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These are all that I’m aware of:

Cometchat is working on a BuddyPress integration with friends support. It’s a paid script.

http://www.cometchat.com/

Bowob Chat works, but does not have a friend feature, also you might get the plugin author’s ads on your site. Free (w/ ads).

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bowob/

Footerchat is another possibility, again, it has no friends support and you will get some ads occasionally. Free (w/ ads).

http://www.footerchat.com/

Webbychat is another. Has a basic free option, which only supports up to 10 users. Variable paid options are available. You’ll have to manually configure the script to work with BP.

http://webbychat.com

a 500 error is generic and it could mean that you have other issues with your host. Wanna share the url or host? try deactivating all other plugins first and try again. I take it that your site is returning after this error?

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/help-us-help-you

what flavor wordpress and what setup on your server?

You’re best to file this as an enhancement ticket on trac.buddypress.org

Just wrote a plugin to solve the problem without core hacks: http://teleogistic.net/code/buddypress/bp-mpo-activity-filter/

I had the same problem. Using modifications from trunk (https://trac.buddypress.org/changeset/2620) has solved it.

Here’s a workaround:

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/activity-feed-feed-not-working-after-upgrade-113#post-35907

Please mark this thread as resolved.

see my post

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/all-links-are-working-minus-my-adminauthorall-of-my-pages

that was my fix to get around the inconsistent username stuff (default everything to nicename for the urls)

Hi,

I’m using WPMU 2.9.1, BP 1.2rc2, BP links 0.3b, BP – Default theme (no child theme)

I’m admin/founder of http://blogge.rs “My links” at home page show me all links not only mine (same things are with buddypress profile ….).

Tnx,

Srecko

yooohooo

Actually…. yeah, you can do this in MU. Theoretically. Buddypress doesn’t care what the domains are, and it’s not multi-site aware. (the old site term, not the new one)

So I’m pretty sure you can do this with the multisite plugin, bp & mu, without too much tinkering.

disclaimer: not wpmuguru, but I work in the same office

Lisa has done her best to keep up with as many changes as the software. I think Andy did the technical editing as well.

So it may not be as out of date as you think.

That’s cool someone took the time to write a book on Buddypress. Unfortunately there is the lag time with printing paper. I like the model used by the guys who did “Digging into WordPress”.

You can get a print copy but you also get a digital download with a lifetime (what ever that will mean) of updates. What ever the vehicle for the PDF book is that they used I don’t know but it is good and easy to use. I really like having it and look to it before Googling an answer (time suck).

Put your site in maintenance and do a clean install, then copy your data/theme?

If you try to copy a wpmu install with buddypress, you’ll run into a lot of problems, its ten times easier to just do a clean install.

You’re right that the codex doesn’t always keep pace with the code. If you find something wrong in the codex, please take the initiative to fix it.

When troubleshooting, the most surefire way to figure out (for example) which arguments a given function takes is to look at the definition of that function, where the core coders do a great job of documenting what goes in and out of the main functions. I believe that bp_has_activities is defined in bp-activity/bp-activity-templatetags.php, but you can always find where a function is defined by shelling into your buddypress plugin directory (or keeping a local copy on your hard drive) and typing something like the following from the command line (unix/mac):

grep -nR 'bp_has_activites' ./

By scanning that list you should be able to find where the function is defined.

Another really great tool is the php xref http://bp-dev.org/phpxref/nav.html?_functions/index.html, but you should keep in mind that the version of BP cross referenced will not necessarily match your own.

So true though. Not to diminish Lisa’s effort however. It’s a ton of work to write a book and it doesn’t pay well at all. It’s mostly a labour of love. But we’re the hardcore BP geeks here. I’m sure that the book will be quite useful to the average ‘joe’ and will sell well. And once the first version of a book is written… it’s not nearly as much work to update it for newer versions of the software.

There is a config file setting that will allow you to run BP on all of your user blogs… so you could run BuddyPress on as many sub-domains as you wish. I have no idea how you might run one instance on multiple fully qualified domains however. That doesn’t sound possible to me. But I’m no networking guy.

define ( 'BP_ENABLE_MULTIBLOG', true );

https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/changing-internal-configuration-settings/

It’s tricky. I agree. I might register a subdomain for staging (say dev.mydomain.com) and get everything good to go there. I would not use a folder on production. BuddyPress isn’t happy living in a folder and I think it would be more of a pain to go live. If you use a subdomain, switch the domain over to http://www.mydomain.com when you’re ready to go live. But things will have to be changed in the DB (mostly in the wp_sitemeta table but also in a few other tables I think) and in the wp-config file.

But I’m no networking genius. So don’t listen to me!!! I’m mostly a designer / html guy. Maybe others have better ideas of how to manage development.

This may help (thanks to Boone). It’s written for BP 1.1.3 which has the same problem with private posts/comments in the site wide activity stream. If you try this solution let us know if works on your BP 1.2 install.

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/hidden-blog-posts-from-private-blogs-in-sidewide-activity-stream#post-32757