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You don’t have to do anything.. Just install BuddyPress on a single WordPress install and all your users are contributors by default.. This means they can submit posts easily. You can make the process much easier by using a plugin like TD Midi Forms which allows your users to submit posts from the front end and even allow them to edit their own posts. A good tutorial:
http://thedeadone.net/blog/tutorial-video-for-tdo-mini-forms/
Good luck
One of the things I would like to cover on the new BP-Tricks site, is how to do this.. Maybe with a videotutorial or atleast a few written tuts. This will be a matter of time, don’t forget how much is changing everyday for BP, there are only a handfull of people who have done this
“and the themes are likely to have uncompatibilty issues. “
I can count on one hand the number of WordPress themes that don’t work right in MU. Most of them are fine.
BuddyPress themes are different.
I’ve decided it’s easy to do. You just create a public group and add a little check box which ‘make this an announcement only group’ then add that data to group meta. Then for groups where that is checked, remove the activity stream input box and the forum post box. now it is just a matter of finding the proper do_action hooks to make it happen. Or more klunkly and less secure – just hide those things with CSS. I’ll have a simple plugin done by the end of the (long) day hopefully.
The buddypress code, while complex, is very well documented and written so it is not so hard to figure out. Kudos to the excellent developers!I’ll check out the group blog plugin again. i was going to use it anyway for certain groups, thanks.
Greetings folks! Sorry to drag up an old topic. Please don’t shoot me. A few things for my first post:
1. Buddypress ROCKS. I wasted loads of time messing around with Elgg (fell for the hype). Buddypress is a million times better, straight out of the zip file.
2. I agree that the layout can be improved, but if you don’t customise your OpenSource site, it will look like everyone else’s, right?
3. Let me know if I am doing this right – I decided to change the layout of the user profile page. I went into wp-content/themes/bp-sn-parent/profile/index.php and just shifted relevant chunks of code around. Hardly difficult even for an amateur, and I’m pleased with the results. Is this the right way to go or are you supposed to do it some other way? Seems to me the final layout is hardcoded in this file, and this must be the place to mess around with the code.
4. If the above is right (remember I went through Elgg paaain, nothing there is as it seems) then any educated monkey can make his own theme or at least mangle the default into something he likes
I would even have a go at it myself… who knows, one day I may become a household name…5. Plugins… please, please, write plugins, fix the broken ones, make some cool ones like ‘how you’re connected’ and all that nonsense. Gallery. Ajax for posting to walls. Can’t we call it a wall and not a wire, ’cause my users are not alternative social networking freaks and don’t have a clue why it’s called wire. Buddypress is the future of opensource social networks, Elgg is for losers
Half the Elgg ‘plugins’ crash your site on activation, one made my PC have a nervous breakdown (running locally) and it’s slow and stupidly convoluted. If I could get my head round the way they work I’d write my own… but I can’t yet
I;d prefer to answer these question by email to not clutter up the forums, cuz it’s a paid thing.
(mods, feel free to make your call)But in short:
– it works in either kind of install
– it also works with multiple TLDs. I use it to run atypicalife.net and my family’s blogs on the same exact WPMU installation that runs wpmututorials.
– it works fine with 3.0, we’ve been using it on trunk, but it meeds renaming.
– remote login means saving the cookies from one domain to the next. your one user login & pass works for all if you’re assigned to those blogs.
