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If MU and SU merge in 3.0 what does this mean for Buddypress. Maybe I should wait? Does this mean there will be no separate download and installs?

That reminds me of Lester Chan’s Post Ratings plugin – https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-postratings/ as well as this other one https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/vote-it-up/ , but both are for posts and the latter one is reported broken.

What good about Lester’s plugin is that you could call the highest rated posts in a page via template tags or using the widget in sidebar http://lesterchan.net/wordpress/readme/wp-postratings.html

First of all, an Error 500 (internal server error) message usually means something is not working properly with one of the software components on you server. It is not directly a WordPress or BuddyPress issue.

I’m guessing it’s an issue with your PHP install. Forcing the server to run PHP 5 instead of 4 may do the trick–assuming your site is being served under PHP 4. This is just an initial guess. See these threads for more detail:

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/error-500-internal-server-error-an-internal-server-error-has-occured-please#post-23821

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/500-error-after-uploading-buddypress-102#post-18421

However, there could be something else causing the problem. What you need to do is distill your environment down to the lowest common denominator. Make sure WordPress is working fine by itself before installing BuddyPress. To do that, you deactivate all other plugins and test WP by itself. If it is working without issue, then you reinstall BP and activate. You should not have any other plugins besides BP activated and you should be using the default theme that comes with BP when testing.

By the way, I suggest doing a clean install of BuddyPress. This means making sure the entire BP directory is removed and then starting over with a clean install of BP. Of course, as always, backup any data before you do any upgrades or reinstalls.

If you do not have any issues with WP running only the BP plugin using the default BP theme, then you know it has something to do with a custom theme, one of your other plugins, or some combination of the two.

You then start going back up the ladder one step at a time. Switch the default BP theme to your custom theme. Does the problem return? It not, then is has to do with your plugins. Activate one plugin at a time until the issue returns.

But, with an Error 500, I’m guessing it is something outside of WP and BP causing the issue. Show the links above to your hosting firm. They are the only ones that can help you.

Also, as another resource, search the WordPress forums to see if anyone there has reported a similar issue.

Hmm..

The BuddyPress Group forum system is actually powered by bbpress so it should be able to handle anything bbpress can. It is up to you whether you want to use the group forums system or work on integrating a standalone bbpress install into wordpress.

Ok, this particular problem really sucks. You use bp_core_load_template() in a plugin to load a theme file, using the filter ‘bp_located_template’.

If you’re modelling your plugin on the default BuddyPress components, or even the skeleton component, you could use the above to load an index page for your directory, and use a “loop” file to display each item within your directory index page.

However, the whole purposes of the ‘bp_located_template’ filter is that it allows theme authors to override your plugin’s theme file by adding it to their WordPress theme directory. The problem is that you cannot use bp_located_template() to include your loop file (henceforth referred to as a “plugin sub-template”).

Why? Because bp_core_load_template() just sets up the data for the template to load; nothing happens until the WordPress ‘template_redirect’ action is called, which only happens once on page load (.e. when it loads your index page).

Quick fix? After calling bp_core_load_template( ‘plugin/sub-template.php’ ), just call bp_core_do_catch_uri().

Proper fix? Working on it.

bp_core_load_template is not working when trying to load plugin’s sub-templates from within that plugin’s template file(s)

Look at the html source of the page. He’s made 3 columns with css. Each one pulls a custom loop pulling posts from a particular category.

It’s purely theme dev here. You may have more success searching elsewhere for this particular technique used in WordPress themes in general.

Very cool, potentially, but I would also caution that this could really overwhelm server load if it’s not implemented carefully.

If you don’t believe me, check out the discussions on the (auto-updating) P2 Theme over at wordpress.org.

@hnla – two questions:

First, did version 1.3 work?

Second, are you running MySQL in “Strict” mode?

Now tested a further install on 2.92 / 1.2.2.1 and for interests sake running backwards compatibility plugin.

Same issue as previously described

<snip>

WordPress database error Table ‘powl_theowlmu.wp_bp_album’ doesn’t exist for query SELECT

Checked my.conf and definitely not running in Strict mode.

However a significant amount of other errors such as global-adminbar.php not found and internal redirect exceeded suggests that perhaps the test against backwards compatibility plugin is not a valid one.

I assume I’m meant to be seeing some tables created on install? or only when an image is successfully uploaded?

Upgraded to the latest version btw. Working great now

I’ve been using CubePoints with my single WP install to get people on contribute to my site.

They get points for posts, comments, forum posts, daily visit, etc

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/cubepoints/

Anyway, they provide a simple API, so I was just wondering where I could put this code. So when people upload a photo they get some points. If they delete a photo it will take away points.

