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Is the BuddyPress theme required for BuddyPress to work on an existing WordPress install… or can we pick and choose pieces from the official BP theme and incorporate as needed? I’m assuming the latter, but wanted to be sure before I start to hack away.

This looks interesting but seems to have time resource problems. If this is ging to be a free plugin, why not release the code in order to let other build upon this and drive the plugin ahead? Maybe there is a possibility of releasing a version with some not yet finished features missig?

If this is going to cost something, why not discuss the price with those of us who will soon need to employ developers to create such a plugin?

Nobody seems to have a working released chat plugin for BuddyPress yet. These are the ones I have come across so far:

– this one of course: http://simplercomputing.net/bp/

– one is promised over at http://buddydev.com/

– there seems to be something here: http://soderlind.no/archives/2009/02/27/toksta-chat-plugin-for-buddypress/

Anyone know more?

Maybe we could get together and employ someone (or even “M”) to bring such a plugin into existance? I guess there are a few projects out there (like mine) that absolutely NEED a chat feature to go online (in my case, BuddyPress will have to replace an existing system thaat already includes a chat).

I do not have a problem selecting the fields – that works fine once this thing is installed correctly. the problem is that it will not find anything if the users are not indexed.

there is an option of clicking “here” from the admin page of this plugin but when i click on it nothing happens. that is my issues.

would love to hear if anyone got it to work.

I’ll have a plugin for BuddyPress post favorites soon. It’s mostly finished but needs some cleaning up for other peoples eyes.

bp-custom.php loads up before any BuddyPress components do, and functions.php loads after all plugins and WordPress core code does.

So it isn’t a matter of “if,” it’s a matter of “why.”

Basically…

Use bp-custom.php to override core BuddyPress settings like slugs or constant values, or to load specific code BEFORE BuddyPress loads for whatever reason you might need to.

Use functions.php if you need to add actions or filters to BuddyPress things. It’s good practice to make sure that actions and filters exist before attaching code to them. If you add a filter to a function that doesn’t exist yet, or you add it before/after the code is loaded/executed, then you’re ahead/behind the action/filter curve, so to speak.

Different files for different purposes.

@anointed, not in the way I think you want it to work, no… With different users on different sites/blogs having their own BP userbase.

You still could bend the groups functionality around this though, it would just take some creative theme work.

I hate to be harsh, but this plugin is un-intuitive and without instructions or explanation.

For instance, you are supposed to select the “which field represents the users location” Well, given there is a field for address, city, state and zip possible….what do you choose? Most Geo plugins use a mash-up of the complete address to search for an accurate location of the user.

The plugin has signs of promise but questions remain. …like what’s up with the “Sponsored by Automattic” ??

Possible? Yes. After all, everythings possible.

Try this.

define ( 'BP_ENABLE_MULTIBLOG', true );

I haven’t tried this myself, and not sure what it exactly does, but the codex says that this allows buddypress to function on multiple blogs of a WPMU installation.

I could see why that wouldnt work, as buddypress is build on wpmu and every blog you make is basicly a seperate wordpress install. So for example the users that were automatically subscribers on your wpmu blog aren’t automatically subscribers on all the blogs on your wpmu install.

WordPress itself has problems with relocating it’s position, a lot of changes need to be made and since buddypress is build on wordpress, buddypress has these problems now as well.

I don’t really get why your placing buddypress in a sub blog, you can easily change the buddypress theme to your liking if that’s the problem.

Just need to add the core wordpress function to list the pages into the buddypress theme and it should show your newly added pages to the main menu.

I’m actually having the same issue as shaisimchi. I’ve been playing around with it, but haven’t found the solution. I only had some test users, so I tried deleting those and re-creating users. No dice. Any input would be great. Thanks!

