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@hnla You should know by now that I have Super Powers.

Do you mean that you want username.websitename.com to point to the user profile?

That’s easy enough if all you want is a redirect from username.websitename.com to websitename.com/members/username – you can do this with a straightforward RewriteRule in .htaccess. If you want to keep username.websitename.com for the entire session (so links like username.websitename.com/profile, username.websitename.com/friends, etc persist in the address bar), it’ll be pretty complicated. It’d mean reconfiguring a pretty big chunk of bp-core/bp-core-catchuri.php and/or bp-core.php to make sure that the $bp global is set correctly, as well as some .htaccess rules to make sure that URLs throughout buddypress that point to websitename.com/members/username/x get redirected to the right place.

http://buddydev.com/plugins/logout-redirect-plugin-for-wordpress-mu-buddypress/

Hi everyone! I install this plugin but only allow me upload images files and when I click it to download or view, appear a blank page, can you help me?! Please!!!

and it would be stupid to get a developer to do it! Yes and no and a large proportion of this site membership are probably developers by trade and in some senses it’s actually easier to do it than explain how to do it!

The advice was right though set up a child theme which simply uses a new stylesheet that can contain overriding rulesets. To avoid getting in a mess keep two copies of the stylesheet one named .css.bck and switch to that if things go wrong both sheets call the bp-default styles so swapping to the .css.bck will simply call the original files without any changes or you having to change themes in the admin.

Ah right, thanks for clarifying!

something like:

`
$activity_id = bp_activity_add( array( ‘id’ => 555, ‘action’ => ‘something new and blue’ );
`

no reason to use the do_action – that is just a trigger point for hooking into buddypress.

make sure you capture all the previous activity data and pass that back in – performs a full sql update on all cols (see the code in https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-edit-activity-stream/ )

To me, a Jabber integration means a lot, because its putting more control in the users hands.

Don’t want to keep our website open in your browser window every time you wanna chat? Not a problem! Just connect with your favorite Jabber client.

ArrowChat however, just like it’s competitior CometChat, does not strike me as a very reliable solution. As an example, they have all these integrations they’re bragging about, but no in-depth explanations what-so-ever about the available features in each integration; and we’re talking about entirely different pieces of software here! Turns out their BuddyPress integration does not yet support per-group chatrooms, which is a big let-down to me.

I’m currently looking at these two:

http://im.jaxl.im – The closest you can get to a “one-click” solution for Jabber-chat on your site right now. It’s free and open source, but your chat is run by their server, not yours.

http://code.google.com/p/emite/ – I haven’t been able to entirely wrap my head around this project yet, but it looks to me like it could get anyone considering a Jabber-integration on their site off to a flying start.

@zazz

Here’s a great tutorial for a global site search:

Creating The sitewide global/unified search Page for your Buddypress Theme

@pcwriter, I’ll create a group once I’ve polished out the little dents in the plugin.

@thelandman

+1 on that plugin idea!
phpfreechat looks like one of the most customizable scripts out there.

In a multisite install, the only drawback to an out-of-the-box install of phpfreechat is that it requires its own page… meaning users can’t chat and surf the network at the same time. Docking it at the bottom of the screen, and making it independent of pages would eliminate that problem. Plus, the available global params would make customization by the superadmin a whole lot easier through a backend admin panel.

How about starting a group to keep everyone updated on the progress… when you’re ready, of course

For XAMPP see 1 to 3 of this post plus:
– Make extra effort of adding username and passwords for MySQL and phpMyAdmin instead of default.
– Enable mod_rewrite – this article is great reference
– Need to replace URL’s in DB – see this

Buddypress has no privacy/security controls whatsoever. There is also no built-in way to consistently use real names and let people register with first and last name on sign-up, which will probably become a problem for a school application.

Buddypress is basically an evolving hobby project by PHP programmers. You may have more luck with a more user-focused semi-commercial script like Social Engine: http://www.socialengine.net/

No worries. There’s a recurring scheduling function as well in that file.

Yes. Some tend to break certain parts of BuddyPress, however, so if your group avatar cropping stops working, it’s probably a WordPress plugin’s javascript causing a conflict.

BuddyPress won’t work like that. At the moment, it can only be activated on one specific blog or across the entire network.

Have a look at this function:
`wp_schedule_single_event`

You can find it in wp-includes/cron.php. There’s a bunch of other cron related functions in there, but the one I mentioned above is probably your best bet. Then schedule an event by attaching it to a hook, when a user signs up