For future reference, I figured out how to do this: I’m using the plugin
https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/groupblog-v13-adding-members-instantly-thanks-boone
So long as people join the group associated with the main site, they’re able to add blogs to the site. I make everyone a contributor so their blogs aren’t published automatically and I can then add them to the category – Member Blogs.
Hey, I know it’s in the instructions but is there anyway to programmatically detect that the “links” directory hasn’t been moved/updated. By default it should be put in bp-sn-parent (or bp-default in 1.2+) so any child theme can make use of it. Even if you don’t automagically move/update the “links” directory, make one of those nifty info bubbles appear at the top of the plugins page telling the user to move/update the directory.
I’m a big-time “Add new” plugin sort of person and seldom manually install anything if I can help it. 
Fantastic plugin and fantastic rationalization too. Made me double think media sharing in my current side project. I’m looking forward to your updates for the new 1.2 bp-default theme.
Would there be a way to make plugin settings show up somewhere on member pages?
Yes, you can create a WP plugin with a settings page, then place that plugin in /wp-content/mu-plugins/ so it shows up on all WPMU blogs in the admin area.
EDIT: after re-reading this, you probably meant as a BuddyPress member settings page right? If so, don’t read the rest of this post!
Read up on how to create a settings page or use a WP plugin framework such as the one created by scribu:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/scb-framework/
For how to use options in the front end, you would use the get_option() function:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_option
That should get you started.
Thanks. I’ll try that plugin. It doesn’t look very solid though…
Definitely not BP core, since blogging is all WPMU.
Would there be a way to make plugin settings show up somewhere on member pages? Perhaps under ‘settings’? Or even just links to the full plugin settings in the admin back end?
Can you use the code in plugins that add settings to the admin area to make them show up on the front end somewhere?
These questions are also related to something I’ll be working on here…
I’m also running WPMU 2.8.6 and BuddyPress 1.1.3 with subdirectories. I’ve found a rather tedious workaround to get rid of the double entries, but it doesn’t stop them from happening.
From cPanel, go to phpMyAdmin and find the table wp_bp_activity_user_activity_cached. Click on Browse, find the entry you want to delete from the table, and delete it. It’s now gone from the activity stream.
Guys, trac has a zip archive of everything. No need for learning svn if you’re just checking it out occasionally.
Bookmark this page:
https://trac.buddypress.org/browser/trunk
Scroll to the bottom where it says
“Download in other formats:
* Zip Archive”
Click on “zip archive”.
When using subdomains this problem does not appear to be there, but when using subdirectories with wpmu this issue seems to occur. I am using latest XAMPP for OSX with 2.8.6 WPMU and 1.1.3 Buddypress. This seems to happen whenever subdirectories are enabled. Currently seeing what i can do to bypass this bug (switching back to subdomains).
” but none of the widgets are pre-set. Member blogs come up, but each new member would have to configure their own widgets.
I’d like members to be able to join and have everything set up for them. “
Asked, answered and beat to death over in the MU forums. If it’s on the user *blogs* then it has nothing to do with Buddypress.
Do you really want widgets set up for the users (a little more work), or do you want a specific sidebar that they can’t fiddle with (dead easy). Or really, sheesh, just set up the sidebar for them buy hardcoding it consistently in the themes (if there’s only one theme for users, well, piece of cake here) and then let them add widgets if you want them to.
Which, really, is how the blogs work by default.
Tip: go over to the MU forums, explain what you want in detail in a new thread.
Thanks David Lewis. I’ve entered svn.buddypress.org into CuteFTP and that works surprisingly well. It also seems to give me access to anything else on subversion.tigris.org…
There are no longer any member themes, just a BP theme for the blog where BP is enabled. use a regualr WP theme on the user’s blogs.
Not where yet? Having blogs be set up with defined defaults for widgets? As has been stated, that has nothing to do with BuddyPress. As such, it won’t be “resolved” in a future version. But if you head on over to the WordPress MU forums, I’m sure you could find what you’re looking for.
I had been doing SVN checkouts (i.e. svn co) from the command line in Mac OS X… but I still had to install a subversion binary before I could do that… or compile one from source. And even with a GUI SVN client you may still need to do that. Not impossible for a newbie with a bit of help from Google… but not necessarily a fun way to spend an afternoon either. LOL.
Then I discovered that I could simply use a plain old GUI FTP client and point it to https://svn.buddypress.org/ using the “WebDav” protocol! Very simple. I can download the trunk just with drag and drop. And to see what revision number we’re on… I just point my web browser to the same URL. By the way, I’m using Panic’s “Transmit” FTP client on the Mac.
Put my project on hold till I could figure out how to do this…maybe the latest release changes things…
You only get /blog/ if you’re using the default BuddyPress theme. In fact, that’s what the code above should be doing – it handles this sort of URL – http://utahdogs.com/blog/2009/12/15/suggest-links/
I think there’s a bit of confusion here.
You’re using a WPMU install (subdirectory type). So ‘parks’ is a hosted blog, which you can therefore access at http://utahdogs.com/parks/. You’re also using the default theme for hosted blogs; the default theme it isn’t built to support that and you are going to get weird things happening with the URLs in the menu, for example.
Ignoring those, your root blog is accessible at /blog/. This is because the root blog has to provide all the member pages, groups, and so on, so there has to be a special URL provided to be able to get to the actual *blog*.
can you guarantee that ANY plugin that works on WPMU also works on Buddypress? And works for all features of Buddypress
No, we can’t. I’m also closing this thread as it’s two months old and now off-topic.
socialpreneur, can you guarantee that ANY plugin that works on WPMU also works on Buddypress? And works for all features of Buddypress?
So… okay… it looks like the default is to just transform typed URLs into links, like so: http://www.buddypress.org
The “test link” I posted in my original post on this thread (above) worked using an html “a” tag, but I can’t seem to make html work in my forums.
Should I be looking for a specific plugin?
Are bbPress plugins usable on buddypress to interact with the forums?
https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/buddypress-editable-group-slugs
edit: sorry, not exactly what you need, but i’ll leave this for reference…
I got this error after deleting line 468 from bp-links.php and remove –> “return false”
I did select category and add url, name, desc after submit got this error “Please fill in all of the required fields”
Hey!
Since running the new 1.2 theme from the trunk this plugin no longer works, it works with the classic theme but I really miss it!
Currrently the ajax loader just hangs, any chance of an update on this plugin, I miss it!
@pimp
make sure you have selected a category? the only req fields are category, url, name, desc.
@ MrMaz: I’ve got some basic CSS-skills but not more than that. I’ve got more opinions than skills (blushes)..
Yes I got an error message “Please fill in all of the required fields”
