1. Change the title of “Groups” to “My Conversations” in the BuddyPress component menu.
2. Remove the “Forums” menu item from the BuddyPress component menu.
3. Change the order of the BuddyPress component menu such that the “Messages” link is in a different place.

To accomplish these three things, I added the following to my theme’s functions.php file:

 
// Setup the navigation
// Props to http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/16223/add-buddypress-profile-menu-item for helping me figure this out
// http://themekraft.com/customize-profile-and-group-menus-in-buddypress/
function my_setup_nav() {
      global $bp;
 
      // Change the order of menu items
      $bp->bp_nav['messages']['position'] = 100;
 
      // Remove a menu item
      $bp->bp_nav['conversations'] = false;
 
      // Change name of menu item
      $bp->bp_nav['communities']['name'] = 'My Conversations';
}
 
add_action( 'bp_setup_nav', 'my_setup_nav', 1000 );

Pretty nifty, eh?

By the way, if you want to see all of your options for editing the components menu, just throw the following into functions.php:

 
function bp_dump() {
    global $bp;
 
    foreach ( (array)$bp as $key => $value ) {
        echo '<div>';
        echo '<strong>' . $key . ': </strong><br />;';
        print_r( $value );
        echo '</div>';
    }
    die;
}

(Thanks ThemeKraft!)

In my example below, the menu item will be called, “My Conversations”, and it will link to the “Groups” template.

<?php
// Setup the navigation
// Props to http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/16223/add-buddypress-profile-menu-item for helping me figure this out
// and http://themekraft.com/customize-profile-and-group-menus-in-buddypress/
function my_setup_nav() {
      global $bp;
 
      bp_core_new_nav_item( array( 
            'name' => __( 'My Conversations', 'buddypress' ), 
            'slug' => 'my-all-conversations', 
            'position' => 75,
            'screen_function' => 'my_all_conversations_link',
	    'show_for_displayed_user' => true,
	    'default_subnav_slug' => 'my-all-conversations',
	    'item_css_id' => 'my-all-conversations'
      ) );
}
 
add_action( 'bp_setup_nav', 'my_setup_nav', 1000 );
 
function my_all_conversations_title() {
	echo 'My Conversations';
}
 
function my_all_conversations_content() {
	?>
	<div id="groups-dir-list" class="groups dir-list">
		<?php locate_template( array( 'groups/groups-loop.php' ), true ) ?>
	</div><!-- #groups-dir-list -->
    <?php
}
 
function my_all_conversations_link () {
	add_action( 'bp_template_title', 'my_all_conversations_title' );
	add_action( 'bp_template_content', 'my_all_conversations_content' );
	bp_core_load_template( apply_filters( 'bp_core_template_plugin', 'members/single/plugins' ) );
}
 
?>

That’s it! Enjoy!

The solution I found was the following:

1. MAKE A BACKUP OF BOTH YOUR OLD SITE’S AND NEW SITE’S DATABASES!!! (Following the steps below can seriously and permanently mess up your site. Call a WordPress pro if this message scares you. Seriously.)
2. Go into the old site’s phpMyAdmin and export the “wp_postmeta” and “wp_posts” tables.
3. Go into the new site’s phpMyAdmin and import the “wp_postmeta” and “wp_posts” tables that you just saved in step 1 above. (Note: If your target installation uses the same “wp_” prefix, then you will need to change the title of the tables before importing them.)
4. In the new site’s phpMyAdmin, run the following query:

   REPLACE
   INTO wp_posts
   SELECT *
   FROM wp_ww_posts
   ;

That did it for me. How about you?

(Thanks, FCW and NTM!)

]]> http://www.themightymo.com/2012/01/18/how-to-import-podpress-audio-urls/feed/ 0 http://www.themightymo.com/2012/01/17/how-to-add-a-special-class-to-every-buddypress-page/ http://www.themightymo.com/2012/01/17/how-to-add-a-special-class-to-every-buddypress-page/#comments Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:43:21 +0000 toby http://www.themightymo.com/?p=1352 Sometimes I need to style everything that BuddyPress creates differently than regular WordPress stuff. For example, I might need to style all groups, forums, profile pages, etc. a certain way and have different styling for blogs and WordPress multi-site home pages.

