9087877Inactive
Honestly if you want BuddyPress to function correctly, In my opinion you should create a child theme based on the BuddyPress default theme and make any changes within its css. If you don’t know how to make a child theme then I can send you a really simple one that allows you to change the CSS of the buddypress default theme. As of this post the newest theme is Fanwood and I am not certain it will function correctly with WordPress 3.4.1 and BuddyPress 1.6
I was wondering what most of you are doing when it comes to themes.
Im not new to wordpress at all but i am new to buddypress and upon searching for themes they are very limited. Most of them are outdated. If you checkout themeforest for premium themes there is only a small selection.
From what i understand (and i could be wrong) normal wordpress themes do not work.
So for us non webdesigners, where do we get themes?
P.S. i apologize if this is in the wrong forum.
BUMP
IF THIS HELPS!
I’m currently running
WordPress 3.4.1
buddypress 1.6
installed as a directory on root
using default theme
no modifications of corefiles
no custom feature of bpcustom
hosted with argeweb.
running on linux
There are a few different social networking platforms out there and someone coming up with a safe way to integrate one or more of them with WordPress (or visa-verse) would be a welcomed development, in my opinion. However, a ‘plugin’ like GRA4 that takes unsuspecting members from WordPress sites and opens the WordPress site owner(s) up to potentially (MAJOR) security and privacy issues (as well as hosting and server violation issues) is not a plugin. It is a dangerous interface that WordPress webmasters would be well advised to stay away from.
One thing to consider when allowing a ‘plugin’ to use a remote server is, you can not know the intentions of the people on the remote server. Once that avenue is opened, a site can be vulnerable to many things unseen and unimagined.. That is Dangerous.. Unfortunately, a lot of people using WordPress do not look at code. Even if they did, they don’t know how to spot potential dangers. As website developers, webmasters, and the like, we do have a responsibility to those who use our websites, to be careful of providing something that could violate the rights and privacy of our users as well as open our own servers and/or hosting, to unsavory and malicious intruders.
It pays to ask questions, @lunchgirl thanks for doing so. I wasn’t aware of gra4 until I saw this thread and @mercime pointing out that it isn’t available in the Repository anymore caused me to want to know what it did. So, I looked it up and found that they are attempting to infiltrate several different and independent platforms. If anyone uses those other platforms or knows someone who does, I would let them know about that plugin (or in the case of some, it’s a drop-in). It is still available in those other platforms and shouldn’t be. Please spread the word..
@arrogance-is-bliss thank you for providing a detailed report on the extent of the plugin’s abuse. I just saw the first few lines of one of the plugin’s files in repo and reported it right away at plugins@wordpress.org
Just tried it out and it works perfectly 
Buddypress 1.6 and WordPress 3.4.1.
However it doesn’t use the excerpt, it uses the first X of the post. It actually pulls quite a lot which is not so good for SEO since it will produce a lot of duplicate content.
I’ll see if I can find where it defines how much to pull in from the post.
It’s a regular install of WordPress. Just want to be able to customise the buddypress folder name.
Just to update, I have now solved this problem.
I removed the code that shares the users and roles with the buddypress sub-site, so the wp-config.php and capabilities.php are back to the wordpress originals. Then I logged in with the admin account (the only user that was created when the wordpress was installed) and i managed to run the update wizard.
Then I changed the wp-config.php and capabilities.php files back to include the code used to share the users from my main wordpress site.
All is back to normal 
Are you using a custom theme? Do you have a menu created in the admin and placed in the primary slot?
Btw you can always get old versions of plugins by going to WordPress.org and on the plugins page there is a developer tab with links
I was looking at this plugin
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-places-locator/
I was wondering how would i change the fields from events, etc to have it only search for people data? location, email, phone number, etc.
Another question is how would i connect the plugin database to buddypress?
For example. when users are signing up to my site, I want to a couple fields that go into the plugin database and display the info when people use the search field.
Thanks in advance!!!!
I’m having trouble to run the buddypress 1.6 update wizard, as it just says ‘You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.’ even when i’m logged in as admin.
I feel this problem is most likely caused by the way I have buddypress set up on a seperate wordpress install to my main wordpress site. Basically I have two wordpress sites, with the sub-site (buddypress site) getting the users and their roles from the main wordpress site, so the users are shared.
Does anyone know how I can get buddypress to successfully update with the current set up I have?
