I’m using buddypress 1.2.8 and wordpress 3.1.4
On other bp installs i have the ability to add new users as members from the dashboard. On my new install i just have the option to choose the default wordpress user roles
Thanks for your help testing it out and reporting issues, @InterMike.
I’ve just added a theme options page so that users can choose from a few basic color choices and use a custom.css stylesheet if they want to override anything. Aiming to get some other basic options in there for fonts.
For the custom stylesheet, check off the custom stylesheet option box in theme options, and create custom.css in the root theme directory.
A reminder that Frisco requires BuddyPress 1.5 and WordPress 3.2.1 or 3.3 (nightly build).
You can download the theme at https://github.com/davidtcarson/frisco/
Also I should note that I am using the most recent versions of both WordPress and Buddypress on a custom theme using the Template Pack. I am not currently using BBPress or Multi Site. I have already tried reuploading all the original template files.
jad117 –
something similar happened to me. I was editing the wrong file that was supposed to be the right file.
there are a few different ways to find other versions of the same file.
my preferred method:
if you have your site backed up to your local machine:
if you have Notepad++ (which is a free text editor program found here ->http://notepad-plus-plus.org/) you can use the “find in files” function. enter the phrase you are looking for (in this instance “public groups”). on the Directory section, select the wordpress folder. I tend to go to the highest directory possible so that I know for sure I’m not missing something.
the results will show you all instances where that phrase is. you can click on the phrase and it will open the file for you!
edit it there and then ftp/upload it to the same file path it came from (the file path is listed in the search results)
other places to look for the file you need to edit:
if you don’t have your site backed up on your local server
sometimes, the files are not on the Appearance tab. sometimes, they are in the plugins folder. (that was the case for one of the profile files I wanted to edit)
yoursite.comwp-contentpluginsbuddypressbp-themesbp-default
go to the plugins page
select buddypress from the drop down menu
edit the file there
hopefully, one of these two suggestion will help.
good luck.
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I was just fiddling around with installing and previewing buddypress themes and suddenly I’m getting this on every page:
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare bp_dtheme_ajax_querystring() (previously declared in /home/tinamama/public_html/tinasmagiccottage/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/_inc/ajax.php:20) in /home/tinamama/public_html/tinasmagiccottage/wp-content/themes/custom-community/_inc/ajax.php on line 63
and now not even the backend of wordpress works! HELP!
@foxly and others – Just wanted to drop a note about a recent commit https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/4977 where I made a minor adjustment to the new load order that should help a lot with plugin backward compatibility. In particular, plugins that are using the (old and incorrect but functional in 1.2.x) method of hooking their global and nav setup routines to ‘wp’ and ‘admin_menu’, which wasn’t working in earlier revs of BP trunk, should now be working. See https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3476 for more explanation.
That said, you should do the right thing and update your plugin so that it does it correctly: set up your globals at bp_setup_globals and your nav at bp_setup_nav!
I am using powweb as hosting and installed a new WordPress. I went in and installed Buddypress. When I go in to activate Buddypress it gives me a 500 Internal Site Error. What I need to do to fix this???
esploded; we need at the very least a link to your site, BuddyPress and WordPress version numbers, whether you’re using multisite, and whether you’re on IIS or not 
Hey buddy – I was running into permalink issues and learned that there are good and bad ways to go about it. I’d suggest reading this article to make your final decision: https://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks
If you’re wondering I decided to use: /%category%/%postname%
Wordpress/Buddypress Help (their forum was no help)
So the site i’m working is called CaraDaCapoeira.com. The buddypress theme provides me with a group function that I can’t do much with really but can be utilized for site groups like “Capoeira Rocks” or something like that. What I need now is to be able to have another “groups” section for Capoeira Schools across the world. I have 700 in excel files and would like to know what the best way to implement this other “groups” section on my buddypess site to be seperate from the groups that came with the general buddypress installation. It will need to show a Photo, group info, phone number, location, instructor etc. I suppose i could use the group page template and just copy it but not quite sure what to do after that. I’m certain i’d have to alter the database but i’m just not sure the best way to go about doing it and what functions to to copy and adjust in order to get this done.
Any and all help is welcome. I’m using WP v 3.2.1 and buddypress 1.2.9
Please help
Thanks so much @mercime! Fix worked- pages are displaying in the correct area, but now the sidebar is displaying beneath the content ( http://www.rowvision.com/members/miguel/profile/ ). Can I get a little assistance with this too? I saw a thread earlier with the same prob and now can’t seem to find it.