<php



if( function_exists('cp_alterPoints') && is_user_logged_in() ){

cp_alterPoints(cp_currentUser(), 20);

cp_log('Photo Upload', cp_currentUser(), 20, Community)



}



if( function_exists('cp_alterPoints') && is_user_logged_in() ){

cp_alterPoints(cp_currentUser(), -20);

cp_log('Photo Deleted', cp_currentUser(), -20, Community)



}



?>

On this subject, how about building RSSCloud and PubSubHubub into the Activity Stream RSS feed? There are plugins for WordPress, written by Automattic. I guess they could be modified to work for BuddyPress feeds?

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/pushpress/

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/rsscloud/

@Tosh, @Baur, @Modemlooper, @Jedbarish

Thanks for your very fast replies. The problem you are experiencing was caused by a problem with a failed SVN commit, and WordPress.org’s plugin repository rolling-back to version 1.3 on about half of our files without telling us.

Obviously, that broke the plugin.

Upgrade to the 1.5 and the problem will vanish. If you’re still having trouble, just delete the entire bp-album folder and copy the bp-album 1.5 folder in its place. It will start working again instantly.

@Xevo – I think the version number incrementing thing is very funny. What’s with all this version 0.0.16 software out on the Internet. I want to be at version 87.5 by 2012 …lol!

@hnla – two questions:

First, did version 1.3 work?

Second, are you running MySQL in “Strict” mode?

@Travel-Junkie

We’ve temporarily switched to single options to make debugging faster for the admin panel upgrade.

We wanted to get the admin panel version out absolutely as fast as possible AND have a table we can easily ask users to view using PHPmyAdmin if something goes wrong.

You are clever for noticing this! Don’t worry, we will remove it once we are sure everything works properly.

^F^

WordPress + Windows haven’t been a good combination since the beginning.

Don’t really think a lot of people are using BuddyPress/WordPress on a Windows server, therefore no one can really answer.

Hope for somebody having the magic solution or use a LAMP install.

That area uses the bp_format_time() function which looks like it calls the appropriate WordPress date handlers. If you have a message that displays the wrong time, if you look at it in the database, does it look any different from a message that works OK?

Wow, wordpress and windows installs are bad.

Unless Windows solved the mod_rewrite issue, you won’t be able to use buddypress. WordPress should work though, but only with the non seo friendly and ugly links.

Downloaded 1.5 to cure division by zero and Constants issues, however uploading images failing:

“There were problems saving picture details.”

Have sql syntax errors in error logs reported seeming to revolve around the admin image quantity settings, also when simply clicking into album page an error is generated:

<snip>

WordPress database error Table 'mysite.wp_bp_album' doesn't exist for query SELECT DISTINCT COUNT(id) AS count FROM wp_bp_album WHERE 1 = 1 AND owner_id = 1 AND privacy <= 10 made by require, wp, WP->main, do_action_ref_array, call_user_func_array, bp_album_setup_globals, bp_album_query_pictures,

Running pretty clean install of 2.9.2 & BP 1.2.2.1

An update to my situation in the post above..

I deactivated buddypress. Deleted all files in the buddypress foldder. Uploaded fresh 1.2.2.1 buddypress files. Reactivated buddypress. Then my forums tab disappeared from the public home page. So I went into the dashboard, clicked don forums setup, and it said I could install, etc… So I clicked to install a fresh bbpress.

It said it could not write a bb-config file and gave me the code to create one manaully.

I copied the code and put it in the root of my wordpressmu install as it said.

Forums tab now shows. I went to add a forum post, and the same thing happens – it just disappears.. like it is not saving any forum posts…

Any ideas?

FYI –

I’ve run into the same identical situation.

I’m with WP2.9.2 (latest) and BuddyPress Version 1.2.2.1 (latest)

WordPress Install is a fresh install

I’m on a linux VPS with HostGator.

I have no plugins installed, other than BuddyPress

I’m using BuddyPress Default 1.2.2.1 theme.

As far as I can tell, all links are working, except 2.

One is http://www.gjzone.com/forums –> returns a 404 and there is nothing in the logs that indicates a problem

Two, if I create a group, and place a check in the box for including in forum discussion, I get a 404

I don’t see anything in the logs (which seem to be limited in scope anyhow)

My htaccess is 644, and seems to have standard WP stuff

the bp-config.php file gets written and looks ok (no garbled input, etc)

I have forums enabled

I’ve deactived/re-activated buddypress plugin

I’ve disabled/enabled forums

Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.

Matt

What peteranselmo said. In addition, you might find it easier to adapt existing WP theme by using the https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-template-pack/