BuddyPress.org

@alanchrishughes

Login to dashboard, go to Buddypress and then Forums Setup to install. Once it’s configured, create a group called Support or whatever you want to call it and then you have a forum inside.

This plugin was made for group admins, but take a look anyway. It might give you an idea for a plugin: https://buddypress.org/community/groups/buddypress-group-css/

I guess you want to have a “standalone” bbPress install ?
Forum without Groups ?

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/bp_last_activity-in-bbpress-standalone-deep-integrated/

I was just thinking today how the light blue is hard to see the past couple of days.. but it may have been fine on my old monitor – I just got a 24″ acer lcd – it’s very bright. and it is certainly not easy on the eyes looking for the small light blue in the midst of such a large white space… I haven;t tried calibrating it – but with 24″ of white pixels combining – it’s just plain bright to look at… I wonder if anyone has developed a css color changer for registered users to select a favorite color scheme for viewing buddypress sites? It would be nice to have a button under our profile name to go custom colors – of course I would like those to be limited to a few presets that are approved by admins perhaps..

Hi Jersey,

if you want to use Forums associated to different Groups, then yes BuddyPress is what you are looking for.
Get yourself a shared-hosting-account (for the beginning) and find somebody on this website who will setup BuddyPress on your WP 3.0 install.

do you know the test-website already ?
http://www.testbp.org

Talk about things broken – ugh – I think perhaps we might need to label the topics that get posted in groups / the updates that people post. I can’t find a reliable way to search them using the buddypress search.
Also, wow. I just had a devil of a time finding this thread right here. I went to my profile and searched in my activity – and couldn’t find where I had posted to this thread, or several other threads in my activity. I even did a search for my username, and buddypress did not find me in forum topics or even in members. This is pretty bad, seriously needs some fixing! I had to go to google and does a site:buddypress.org to find – ended up going through my history to find this thread.
*EDIT* – my activity has mysteriously re-appeared, now making it easier to find the things I commented on – I guess that is a temp bug or something that may not need fixing now – LOL

Yes, that’s exactly how it will work. Buddypress simply skins the registration process. Your users can register sitewide (I would recommend on the main install) and will be able to sign on anywhere within the site.

Thanks for the fix ray using that file worked like a charm! I have my Wire back

Did you install bbPress via dashboard BuddyPress > Forums Set Up? That would be needed to get the forums page going.

@lincme, sorry, forgot, you will need to add
locate_template( array( 'sidebar.php' ), true )
just above get_footer() in that file.

@johnjamesjacoby, @apeatling are there any plans to add proper code back to the forums here, it’s been way too long now…

Enough is enough. BuddyPress, not dying. Devs, more communication. We’re all on the same page and this topic is losing it’s productivity so I’m closing it down.

Thanks everyone for chiming in and for helping out

@thekmen; Ok, thanks, I’ll try that. There’s already a Favourite link, so I guess the permalink is just for bookmarking? Too tired to care now!

Edit; Almost, but no sidebar, and the content is squished into the centre. Falling asleep now, so will have another look tomorrow.

@DJPaul

Maybe you should …seriously… here’s why:

Every platform eventually reaches a point where people come to the platform because of the software you can run on that platform …not the platform itself. Few people talk about how awesome Windows 7 or Linux or the latest version of Mac OS or even the iPad are as an operating system. Instead, they talk about all the fantastic applications you can run on them and as a result, make people excited about the platform.

I think that’s largely becoming the case with BuddyPress. I mean, we’re basically at the point where everything that’s going to be in the core platform has already been written. I really doubt we’ll see complex things like media hosting or Facebook connectivity or whatever the next big app is being integrated into the BuddyPress core, because they’re not features everyone will use.

So when people come to the forums posting things like “please assure me this is not a dead platform, because I haven’t seen any major changes in months”, it would probably be best to show them all of the new and exciting stuff being developed for BuddyPress, and that the platform is actually thriving.

Just my thoughts, anyway.

