you can have a look at it at idotter.ch/wpmu i’m currently testing it and it only shows activity from one user … waht i’d liek to have would be activity from all registered users
@idotter,
WOW..LifeStream-plugin works with BP in what way? can you screen pic it?
liaise with the LifeStream-plugin developer or Nicola help?
Perhaps we should think about what exactly we want it to do – I’d love to work together as long as we all have a solid plan for features/etc 
I’ve probably not explained our feature set that well above (and to be honest, it’s still in a state of flux) but it closely matches what I would like to do in a ‘proper’ wiki inplementation. I guess I basically want it to be very buddypress-groups-focussed and I also have a strong aversion to the WP backend so ideally all editing will be done within the buddypress frontend.
I’d be interested in working on a Wiki-type system for BuddyPress.
I’d say that BuddyPress is a ways away from being ready for enterprise. No privacy / security settings and no collaboration features or document management. Privacy is coming… but I imagine that collaboration features are a long way off. Altho’ there is an active thread currently about someone trying to wedge MediaWiki into BuddyPress groups. Which would help.
Yes, there are a TON of intranet solutions competing in the Enterprise space now. Basically Wiki’s and document management within a social context… rather than a document context. Much more engaging. Everyone is trying to create the winning “Facebook for Enterprise”. PB Works, Jive and SocialText are just a few. PB seems not to be in the same league. SocialText is ugly and awkward on a lot of levels. And it’s written in Perl for pete’s sake. I’m not sure how they got so much mindshare. Jive on the other hand is spectacular. Amazing application. Well worth the piles of cash they ask for it (to enterprise anyway).
i found something interresting: LifeStream is a WP-Plugin, but also works with WP MU and buddypress. Now I’m having a look how to integrate LifeStream-plugin into wire/activitystream (they seem to get connected in BP 1.2) … but i think i’ll need some help.
I agree. We are doing a number of Stakeholder Engagement programs with Local Government in the UK. The #1 driver for our customers is improving communication throughout a geographically diverse workforce. Local Government is awash with failed intranets/collaboration websites, with ms sharepoint the most common platform. There is big opportunity to build discrete tools like you say (project management/document management etc) on top of wordpress, buddypress. Buddypress will win because it’s focused on engagement not transactional processes. Getting the community engaged is the real challenge and Andy P and the wordpress team naturally understand that.
@DJPaul
We’re using mediawiki at the moment. I was considering just creating a basic wiki from scratch (as I belive it would be a similar amount of work and achieve a better result) but other people involved in the project thought it was best to stick with the already partially integrated mediawiki due to the time constraints on the project… Which is fair enough, we’re running in quite a tight timeframe.
@nexia
The reason we’ve gone for fck is that it’s available as a plugin to mediawiki already. It wouldn’t be my first choice if it weren’t for that.
Unfortunately there are a lot of constraints on what we can do due to limited time and work-based politics. We’ve had to fight hard to not be stuck using Confluence wiki within Blackboard, despite the fact that the student take up in just 4 months has literally been 300 times greater in our first Buddypress system compared to a similar attempt using Blackboard. (changed wording a little to make it slightly more anonymous)
So you say if you disable BuddyPress, it works and you can log in ok? Can you view the hello world test post without BP enabled?
Try boosting your php memory to something like 128mb as a test.
@stwc
I had a website using Thesis as theme. When BuddyPress was released, I wanted to have a matching Theme that would inherit all the functionality I already had.
That’s what this theme does.
@Cyberbougnat
The widgetized home page is a page template. You need to create a page, select the template in that page, and then configure your WP installation to show that page as a “static front page”.
Looks good Detective — are there specific benefits to using Thesis integration, in terms of your Buddypress sites, or was it more that you were familiar working with Thesis?
Have you tried disabling BuddyPress – dies the problem still occur?
i updated PL-structure, i reinstalled wp mu and buddypress … but neither bp nor wpmu works properly. mod_rewrite is activated 
there seems to be a problem by the URIs. I opened a new blog, but when i want to visit it or jump into its backend, it can’t find the location blog.idotter.ch/wpmu/wp-admin
It looks great. Does this Andy character sleep? As he obviously isn’t planning a Christmas holiday:
“I will probably play with a few child themes over Xmas and produce some new color schemes with a bit more ‘flair’.”
Just wondering if the members/blogs/groups will be in a sn-parent theme that we can grab if we already have a custom theme? … as the functionality is much better than in the old theme.
Cheers for all your hard work.
I love the new theme! I am so glad that you all paid attention to this because I know that this was a major stumbling bloack for many of us early adopters. I cant’ wait to see the fbconnect functions added back in.
Marius I also want to thank you for your help. You and Erwin are to be commended for bp-events which in my opinion should be a core BuddyPress function. I hope that all of the functions that were once in that plugin make there way back in. I also have the latest version running and it help smooth out some of the wonks with my theme.
@Andy Peatling
Ah…sorry to spam you somewhat but I was also wondering if there were any plans to enable easy “quoting” within the forums with this theme/BP version (or a future theme/etc). We’ve finally convinced ourselves that flat forums are good but I think we’re definitely going to have to get some sort of quoting mechanism working.
edit:
I’ve just seen this post: http://testbp.org/groups/buddypress-testers-614548248//forum/topic/forum-or-wire-with-comments/
Hopefully I’ll be able to get that sorted as a plugin sometime soon.
Brilliant. Thanks for the clarification
The sidebar will be widgetized. It should be quite simple to mix it up with your own sidebar and make extra widget areas that only show on certain pages.
@Andy Peatling
I don’t suppose you could give us any info in regards to the planned widget options for the site? It would be quite nice to be able to specify different widgets for some pages (for example, the group pages/group components) but from the sounds of what you’re aiming at in terms of a site with a consistent interface, that might not be what you’re going for.
Obviously we can mod anything we need in but the lazy and selfish part of me hopes that you’re designing stuff exactly as I want it :p
edit:
Also thought I’d mention that it might be nice to change the theme so that clicking on your avatar also directs you to your profile page (in addition to clicking on your name). Several of our users have requested this. As before, we can mod this in if need be, but it seems like something that would be a nice feature for most installations.
Indeed. It’s not that hard for anyone to setup a test BP installation – there’s no need for Jeff to run a demo when he’s already done tons of work on the privacy component
I’ll be playing with this in the coming week I think. Is there anything missing from it that you don’t have time to work on at the moment? I suspect we’ll need to modify it slightly so if we can do that in a way that would save you a bit of work…
@Erich73
it would making TESTING much much easier, if you could set-up a BP-website including your plugin.
Please grap a domain and a cheap server and put BP onto it including your Privacy-plugin
I’m sure that might help some people, but I am not going to take my already-too-hectic schedule and add another duty to my list. If you do not have your own site running, then you do not need this plugin.
People need to see how my privacy component works on their BuddyPress sites. Those who have already given me feedback have provided great suggestions based on the needs of their sites’ users.
Haha Jeff you’re right, bit busy on other things.. I’ll try to have a good look at it asap!
