i would love for this to work not only in the activity stream but also in regular blog posts for the news section…
@ r-a-y . it proved my first comment that i am real guff.. thanks a lot for making this soo easier and helpful. Yes its working fine on site now. Btw I agree and support @Modemlooper suggestion so that it may work same like as videos are displayed on facebook.
@MrMaz when are you planning to do more testing on single WP? I want it to use so badly your plugin for the project I’m working on. I just have this blank page log out issue
Make sure you upload this to the plugin repository! 
@blackphantom it’s the link that reads ‘Check your tweetstream settings’ in Buddypress. It redirects me to the home of the installation (Buddypress is on a subdomain):
http://red.labrujulaverde.com/members/admin/settings/tweetstream
I can’t get to Tweetstream settings on profile pages. The link redirects me to the home of the buddypress installation, so I can’t authorize with Twitter. Ideas?
looks like it doesnt work on Firefox but works on IE.
Css issues with viewing likes for activities like 2 people becomes friends
did the update and when u click on “view likes” nothing happens. using default BP 1.2 theme
It actually covers 1.2 — Really, the only thing that didn’t make it into the book is the mention about the ability to use it on .Org as well as MU — but the basics of using BP are the same either way, so in the grand scheme – it was a minor omission when compared to the massive changes that did make into the book for 1.2. It was quite a challenge keeping up w/ BP development during the writing of the book no doubt – – big props to Andy with helping me stay up to date and as current as possible; while doing a fab job tech editing the book
Keeping up w/ fast dev. in print is a challenge for any publishing company or author. My hope is that it is helpful to anyone who gets their hands on it.
Thanks for the suggestion + info Erich73. I sent him an email.
EDIT: He already answered:
Unfortunately I don’t have a good answer for you. Buddypress already works like P2 in so many ways – have you had a look at BuddyPress 1.2?
My best suggestion is just to dig through the source, especially the javascript and php -> javascript files. They’d leave you with the best clue.
Although, I think BuddyPress probably has all of your needs covered.
Dead end…
You led me to the solution. I hadn’t really thought of it as a lightbox … but more of a flash menu. After you said that, I tried deactivating my wp super cache.. same result.. and then my ‘Lightbox 2’ plugin. Voila! I had forgot that in the midst of playing with BuddyPress, I had updated 2 or 3 plugins… that being one of them.
All is well again. Thx for the tip!
Since you know about the activity stream, is it possible you could help answer a question?
My fresh install of wp + bp (all latest releases) does not succeed in writing activity records. Running on Win2k8, MySQL 5.1.4.2, php 5.2.11, IIS 7. Any ideas?
@roydeanjr
Tried that, too, figuring the same thing. Repeatedly switching back and forth between the options didn’t help. 
Anyone know enough about the Buddypress theme options or WordPress MU debugging to help me figure out how to troubleshoot this? I think I’ve hit all the preliminaries, and might need to start looking at some log files.
Re: dropdown… are you talking about that lightbox thingy?
That doesn’t seem to be BuddyPress-related.
Also, I would try deactivating WP Super Cache and deleting any cached items you may have.
Unfortunately you will have to delete the old data from wp_bp_activity_meta and wp_usermeta before installing the new version. Sorry guys, it’s so new I don’t have an upgrade routine!
You can do this using phpMyAdmin or similar.
Grab the new version here: http://www.alexhemptonsmith.com/downloads/bp-like.zip
Your @import paths were probably just wrong.
/*
Template: bp-default
Tags: buddypress
*/
/* Parent styles */
@import url( ../../plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/_inc/css/adminbar.css );
@import url( ../../plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/_inc/css/default.css );
I’ve just put out a new version which allows you to view who else has liked it.
@modemlooper: I will be building in notifications next, but it looks like I have to make the plugin a full blown component to leverage the notifications functionality… :S
@r-a-y
ustream/watershed does allow embeds…but we use it to embed video players and chat boxes directly for live, interactive video chat sessions with large groups.
Point it…it’s not a URL, it’s the actual embed code…so I’m thinking that this plugin might not be the answer, no?
Ideally, the video could be embedded in the News section…but that is flexible. It just needs to be somewhere obvious and clear so students can easily watch and participate.
Somewhere between this and the Links plugin should be a way to make this work…
This would be good if it notified the poster of content that you liked something. The favorite to me is more for a user to bookmark content.
awesome work mate, tested it without an issue of install
Using wordpress 2.9 + BP 1.2
@ Peter Anselmo
Oh, didn’t know about the Group Documents. Obviously haven’t used it but looks good. Could there possibly be an upside with a google docs option? There are 1 GB free storage, really good editors, folder structure asf. I think it would be a real killer!
This looks very interesting indeed:)
Hey Hempsworth, looks good!
But, do you think it would have made more sense to take advantage of BP’s already-available favorite button?
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase BASE/
#uploaded files
RewriteRule ^(.*/)?files/$ index.php [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !.*wp-content/plugins.*
RewriteRule ^(.*/)?files/(.*) wp-content/blogs.php?file=$2 [L]
# add a trailing slash to /wp-admin
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^.*/wp-admin$
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ $1/ [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule . – [L]
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(wp-.*) $2 [L]
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(.*.php)$ $2 [L]
RewriteRule . index.php [L]
<IfModule mod_security.c>
<Files async-upload.php>
SecFilterEngine Off
SecFilterScanPOST Off
</Files>
</IfModule>
Ok. I put this on .htaccess and it comes back with 500 internal server error.
Now, not only buddypress but also WordPress does not work.
The whole site is tangled with 500 error.
If I delete .htaccess, WP works but BP comes with 404 error.
