[okfn-help] Status Quo

Thu Oct 21 14:14:50 BST 2010

Thanks for this update Stefie.

As you will have seen I've also fixed the header typography issue and
the various pages with problems :) (most of them anyway!)

To comment below.

On 20 October 2010 15:19, weexinsitu <kontakt at weexinsitu.de> wrote:
> Hi Rufus,
> Here's a quick update on what I was working on recently:
>
> CSS fixes:
> ** layout of user-settings page
> ** message-listing + some minor fixes
> ** link color to green
> ** right path to bp-functions.php
> ** image width for default avatars

Great.

> + php fatal error when searching for names on the "send new message"- page
> + some testing. all seems to work fine now, apart from reCAPTCHA & the Image
> Upload.
> Here are some details about these two bugs:

I've also found a bug whereby if you disable buddypress plugin the
site 'disappears' due to php exception in our new buddypress stuff in
functions.php. I disabled all that code and things worked -- they also
worked with buddypress re-enabled but i did not test everything ..

> === reCAPTCHA Bug with wordpress 3 MU & buddypress===

Yes, I've also spent at 2h trying to fix this. As you say there seems
to be no fix so let's give up :(

> It seems to be a common Bug, that reCAPTCHA doesn't work properly with
> wordpress 3 MU & Buddypress. There are many reports that it's working on the
> comments pages, but it just doesn't show up on the buddypress registration
> page (like in our case). Noone seems a to have a simple (or any) solution
> for that. The plugin is only working with very few themes, the
> twentyten-theme is not one of them.
> Here are some Links mentioning the Bug:
>
> **
> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-recaptcha-onle-works-with-certain-themes
> **
> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-recaptcha-recaptcha-doesnt-appear-on-registration-page
> **
> http://groups.google.com/group/recaptcha/browse_thread/thread/a0608eaeed325665
> **
> http://buddypress.org/community/groups/creating-extending/forum/topic/getting-recaptcha-to-work-with-register/
> **
> http://buddypress.org/community/groups/third-party-components-plugins/forum/topic/i-give-up-wp-recaptcha-wt038/?topic_page=1&num=15
>
> Si-Captcha http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/si-captcha-for-wordpress/
> doesn't have this problems. Everyone using it says it's working perfectly
> fine with WP3 MU & Buddypress, so I tried this Captcha plugin instead of
> reCaptcha http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-recaptcha/.
>
> That leads to our next Bug:
>
> === GD Image Library Bug (or just not enabled?) ===
> After I activated Si-Captcha, this error message showed up on the bottom of
> the registration page.
> ** si-Captcha error message:
>
> ERROR: si-captcha.php plugin says GD image support not detected in PHP!
>
> Contact your web host and ask them why GD image support is not enabled for
> PHP.
>
> ** We also get a GD-related error message while uploading Images (Avatars/
> Group Avatars):
>
> Upload Failed! Error was: The GD image library is not installed.
>
> You said, that the GD Image Library is installed & enabled? I checked the
> phpinfo() but I couldn't find any Image Library enabled. I was searching for
> a solution/ fix for the GD-Bug for a quite a while yesterday, but I couldn't
> find much useful information.
> Is it possible, that it's just not installed?
> Could you double check that again?

No, sorry, I don't think it was yet installed and we got interrupted
2w ago before I was able to enable it.

Redoing this today I also remember why: there's some sort of bug with
the debian package so php5-gd gets installed but gd is still not
enabled. After a rather fruitless 0.5h googling i create
/etc/php5/conf.d/gd.ini with:

extension=gd.so

and it worked!

> I pushed all changes to Bitbucket, could you upload them to the website?
> (you did this from your computer when we met, so i don't have the login data
> for the live website)

I've added your key but I'm happy to do the upgrade and will do now.

Rufus