Topic: Upgrading procedures

Upgrading procedures

thorosii
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@thorosii

14 years, 5 months ago

I’m running MU 2.8.5.2 and BP 1.0.3.

Every time I upgrade to 1.1.2 I run into the same problems, I suspect that the root cause of my problems lie with my custom theme.

The Activity Streams become common for everyone. Everyone is seeing everyone else’s activity. The new Status Update feature is nowhere to be found. A few other issues that I’m quite certain will be resolved once I figure out how to update properly.

Here’s what I do when upgrading, please let me know what I’m doing wrong.

My wp theme is in /wp-content/themes/themename

My bp theme is in /wp-content/bp-themes/themename (this is a custom theme with css to match my wp theme)

I can attach screenshots of the directory contents if that will help. When I upgrade to 1.1.2 automatically everything works fine barring the aforementioned problems.

I have also tried moving the contents from /wp-content/bp-themes/themename to /wp-content/themes/themename then deleting the bp-themes directory. That created even more problems as it seemed like BP was still looking for bp-themes.

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Jeff Sayre
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@jeffsayre

14 years, 5 months ago

First, always read the readme.txt files that come with WPMU and BuddyPress.

Second, see these links:

https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/upgrading-from-10x/

https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/upgrading-a-buddypress-1-0-theme-for-buddypress-1-1/

https://buddypress.org/blog/news/the-new-buddypress-theme-architecture/

thorosii
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@thorosii

14 years, 5 months ago

I have read all that but none of those scenarios seem to match mine.

This sounds about right: â€œIâ€™ve built a completely custom WordPress theme and BuddyPress themeâ€

But like I said, when I move /wp-content/bp-themes/themename to /wp-content/themes/themename per the instructions here: https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/upgrading-a-buddypress-1-0-theme-for-buddypress-1-1/ that doesn’t do it either.

Is it because my bp theme doesn’t have a parent/child relationship?

The entire BP theme is /wp-content/bp-themes/themename

thorosii
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@thorosii

14 years, 5 months ago

Here are the contents of my buddypress theme root within bp-themes:

http://avarayr.com/wp-content/themes/avarayr/images/bpthemeroot.jpg

Here are the contents of my wordpress theme root:

http://avarayr.com/wp-content/themes/avarayr/images/wpthemeroot.jpg

Please advise.

If I leave everything as is (without moving the contents from my bp theme to wp theme) and just upgrade automatically I had up with the messed up activity stream and other problems.

Jeff Sayre
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@jeffsayre

14 years, 5 months ago

You either will use your old theme(s) in /bp-themes/ or a parent/child theme in /themes/. If you want to use your old theme as a parent/child theme, then you need to make changes to it as detailed in the link I provided and then move it into its new place.

Please reread the links I provided above as they do explain very clearly what you need to do.

thorosii
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@thorosii

14 years, 5 months ago

Let me completely change my question here then.

I’m not using a parent/child theme. I’m leaving everything as is, without moving anything anywhere.

After upgrading, members have the same “global” activity stream and there’s the new status update is missing in profiles. That’s all.

thorosii
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@thorosii

14 years, 5 months ago

I now understand the problem.

In order to get the new version to work I basically have to re-create my bp theme with the new theme files. I compared the standard new buddypress theme to mine after the upgrade and noticed that I don’t have a status directory for example I copied the contents of your bp-sn-parent into my bp theme and the new features all worked, except my css was now broken.

This is insane. I had paid someone a good deal amount of funds so that my bp theme matches my wordpress theme. Now I have to do it all over again if I want to move on from 1.0.3

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