Backup any custom edits you’ve made to date and re-install wpmu and buddypress in a newly named directory. Then re-install your custom files. A half hour’s work…
I think the lesson here is don’t install WPMU in a subdirectory (in your case URL/blogs). If you think about it, without Buddypress plugins installed you already have the permalink URL/blogs going to your main install. Now, with the Buddypress plugins installed, you’ve duplicated that link because it too goes to “URL/blogs”. Do you see what I mean?
I believe if you install WPMU in the root of your site the problem will go away. Alternately, try changing the name of your subdirectory to anything but “blogs” and you’ll probably be OK.
Now I’m trying to use Burt’s plugin in combo with the Block Admin plugin to prevent users from accessing the dashboard but no luck. I have new blog owners defaulted to author, and yet they still get access to the dashboard.
I’m having trouble creating groups through the main site. I fill in the required details but every time it says there was an error saving group details. New wpmu and buddypress install…does it rely on other components? I’ve only core, profile, friends and groups installed to date.
I’d suggest launching with the basic ability to set your Twitter settings in the Buddypress profile area for purposes of sending your blog posts to Twitter and/or importing them into your blog. This would be a very attractive feature within Buddypress as it keeps the user from seeing the dashboard, a necessary requirement for all other Twitter/WP styled plugins.
With that basic functionality working in v1, I’d then focus on enhancing the plugin with the features you’ve suggested and others to be developed. This approach would enable you to get it out quickly while still working on future enhancements.
So this is a preferred way to avoid the wp-admin or wp-login page versus the Block Admin plugin, correct? This would mean users, including Admin, would have to login from the front end via the sidebar, for example?
There’s no settings in the admin panel but you can change the redirect URL within the plugin file, line 21 if I remember correctly.
Go to /wp-content/mu-plugins/bp-core/bp-core-admin.php and comment out line 73 (My Account sub-menus) as well as 148-151 and 153. I’ve also commented out the “create a blog” call which is on line 165.
You may find it only works on new blogs created after installing Block Admin.
I believe Andy is going to address this issue, but in the meantime I’ve found some success using the “Block Admin” plugin. This allows you to set a redirect URL when someone tries to access wp-admin. You also need to comment out a few of the Buddypress admin bar sub-menus to prevent users from accessing the backend.
Works fine for me but I agree it’s an issue that should be addressed.
This successfully places your Twitter timeline on the dashboard in wpmu 2.7/buddypress beta2 and enables you to post updates to Twitter from a post form. Could this not be modified to appear in the users’ Buddypress profile?
