BuddyPress.org

BTW, yes, I understand the principles of customing skinning and css but what I am asking is that it surely must be a fairly simple implant or template linking.

you’ll need to create a new theme for bbpress, as i don’t believe a bbpress look-like buddypress is available

On the backend, whenever I go to “edit profile” to set a marker and I click search, it sends me to the top of the page and does nothing. Any ideas for me? I’m running WPMU 2.9.1 and BP 1.2.1.

If you use the standalone BBpress option, how can you make it use the same template as the integrated Buddypress/BBpress installation?

Thanks

BTW, yes, I understand the principles of customing skinning and css but what I am asking is that it surely must be a fairly simple implant or template linking.

I am trying to make a general forum any member can access without having to join a group or being limited to only that group or groups.

you are right, this seems to be a bug:

1)

– I have created a Private-Group at testbp.org

when I am logged-in, then I am going to the “Group-Forums-Directory”, it is currently not possible to select this “Private-Group” from the drop-down-box in order to make a post into the Forum of this “Private-Group”.

It is currently only possible to make a Forum-post into this “Private-Group” by going to the “Group-Tab”, then search for that Group and make the post directly within the Group-Forum. But it is not possible to make a Forum-post from the “Group-Forums-Directory”.

2)

also when posting a Forum-post into a “Private-Group”, my own post is actually not visible for myself within the Tab “My Topics” at the “Group-Forums-Directory”.

Well, I would actually want to see MY OWN post, even if it is in a “Private-Group”.

It is also not possible for myself to see MY OWN Forum-post within the Tab “All Topics” at the “Group-Forums-Directory”.

3)

Note: this issue is showing when being logged-in.

4)

https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/2072

nice analysis ~ I’m also duplicating those errors with the core_redirect pointed to wp-login.php I’d bet Jeff has a good handle on this and I sent a request to help him test the upcoming release. I don’t have a copy of his old release to adapt or modify (if anyone could point me to, or send me the old copy, that might help).. but the hack i put up previously has worked like a charm for me making some pages private while leaving others public without having to expand this into a full on plugin with user options. I simply call that custom header for any pages I want to keep private.

What theme was it? Some themes are pretty straightforward, some are a nightmare. (I’m working on a pile of them in my “spare time”)

I don’t really believe Buddypress will support this (at least not untill Buddypress 1.4, and even then only if lots of users demand it), their might be a plugin of some sort that allows it though. Shouldn’t be that hard to copy the data to the buddypress version if that happens.

@Xevo

My point was what if BuddyPress supports this at a later date which in my opinion it will. He should have scope for importing that in the BuddyPress then. no?

Looks pretty cool, kind of a weird way to use buddypress though.

Just install buddypress with group forums and install bbpress seperate, with intergration offcourse.

There’s nothing wrong with that.

@Andy But from a usability point of view this is very confusing. Some activity streams do allow you to post into them and some don’t. One method of posting into a user activity stream is allowed (replies) but another (leaving a direct comment) isn’t. From a developer point of view this might feel logical due to the underlying structure, but from a user point of view it’s very confusing. A user is forced to jump through all sorts of hoops just to be able to interact with a friend.

I don’t think it would be confusing for the user at all to allow their friends to post into their activity stream. They are, after all, already able to do this by replying to an activity. Allowing users to directly post into their friends activity stream would merely add consistency to the user interaction. It’s precisely how Facebook works and they seem to get along just fine.

On the other hand, the fact that in order to see a comment on your own profile you have to browse to someone else’s profile does feel very confusing, because it all of a sudden injects twitter style functionality into a specific subset of the buddypress user interaction which otherwise is more consistent with how the majority of other social networking sites work.

You can certainly have a standalone install of bbPress along with BuddyPress and then integrate it with the site to give user table sharing and login sync.

But I would suggest to check how BuddyPress is going to handle this issue at a later date so that if you want to import it back to single system then you can because BuddyPress might support it then.

<?php if(!is_user_logged_in()){

nocache_headers();

header("HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily");

header('Location: ' . get_settings('siteurl') . '/wp-signup.php?redirect_to=' . urlencode($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']));

header("Status: 302 Moved Temporarily");

exit();

} ?>

this quick hack (in the top of header.php) will only registered and logged in users can view. As for using it with version 1.2 default theme ~ I would suggest making a custom header for any of the buddypress elements you want to keep private and keep the rest public. At least until privacy functions are available as a plugin or in core.

wp2.9.2 here too. Very strange. I tried disabling all other plugins apart from buddypress and bp-lockdown, with the same result.

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/security-all-site-data-visible-to-members-and-non-members-alike#post-39305

You keep bp-custom.php within your BuddyPress plugin directory? I have mine in the root of /wp-content/plugins/

This is a problem with regular WP, though. (WP 2.9.2 + BP 1.2.1)

On shifting my WP files from the parent directory (example.com) to a separate WP directory (example.com/wp/), Buddypress URLs contain a /wp/ in them, by default.

For instance, the admin profile url is example.com/wp/members/admin. Manually typing in example.com/members/admin will get you to the same page, without any errors, but all inks generated by BP contain /wp in them.

I actually found this quite difficult and still cannot convert a theme! Damn by technical capabilities.

I love these posts. So random. Build a child theme and change it to whatever your heart desires:

https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/

I would say privacy is probably the most complex feature to implement – as far away from simple as you can get.

If you want to just close off your site to users who are not logged in, then there are plenty of plugins you can use. Or you can just use the following code in your plugins directory, smartypants:

<?php

/*

Plugin Name: BuddyPress Lockdown

Plugin URI: https://buddypress.org/

Description: Lock down your BuddyPress site if a user is not logged in.

Author: Andy Peatling

Version: 1.0

Author URI: https://buddypress.org/

Site Wide Only: true

*/



function bp_lockdown() {

global $bp;



if ( BP_REGISTER_SLUG != $bp->current_component && 'wp-login.php' != $bp->current_component && !is_user_logged_in() )

bp_core_redirect( site_url( 'wp-login.php' ) );

}

add_action( 'bp_init', 'bp_lockdown' );

?>

Update again: the full answer is now here – https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-template-pack/

You could always just use htpasswd to compel http authentication too. It’s a bit of a pain for users to have to log in to both the directory, and into buddypress, but it will give you the protection you need. Or you could just stick something into the theme to say that if the user isn’t logged in, they’re always redirected to the login / register page. I need something similar, so if I make any progress, I’ll post back here with it.

This sounds really intersting! I haven’t checked ur plugin yet, but i’ll definitely do so in the next few days.

I have one idea for a future version: A directory that shows the Items with most likes (6hours, Today, Week, Year)

I believe this would help people to filter through most important news on a crowded network.

Well, i get the same trouble and it looks like i get it after update to the last buddypress-version.

/register/ redirect to the homepage. I use wpmu – latest version. Anyone how knows a solution? Thanks for help! M