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“What access if any does wordpress.com give to plugins.”Was a somewhat rhetorical question

As @sushkov states, the issue of spam in BuddyPress is currently being discussed in depth. Please search before you create a new thread. There are many threads on the same topic. Creating a new one does not help.

You are correct. It is not ready to run on WP 2.9.x and BP 1.2.x. As this issue has been discussed in a number of other threads, your best option is to contact the authors directly. You will not get any support here.

If you simply want it sitting to the side of the profile field table then one approach that you could take but which requires a little editing of your profile-loop.php file along with functions.php so is best done as child theme files would be this:

Create a function to wrap that google maps api code in and then add that function to:

add_action(‘bp_before_profile_loop_content’, ‘user_profile_locationMap’);

In your profile-loop.php file find the do_action(‘bp_before_profile_loop_content’) around this function wrap a new div with an ID of say ‘profile-content-sidebar’ it’s this new element that you would float to the right.

As – In my case – the ‘Location’ field is a late addition and for most users it will appear on their edit screens but will remain unused I don’t want the new div rendering to the right or otherwise if empty so a conditional is used to test the ‘Location’ field for data.

The new div is wrapped in:

if( bp_get_profile_field_data( ‘field=Location’)):

both for the opening and closing tags this way if ‘Loction’ is empty then the new div will not render and the do_action will be left to render any actions at the top before the profile data table loop as before, with the ‘Location’ field having data then the div is rendered.

Lastly some styles are required to create the desired visual rendering so create a ruleset for the new element #profile-content-sidebar which would contain properties: float:right; and width:250px the div that hold the profile table ( div class=”bp-widget base” ) now needs to be margined away from the right edge you could do this using a sibling selector which would be the preferred approach as you can in a sense make use of CSS ability to implement pseudo conditional selectors e.g:

#profile-content-sidebar + .base {margin-right:260px;}

This is the preferred approach as this ruleset to margin the table elements parent away is only applied if our new div is rendered if not the table will still stretch 100% as before. Of course this approach doesn’t work in certain older generation browsers so it might be best instead to set a new ID on that table parent element to style on but set that ID with the same conditional query used on the new div element earlier.

There is a certain flaw to the checking for the field ‘Location’ while it works it suits a very particular circumstance and if that area to the right was required for other actions then this ‘Location; check might prove a hindered and doubtless there is a better approach to be worked up in the long run.

I’m missing a lot icons in BuddyPress.
http://ubuntuone.com/p/3wm/

“None whatsoever.”

Unless you’re a wordpress.com VIP member and then there’s some room to negotiate. Although, I’d be very surprised if they let even VIP members run BP on it.

@study You might have more luck finding help if you post your question in a new forum topic. This thread has to do with the BP Groupblog plugin, which seems unrelated to your problem.

Your second, third and fourth requests can be taken care of by making sure the groups are set as Private. That means that they don’t show up in public listings, and their contents are only visible to members of the group.

In order to make sure that people can only be part of a single group, you’ll want to hide the Send Invite screen for all users, or at least for non-admins. You could either do this through CSS, or by modifying/reproducing the functionality defined at bp-groups.php groups_setup_nav().

As for the first question, there are WP plugins that allow you to restrict membership to invited members. A ten-second Google search turned up this: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-invites/, for example. I imagine that this would work fine for BP as well. The most straightforward way to populate groups would then be for the admin to use a plugin like BP Group Management http://teleogistic.net/code/buddypress/bp-group-management/, which allows admins to place people manually in groups, bypassing the invitation process.

Hi,
there’s an interesting thread started on this subject:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/requests-feedback/forum/topic/here-come-the-spammers/

“What access if any does wordpress.com give to plugins.”

None whatsoever.

Just my 2 cents.
I’ve been following the noserub community for a while and found their concept amazing back in time when there were just a couple of OpenSource solutions to build a real social network. Unfortunately they failed both as the community and as the target audience. Diaspora seems the same thing to me, but who knows maybe one of them is lucky enough to cover the whole team dreams

I know this thing is on hype (make something to replace Facebook), but people forgot that Facebook is not just a social network, it’s a high technical framework that innovated such concepts like API, Application Platforms, scalability and come on, their are the most notable product that still uses PHP (to which they contributed back a lot). As a developer is a pleasure to work with their technologies, as a user it’s amazingly easy to use it.