@jamesyeah: I’m pretty sure the fields just need to be instantiated. I’m using a location field from the base group. It took me a while to figure out, but all I had to do was go into edit profile, add data to the field I wanted to use for the location, and select save. Then, that field will show up in the admin drop-down. (If you look at the PHP code, it checks that there is a value for that field. That’s how I figured out what I needed to do.)

Hope that makes sense. May not even be what you were talking about! : )

I never use the search function on BP. It’s a pitty, but it doesn’t motivate when you have to specify so many different types of possibilities.

I also read the comment in function bp_search_form_type_select() and i would love if this could be implemented in BP.

I’m pretty much in love with buddypress exept how forums work (see here: http://testbp.org/members/toreg/activity/58328/ ) and how activities and so discussions slowly get lost on the screen (see here: http://testbp.org/members/toreg/activity/58411/).

Hastags would be also a great addition to get people to what is “in” at the moment.

@username is great too … but BP shows the fullname and average user will never be patient enough to look up the username on the profile URL.

Note this is all constructive criticism – i love what you guys have done so far!! Great work, especially the new theme and the improved activity stream!

This file https://svn.buddypress.org/tags/1.1.3/bp-activity/bp-activity-widgets.php contains the Activity widget (BuddyPress 1.1.3)

@ Jivany

You’ve covered this on trac: https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/1536

So this is a question of privacy settings for the blog.

I hope this isn’t considered hijacking, but do you, DJPaul or anyone know how to make _old_ posts that were counted as private (as per above) appear in the stream?

I can make new posts appear in the stream now but all the old blog posts (https://wordpress.org/extend/themes/p2) are still hidden. Some value in the db?

@Marc: Requirements is a pretty vague term itself eh? A requirement could be as specific as “must support IE6” (which would have an impact on price) or as general as “must position us as an industry leader”. So requirements can be about business, creative, marketing, functional, technical or other goals.

The biggest things that would affect price however would be any functional components that BuddyPress doesn’t include out of the box (like Wiki, Document Library, Video Sharing, etc.). Although much of that can be done with plugins… said plugins may still require custom theming and/or some work on integration.

Complexity of design could mean things like Flash. If Flash work is required, that would cost more. If you require a logo or other branding, that could cost more. But I was more thinking of the complexity of the design in general.

For instance, this design of mine took almost a month of design, development, research and testing (it works in IE6 believe or not and is designed to have graceful text-resizing… as all my work is. XYZ is a fake name of course):

http://davidlewis.ca/solutions/

While this very simple “design” (a freebee for a volunteer organization) took only 2 hours from zero to WordPress theme (p.s. I’m not responsible for any of the horrible content like the logo sidebar… for instance):

http://www.hrsar.ca/e2cdev/

That’s an extreme example… but you get the idea.

You can make pages in the regular WordPress part. And maybe this is helpful.

Your best bet if you want a fabulous BP design for a reasonable price (from both points of view) is to contact milo.

https://buddypress.org/developers/milo317/

Yep. Buddybook will be great!

BuddyPress Links will support this sometime after 1.2 comes out.

hello, i had same problem on buddypress plug in too.

this is how I solved the problem.

1. php.ini

open php.ini , around line 1110 theres codes following.

; For Unix only. You may supply arguments as well (default: “sendmail -t -i”).

; http://php.net/sendmail-path

;sendmail_path = “”xamppsendmailsendmail.exe” -t”

change only 3rd line

;sendmail_path = “”xamppsendmailsendmail.exe” -t”

to

sendmail_path = “”xamppsendmailsendmail.exe” -t”

yes, it says unix only but it worked on my server (windows XP).

and reboot Xampp or apache and try it.

If you ste up xampp and still have problem try this out too.

2. deactivate mailserver “Mercury”, and install another mailserver.

I changed mailserver to ArGoSoft Mail Server.

http://www.argosoft.com/rootpages/MailServerNetFree/Default.aspx

you just need to set up only DNS server (router side) , your domain and user account.

it was very easy even for me. so try it out!

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