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David have you seen this plugin:

http://buddypress.webdevstudios.com/blog/2009/11/13/buddypress-registration-options/

It pretty much does what you want and helps jumpstart your community.

What I would like to is some kind of option for an admin to create a group which not gets listed in the users group list but the member is actually part of (without choice) and receives updates from. Something you might call a “sitewide group” or something!

My understanding is that the technical details of the merge are only just now beginning to be discussed. See the links here: http://wpmututorials.com/news/merge-news/, including the merge trac ticket, which was only opened 10 days ago. That ticket would be a good thing to monitor as the merge approaches.

As far as the BuddyPress end of things is concerned, I’m assuming that Andy’s recent work on non-MU compatibility is a step in the direction of ensuring that the move to 3.0 doesn’t break BP. But I have a sense that the details of how the merge will affect existing sites, and in particular those running BP, will not emerge until some of the technical details of the merge start to get decided.

@anointed

Check out “/wp-admin/users.php” and snag the code from there. It should give you more than enough examples on ways to filter the users on that specific site. I think it should include pagination, user type, etc…

The key for you will be making sure that the right members are subscribers of the correct site. If you have multiple domains or multiple registration pages (for each site) that should be pretty straight forward.

In my opinion, the downfall of this plugin is that it uses JS to hide xprofile fields that store the lat and lon instead of just using user-meta. That and it just works a little strangely, and I couldn’t really figure out why I wasn’t comfortable with it.

I’ve got a re-engineered version of this plugin I’m using for a client at the moment, and will probably give that code back to the devs of this plugin to be reused for later.

I had a need to do this with posts (geocode, sort by distance, map). I did it with two WP plugins Google Maps Geocoder and SimpleMap. I had to rewrite Simplemap to query the post/postmeta table instead of its own tables.

Now that I know how to do that, it shouldn’t be hard for usermeta or groupmeta. I just suck at javascript which all the geocoding and mapping stuff uses.

I will need to do the same thing for users and groups once BP 1.2 is out. If no one tackles it before I do, I’ll donate the code, but it won’t be plugin worthy as I don’t do admin interfaces and options pages. Since the site is for me, I save my time and bandwith by putting settings in a well commented php file.

@anointed, if you wanted to just make it so you’re grabbing the user list of a blog instead of the members list, that’s very possible to do. But you will still probably want your root blog to be the center of all members.

Like andrea_r said, I imagine that MU is in a feature freeze at the moment until 3.0. All the devs are going to have their hands full rearranging the code to make it fit into normal WordPress so it’s a smooth transition for everyone.

Where the actual work happens, in trac. Yesterday, merge work started, so I’m not sure where to put a suggestion like this right now.

If you stick it in https://trac.mu.wordpress.org/report I know it will get read by Donncha.

Also, user management is changing, so you may want to play around with wpmu 2.9.1 rc-1 a bit before filing any tickets.

The fact that this exists vindicates BuddyPress’ decision to have a ‘Delete Account’ button on the profile page

The standard support questions which mercime linked to help us help you. Despite the fact that FB Connect is not BuddyPress and as such is a third-party plugin, there are plenty of existing threads in these forums about issues with FB Connect

Facebook Connect is not working with BuddyPress trunk version so I had to delete it, but it worked in BP 1.1.3 set up in subdomain structure. Some couldn’t get it going on subdomain install but went well with subdirectory install of WPMU. Those are only some variables which might affect the install of the FB connect plugin..

“Connect URL in the application settings editor”

– somewhere in Facebook Config Page, 2nd step or so, make sure you have something like this:

Connect URL: http://yourbuddypress.com

Base domain: yourbuddypress.com

Maybe someone has gotten it to work with trunk already. Good luck.

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

Such a button has been added to the default 1.2 theme.

Try this http://buddypress.pastebin.com/m6144dbb0

We told you on IRC yesterday that, as you don’t know PHP, you are best to find the (CSS) ID of the field in question, then write some custom CSS to insert such an image. First step is to https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/

Oh Mike go over ther you have to see the show… features people were begging for a long time they are rolling out in quick fashion. They have a new twitter integration (a lot like twire if you ask me). You can easily generate your own sitemaps now, and a few others like javascript in the network headers. I’m telling you Buddypress must really have them scared.

I keep one eye on what they have going on because I still have a few networks that I am wanting to export/import out of there… But I will never ever go back to that joint I love Buddypress! In addition there is no way the Ning freemium business model is going to be sustainable aver the long term. They are going to have to take liberties from their networks sooner or later. It will be more painful the next time they do.

Erwin IS to be commended. Great guy.

So what is up with Ning? How have they responded? They have been traditionally “our way our the highway”

First let me say to Erwin… thank you because I know that his Events plugin made myself and A LOT of people give Buddypress a second (and third) look. He is to be commended for his work. This plugin as well as the new default theme are what is going to help massive adoption by web developers who are stuck with services like NING.

On a side note it is AMAZING how quickly Ning has responded to the NEW competition. LOL! You have to smile…

Sorry to bring this topic back up, but I am having a similar problem.

I want to add a “Create a Group” button on my Groups page, and to be honest, I’m confused why buddypress wouldn’t put one there to begin with.

So the link I tried (from the code above) is :

href=”members/<?php echo $current_user; ?>/cells/create/”>Create a Group

But where do I put the :

global $current_user;

$username = $current_user->user_login;

part of the code?

Shai – you are a hero for trying to fix their work (I know this is a really important feature)

Does anyone know what’s up with the actual dev team? (and did anyone find out what was meant by the “Sponsored by Automattic” tease on their site?

I just sent Erwin Gerrits (the dev) a personal email at least trying to find out if this has been abandoned so we can commit hope elsewhere

Let me concretize what I’m getting at a bit — I just had a sudden thought.

Taking what is probably the largest active Buddypress install — this one right here — as a test case, I just realized that I don’t really use any of the Buddypress social-networky stuff here (realizing it’s an oldish version of Buddypress and a unique case in some ways), other than the occasional personal message functionality. I don’t look at Groups or anything else, much: every time I visit, I head straight here, to the forum, which isn’t really all that featureful when it comes to forum implementations, but still does the job admirably.

I’m not sure if the way I use this site reflects the way that most people do, but that’s my experience. Sure, I’m an old fart, and am more interested in finding and sharing useful information than I am in just hanging out and socializing, to some extent, and that’s the major part of why this install of Buddypress exists, but hopefully you see my point.

I have a feeling that traditional, threaded forum structure might be an important centerpiece, as it is here, for many sites that will use Buddypress, if, of course, not all of them.

Nothing we’re talking about — and I admit this is getting a little off-topic, but it’s germane, I think — is going to destroy that. I’m just raising it as a consideration in moving forward.

Maximum flexibility, as Bowe and JJJ and others talk about above, is probably always the best thing to aim for.