@obsidianmarketing 2 WP instances or 1 Multisite installation == it all depends on what kind of website you are running.
Example 1: I have 2 WP instances for an organization where the main site, http://www.example.com deals mostly with organization blog/news plus around 700 pages of general information. The subsite community.example.com is the private BP site on a second database.
Example 2: For another installation, it’s multisite and the information generated in the main site is from the user blogs.
== Since I already have WP installed on my sub-domain do I need to uninstall it on the sub-domain first? If so does that just mean that I will delete the folder that was created with the name of the sub-domain in the public_html folder? ==
Before you make any major changes to your installation, backup DB and server folders. If you believe that your organization will be better served with a multisite installation, then deactivate BuddyPress and create a network (make multisite) on example.com. Then you might want to import DB of subsite into DB of main site if you already have added a lot of information. In certain cases, you only need to import the XML export from your WP install in subsite.example.com
For more assistance should you go the multisite route, please go to https://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite
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@modemlooper I didn’t say this should be required. I said this should be available,. Both Facebook and Twitter have this available.
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@djpaul
It’s a usability thing. Let me take an example:
Site for networking of dentists in the UK.
What I have in mind is at top level 4 groups:
– England
– Wales
– Scotland
– Ireland
Then within each group, there are subgroups for counties.
Within each county subgroup, there are sub-subgroups for town/city etc.
Within the county sub-subgroup for town/city for particularly large cities, there could be sub-sub-subgroups for boroughs.
If Paul joins the group for Exeter, he should automatically become a member of Devon and England respectively.
I’m sure there are other ways of doing this; I just don’t see anything so instinctive or natural.
There can be multiple other examples.
For a medical professionals organization:
Doctor > Neurology > Clinical neurophysiology
For a university:
Business School > MBA > Managerial Accounting
etc
I don’t suppose a ton of people currently use hierarchical groups in BuddyPress. But I am certain that features like this will go a long way in opening up new markets for the script, way beyond just small techie groups.
add_filter(‘show_admin_bar’, ‘__return_false’);
@sooskriszta if you have already created a ticket on the subject don’t call out individual core devs on the forum it’s pointless, they will see the ticket and respond there if justified, doesn’t really help to further raise issue here treally.
Hi there,
I’m fairly new to BuddyPress so I’m still trying to figure some things out.
I’m trying to write meta tags to the of the page (OpenGraph and Twitter Cards); however, I can’t seem to find a way to grab the content of an activity entry (body and title). I can do this easily on WordPress so I was expecting to be able to do so with BuddyPress.
Any ideas?
@mercime Thanks for your reply. I am hosted on Finerhosting and am using their VPS and I am allowed to changed limits. This is something I have confirmed with the host themselves. Do you think this problem is fixable?
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Where are you hosted? Have you contacted your webhost tech support re memory limits allowance and BuddyPress support? If you are on shared hosting, no matter how large the memory limit you place in wp-config.php or php.ini, the webhost can still control how much is allocated to your account.
Hey Paul,
My log is completely empty meaning there are no errors.
Am I missing something?
Thanks
Hi!
I just downloaded BuddyPress for my WordPress site. However, when I try running the Installation Wizard, or going to BuddyPress Setup, I arrive at a page I can do almost nothing with. I see the tabs at the top, with Components highlighted, and a bunch of checkboxes that I can freely check and uncheck. But there’s no way to move between tabs, no “continue” button or anything, and therefore no way to complete the setup. Any advice?
I’m running this on the updated WP version, and the Themia Lite theme.
Thanks!
Sean
I installed Buddypress to my subdomain , but there is no account creation allowed how can I allow user to create account through my registration page.?
also how to connect forum directly to buddy press page?
I want to be able to create a Post or Page and then say it should only be visible to particular groups.
Ideally this should be available for custom post types as well.
Is there something built in that I am missing? Are there any plugins out there?
I’ve been searching for hours but can’t find anything that does the job straight from the Groups already set up in Buddypress.
The avatars are being created with the format you specify: “2be8xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx-bpfull.jpg” and “2be8xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx-bpthumb.jpg”, however, in trying to download/view them, something seems off. Their sizes are 6K and 2K which seem too small, and I’m having a problem downloading them via FTP, even though they have adequate permissions. Perhaps the images are being created, but not correctly?
Our host does have gd enabled (v 2.0.34), and our WP/BP versions are: 3.4.2/1.6.1
Thanks for the help
Hi @nhoullet, all, the script is not meant to work on all mobile platforms since it uses a pixel to calculate the height of the window. Also, remember that the script posted is only the “alpha version” and I plan to make a plugin with the latest code refactoring and all. I will let you know when I have it finished. BTW, the opera issue is surely related to CSS (style/design) are you using the latest version? thanks all
Is it possible to enable activity stream for groups only without global & personal activity stream? I just can’t find a proper way to do it and there’s no option in BuddyPress to do something like this, as enabling the activity stream component means that you’ll get all the global, personal, and group activity.
If anyone here knows how to do it and need to show me an example …… the BuddyPress default theme should be enough.
Thanks @mercime for the information. I see where it states: “Multiple WP networks can be created with either: WP Multi Network or Networks+” but since I just created Multisite with the config.php file, I didn’t think I needed an outdated or premium plugin. The information found to support the plugin is a bit confusing. I will check out your link.
Any thoughts on the Network+ Plugin? It sounds awesome to create arrays within arrays but I am just practicing on a small shared host. Would that work for low-to-no traffic practice sites?
Thanks,
jw
i am unable to reply to @mercime question – when i reply my browser goes white and stays – have used chrome, ie and mozilla – alll the same – answer to question is i am using BP default theme –
Hi everyone!
I’ve been looking for an easy way to get an overview of all of my users and to sort them depending on different categories, i.e. last active, time of registration, number of posts and similar parameters. Today I discovered the excellent plugin “amr users” which lets me do all that and is jam-packed with settings and features. If you’re looking for a similar plugin, do check it out here:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/amr-users/
There is also an add-on for BuddyPress which reportedly will add the ability to sort users based on profile fields, which in my case would be extremely useful in sorting different types of users. Haven’t tried it yet since it’s $15, but will do that shortly. Check that out here:
http://wpusersplugin.com/related-plugins/amr-user-plugin-add-ons/amr-users-plus-buddypress/
Have anyone else tried this plugin or do you have another way of viewing and sorting all users?
Can you look in your web server’s PHP error log, and let us know what the message is?
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@johnjamesjacoby @djpaul @boonebgorges
Most social networks allow upload of profile photos in the process of registration or activation. Would be cool if BuddyPress enables this too.
http://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4132
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I’ve just installed buddypress with the default them and none of the links in the main site menu work. They all return 404 errors.
EG Activity is http://localhost/Hot%20Button/activity/
for a 404
Plus there doesn’t seem to be any way to edit the urls.
Any ideas?
