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Things are looking great on my install, MrMaz. No problems to report so far — thanks again for this excellent tool!

I’m using the latest version of WPMU and BP 1.1.3 and it doesn’t work. Is this only for BP 1.2?

Thanks!

Edit: new version seems to be working perfectly… thanks again.

What recommendations are there for a captcha or a custom field creation that fits into the BP 1.2 registration process?

I have tried a few plugins but they don’t work in BP 1.2 and dont appear in the registration.

Yes, logging on and custom profiles etc are OK … but this open door approach DOES pass on a lot of janitorial work to site admins

It seems strange that there is no default to offer some basic kind of obstacle to registration in the blog registration process … it is like building a house with wide open doors.

Buddypress only adds layers on top of WPMU liabilities what with the attraction of Activity Directory and so on. It looks embarrassing to have it all advertised their by default.

No — the plugin is killing all ajax functionality on the backend dashboard for WPMU itself!

Just noticed on WP single 2.9.2 BP 1.2.1 When this plugin is activated it breaks the sidebar toggle on the options in the admin.

Oh, man, thank you for mentioning that. I’ve been trying for the last hour to track down what was going on there! Going to have to deactivate it until we track down what’s happening there. Seems to only happen with the last two recent updates from the 1.0 of the plugin, I think.

This is a really great plugin, great use of the WP core oEmbed function. Do you have any idea how I can enable the oembed functions on the WP blog post comments too. So that the users have the same option everywhere on the site?

Well, to be honest that pretty much sums up CSS doesn’t it – ‘just way too much css tweaking required’. Every site I’ve ever developed has required a fair bit of CSS tweaking / hacking / fighting!

As someone who hacked BP1.1 into a premium WP theme (and boy was that a headache!) I actually found that in comparison, BP 1.2 with @andy’s BP Template Pack was a dream. Granted, to get it exactly how you want it takes a little work, but I managed to update a new WP theme in under an hour! Then gradually bringing in BP css from the default theme along with some changes of my own has pretty much worked for me.

The default structure / css is never going to work for everyone – I think it has to follow WP to a point, after all, they’re related apps – but look at it this way: at leastyou haven’t had to create a whole social networking plugin!

@timnicholson – let me know if / when you’ve knocked together the tutorial and I’ll throw in any useful tips that I come across as I finish my own mods.

The plugin adds a th to html for the +1 next to each forum post but doesn’t add the matching th to forum labels to even it out. People may not know who to fix this.

<th id="th-rating"></th>

EDIT: this maybe a css prob in the default BP . I see the code for adding cells to the forum list but when you do it fudges the forum header leaving a whitespace.

Just noticed on WP single 2.9.2 BP 1.2.1 When this plugin is activated it breaks the sidebar toggle on the options in the admin.

fast work! thanks.

I agree that this is more difficult than it should be. I’m finding that when I try following the buddypress codex on this with using @imports, the admin bar works fine, but pulling in the default theme css screws up a lot of things. I’ve found that just grabbing the default buddypress theme’s css sytles that are in addition to the core wordpress ones is working better.

I really think that the buddypress default theme should do a better job at segregating core wordpress css tags from the buddypress specific ones. The buddypress-specific css styles seem to be too dependend on the core wordpress ones. For example, core wordpress typically removes the dots from