BuddyPress.org

BuddyPress just wraps bbPress – the admin panel won’t have any control over the group forums within BP.

Hi @simoncreative, just one recommendation.
Have you thought about installing a cache plugin, you don’t have one yet, do you?.
I’ve tried W3 TOTAL CACHE https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/w3-total-cache/ and WP SUPER CACHE https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-super-cache/. Here you have some WordPress Cache Plugin Benchmarks http://cd34.com/blog/scalability/wordpress-cache-plugin-benchmarks/ to select for yourself. W3 TOTAL CACHE has a complete JS/CSS minify system and helps you to work with CDNs, but maybe its more difficult to use.
But that’s not all, you always can find out what you have to improve with Yslow, PageSpeed, Firebug firefox addons.
One of this “Improvements” will be “Add expire headers”, my friend AD7six has made up a simple .htaccess that will resolve this problem http://gist.github.com/440336 (here is the conversation on Vladimir Prelova blog http://www.prelovac.com/vladimir/improve-website-yslow-performance-grade-in-a-blink-of-an-eye ).

I think this might be helpful for all.
By, and great work!!

@aishing – Check out the following code:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/how-to-make-a-private-community/?topic_page=2&num=15#post-44616

Add it to your theme’s functions.php file.

Hi Im new here and am not a developer…so please bear with me!

@jharder Ive tried your ‘hack’ but cant get it to work. Im sure its because Im putting it in the wrong place (as I said Im not a developer). Can you please be so kind as to tell me EXACTLY where you put the code on the copied the members/index.php, activity/index.php(etc etc) folders and files. I want my Members and Activity area to be only viewable to logged in users.

Thanks so much.

This privacy thing is doing my head in.

If your site relies on Groups, you can try out the BP Group Documents plugin:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-group-documents/

Using this plugin, your users can upload documents to a group. You can set the plugin to upload certain file extensions like .ZIP or whatever.

This should help:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/requests-feedback/forum/topic/buddypress-org-location-in-the-profiles/#post-51674

The code is from Andy himself.

First, you’ll need to know a little bit about CSS to override the color scheme in the default BP theme.

Secondly, you’ll need to create a child theme to apply your new CSS changes. Read this guide to build a child theme from the default BP theme:
https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/

Next version will probably not include drop down menus in the theme, perhaps in BP 1.3 to take advantage of the new WP custom menus. For now, you’ll have to add this yourself by customizing the theme and applying a little jQuery trickery.

There are a ton of tutorials on jQuery drop down menus out there; you should be able to find one that fits your needs.

If you have no experience customizing themes, you might find this a little daunting!

Thanks for mentioning BigBlueButton! Looks like Adobe Acrobat Connect! Going to try out the demo some more!

Jalien…
That would be deluxe! I am very interested in Buddy Press as a school… Scholar Press integration looks promising as well.

Hope to hear more about this topic.

Peace,
Ron

i think a really great plugin would be one to integrate BigBlueButton with WordPress, and specifically with Buddypress. Then, as mentioned above, individual users or Buddypress groups could be easily invited to sessions. The api for integration is here:
http://code.google.com/p/bigbluebutton/wiki/API

and the main site is here:

Home

If you’re speaking more about distance education and e-learning, I invite you to look at a few resources on my site:
http://thecorkboard.org/category/instructional-technology/online-learning/

PJ mentions the Scholarpress plugin, which, I agree, is a bit faulty at the moment. But keep track of the Google Summer of Code project that looks to blend Scholarpress with BuddyPress and improve its features as well:
http://thecorkboard.org/gsoc-buddypress-and-sp-courseware/

I think a lot of what you want to accomplish is inherently available within BuddyPress. Meetings could equate to groups. Conferences could be a specific BuddyPress site with some features on or off. I’ve found that looking at BuddyPress – and WordPress for that matter – with a different lens has expanded my perspective on what this software can really do.

~Kyle~

When you integrated this with Thesis what version of BuddyPress were you using? Were you using WordPress MU or regular WordPress?

I’ve been playing around with this today. I am running regular WordPress 2.9.2 with Thesis 1.6 (need to try 1.7 but he really changed things there).

I installed the BuddyPress Template Pack plugin and went to work.

I don’t think you do the thing with the bp-custom.php file anymore, right?

I followed the instructions and copied all of the templates to my /wp-content/themes/thesis_16/ folder.

Then I started digging into how Thesis outputs its content and started updating all of those templates with different HTML markup and calls to Thesis functions to get headers, footers, and sidebars, etc.

So I got the pages like Members, Groups, Activity, etc. looking OK, but not pretty. There is going to be a TON of CSS development needed to make this look as pretty as it all does here.

The thing I’m not yet clear on is how to get it all to flow under one tab like it does here with the Community tab?

And I have LOTS of other questions….and work to do to make it fully functional and tightly integrated into the navigation and flow of the site.

Is it even worth it I’m wondering?

Just thought I’d share. I’d love to find out someone has already done ALL of this and can provide instructions, or files…would be worth something I think!

Fair enough; as far as I know, BuddyPress doesn’t do anything to the login.

You might enjoy 37 Signal’s service called Campfire or Basecamp for team/staff interactions: http://37signals.com/

I heard about https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/scholarpress-courseware/ in the blogosphere lately. I wasn’t impressed with how it worked so I took it off my beta site. I hope one of both of these will help.

I just assume that they are more focused on making BP compliant with WP 3.0 so that there isn’t a meltdown when 3.0 is released, and afterwards turn their attention back to the community and improving Buddypress further. I am pretty upset by the lack of presence and response on the forum. I don’t stress over following the trac day to day, and I don’t live on the bleeding edge, but when you contact someone directly it is important to get a response and some direction, everybody has something riding on this.

Buddypress has become an extension of BBpress.

@Webbasica

you might want to use Groups for your institutional profiles…..

@nuprn1
looks like your Forum-plugin is working nice, but I am also having a huge number of Groups (around 2k), so is there a chance to get this Plugin without the Forum-Index included in the Widget ?
Or is there a chance to activate / deactivate the Forum-Index in the backend ?

I am not a programmer so I am not able to fiddle around in any code.

Many thanks,

Erich

Use a customized language file.

A guide can be found here:
https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/customizing-labels-messages-and-urls/

me too i have this problem i installed buddypress many times and i changed the peramlinks but all the links show me 404 not found

@holgria – don’t know what WP/MU version you’re using … dsader’s code below from mu.wordpress.org forums is working for me in WPMU 2.9.2 (subdirectory and subdomain structures) placed in mu-plugin folder
http://wordpress.pastebin.com/7dcWBXtp
As always, backup your DB first.

regards to the drop down… the group loop (in theme forums/index.php) which only displays public groups needs another || check for:
groups_is_user_member( $bp->loggedin_user->id, bp_get_group_id() )

but if you disable bbPress buddypress component you won’t be able to post any forum topics

though, if a family site – why not lock down the entire site only to logged in users? (a few threads floating around here how to do that)