Tag Archive pages.
*
* @package WordPress
* @subpackage Twenty_Ten
* @since Twenty Ten 1.0
*/
get_header(); ?>
<?php
printf( __( ‘Tag Archives: %s’, ‘twentyten’ ), ‘‘ . single_tag_title( ”, false ) . ‘‘ );
?>
<?php
/* Run the loop for the tag archive to output the posts
* If you want to overload this in a child theme then include a file
* called loop-tag.php and that will be used instead.
*/
get_template_part( ‘loop’, ‘tag’ );
?>
I prepared this BP Template Pack walkthrough using the free Motion Theme which may be able to help you. Depending on the HTML structure of your WordPress theme, it could take from an hour or so.
Are permalinks configured on your WordPress? Do you know if your server is Apache, Nginx or IIS? What versions of WordPress/BuddyPress are you running?
oEmbed is not a video uploading plugin. It relies heavily on 3rd-party sites like YouTube, Vimeo et al.
SInce you’re using P2 to write a blog post, you should try enabling auto-embeds in WordPress:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Settings_Media_SubPanel
Make sure “Auto-embeds” is checked.
Also read the codex page for more info:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Embeds
search these forums, this is discussed lots of times.
Can your site send standard WordPress admin emails, e.g. if you create a new user in the admin panel, does it send an email to you as site admin?
If not, you need to configure your WordPress mail correctly, before proceeding with BuddyPress
That sounds like a general WordPress question – have you looked in the general WordPress Codex documentation?
I don’t know anyone who uses those wp-admin screens to edit files. For large scale development, you should really be working on a local copy in an editing environment before publishing to your server.
You are probably best to find a suitable WordPress theme, and then use the BP template pack to make it compatible with BuddyPress.
Have a Google for WordPress Magazine themes
Wordpress will most likely build on top of 2010. They will not make a theme called 2011, unless the design is radically different.
Much like Kubrick to 2010 was a totally different design.
For example, P2 adds features on top of their theme all the time and I think a lot of people appreciate that.
Maybe new features should be a theme option…
@r-a-y – sure, we can get rid of them with some additional work on sites in development, but what about the installed sites – who’s going to schedule, manage and pay for their modifications?
As you know, BuddyPress has real world 3rd party implementations – it’s not just in the realm of coders, who only maintain and support their own site.
If the client hits the upgrade button (which the admin system will be encouraging them to do), they will be left with a site that doesn’t look like they want (and in some cases, will have multiple buttons and areas that simply don’t work anymore).
Surely, the whole point about a child theme is the exact opposite – it’s not expecting things to change – it’s expecting the parent to stay working as expected when the core is upgraded – to provide us with a safe consistent level of abstraction.
The client has paid for a site they want, designed the way they want – not to have it change on the arbitrary design whims of a 3rd party they’ve never met.
What will happen when WordPress bring out a new design for their default theme? Will they overwrite 2010 and thereby change the look / behaviour of every child based on it? Of course not, they will they introduce it as a new theme, and 2010 will happily continue to function.
Looks like you’re using a plugin as there is no stock option for that in WordPress network mode.
Group AND Member avatar Cropping! I have tried different browsers -> all the same. Avatar Upload works but then I don´t see the Avatar Crop Plugin. But I can press crop and it works. But that makes no sense I have to see what I crop. I use WordPress 3.0.1 and have following Plugins running:
BP-Album+
BP Xtra Signup
Deactivating don´t help. Why fails the new fix?
If I look into the sourcecode I see that the Plugin loads but if I go with the cursor (with firebug) over the pictureadress firebug should give a preview but it don´t. 777CMOD is done. Hm…
Glenn… there is nothing new in charging for premium themes, it’s not a BuddyPress phenomenon… there are hundreds of people selling premium themes for WordPress (e.g. WooThemes, ThemeForest, …), and even more sites that are completely bespoke developments costing many thousands of pounds.
If you don’t like what people are providing you for free, you don’t have to use their work. If you don’t like the price of their paid for work, don’t buy them. You can take the bp-default theme for free and extend it as you want.
As I explained in one of your other threads about availability of themes, BuddyPress is extremely difficult to create distinctive generic themes for – it’s no wonder that some people charge a few pounds for their themes.
That means I can not view members, groups and profiles on other wordpress sites of my wordpress installation? Other sites are sites which are not buddypress primary sites but which do have buddypress activated because buddypress is a network plugin.
I spent all day yesterday installing this theme and making it look nice on the home page, I then browsed around to find that inside the theme there is a lack of functionality such as no activity streams in group, poor css making pages look messy, no new topic buttons in the forums. Then you start to look for assistance and its hard to get, then you find the theme author offers a premium version of the theme and a membership group with ongoing subscriptions. If I had known this before I started I wouldnt have bothered.
Is it just me or are others finding it a little annoying that buddypress seems to be not in the keeping of the wordpress ethos of free software for all. Everyone seems to want to make money from it, which is fair enough at the right price, but monthly subscriptions have you by the balls.
Is there anyone out there who makes a nice free theme or a premium theme with upgrades at one off fee or an acceptable yearly fee ?
Thanks Roger. That documentation confuses me a little though. If I activate buddypress it is activated on alle sites of the wordpress installation, so what does “if you didn’t activate BuddyPress site-wide” mean? I want a buddpress community over several worpress sites, are these sites not all equal in the community because there is a buddypress root blog?
Provide more details about your configuration and your problem.
If you mean you want to allow members to create blogs, you’ll need to ensure you have WordPress multisite setup
It’s not a question of whether you like it or not, the problem is that it breaks the design of existing sites – because their themes are using bp-default as a ‘much touted future proof’ parent theme.
You expect bug and compatibility fixes in a theme upgrade, not presentation and design changes.
If you’re changing the actual design, you’d expect that in a new theme. Much as you’ll expect WordPress to release 2011, and not simply overwrite 2010 with something different that changes the look of every child theme based on it.