My solution is to tap into the body_class() function and add a special class called, “buddypress” to all BuddyPress pages. Just add the following to your theme’s functions.php file:

// Add "buddypress" to body_class function if we are on a BuddyPress-generated page
add_filter('body_class','add_buddypress_body_classes');
function add_buddypress_body_classes($classes, $class) {
    if (!bp_is_blog_page()) :
 
        // add 'my-class' to the $classes array
	$classes[] = 'buddypress';
	// return the $classes array
	return $classes;
 
    endif;
}

Or if you need to target specific BuddyPress components, you can do it this way:

// Add "buddypress" to body_class function if we are on a BuddyPress-generated page
add_filter('body_class','add_buddypress_body_classes');
function add_buddypress_body_classes($classes, $class) {
 
	if ( 
	bp_is_profile_component() ||
	bp_is_activity_component() ||
	bp_is_blogs_component() ||
	bp_is_messages_component() ||
	bp_is_friends_component() ||
	bp_is_groups_component() ||
	bp_is_settings_component() ) : 
 
	// add 'my-class' to the $classes array
	$classes[] = 'buddypress';
	// return the $classes array
	return $classes;
 
	endif;
 
}

Hooray!

(Thanks to this thread for making me aware of the bp_is_blog_page function.)

]]> http://www.themightymo.com/2012/01/17/how-to-add-a-special-class-to-every-buddypress-page/feed/ 0 http://www.themightymo.com/2012/01/12/how-to-force-wordpress-multi-site-to-use-subdirectories-instead-of-subdomains/ http://www.themightymo.com/2012/01/12/how-to-force-wordpress-multi-site-to-use-subdirectories-instead-of-subdomains/#comments Thu, 12 Jan 2012 03:51:20 +0000 toby http://www.themightymo.com/?p=1346 I was trying to run WordPress multi-site from a subdomain today and ran into an issue where WordPress wants to force me to use subdomains for my url structure.  So, my sites would look like “site1.subdomain.maindomain.com” rather than my preference of “subdomain.maindomain.com/site1″.

To fix this, I implimented the fix found here.

Specifically, in wp-config.php I needed to change

define( 'SUBDOMAIN_INSTALL', true );

to

define( 'SUBDOMAIN_INSTALL', false );

and replace my .htaccess file’s content with the following:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
 
# uploaded files
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?files/(.+) wp-includes/ms-files.php?file=$2 [L]
 
# add a trailing slash to /wp-admin
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?wp-admin$ $1wp-admin/ [R=301,L]
 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^ - [L]
RewriteRule  ^[_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/(wp-(content|admin|includes).*) $1 [L]
RewriteRule  ^[_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/(.*\.php)$ $1 [L]
RewriteRule . index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

Pretty nifty!

p.s. You might need to update your permalinks after making the changes above.

]]> http://www.themightymo.com/2012/01/12/how-to-force-wordpress-multi-site-to-use-subdirectories-instead-of-subdomains/feed/ 0 http://www.themightymo.com/2012/01/09/how-to-set-up-wildcard-domains-on-hostgator-for-wordpress-multi-site/ http://www.themightymo.com/2012/01/09/how-to-set-up-wildcard-domains-on-hostgator-for-wordpress-multi-site/#comments Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:08:30 +0000 toby http://www.themightymo.com/?p=1338 I ran into an issue on Hostgator today whereby I could not get my sub-domains working in a fresh WordPress multi-site installation.

mydomain.com was working fine, but subsite.mydomain.com was displaying the default Hostgator page.

The issue was that my wildcard sub-domain was pointing to the “/public_html” document root. When I changed that to “/public_html/mydomain.com” everything worked fine.



(click image to enlarge) How to make wildcard domains work with WordPress multi-site on Hostgator

I hope this post saves someone in this world from a headache!

Thanks, Shawn!