You presume correct, I have gone through the wordpress to buddypress codex page.
Also can you explain explain a little more about changing the tags wrapped around page titles. Where should I look to see how my theme does the page title tags?
Thanks again- MM
Sorry I can’t edit my post. I get a page not found .. but I have another plugin that’s not working with BuddyPress 1.5 Beta. It’s a fairly simple plugin though. But not sure why it’s not working.
BuddyPress Activity Stream Bar
Different strokes for different dropdown plugins. At this stage, recommend that you contact plugin author and/or post at WP.org forums https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks where you’d need to be clear which dropdown plugin you’re using.
Oh, I’m using BuddyPress version 1.2.9 on WordPress version 3.2.1
I will presume you’ve gone through this https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/ and only need to adjust code in BP template pack files as follows:
Open up the first file, activity/index.php and change
`
`
with
`<?php
global $options;
foreach ($options as $value) {
if (get_settings( $value ) === FALSE) { $$value = $value; } else { $$value = get_settings( $value ); }
}
?>
`
and at the bottom of same file, replace
`
`
with
`
`
The do the same with the remaining template files
Note that you would have to change the
or
tags wrapped around page titles in BP template pack files as needed to
per your theme’s page titles.
Check out this trac ticket. Know however, that in upcoming BP 1.5, the bp_page_title has been deprecated and WP’s wp_title will be used instead.
== As far as the coding goes, am I supposed to start from scratch or copy over all the files from the plugin / bp-default directory? ==
Depends on what modifications you’d like to implement and how you want to go about it.
Create a child theme of bp-default – https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/ – you can import the bp-default default.css in your style.css and make the revisions as well as copy over one or more template files/s from bp-default theme if needed
or use a WP Theme and install the BP Template Pack plugin and go through the process
https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/
https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/bp-template-pack-walkthrough-level-easy-2/
thank you for the kind response. I just tried buddypress quickpress and it didn’t seen to work. Just like what you said, it is out dated. I understand that it takes time. Just can’t wait for your plugin to be available, so we can use it for our project!
If there is no current plugin available, could you please suggest where shall I start? I just wanted to move the blog post feature to the activity update area, probably by adding a new button and a popup window. Users can be confused if they have to go to the dashboard (the wordpress control panel) to create a single post.
Also I have installed the plugin “buddypress groupblog”. Can the same thing be done to a group so group members can post group blog post the same way?
Hi all,
I installed WordPress and Buddypress plugin without problem, went over to the documentation and followed the instructions to customize the default theme. That was easy but it doesn’t explain how to actually *start* customizing. Is there a documentation explaining exactly what CSS must be included in order to have a custom BP installation?
I was expecting the documentation to point out areas, buttons, etc of the site and how it corresponds to the CSS. I just have an empty styles.css page with just the temple header info.
Would appreciate any help, thank you.
Just as a sanity check have you got the setting turned on to allow groups?
Under components have you turned enabled Groups: Let users create, join and participate in groups.
Are you signed in as admin or signed in as a user and does it make a difference to seeing group creation?
If you have a little more information would be great such as what version of BuddyPress / WordPress you are using and also the theme you are using? Does the problem happen with all plugins turned off (I know it can be a pain but it’s good to sanity check them)? Also maybe you can provide a link to your site?
In IIS Manager, go to the virtual directory and click right / properties, there you can go to the documents tabs and set up the “enable default content page” to index.php
IMHO Apache runs circles around IIS, on our win2k8 server we’re running apache and php instead.
This article might also help you translate .htaccess to an IIS webconfig, too (if needed) :http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/557/translate-htaccess-content-to-iis-webconfig/
As an M$ engineer IIS is not something I would rather rely on for production sites unless you have M$’s budget to just throw more servers at the load and be able to deal with a few coming off the rails while you sort things out (yes even in IIS7). That’s why I’m a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) admin when it comes to things I own and care about.
If you’re not planning to be working with ASP or need active directory integration with desktop PCs, and that sort of thing there’s no need for it. I say let WordPress run on it’s native environment.
@RPD If you mean this theme, https://wordpress.org/extend/themes/animass, then we’ll use the WP page.php file as guide in the transformation.
Open up the activity/index.php file transferred to your anIMass folder in server. At the top, replace:
`
`
with
`
`
At the bottom of the same file, replace:
`
`
with
`
`
Save and then do the same for the remaining files https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/#revise-templates
There is this plugin, however its out dated. I’m going to create something similar in the future. No date set but it’s on my list of plugins to create
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-quickpress
