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That’s what we wanted though right?

@MrMaz Is it safe to run the latest version on a single WordPress Install 2.9.2 with BP 1.2.1? If not when do you think the new version will came out?

WP regular with buddypress doesn’t show groups and forums.

https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/improving-performance/

liveview, the solution is here:

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/remove-images-from-activity-stream

I think it may be easier for you to create a Child theme based on the bp-default theme, that way any files that you have not directly coded will still be in use.

For more info you can read this: https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/

What I did was took the default theme style.css and began to modify it by loading it in a child theme (leave the bp-default where it is, in your child themes css template header call Template:bp-default). Then the need for a custom homepage arose, so I just created one. I did all this and all of the buddypress functionality stayed in place because it was loading from the bp-default – without ever having to re-code every single .php file.

For you, since you have an existing theme, I would load your stylesheet as a child theme, then modify it to match the bp-default architecture(i.e. #content becomes #container, etc). Then you shouldn’t have to rework every single php page, because your style will load using the buddypress theme structure!

“When someone wants to create a blog the url he gets is http://hisblog/mydomain.com/mywpbp, which of course won’t work. Any solution? “

You didn’t install MU correctly and make sure it was working first.

But really, if you just wanted the main blog, then install regualr WordPress with BuddyPress.

@gyonis – the post has only been up 21 hours, and also is quite intimidating to read through (it may have been better to ask each question individually!)

Any some pointers:

Q1. You’ll need to write some PHP code, and also understand the BuddyPress hook function concepts.

There are already some posts on modifying the admin bar, e.g. https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/modifying-the-buddypress-admin-bar/

If your list of blogs is fixed, it should be straightforward. If you want it to dynamically add newly created blogs to the dropdown list, I suggest taking a look at the code in /plugins/buddypress/themes/bp-default/blogs/index.php as a starting point

Q2. I suggest setting up a blog in your install for the NGO Directory, with new users added as contributors… they would then be able to create posts in that blog, but it would need your admin approval before the post goes live.

You could then use categories for each country, and tags to say what type of NGO they are (or simply have another set of orthogonal categories for type). For a simple ‘code free’ solution, you would then just put a sidebar widget in that provides a menu of all the categories and / or tags.

[A more powerful solution (extra features for the NGO), would be to give them an entire blog, instead of a single post for their organisation… although tagging and categorising blogs is / was a nightmare (Burt Adsit did some work on this, but I think it is out of date now).]

[Perhaps the best solution would be to add NGO’s as a different type of member in BuddyPress. i.e. users can register as themselves or as their NGO… Create a BuddyPress group to hold the NGO members, and have country, etc. as searchable fields in the profile. We gave up on a similar 2 types of member project, but there the challenges were considerable, yours may well work with this approach.]

Q3.1.1 You can add additional fields using the ‘custom field’ area of the edit post form. This isn’t particularly user friendly though, so you might want to look instead at something like the flutter plugin, which lets you define separate fields.

Q3.2 Posting from the front end is the ‘Holy Grail’ ! Check out P2 Blog… a theme that was developed by WordPress / Automattic, but seems to have gone very quiet. My wild speculation: @Andy (the developer of BuddyPress) wrote a blog post about P2… I wonder if that means we can look forward to the P2 blog front end features making an appearance in BuddyPress soon. Any comment @Andy?

To do what you want, you’ll definitely need some development skills (PHP), a decent working knowledge of WordPress code, and an idea where to start investigating the BuddyPress code (I doubt if anyone apart from Andy has a good working knowledge of it).

I am also not able to see the “create group” button. Also, when I click on the “groups” tab in my buddypress setup I am not able to get the groups directory- instead I get a “page not found” error (not a 404 but a buddypress formatted page not found).

How can I enable the “groups” page and the “create group” button?

I’m getting about 50 spam registrations a day on one client site since the start of this week.

We’ve modified the register slug, changed text on the register page, deleted the wp-signup.php file, and implemented the following in our .htaccess file:

# BEGIN ANTISPAMBLOG REGISTRATION

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} POST

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} .join-lorem*

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !.*mydomain.com.* [OR]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^$

RewriteRule (.*) http://mydomain.com/spam-prevention [R=301,L]

# END ANTISPAMBLOG REGISTRATION

Still the spammers are getting through.

