[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 17 years, 4 months ago]

Yes, this is possible to do without modifying any core code.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 17 years, 4 months ago]

@thebigk, if your DB for one reason or another needs repair or optimization, the best way to do that is with a human eye and phpMyAdmin. This should rarely happen however, so you shouldn’t have problems going forward.

The suggested way of upgrading the core is to deactivate all plugins first before you press go. Otherwise those other plugins are trying to load even as WordPress hasn’t fully upgraded itself, which can cause conflicts if the tables or indexes change even slightly.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 17 years, 4 months ago]

@krugazul, do me a favor and update to 1.0.3 of this plugin, and let me know if it works better for you. Right now on your site, it looks like it’s totally broken.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 17 years, 4 months ago]

No one can answer on Nicola’s behalf, but it sounds like he’s abandoning development on this project to me, in lieu of it being a core feature eventually.

This would work not unlike the way wordpress.com allows you to map your blog to another domain. I suspect that would basically end up being this, or vice versa? That being said, it sounds like a WPMU feature that would have a piggy back panel for BuddyPress to me.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 17 years, 4 months ago]

Using the bp_is_home function, well return back a true/false whether or not you are viewing your own profile.

if ( bp_is_home() ) {

// do what you want

}

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 17 years, 4 months ago]

Since my opinion counts too, I’m going to jump into the fray…

The reason why people like WordPress, is because it unknowingly found the PERFECT balance of challenge, and ease of use. In order to become proficient at using WordPress as a development tool, you have to go through a rigorous 6 month hazing period of being totally lost in the code. Not because it’s badly written, or sloppy, but because it’s just a lot to learn.

You know why people that join fraternities rarely ever leave? Because once you’ve gone through the hazing, you’re more likely to stay. You know how businesses earn repeat clients? They charge MORE money, because people are more likely to go back to a place they’ve already invested money into, rather than a place that gave them a $15 oil change. Strange eh? Make things too easy, and people won’t go back. Make it too hard, and they won’t even try it in the first place. There’s a balance, and WordPress, bbPress, and BuddyPress found it.

Once you learn it though, it’s like driving a 6 speed manual trans; you just glide through the gears without really even thinking about it. It’s like learning to juggle; or play baseball; or ride a bike. You just do it naturally.

My experience with things written with strict coding standards is that no one ever appreciates the time spent adhering to those standards anyways, and the codebase is basically ignored. phpBB is a great example, because the code is dead simple to use and understand, but how many people do you hear about using it to its full potential?

I used to code every single website I did to section 508 compliance. You know how many clients cared? 0. So, now I don’t. Haha!

WordPress, BuddyPress, and bbPress make you earn your keep. They are investments in time, energy, and they actually can give you back what you put in. Not EVERYONE can sit down and develop a good plugin for any of the platforms, but LOTS of awesome plugins are possible and with a little time, anyone can sit down and write one. Anyone can develop a theme with a little effort. WordPress works for everyone, not just newbies and not just professionals.

I can’t predict what tomorrow will bring. Maybe something will come along and totally blow the doors off of anything we could develop ourselves. That’s okay. But for right now, I don’t think there’s anything better than what WordPress, bbPress, and BuddyPress bring to the table.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 17 years, 4 months ago]

Back from the dead, looks like this topic has resparked some interest. I suspect this will be less of a BuddyPress thing and more of a WPMU thing as it comes down the pipeline.

@Donnacha, looks like someone changed the status for you. Marking topics as resolved serves multiple purposes, and at that time it was fair to say development had begun and the request was resolved. Now that it’s not, it’s not. We’ll be sure to take your perpsective into account going forward though as it makes sense to approach feature requests like you suggest.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 17 years, 4 months ago]

Thanks for the status report.

What’s wrong with them?

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 17 years, 4 months ago]

Using…

include_once($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/wp-blog-header.php');

won’t work for groups forums creation, posting, etc… Because it reincludes WordPress during a WordPress to bbPress XMLRPC attempt. If you don’t plan on using groups forums, that code is fine, but if you do, you’ll need to use my way.

The read me says to delete that when you’re done … won’t doing that disable deep-integration?

Oversight in the readme.txt. Just had that part out of order for some reason. It’s updated in the trunk and the repo will catch up soon. Yeah, don’t delete the deep integration part.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 17 years, 4 months ago]

The reason why it’s not working is because you’re not using the method included in the plugin.

