[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 17 years, 3 months ago]

It’s not a stupid question, but it is worded a little strangely.

BuddyPress basically works inside/outside of WPMU, taking what is otherwise just a random assortment of administered blogs, and adds a social networking flair on top of it to allow a layer of interaction between registered users and blog owners.

One install of BuddyPress per one install of WPMU.

Does that make sense?

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 17 years, 3 months ago]

So far this is working for exactly as advertised and intended. Major thumbs up and I’m quite surprised it isn’t a built in part of BP.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 17 years, 3 months ago]

Haha… You know I can sense your sarcasm, even through the internet.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 17 years, 3 months ago]

We have liftoff! All systems go! Let me take a look around and see what this thing can do!

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 17 years, 3 months ago]

Okay, got everything installed, no errors, however when I try to import, I get…

Last import Saturday 14th of February 2009 03:41:32 PM, 1 seconds



0 groups with forums enabled

0 forums updated

0 users updated

However I do have 1 group, with 4 users in it, that does have a forum already active. There aren’t any topics in that forum however.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 17 years, 3 months ago]

When activating the oci_bb_groups_forums.php plugin, I receive this error…

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare oci_server_methods() (previously declared in [...]/wp-content/mu-plugins/oci_bp_group_forums.php:417) in [...]/discussions/my-plugins/oci_bb_group_forums.php on line 249

This comes from my using “deep integration” on the bbPress side, including wp-load.php to allow access to the WP/BP functions (despite being told not to do this, ha!)

Adding some if function does not exist checks might be a good measure…

Did this for:

oci_service_methods

oci_escape

oci_authenticate

oci_xmlrpc_query

trailingslashit

untrailingslashit

Also, I added this around the ixr inclusion:

if (defined(BACKPRESS_PATH)) {

require_once( BACKPRESS_PATH . '/class.ixr.php' );

}

Might not be correct, but it did get rid of the double inclusion for me.

After those changes I was able to get that file to include without problem. Gonna keep testing.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 17 years, 3 months ago]

lol! Yay! I’m gonna give it a whirl right now! Ha ha!

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 17 years, 3 months ago]

Yay! Very happy to hear about this, and I will try to be one of the first to try it out!

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 17 years, 3 months ago]

When I try to post a wire, I get a screen that says…

Are you sure you want to do this?



Please try again.

I’m not saying it isn’t something I did, but that’s what I get.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 17 years, 3 months ago]

For what it’s worth…

http://delsolownersclub.com/

@hardcoded, the bbPress forum server for the Automattic sites sometimes gets a little caught up on itself, but your posts do eventually show up. I’ve also noticed sometimes that it’s just a browser cache issue, and refreshing the page will usually show your post.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 17 years, 3 months ago]

After diving a little deeper into the theme, I was able to figure it out, and it’s quite straight forward actually. Basically in RC1 you can just edit the nav directly in the theme header.php to have the text be whatever you’d like. Easy!

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 17 years, 3 months ago]

Nevermind, I’m a retard.

Got everything right, spelled .htaccess wrong.

Excuse me while I wipe the egg from my face.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 17 years, 3 months ago]

I would eventually like to see more ability incorporated into the BuddyPress navigation bar, but until then I agree. While “News” does tend to set an expectation that the main site blog is only about site related news and updates, it isn’t necessarily a “blog” as the word means to most people either.

And I’ve found that the instructions to change the link text really haven’t worked for me either. I’ll see about that in RC1 tho.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 17 years, 4 months ago]

I guess what I’m trying to find out is if the major difference is database related or file structure related. I ask this because I’ve got a blog with about 50 posts, 300 comments, and 200 registered users that I somehow installed with domain instead of subdirectory. Now if you ask me, I am 99% certain I didn’t choose subdomain because I know better and know that my host doesn’t allow for it, but because I now see that it’s setup for subdomains (now that I want to make a second blog) I feel like 1% margin for error just isn’t enough.

I digress… I’m really just looking for a little guidance as to what makes the installs so unique that it requires a full reinstall that cannot be patched in some way.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 17 years, 4 months ago]

Well, haha… I’ve searched over there and no one seems to have answered other than “You can’t do it, follow the instructions retard.” Ha! BuddyPress users are just nicer overall.

But hey, you’re right and I’ll give it a shot.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 17 years, 4 months ago]

When will then, be now?

Soon…

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 17 years, 4 months ago]

Wow kudos for the in depth reply. I’m super excited to give this a shot, I’m actually waiting to go live until I see how this works.

I think it’s a great idea to keep things all synced up also. I made the mistake of adding a group forum in BuddyPress and deleting it in bbPress. Boy did that make things angry ha!

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 17 years, 4 months ago]

I’ve noticed even if I use what bbPressers call “deep integration” (including wp-load.php in bb-config.php) on the bbPress side, bbPress still seems to blast out the BuddyPress specific content. I’ve echoed the files and I know they are all getting included, they’re just not doing anything once bbPress gets a hold of it.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 17 years, 4 months ago]

Mr. Adsit sir, no rush of course but I’m curious if you have an ETA on this plug-in? I’ve got things nicely integrated now, and feel like this would be a great finishing touch.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 17 years, 4 months ago]

This is what is called “deep integration” over on the bbPress side of things. It is often times shied upon but I feel is very much a requirement for making things look all nice and pretty.

I know for sure it is possible on the WordPress.org side of things as I’ve done it several times, but I am going through my first MU/BuddyPress attempt tonight and tomorrow.

I’ll do my best to see if there are any differences, and report back with what I find.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 17 years, 4 months ago]

Slightly off topic, and correct me if I’m wrong, but “Blog” is basically just a direct link to the wp_1_ blog, right?

Is there any working way to change that URL and link?

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 17 years, 4 months ago]

My guess is that may get pushed back, judging by the tickets currently in the trac.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 17 years, 4 months ago]

Can’t wait! I was surprised to find that it didn’t work this way and am happy to assist with any effort to help it along.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 17 years, 4 months ago]

Nice, that’s exactly what I was hoping for. I’d gladly test with you when the time comes.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 17 years, 4 months ago]

Thanks Burt. That answered my question.

I realize now I didn’t really phrase my question clearly. I have been using bbPress integrated with WordPress.org for a few months now and am very comfortable with how it works, however it obviously integrates much differently with BuddyPress, with group forums and all.

So to confirm, there are group forums and then global forums, and anyone can post anywhere regardless of group membership?