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You could create one group that all people join when they register.

Use DJPaul’s Welcome Pack plugin for that:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/welcome-pack/

Otherwise go the external bbPress route, and yes, you’ll need to theme it.

[EDIT]

Forgot that Paul changed his plugin so it sends out group invites, instead of auto joining groups.

If you want to make Paul’s plugin automatically join groups.

Change the following lines in the Welcome Pack plugin from:

groups_invite_user( array( 'user_id' => $new_user_id, 'group_id' => $group_id, 'inviter_id' => $group->creator_id ) );

groups_send_invites( $group->creator_id, $group_id );

to:

groups_join_group( $group_id, $new_user_id );

I should say I haven’t tried this, but it should work.

FYI, just updated and his Forum Attachments 0.2.1 does NOT fix the conflict between Forum Extras and it.

Boone! Thanks so much. The 0.2.1 version seems to have the basics covered enough for me to be comfortable using it on a production site. A couple remaining things you might want to address:

BTW WP 2.9.2 BP 1.2.2.1 default theme

If I “edit” an existing post in the forum it shows me the file uploading stuff, goes through the motions, but doesn’t actually upload anything. This is ok IMHO (not being able to add files to an existing post) but if that’s how things are meant to be maybe you could just not show the uploading buttons when the user is editing an existing instead of posting fresh? That way people aren’t confused. Especially since editing a post that already has an attachment only allows you to edit the text…the existing attachment doesn’t appear on the “edit” page.

Also there is still some type of conflict for me with Rich Fuller’s Forum Extras plugin wrapper. Either works, but when both are active my main /groups/ redirects to the site’s home page. Also groups will only show the “forum” tab for that group – clicking the tabs for other areas in the group (such “members” etc) change the URL but the forum remains visible instead of the intended area.

NP it was the least I could do!

Yeah ok looks like it might be his theme. https://wordpress.org/extend/themes/buddypress-widget-theme

Right now the theme is more important than the plugin so I will deactivate it. That being said who it gets sorted out so I can use the attachments in the forum.

Thanks for the help

>>What are Buddypress filters? Should I enable them?

If you’re using BuddyPress, you don’t want to disable the BuddyPress filters. Debug options are just for development and 99.99% of the time you shouldn’t need to touch them.

>>What are these actions and filters? I see nothing about them in the settings area?

I’ve spent a great deal of time documenting everything extensively on the plugin homepage, often with examples. It already answers very many of the questions you’ve asked on here (including this one). Please make sure you’ve read it.

http://www.justin-klein.com/projects/wp-fb-autoconnect

OK, I’ve upgraded. Under Debug Options I see a selected checkbox with Disable BuddyPress filters. What are Buddypress filters? Should I enable them?

there should never be a need to manually edit the plugin, no matter what you want to change – there are filters and actions for that, and if you need another filter/action somewhere else, I can add it so there will never be a need to edit the plugin directly. I’m pretty sure the 2 actions & 1 filter I’ve included should be sufficient for most usual needs, though

What are these actions and filters? I see nothing about them in the settings area. Will they let me add queries, change how userdata is stored in the wp and other databases, like a mailing list? Does anyone have examples how to do that the official way? I’m not a programmer…

I just upgraded so let me see if that fixed things. Il report back in a few. Oh and yes its a live site.

Your WP install doesn’t automatically tell you when a new version is in the repository? It should, 90% of the sites that were using the plugin had upgraded within the first 6 hours. I also announced it in the comments on the plugin homepage, and Greg announced it in this forum a day ago (“I’ve got version 1.0.8 with buddypress filters acvitated on my site if you guys want to try it.”). It’s up to 1.1.1 now. The changelog shows that it includes BP support. The documentation on my webpage also shows that it includes BP support.

From Andy’s test version it works quite differently; I didn’t document all the differences though as we’d asked that people not use the test version for the few hours it took me to get out a real one. In any case, there should no longer be any need to manually edit the plugin – there are filters and actions that let you accomplish whatever custom integration you want (and if you need another filter/action somewhere else, I can add it so there will never be a need to edit the plugin directly). I’m pretty sure the 2 actions & 1 filter I’ve included should be sufficient for most usual needs, though.

HI boone

I am using Modemlooper’s widgetized child theme and I have not upgraded to the latatet BP I’,m on 1.2.1

What are you talking about? Do what u like, but as far as I know you’ll be the only person using the unreleased test version. Dozens of others on BuddyPress are already using the real version, including ModemLooper’s link just one post above yours.

hey avi-m – do you have Rich Fuller’s Forum Extras plugin activated as well? I have the same issue but I think it’s a conflict between the two plugins…

Both Andy and I have recommended several times not to use his test version; he just submitted it to me as an example of how to make correct BuddyPress usernames. There’s only one version available on the wordpress plugins repository. The advantage? That everyone else will be using the real version, that if you don’t use the real version you’ll be running unsupported code along with all the bugs that I’ve fixed since it was produced, and that obviously the documentation on my site will reflect the real plugin, not unreleased debug versions.

Hi Boon

I have installed the plugin twice now and both times when activated it prevents me from activating some of the pages from my nav window. FOr example if a click the activity tab/link I just get redirected to the front page.

Any ideas?

Boone – haha we were posting at the same time. I’ll see if there’s still a conflict after your latest version.

Hey Boone – I noticed that there also seems to be a conflict between Forum Attachments and Rich’s Forum Extras.

My /groups/ page redirects to the home page. Individual group pages, forums, etc. function…just the main group directory page redirects.

No idea if it’s something he can/should fix, or you, or what. But thought I’d point it out. I don’t want to have to choose between the two plugins…but I think if I had to choose I’d go with Attachments once it’s working.

OK, the “groups” main page redirect issue (at least for me…) seems to be a plugin conflict between the Forum Extras wrapper (version 0.1.5) and Boone Gorges’ Forum Attachments for BuddyPress (version 0.2). I know Boone is releasing a new version soon to address some other strange issues with Forum Attachments so I’ll wait and see if his update fixes the issue.

issue could only be the Email Domain setting on the Facebook application, as far as I know

That sounds like it to me. Have you checked that Greg? I don’t think it’s anything Buddypress-specific.

Andy’s version of the plugin works brilliantly for me, including custom queries – except a query for xprofile fields, haven’t figured that out yet.

can test here too http://tempsg.com/buddypress/

Hey Ray,

I think it’s pretty safe to install. I’m not really sure what’s going on with Greg’s site, but I’ve tried it on several dozen other pages which’ve successfully installed it (including the option to prompt for email). Aside from my own site, here’s just one more example: http://www.ozamiznon.com/

Edit: that example asks for email, but doesn’t require it. Here’s one that requires it: http://blogge.rs/

Edit2: I WOULD be interested to hear from Andy, who should be pretty good at detecting any buddypress-specific bugs that I can’t