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open your .htaccess file in the root wordpress folder and put this on the top

AddHandler x-httpd-php5 .php

AddHandler x-httpd-php .php4

then try again. If you don’t have .htaccess file create one.

Try the automatic install from the WordPress admin plugins page:

http://yourdomain.com/wp-admin/plugin-install.php

Search for BuddyPress, then install and activate.

What size image are you uploading? I have this weird thing where if I upload a square image, and it’s less than 150 px on any side, it gets all stupid and weird on me.

Also which WP 3.0 are you running? I have last night’s nightly and it’s working fine when I tried to use an image that was 284px by 240px and cropped it down.

The other thought is you may not have the image processing apps on your server (I don’t know if they use GD Image or whatever…)

That got me one step further, but then i got the RSOD -> There was a problem cropping your avatar, please try uploading it again

That got me one step further, but then i got the RSOD -> There was a problem cropping your avatar, please try uploading it again

Ahh okay, Erich! Thanks for the extra details.

It could be an issue with the email address that the activation email is sending from.

By default, the activation email tries to use the admin email option in WPMU.

If that isn’t set, it uses something like:

noreply@domain.com.

Which could be causing the activation email to go to the spam folder.

Try using the following plugin to set the email address:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/mail-from/

Try this: https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/2317

I too am running WP3 B1 with BP 123 and no issues at all. Avatar issues were solved by this change https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/2317 (and by only uploading images that AREN’T square and are larger than 150px on their shortest side … Go figure)

I LOVE this plugin but I have to deactivate it because I cannot limit the size of the embedded YouTube videos without changing my defaults for my entire website.

I embed YouTube videos as my main posts and they are 620px wide (as set by Media Embed Setting in WordPress).. I can’t let people embed 620px wide Youtube videos in the activity stream as that is too big. If I decrease the Media Embed setting in WordPress, it decreases the size of my videos in my Posts.. which is not good.

I noticed some code in your config.php at the bottom that says:

“WORDPRESS SPECIFIC VARS

allows you to hardcode certain WordPress-only variables”

How can I hard-code these variables? Would this be how I could make the embeds smaller for the activity stream vs. the site defaults?

I am running WP3 B1 with Buddypress 1.2.3, no 1.3 that I’ve seen yet. Works well besides Avatar issues.

I think I am having the EXACT same issue as ajohnson.

I upload the avatars just fine. I am not using the network enabled code in WP3 and my avatars are not showing to crop. they begin at the custom directory files/avatars/1 … etc.

It was a fresh WP3-b1 install

Fresh Buddypress 1.2.3 install on top of it.

Try putting the code in wp-content/plugins/bp-custom.php.

I should add that this code is kind of a hack until BP adds some functionality to detect WP setups in subdirectories.

Also just wanted to add that this issue could already be fixed in BP 1.3 trunk due to the way BP now uses actual wordpress pages instead of a catch URI check.

If you’re using Thesis as the parent theme, you’ll have to enable BP support for your theme.

Two options:

1) Use the BP Template Pack plugin:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-template-pack/

2) Manually add BP support to your theme.

thekmen has added BP support to a child theme of the Hybrid framework:

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/testing-new-theme-hybrid-as-a-parent#post-40217

You can check out what he did as a guide.

captcha and math tools do not really help fighting spam.

spammer register manually and then feed your blog automatically remote via xmlrpc.

i am running a wordpress mu + buddypress site and had about 40 spammer-registrations a day with lots of spam. then i deactivated xmlrpc via renaming xmlrpc.php in wp-root, result was only user registrations (without content spam). about four days later spammer registrations were reduced from 40 to about three a day (easy to delete), seems that the spam-apps noticed that the rpc doesn´t work and deleted my site from their targetlists, entering their messages manually is to complicated for them….

Looks like you’re attempting to use a BP 1.1 theme with BP 1.2.

You might have some luck with using the BP Backwards Compatibility plugin:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-backwards-compatibility/

But I’m not sure.

If that doesn’t work, you might want to develop a new child theme off the new BP default theme.

FYI – Buddypress Template Pack plugin:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-template-pack/

techguy’s got the right idea.

I havent had a spammer registration since i used the “WMPU block spam by math” plug-in. i was getting 20 a day, and now absolutely zero.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wpmu-block-spam-by-math/

We’ve just finished converting the WooThemes “Headlines” template, and it is well suited for Buddypress. You can see it at http://LabSecrets.com

We found that this template required us to modify the structure and add some new css. Once we did this, it was easy-enough (though just required the time to copy/paste) to replicate across the rest of the theme.

Probably going to try this next on the “Canvas” theme. This time might try to see if there is a way to do it without changing the id labels or adding extra div-tags (but not likely given the fact that the “container” and “content” div’s are used 2x, thereby necessitating the name changes for the inner (they’re used once by woo and then once again in the bp default template….which makes the css problematic….sigh…)

Here are the structures we modified (using group folder as the example):

TOP OF THE PAGE:

<?php get_header() ?>

<div id=”container2″ class=”col-full”>

<div id=”content2″ class=”col-left”>

BODY OF PAGE….CONTENT HERE… OMITTED….

BOTTOM OF THE PAGE:

</div><!– #content2 –>

<?php do_action( ‘bp_after_directory_groups_content’ ) ?>

<div id=”sidebar” class=”col-right”>

<?php locate_template( array( ‘sidebar.php’ ), true ) ?>

</div><!– #sidebar –>

</div><!– #container2 –>

<?php get_footer() ?>

As r-a-y just pointed out, it is called an external install of bbPress because it is external to BuddyPress. So, there is no secret BP code to make it work. You need to integrate bbPress into WordPress.

Once that is successfully accomplished, you then place a link to your separate, external forums within your BuddyPress site. Now, if you want to make your bbPress site look as if it is part of BP, then you have to theme your bbPress to look like the BuddyPress theme you are using.

That is all that was done on the BP.org site–an external install of bbPress with a theme that matches that of the current site theme so that the two appear integrated. In reality, bbPress is not integrated with BuddyPress at all. The bbPress theme does need a function call or two to make the BP menus work within bbPress, but that is covered in a number of other threads.

Have you seen this thread? Perhaps this will provide more insight on how to integrate bbPress into WordPress: http://www.wpmods.com/integrate-wordpress-bbpress

It’s not a code thing, Dainismichel.

If it was a code thing I would have posted it.

I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again… an external install of bbPress (which is what you want) has absolutely nothing to do with the BuddyPress admin area. It’s between WordPress and bbPress.

Numerous others (me included) have given you the correct procedural steps to integrate an external install of bbPress. Furthermore, lots of people have come into these forums and have successfully integrated an external bbPress install properly. You’re basically looking at the instructions and interpreting them differently.

Granted, as we’re not all technical writers like you are, our instructions might not be as clear as you want them to be, however we are trying our best!

Without hand-holding, we can’t physically do this for you.

I have the same problem but a different setup. The site is hosted by hostmonster.com, so I can edit the .htaccess file (or create one if necessary)–if I could learn what the .htaccess file should say. In my root directory is an installation of WordPress MU. The domain does not yet point to hostmonster.com’s name servers so I must access the WP installation and the wp-admin files via the IP address. This works fine and I don’t want to mess what I have there. In a subdirectory off the root, I did an installation of BuddyPress. http://[ipaddress]/~username/subdir shows me the front page of Buddypress the default theme. But all of the links result in 404 errors. They are looking for http://[ipaddress]/~username/subdir/activity or http://[ipaddress]/~username/subdir/members, etc. and those directories don’t exist. What am I doing wrong? TIA!