BuddyPress.org

Hi there,

I dont understand the fix you’re proposing Issidha, because when I go to the WordPress MU files you indicate need tweaking, I dont SEE those lines pertaining to taking out the www in front of URLs… ??

I tried entering the domain name where i’m trying to have Buddypress with a www. in front but I have the same issue:

— > The main page is showing up but all other pages ( Members/Blog…) are not accessible: ie, I get a wrong URL message.

As in:

Trying to go to : http://www.sitename/groups

*** The requested URL /groups was not found on this server. *****

I and other users CAN access wp-admin ( http://www.sitename/wp-admin/) , as if only the WordPress MU was working, and not all the Buddypress features.

I also installed a fresh copy of WP MU, and installed Buddy Press 1.1.3, as recommended, through the instal Plugin of the WP MU dashboard.

I had also installed a couple more plugins, the Buddypress SEO, Hashcash and a forum subscription plugin for BP, which I just deactivated to see if that helped. But it makes no difference.

Thanks for your advice…

@Peter: Yes… BuddyPress is quite new. Comparing it to WordPress isn’t really fair since WordPress has been around for 7 years. BuddyPress hasn’t even turned 1 yet. The first public release was last spring.

@MrMaz, very impressive and I’m wondering does it have a feature that streams in RSS/Atom feeds ? I mean when a user uploads to youtube /ustream.tv & flicker then it’s added in BPRC-link.

Because I want it on the pro version?

Support aggregator flickr photos and ustream.tv & youtube videos

Some developer created one but not support any more:

http://bp-dev.org/forums/topic/bp-aggregator-to-aggregate-own-blogs-flickr-photos-and-youtube-videos

agh.. i cant make this thing work..

“Please fill in all of the required fields”

is the message i get

I have object cache installed does that make a difference?

Looks like this thread is now over a month old, but I couldn’t find corresponding tickets in trac, so I opened two tickets for this now:

https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/1648 (deleting doesn’t work)

https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/1649 (sitewide activity rss doesn’t work)

It is already there.

But you may not edit the Fields which are stored by wordpress(If your User had registered before activating buddypress). Only Buddypress xprofile fields can be edited from profile page.

Under profile link, you will see edit profile which will allow you to change the basic details(xprofile fields).

Under settings->general you can change email/password.

Do trackbacks work when BuddyPress is disabled?

Hi alone,

did you try this ?

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-groupblog/

and this ?

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-multilingual/

Love it Mr. Mas, keep it going!

I think the most popular screencasts are going to be:

1. What BuddyPress is, and what it can do.

2. How to set up BuddyPress from scratch.

… if the current interface is not intuitive enough then no matter how many screencasts are created users will still be confused.

Absolutely agree. You should not have to educate users how to use your site. Please, if you have time to spare, use it to help improve the user interface instead of making videos.

Also a clear explanation to the users between their buddypress profile and blog dashboard would be nice!

How about closing the blog dashboard to members and bringing the functionality into the Buddypress profile, under Settings or Account, under the site’s theme?

I’ll have to figure that one out when I have the time…

wow! that looks cool Mr Maz

keep up the good work

hi Erwin

It seems bp-default theme is no more using livequery.

If you are trying to load something after activity has loaded(using ajax), then I have also the same problem.

I had opened this ticket and waiting for an official response from Andy or JJJ

https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/1616

WOW! Very nice work MrMaz.

The more I think about it, nig3d has the right idea. A screencast (or a couple) that showcases what BP is capable of would be a really great idea. But then you’re focusing on the developers as opposed to the potential users of a BP site.

One of my favorite examples of BP is thepioneerwoman.com/tasty-kitchen/ and if you didn’t explicitly know it was running BP, you’d be hard pressed to discover it was. That user community has very easily figured out how to use BP (but again, it’s customized). Profiling some of these sites as “what you can do with BP” in a screencast would probably help “sell” BP to a larger audience.

@Bowe, as for the Facebook/Twitter stuff, both apps are almost better for not having screencasts. People have found numerous ways of using Twitter that are not the original intent. As for Facebook, they just don’t really care about anything outside their firewalls.

From a user point of view, I found BP prior to the 1.2 activity stream concept to be very confusing. Anyone who has used Facebook or Twitter will easily understand what the textbox is for.

I could go on and on but then I’d be really thread jacking.

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.