BuddyPress.org

Sorry for bumping this old post, but life is evoluting…

Such a plugin exist now:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-group-documents/

Ah, I see. Was wondering whether that might have been it. Thanks Andy. Guess I should wait until the next BuddyPress release then. Thanks.

I’ve activated and deactivated BP in WPMU admin and had no problems with it. As stripedsquirrel listed above, to rephrase – “It’s very important to first deactivate any plugins that require BuddyPress to run before deactivating BuddyPress plugin. Otherwise, yeah, you will get white screen in frontend and backend.

As for upgrading, not to encourage any bad practices but just to share that I am in project development mode right now and I’ve upgrading both WPMU/BP from trunks almost every other day this December without deactivating any plugins and did not get white screen – except the upgrade to WPMU 2.9 beta 2 trunk when it added a commentmeta table for each blog in WPMU install and run mysite.com/wp-admin/upgrade.php . Solution: Running mysite.com/wp-admin/wpmu-upgrade-site.php gave me back my frontend and backend.

Speaking of your Achievements plugin, do you plan on offering an update that allows us to make new achievements without editing the source code?

Feel free to email me back if it helps.

There is also a solution for that.. It’s called Community blogs: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-community-blogs/

From the plugin description:

By activating the Community Blogs plugin, Administrators can give immediate registered user status to any member of their BuddyPress enabled site on the blogs they choose. All the member has to do is visit the blog. The user is silently added as a registered user of that blog. Administrators can choose the role the new user has. Either Contributor or Author. Admins can give access to all users or users from specific BuddyPress groups.

As soon as a (registered) users visit the Blog (in your case Community Voice page) it automatically gets added as an author and is allowed to post! Great huh?

Currently the BP upgrade instructions mention this as step 3:

“Upgrading with the Plugin Updater

1. BACK UP your existing install including the database.

2. It’s very important to first de-activate any plugins that require BuddyPress to run before updating BuddyPress.

3. De-activate the BuddyPress plugin.”

https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/upgrading-from-10x/

This might need to be changed then? I actually would not know to what as I never managed to have a straight update without white-screens and other problems as described above, but maybe that was because of following the instructions?

Bowe,

Thanks, I also appreciated your suggestion about using P2 as a means of communicating to the group.

The community we are trying to create are not necessarily bloggers and we need an easy way for them to communicate site wide. For now I have created a group “Community Voice” to facilitate site wide communication, but a little clunky requiring everyone to join this group. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

Bri@n

@Brian

Just insert the raw html or video embed code into your homepage template. If your using default BP theme you can put it in wp-content/themes/bp-default/home.php

Question, to the group, posting a video clip to the home?

I would like to place a short “site purpose” & “how to” video clip on the home page for new users. (non bloggers) What is the cleanest and easiest way to do that? Thanks

What you’ll want to do is run BuddyPress on a sub-blog not the root blog. There are a couple of threads on how to do this if you do a quick search.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-links/screenshots/

@MrMaz, Can you screen shoot the plugin in action for I to see?

Hi,

First of all: thanks for BuddyPress, great work

I’m building a new template for my BuddyPress site, but for some reason Ican’t get the custom template pages working. I copied an existing archive.php file to links.php,

put

<?php

/*

Template Name: Links

*/

?>

at the top of the code and put the file into the sn_parent directory.

When I add a new page in admin, I’m not able to select the template of the new file. Is this different then WordPress? Or am I doing something wrong.

@PH

I already have much of the code completed for remote submit and bookmarklet type tools, etc. However, I am probably going to have to release those tools in a pro version and charge for it because so far I have received zero financial support for the plugin despite over 1000 downloads.

@MrMaz

Are there any plans for “tools” for BP Links?

1) A code snippet for my blogs/post so that I can add it to my template and add a post to my links.. very similar to those “share this” buttons that are ever so popular

2) A bookmarklet for my browser?

With out these two tools, it makes it very hard for my users to share.

Thanks!

I feel that maybe the life-stream should hacked or this FYI: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/complexlife

because it a simple and powerful plugin,and different from the other feed aggregator…

Thanks Xevo, but yes it is active. Can’t figure this one out. Have deactivated, reactivated etc to no avail…

Issue resolved for me.

Turns out (in my particular case), buddypress doesn’t like being integrated with a WPMU that is installed in a directory named /blog/ ….it seems to sorta confuse bp when it tries to route the main WPMU blog, which sorta makes sense when you really think about it.

So I renamed the /blog/ directory to /social/ and made sure this change was also made in my wp-config.php file and .htaccess file. Also double checked my database as well and presto, everything works perfectly.

Note that any existing member blogs may be adversely effected by this process, but luckily I only had test blogs on my install. So this may not work as easily for everyone.

:]

@nzde: The error is saying that one of the buddypress functions can’t be found. You sure you activated buddypress in the admin panel?

Hi All

Is anyone getting this kind of fatal error when activating the new default theme?

Fatal error: Call to undefined function bp_is_member() in /home/axiomat/public_html/wp-content/themes/bp-default/header.php on line 47

Many thanks

Richard

@MrMaz

The other plugins arent designed for BuddyPress. Overall, I think having an life-activity aggregator is something desperately needed for buddypress.

I agree that conceptually there is a big difference between “stuff” and “actions”

–nonetheless;

just simply based on the constant request — it seems like a plugin is needed.

Check your logs, probably some unseen error popping up somewhere.

De-installing buddypress after installing is impossible right now (unless you exactly know what buddypress adds to your wpmu install). This is a problem with a lot of plugins.

Finally back at it after a few days off for Christmas, and faced with another hurdle. I can create a blog but when I access it, nothing shows but a blank screen. I tried the fix suggested in this thread but it didn’t help (actually, I couldn’t even access the Create A Blog page so I re-edited the file as it was originally). I’m running WPMU 2.8.6 / BuddyPress 1.1.3.

I’ve tried deactivating the most recently installed plugins, but nothing seems to be in conflict. If need be, you can see my efforts here: http://rspace.org/

Any ideas?