[maburker]

Ok, I would like to say that I appreciate everyone’s post to this topic. The site is open and anyone can join as of now. It’s live and I never really said I was going to sit around for five years. A lot of people are getting that idea. I think one person actually got the idea that I am trying to do.

@Mariusooms

Drupal is a good software but, slow for development just like you had said. That’s a good reason why we didn’t use that software.

@David Lewis

I don’t think we’re going to fork it.

@Andrea_r

Yes, we would have our own custom code and maybe a whole new platform. That wouldn’t be a bad thing. At least I wouldn’t think so. I would love to talk to another developer and see what they thought. I have a few in my contacts maybe I’ll give them e-mail and see what they think.

Everyone here as actually looked at the idea not the possibility. I just wanted to know if wp and bp could handle a service like this? I am thinking about wordpress.com and how many users they might be running. If it’s in the thousands than good. We can at least learn where the faults might be(if any) that might be preventing them from growing. The whole idea in a nutshell is to have a social networking site that anyone can join and use. Of course we wouldn’t want to be bloated and non-usable.

P.S.- No I am not trying to sound harsh, mean, or any other unkind word that someone may think of. Just tired and cranky from a long day:)

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@Mike Pratt

I think a lot of people are misunderstanding what I was asking. I am impressed with the two software but, we’re looking into the coding part not just the functionality of the software. I have used the wordpress software out of the box before. I have never tried to mess with the guts until now. That’s why I posted a few examples of what we were trying to do with the software. I am trying to get an idea of how much the coding could be changed without breaking and then becoming unusable to members. Bp out of the box is really generic and why create just another generic site? Just trying to change the code so it works for us. When I have changed some coding the site breaks and I get some errors. And no I am not asking how to do it.

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@David Lewis

We plan to release the site before the 5 years and add on as we go. We would love to build an application from the ground up but, would like to see how the site does at first. I have already started the structuring for the whole site. Just waiting to see how things go. Thanks for your input.

P.S. It will be built on php!

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@Andrea_r

I do realize that the project is huge that’s why we estimate at least 5 years for completion. The youtube phrase was just an example. We’re not using any phrase that is already in use.

The tuts plus network is similar of what we’re doing but, it’s going to be a little different for us! I never even heard of tuts plus network until now. I plan to browse around their sites and see what they’re about. Also I thank everyone who posted something in this forum

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@Xevo

No, I am glad I re-wrote it to make better sense!

@Bowe

I have the dedication and it’s not easy:)

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@Travel-Junkie

I am not asking anyone to quit anything or any site. However if I am going to build a social networking site that offers videos then I am going to have the same features like youtube.com. Maybe we will rethink what we want to do. I do know we have to have something new and original. We also need it to reach a large number of people for it to work!

[maburker]

If anyone would like a detailed plan of our site then please let me know. I would be happy to post this on our sites blog.

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@superbloggernl

No, I am not trying to do either of your options. I have a realistic ideal and just need some input on what wp and bp can actually do. That’s all. I love the wordpress platform for blogging. That is one reason why we choose wordpress. I just want to make sure we’re going the right route. No complaining here!

[maburker]

Ok, we’re not going to put every service on the internet in one site. We’re going to do certain services that involve social networking. Also the services that we will be offering is going to be on different sub-domains as well on different services.

Let me give you an example:

We’re working on a service for artist and people who love music (similar to purevolume).

On our site they would be on artist.domain.com and this service would be on one server.

Another network would consist of people who are looking for sitters.

They also would be on another sub domain with it’s own server.

So, there would be no bloating. Yes and of course we would integrate other services into our site like google and yahoo. We don’t wont to be a hub for other services. I mentioned facebook and myspace just because of the apps they provide. Facebook has also a business industry that will be part of our services as well. I should have explained myself a little better. Social Networking could be more advanced then what it is today. Why join multiple sites when you could get more than one service on one site? Maybe at the most we would have 10 whole services that would hopefully attract a large group. These services would be popular among internet users. I hope this makes better sense. We just need to know what wordpress can and can’t do. If we’re wasting our time then we might as well throw out wordpress and start our own platform. That would mean deleting everything including members. Maybe I will do a survey of the 10 or so services that we want to offer and see what the public would think. Sorry for the long post.