]]> http://www.themightymo.com/2012/01/09/how-to-set-up-wildcard-domains-on-hostgator-for-wordpress-multi-site/feed/ 0 http://www.themightymo.com/2011/12/15/how-to-zip-a-folder-using-terminal-or-command-line/ http://www.themightymo.com/2011/12/15/how-to-zip-a-folder-using-terminal-or-command-line/#comments Thu, 15 Dec 2011 04:04:30 +0000 toby http://www.themightymo.com/?p=1317 I have been having fun with the command line the last couple of days.  Being a command line noob, I am starting to see why all my geeky friends love working in it.  I used to play around with BASIC back in the day, and the command line has a certain nostalgia about it in addition to being powerfully efficient in many ways.  On to the fun…

I have a rather large BuddyPress + WordPress Multi-site installation that BackupBuddy has been choking on.  All of my uploads total around 600MB, which is more than my server can zip up in one sitting.

So, I decided to try out the command line’s zip functionality, and it worked swimmingly!  Below are the steps I took to zip up my blogs.dir directory (the folder that has all my uploads in it).

Step 1: SSH into your website root via Terminal (on Mac) or your command line tool of choice.

Step 2: Navigate to the parent folder of the folder that you want to zip up using the “cd” command.

Step 3: Use the following command:   zip -r mynewfilename.zip foldertozip/   or   tar -pvczf BackUpDirectory.tar.gz /path/to/directory  for gzip compression
In my case, I typed zip -r blogs.dir.zip blogs.dir/ 

That’s it!

 

]]> http://www.themightymo.com/2011/12/15/how-to-zip-a-folder-using-terminal-or-command-line/feed/ 0 http://www.themightymo.com/2011/12/13/how-to-update-php-ini-via-terminal-command-line/ http://www.themightymo.com/2011/12/13/how-to-update-php-ini-via-terminal-command-line/#comments Tue, 13 Dec 2011 17:06:31 +0000 toby http://www.themightymo.com/?p=1315 Today I needed to increase the file upload limit in a WordPress multi-site + BuddyPress installation.  The limit was set by php.ini on the server, so there was no way to increase the limit within WordPress.

The solution is a bit complex if you are a command line noob like me, and it does require a basic understanding of command line stuff as well as root access to your server.  That said, with some guidance from someone like Dave, you can be rolling on the command line in no time!

Step 1: SSH into your website root via Terminal (on Mac) or your command line tool of choice.

Step 2: Find your php.ini file by typing something like this - grep -i php.ini

Step 3: Make sure you are in the same directory as your php.ini file and then edit your php.ini file by typing nano php.ini

Step 4: Edit the upload_max_filesize, post_max_size, and memory_limit properties in your php.ini file

Step 5: Save php.ini by exiting Nano

Step 6: Restart Apache by typing the following into Terminal:  /etc/init.d/httpd restart

 

That’s it!

Many thanks to Dave for his help!

 

 

]]> http://www.themightymo.com/2011/12/13/how-to-update-php-ini-via-terminal-command-line/feed/ 0 http://www.themightymo.com/2011/12/13/inc-magazine-article-quoteths-me/ http://www.themightymo.com/2011/12/13/inc-magazine-article-quoteths-me/#comments Tue, 13 Dec 2011 09:29:34 +0000 toby http://www.themightymo.com/?p=1311 I actually don’t know if “quoteth” is a word.  If it isn’t, it should be.

I have been co-working at CoCo for almost 2 years now, and the experience has been amazing.  I was working there the other day when I bumped into Inc Magazine’s, Christina DesMarais, who interviewed me for a nice, little article about co-working.

Check out the article!

]]> http://www.themightymo.com/2011/12/13/inc-magazine-article-quoteths-me/feed/ 1 http://www.themightymo.com/2011/12/08/force-users-to-login-to-view-buddypress-content/ http://www.themightymo.com/2011/12/08/force-users-to-login-to-view-buddypress-content/#comments Thu, 08 Dec 2011 05:10:02 +0000 toby http://www.themightymo.com/?p=1304 I have a BuddyPress-based website that I needed to require logins for. There are a number of plugins that force people to login to view content, but I couldn’t find one that forces people to login to see BuddyPress content while leaving all other content public.

So, I built this “BuddyPress Force Login” plugin. It requires people to login in order to view all the BuddyPress stuff – forums, groups, profiles, etc.

I would like to submit it to the WordPress repository, so please provide some suggestions for improvement.

DOWNLOAD.

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