My opinion is that the system is broken, not the Facebook. Facebook is just another product to fail into society’s racism/criticism. Go on, stop using facebook and keep using Google’s products, or Microsoft/Apple’s software products, lets see how long that will last.

BuddyPress will surely grow, there will be one day it will get features for distributed integration but until then, the community behind it matters, because they to become the future developers.

@21cdb (“The only thing is missing is the ability to choose if you want to post an “Update” or an “Discussion” (or Forum Post, or whatever you want to name it).”)

You could achieve that using categories and some if/else PHP. I did something like that in my P2 group blogs, that I use instead of forums. WordPress 3.0 will apparently have custom post types that will make this easier.

@drmunden

How did you install BP? BuddyPress needs to live in the /plugins directory, nowhere else. First, if your site is live, if it is a production site that has data you need to save, then make sure you have completely backed up your database and all files before beginning. If your site is a test site, a development site with no data worth saving, then you can skip that step.

Next, deactivate all plugins except BuddyPress. Then deactivate BuddyPress. Next, remove BuddyPress from the /plugins directory. Manually download and reinstall BuddyPress following the directions provided in the readme.txt file.

It’s possible that someday WordPress.com will provide their users with an option to install BuddyPress on their blogs (for an additional fee, I imagine). But until that happens, your only choice is as @hnla has stated–running your own copy of BP on a self-hosted WP install.

@Orca239 Did you get it working with WP single user? Or MU?

Clarify that question please. If you want to run Buddypress you’ll need your own server – shared hosting at a pinch – as it’s a little more than a simple plugin nothing else that I’m aware of comes anywhere near the functionality that BP adds. What access if any does wordpress.com give to plugins.

For clarity: The site appears to be running BP? Is the issue resolved?

Are you really saying that you are running WP 3.0 beta and BP beta(bleeding edge) on a production site as that is never really advisable, only stable releases should run on production sites.

You can’t. You will have to run a standalone copy of WP

I think Buddypress need some kinds of forums for detailed discussions. I don’t think it needs BBPress. The Activity Stream has nearly everything to replace BBPress. The only thing is missing is the ability to choose if you want to post an “Update” or an “Discussion” (or Forum Post, or whatever you want to name it). If you decide to post a discussion an input field will be added to title your certain discussion. By doing so all Discussions could be listed in a classic “Forum View”. Because it is all build with the Activity Stream technology users can reply from within the Activity Stream, have nested comments and all the great plugins that are developed to work with the Activity Streams.

I did a conceptual mockup 4 month ago and posted it on trac. I still think this is basically a great idea:
Trac Ticket: https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/1559
Mockup: https://trac.buddypress.org/attachment/ticket/1559/ForumActivityPublishing.gif

A further q: I have searched but cannot find a clear tutorial or advice on doing a clean reinstall of Buddypress. I have tried deactivating BP, then dropping all BP tables, then reinstalling the plugin etc. and it still doesn’t linkup. I think I’ve got some sort of code hanging around from my local PC files which were copied to my live server. Can anyone show me the right way to start again, and clean out all BP files? Thanks

Thanks for quick reply @boonebgorges , but I’ve tried all the permalink options. A couple of things that might help to identify the problem: 1) If I create a link http://www.mysite.com/wp-content/activity/, this finds the BP activity index page but subsequent links within that page revert to 404’s e.g. http://www.mysite.com/members or any other. This seems to indicate that BP is in the wrong directory? and 2) When I use /%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%/ permalinks, I get http://www.mysite.com/2010/05/members..which returns a 404. Please note that with all other pages and links generated via WordPress Dashboard works fine with or without BP installed. I use Siteground (www.siteground.com) who I am sure have rewrite mods enabled. Do you think I should copy BP files into a higher directory away from my theme directory? Should I load a BP functions file into the root directory like the Forum component (e.g. public_html/bb-config.php)?
One other thing : when I copied from my home PC using FIlezilla, I copied into the www directory, not into the public_html directory. I am not sure what the www directory does? Does it replicate whatever is in the public_html? Hope you cn help.