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@stwc we’re on the same page. This is exactly what I’ve been trying to figure out how to do this morning. I guess we’re supposed to start with “BuddyPress Skeleton Component” and learn how to extend BuddyPress by creating our own plugins to add this kind of functionality. I just wish there was an online resource guide or advanced BP dev book on building BP plugins. For front-end guys like me, it’s easier to see basic working examples than try to look over the code of complex plugins to pick out the relevant code. The BuddyPress Skeleton Component is a good step in that direction, but would love to see basic how-tos.

It seems all we need to tweak from the default groups setup:
* “Home” is a comprehensive page about X instead of an activity stream with additional form fields (i.e. Description, FAQ, etc.)
* Create an “Activity” tab/page for the activity stream
* Create a “Reviews” tab/page for group comments
* Integrate a ratings component

Check out CubePoints Buddypress Integration

Hi Shanni,
I’m also a fan of Simple Facebook Connect, and the author of this plugin seems pretty active to implement the new features by Facebook. So I would not worry that much about the future of this plugin: it seems to me the best plugin to connect a WordPress blog with Facebook.
But I wonder: does he work smoothly with BuddyPress? I mean: can users register on BuddyPress using Facebook Connect?
Thanks,
Nicolas

There actually is a function in buddypress but it is named different from the wpmu version, and I can see no way to administer it.

If you check your bp-core-signup.php file you will see:
`$limited_email_domains = get_site_option( ‘limited_email_domains’, ‘buddypress’ );`

Just change this line to:
`$limited_email_domains = get_site_option( ‘banned_email_domains’, ‘buddypress’ );`

This will solve signups from excluded domain list. Hopefully this will be incorporated in bpress core for compatability.

“Would it be easier to bite the bullet now and set up WPMU now so that later I can offer blog functionality? “

WPMU is being merged in with the next version of WordPress. You’ll be able to enable it fairly easily. So, start with WordPress.

“I’ve had a BIG respon$e to my first tweets about the idea and people want in on my project, but alas, I’m no tech geek!!! So I have customers but no website, lol!”

Then my best advice would be to hire someone to build it for you.

I did have the same purpose on my wp site (http:_//_association1901.fr/blog).

I created BP groups for my main categorys and installed the plugin external group blog for each group.
The plugin allows to publish a external RSS feed ; so I put the RSS feed of the WP category to republish within the group all posts of the category.

cheers

@bondjamesbond007 You don’t need to cross-post this in several threads

Disable BuddyPress and add a user to the blog via wp-admin. Do you receive the email?

How are you going to map this data?

Comments I could see as being forum posts (espc. if you have threaded comments), but why/what about the Posts?

there is a plugin “BuddyPress Profile Privacy” which can make profils available only for friends

i’m alsa searching a plugin to filter member, activity etc to logged users…. but i didn’t find so far ..

@firetag +1 please make a plugin!

Yeah I just got two spam private messages in the last two days. Here is the latest one:

Please reply back with my email (anabel . awaza 01 @ yahoo . co . uk)
Dearest,
How are you over there?
I know that you would be excited for the fact that you do not know who is writing.
Actually my name is Mis. Anabel Awaza,Please my dear i will like us to hold a good long time relationship with real love.and I have something very important that I need to share with you. I am very serious; I shall tell you more about myself and send you my picture in my next mail.please reply back with my email address (anabel . awaza 01 @ yahoo . co . uk))
Hoping to hear from you soonest.
Yours Anabel.

View Spammer’s BuddyPress profile:
https://buddypress.org/community/members/anabel4you/

One last thing. BEFORE you post questions in this forum PLEASE search first. Things have been answered 20 times over.

Good reads:

BuddyPress Codex

The only difference between WP and WPMU is on WPMU each user on the site will have their own blog with an admin. It’s like having your own wordpress.com. If you want just a social network type site then I’d go with WP + BP. Functionality wise there really is no difference between BP on WP or WPMU.

As for hosting. Thats a personal choice. I use shared hosting with some cacheing and I off set with hosting static files on Amazon S3. If you make your themes slim and compress files you should be ok unless you get linked to by a major site and a million people are hitting your site.

I’m researching the same thing. Found this thread on the topic as well:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/creating-extending/forum/topic/profile-field-setup-for-groups/

No easy solution so far, but an outdated plugin has turned up.

Temporary fix? Open bp-core-avatars.php and around line 288 you should see the following:

$bp->avatar_admin->image->url = str_replace( WP_CONTENT_DIR, BP_AVATAR_URL, $bp->avatar_admin->image->dir );

Replace it with:

$bp->avatar_admin->image->url = str_replace( WP_CONTENT_DIR, BP_AVATAR_URL . ‘/wp-content’, $bp->avatar_admin->image->dir );

…this is presuming you’re having issues with image uploads on an MS site where you get as far as cropping without seeing an image. If you’re on an MS site and you can’t get that far because of an unknown error, (object of class WP_Error can not…) you first need to apply changeset 2124 (https://trac.buddypress.org/changeset/2124) just to see the proper error, then back to bp-core-avatars.php and find around line 266:

if ( getimagesize( $bp->avatar_admin->original ) > BP_AVATAR_ORIGINAL_MAX_WIDTH )
$bp->avatar_admin->resized = wp_create_thumbnail( $bp->avatar_admin->original, BP_AVATAR_ORIGINAL_MAX_WIDTH );

…and replace it with:

$orig_dimensions = getimagesize( $bp->avatar_admin->original );

/* Resize the image down to something manageable and then delete the original */
if ( $orig_dimensions[0] > BP_AVATAR_ORIGINAL_MAX_WIDTH || $orig_dimensions[1] > BP_AVATAR_ORIGINAL_MAX_WIDTH )
$bp->avatar_admin->resized = wp_create_thumbnail( $bp->avatar_admin->original, BP_AVATAR_ORIGINAL_MAX_WIDTH );

This is what I’ve done to fix the problem on my install of WP 3.0 and BuddyPress 1.2.3, your mileage may vary.

@firetag I’m interested in seeing how you did it. How are you planning to filter the group types for browsing on your site?

I’m interested in doing this as well. Would love to be able to add additional fields to a Group Profile besides the default “Group Name,” “Group Description”. A tool like the Dashboard > BuddyPress> Profile Field Setup would be awesome. I’m guessing the only solution would be to edit the current group admin form that handles this and the group template page.

My ‘social network’ in a nutshell: Give us the tools and we make the content.

I´m having troubles with the “create an account” feature in BuddyPress I just installed. When trying to create an test account, I logged out as administrator, then I click on “create an account”, entered the information till the “Sign Up Complete” appears. Although, I don´t receive any notification mail, and when entering to the administration panel I don´t find any new user. Pls your help!

WPMU is only needed if you want individual user blogs à la wordpress.com.

If you don’t need this functionality, get standard WP.