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1and1 just notified me that they’re redirecting Apache error logging to a file I can access. I went to the back site admin area, which is supposed to trigger the creation of the BP tables. Some of the log corresponding to that looks like what I’ve pasted below. Not sure if the SQL syntax error is causing all the trouble. Please let me know what else you need. Again, thanks.

exec 11368] Executing PHP5 /usr/lib/cgi-bin/php5 /kunden/homepages/14/d123456789/htdocs/exploreouroceans/index.php

WordPress database error Table ‘db270846977.wp_bp_xprofile_data’ doesn’t exist for query SELECT d.value, f.name FROM wp_bp_xprofile_data d, wp_bp_xprofile_fields f WHERE d.field_id = f.id AND d.user_id = 1 AND f.parent_id = 0 AND f.name = ‘Full Name’ made by get_value_byfieldname

WordPress database error Table ‘db270846977.wp_bp_xprofile_data’ doesn’t exist for query SELECT d.value, f.name FROM wp_bp_xprofile_data d, wp_bp_xprofile_fields f WHERE d.field_id = f.id AND d.user_id = 0 AND f.parent_id = 0 AND f.name = ‘Full Name’ made by get_value_byfieldname

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 ‘DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8’ at line 17 for query CREATE TABLE wp_bp_activity_sitewide (

id int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY,

user_id int(11) NOT NULL,

item_id int(11) NOT NULL,

secondary_item_id int(11),

content longtext NOT NULL,

primary_link varchar(150) NOT NULL,

component_name varchar(75) NOT NULL,

component_action varchar(75) NOT NULL,

date_cached datetime NOT NULL,

date_recorded datetime NOT NULL,

KEY date_cached (date_cached),

KEY date_recorded (date_recorded),

KEY user_id (user_id),

KEY item_id (item_id),

KEY component_name (component_name)

) DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8; made by dbDelta

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 ‘DEFAULT CHARACTER SET ‘utf8” at line 1 for query ALTER TABLE wp_bp_activity_sitewide DEFAULT CHARACTER SET ‘utf8’ made by bp_activity_sitewide_install

Hi Trent,

I finally gave up on cookie integration and went with just the wordpress integration. I got farther along in that I can post topics now with no errors, but adding a reply gives the dreaded red “There was an error posting that reply.” Looking over your last post gave me pause though. Are you saying to install only wpmu and bbpress, get them working, then install buddypress? Maybe I’m just tired, but the instructions from bp-forums/installation-readme.txt dont’ seen to follow that route. Makes sense though. I keep saying I’ve attempted this for the last time and moving on, but I find myself pulled back in once more with a faint glimmer of hope. I hope this isn’t the definition of insanity (always expecting different results).

Thanks for all your time in helping us.

I was looking around for something similar. Not exactly what you are talking about though. I ran across:

wp-o-matic which aggregates rss feeds to a blog

http://devthought.com/wp-o-matic-the-wordpress-rss-agreggator/

donncha’s site wide tags (which doesn’t work with bp at the moment)

http://ocaoimh.ie/2008/10/01/wordpress-mu-sitewide-tags-pages-031/

Any solution you find will probably not include your requirement for being selective about the posts you show. You are probably going to have to find something near what you want and modify it for your needs.

Maybe somebody else has a different approach or suggestion?

This sounds like an mu problem zanzoon. bp doesn’t have much to do with the backend of mu. Have you searched the mu forums? https://mu.wordpress.org/forums/

Have you googled for that error msg with ‘wordpress’ as one of the keys?

Looks like you are trying to modify a setting in the options page of mu and it doesn’t like what you are doing. I can’t tell you why from the info you’ve given.

I don’t want to confuse buddypress with the various microblogging tools (twitter, laconica, etc.) but Openmicroblogger.org has taken the Twitter Tools for WordPress plugin, for example, and made it work with their platform so that you can post to Twitter from within Openmicroblogger (much like how it works wth WordPress).

More importantly, the OMB platform lets you ‘subscribe’ to your Twitter friends or other users so that their tweets complete with Gravatar can appear in your stream on the OMB network of servers. Having this ability to ‘pull’ your subscribed network of users, over and above a lifestream of your own tweets or whathaveyou, whould make the ‘social’ plugin in Buddypress even more powerful. Hope I explained this in some manner of clarity.

