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Same problem with Greek characters @ Forum.

i m also using buddypress builtin forum installation.

Anyone who knows the solution or thinking of something that might help?

.pleaze advice.

Awesome wp themes? Try googling.

Also, converting a normal wp theme to a bp theme isn’t that easy, it adds a few folders and a lot of extra template files. And yes, if you know how to make bp/wp themes, you can design above average and do some coding; you could make a site like tdi volkswagen.

Today Andy will release the newest buddypress parent theme, you might wanna check that out too.

Nice plugin…!

Is there any chance to do the same way on members profile in the future?

It would be great to give members the ability to attach external blog RSS feeds to their profiles.

Anyone have any luck using sign-up question or wpmudev’s sign-up code? They both work great on a regular MU install since the person signing up has to answer a logical question or enter a code that they have received previously. The problem is when you activate those plugins, they work on the WordPress registration page and not the BuddyPress Registration page. Those would likely solve all the problems if we could get them to work together.

I’m developing a site that we want only approved, or in some cases paid members to be able to sign up, but I can’t get either of those plugins to work with BuddyPress. Anyone been able to do that, or know how it would be done?

@foodin65 – You could make your main site’s theme into a BP child theme to make it easier to get the functionalities you want in your site and make it future-proof. Given that Andy has coded the BP Parent Theme with dynamic and multiple body classes as well as other styling hooks within the body content, you could target certain sections of the site with different layouts, it makes a lot of sense.

With child themes, updating BuddyPress is almost seamless. You would only need to add or update some selectors and/or declarations in style.css instead of having to find out almost each and every new BP feature and updating them in your WP-turned-BP theme files plus style.css.

Sounds like someone exploited a WordPress vulnerability on your site.

Are you using the latest version of WPMU / BuddyPress?

If so, did you upgrade?

You might want to read these posts:

https://wordpress.org/development/2009/09/keep-wordpress-secure/

https://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_My_site_was_hacked

stwc’s summary of methods does seem to stop a lot of spam, but I’ve still been having some. I tried SI Capthca (https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/si-captcha-for-wordpress) but that seemed completely ineffective.

My latest weapon in the war has been to modify Invisible Defender (https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/invisible-defender) firstly to make it work with the buddypress registration page and secondly obfuscate its hidden fields by giving them random names and values:

http://bcbc.co.uk/mu/blog/2009/12/11/wordpress-registration-spam/

Yes, what is this “proprietary component”? Or is that information proprietary? LOL. I assume it centres around collaboration and / or document management perhaps?

Haha!

Yes, can I sound anymore stuck up than throwing around the term proprietary on an Open Source software forum.

To answer your third question first, yes.

As to your first two questions, I can only give you the most nebulous of details at this time. The component I’m working on is very specific to the site. It will be the primary collaboration and project management engine. So, it will not be something I will make available to the community. Besides, with the exception of using this component to become a direct competitor, it will not have any value to anyone else.

By document management I don’t mean something big and hairy like Stellent. I don’t think any Intranet would ever replace such a system not should it necessarily try. All I’m thinking is that in any kind of “Enterprise” solution, Groups should be able to do some level of collaboration on simple documents as well as offering basic downloads. How many times per day is the HR Department asked for a Benefits Claim Form for instance? So I’m just talking about commonly requested documents for employees. Not a massive database of Specs or Material Safety Data Sheets or what have you.

Another beneficial feature for enterprise would be the Jive concept of “Spaces”… which are nothing more than collections of groups. So your Head Office “Space” could have an IT Group, Service Desk Group, HR Group, etc.

But of course… depending on your needs… BuddyPress could work right now. “Enterprise” generally means decently sized corporations however… and in that space… privacy, security and some level of “document management” (as least having a small downloads area in each group) are essentials. Most of this is already in the BuddyPress roadmap. I think that in a few years… BuddyPress may well give products like Jive, Telligent, SocialText and other “Facebook for Enterprise” apps a run for their money.

You just need another theme for BP activated on the BP blog. That’s the terminology you’re looking for.

this thread might help:

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/intergrating-bp-with-existing-wordpress-theme

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/extending-wordpress-themes-post-experiences

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

I think it depends how you define enterprise software.

In my experience working with Local Authorities in the UK, BP will be more than adequate to improve communication internally and externally. We are doing projects with Local Authorities/social care/health in the UK where out of the box BP would be 200% better than what they currently have. There key drivers for our customers are flexibility, speed, departmental control.

They normally aren’t looking for project management, document management as they already have expensive process driven software systems in place that are controlled by corporate IT. When we pitch we are not pitching that BP will do everything, indeed i would argue that it shouldn’t do document management, that’s not it’s strength. It should focus on improving the things it does really well.

Is there any reason why you made the buddypress site a subdomain rather than just being installed on the main blog?

Yes, what is this “proprietary component”? Or is that information proprietary? LOL. I assume it centres around collaboration and / or document management perhaps?

Jive even has simple project management built in… which is pretty cool. It’s not MS Project by any means… but it would suffice for most simple projects.

I agree that a stock install of BP does not currently offer a sufficiently robust suite of tools for the enterprise. That will come in time via core enhancements and 3rd-party plugins.

I’m currently developing an enterprise-level, collaborative community site using BuddyPress as the foundation. So, it can be done—but not without a lot of work. For my site, I am coding a proprietary component that will be the main workhorse of the community.

By the way, my BuddyPress Privacy Component is available right now. Although it is still in Beta, it is very solid and much further along than what most people expect in a Beta release. You can grab it here: http://jeffsayre.com/buddypress/

has anyone transformed this to buddypress xprofiles?

so that for instance specific tags/html is allowed on profile pages?

this would be really handy.

@idotter

Cool, liaise with life-stream developer twitter.com/wplifestream or Nicola :bp?

A you redirecting to the buddypress pages? You shouldn’t use the standard wpmu register and activation. I remember Andy saying that he fixed this, but I guess it isn’t working like it should yet.

Try this.

http://mirlo.cl/how-to/fix-for-signup-and-activation-pages/

@Bowe

Nice work! It is a welcome addition, and generous contribution, to the BuddyPress community.