^F^

@lincme it’s pretty easy to theme, in your child theme, just add:

div id=”content”
div class=”padder”
for default theming after the get_header call in members/single/activity/permalink.php of your child theme.
Don’t forget to close off the extra DIVS though.

The permalink is pretty handy for favouriting/bookmarking as it will soon get lost in the activity stream.

update: damn code still can't be added here, just removed the brackets.

@nuprn1; That makes no sense to me whatsoever. A hanging permalink which just sits there, linking to a view which nobody needs, and which wrecks the layout because it wasn’t themed correctly, thus making a site look pathetic to users? Hmm…

@nuprn1; Thanks, but any idea WHY there’s even a stupid view of something you can already see anyway..? I think I’ll leave it at that and have a cup of coffee before my head explodes!

@erich73; Personally, I love the Activity stream, as long as a lot of the activities are removed (dumb stuff like, “Fred just did something”, “Mary coughed 2 hours and 47 seconds ago”, etc). With Groups and Members shown first, and Activity renamed to something like Conversations, most ordinary users can cope with it. Out of the box it’s scarier than a gang of axe-wielding clowns on acid!

You feel it isn’t possible to create a proper social network with BuddyPress, and while I agree to a point, it’s the best we have so far, it seems. We struggled with Elgg for some weeks, but gave up on it. The team and community are wonderful (as here), but it’s TOO open, has no real user controls of the required kind, and creating a site that looks like a site takes forever in hard slog coding. Pligg came close, but needed far too much work to turn into a BuddyPress-like tool, and most others have fallen by the wayside or cost a packet. For those without funding, BuddyPress certainly seem to be the best of the bunch, but HECK does it need redesigning. (But it won’t be, of course, because that would cause all the plugins to fail… *sigh*)

Oh, and I tried Mingle for WP too. Wonderfully simple, and Categories could be used for Groups, sort of. But… it fails miserably with most WP themes, or at least the ones I tried for alteration within a reasonable time scale, ie., some time before the world ends in 2012.

I am also interested in the question. So that owners of blogs can run BuddyPress within their own blog – separate from the main install.

I have buddypress enabled for multi-sites – which makes the features all accessible from http://www.example.com/site2 – without referencing back to the root site, but all of the users still show up in http://www.example.com/site2/activity.

Can http://www.example.com/site2/activity be exclusive to members of http://www.example.com/site2?

@kevbow, this does deal with WP/MU/MS user capabilities. (backup database before trying anything below)

1 login your phpMyAdmin, select database and click to browse your xxx_users table (xxx=prefix used); check if there is “1” under ID column for the site/super admin

2 a. if there is, then go to xxxx_usermeta table; check under user_id column with “1” and see if it’s something like – if wpmu
xxx_1_capabilities is a:2:{s:13:”Administrator”;b:1;s:13:”administrator”..
user_login – value = admin

2b. If there is, also go to xxx_sitemeta table; check under site_admin “1” column and see if in row
your admin_email = is correct
admin_user_id = 1
site_admins = a:1:{i:0;s:7:”yourusername”;}
… and if not, then click on pencil icon and correct this then click on “Go” link

2c If there’s none, recreate by running SQL query
INSERT INTO ‘wp_usermeta'(‘umeta_id’,’user_id’,’meta_key’,’meta_value’) VALUES
(1, 1, ‘nickname’, ‘admin’),
(2, 1, ‘rich_editing’, ‘true’),
(3, 1, ‘admin_color’, ‘fresh’),
(4, 1, ‘wp_capabilities’, ‘a:1:{s:13:”administrator”;b:1;}’),
(5, 1, ‘wp_user_level’, ’10’);

I set up WP 3.0 and the latest BP (1.2.4.1 I think), and then tried plugins which turned out only to show on some UberAdmin menu that I’ve never seen and can’t get to display.

WP and BP are easy to install, but sure as hell NOT easy to build sites with.

Oh, and @hnla; the problem is that neither here nor there are providing definitive answers much of the time when it involves overlapping issues, eg., Is it WP, or is it BP? Who knows? The smart ones who code it all do, but most of us are struggling to work with kitchen-sink design.