BuddyPress.org

Tried it, doesn’t work with recent wordpress and recent phpBB, let alone buddypress.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-group-documents/ is awesomesauce.

I doubt it would be easy to integrate WP-United, phpBB3, and BuddyPress. It certainly sounds like it would work in theory, doesn’t it? However, these people don’t seem to be reporting much success:
http://www.wp-united.com/search.php?keywords=buddypress

I’ll give it a try tonight, and let you know what works and what fails.

Nice idea,
I’d be interested in making this happen too.

The irony of “BuddyPress shouldn’t be about forums”, and “if you want a forum, don’t use BP” and “bbPress is a parasite in BP…” is that the FORUM is the center point of activity here on buddypress.org. Almost all of the live activity here among you developers, admins, etc. is based in the forum. When was Andy’s last blog post – almost a month ago? The Forum is the bread and butter of this site.

There is nothing incompatible about Forums and social networks. It is perfectly appropriate to use forums in a social networking framework. Forums are central to buddypress.org, LinkedIn, and other thriving social networking sites.

There was a specific need for forums in BP, and that’s why bbPress was directly integrated into BP as a core function. The bbPress-based bp-forums component is one of the most solid parts of BP, and Andy has pledged to reveal even more of the Forum features of bbPress in upcoming versions of BP (such as tag support).

I’ve spent a lot of volunteer time working to strengthen and troubleshoot the BP forums, and add key functionality to it for the benefit of the whole BP community. I appreciate the fact that Forums are central to BuddyPress. I would be dismayed if BP did an about-face and decided to abandon forum support. Fortunately, I don’t see many of the “anti-forum” comments coming from key developers.

I still have “Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /wp-content/plugins/buddypress-maps/bp-maps-templatetags.php on line 210”

or you could create a div then set a background-image, width and height with css..
called mydiv or whatever, there doesnt have to be anything inside it..

#mydiv {
display:block;
height: 100px;
width:100px; //whatever the dimensions of your image is
background-image: url(“../images/homepage_placeholder.jpg”);
}

the buddypress themes dont get the image if you dont use absolute paths for in your template
i dont know of another way to make it work with selector

Ok, now I’m worried. I’m one of a growing number (I suspect) of users who’ve been attracted to setting up a BP/WPMU site by ease of installation, customization etc. and because we’re comfortable using WP for blogging. I chose shared hosting with Hostgator, having checked with them that a) BP and WPMU were supported and b) it was easy to enable wildcards etc. (limit of my technical knowledge reached – playing with anything beyond a bit of FTP is beyond me).

But it appears – from what others say in this thread – all the unlimited bandwidth stuff may have misled me (I’m NOT saying Hostgator did) and that my new site (which may well quickly end up with several thousand users – though most will just have profiles with half a dozen photos and won’t create blogs) could grind to a halt very quickly. Urgh….now I don’t know what to do! It seems from reading this I’ve made a bad decision…

I’m sure there will be those reading this who sigh that I shouldn’t be messing with things I don’t understand and should stick to a Yahoo group, but the point is that Buddypress and WP are accessible and enabling: so, some advice about what I should do going forward would be helpful and welcome.

@edelwater-

If you’re having bandwidth issues, make sure that you are doing everything you can to optimize your setup. Here are some useful suggestions: https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/improving-performance/

@techguy-

If someone wants to start a group, that would be fine.

you have write out the whole path
thats the only way i got it to work with my theme..alt attribute is for web crawlers and search engines, incase the image doesnt load..
thats how you would call it using the bp-default theme, depends where you placed your theme?

I wonder if there shouldn’t be a BP group that talks about BP hosting. One topic for each host or something. Would be interesting to compare.

I am with many sites on MediaTemple Grid and it is pretty good. However some applications really have an impact on your usage. For instance the chatbar scripts really have an high impact. When I started using them I had to pay $150 in overusage each month.

Now I moved to MediaTemple Virtual Server dedicated virtual base and I have endless problems. The main problem is with the “othersockbuf” which has a soft limit of 1.433.738 and a hard limit of 2.662.538. Each time it hits that border the server dies. Which is NOW multiple times a day that I have to reboot the virtual server.

I’ve looked around the web but I could not find a solution. I really have no clue. So maybe i have to to somewhere without this limit.

UPDATE: I have simply clicked “update server from BASE to RAGE” and it seems all my problems are over…. (I also changed the mysql.cnf, killed spamassasin, killed watchdog, killed dns server, smb, secure SMTP…)

A simple solution but it works grin (although it now costs me $100 a month to run a buddypress site).

I also ran: http://kb.mediatemple.net/questions/816/%28dv%29+3.5+Auto-Tuning+your+server (MT has some great amount of docs on performance tuning)

thanks for you update. I have to manually go through my activity stream, to find old posts i’ve commented on to see if there are any responses. when we had favorites, I simpled favorited an item, and then subscribed via RSS to my favorites stream – wonderful.

I’d really like to hear what the powers that be ( @apeatling) see as the right way to go forward on this before I start coding something else. For me a big part of it is staying connected on this website and only they can change that.

BTW, many thanks to the powers that be for all their hard work and all this free software!

@chephz

I just got into your site…did it work ok in the back-end?

@Dwenaus Thanks for this awesome plugin. Just one concern mate, it causes a JS error (the one that appears at the bottom left corner) on IE8. I made sure the script error comes from this plugin because whenever I deactivate or I am not on forum pages, the small yellow triangle disappears.

Webpage error details

User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; FDM)
Timestamp: Tue, 11 May 2010 15:09:01 UTC
Message: ‘length’ is null or not an object
Line: 12
Char: 7740
Code: 0
URI: http://aravig.com/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.js?ver=1.3.2

Can you please advise?

Cheers.

I assume you’re at least on a decent-sized VPS / slice of some sort, or perhaps a dedicated server. A healthy, growing WPMU + BuddyPress install is not something that will do well in a shared environment or a small VPS / slice–at least not when you’re talking about 3000+ active members. Both of these applications under heavy use can require higher allocated memory limit for PHP. That is not unusual. Here are some other steps you can take to improve performance: https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/improving-performance/

As this is a 3rd-party component, it’s best to use the author’s support forum: http://www.justin-klein.com/projects/wp-fb-autoconnect#feedback

Also, you’ve already posted this same question in this thread 6 hours ago ( https://buddypress.org/community/groups/creating-extending/forum/topic/is-wp-fb-autoconnect-broken/ ). Please do not cross post. If you’re question has not had a reply within 24 hours, either bump the thread or then you can start a new thread and refer back to the old one.

I’m closing this thread and leave the other open.

There are a number of threads on this topic.

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/requests-feedback/forum/topic/multiple-budypress-networks-one-install/

How much RAM?

“BuddyPress – Version 1.1.3”

Also, you shoudl upgrade. I believe there’s been significant improvements since this version.

@mikepratt that’s a really nice design and layout, especially like the /why/ page.

Isn’t BuddyPress just using bbPress as a core foundation for its group forums? So rather than supporting bbPress, isn’t BuddyPress using bbPress?

Also, I disagree that bbPress is just a concept, seeing that development has restarted again.
I have used bbPress in the past as a wordpress forum since its easy to change and easy to template when you know how to make templates for wordpress. Other than simplepress forums and phpBB which are a pain to change cause of the new learning curve and phpBB is almost not integratable with wordpress.

I’m working on a solution to intergrate bbPress with BuddyPress, dropping the group forums (I hate those).