[maburker]

Ummm. I haven’t gotten the whole idea of wordpress coding yet. So, what someone else has used I can’t ever get it to work on our pages. I tried to use your function above but, no luck. I am thinking that I need to somehow call the main files in wp but, really have no idea of how to do it successfully yet.

[maburker]

Well I have figured out a way for members to navigate through our site without the buddy bar but, I am not sure if it’s correct or not. I used the following link on pages that are not apart of wordpress. http://www.chatterbing.com/wp-login.php

Since that page and the home page already redirects users to their account. I was actually looking for a more technical method. Please give feedback on this method or maybe a new method that I haven’t tried yet.

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We have a total of 5, Joomla, affiliate program, pligg, youtube clone software and, open-x ad server. They all have profiles and we want to integrate them into wordpress. Joomla could do all of this but, we liked the word press platform for blogging. All software that is currently running on our servers will be developed further. We just need to get it integrated before we go further. The dashboard would be the main place for users to see and edit the services that they allow. We will be adding more services but, these will be developed as a plugin.

We have thought about developing these services around wordpress but, we wouldn’t get the same features or results. The cost of hiring developers would eat us alive as well. We would have to hire help to pull this off if we developed ourselves.

[maburker]

Ummmm. So if someone has done it with mediawiki & wordpress then it’s possible to do it with others. Once I read the links that you posted I’ll get to work on this. If I am successfull I will post it here. I’ll do the same with the dashboard too. Thanks for your reply!

[maburker]

Yeah thanks I figured it out within 10minutes after posting to the forum. It wasn’t that hard after I found all the right elements.

[maburker]

They might work for a button but, what about a function like so……

//*********Site Navigation*********//

function site_nav_links(){ ?>

Explore

<ul class=”your-ul-list-css-classname”>

Blog

Members

<li class=”alt”>Groups

Forums

<li class=”alt”>Blogs

<?php

}

I tried a hundred ways and all I get is a white screen. I am not sure if I am writing the loggin user part correctly or not. The above function works well for the public but, once you try to hide it from the public it goes blank. I have almost given up.

[maburker]

I am looking to do the same thing, if you find a solution then please let me know:)

[maburker]

I am sorry the bp-core-adminbar.php

[maburker]

We have decided to move all of the navigation to the admin bar. We are working on adding the following code to the bp-core-admin.php.

//*********Help*********//

function my_help_link(){

?>

Help

<ul class=”your-ul-list-css-classname”>

Help 1

<li class=”alt”>Help 2

Help 3

<li class=”alt”>Help 4

Help 5

<?php

}

add_action( ‘bp_adminbar_menus’, ‘my_help_link’, 3 );

The above code is an example from this site. However when we try to add the below code into the above code we get errors.

if (is_user_logged_in()) {

// Do stuff

} else {

// Do other stuff

}

So we need to figure out how to properly write the code. Then we can move all main navigation links to the admin bar bu using the same function. I’ll keep working until I get it right. It just makes better sense to keep all links in one area.

[maburker]

I wish it was that simple but, it doesn’t work like that for our site. Our main page is located on a subdomain outside of WordPress it self. When people refer to our main domain then they are redirected to home.subdomain.com. From there they can log in. When new visitors try to register they can gain access to the entire site through this page.

[maburker]

Yeah, I figured it out after I wrote the post. I am trying to get ride of them and replace another file in it’s place. It’s been a little tricky but, eventually I’ll figure it out.

[maburker]

Ok, we moved it out of wordpress onto a sub domain(e.g. home.mysite.com). This seems to work for right now. Some other coding is required. We just need to figure out how to add the admin bar. The page is a php page with all the html in that file and some php functions. So, there isn’t a header file or a footer file. The article for adding the bar to external applications won’t work for this. At least I can’t get it to work. Thanks for any help.

[maburker]

No, the costume home page just replaced the regular home page in the buddy press theme. The page isn’t out side of buddy press. We tried to have a home page on a sub domain but, we couldn’t figure out how to direct the members successfully.