[Robert]

Thank you r-a-y, I’ll try it.

[Robert]

You are right dadaas, that plugin is a survivor. I’m using it with the newest WP 3.0 Beta 1 and there it is, working great as always.

I’ve installed the network and created a blog just for it. In the main blog I’ve set up a static front page with the site wide posts widget and the problems are over (the conflict with BP happens only if you install WP O Matic in the main blog).

[Robert]

I’ve installed the WP 3.0 Beta 1 and BP 1.2.3.

Besides the avatar’s issue everything seems to work fine and I’ve noticed that everything loads faster.

Created a child theme, blogs, users, groups, forums and a few plugins and found no major issues.

While there isn’t a solution for the avatars I’ve changed the “mystery man” pic to something more related with the site theme and I’m launching it.

WP 3.0 with BP 1.3 will be unbeatable.

[Robert]

I have the same avatar’s problem after upgrade to WP 3.0 alpha. What was wrong in the htaccess file?

[Robert]

Thank you DJPaul.

I need to upgrade from WP 2.9.2 to WPMU / WP 3.0 in an overnight action and without the risk of loosing BuddyPress data.

That’s why the tests.

[Robert]

One more test.

1- WordPress 2.9.2

a) New dir at wp-content > blogs.dir

b) Settings > Miscellaneous > Set uploads to blogs.dir and wrote the full uploads URL path

2- BuddyPress installation

a) Avatars didn’t show

b) Changed line 389 of bp-core-avatars.php to:

if ( !$path = get_option( ‘upload_path’ ) )

$path = WP_CONTENT_DIR . ‘/blogs.dir’;

else

$path = ABSPATH . $path;

c) It worked! At this point it was possible to upload, preview and crop the images.

3-Upgrade to WP 3.0 alpha using the Beta Tester plugin > Bleeding edge nightlies

a) The avatars have disappeared and in its place there’s the text “Avatar Image” and “Member Avatar”

b) No preview on crop

[Robert]

Just made another test.

Now I’ve installed BuddyPress after upgrading to WP 3.0 alpha.

Same result: browse image > upload > image doesn’t show but by clicking in crop it’s uploaded to the folder. The avatar place is empty (the text “Avatar Image” is displayed).

[Robert]

I’ve upgraded using the Beta Testers plugin > Bleeding edge nightlies 4 / 5 hours ago.

[Robert]

You can manually define the new blog homepage as your BuddyPress frontpage, it’s just a link that you may set up in “header”

There’s a post on the WP-O-Matic ‘s Twitter ( http://twitter.com/wpomatic ) announcing the new version for April 1 …. let’s see.

[Robert]

In WPMU the solution is to deactivate WP-O-Matic from the main blog and create a blog only for the feeds. After creating the new blog go to its back-end > plugins > activate WP-O-Matic and that’s it. The feed posts will appear on the site-wide activity. The conflict seems to exist only in the main blog.

I’m using a WordPress single instalation and the only problem is that in some cases the “Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by … and so on” keeps showing but WP-O-Matic is running perfectly. The warnings only show in Buddypress pages, not in the blog.

I’m looking now for a way to hide those warnings. If someone knows how to make warnings not show I really would be very grateful.

[Robert]

Please help, I’ve installed Buddypress to provide more features to visitors but the main content is a specific news feed that FeedWordpress and External Group Blogs doesn’t accept. Without the WP-O-Matic I’m loosing visitors everyday.

[Robert]

Yes FeedWordpress has a solution for duplicate posts:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/feedwordpress-duplicate-post-filter/

I agree that it’s a great plugin but:

– FeedWordpress does not accept all rrs feeds. The ones I couldn’t fetch with FeedWordpress I did it with WP-O-Matic.

– After activation it fetches all posts from the feed. There’s no control of the number of posts to fetch. In WP-O-Matic you can define 1 post to fetch the first time and then change it to unlimited or the number that you prefer.

– I’ve tested FeedWordpress configured for hourly fetches and WP-O-Matic the same way. With WP-O-Matic I’ve got the latest posts and with FeedWordpress no.

– In WP-O-Matic you can customize how the fetched posts will display. You may include a default image for each feed, text and html. You can define the source link name and make it open in a new window.

Maybe FeedWordpress has more features and advantages, I don’t know, my experience results are the ones I’ve wrote. Besides, when it doesn’t accept the rss feed that I need to fetch … I cannot use it.

[Robert]

Thanks for the info.

Any idea about how to patch it?

[Robert]

I know FeedWorpress, too much duplicate posts (just like the external group blogs plugin). Does it mean that there’s no way to use wp-o-matic with Buddypress?

[Robert]

I have the same problem.

Is it possible to make external blogs appear in a specific page and hide it from the site wide activity? It could be a great news aggregator if there’s a fix for the duplicates and if the links are configured to open in a new window. I’ve edited the plug-in and used “target=”_blank” but didn’t work.