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Hi,

I did install Wordpres MU and BuddyPress a few days ago. OK – it is BuddyPress 1.2.2.1

And I installed the latest BP-Links what worked fine for the first link I created. But now, I am unable to drop down the settings for avatar and further link settings like description. It keeps closed and even entered URLs aren’t accepted.

So I actually stay with that single link

I did install several other plugins afterwards. But I can’t suggest a corruption. Or is there any incompatibility known?

Well, how do I get back the settings in BP-Links?

Thanks…

René

@MrMaz

Whats the diddy daddy?

Im gaggin for links 0.4 and pro

go go go go!

Oh, wait, also important! In Buddypress Component Setup on the dashboard, I’ve got Friends (‘Allows the creation of friend connections between users.’) disabled.

@stwc – Found the defect.

The problem is being caused by two blocks of code inside the BPLinks plugin that do not account for the situation where the BuddyPress administrator disables “friend” capabilities for the site.

When friend capabilities are disabled, calling the friends_check_friendship() function will crash the user thread. We handle this problem in BP Album+ by wrapping all calls to this function in a function_exists(‘friends_check_friendship’) statement, only calling the function if it is enabled.

This is a sneaky, subtle defect that could easily be missed during testing; fortunately, BPLink’s clean, well-documented source code made it easy to isolate and correct the problem.

Here’s a simple patch:

1) In “bp-links-classes.php” at line 650

REPLACE:

if ( $link_owner_user_id && $link_owner_user_id != $bp->loggedin_user->id && friends_check_friendship( $link_owner_user_id, $bp->loggedin_user->id ) ) {

$status_opts[] = self::STATUS_FRIENDS;

}

WITH:

if (function_exists(‘friends_check_friendship’)) {

if ( $link_owner_user_id && $link_owner_user_id != $bp->loggedin_user->id && friends_check_friendship( $link_owner_user_id, $bp->loggedin_user->id ) ) {

$status_opts[] = self::STATUS_FRIENDS;

}

}

2) In “bp-links-core.php” at line 1128

REPLACE:

return friends_check_friendship( $user_id, $link->user_id );

WITH:

if (function_exists(‘friends_check_friendship’))

return friends_check_friendship( $user_id, $link->user_id );

else

return null;

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WordPress MU 2.9.2

BuddyPress Version 1.2.3

BuddyPress Links Version 0.3.2

BP Album+ 0.1.8 beta

^F^

@MrMaz,

Is there a list of shortcode that I could call a specific category links to display in a template? For example, if I want to display the last 3 links in category “x” in the sidebar of the member’s home page, is this possible?

Thanks for the update MrMaz. I’m looking forward to the 0.4 release

Thank you for the continued development of such a great plugin.

Just a quick note @MrMaz, everything seems to be working as expected on a live install (after the fix foxley recommended) so I think my earlier issues were a combination of having Friends functionality switched off and working on a localhost install (there have been some minor strange things I’ve found doing that).

MrMaz – which BP Version do you use for testing your development Version (DV)? I downloaded the DV and checked it on BP 1.2.3 and had some problems with an error message that won’t dissapear (Please fill in all of the required fields) and with fetching the page details.

@MrMaz – This solved the JS problem … but there is still an erro saving the Link-Details. Could this be the case because i’m on Single WP 2.9.2? Are there any known issues – should i report errors like this, or is it to early in development of 0.4?