BuddyPress.org

I just upgraded via the auto upgrade

im on

BP 1.1.2

PHP 5.1.4

and when im trying to create a link im geting:

“Please fill in all of the required fields”

Nothing I do to add a link seems to work

any ideas?

@MrMaz ! Excellente’ !!!!

@tinus2 HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

I see your point jivany, but so far I’ve seen that about 90% of the active BP Communities use the default theme with some slight modifications. With some clever editing/focus on certain things which almost every BP site has, it could be very useful.

Think of something like http://www.wordpress.tv:

I would also rather see very specific and in-depth tutorial from BP Pro’s sooner then later, but if you look at the questions asked on these forums, you can not skip the basics here and simply presume that the “easier” stuff will be figured out as they go.

Imagine you stumbling upon BuddyPress.org and being able to get a few nice basic video instructions. You get a sense of professionalism and a clear view of what’s possible with the software, the advanced stuff we all like to see can be covered at a later point imo

And about Facebook and Twitter;

A screencast of twitter would have saved me quite some time, and don’t even start about Facebook lol.. I’ve tried 2 hours to find a feed of my status updates and after trying everything known to man I still haven’t found it. Facebook is awesome but it makes no sense whatsoever on certain aspects

amazing, seems food poisening does good things to you

would it be possible to mash that with a bookmarklet? say i see something, click the bookmark and it gets added as a BP link?

Great! I’ve written a blog post about it;

http://www.bp-tricks.com/plugins_and_themes/bp-links-a-must-have-media-aggregation-tool-for-your-community/

This plugin is extremely awesome indeed!

Very cool and well done!

I watched the screen cast. It is interesting to see how quickly you can auto embed an external resource.

Really great to see this released MrMaz, well done.

Given that the entire “look and feel” of Buddypress can be modified via themes, how can “we” offer screencasts on how to use a Buddypress site? I’ve seen many examples of “Buddypress” sites that look and operate nothing like a bp-default themed Buddypress site.

At the same time, if the current interface is not intuitive enough then no matter how many screencasts are created users will still be confused. Facebook and Twitter didn’t have screen casts on how to use the sites. Users just figured most of it out.

I’m not trying to knock Buddypress at all – I’ve been impressed enough that I’ve gone and started submitting bug reports and even fixes when my time permits! I’m just hoping that active members like DJ Paul aren’t going to get stuck spending a lot of time creating screencasts that benefit a very small number of developers/users.

There are probably really great Buddypress specific topics that could be covered in a screen cast but I can’t come up with any. Maybe I’m just too old and come from the generation where everything wasn’t screencasted to us and we had to do something called research or trial and error.

copy your bb-config.php file from your root to /wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums/bbpress/. It worked for me, but your account has to be the keymaster, and I set up BBPress first, and then BuddyPress, syncd, and then integrated. Not everything will work… which is what I am trying to find out how now.

just make sure bb-config.php is in both places….

…if a program doesn’t have the logic you require

That is the key for me. Buddypress misses a lot of things that I think should be part of the core. I’m not asking for features like galleries and event management, but basic standard member registration stuff, getting data to/from xprofile, etc. BP is still very new of course, but this attitude that, “hey, you can program it in 20 minutes” is worrisome. Andy has also made some comments that suggest separation of logic, data and presentation is not exactly a priority for him.

If you want to learn PHP…

I really don’t…

I don’t have the time. I can’t afford it. I’m on the content/publishing site. I don’t make any money from web development, although I’m kinda forced into a career change recently…

@David, thanks for Lynda.com. I find most of what I need on php.net, w3schools.com and youtube.com, but always looking for additional resources.

I’d have to disagree though about separation. From Andy’s response, I take that separation to be less than desirable, but workable. See https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/buddypress-theme-with-wptheme#post-32424 and https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/buddypress-theme-with-wptheme#post-32593 and http://themehybrid.com/community/topic/hybrid-version-08-discussion#post-2398.

This is not an indictment of BP, but an acknowledgement that at current form is very tightly linked to function and separating them won’t be easy, particularly without some php skills.

@mike

i installed David’s chat plugin on the FR demo site http://buddypress-fr.net/bpdemo/

(wp 2.9.1.1 & bp 1.1.3)

Feel free to create your account and test it !

@Peter Separation of logic, data and presentation doesn’t mean that you don’t have to know how to code if a program doesn’t have the logic you require. And I disagree that the layers are less separate in BuddyPress than WordPress.

