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@putnum01

Read this:

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/faq-how-to-code-snippets-and-solutions#post-37123

2. there’s already integration with BBpress

Why does everybody want to use Buddypress as a forum? What’s the point of having a blogs and groups-based social network if you’re still going to put an old-fashioned forum at the center?

Can someone (Auttommatttic?) please write a basic social networking plugin for BBpress, expanding the user account pages in BBpress a bit, so people don’t have to come over here asking to turn Buddypress into something lame?

1: There are 2 plugins for this: BP Album and BP Gallery (paid)

3: Jeff Sayre is working on the BuddyPress Privacy Componennt: http://jeffsayre.com/buddypress/

5: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-restrict-group-creation/

6: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-ajax-chat and many 3rd party options

9&10: Check the Welcome Pack plugin from DJPaul https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/welcome-pack/

So to sum up:

• Change your signup slug
• Add some required custom profile fields (or use the hashcash trick posted at the start of this thread)
• Disable “Allow blog administrators to add new users to their blog via the Users->Add New page”
• Delete BuddyPress credit in footer.php
• Delete wp-signup.php
• Create a robots.txt file with User-agent: * Disallow: /register/ (or whatever your slug is)
• If all else fails, use CAPTHCA or preferably a simple random question (what colour is snow)

Am I wrong or missing anything?

Also… all of my SPAM registrations were coming from .info domains. I added this to my .htaccess file but I’m not sure it’s correct. I found a million examples via Google search for how to ban full domains or subdomains… but nothing about blocking an entire extension (i.e… whatever.info). Anyway, this is what I wrote:

RewriteCond %{REMOTE_HOST} \\.info$

RewriteRule .* - [F]

There are some issues:

missing description of buttons

/br doesn’t work

lists don’t work

Will wait for the fixes. Thanks

This is currently done when a user is marked as a spammer; this probably is best to go on https://trac.buddypress.org/ as an enhancement ticket.

is it just me, or Links does not work with new 1.2 BuddyPress default theme??

I see no option to add new links

sorry if this was discussed already, I had a quick look but did not see anything

I totally agree with foxly. As I pronounced in another thread –

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/bp-12-bppicture-album-plugin#post-36038

I understand developers want/ need their infrastructure and efforts paid. But it’s also in opposition to the open source idea founded with BP. A “small” webmaster like me, caring exclusively for private websites not about earning any monetary benefits, has to think twice about if he can afford a “premium membership”. Furthermore, which provider should be chosen? buddydev.com? premium.wpmudev.org? etc.

Paid or “membership based” plugins are fine, but NOT for a core component of BuddyPress.

Core components are: Activity Streams, Blogs, Forums, Friends, Groups, Private Messaging, Profiles, and… Photos.

These components are the key elements of *any* social networking site and have to be *tightly* integrated with the core to deliver a quality user experience. That means that the component doesn’t just “plug in” to Buddypress… it’s part of BuddyPress and changes are made to the BuddyPress core if necessary to make it work better with the plugin.

You *cannot* have a core component based on a commercial plugin. In has to be free as in freedom *and* free as in beer, *and* open source. And you definitely can’t have development run by a “one man band” …because time and time again the developer goes away, an update breaks the plugin, and we’re all screwed.

This is not from me. This is from Automattic.

What I’m trying to get going between myself, @francescolaffi, and hopefully a few other contributors (once we’ve got a solid framework implemented) is a canonical photo plugin that will eventually be merged into BuddyPress. It will have to be dependable, extendable, and secure, and give BuddyPress users the functionality they want. In a nutshell: Facebook Photos.

If others want to *extend* the canonical plugin, it will have a wide range of hooks and be exceptionally well documented -making their job much easier. So if somebody wants to make a commercial add-on that gives it image editing capabilities, automatic face recognition, streaming video, or something beyond what the average user needs, then they can do that, find customers, and be paid for their efforts.

I’m not trying to build a plugin that does everything. I want to build a high quality gallery plugin that satisfies 95% of the users out there and becomes the standard.

^F^

I have just installed buddypress on a production site and created a few groups on it. Now a member had an issue with the group name so I had to change the name. But the URL group-slug is still the old name.

I would really like the slug to reflect the new name.

I can go into phpmyadmin and change it from the DB tables. I noticed wp_bb_forums and wp_bp_groups has the slug. Is there anywhere else where I should go and change the slug value?

Thanks for creating such a cool software!

@schwooba, Thanks I’ll check it out. I looked at this and realized it was going to be way out of me league to even try at this point. But this would be a key feature of the site I have in mind.

@Symm2112

Thanks for the input.

So far, i think BP Gallery works well. The only complaints I’ve heard have to do with the fact that you have to by a $30 membership to get it.

At this point, it seems like BP Gallery has a lot more features and functions working properly. But, if the community will be working to support BP Album+, more than Brajesh, then maybe I should jump ship before it’s too late.

This seems worth of its own discussion, so I started one:

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/bp-album-vs-bp-gallery

I also tried M’s “hidden installation” method and can’t get plugins to work.

I was able to open the new installation without a problem, but I cannot figure out how to activate plugins. I uploaded plugins to both the buddypress bbpress directory and the new “hidden installation” plugin directory. They obviously work fine on the hidden installation pages, but I just get “function not found” errors in the buddypress forum pages. Any ideas?

Has anyone actually got M’s backdoor admin method (copy bb-config.php to the buddypress/bbpress directory to work and activate plugins?

I copied my bb-config.php file from the WPMU root dir into the /wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums/bbpress directory. Then I tried opening this page:

http://mysite.com/beta/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums/bbpress/bb-admin/

Warning: include() [function.include]: Failed opening ” for inclusion (include_path=’.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php’) in /home/mysite/public_html/beta/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums/bbpress/bb-includes/functions.bb-template.php on line 45

I also tried opening this page and got the same error:

http://mysite.com/beta/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums/bbpress/

worked for me, no issues to report.

thank you!

Hi I have the same problem I have installed WordPress and Buddypress and entered the Admin and when choosing Template and going to see the web site any categoory I click I get HTTP 404. IS THERE SOME BEGGINERS START UP GUIDE WHERE STEP BY STEP IS EXPALINED THE PROCESS OF CREATION A SOCIAL SITE WITH BUDDYPRESS????

I really need to create this site but with no instructions and help this is impossible ….

Thank you