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How is this resolved?

I’m using 1.1.3 and 2.8.6 with a custom theme derived from the first version of Buddypress. I can’t upgrade to the 1.2 theme, because it’s not finished yet and has too many changes vs my custom theme to deal with in one upgrade.

Why is buddywebsite.com/register redirecting to the homepage? Even when I allow all registrations? How can I fix it in my custom theme?

EDIT: It must have something to do with address rewrite. The register page returns when I set the permalinks to default. Is there a hard hack I can add to .htaccess or elsewhere forces buddywebsite.com/register to the right template page, overriding other permalink settings?

I’ve tested several WP gallery plugins. NextGen is pretty good, but I now use Zenphoto which is much more powerful and versatile.

Zenphoto is a complete stand-alone script, not a WP plugin, althought there is a ZenPhotoPress plugin that makes it easy to integrate in WordPress. I haven’t tried it in Buddypress yet, but it should do 80 percent of what you’d need. If it doesn’t, you could probably write plugins to connect Buddypress to functionality in Zenphoto.

General point: Why would you want to try to cram this kind of functionality into Buddypress plugin? Or even integrate it into the core (shudder…)?

Same thing goes for event registration. If Buddypress had a more straightforward, standard member management structure, integrating any outside event management script would be a lot easier. Please concentrate on the core before adding more bells and whistles!

@daan77

The reason that option works there is because it’s for posting to the main blog but it doesnt work without manual intervention if a user creates a new group blog. embedding the form on the page doesn’t work because the form is not global, it’s specific to the blog. This means that you have to create a new form for it to work anytime a new blog is created, which defeats the purpose. I found posthaste which doesn’t add the features but at least it can be embedded in your templates that your blogs use so that as soon as it’s created, it can be used.

I’ve been driven almost crazy by hearing about “canonical plugins” by the WordPress core team (if you don’t know, see this).

I think a BuddyPress events plugin would be a good project for developers to collaboratively work on in this way. Whether built on Erwin’s code or started new. I can’t help but think that however wordpress.org is redesigned in future to encourage more team-driven plugin development is just going to be BuddyPress with a custom theme! But I digress.

I might be shouting into a funnel again but again if there is another developer or two out there, perhaps we could look into this?

This already seems to be happening with bp-events. It’s not keeping pace with BP 1.2 development. Which is fine. What do you want for free… right?! But with BP being such a niche right now… we don’t have any other options. We have to live with the broken solution or roll our own. I imagine that as BuddyPress grows in popularity… this won’t be as much of an issue.

I second the buddybook theme. Afterall, when you think social media you think facebook and buddypress has much in common with it. The Wire, Groups, Activities.

@Bowe & @daan77

Thanks, these are great tips. I am going to play with the community blog pugin today. Also, I ended up using a text widget to embed code for a video on my front page, it may not be the most effecent way, but I am not real strong on the .php or code side of things yet. thanks to everyone for all your your help.

at http://www.deeljezorg.nl we have custom made entry forms(TDOMF plugin) for users to enter their experience, stories and tips, it works fine, people can now easily add posts without the hassle of getting to know the wp-admin backend

same thing is done at tastykitchen.com, where people share recipies, also using a custom form for posting,

it’s disguising your blog posts into a more specific item

I had the GD Star Rating plugin for a buddypress install, did disable it again, for it slowed down the site too much, it had to load its own javascript library,

it worked nicely though, did have to tweak some settings to get it right, but it had it all, even made custom ‘stars’ to fit in with the site design.

@Vincole: Check out BBPress, this site uses it also and it can be integrated into your BuddyPress site (takes some work though)

@mercime, I appreciate the practical examples. I’m probably going to go with Hybrid as my parent, maybe with the BP-specific template files added for members, groups, etc. I’ll have to see how much functionality is trapped in template files as opposed to styles.css and functions.php. If most of the good stuff is in those two files, it shouldn’t be too bad.

1. If I remember right, Jeff’s BP Privacy Options Plugin will allow the user to make profiles private. Just need to wait for the plugin upgrade for BP 1.2

2/3/5A. cosmic buddy theme – I would suggest asking Brajesh, the theme author about how to do that

5B. Yes you can create a Sitewide/global navigation bar in your blog’s themes, by using WPMU’s native switch_to_blog and restore_current_blog functions. Therefore, if you want the navbar of main site (blog_id_1) to be shown in you sub-blogs, you add the code below to your blog’s theme’s header.php

<ul id="nav"

<?php switch_to_blog('1') ?>

//copy the code from header.php of either bp-default/bp-sn-parent theme

//or the code used in main site plus any customized links you added in main site

<?php do_action( 'bp_nav_items' ); ?>

<?php restore_current_blog(); ?>

</ul>

You’ll get the correct URL’s which point to main site’s respective BP components.

Bp Gallery: The ultimate photo gallery for your BuddyPress powered site

Should be out any day now and looks very promising!

WPMU trunk-r2041 and BP trunk-r2222

Can’t Create Blog

– had to go in again and do the bp-core > bp-core-adminbar.php fix of 1stAngel to make it work.

Thank for reply.

But let me say that I hope that in the future release we have some basic setting pannel for bbpress.

1) Not aware of any existing code that does this. However, your users would only have to go into their profile and change the ‘name’ field (this is what BuddyPress uses).

2) I think the addon you want is called “Plugin Commander.”

3) All of the core BuddyPress features are detailed on https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/custom-buddypress-loops/ which you can use to integrate bits of functionality wherever you want. As far as third-party plugins goes, it is dependant on how the plugin author wrote their plugin.

4) Have you looked at new BP theme on http://testbp.org/? That and BP 1.2 should be released mid/late January.

5) Haven’t got time to discuss how to fix but look at trac.buddypress.org/ticket/1501

I think forum issue is known here but make a ticket on http://trac.buddypress.org to flag just in case

This is the default behaviour. Have a look at https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-profile-filters-for-buddypress/

Start by looking at https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/when-asking-for-support

I was wondering if this is still the case for 1.2 as I keep stumbling across functionality that doesn’t jive on a sub-dir style install

If you mean you have found bugs, please report them on https://trac.buddypress.org/.

Early versions of BP didn’t work 100% properly on subdirectory installs but as far as I know it shouldn’t make a difference nowadays (from BuddyPress’ perspective).

I’ve always used the subdomain structure myself.

However, I can see the logic of recommended subdirectory structure for BP – you could install BuddyPress in the main blog OR in a subblog (e.g. blog_id_2) instead of the main site.

e.g. if BP installed in sub-blog, http://mysite.com/members/ . When your members create a blog, the URL would look like this – http://mysite.com/members/username/

On the other hand, using subdomain structure, right now you have to install in main site (blog_id_1) http://mysite.com/ so that when your members create a blog, the URL would look like this – http://username.mysite.com

Otherwise, if you install in a sub-blog at blog_id_2 or blog_id_3 etc e.g. http://members.mysite.com , when users create a blog, URL would look like this http://username.members.mysite.com – arggh.

I hope someone releases a twitter connect plugin for buddypress soon. I cant seem to get the FB Connect plugin working at all (keeps returning a page under construction error).

“able to create users, install plugins and themes, etc.”

That would be a WPMU function. Go to your dashboard – Site Admin > Options and go down the panel to Administration Settings – Site Admins and add the username of person you want to add as Site Admin. Be aware that the other Site Admin can kick you out of the install