BuddyPress.org

So guess what fixed it?

I changed the folder where WordPress mu was installed from /blogs/ to /blog/ and now it works Ok.

If I had installed it in the root directory there would have been no problems.

But look at what the WordPress mu installation instructions say…

“If you want to have your WordPress MU installation in its own subdirectory on your web site (e.g. http://example.com/blogs/), rename the directory wordpressmu to the name you’d like the subdirectory to have and move or upload it to your web server. For example if you want the WordPress MU installation in a subdirectory called “blog”, you should rename the directory called “wordpressmu” to “blog” and upload it to the root directory of your web server.”

Notice their first “example” is /blogs/’ and then in their second example they just say /blog/. I went with the first reference because I liked it better.

The BuddyPress documentation just says get WordPress mu working and then BuddyPress will work. I never saw anywhere that it said, “Oh, by the way…just don’t install it in a subfolder called /blogs/ or it will get confused by the redirects we do in /members/blogs/ and it won’t work so don’t do that.”

I’m being sarcastic. This is probably a bug or an unforseen situation (really?) but anyway, whether or not this would have affected anyone else it is what fixed it for me.

So…I re-installed and when it was just WordPress mu without BuddyPress it works. The page for creating blogs is /blogs/wp-signup.

I could add users and those users could go to that page and create a blog.

So I re-enabled BuddyPress and it went back to sending them to /blogs/members/username/blogs/create-a-blog as the address on all of the links to create the blog but when you click on (or even type it directly into the browser) you always end up at just /blogs/members/username no matter what. It’s being redirected for some unknown reason.

Is this not ringing any bells for anyone on what this problem might be?

i am using bbpress 1.0.1 + buddypress 1.0.3 + wpmu 2.8.2 latest versions..

well.. ok i can surely understand but problem is.. no one can login in sinemasite.com.. so.. we cant update site because we cant reach dashboard

This topic mentioned the same issue of not being able to deactivate buddypress 1.0.3 plugin after upgrade. https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/fatal-error-after-upgrading-to-wordpress-mu-282-and-buddypress-103

I really do appreciate all the work you do. I’m just really frustrated with the lack of synchronization and consistency between Buddypress xprofile and WordPress users/usermeta etc. Automattic needs to take a serious look at member management.

FYI, here’s the response from the WPMU forum:

Because if a spammer signs up, for instance, and you delete their username and blogs, if their registration member is also deleted, then they can sign up again.

I’m not satisfied with that answer. There must be cleaner ways to block/blacklist spammers.

Isn’t there a plugin that deletes users more thoroughly?

OK, thanks, I’ll post the question there.

But lack of synchronization between Buddypress xprofile and WordPress wp_usermeta etc. is also causing me lots of headaches, so I hope WPMU is not going to send me back here saying that it’s a Buddypress problem. Aren’t you all part of Automattic somehow?

Update 2: Well, I got somewhere. Buddypress appears to be working. The weird part is that I can’t deactivate it. When I click deactivate it says “Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.” How weird is that?

I am going to run with it for now. Theme is going to need a lot of work… the fonts appear to have grown for some reason. must be a problem with my custom CSS

I did find a similar plugin, https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/visitor-likedislike-post-rating/, if anyone could help me edit it so that it shows who voted what it would be perfect!

UPDATE: I attempted to delete all my plugins (mu and normal) from my site. Once they were all deleted, I reinstalled buddypress and then reactivated all of my plugins and yet still I receive the same fatal error.

Is this a problem with 2.8.2?

What do you mean by “get the RSS feed from a ‘regular’ WP blog”?

Well if I get the RSS feed from a regular installation of wordpress then it works. Perhaps there is some setting that is locking out the RSS feed from the widget.

However, if you click on the link for the feed, it does show something. Take a peek at:

http://www.piptopia.com/tribe/news/feed/

Is the hook to use this?:

user_register

Runs when a user’s profile is first created. Action function argument: user ID.

So something like this?:

<?php

/*

Plugin Name: Real Name Synchro

Plugin URI: http://

Version: v0.001

Author: peterverkooijen

Description: A plugin to store firstname and lastname from the fullname field in Buddypress registration in WPMU usermeta tables, based on examples in the <a href="http://www.devlounge.net">Devlounge</a> series.

*/

if (!class_exists("RealNameSynchro")) {

class RealNameSynchro {

function RealNameSynchro() { //constructor



}

function xprofile_sync_wp_profile() {

global $bp, $wpdb;



if ( (int)get_site_option( 'bp-disable-profile-sync' ) )

return true;



$fullname = xprofile_get_field_data( BP_XPROFILE_FULLNAME_FIELD_NAME, $bp->loggedin_user->id );

$space = strpos( $fullname, ' ' );



if ( false === $space ) {

$firstname = $fullname;

$lastname = '';

} else {

$firstname = substr( $fullname, 0, $space );

$lastname = trim( substr( $fullname, $space, strlen($fullname) ) );

}



update_usermeta( $bp->loggedin_user->id, 'nickname', $fullname );

update_usermeta( $bp->loggedin_user->id, 'first_name', $firstname );

update_usermeta( $bp->loggedin_user->id, 'last_name', $lastname );



$wpdb->query( $wpdb->prepare( "UPDATE {$wpdb->users} SET display_name = %s WHERE ID = %d", $fullname, $bp->loggedin_user->id ) );

$wpdb->query( $wpdb->prepare( "UPDATE {$wpdb->users} SET user_url = %s WHERE ID = %d", bp_core_get_user_domain( $bp->loggedin_user->id ), $bp->loggedin_user->id ) );

}

add_action( 'xprofile_updated_profile', 'xprofile_sync_wp_profile' );



}



} //End Class RealNameSynchro



if (class_exists("RealNameSynchro")) {

$dl_pluginSeries = new RealNameSynchro();

}

//Actions and Filters

if (isset($dl_pluginSeries)) {

//Actions

add_action('user_register', array(&$dl_pluginSeries, 'xprofile_sync_wp_profile'), 1);

//Filters

}



?>

Testing it now…

Edit: Activating this plugin produces a white screen. Not a good start…

Where did I go wrong?