[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 8 months ago]

Create a group, then create a forum for that group.

The forums directory should be available at example.com/forums.

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 8 months ago]

I have tried both http://www.winextra.com/forums/ and http://www.winextra.com/forums/bb-config.php with the same result – can’t find the file.

If I’m not mistaken, I think you have to put in the absolute file path to bb-config.php (eg. /var/www/forums/bb-config.php).

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1) bbPress plugins in BuddyPress will require porting to a WP plugin so BuddyPress can detect it. Depending on the complexity of your bbPress plugins, this might be complicated.

2) You’ll basically have two sets of forums – BP group forums and your external install of bbPress. Your external install of bbPress will need to be themed if you want it to match your WP/BP site.

3) BP forums are powered by groups. You need to create a “group” in order to create a forum in BuddyPress. If you choose to integrate an external install of bbPress with BP, your BuddyPress forums will show up in your external install by default as well. To avoid duplication in your external bbPress install, read this thread.

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Re: long range question. Not sure what is going to happen.

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 8 months ago]

I think edelwater’s response was to foodin65.

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 8 months ago]

For those who might not be aware, Buddydev.com’s BP-Gallery is a paid plugin. I think the baseline cost is $30 for 3 months access to the entire buddydev.com site (themes, plugins, forums).

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 8 months ago]

I’m going to flag this for later reading.

I’ll try to reproduce the problem when I have some time.

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 8 months ago]

Does the problem occur when you deactivate WP-o-matic?

My guess is it definitely has something to do with WP-o-matic.

I’d recommend moving to FeedWordpress myself.

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 8 months ago]

Voted!

Funny how someone voted it was broken without coming onto the forums for help (purely speculating here!).

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 8 months ago]

Put this in /wp-content/plugins/bp-custom.php:

define( 'BP_ENABLE_USERNAME_COMPATIBILITY_MODE', true );

Make sure you have open and closing PHP tags as well.

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 8 months ago]

I think Detective or socialpreneur was working on a port of AJAX Quote from bbPress to the BP forums.

If nothing gets released within the next week or two, I might take a crack at it.

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 8 months ago]

@snark

You can plug the code into your theme’s functions.php file.

It doesn’t do much at the moment, as snark is still working on the code and Andy is making refinements to the activity API.

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@ousep

Looking forward to your code! This is similar to Hempsworth’s plugin, but I think what you’re working on utilizes what BP already has, which is good.

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 8 months ago]

Re: dropdown… are you talking about that lightbox thingy?

That doesn’t seem to be BuddyPress-related.

Also, I would try deactivating WP Super Cache and deleting any cached items you may have.

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 8 months ago]

Hey Hempsworth, looks good!

But, do you think it would have made more sense to take advantage of BP’s already-available favorite button?

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 8 months ago]

@geoffm33,

Did you expand the “GET /tweetstream” item?

That information is more useful!

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 8 months ago]

Silly question… did you deactivate BuddyPress before removing the DB entries and deleting the plugin folder?

Also did you change your theme? Do you have some type of caching plugin installed (eg. WP Super Cache, object cache)?

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 8 months ago]

Hi mnaeemsattar,

I just checked the YouTube video on your site.

The person who uploaded that YouTube video disabled embedding, so unfortunately you cannot embed that one.

Try any other YouTube video that allows embedding, it should work!

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 8 months ago]

Easier said than done I’m afraid. A blog post is different than an activity update.

I’ll look into it, but I’m not going to promise anything.

Feel free to tweak the code! I’ll add you as a contributor if you figure it out!

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 8 months ago]

@modemlooper

Looks like grabbing the thumbnail might be doable.

But I’m not sure if the BP activity stream supports this dual-mode view you’re speaking of (activity stream gets one view, activity permalink gets another) since they both use the same template to render the activity.

I’m guessing not off the top of my head…

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 8 months ago]

@gregfielding

What part of the group homepage are you looking at adding the player?

