Works…missing functionality

  • codyecp

    (@codyecp)


    10 years ago

    First off, I had buddypress set up pretty well. All I wanted to do was get rid of the sidebars on certain pages that are not actually “pages” within the wordpress system. These would be like “member profile” pages and a few others. After spending hours reading through their forums that DID NOT HELP, I ended up crashing my site with a fatal error after following someones instructions. Why such a simple functionality wouldn’t be built into it in the first place is beyond me…. Now I’ve wasted countless hours and my site just displays the following on the backend:

    Fatal error: Call to undefined function bp_get_groups_slug() in /home/codyecp/public_html/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-activity/bp-activity-loader.php on line 207

    Cant do anything anymore with the admin panel…F*%$ buddypress!

    AHHHHHHH I just spent a whole day styling this damn plugin and now my site crashes from nothing????? WTF. I’d rate it ZERO stars if I could….

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  • monoentrenado

    (@monoentrenado)

    9 years, 10 months ago

    Boy you’d be that naive…

    You SHOULD NEVER EVER edit a live site… EVER. Before implementing anything new or make mayor changes, create a production environment (you could set up a “development” folder on your server or virtualize a server on your desktop)

    What you wanted to achieve is pretty easy with a bit of knowledge of the Theming schemes on WordPress, and off course, some PHP and css.

    I don’t really think buddypress had gotten anything with you crashing your site, you just rated bad a plugin because you weren’t able to tweak it… not nice.

    gaucho code

    (@glowzar)

    9 years, 7 months ago

    what kind of review is that one codyecp ???

    sucks!

    Thread Starter codyecp

    (@codyecp)

    9 years, 7 months ago

    Well, this review was a while ago and I would up the rating a little bit (2-3 stars) if I could figure out how to edit the post….

    But I’m still sticking to my guns. Compared to JomSocial for Joomla, or a host of other plugins for Joomla I still think BuddyPress comes up way short. I was a little harsh in my review and have since realized that this is a collaboration effort done by developers in their free time so I definitely should not have been as harsh (and I respect the work).

    HOWEVER, there are so many great plugins out there with twice as much functionality already built into the core code (as well as standard WordPress templates). So I was HUGELY disappointed in this plugin. I also don’t understand why they don’t make a paid version that unlocks this functionality. Keep what they have already as a free version and then create add-ons that are paid… I would gladly pay for the added features.

    And I didn’t crash the live site FYI, I crashed a test site that I had spent all day editing code on. Stupid on my part to trust one of the devs on updating some code I guess without backing up first….

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