The groups posting ability relies on XMLRPC, which cannot be re-included when bbPress is loaded via the BuddyPress installation. Using my included method of deep integration will still allow for this functionality to work.

Science!

When you go to create a group forum, WordPress is loaded, BuddyPress is loaded, bbPress gets loaded through XMLRPC, which without my deep integration method will try to reload WordPress again, over-writing or clearing all of the bbPress functions/variables/hooks/filters, killing the XMLRPC ability to transmit data through the pipe.

Just bumped to 1.0.3. The plugin now does enhanced checking for the visibility of the BuddyBar/AdminBar as it would previously fail if the bar was hidden in bp-custom.php or wp-config.php.

If you are receiving errors regarding BP_Roles in your BuddyBar, apply patch #1032 to your WPMU trunk installation.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 17 years, 4 months ago]

Delete all of your the cookies for your website.

Login through WordPress.

Check that you are logged in on bbPress side.

Attempt to access both administration panels.

Check your sites cookies.

Verify that the domain and/or site for the cookies are all identical.

Logout.

Login through bbPress.

Check that you are logged in on WordPress side.

Attempt to access both administration panels.

Check your sites cookies.

Verify that the domain and/or site for the cookies are all identical.

Logout.

If at any point through-out that process your sites cookies are NOT identical, it’s time to start fussing around with the cookie settings, and get them to line up.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 17 years, 4 months ago]

When I migrated my site over from WordPress.org, I ran a loop through the users and just copied over the nicename for each one of them.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 17 years, 4 months ago]

1.0.2 is available in the trunk and will be available for download shortly.

http://svn.wp-plugins.org/buddybar-in-bbpress/

Changelog:

• Add JavaScript for menu mouse-overs
• Better check for deep integration
• Add absolute path tool
• Updated readme.txt
• Added check for BP_DISABLE_ADMIN_BAR

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 17 years, 4 months ago]

I actually just brought that up to Sam on IRC about 24 hours ago, as the same thing is happening here at buddypress.org also. Good catch.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 17 years, 4 months ago]

Awesome great work guys. I’ll add it to the incompatibilities list tonight.

Keep testing my deep integration code and stay in touch here if you have issues with it. It’s meant to dodge some 404’s that certain browsers spit out as WP tries to rewrite a URL that bbPress eventually takes over.

r-a-y I’ll add your JavaScript hooks in tonight also.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 17 years, 4 months ago]

This is a big question that will get you a big answer. I’d suggest taking a look around this forum and the bbpress.org forums also, as there are pages and pages of discussion and documentation to help you through this. Many of which are stickies so you can’t miss them.

Manoj has made a BuddyPress style theme that matches the bphome buddypress theme, so that’s something that will help you. I just release the BuddyBar plugin to help get the BuddyBar in the forums area. There’s lots of people contributing.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 17 years, 4 months ago]

Quick note: this currently doesn’t rehook the javascript, but it will. Just need to sleep now. Haha!

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 17 years, 4 months ago]

BuddyPress will work for 2.8.1 when 2.8.1 is released, which by that time it will be 2.8.2.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 17 years, 4 months ago]

BuddyPress will work for 2.8.1 when 2.8.1 is released, which by that time it will be 2.8.2.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 17 years, 4 months ago]

You might want to add deep integration instructions in the readme.txt.

It will make its way into the official readme.txt in the repo once it’s up. I tend to use a different deep integration method myself, so we’ll see how it flies in the wild.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 17 years, 4 months ago]

r-a-y, I took the liberty of making this into a plugin for everyone. It’s a variant of what I’m using on the delsolownersclub.com site that I cleaned up for general usage.

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/buddybar-for-bbpress

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 17 years, 4 months ago]

Fixed…

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 17 years, 4 months ago]

Easiest way would be to use the multi-site plugin for WPMU. This will allow you to give the impression of multiple domains and sites using a single WPMU installation, all using a single database including user tables.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 17 years, 4 months ago]

I like waking up when things have magically happened.

Wow me too. Great work Sam.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 17 years, 4 months ago]

I’m in the process of nuking my test site today and resetting everything up. It will be a vanilla configured setup, so I’ll be able to help in more detail in a few hours.

Integrating the platforms is something I’m really passionate about so if I can help in any way I’m more than glad to.