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@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

i m also having the same problem and yet not solved cah anyone help me.

I have installed WordPressmu 2.8.6 and its workin fine all alone now after installing plugin Buddypress 1.1.3 and changing the themes by moving the bp-themes to wp-content/themes except the home page rest all other links are showing…

The requested URL /wordpressmu/linkname(say blog or member) was not found on this server.

404 not found…

What to do?

Plz HElp

Thanks for this post because what you’re describing, I’ve been basically going through the same motions. We have a band fan site that has been on a single wp install with just news with almost 1300 members. We wanted to give more interaction so we’re converting to buddypress. I really didn’t want them to be able to create blogs so I really just wanted the bp functionality but when I saw that the only group interaction was really just the wire and forums, I wanted a little more. With this thread, I’ve already implemented some of these ideas. I didn’t go with the p2 theme idea because I want the themes alike across all blogs but I did find the posthaste plugin that allows you to add a quick press like post box to the group blog page while still using your existing theme. It doesn’t have the ability to insert images but I’m looking for a workaround on that.

Basically I just wanted to second everything that he’s said in that these ideas are basically to give a little more features than the default bp groups while not giving them full blown access to create blogs.

Thanks for all the ideas everyone!

I can see how it might be good tokeep friending, but give the option not to use it. I hate it when Ning takes away features. maybe that should be a last resort.

@Xevo you made my point in your post when you said ‘friends/colleagues/partners”. It is much more useful to be able to group the people you want to keep in touch with.

I belong to some pretty large Ning sites and I have hundreds of “friends” there with no way of using sub categories to really define who these people are.

Someone else pointed out also, you don’t necessarily want to use the word “friend” on a business network.

I agree with Erich73, why not both? Just in general I don’t like the idea of any features being taken away. That makes BP feel more like a software package that you have to constantly adapt to instead of a framework that you can adapt to your needs. I don’t want to have to worry about features I like vanishing, regardless of how useful/less they may seem to others.

I agree.

I would definitely not want the feature of “friending” with somebody to disappear. This feature is essential.

Ususally I am very happy when I do get a friendship-invitation, and this is a very important psychological factor as well.

First you need to “friending” with somebody, only after that you are able to “sort” your friends into different “Friend Groups” (like putting friends into different folders e.g. family, work, girlfriends, etc.) and also being able to make those “Friend Groups” either public, private or hidden.

Whether you “follow” your friends or whether you follow other people (who are not your “friends”), is a totally different story and a different feature.

Not sure why JJJ wants to remove the “friending feature” in favour of the “following-feature”…. ?

Can we not have both ?

At least leave the friending as an option please, first wire is taken away and now friends? I believe friends are a core element of a good social network, unless rebuilding twitter you don’t have to follow someone (@matt kern), build a plugin if you want such a feature.

@ Erich73

Lets replicate real life, instead of creating artificial behaviour.

Social networking isn’t real life! Are we working towards making everyone lazy bastards who don’t even step away from their computer? Besides, in real life you call people friends/colleagues/partners when you don’t even know them that well, so is that really that different? In fact you can find out more about a person through a social network then you can by just talking to them.

You meet people through friends and meet even more through those friends, isn’t that what a social network is for?

If friending gets taken out in 1.3, then I’ll stay with Buddypress 1.2.