This plugin only adds oEmbed support to activity updates and forum posts.

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It looks like ustream.tv has oEmbed support.

But as stated in the readme.txt FAQ, you’ll need to add support for uStream to WordPress’ oEmbed provider list in order to allow uStream embeds. I’m not going to be adding any additional oEmbed providers to WordPress’ default list.

If you know a little bit about code, you can read here to add support yourself:

https://codex.wordpress.org/Embeds#Adding_Support_For_An_oEmbed-Enabled_Site

If you need help adding uStream support, I’m *thinking* of offering premium support to extend the plugin for a nominal fee (similar to other Wp plugin developers).

Yeah I know, not what some people wanted to hear. Basic support will always be free though. Of course, I haven’t thought about this in depth – just a spur-of-the-moment idea your post gave me that is sure to ignite some negativity

Not sure if I’m actually going to go through the premium support model though.

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@modemlooper

Re: oEmbed Discovery plugin – that should also work. I listed this in the readme.txt and its potential problems if you don’t trust your user base.

Also not sure if the upcoming version of oEmbed for BP (v0.6) will work with the oEmbed Discovery plugin, since the new version of the plugin changes the logic of how URLs are sent to WP’s oEmbed to enhance performance on your DB . I’ll do some testing, but if the oEmbed Discovery plugin doesn’t work in v0.6, at least you’ll still have v0.51!

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 8 months ago]

@quaker-oats

Please read this guide to upgrading BP to 1.2:

https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/upgrading-from-10x/

Make sure you follow the points in this guide.

If you still have trouble, please let us know.

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 8 months ago]

@Michael,

Try the Flickr URL in a WordPress post with oEmbed enabled.

To enable oEmbed for WordPress posts, read the “In A Nutshell” section on this page – https://codex.wordpress.org/Embeds#In_A_Nutshell

If it doesn’t work in WordPress, it won’t work in BuddyPress since I’m merely piggybacking off of WordPress’ oEmbed class.

Hope that helps to some extent!

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 8 months ago]

Try installing the BP backward compatibility plugin if your old BP theme / plugins relied on BP 1.1.3 code:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-backwards-compatibility/

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 8 months ago]

Read this post in the FAQ thread:

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/faq-how-to-code-snippets-and-solutions#post-37123

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 8 months ago]

The forums on GoFastBargains.com is using the internal forums component in BuddyPress. No integration is needed with anything else.

This is how it’s done:

1) Install WordPress

2) Install BuddyPress

3) Enable forums component in BuddyPress

4) Smile! You’re done!

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 8 months ago]

@summerchilde – as stated above and in the readme.txt, the array_map() warning is a BP issue. It’s fixed in BP-trunk. The next release of BP 1.2.1, coming this week, will address this issue. If you can’t wait until then, you can patch the issue yourself (check out the “Known issues” section in the readme.txt).

@modemlooper – Sorry about the folder renaming! I know it’s a pain! The good news is oEmbed for BP v0.6 will fix the “rename folder” issue and will feature some performance enhancements (courtesy Andy P). Stay tuned for the next release which will come out when BP 1.2.1 drops.

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 8 months ago]

oEmbed for BP does one thing very simple – it utilizes WordPress’ own oEmbed class — type in a plain-text oEmbeddable URL and voila! — there are no plans to do anything special in the future (like categorization, etc).

I wholeheartedly endorse MrMaz’s BP Links plugin; I have stated this in other posts and I”ll say it again – BP-Links will be the definitive rich embedding plugin for BP.

We have briefly talked privately about manipulating the activity stream for embedding content (btw MrMaz, let me know if you need a sounding board for the next version of BP-Links!).

He has some neat things planned including plugging into the “What’s New” box, which will solve the “quick and easy embedding” issue Mike has talked about above.

At the end of the day, the cool thing is you have choices!

it all depends on your BP network’s needs.