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I have edited a couple themes and added widget support, I did not try with the member-theme, but it should behave just like any other theme in which you define sidebars. However, I don’t know if each user will be able to add his own widgets to it. It seems as though you are able to add a widget to the theme, but it should be the same for all users.

The thing is that the member theme is not treated like any other theme on the WP-Backend, but rather it is a different kind of setup, like a standalone. Am I right on this?

The long term solution would be to have them add a filter, so you can replace the standard function with your own.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API#Filters

Their may already by a filter in place you can use, which would either modify the output of a function, or replace it’s output all together.

The other option is to just write your own widgets, You can see what I did, it is a basic copy of the default members widget with a little customization for my needs:

http://gorgeousgamers.com/beta/

By writing my own widget, I can bypass those functions and just make my own, for example, I may only want to show popular members which don’t have gravatar avatars, would be very easy with my own sql calls.

Let me know if this makes sense,

Brad

Have a look at optimal title, I think it does a similar thing to all in one seo, but maybe more compatible for buddypress? I know the older versions of optimal title doesn’t use a title hook, they have you edit the php in the template, this maybe a better solution, as it won’t be called in buddypress templates, only wordpress template pages?

Also you may want to check out:

http://premium.wpmudev.org/project/sitemaps-and-seo-wordpress-mu-style

They have a wordpress mu version combining seo and sitemaps.

Brad

http://gorgeousgamers.com/beta/

Next time contact me on BPDEV

You’ve to do another bbpress installation (change directory name sure! like http://buddypressdev.org /bp-groups/ for integrated bp-groups and /forums/ for the main forums).

Intregrate this one with wordpress and you’ve done

Nicola

Here’s another snippet. This is the first error log entry that appears after invoking BP:

[suexec 11345] kundenfile = 1, mustkundenfile = 1, file = /kunden/homepages/14/d123456789/htdocs/exploreouroceans/index.php, cgifeature = 350

[suexec 11345] Chdir to /kunden/homepages/14/d123456789/htdocs/exploreouroceans

[suexec 11345] 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 = 0 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 Table ‘db270846977.wp_bp_messages_recipients’ doesn’t exist for query SELECT unread_count FROM wp_bp_messages_recipients WHERE user_id = 0 AND is_deleted = 0 made by get_inbox_count

WordPress database error Table ‘db270846977.wp_bp_messages_recipients’ doesn’t exist for query SELECT unread_count FROM wp_bp_messages_recipients WHERE user_id = 0 AND is_deleted = 0 made by get_inbox_count

WordPress database error Table ‘db270846977.wp_bp_groups’ doesn’t exist for query SELECT id FROM wp_bp_groups WHERE slug = ‘public’ made by group_exists

WordPress database error Table ‘db270846977.wp_bp_groups_groupmeta’ doesn’t exist for query SELECT gm.group_id FROM wp_bp_groups_groupmeta gm, wp_bp_groups g WHERE g.id = gm.group_id AND g.status != ‘hidden’ AND gm.meta_key = ‘total_member_count’ ORDER BY CONVERT(gm.meta_value, SIGNED) DESC made by get_popular

[Sat Dec 27 13:46:21 2008] [warn] (2)No such file or directory: mod_mime: analyze_ct: cannot get media type from ‘x-mapp-php5’

[Sat Dec 27 13:46:21 2008] [warn] mod_mime: analyze_ct: cannot get media type from ‘x-mapp-php5’

[suexec 11347] started: /usr/lib/apache-ssl/suexec dummywwwexecuser ftpusers php5exe

[suexec 11347] REDIRECT_STATUS: 200

[suexec 11347] doing chroot

Can you tell I’m desperate?

excellent work danf & burtadsit! And thank you burtadsit for backing up danf … so much to learn so little time. That’s what makes forums incredibly helpful.

So the conflict was with the wordpress google calendar plug-in that was loading an older jquery file. I removed that reference and all is working beautifully.

Thank you all for your guidance!

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.