If you want to learn PHP… I would highly recommend lynda.com. I use their training videos all the time and they are worth every cent.

I found the posts where Boone Gorges has set up such admin bar in other installations – here and here – same post but check out the comments area for some hints which could make it work for you. He noted “theoretically this method could work for any kind of software out there.” Good luck.

Hey Mattias,

Check out this tutorial:

http://jeffersonsnewspaper.org/2009/creating-a-blog-topics-directory-in-wpmu-2-8-buddypress-1-1/

This is one of the tutorials I found, however there are other ways to do it.

@surfartculture – you have many threads regarding this including https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/god-help-me wherein you’ll find a helpful code regarding this matter from Boone Gorges:

global $bp;

if ( $bp->loggedin_user->id == 1 ) {

/* Display the stuff you want user 1 to see */

} else if ( $bp->loggedin_user->id == 2 ) {

/* Stuff you want user 2 to see */

} /* etc */

But you have to give more information about your installation so that forum volunteers can help you out specific on your install.

1. What WPMU version?

2. What BuddyPress version?

3. What theme are you using?

4. Site URL?

Wonder if you could use this to create extra forums like a Miscellaneous or a General forum? I want to use the default install because I like the way it all integrated with the group forums, but I wanted to have some general forums for random stuff that I really don’t want to have to force people to sign up to that group just to post there. Right now, having to skin and deal with external bbpress installation seems more of a hassle than dealing with the random forum for me.

Using trunk + single wp; I’m set up on an external installs of bbPress + BuddyPress/internal install for groups

I use the bpGroups plugins (“forums” subdomain of the BP site) but the plug-in required some updating to get everything working smooth (activity notifications, public/private/hidden/ready only stuff)

Obviously this method won’t enable plugins on the buddypress/internal groups but this allows me to provide an advanced forum interface while creating outside forums (support, help, testing, etc) not associated with groups (group forums can be added to a specific forum category – i think default is “1”).

… i have re-theme’d bbPress to somewhat match the new default BP theme (well somewhat)

(screenshots:

http://files.etiviti.com/misc/bbpress-vwg-main.gif

http://files.etiviti.com/misc/bbpress-vwg-forum.gif

)

@Dfa327 Is there anywhere we can see your plugin at work (demo) I have searched all your sites and found it a bit confusing to find what I am looking for. Thanks.

Just a little heads up about JQuery. If you rely solely on JQ to display or hide certain fields, sometimes you will not get the intended behavior if a user has disabled javascript in their browser. It all depends on what methods/actions you are using to accomplish the hiding.

BP and WP are relying more heavily on JQ scripting to accomplish certain tasks. So, whenever you are coding JQ functions to hide or show certain objects, you have to be doubly sure to test your JQ scripts on all browser types with javascript turned off just to make sure that the behavior is consistent across the board. In other words, will the very small subset of users who turn off JS be able to inadvertently gain access to fields that they are are not supposed to see.

I struggled with this when coding my BuddyPress Privacy Component. It would have been a lot easier to simply have relied on JQ to accomplish many of the privacy filtering functions, but by doing so I would have been risking a given user’s requested privacy by exposing their data to users who had JS turned off.

The lesson here is that if your intent is to truly sequester a subset of data from certain users, JQ is probably not the best solution. I now look at JQuery as simply a nice tool for effects, for UI/UX experience. It is not a tool for basic security protocols.

OK, I know this might not be well-received, but learning a bit of PHP will allow you to do almost anything with WP … I’m not a programmer, but a guy who bought a book on PHP/MySQL awhile back and WP is so easy you could teach yourself the basic stuff.

I’m being dragged kicking and screaming into learning PHP. I don’t have the time and can’t afford to hire a PHP programmer, but keep running into things that I’d consider basic core functionality that isn’t up to standard.

I’m not asking for new features, I just need a solid core that will let me get things done, starting with member management, including things like multiple user types.

When WordPress first arrived the point was to separate layout (html/css), functions (php) and data (mysql) as much as possible, so anyone with basic web development skills (html/css/design/content) could build and maintain sites. In Buddypress it all starts to mix again.

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/when-asking-for-support

Yep, but of course we/you should make a sharp distinction between video for users and video for developers.

as developer, I want MANY videos.

the one hacking the bb-config.php, that was something that I already noticed. Just I think, if the developers don’t want us to access to the admin panel there must be a valid reason.

Anyway it works properly, it’s just that the buddypress can’t handle the plugin frontend