Here is the code I use to share users from the main wordpress site:
USE USERS FROM MAIN WORDPRESS
================================
In ALL of my installs:
in wp-config.php:
added just above /* That’s all, stop editing! Happy blogging. */:
define(‘CUSTOM_CAPABILITIES_PREFIX’, ‘wp_’);
in wp-includes/capabilities.php:
replaced:
$this->cap_key = $wpdb->prefix . ‘capabilities’;
with:
if (defined (‘CUSTOM_CAPABILITIES_PREFIX’)) {
$this->cap_key = CUSTOM_CAPABILITIES_PREFIX . ‘capabilities’;
}
else { $this->cap_key = $wpdb->prefix . ‘capabilities’;
}
In all installs EXCEPT the original:
in wp-config.php:
added just above /* That’s all, stop editing! Happy blogging. */:
define (‘WPLANG’, ”);
define(‘CUSTOM_USER_TABLE’, ‘wp_users’);
define(‘CUSTOM_USER_META_TABLE’, ‘wp_usermeta’);
I currently have Extended Profiles disabled, but I have Account Settings enabled. I’ve been testing different WordPress roles on my site and discovered that if a subscriber types in their browser: “domain.com/members/anothersubscriber” (where “anothersubscriber” = another member on the site that is also a subscriber), they receive an error (404) page. Obviously this happens because non-admins are not allowed to have this type of access. However, instead of throwing a 404 page, how can I have their (note: “their” meaning non-admins. in my case, subscribers) request redirect to the homepage or to their own profile page?
Interesting ‘plugin’ that GRA4.. it is a connection to their website. A little more than phoning home. Your members get included into their website. Wherever their ‘plugin’ is activated, all the members show up on all the other websites. They have a plugin for oscommerce, phpbb and wordpress and they are working on a plugin for drupal. All members are gathered to their website and you have NO admin privileges. You have NO control over the content on the website and I don’t know for sure, but I think there could be some major security (and privacy) concerns for all of your website members.
They don’t tell you straight out that you aren’t adding functionality to your WordPress website, they are providing a portal to their website, which shows up on your website making it appear like it’s your website. Quite crafty. – A FACADE-
They are using ‘elgg’ social software on their server. They authenticate using cookies and they secretly provide your website with a ‘secret key’ and their coding changes the .htaccess rewrites for your website to redirect your members to their website. The page they tell you to add, is the same name as the directory of their plugin and the rewrite for permalinks makes it appear that your members are looking at a page, but they are looking at another website. The shortcode they tell you to put on the page you create for their plugin calls the function that imports the data from their website to display on that page. So, basically.. it’s an interface with their website gra4.com. Their website shows up on an ip address in the United States, but they are Russian (no prejudice, just an observation), to share the information. Part of their coding calls a another website virturossiya.org/c (which shows up as ‘GRA4SetConfigValue(‘GRA4_remote_url’… in one of the files. That website also shows up on an ip in the USA, but the page title is in Russian and the favicon is a red star. (looking at that last domain name I can see ‘virtual russia’).
In conclusion, from my perspective, it’s a scam. You do NOT get your own social network with their ‘plugin’, you get to include your members into their website, without your members knowing it.. I don’t think that would be consistent with the spirit of WordPress or BuddyPress. I would stick with BuddyPress or one of the other true WordPress plugins that provide social networking within WordPress, unless you want to find yourself answering questions you have no answer for sometime in the future.. Let alone the risk of your own website and hosting information somehow being hacked. The concern I have is, if they are being honest, why hide all of this from WordPress users of their plugin? With their obvious ability to rewrite and redirect, who knows (really) where your website and member information is going?
If they do get back into the WordPress Repository, I would really be careful of these people. Always check to see if a plugin requires a connection with remote servers before you consider using a plugin.
There’s a WordPress app that allows iPhone uploads for blogs. Just the straight WordPress app in the store. But you can’t do it via Buddy. You just have to connect your blog to the app and it works out. You have to enable atom publishing.
@ mercime
Ok I followed your steps however there is one slight issue.
Steps #1-4 works fine. However Im unable to sync it with buddypress.
According to this thread: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/buddypress-integration-where-is-bb-config-php-in-bbpress-v-2-0-2/
If that thread is right… I wont be able to because 2.x versions of bbpress dont use bb-config.php.
Of course there is no way to install a 1x series of bbpress in wordpress (or at least I couldnt figure out how its possible).
my bbpress works great, so… am I basically sol until the Buddypress people do the merging expected in v1.7?
EDIT: As explained, I have installed Buddypress but since I couldnt figure out how to integrate the existing bbpress install I turned off the forums option inside buddypress (I didnt want any conflicts). my BBpress forum still works fine.
After digging around for a while I noticed a few things.
1) If I open up a user profile in Buddypress I can see the topics the user created in the forum.
2) If I create a group it asks me if I want to create a forum for that group. In my phpbb3 forum I created forums for groups of people. After converting over to bbpress I have a forum for a ‘group of people’. When creating the group I did NOT create a forum for the group because I didnt want it to overwrite or mess up the existing forum in bbpress (the old forum and new group name are the same).
Without syncing buddypress and bbpress (as I explained above), is there anyway to link a group with an existing forum?
Ideally I want group forums, I just dont want to loose any posts already existing.
1. Yes, we changed this to make BuddyPress compatible with more servers. To change this WordPress email address, try a plugin like https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/send-from/ or ask on the WordPress.org forums for other recommendations.
2. What theme (and version of the theme) are you using? What version was this working on? i.e. what version did you upgrade from.
3. 1.6 uses the WordPress core toolbar, rather than BuddyPress’ old toolbar. The WordPress logo is added to the bar by WordPress itself.
First of all I would like to express my thanks to buddypress team members for providing such a awesome plugin. As I am new to wordpress buddypress system, I wud be really thankful if someone guide me through the process.