Cheers

dimensionmedia

This may not be possible, but it might be nice to include users of Identi.ca (and Laconica servers) plus Openmicroblogger.org servers in this stream. Both use the OpenMicroBlogging protocol enabling users to post to Twitter and subscribe to friends on each platform.

Openmicroblogger.org in particular is heavily tied to WordPress plugins and themes already.

Cheers

And here, on my Russian BuddyPress Support Site, is the same manual in Russian for the Russian BuddyPress User. Enjoy!

These are your programming problems or your mu configuration problems not related to bp. Try the mu forums.

https://mu.wordpress.org/forums/

Posting massive error logs to a forum doesn’t help. It just annoys the people who might have helped.

If you had started out giving an overview of your problem and how it relates to bp, you may get better results next time.

You do not have mu setup and configured correctly. Until you do nobody will be paying any attention to your other problems. They are probably all related to the fact that mu is not working. Get mu working and then install bp. Please see the mu forums for help installing, configuring mu.

https://mu.wordpress.org/forums/

gpo1, nope. I’ve got too much on my plate right now. I’m not going to be able to do much else except get a site launched by the 1/1/09 deadline.

I talked to Andy about enabling bp to use standard wp widgets in the member theme. Got a couple of ideas but no time at the moment to play with them. The problem is that mu deals with *one* theme per blog. The members theme is sort of this invisible theme that lurks in the background. mu doesn’t even know about it. Only bp knows about it. It *is* bp.

The way I understand that widgets work is:

Register a ‘sidebar’ in mu with a name. 1,2,3 or ‘BP Member Profile’, ‘BP Member Blogs’. The sidebar gets registered to a specific blog id.

register_sidebar(array('name'=>'Main Sidebar',

'before_title' => "<h3 class='widgettitle'>",

'after_title' => "</h3>n",

));

In theme code call mu’s sidebar launcher fn.

<?php if (!function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar('Main Sidebar') ) : // begin primary sidebar widgets ?>

I just had some questions that I didn’t have time to investigate. When can I call call register_sidebar()? Any time I want, anywhere I want? I see it done in theme functions.php.

When I access any bp member theme functions do they execute in the blog id 1 environment? I think so.

If I register some bp member theme sidebars in bp code will it show up in the mu backend? I think so.

Seems like only the site admin who owns blog id 1 will be able to add widgets to the member theme. Well that’s a *good* thing. This is a feature.

Lots of questions and unknowns right now and not much time to explore answers. Have at it! Have fun.

Have you taken a look at this? https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/lifestream/

It will post stream info in the users blog, if you tinker with it you should be able to get it running in the users profile.

I took apart simplepie and I have news feeds running in the users profile.

Have you enabled wildcard subdomains such as in this post (linked to from bp docs)

http://www.blogopreneur.com/2006/11/06/installing-wordpress-mu-on-a-cpanelwhm-server/

In mu-plugins, these are plugins that help your WPMU site administration/installation. You won’t find them in the Plugins list. Most likely they’ll have areas in Site Admin.

The wp-content/plugins are for use by the blogs on your network. Here’s where you’d put wp-stats, akismet, and most of the plugins from https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins.

Here’s how I think of it: if it helps me run WPMU, it goes in mu-plugins. If it helps me or a member blog, it goes in wp-content/plugins.

Everything in wp-content/plugins shows up in Plugins for activation/deactivation.

Howdy, the area I think you are talking about is the default form when you view a member’s profile right? ‘me’ > profile > public. The template that generates that screen is in /member-themes/buddypress-member/profile/index.php

You’ll see the calls to generate all the sections on that page. One of them is the wire. Line 47:

<?php bp_wire_get_post_list( bp_current_user_id()… and so on …

You were gonna make a copy of the theme, make whatever changes you need to run a custom bp member theme and edit that one right? I think it’s in the bp rules and code of conduct. I’ll have to check.

depends on where do you want put your widgets

I use media temple, cheapest VPS. Never had a problem regarding getting WordPress MU or BuddyPress to work with them. Hope that helps.