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WordPress + Windows haven’t been a good combination since the beginning.

Don’t really think a lot of people are using BuddyPress/WordPress on a Windows server, therefore no one can really answer.

Hope for somebody having the magic solution or use a LAMP install.

Polls are old fashioned, I haven’t used one for years.

Perhaps you should post this in the “BP1.2+ Plugin Wishlists” topic.

Here’s my most desired plugin idea at the moment. It is basically a copy of something already done to a degree on facebook.

Something like a relationships indicator. Say for example I have a friend on my Buddypress install but this friend also just so happens to be my girlfriend. It would be nice if I could set that relationship up.

What I’m thinking is that the plugin could come with some default relationships E.G.: mother, father, son, daughter, cousin, aunt, uncle, wife, husband, co-worker and so on…but also the ability to add a custom relationship. E.G. if I could list a friend as a audio co-host. Friend would be the default level so that a user wouldn’t have to go through and define the relationship between themselves and every single one of their friends.

The ability to notify a user that a definition had been assigned to our relationship so that they could confirm would also be nice. E.G. I identify userX as my girlfriend and she gets an email notice of that and has to confirm the relationship at which point is reflected in both of our profiles or friends areas.

Displaying this information could be done in a number of different ways and regulating who can see these relationships E.G. everyone, friends only, specific individual, private. It could be a separate section under either friends or profile. It would be nice though if say all of my siblings were listed along side each other, all my cousins were grouped together and so on.

Wow, wordpress and windows installs are bad.

Unless Windows solved the mod_rewrite issue, you won’t be able to use buddypress. WordPress should work though, but only with the non seo friendly and ugly links.

There’s also /members/single/home.php

Hi r-a-y

I have tried to post specific xprofile fields with no success.
It did work but since I installed the new version of buddypress (Version 1.2.2.1) it seems to have stopped working.
http://www.gaysurfers.net/members/

I have tried the following:

<div class="item-meta"><?php bp_profile_field_data( 'field=Country' ) ?> - <?php bp_profile_field_data( 'field=Surf Spot' ) ?></div>

and also

<div class="item-meta"><?php bp_member_profile_data( 'field=Country' ) ?> - <?php bp_member_profile_data( 'field=Surf Spot' ) ?></div>

I don’t know which one to use, but anyway none of them works. Is there some more code I need to add for it to work?
Thanks

As a developer I agree and understand gregfielding and foxly. It is though for developers to promote an open and active development enviroment along side paid subscriptions. Developers are far and between in regards to BuddyPress in comparison with the demand from users in the forums for features. Just look at how many post come with “What I would like in BuddyPress”, however contribution to third party plugins is ever so often.

It would be good for developers to contribute to each other and stimulate open source. Subscription fees don’t allow that, because another developer is not going to shell out money. So just merely to argue the point between paid and non-paid. Paid works fine for demand and users, but on the flip side it damages open source development and developer collaboration.

However, I do think in the last few months more developers have joined the bp community, which is good.

Paid subscription also doesn’t necessarily mean quality. Nothing in regards to Brajesh intent or skill or longevity that I know off, but I have been burned before by paying for software and never getting support and the product being abandoned. However, if the team is good, then it can also mean better quality, but free open source can be just as good or better or worse. It is no measure.

So from a developer standpoint I agree with foxly and gregfielding, but from a user demand perspective I can understand you have needs and wont mind paying for it. It fills a need, but it doesn’t help the open source community, which is what we are.

Can they co-exist? Probably, but in a perfect world, duplication should be prevented and collaboration should be encouraged.

Ps. I wrote this just to share my thoughts, I have no intend to fuel either fire or take sides, just discussing the issue at hand.

@r-a-y

thanks for reply

looking forward to the update

An update to my situation in the post above..

I deactivated buddypress. Deleted all files in the buddypress foldder. Uploaded fresh 1.2.2.1 buddypress files. Reactivated buddypress. Then my forums tab disappeared from the public home page. So I went into the dashboard, clicked don forums setup, and it said I could install, etc… So I clicked to install a fresh bbpress.

It said it could not write a bb-config file and gave me the code to create one manaully.

I copied the code and put it in the root of my wordpressmu install as it said.

Forums tab now shows. I went to add a forum post, and the same thing happens – it just disappears.. like it is not saving any forum posts…

Any ideas?

No love here for sig lines or bbcode (in principle), but I was trying to port ajaxed quote myself with no luck, so that’s a great help. Thanks!

@Djsteve

That’s exactly what Dave’s buddypress-ajax-chat plugin does. Check it out.

hi Ray

hope you wont mind my earlier post .

@foxly

Please take a look at my response to Travel-Junkie’s query here

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/gallery#post-32530

If I release the plugin as it is now, for free, I am not sure I will be able to support the plugin as there will be a helluva lot of questions each and everyday until the plugin is mature enough. We are dealing with media and I know what sort of issues can come as of my experience from now. That’s why I always said It will be available as free as soon as the people think it’s mature enough.

Again, I support you guys developing album+, It was a need here and hopefully, when gallery stable is released I am going to point the people to album+ for a lighter/fee alternative as it seems now.

I was using http://bar.meebo.com

It does not use the database but I find that it doesn’t matter as much as you think. It pulls in chats from gchat aim facebook.

I found this – http://ajaxim.com/ and it looks what it does what you all have been talking about, Free, open source, and easy to implement. Haven’t tried it on my site yet, but I would love to see someone mod it to only allow bpress logged in users to use it.

I am having a similar issue.

Wpmu 2.9.2, Bp 1.2.2.1

When I click on forums, then post a new topic, enter in everything. It goes back to the screen showing All topics (0) – and says “sorry there were no topics found”

I checked on the buddypress / forums setup tab in the backend, and it says:

bbPress forum integration in BuddyPress has been set up correctly. If you are having problems you can re-install

Should I try to reinstall the forums / bbpress? and if so which option would I choose?

Set up a new bbPress installation Use an existing bbPress installation

Eureka! it works. Thanks again for this great plugin.

Btw, the sigs won’t work UNTIL you update the admin settings and choose a max length / max lines. May be best to set a default value for that?