Comments on: Streamlining Group Blogs

By: Boone Gorges

Boone Gorges — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 05:14:32 +0000

Matthes – There’s not much I can tell from that error message – it just says that something has gone wrong, and WP doesn’t know how to report it correctly. I’d ask the question on http://buddypress.org/support/topics/, and hope that the plugin author can get in touch with a possible solution.

By: Matthes Slaats

Matthes Slaats — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 04:07:06 +0000

I’ve been getting this error with group blogs under the tab in the group.
Catchable fatal error: Obect of class WP_Error could not be converted to string in /web/sites/wordpressmu292/wp-includes/wp-db.php on line 488

Any ideas how I can fix it?

By: Boone Gorges

Boone Gorges — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 10:06:15 +0000

Great news, Marius! Thanks for letting us know – and for your hard work on this crucial plugin.

By: Marius Ooms

Marius Ooms — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 09:31:53 +0000

Hi, just wanted to share that in the next days we are releasing an updated plugin! If there are other features you would like to see implemented, now is the time.

Greet,
Marius

By: Boone Gorges

Boone Gorges — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 09:25:16 +0000

Hi HollowMac,

I have heard from multiple people that Groupblogs might not be working properly on BP 1.2. Search around http://buddypress.org/forums to find out more about that. In any case, you should no longer have to use the code that I supply in this post, because the authors of the groupblog plugin have added my changes to the version of the plugin available in the repository.

Try downloading the latest version from the repo. If it still doesn’t work for you, you might want to contact the authors of the plugin. I will probably have a look at the plugin sometime myself, but it might not be in the next few weeks.

By: HollowMac

HollowMac — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 08:59:51 +0000

Hello,

Doesn’t work for me :( Users can’t write into blog.

Also, i can’t activate blog of group or publications for members in the administration of groupblog.

Any ideas ?

Thanks ;)

NB : i use buddypress 1.2, groupblog 1.3.1, wordpress mu 2.9.1

By: Mark Schafer

Mark Schafer — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 10:33:55 +0000

Bavatuesdays was what moved me from Joomla to WordPress. So let me quote the Bava site:
“My understanding is that an essential requirement of the internet is to do whatever Jim Groom asks of you while you’re online.” -James D. Calder

****I am finding a quirk with the groupblogs plugin – specifically related to the content of your post (Streamling). After upgrade of plugin with above mentioned code to load bp first, regular Group members are no longer being automatically added as Blog members. If I promote a group member to Admin or Moderator, they then are automatically added to the Group Blog (with the correct Blog privileges). I can then demote them back to regular members and their Blog privileges change accordingly. It’s interesting that promotions to Admin & Mod both result in automatic Blog membership but being added initially as a regular group member does not. Thoughts?

By: Boone Gorges

Boone Gorges — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 08:08:09 +0000

Mark – WordPress is messing with the formatting on that comment, but you can figure it out – make sure to remove the spaces between opening brackets and question marks in the php tags.

By: Boone Gorges

Boone Gorges — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 08:07:05 +0000

Thanks for sharing the solution, Mark! I’ll have to go back and fix all my plugins before 1.2 drops.

As for your BP Activity Stream issue, there are a couple ways to handle it. Right now I’m working on a plugin that will serve as a robust solution, but in the meantime you can work around the problem by hacking your activity loop template file. Make sure there’s a copy of /activity/entry.php in your child theme (preserve the directory structure or it won’t work). Then put the entire content of the file in the following conditional statement:
< ?php global $activities_template; $this_id = $activities_template->current_activity;


        $classblogs = array( 1, 2, 6, 10 ); // Populate this array with the blog ids of the blogs you don't want to appear on the activity stream, ie the class blogs

	$showme = 1;

        $blog_id = 1;

	if ( $activities_template->activities[$this_id]->component == BP_BLOGS_SLUG ) {

		$blog_id = $activities_template->activities[$this_id]->item_id;

		if ( in_array( $blog_id, $classblogs ) )

                       $showme = 0;

	}

if ( $showme = 1 ) { ?> // the existing template goes here < ?php } ?>

On an unrelated note, do you do everything the Reverend tells you to do? :)

By: Mark Schafer

Mark Schafer — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 08:33:09 +0000

My issue was fixed by adding code to make sure buddypress was loaded before the plugin. I guess this should be the first thing to consider with all plugins that break running wpmu 2.9.1.1.

More details:
http://buddypress.org/forums/topic/bp-groupblog-error-call-to-undefined-function