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I installed the group plugin, and then added another member to a public group. I even bumped the member to a moderator.

That part worked perfectly, but there is one small issue.

On the groups activity page, it says user ‘x’ joined the group. The ‘x’ is the proper name, however just to the left of the username is my avatar, and not his.

example:

http://shawngaffney.anointed.net/groups/public-test-group/

first activity says ‘steve’ joined, yet the avatar is my avatar, not his, and the avatar also links to my account not his. That will make it a bit confusing to users?

**cross posted this on the wordpress.org download page forum as well**

Sounds good. I’ll hold off a little longer I was losing faith and perfectly happy launching with a simple WordPress plugin for now. But an integrated solution would be better of course. That said… I will really need recurring events… so who knows… I may STILL end up going with a WP plugin for the time being. Then maybe switch to bp-events in 2011.

I’m going to paraphrase a line out of the iPhone ads:

“There’s a plugin for that!”

Check out this plugin by Brajesh Singh:

http://www.thinkinginwordpress.com/2009/10/autoactivate-users-and-blogs-at-buddypress-signup/

I think it needs to be updated for BP 1.2 though.

It installs like a plugin but will take over your site theme as you need to active the BP theme to get the functionality. If you want to use your own theme please read this.

https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/

Basically, Yes. Buddypress is plugin for an existing WordPress install. You can’t just install it by itself in a sub-folder. Also, Buddypress is not like a “blog posts” page that you can assign somewhere on your site. You can’t fit it into a couple pages. It’s an entire social networking platform. It will add groups, profiles, messaging, activity, and more to your site.

this may help a bit although it doesn’t give a clear answer to the problem apart from pointing the finger at an outdated plugin –> http://alwayswordpress.com/blogging/the-menacing-white-screen-of-death-with-wordpress

Then you may probably have to follow versluis’s advice above… that is to activate your other plugins one by one to find the culprit

Hi… Good idea. I will ask tech for the log file and go from there. This is annoying to say the least.. Oh, I also had no problem installing BP on another WP site with the same ISP.. weird or what!!!

Rod

@xp02ed

I’ve tracked down the root of the problem (at least in my case), it’s most likely that you server clocks are out of sync (timezones) between your system, php and mysql.

(This explanation might be wrong with exactly where times are pulled from, but is correct as to the fact that they’re pulled from different places!)

The bit that checks recently online users looks at the last activity entry in user_meta and checks for users logged in within the past 5 minutes. However, last_activity user meta is logged by wordpress using PHP gmdate, and when you search for the last activity in this widget, it uses MYSQL’s NOW() function. If your times are out of sync a user with last activity of <5 minutes will never happen.

Example:

In my local server, the times of last activity are being logged as GMT by WP (PHP). However, I’m in CET and mysql takes it’s timezone from the system (windows), so everyone no matter what was last “seen” by WP and BP at least an hour ago.

See below for more info on setting MySQL timezones

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/time-zone-support.html

An addendum to my other post. I just installed BP on my local machine with no trouble. What could be going wrong with my hosting service I wonder?

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-quickpress/

Hi.. For what it is worth I had/am having the same trouble. I deleted BP files and have not bothered since. I never did get an answer that helped me with the problem…

@MrMaz I notice a bug under WordPress single install 2.9.2 with BP1.2.1 when the plugin is activated everything look to be fine if your role is set as administrator but if you are login as regular member and try to see someone member pages your are getting a blank page. I had to deactivate the plugin. Any idea?

I wonder if it’s a conflict with another plugin. Here’s what I would do:

Deactivate all other plugins, then re-activate BuddyPress with its default theme. See what happens. If that’s successful, activate your other plugins one by one to find the culprit.

If you can’t login to your site anymore, rename the BuddyPress folder in /plugins/ to something else for now to deactivate it.

Good luck!

Version 1.1.8 has a bug with WordPress 2.9.2 with BuddyPress 1.2.1

Enabling this plugin disables buddypress profiles, which returns 404 on every member profile page.

I’m using custom member slug for my BP install, so please check if there’s conflict on your code with users with custom BP slugs. This is the only BP plugin I’m running aside from BP.

login using my user/pass for wordpress.org didn’t work for me either. I had to create another login to post here.

Use the older version then:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-redirect-to-profile/download/

@dwpers

Although this isn’t related to the thread, use Brajesh’s BP Redirect to Profile plugin:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-redirect-to-profile/

I can’t wait for bp-events any longer. I’m going to just use a simple WordPress plugin for now. Hopefully at some point bp-events or some other BuddyPress solution will happen. Given the pace and history of development… bp-events 1.2 could be months away. Or not. Hard to say.

There is, but it only kicks in on a MU install. Look at bp_core_add_illegal_names() in bp-core.php. There may be a reason why it is not done on a regular WordPress install — perhaps such a feature doesn’t exist in regular WordPress.