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Because this is the thread about it I found 2 more that were not mentioned:

http://www.123flashchat.com/web-messenger-chat.html ( i dont know if it integrates with buddypress)

http://www.gixawchat.com/

and this developer project:

Gmail/Facebook Style jQuery Chat

123flashchat looks interesting it says:

<script language="javascript">

var username_123webmessenger=<?php echo $_SESSION['user'];?>

</script>

to integrate it uhm have to lookup for buddypress/wp what the current logged in username is.

I’m not sure what the demand for it would be as it’s very expensive, but I use

http://www.123flashchat.com/

They sell 2 primary applications, a group chat system and an instant messenger service. I purchased the unlimited license on both products and had them totally integrated into my elgg platform. Needless to say it’s pretty amazing software and my users loved it. Especially the live audio/video chat, that was a huge hit.

Of course you really need a dedicated adobe flash comm server to run it properly. I still use the messenger program to this day and have thousands of users on at all times. It has never once crashed on me, and has become a great replacement for msn messenger for our family/friends.

I am seriously considering having this added as a bp plugin, however the company is from Japan, and to put it nicely, their english skills are lacking. It took months of back and forth before they understood what I wanted with the elgg install. If I do get it ported to bp, this time I will probably just hire the job out to someone who speaks english lol….

It is a very strong codebase, and there are sites with millions of users using this software, so it does expand via the multi-server edition. I never had a need to go beyond 3 servers, 1 of which was the flash comm server.

@darbymanning It looks like you’re using an old BuddyPress theme, with bits and pieces of theme in the wrong spot. Maybe try reuploading BuddyPress and the bp-default theme and try again?

@nathankisanski BuddyPress by default doesn’t use your displayname for the URL, rather it uses either your nicename or login (I forget which at the moment and it switched a few versions ago.)

I think the variations of this issue might come from custom themes and how they’re handling the functions that handle the template loading locations. If BuddyPress looks for a template file in a directory, but that file does not exist, you will get bounced back to the root URL of the installation.

A good example of this happening is if you’re using the old BuddyPress template directory structure, and have the new bp-default theme installed, or vice-versa. Since the old file directory for the members directory was /bp-default/directories/members/index.php (or something like that) and it’s now /bp-default/members/index.php, if BuddyPress is looking for one when really the other is there, you’ll get bounced back to the root when trying to access that page.

If you’re using an old style theme, there’s a global that needs to be set. ‘BP_CLASSIC_TEMPLATE_STRUCTURE’ will tell BuddyPress to look in the old locations for the template files. Set that in your functions.php for your theme.

I’m having the same problem, and it doesn’t matter if I put wp-admin, it keeps telling me that I don’t have permission to see this page. I just can’t login like administrator. What can I do?

ok chmod config dir then ran the makeconfigfile procedure manually by placing it in a separate php – works.

Back to the topic of this thread:

I tried it but I think users who are not logged in are not engaged in an instant conversation as is now is on the site. I feel they should be “instantly” be part of the community and have the chatbar open on any part like a constant open shout box.

https://wordpress.org/extend/themes/buddypress-widget-theme

I don’t even have it my options. My site was just a standard wordpress with the buddypress plug in.

I click on “activate site wide” and I get “can’t open file” on an empty screen. However when I go back it is activated site-wide. When I then click on chat I go to my admin screen and a chat window but that says “logged out” and it keeps reloading the page. the top bar does contain the 2 chat options. When I click the other option, the shoutbox, it uhm does nothing. So I think the initial cant open file caused this. I still have it activated see it on http://farmvillechicken.com ( though bowob is also running and cometchat is also installed but not currently active………)

Yes. Please make a trac enhancement ticket on https://trac.buddypress.org/, as we should probably make sure we add this into WP to keep the behaviour consistent.

Have a look at https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/changing-internal-configuration-settings/ (“avatar specific settings”).

However, that’s a PHP memory limit which you might want to see if you can increase on your host. It currently appears to be 40Mb-ish? Try setting to at least 64Mb, as such (in wp-settings.php) by doing this:

define(‘WP_MEMORY_LIMIT’, ’64M’);

Does this question have anything to do with Buddypress at all or are you just speaking WPMU and Hybrid?

I just wanted to add my own low-tech solution to a similar situation. This is what I did to hide all my BuddyPress features (members, activity, etc) while keeping my pages and blog posts publicly accessible…

In my child theme, I copied the members/index.php, activity/index.php(etc etc) folders and files. Then in the index files, I surrounded everything inside the “padder” div (which displays all the content) with a is_user_logged_in tag like this:

<div class=”padder”>

<?php if (is_user_logged_in()){ ?>

(content guts go here)

<?php } else { echo “<h3>Members Only!</h3><p>Sorry. The page you have requested is for registered members only. Please visit our About page for more information on member registration. Thank you for visiting.</p>”;} ?>

</div>

PHP isn’t really my thing, so that’s probably not the best way of doing it, but it worked.

Hello

I am having the same issues, the problem is IIS6 does not support url rewriting use the free program and information here http://www.helicontech.com/ape/

I am getting there with my buddypress install but am not yet there fully as some of the links still don’t work, the create a group is one of them, its all down to writing the .htaccess file in the correct way to make all work.

Hopefully this has helped you a little

Regards

Webdoc

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@peterverkooien you could easily do that with bp-events. You just need to find where all the links are that mention “Create Event” and wrap that in an if ( site_admin ) statement. Than only you will be able to create events. That’s why it is nice to use components that use the BuddyPress framework, since they are more extensible.

@Dewenaus

Just thought of something for your next update (hint…). To keep things consistent in BP directories, rather than displaying group tags at the top, would it be possible to list them below the login in the sidebar like the forum topic tags? Just an idea for user-friendliness.

Next idea… blog tags? Hmm…

If you guys can agree on an existing GPL events plugin that works in WordPress I might consider extending it or forking it to work with BuddyPress. The one that David Lewis mentioned looks promising, and I would probably fork that one since it hasn’t been updated for 9 months (depending on what the author has to say).

@Landshark check out group and friend markers modification on this plugin here…’http://dev.benoitgreant.be/bbpress/topic/expanding-the-plugin‘. I’m real excited about having this functionality!