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In my site I use this plugin. It has all the basic functions I need – RSVP, confirmation emails, payment bridge, etc. – but the interface is a mess. It also has no BP integration, but I don’t really need that in my project.

I had planned to restructure, rewrite and expand the plugin, also including the excellent jQuery plugin FullCalendar. I’m very interested to see what Erwin and Marius Ooms come up with! A connection with groups, Buddypress’ killer app imho, sounds like a great idea as well.

But for my project I really need a solid event management tool, like a self-hosted version of eventbrite.com, integrated with the BP members database. I don’t really need a solution that allows members to create events or put stuff on a calendar.

Will Erwin and Marius solutions be an event management tool or more like an expanded community calendar? I’d encourage them to look into the EdgeTechWeb plugin…

EDIT:

Actually, the EdgeTechWeb plugin is really ugly. I need alternatives…

PayPal Booking Framework

Advanced Events Registration (based on EdgeTechWeb’s…?)

Eventr

…

I like to try any plugin and, hei…

@Dwenaus, this Rate Forum Posts plugin looks cool.

It is fine in my localhost but I found this error in live site

http://iluni-ftui.org/groups/situs-iluni/forum/

WordPress database error You have an error in your SQL syntax;

check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near

‘WHERE object_type = ‘bb_post’ AND meta_key = ‘rfp_rating’ AND object_id = 1′ at line 1 for query

SELECT meta_value FROM WHERE object_type = ‘bb_post’ AND meta_key = ‘rfp_rating’ AND object_id = 1

made by require, require_once, do_action, call_user_func_array, bp_core_do_catch_uri, load_template, require_once, locate_template, load_template, require_once, do_action, call_user_func_array, rfp_after_topic_title, rfp_get_post_rating_signed, rfp_get_post_rating

It solved by adding code below in rate.inc.php

require_once ABSPATH.’bb-config.php’;

global $bb_table_prefix, $bb_meta_table;

$bb_meta_table = $bb_table_prefix . ‘meta’;

Thanks for the plugin.

Now it works. But since I’m still a WP noob.

I don’t know if it is politically correct.

Hi to all those people that watched at at times gave me feedback on my troubles getting BP to work on my site. The short answer… I had BP installed on my “localhost”. So what I finally ended up doing was to export my localhost SQL and then imported it to my server at Powweb. It worked… Now I am just tweaking my install and ironing out the way I would like the site to look.

So to those that watched and answered my hiccups “thank you” I appreciate you taking the time to pass on your expertise.

All the best,

Rod

Try changing the theme to Kubrick and see if you still get the white screen, then it might be a theme related issue.

‘deactivating’ a plugin doesn’t always quite cut it. It’s worth completely removing plugins from the plugin folder (delete, move elsewhere) and then add them back in one by one to activate.

Did you read the error logs?

Hello again.. all plugins deactivated went to activate ? and the “white screen again” renamed bp-loader.php and I got the site back. I am at a loss on what to do next.

Rod

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/