Problem faced after 1.6 update
1. email notification to the community users about activity feeds that was from the address noreply@domain.com changed to wordpress@domain.com is this change permanent? or I need to make changes in general setting?
2. Previously buddypress activity feeds buttons “comment” can be accessed easily via wap from the operamini browser, but after the update, clicking the comment button, do reload the page but comment box doesnt appear. What changes do I need to do here?
3. WordPress and buddypress credit line appeared at the footer, now the icon of wordpress is also at the top left hand side of the page with links from wordpress homepage, buddybar was good. now it appears that its wordpress takes it all, so can in future we can also get advertisement of wordpress in side bars, I fear!
Thank you
Hi all, I have WordPress Multisite and Buddypress Multi with lots of subsites, it appears avatars people setup on the main home site/blog do not pull through when they visit subsites, I have define( ‘BP_ENABLE_MULTIBLOG’, true ); set, I *think* this is what may be causing it, can someone tell me what is ‘normal’ behavior?
Thanks
Hi there, first of all, the important information:
* Running: *WordPress 3.4.1.
* Buddypress 1.6, upgraded from 1.5.7, everything was working just fine before upgrade.
* Custom Community Theme (child).
Now my issue:
I’m getting this error when I’m try to access some profile tabs,
Fatal error: Cannot access empty property in /home/pgandita/public_html/loksearte.org/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-core/bp-core-template.php on line 787
The tabs which aren’t working are: Achievements (Achievements for buddypress plugin), Projects (Portfolio plugin), Profile/change backgrpound (BP Custom Background for User Profile plugin). It also makes the wordpress bar to disapear. As I said before, everything was working before update.
Greetings from Chile!
__________________________________________________
edit: just noticed that Settings and Settings/Notifications aren’t working neither.
I’ve almost got this up and running, but I have a few issues, perhaps you can help.
Here is my domain:
http://www.tbgamers.com/
My registration page is blank (I have completely logged out, closed all browsers, cleared cookies and cache) – but there is no registration page link. If you click the register link in the top bar (which I hope I can get rid of!) it takes you to a 404. http://www.tbgamers.com/register/ <-that’s a 404. http://www.tbgamers.com/index.php/register/ <-that actually goes to a page (I have re-saved my permalinks like 10 times now). But even then the page is just blank – no form to fill out (yes, the checkbox is clicked for “anyone can register”, triple checked!).
I tried all of the solutions I can find on dozens of pages – I just can’t get this to work.
Provided someone can help me and this is fixed, can I remove that ugly top wordpress bar? I don’t like it, and it’s ugly. But, fixing problems first is my goal.
Thanks in advance!
9087877Inactive
Software used: WordPress 3.4.1 and BuddyPress 1.6
I picked up the below code from the forum to make the default tab selected the profile tab and to also change the order of the items in the profile navigation, I added it to my child themes functions.php. It works except when you go to edit profile it spits out this error:
Fatal error: Cannot access empty property in C:xampphtdocswordpresswp-contentpluginsbuddypressbp-corebp-core-template.php on line 787
Here is the code I used:
define( ‘BP_DEFAULT_COMPONENT’, ‘profile’ ); /* makes the default tab selected the profile tab */
/* Changes profile nav order */
function bbg_change_profile_tab_order() {
global $bp;
$bp->bp_nav = 10;
$bp->bp_nav = 20;
$bp->bp_nav = 30;
$bp->bp_nav = 40;
$bp->bp_nav = 50;
$bp->bp_nav = 60;
$bp->bp_nav = 70;
}
add_action( ‘bp_setup_nav’, ‘bbg_change_profile_tab_order’, 999 );
/*end changes profile nav order*/
Any ideas how to resolve this issue would be appreciated. Thanks in advanced!
Buddypress 1.6, using the BuddyPress Default theme. The user is shown as banned in the Admin > Members list. The user cannot create forum topics, forum replies, or write new updates in the group. In a green box underneath the group description it states “You have been banned from this group.” when that user visits the group. It’s a public group. The banned user can still read everything, and he can reply to activity feed entries.
This was possible on previous versions of buddypress (1.5.6 i think) and I was wiping and re-installing wordpress and buddypress on two different servers (local and online) both producing the same results with fresh installs. I really had nothing to do that day… My site ended up only using private groups and I thought this was intended so I didnt mention it before.
Yes, there does seem to be a few issues.
While buddypress is claiming that there isn’t a need to network activate, making it work on a subsite doesn’t seem to be as easy as one might expect. I haven’t figured out how to get past the permissions thing on subsite, but network activating in the base site also doesn’t seem to connect to the subsites. They don’t seem to know buddypress is activated. Kind of frustrating, but when someone shares the secrets with the rest of us, it will be quite a nice install, I presume..
Also, with themes that are compatible with v1.56, are they still compatible with 1.6? Or do the new files need to be moved to the theme directory to make everything work right? I ask these questions because of the problem I seem to be having with not being able to find buddypress profile from the subsites.. I am being directed to the WordPress profile, not buddypress, from the subsites.
