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Hi, i am new to buddypress so this question maybe a newbie question.

i recently installed the socialbuddy theme. it looks fine and all but i can not locate my blog posts. i can write blog posts from the admin panel, but in the actual website, i can not locate them.

where are they?
how can i create a button besides the ABOUT button to easily point out the blog?
how can multiple users write in that blog under their own names?
how can the titles or summaries of those posts be shown in the homepage?

i would be really grateful if you decide to help me out. as i said earlier, i am new and i am not familiar with plugins. so if you can suggest anything, that would be great.

for reference: ju.bangladeshtalks.com

anyone please help.

@jujunkie – hi there, you should be able to get free support from theme authors after purchasing that premium theme. I don’t know what files they have in there but here’s giving it a try:

“how can i create a button besides the ABOUT button to easily point out the blog?”
I assume that your theme has a home.php (most premium themes do), so follow #2 instruction here – http://www.nathanrice.net/blog/creating-a-blog-page-with-paging/ – take care to delete the space between less than sign and question mark in the posted codes

“how can multiple users write in that blog under their own names?”
Do you mean you want to set up your installation as one site with many authors – you’re not giving them free blogs? Then you should at least make your users “Contributors” – where you have to approve each post before in order for the post to be published – or “Authors” whose can publish their posts without any moderation.

“how can the titles or summaries of those posts be shown in the homepage?”
Looks like your home page is widgetized in the left column. Go to Appearance > Widgets and get the “Recent Posts” widget on left side and move to appropriate widget name.

@mercime thanks for replying!

“how can multiple users write in that blog under their own names?”
That is exactly the information i needed. I set them as “contributor”. That means they will be able to write posts but i can approve them, right? but how can they enter the writing zone? i mean the admin panel where they can choose new posts to write? i dont see any links. :-/

“how can the titles or summaries of those posts be shown in the homepage?”
Thanks. that’s solved too.

“how can i create a button besides the ABOUT button to easily point out the blog?”
I will have to work on this one a little more i think.

***NEW QUESTION***
but how can they enter the writing zone? i mean the admin panel where they can choose new posts to write?

“how can multiple users write in that blog under their own names?”
Right. Basic WordPress – http://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities#Contributor

“but how can they enter the writing zone? ”
Simplest way – if your users are logged in your BP install as contributors, they can go to bp-admin-bar at top and move cursor to “My Blogs”, which has a dropdown to list of blogs. When they hover over JuConnect link, the flyout nav will show the link “Add New Post” where they will be brought to the Post > New Write panel.

There’s currently a bug in BP where if you have a role less than administrator, your blog and user role will not show up under “My Blogs”.

@mercime @r-a-y Thanks for the help! i think the problems are solved for now.

@jujunkie should you encounter the bug which @r-a-y mentioned above, do this

http://wordpress.pastebin.com/WCmvpvnU

@mercime – Just looked into this bug… and found the problem! Check out ticket #2431.

@r-a-y Cool, thanks. Many thanks also for addressing ticket #2427

@r-a-y your patch for this issue ticket#2431 was intended to correct the issue of a user elevated to ‘contributor’ or similar supposedly then having links under ‘My-Blogs’ ? The ticket is marked closed/resolved, yet testing on WP 3.0 BP 1.2.5.2 doesn’t produce links for a user with role ‘contributor’ has this issue reared again with WP 3.0 – haven’t time right now to look deeper so didn’t want to reopen the ticket and move to 1.2.6 until sure it is still an issue and why.

@hnla – Just tested this and it works for me… logged in as administrator and set up an existing user as a contributor on a blog. Logged in as the other user, blog shows up under the “My Blogs” menu.

Using same test environment as you.

The thing the “My Blogs” menu doesn’t do is list the role next to the blog, is this what you mean?

No I get no drop down at all and the top level link ‘My Blog’ is not an active link, checking the DOM shows an empty child UL. It’s an odd one, if you say it works for you on same setup there’s probably something I’ve overlooked and I’ll investigate further.

You need to have network mode enabled in WP 3.0 to view the “My Blogs” menu.
Do you have this enabled?

Hmm on WP 3.0 BP 1.2.6 user with own blog , elevated to ‘contributor’ on main blog, at least logged in as Admin and selected user and changed role from ‘no role for user’ to ‘contributor’ yet logging in as this user shows only their blog under My Blogs. Still not convinced I’m not simply overlooking something obvious so will leave for a while and come back to this when thinking clearer