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In order of preference:

• Privacy: I’m guess I’m patiently waiting on Jeff too. I’m really looking forward to the multiple options that it’ll provide for each user</i>
• Galleries: Yes, I know that I could purchase the plugin from Rajeesh… but college students are notorious for being cheap, eh?</i>
• Facebook synchronization: I’m really liking the new Tweetstream plugin. If only we had a compatible Facebook plugin again.

I agree that a plugin that integrated phpBB or vBulletin with Buddypress would be great.

+1 on that.

I’d have to say that Buddypress is soooo flexible, you can do anything. I’m sticking with BP.

Totally agree with Peterverkooijen.

Remember that the freedom and control over you stuff that you get thanks to a self-hosted platform (like BuddyPress) is really priceless.

Before you start your net you could try playing around with it enough to master the basics and more.

If you have used WP, you will have no issues at all installing and running BP.

Stay away from Ning, SocialGo and other external providers, they wanna make money out of it, dont forget it.

Dreamhost all the way,

Been with them for 4 years now. Their servers are optimized to work with WordPress (and WPMU if you get a dedicated server), therefore Buddypress is a piece of cake. Their shared servers are really good actually, you get the best plans (seriously the stuff you can do is a lot more than the usual hosting package), and really good prices.

I may experience about 2-3 downtimes a year, which are usually for maintenance, seldom for hardware failure.

Plus, the guys at support really know what they’re doing and they can fix about anything really quickly, or even move you instantly to another server if it’s not working… and you dont have to do anything!

If one uses both a separate standalone, and the built-in Buddypress forum, then does not one adds is yet another complication/confusion as regards searchability … or rather the lack of searchability … typical of WPMU/BP installs!?!

And is left faces the uphill struggle of skinning it all to match?

Let’s face it … the universal consensus or feedback is that it would be better to allow the creation of forums independent of groups.

I have not read one voice in support of enforcing groups for forums and cannot see the purpose in doing so.

SG is a great platform initially when you want to start up a social network.

I have been with them for 3 months. Great software and easy to use but there are MANY limitaions. YOu don’t host anything yourself you you are reliant on their servers which as of late have been terrible. Lot’s of problems, slow page loads etc and issues with widgets not working.

They have just moved data centres so that should improve.

The biggest problem I have is not having access to the content my users create. the vaule of our sites is often user generated material such as forums.

Yes of course SG is secure but what happens if we build a network with a couple of thousand users. they may create thousands of posts which give our site value. Just say SG end up having problems with their servers or indeed don’t last out and aren’t in business down the line. All of our content is gone.

Also you are pretty much limited to their widgets for chat etc which are lacking.

Some good stuff to test out your niche market but I am looking at migrating to BuddyPress in th enext couple of months. I’m putting everything together now.

If you have any questions just ask

Cheers.

I find that the greatest gaps in functionality for the new site I’m putting together is in the integrated BBpress forums

BBpress is not part of Buddypress -> BBpress forums

When I ask about core BP issues here, I’m often referred to the WP or WPMU forums. But questions about BBpress are apparently OK. Why? I don’t get it. Personally I don’t see what forums have to do with a social network. You don’t see Facebook and LinkedIn integrating an oldfashioned linear forum.

So my wishlist? Remove forum integration so I don’t have to comment stuff out or have one more item in an already way too cluttered admin area.

And things like adding (parts of) TinyMCE to textareas you can do yourself if you know some basics of theme customization and read the instructions in the TinyMCE documentation.

(Edited by r-a-y to stay on topic)

I tested out Kaltura but one thing to caution you about that I saw was that the last updated date was almost 6 months ago and it shows compatibility with 1.0.x and 1.1.x, NOT 1.2. It didn’t seem to be very actively worked on so I started looking at different options. Here’s their wordpress repo link for you to decide on your own.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-kaltura-media-component/

Would this do what you need?

Pasted replacement code in buddypress->bp-themes->bp-default->groups->index.php but new member can create a group. I thought that was supposed to be impossible. I am running on localhost, maybe that is why this mod does not seen to work?

Perhaps I’m unclear, but why would it be preferable to keep the navigation bars separate by default, as opposed to just adding buddypress tabs to one main navbar? This isn’t the way that the default theme works, and the UI problems of having two home buttons are significant…

I noticed another CSS tweak too: there is a float:left applied to #sidebar .padder a, which is floating the links for “create an account” in the sidebar.

You have renamed the admin user to something else which is causing trouble.

Check this is working for now

http://dteens.net/members/admin/

Have a look at this ticket for more details

https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/1532

Hope it helps.

Hm, no real instruction manual as such. And no question is a noob question

With regards to features, you can read this page https://buddypress.org/, find some BuddyPress introduction videos from WordCamp conferences at http://wordpress.tv/category/buddypress/. I’ve just got back from WordCamp Ireland where I did an introduction to BP session; slides are at http://slideshare.net/DJPaul/wordcamp-ireland-2010-introduction-to-buddypress

If you can ask us a specific question about BuddyPress, we can come up with a more specific answer (hopefully!)

The issue isn’t with BuddyPress, its an issue with your WP environment. when you were told to change your Permalink Settings wordpress created a .htaccess file. this probably broke your access to get in, it did mine.

I updated the file so that the rewriter worked correctly and all is better. Enable rewriter and you’ll probably be good.

Sec7

you can do it with php and using a child (recommended):

This above the activity stream loop somewhere put this code:

<?php

$style_classes = array('style-a-class','style-b-class');

$style_index = 0;

;?>

Then this inside the li tag that gets looped through for each activity post:

<li <?php $s = $style_index%2; echo "class=$style_classes[$s]"; $style_index++; ?>>

Works great for any wp template not just a buddypress.

If the blog setting is to Redirect to Blog Front/Posts Page and the user clicks on Blog in the group then all the links at the top buddypress menu map to the subdomain.domain.tld linkw and when a user clicks on one of the menus they get a 404 error.

What is the normal setting?

I also have tried the setting that is not checked but that does the same thing for the pages under the group description.

Which setting is most used in the world?

Read this to grab the data of a xprofile field:

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/editing-the-core-elements-of-buddy-press#post-41651

You have two ways to add the xprofile field:

1) Hook into the profile action to display custom data (preferred)

In your child theme’s functions.php, add the following:

function my_bp_xprofile_about_me() {

bp_profile_field_data('field=About Me');

}

add_action('bp_before_member_header_meta','my_bp_xprofile_about_me');

This method is preferred because you won’t have to worry about theme updates.

2) Copy /bp-themes/bp-default/members/single/member-header.php to a child theme and make your changes there

Manually add the bp_profile_field_data(‘field=About Me’) line to the file.

SocialGo looks like another hosted service, like Ning.com, not a self-hosted script like Buddypress. It depends what you need; ease of use, with lots of drag-and-drop etc., or ability to customize and expand however you want.

I create themes for SocialGO. It’s a robust hosted social networking solution. If you just want to pay a reasonable monthly fee and have someone else handle the backend it’s a good choice. They are currenly working on V2 of their platform that will allow more customization.

Two things SocialGO has that BP does not. Media (pics/videos) and privacy controls. You can add these options via plugins.