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Please see this posting. I had the same question and this worked for me:
OK. I had been looking into the LDAP issue and apparently it does work. In the LDAP plugin forum, I saw that Josswinn (Member here) was also looking into this and he was able to get it to work. Hopefully he will check out my posting once he gets my email.
OK. I did a fresh install and only added Database Integration. Actually I did it both ways with cookies as well as with only database integration. On both I get this setup errors…
>>> WordPress “auth” cookie salt not set.
>>>>>> Could not fetch “auth” cookie salt from the WordPress options table.
>>>>>> You will need to manually define the “auth” cookie salt in your database.
>>> WordPress “logged in” cookie salt not set.
>>>>>> Could not fetch “logged in” cookie salt from the WordPress options table.
>>>>>> You will need to manually define the “logged in” cookie salt in your database.
The problem is that these are not defined in the database to my knowledge. I think the ldap plugin takes these out? Any suggestions on how I could integrate the forums with the LDAP WPMU Plugin??
I am not sure, but I think you need to delete the user from the Site Admin portion of the main blog dashboard. I always search the blogs first and delete those then I search and delete the user.
Are you just removing them as users on your main blog and not via Site Admin?
Do I only need to setup bbPress with database sharing? Or do I need to setup the cookies as well? I think I have both setup properly. It did work for a short period. Then when new users started signing up it broke.
Burtadsit,
I do have all the users listed in bbPress. In fact from the admin panel in bbPRess, if I delete a user, they disappear from WPMU. I kinda thought that if I was to delete the troubled user in bbPress that maybe the account would be recreated and all would be well. It actualy deleted them from WPMU – Thank God for SnapShots on the VM. When I say one troubled user, I mean the one who reported the issue. I tried other accounts and had the same issues with writing forum posts.
Should I just delete the bbPress install and try it again? Then I could just have the groups recreate the forums? We are just getting started, so it should not be an issue.
POssibly the reason for the users not being able to login to bbPress is because the passwords for the accounts are actually stored in LDAP where the authentication occurs on the WPMU side? There is a password in the WPMU database, but I think it may just be a generic type that is not used and generated by the plugin. Could this be the issue and if so, how might I work through it?
Very Cool Website. Nice theme and everything. Best of luck. It’s a neat concept. Just like what cable tv did to the major networks, these types of sites will do to the big blog worlds. It will get much more niche and specialized.
Here is the other funny thing: When a new person logs in, they are also added properly to BBpress. So wouldn’t that indicate that xmlrpc is working?
Would having all the blogs be private have anything to do with this?
That may be the issue. I don’t think the password is stored in WPMU since it is done in the LDAP plugin. The funny thing is that other accounts that have authenticated via LDAP are able to post topics in the forum. It is only a recent problem.
I do have the allow user switching added to the config as well.
Should the user be able to login to BBpress directly from the forum main page? That may be the disconnect. I noticed that in the admin panel for bbpress, the user is listed but I cannot login to the bbpress site as that user.
Has anyone taken a look at Deki WIki? It is most impressive! We use it to run our 32 school websites: http://dearbornschools.org/schools
I would love a Deki Wiki implementation or plugin. Deki is so powerful and they do have an open source version. Take a look at our school sites.
Right now for our WPMU+BP setup we have the following plugins:
Set Privacy Settings – We created a walled garden so that no blogs are public unless requested by the teacher.
Limit Admin Menus – Allows me some control over the student blogs and what they can access in their admin panels like Privacy Settings, plugins, etc.
Limit of three blogs per student which was a BP hack on the Create Blog page.
LDAP Auth for WPMU – Only staff and students can enter.
Content Monitor – Scans posts and comments for keywords to cut down on cyber-bullying.
And a few others for appearances etc.
Anyone else have additional plugins for education?
I think that file is located in WP-content/mu-plugins/bp-blogs/directories/bp-blog-directory-blog.php file.
-Chris
http://firestats.cc/wiki/WPMUPluginCommander
Whoops sorry… I thought you were referring to the plugins. I haven’t seen anything for widgets.
There is a plugin that limits who can view what plugins… Hold on, looking for it now.
AWESOME. Dang John. You Rock. I just added the code and it worked. I changed the number to 1 just for testing and it worked when I tried to create the 2nd blog. With unlimited blogs, I don’t want students to go crazy with them! One bored 14 year old could create 20 or 30 in an evening.
Awesome! Too easy!
This has been remarkably easy to install and setup. I tried deleting the folder and it was causing errors, so I thought it might have been built in and not able to delete.
THANK YOU JAMES!
It got me very close to what was missing. Here is the proper code (I assume since it works)
<?php global $bp; ?>
<a href="<?php echo $bp->loggedin_user->domain; ?>blogs/create-a-blog">
<img src="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/images/createblog.png" alt="Create a Blog" hspace="4" align="right" />
</a>I had to add the global and get the $bp. Then the call for loggedin_user->domain did the trick with the hard code path following it.
Thanks James. You got me going in the proper direction. Hopefully others will find this useful when modifying/creating BP templates.
That code is much better, but returns this link in the page:
http://engage.dearbornschools.org/members//blogs/create-a-blog
It’s not pulling the user name.
Any suggestions?
I am also trying this with no luck, but I think I am closer… Maybe this is a harder question than I thought since there is no quick reply.
<a href="http://engage.dearbornschools.org/members/<?php echo ' . $bp->loggedin_user->id' ; ?>/blogs/create-a-blog"><img src="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/images/createblog.png" alt="Create a Blog" hspace="4" align="right" /></a>Here is a link to a photo of my theme and you will notice the 3 buttons in the upper right. That’s where I need to add these links.
http://blog.dearbornschools.org/webmaster/files/2009/03/engagehome1.jpg
Any help would be much appreciated. I am about 3 links away from introducing this to students and letting teachers know they can now make it a requirement that the student maintain a website/blog.
Here is what I have for the links, but it is not working:
<a href="<?php echo ' . $bp->loggedin_user->domain . $bp->blogs->slug . '/create-a-blog' '; ?>"><img src="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/images/createblog.png" alt="Create a Blog" hspace="4" align="right" /></a>I am no coding guru, can someone please help me with creating 3 links for images:
One that takes you to the create a blog page
One for the create a group page
One for the users profile
Thanks Richs0914…
I did go in there, but it had echo … something or other.
I was hoping to fins something like
The “something I don’t know here” is where I am having trouble. The adminbar.php has the links as part of a function I believe with echo before them.
Any ideas, I cant get the links to work.
What state or school? I’d be interested in feedback on how the students are using it or is it for staff?
Nope. Nothing other than what was descirbed above so that the plugins would override the privacy settings and work.
I had to make the whole site private using this plugin:
http://premium.wpmudev.org/project/sitewide-privacy-options-for-wordpress-mu
There is a free version of this plugin, but we wanted to be able to override the settings by site admin only.
You cannot access any page on the site without logging in first. This works for us since we don’t want outside access to students. On rare occasions where the teacher wants the students to blog publicly, I can override the setting for the specific blogs.
