alby54

SimplePress is a real Rip-Off. The basic “free” plugin is worth nothing, it takes a lot of extra plugins to make it work and those are payware in the worse sense i.e. you have to sign an expensive subscription to download them and to have a basic support. The alternative plugins could be BuddyPress with bbPress but they are real theme destroyers and it takes a life time to have them integrate with your custom theme. Mingle Forum is surely very basic and it is missing a few pretty important features like ‘preview’ and a good WYSISWYG editor (still on old BBCode), but it is quick and falls perfectly into whatever WP Theme with no problem. Maybe you guys didn’t follow the right sequence in setting it up because it really takes no longer than couple of minutes to have it up and running. Did you create a Category and at least a Forum? You do not need to create a group if you do not plan to have different user groups access different forums. It picks up users from WP database so you can have guests viewing the forum and keep posting on it reserved to logged users.

All I can say is that I I started in a clean config…. no cookies or temp files in cache, no wp_bp tables in the DB…..no extra plugin installed. I place the BP folder into plugins, activate it, run set-up from dashboard submenu, complete the 5 steps selecting Default BP Theme and getting the ‘Ready to go!’ final msg. At this point, I don’t see any config menu in the admin left column except the setup; the only settings available link is in the plugin page as you can see here:
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If I click on it, and you told me the link appears to be correct, I get the following msg:
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….and I’m stuck.

I get the error after the setup wizard has ended and the msg ‘BuddyPress has been successfully installed’ appears. In the Plugin page, in the BP strip next to Deactivate | Edit there’s the Settings link. I click on it and the message comes out. You should know the page link since it’s part of BuddyPress’s files anyway:
…/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=bp-components

Can’t go any further than that

@ Boone

OK, maybe I didn’t make myself clear enough (sorry, English is not my mother language). Anyway, I just ran this test:
– Installed WP 3.4.1 brand new, nothing added.
– Downloaded BP 1.6.1 and installed the usual way
– Activated the plugin
– Clicked on Settings:
error msg: “You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.”
– Checked the BuddyPress folder for CHMOD permissions and it is the way it should be (755)

This is all there’s to say… it happens regardless of which theme or which plugins are installed.

I’m not a big fun of WP and I do prefer using MODx as a CMS or a real Open Source code in a pure php enviroment… but I do think that people who turn to WP deserve that things should basically work out of the box because that is the main reason these type of packagers are chosen for. Same thing should apply to plugins that have to be fully tested before release.

Anyway, if you care to have a deeper look into this problem, I’m willing to give you full access as an admin on my server.

best regards

When there are over a hundred posts spread everywhere on the net that deal the same issue with the same error message, I call it a wellknown fact.
WP 3.4.1
BP 1.6.1
TinyMCE Adv (no other plugin or js present nor installed)
theme 2011
PHP 5.3.13
Problem occurs nevertheless on 2 different servers (basic and VPS) and locally on Wamp.

It is not a TinyMCE or other editor’s (like CKE) related bug, since all of them work perfectly in CMS like Modx or Joomla. It is just the WP internal editor that is a real disaster (problems existed way before the TinyMCE inclusion into WP). Get yourself “RAW HTML” plugin and get rid of all the unwanted mistakes like images inserted between <p></p> which, to name one of the many, is definetely a nonsense.

Thanks, alchymyth, I realized that the code I need is already there in Twentyeleven so I just have to create media.php and place the hook in the proper template:
<?php get_template_part( 'media' ); ?>

and it works

In alternative, edit the child css file adding this line

.entry-meta {
	display: none; /* hide meta data from posts */
}

Alberto

OK, I found the solution for the custom CSS. The reason why it did not work before was because I was using ‘get_bloginfo’ instead of ‘get_stylesheet_directory_uri’ (I have a child theme). Meanwhile, my customer changed things around and now he wants a custom login page all the way which means that not only a new CSS sheet will be involved, but also a new markup (I will need to create more nested divs and classes). I understand it is not reccomended touching core files but this cannot be done by simply editing function.php. I heard it is possible to create a static page and then insert the login form into it but I don’t know the correct procedure.
Any suggestion?

Please let me know if I have to open a different thread since here I was requesting a solution only for the first part of the issue.

regards

Alby

I need to style the default wp-login.php … all I need is a way to have it point to a different css sheet than wp-admin.css

thx

Great, I’ll tell all my future users (just a couple of thousands per week) to switch to Thunderbird. Anyway I found the bug was in Registration Plus and changing to the RP Redux solved the problem.

Don’t think so…I receive validation email from all site with clickable links. Other people testing are experiencing the same problem. The blog is hosted on Aruba on the same server where I have another wp blog that’s working fine.

I do it with CSS only because it is faster.
Just add:
.cat-item-1 {display:none;}
changing the ID number if different.