[jose]

thanks for the info about the admin bar. So there is no workflow built into BuddyPress that enables someone to post on the blog? If thats the case.. how is an account supposed to be able to know where to make a post.. or get to the back end of WordPress at all? Is this something thats missing from my install.. or a feature that doesn’t exist in BuddyPress?

Also.. Anyone have any tips on setting up my domain/subdomain/wp-install directory correctly so its all named correctly. I have a external domain set to the Bluehost name servers… a subdomain – sdcityrobotics.saltbored.com – set up to alias to the publichtml directory my install is in.. so how do i get everything to look like http://www.sdcrobotics.com/activity .. instead of http://www.saltbored.com/sdcityrobotics/activity?

[jose]

Ok I figured it out. The author role does have the ability to make blog posts… Its just that through their buddypress interfaced account.. they’re never given a link to —-> http://www.saltbored.com/sdcityrobotics/wp-admin/post-new.php… to create one. Where in the buddypress front end can they choose to “create a new post”. or to get to the back end WordPress interface to see the dashboard?

[jose]

So what I have left to try is setting up the default author role to be able to create blog posts. This is where I was trying to get with messing with the permissions through a plugin. I don’t know how much I care about this feature.. because this introduces group members to the entire wordpress backend.. and I’d like to just have each account only make blog posts and edit nothing.

also… this may seem simple.. but how do i get the site to show with the url structure i described before?

[jose]

Reinstalled the forum integration through the “Forums Setup” section of the BuddyPress options. everything seems to work fine now!

[jose]

hnla! Thanks for the feedback! I just read your solution while digging around myself…and gave it a try through the admin account. Still no go. I tried saving it unchecked… and then rechecking and resaving. same “error creating topic” problem.

[jose]

Ok Great news. The “Mail-From” plugin totally worked. The default address was previously set to a default email that didn’t exist!

The account gets created, the confirmation email gets sent and in testing out the functionality of a test user joining a group, posting documents, replies, and forum topics… Everything works except the Forum Post creation. Logged in as a test user (permission set as “author”.. from the Group Forums Directory, click add post, enter all the required text/tags.. and when submitted get a red bar across the screen error that says… “There was an error when creating the topic”.. and nothing gets created. Any thoughts? Is this a permission or forum issue? The Test User account can post to the activity area for the groups the account is in with no problems.

[jose]

Paul,

Thank you so much for your insight! Here’s what I’ve got now:

1. I’m pretty sure we’re using the single site version of WordPress(maybe this is known as the MU version?). It was installed through our server using SimpleScripts. I was aware of the plugin option, but didn’t want to get into that yet until I had the account creation issues taken care of. Thanks for the info.

2. Disabled the BuddyPress plugin, as well as the Group Documents plugin (and reverted to the default non-BuddyPress theme). Created an account, and got the confirmation email right away. The WP account registration was just “username”, and “email”… and WP emails the password. The BuddyPress registration required much more info. So without BP turned on.. Accounts worked.. with it turned on.. The account gets created, but no activation email gets sent out.. thoughts?

3. I’m referring to the WordPress setting: Site Address (url): “Enter the address here if you want your site homepage to be different from the directory you installed WordPress.” I’m trying to point the domain to sdcityrobotics.saltbored.com , and it will display as http://www.sdcrobotics.org (our domain).

4. Got it. I was just curious as to if there were some settings I was just totally missing.

BlueHost Issues !?!?

1. Ok don’t use SimpleScripts or WordPress.. Just install WP manually on my server, and then install the BuddyPress plugin manually? And that will get it to work?
2. I’ll definitely search around for BH. Thanks for the tip!