Turning off blog creation / new user registration is not an option… otherwise, there would be no point in trying to offer a blog platform / social community.

Asking users to wait until their application to join is approved, or asking them to fill in additional fields at signup will just hamper the chances of them signing up and using the site.

Anyone have any suggestions?

I don’t want to tell clients: “we’ll build on BuddyPress for you, but you might have to remove 100s of spam blogs every week”

Note: the problem is worse than just the backlinks they create, it also reflects badly on the professionalism / appearance of your site, as their spam posts show up in activity streams, in aggregators (such as showing recent site wide posts and so on).

This is a serious problem.

Note: a lot of these registrations come from a small number of IP addresses, is there anyway to block certain IP addresses from registering?

Hmmm, now i know why I can’t get to my profile on this site….

Seriously though, I’m having this problem on my bp-site. is there any solution for this?

I’m working on a solution to automatic refresh the activity stream on a buddypress website.

The easiest way would be to replace the existing activty stream through the new loaded html code. Unfortunately, the page flickers. Also if the user reply to an update, his text will disappear.

Okay, I only should add the new updates. So I’ve added a var “existing_ids” to my javascript and pass the IDs to my php script via AJAX. My php script return only the updates where the ID is not in the list.

This works fine. But still having the problems with replies/comments to existing posts. My current solution check, if the update has comments and also write them into a var “ids_with_comments”. My php script checks, if the ID does not exists yet on the page OR the ID is not in the var “ids_with_comments” AND now has comments. The JavaScript which handle the response checks, if this is an existing update, but with new comments. It will replace the update. Only if the user is currently replying to this update, the script will do nothing. So I prevent to override the textarea.

The current scripts a part of my theme. I’ve packed the files to Theme, which is using the bp-default templates. Here you can download the current version of my automatic-refresh theme.

http://www.spitzohr.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/automatic-refresh.zip

It’s not yet a finish solution…

He means either a) install Buddypress with regular, non WPU version of WordPress, possible since BP1.2 or b) go into your Site Admin–>Admin–>Allow new registrations and disable it in the WPMU dashboard.

How about miniature avatars instead of names?

Also, is there a function which you can call on the viewed single item (e.g. single blog post, single activity item) so you can see a list of avatars who all liked this item?

Great work…integrates nicely.

Would it be possible to integrate your plugin with this one: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/integrating-sign-in-with-twitter-or-login-with-twitter-to-buddypress

Reason I’m asking is that if you login with that Twitter plugin, you need to “allow” Twitter again for the Tweetstream to work for members.

Hi, I just added a embed provider like the following code in theme functions.php, it can work with blog post, but not the activity stream, I tried to add mytube.com in the whitelist but still doesnt’ work. Is there i’ve something missing?

I’m using WPMU 2.9.1.1 and BP 1.2.1

Thanks so much for your help

<?php

function wp_embed_handler_mytube( $matches, $attr, $url, $rawattr ) {

// If the user supplied a fixed width AND height, use it

if ( !empty($rawattr[‘width’]) && !empty($rawattr[‘height’]) ) {

$width = (int) $rawattr[‘width’];

$height = (int) $rawattr[‘height’];

} else {

list( $width, $height ) = wp_expand_dimensions( 640, 360, $attr[‘width’], $attr[‘height’] );

}

return apply_filters( ’embed_mytube’, ‘<object height=”‘ . esc_attr($height) . ‘” width=”‘ . esc_attr($width) . ‘” ><param value=”http://www.my-tube.com/em?v=&#8217; . esc_attr($matches[1]) . ‘” name=”movie”></param><embed src=”http://www.my-tube.com/em?v=&#8217; . esc_attr($matches[1]) . ‘” allowfullscreen=”true” width=”‘ . esc_attr($width) . ‘” height=”‘ . esc_attr($height) . ‘” align=”middle” allowScriptAccess=”always” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash”></embed></object>’, $matches, $attr, $url, $rawattr );

}

function register_embed_handlers() {

wp_embed_register_handler( ‘mytube’, ‘#http://www.my-tube.com/v\?v=([A-Za-z0-9]{0,50})#i’, ‘wp_embed_handler_mytube’ );

}

add_action(‘wp’, ‘register_embed_handlers’);

?>

Well done. Like it!

Did notice a missing % in the editable strings. Seems minor..