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Just installed the plugin on WP 2.9.2 + BP 1.2.4.1 and as jpl888 points out on the WP forum, it can work with a little fettling:
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/399989

To install it I added the code from the pastebin link: http://pastebin.com/bw0suXwe to my members list page (members/index.php), changed the bp_filter_profile_field(”) argument to be the name of the profile field I wanted to filter on and on testing it, I got hit with the following error in the logs:

`PHP Warning: Parameter 2 to bp_replace_members_filter() expected to be a reference, value given in snip…/wp-includes/plugin.php on line 166, referer: snip…/members/`

So I found the bp_replace_members_filter(…) method at line 265 in the plugin file bp-member-filter.php and removed the ampersand from the 2nd parameter so the method signature becomes:

`function bp_replace_members_filter( $has_members, $members_template )`

After that filtering works for me where the profile field to filter on is a select box. Filtering on a multiple select box does not work for me, and as posted earlier filtering on checkbox profile fields is not yet implemented.

Be warned though, I just checked the error log and removed the ampersand from the param and it then worked, I don’t know if that change will have any other side effects. I can see that it means I’m telling PHP that the method now expects a value rather than a reference, and that appears to be what BP is giving it, but beyond that…

@intimez – not sure about about export, but you can use the import for Ning as an import option (more of a workaround). read…

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/importing-data-from-excel-csv-sheet/
and

Import from Ning: Import Ning users to WordPress and BuddyPress

“how can multiple users write in that blog under their own names?”
Right. Basic WordPress – https://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities#Contributor

“but how can they enter the writing zone? “
Simplest way – if your users are logged in your BP install as contributors, they can go to bp-admin-bar at top and move cursor to “My Blogs”, which has a dropdown to list of blogs. When they hover over JuConnect link, the flyout nav will show the link “Add New Post” where they will be brought to the Post > New Write panel.

@DJPaul‘s plugin https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/welcome-pack/ – working well in BP 1.2.4.1

There is the Members Widget which shows the “Newest” “Active” and “Popular” Members, then add a text widget on top of that to welcome members.

Plus you could always add this code in home page and style accordingly – http://wordpress.pastebin.com/Rvx4ZgWF – change title and avatar sizes to taste

I had the exact same problem (two wordpress blogs installed on one server, and suddenly only the front page worked but none of the other ones. But it was only the pages on ONE of the blogs that didn’t work–the other one worked completely fine). I spent 4 hours pouring over my css scripts and coding in the .php files thinking there was something faulty there; I checked and rechecked every single setting to see if I had checked or left unchecked some box or option. Couldn’t figure it out.

Then I went to my plugins and remembered that I had downloaded a plugin (a YouTube/video plugin). I deactivated it and wham-bam!!! my pages started working again. So it must have been the plugin.

Try deleting any plugins you may have downloaded.

I have had the same problems and the proposed solutions here do not work for me either.

For now I have just used the older version of bp-core-avatars.php from https://trac.buddypress.org/browser/branches/1.2/bp-core/bp-core-avatars.php?rev=2876#L109 which has worked although there may be knock on affects from using the old file that I am unaware of.

There is also a thread here about it https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/how-to-show-avatars-uploaded-via-buddypress-in-wordpress-mu/

Paul.

Thanks Kaberi,

You are doing a great job chasing this down. I will try using the older file although there must surely be some knock on affects that we are unaware of yet. Will try it now.

It is kind of mission critical because the whole blog thing is clearly not working from a user perspective.

Thanks again.

Paul.

PS The old version of bp-core-avatars.php seems to do the trick – thank you for that. Have not noticed any drawbacks yet but there must be some. Hopefully a fix for the new file will appear. In the meantime, thank you again.

@wordpresschina – I also tested over the weekend and it worked great for me. But I have one issue I would love to be able to solve…

The e-mail sent out to the new users is the standard WP e-mail (with username, password (sutogenerated) and link to standard WP login screen) and not the one from BuddyPress. I would like to do the following.

