I also posted some general advice here:

http://premium.wpmudev.org/forums/topic/workflow-for-setting-up-an-online-service-like-edublogs#post-86111

When testing plugins and themes, use a test sandbox site to ensure you don't end up with a bloated website causing you issues later. Not all plugins and themes will remove the stuff they stick in the DB.

Take care.

Hey again.

so should i re-install the plugin again? is there another way to fix it?

If you plan on using it then sure, go install it again.

I wonder if there are some files still on the server? And some defines calling something in the wp-config.php as the plugin allows that.

I would investigate for remnant of the plugin to find the issue.

Take care

actually talking to my sysadmin he did install is and then removed it.

so should i re-install the plugin again? is there another way to fix it?

Hey again.

also never installed BuddyPress links so i am wondering what that could be?

Are those not in the DB then?

There are functions here:

http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/buddypress-links/branches/0.3/bp-links-core.php

And if we look here:

http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/buddypress-links/branches/0.3/buddypress-links.php

We can see which plugin it refers to.

Could it have been installed once and then removed?

Looking at the last file I link to it has a set of defines which you could pop into your wp-config.php

Take care.

yes i added dbname as a prefix.

also never installed BuddyPress links so i am wondering what that could be?

Hey there.

First of all does this exist:

dbname_wrdp1.wp_bp_links'

bp_links_recalculate_popularity_for_all, BP_Link

Is "dbname_" your table prefix?

Are you using this:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-links/

Take care.

hey guys i just saw on my log files that are plugin is miising

[20-Jan-2012 17:09:31] WordPress database error Table 'dbname_wrdp1.wp_bp_links' doesn't exist for query UPDATE wp_bp_links SET popularity = FLOOR( FLOOR( ( UNIX_TIMESTAMP('2012-01-20 17:09:31') - UNIX_TIMESTAMP(date_created) ) / 60 ) / vote_total ) WHERE popularity <= 16777214 AND vote_total >= 1 made by do_action_ref_array, call_user_func_array, bp_links_recalculate_popularity_for_all, BP_Link

any idea which plugin that might be?

Hiya!

Thanks for your feedback! Glad you're digging some of the feature upgrades.

I'll ask one of the developers to respond here as I haven't heard of this issue before. I'm a bit concerned about the continued development of the BuddyPress links plugin though. Doesn't appear to have been updated for awhile now and isn't marked as compatible with WordPress 3.0+ (not saying it isn't just that they haven't updated the information in awhile).

Thanks again for your feedback on this.

I see that "Allow access to xml-rpc on private blogs." has been added to the Sitewide privacy options for WordPress MU plugin. Thank you very much for this. It will be indispensable after our upgrade.

We have noticed on WPMU 2.9.2 / BP 1.2.4 that the links RSS feed generated by the BuddyPress Links plugin 0.4.1 is not covered or made private. Can this be fixed or has it already been reported and fixed in the 1.0.2 release of Sitewide privacy options for WordPress MU?

Planning to test during our preparation for the upgrade.

@AquaPebble: Ty for the kind words glad it's all working.

It worked. You are a star! Thank-you so much!

I don't know what I would do without you all :D

@AquaPebble: Try this one then having to hack about the navigation a bit to get to work with the variations in the navigation but this should nail it.

@ Tammie, that removed one of those "links", there is still one left - so almost did it. :D

The plugin doesn't state Wordpress 3 compatibility only 2.9.1.

Here is the link: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-links/

I was recommended to use it for what I wanted to achieve told it should work fine with WP 3 - I suppose this is it's failing, as the rest is working.

@AquaPebble: Can you provide a link to the plugin please. Daily uses the new wordpress 3.0 navigation so think it could be to do with that. However, I notice it's outside the ul closing tag so my thoughts are if you could try this file attached see if that fixes it. Replace library/components/buddypress/buddypress-navigation.php

I have activated the BuddyPress Links plugin, but it is not showing up properly on the BP nav bar. It shows up as a bullet link and is displayed twice.

I tested on both BP Default and BP community and it shows up as a regular menu link/tab on those themes.

Have a look here: http://ukmarketingnetwork.com/

Is there a way I can fix this?

@catfrommars: Glad its working.

HI, I switched to a different theme (prodcut) and it seems to work with that one...

@catfrommars: Ideally we do need you to start a new thread for a new topic. I'm fairly sure this is not the same issue as that was very specific to the Magazine theme. Sorry but easier to view things if you do that. The advice was to check using something like firebug and then see the CSS class. However are you using the same plugin this user was as that was why he had formatting issues. Also please state what version of WordPress you are using and BuddyPress.

Oh, I am using bp corporate and it doesn´t Work either...here is what it looks like. It does work on bp default...

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Hi,

I have the same issue with Buddpress Links and I would like to make the same adjustments...But I am kind of lost on the explanations.

Could you specify in which (css) file exactly I have to make what changes?

Thank you @Richie_KS
I use this in community theme and works too

Magic, that fixed it thanks Richie_KS!

hi georgef
seem some css issue with #links..missing on bp-corporate...add this to custom.css


#link-details-form fieldset {
display: block;
clear: both;
}
#links-directory-form h2 {
position: relative;
}


cheers

I have this plugin installed with buddypress...

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-links/

It worked fine with BP-corporate before the upgrade of 1.2. With previous buddypress versions you had to manually move a folder to the themes folder for it to work, with the new version you just need to activate the plugin.

There is suppose to be a link next to the "Links Directory" title which does not appear.

I just swapped to the default theme on a test server and it displays fine.

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@henrybaum: Actually I found that the member-sidebar.php wasn't showing on the pages it should which are the member areas (under options bar). I've updated a new version to include that fix so it shows now. If you can see if those work for you I think that's what you want. If you want it to show in more areas you simply can add the following code to the area you want it to show in the template child:

<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/sidebars/member-sidebar.php'); ?>

Should you want to show different ones depending on the area you are in you can simply create a new file using the format in members-sidebar.php (you will have to under functions.php make sure you are calling the sidebar for instance (yourname = whatever you are calling your sidebar):

register_sidebar(array( 'name' => 'Yourname-Sidebar',
'before_widget' => '<div id="%1$s" class="sidebar-section widget %2$s">',
'after_widget' => '</div>',
'before_title' => '<h4 class="widgettitle">',
'after_title' => '</h4>'
));

Then you'd simply call it using the includes replacing members-sidebar.php with whatever your file is called.

Hope that helps.

I'm interested in adding the default sidebar widget to /members /forums /groups and /links. Do I need to add php code to those pages in order for it to show up?

@henrybaum: hmm shouldn't have to do that however it's working so that's good. There are several sidebars you can use in the magazine sidebar. You can see them all listed under sidebars. You want to be using the members one I think for what you want. However you can use the format they use of calling in the template (see home.php for an example) and then put on any other page. Let me know if you need some more help.

I put a position: absolute in member-content (more or less). Thanks for the help.

A related question. What purpose does the default widget sidebar serve? I can't find additions to that sidebar anywhere, and I'd like to be able to add sidebar elements to Groups/Member directory and BP Links if possible.

@henrybaum: was it the link-loop class? If so that is the plugin's own class I think. If by incredible amount you say the 100% then it's only of the container it's in so not really. It's basically saying 'don't grow bigger than your fish tank' :)

No problem nice to see what you've done with the site too. Page source is great and even better if you use firefox is an addon called firebug if you don't know it that really can be a lifesaver when doing any custom theme work. Particularly if you get really scary and start prodding things like JavaScript.

Thanks an incredible amount for that. Got it up and running now. Good tip about checking page source to see what's being affected. Yes, I'm a newbie, but getting less so.