[@paulhastings0 Participant 16 years, 4 months ago]

Could you link to the plugin you’re referring too?

[@paulhastings0 Participant 16 years, 4 months ago]

I believe in BP. It’s not going to disappear until FaceBook does.

I remember a few years ago when I belonged to an online forum of table top gamers. Our groups were kept active by community leaders who were yearly actually elected by the community. I think this was helpful because:

1. Tunnel Ends: The leaders knew that they only had to commit a year at a time to the project and therefore weren’t “committing-their-time-and-resources-for-eternity”. Since there was a specific end-to-the-tunnel if they so chose they were more likely to finish strong.

2. Ego: Face it, people have egos and enjoy being flattered. Being elected to lead by a group says a lot. Most of us here on BP are guys, just like the table-top gaming group… and guys like being competitive.

3. Meritocracy: Hey, if you want to stay a leader, then do your job… or else get voted out.

4. Open: This could be my personal opinion, but doesn’t electing leaders just feel more “Open”?

Proposal: Hold a 2 week nomination period where BP.org users can nominate members to be 6-month “temporary core developers” (or TCD). Then hold elections for another 2 weeks to choose 5 or so TCDs. After the 6 month stint we would hold nominations again.

Pros: All the stuff that I mentioned above, plus I’m sure there’s other stuff that I can’t think of currently.

Cons: Would there be some degree of upheaval if developer leaders changed every 6 months? Some other downsides?

[@paulhastings0 Participant 16 years, 4 months ago]

Run this plugin: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-template-pack/

[@paulhastings0 Participant 16 years, 4 months ago]

Ah, cool. Glad it turned out ok for you. I used .htaccess to set my memory limit to 128MB.

[@paulhastings0 Participant 16 years, 4 months ago]

I dropped @rvenable‘s fix into my functions.php file for my child theme and it worked like a charm. Thanks yall.

[@paulhastings0 Participant 16 years, 4 months ago]

I’m not aware of any plugin that allows Groups or Users to create their own pages. There’s the Group Documents plugin for groups, but that’s the closest solution that I know of.

[@paulhastings0 Participant 16 years, 4 months ago]

What version of BP did you install? And are you sure that you’re talking about BP or BBpress?

[@paulhastings0 Participant 16 years, 4 months ago]

Actually you can find the discussion forum here, although it requires creating a new account (which can be a bit annoying).

[@paulhastings0 Participant 16 years, 4 months ago]

@r-a-y, I reopened the ticket. Thanks.

[@paulhastings0 Participant 16 years, 4 months ago]

@r-a-y, @takeo

And the whole “comment on a forum post in the stream *OR* in the original thread” is absolutely insane. When a user makes a comment… don’t make them THINK about where to make it. They should just make the comment and it should show up in *BOTH* places.

I totally agree about this. Forum posts, blog posts, blog comments, activity streams, etc… It should all integrate with each other and show up in the same place. Was this ever submitted as a trac ticket?

[@paulhastings0 Participant 16 years, 4 months ago]

I can confirm that we have this problem as well on WPMU 2.9.2.2 and BP 1.2.4

[@paulhastings0 Participant 16 years, 4 months ago]

You should upload it to the BP Plugin repository so that others will be able to find it in the future by searching the repository. Just make sure to include “Buddypress” in the tags.

[@paulhastings0 Participant 16 years, 4 months ago]

You’ll want to run the BP Template Pack plugin to make your WordPress theme compatible with BP: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-template-pack/

[@paulhastings0 Participant 16 years, 4 months ago]

That sounds highly like a matter of opinion. What’s the average age of your userbase?

While I’ve had the occasional complaint, I would say that it’s just a normal process. Your users will eventually get used to the site. I would say that BP’s “complicatedness” is somewhere above Twitter’s but below YouTube’s.

[@paulhastings0 Participant 16 years, 4 months ago]

Yeah, I like this whole concept. Have you looked at the code for BP Group CSS?

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/buddypress-group-css/

[@paulhastings0 Participant 16 years, 4 months ago]

@jeffsayre, I saw that WP 3.0 came out a couple of days ago. How can we help you with BP 1.2.5 so that you can release BP Privacy?

[@paulhastings0 Participant 16 years, 4 months ago]

I’ll confirm that using a custom language file is the correct to do it. It’ll save you a ton of headaches and pain. It’s actually fairly simple. Just read the documentation.

[@paulhastings0 Participant 16 years, 4 months ago]

Dig around this plugin’s forum: https://buddypress.org/community/groups/oembed-for-buddypress/

[@paulhastings0 Participant 16 years, 4 months ago]

FYI, 3.0 RC3 is now available: https://wordpress.org/development/2010/06/3-0-rc3/

[@paulhastings0 Participant 16 years, 5 months ago]

Make sure that the “Signup page” field underneath your security settings at yourwebsitename.com/wp-admin/wpmu-admin.php?page=secure_invite_list&view=settings is filled with the text: “wp-signup.php,wp-login.php?action=register,/register”.

[@paulhastings0 Participant 16 years, 5 months ago]

I believe that plugin was not upgraded for the latest versions of BP and is no longer supported. Your best bet is to probably wait for the WordPress plugin sponsored by Google Summer of Code to come out.

http://gsocevents.wordpress.com/

[@paulhastings0 Participant 16 years, 5 months ago]

Dude, your theme has to be working somewhere online for us to know that it actually works with BP and isn’t just a static HTML/CSS page. It looks cool, but you’ve got to show us something that’s up and running.

[@paulhastings0 Participant 16 years, 5 months ago]

@baberjaved Not yet, but I believe someone on the forums was working on something like that. Dig around and you’ll find the post and pictures.

[@paulhastings0 Participant 16 years, 5 months ago]

Interesting… so potentially this could network individual blogs together into a mother-website then, right?

So if I could start dreaming I could see this as 2 plugins, 1 for the host site, and 1 for all the child sites. Each child site plugin would send information to the host site plugin. That way when a member of the “XYZ.com” community left a comment or post on an affiliate site, their activity stream on XYZ.com would be updated accordingly.

Practically speaking it would be like having one install with domain mapping to separate domains. The key difference is that each site has it’s own database and it’s own set of plugins. That way if an affiliate site goes down it doesn’t take down all the other installations.

[@paulhastings0 Participant 16 years, 5 months ago]

It shouln’t go in wp-content/plugins/buddypress. Just put it in wp-content/plugins/