1) Change the text of the e-mail.
2) lead people to a custom login page

I know this is not part of the plugin for Ning, but any help would be greatly appreciated.

By the way, unfortunately I cannot help you with your two issues, I don’t mind that the username is the name (it actually helps me) and I am not importing any date information, so I don’t have the issue. The best I can do is wish you the best of luck.

Any help on my two above issues would be greatly appreciated.

Kalman

Just to clear up what @mercime and @hnla said, BP 1.2.4 was, in fact, released to not only fix outstanding issues in the 1.2.x branch, but to also improve support for WP 3.0:

This highly anticipated version provides fixes to 74 reported tickets and adds improved support for WordPress 3.0 to help ensure a safe and worry free upgrade. (https://buddypress.org/2010/05/buddypress-1-2-4/).

There has been a ticket reported as stated in a earlier post to this topic. From looking at Trac, it looks like there might be a 1.2.5 release since WP 3.0 won’t be out until mid-June at the earliest, and the BP 1.3 branch can’t really be finalized until WP 3.0 is stabilized/finalized. This is obviously an issue people are having, so if anyone wants to go and add some info to the ticket about your setup it would likely help get the issue resolved.

@r-a-y I have BP on several installs of WPMu (all latest versions) with the same results. http://terryhall.biz (root site) & http://wp4seo.com (secondary site) – the avatars are not active links but the user name has a link ~ http://geeky.terryhall.biz/author/mrcleam which is not pulling avatar from http://terryhall.biz/members/mrclean –
Comment avatars are working. This was not a problem in BP 1.2.3 ~ is the “bp_root_blog” a new feature? Seems to be related to capability….

@yocalif The wordpress version should be showing at the bottom when you login to the dashboard. For buddypress, you can go into the plugins and it’ll list each plugins version number.

@yocalif

For buddypress, you can start with the readme.txt in the downloaded file
For WPMU, you can start with this: https://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WPMU

https://buddypress.org/extend/themes/
https://wordpress.org/extend/themes/search.php?q=buddypress

I just tried this on WordPress 3.0 RC2 and Buddypress 1.2.4 and have exact same issue as @brett (3 weeks ago). If I type activity after the main url I can see the stream… Trying to upgrade to 3.0 to fix the timestamp issue with personal messages, but this issue is worse so re-loading back to 2.9.2 until this issue is resolved….

Hi Kaberi,

Same problem here. Has anyone got any idea how this might be solved? Everything else seems to be working perfectly.

Perhaps there is a setting somewhere I have not got right, but given you testing, seems that it is not me or my settings.

Love BuddyPress but this is quite a big issue IMHO, any suggestions to solve it would be warmly welcomed.

Paul

PS Am using subdomains for guest blogs, could that be the issue?

“Is this post by Andy Peatling (“”No firstname/lastname because this does not work for a lot of international users.”“) still the official position or have things moved on?”

Nothing has changed, so I assume it remains the official Automattic position and have given up on Buddypress. I’ll continue to develop my sites as “custom code” on WordPress 3.0.

Hi,

I just found a solution to the problem and it works fine now.

http://www.solo-technology.com/blog/2010/01/10/quick-tip-wordpress-on-1and1-com/

Paul: Could you tell me which wordpress is better for buddypress? I’ve been using buddypress+WPMU almost 5 months and buddypress+WPSU about 1 month, but I couldnt make decision which one is better for buddypress..

thank you for your great work! I have installed the theme locally . i get this error message when trying to view live:

Fatal error: Class ‘BB_Query’ not found in /opt/lampp/htdocs/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums.php on line 318

also the css seems to be all messed up with most of the screen white.

thanks

I modified the “Manual Approve” plugin by Matt Kern to work with BuddyPress (don’t think he published it to the WordPress repository). I think that may be your answer to approving manually. Just put it in mu-plugins.

http://vanmurray.com/files/2010/06/bp-manual-member-approve.zip