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(crosses fingers) will I be able to play with the beta on the weekend?

@jschires

FYI

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/xml-classes#post-30307

maybe you both can work on this then make android app later!

There already is a plugin which allows photo upload, but it has really limited options.

http://manojkumar.org/bppicture-album-plugin-for-buddypress/

You could use it as a guide to make your own plugin.

dito:

Thanks for re-bumping this (even though this is more of a MU issue).

I actually just encountered Peter’s original problem during an export/import.

Thanks r-a-y. I have only been using BuddyPress for a few days and discovered this problem, err–security feature last night,

The “Allow Embedded Videos: http://wpmudev.org/project/Allow-Embedded-Videos” plugin worked for me.

Make a plugin or put it in your functions.php.

function pc_get_userrole ($user_id) {

$user = new WP_User($user_id);

$userclean = $user->roles[0];

return $userclean;

}

Call it like this.

echo pc_get_userrole(bp_current_user_id());

Not sure how well it works, but it worked well enough for me.

I’m trying to do the same thing. No one seems to uderstand or is able to help out though. If I ever figure this out, I’ll post it in here.

I’m with David and nexia. Try it. I think there is room for a site that groups social communities. For example, Meetup.com is a generic site that allows you to create a social gathering around say hiking. But once you join, you learn about gatherings around mountain biking. Because it’s likely that hikers may mountain-bike, by putting the two together you’ve added value. Putting them together makes it easier for people to find each other and interact. This is true with some sports sites as well. I could see that model working. Check out communityengine.org which uses Ruby. This is just a collection of communities based on the interests of the developer, but the concept could be expanded.

MU and Buddypress could get this stuff done but be prepared for extensive plugin development. If you have funding, that shouldn’t be that bad.

As for the viability of the service, the model lately has been grow fast through viral exposure of a simple, free service. Once critical mass is achieved, anything is possible (or so the model suggests). Monetization is almost secondary, so you need deep pockets (particularly to take on media). Protection from competition is based on size, installed user base and acquisition of content (e.g. videos).

I’d say go for it, but start with maybe 3 networks. I’m using Buddypress because I have background in PHP/MySQL and I don’t want to use Rails, but you might consider communityengine or something similar if you don’t care.

maybe this helps:

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/bp-member-filter

I’m no guru, so I hope someone else comes along to help more. However, what Justin indicated in his post should work for BP just like WP. In fact the “role” is created in WP through Members Plugin anyway.

I would play with echoing the member role name (assuming you’ve assigned one). Once that is echoed, you should be able to use a function based off the thread to assign a ‘$role’.’.png’ file for the icon. It shouldn’t matter that it’s the profile page unless there is a loop problem with that page.

If you have an appropriate development environment, Justin will probably help you get the Members plugin to echo the role on a WP page , but he’s not a BP guru, so you may be back here for the second step.

You should make it a plugin, then add this to the plugin and activate. If you’d like to see a working implementation then check out these plugins:

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

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-groupblog

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/external-group-blogs

You should be saving extra group information as groupmeta:

bp_groups_update_groupmeta( $group_id, 'name', $value );

Check this thread in Plugins forum https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/buddypress-contents-10-plugin-released-tags-categories-in-bp

Burt is MIA and there are other users who have at least done some updating.

There doesn’t seem to be a clear line between creating/extending and plugins so searching forums is key.

I’ll again put in a plug for BPCONTENTS going core.

OK, I know adding this to core might be a big project to take on, but it seems that if BP and WP are really going to be flexible CMS’s, this kind of functionality is needed.

Custom post types, member types, group types and blog types.

It seems crazy that most sites would want to moderate anyone getting a blog or starting a group about anything. What I hate about some of the ning sites I see is duplicative groups and groups about nothing. Poor quality blog posts everywhere. Not a good user experience if you ask me.

I’m nowhere near good enough to take this on, but it’s needed. For example, I need different member levels (e.g. teacher, principal, student) with different “rights.” Different group types (e.g. classroom, school, extracurricular). Different blog types (e.g. homework, school news, dances/parties). Students shouldn’t be able to create school groups and teachers shouldn’t create blogs on parties/dances. Something like Justin Tadlock’s Members Plugin could be used to manage rights of specific content types including the content type user/member.

BPCONTENTS was/is a step on this direction that should be available for all well organized social networking sites. The fact that Facebook doesn’t allow different levels of “friend” access is problematic and BP should do better. I hope this gets on the roadmap list or at least as a supported plugin.

[. . . stepping off of soapbox ]

Yes, I’m having same problem in WPMU 2.8.4a and buddypress 1.1.3. Looks like this might have been addressed once at beginning of year (https://trac.buddypress.org/changeset/1083), but it’s cropped up again?

Moderators: should we post as bug?

I hope you get somewhere on this. I want Buddypress, but not MU. No choice at the moment, but I’ll only have one blog. I am thinking of guest authors, but not separate blogs. I am thinking of a way to use points or achievements as a way to access the ability to blog. That will save me some moderation time I hope. Without this solution, I plan to have to moderate initial posts to see if I want the authors content. Probably need to do that anyway in the beginning, but with growth, I’d like to relax that restriction.

Try JJJ’s BuddyBar in bbPress plugin:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddybar-in-bbpress/

Or the manual method:

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/bp-admin-bar-on-bbpress-front-page-1#post-18626

If all else fails:

http://dev.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2009/10/12/displaying-the-buddypress-admin-bar-in-other-applications/

Wow, those ajax functions must make that server nuts..

Am I allowed to copy this theme and make it a buddypress theme?

I’m just finishing up a post on how to do backups.

“I thought about the index.html as well, but that would still make people loose their posts they are editing when upgrade is taken place (or is failing), wouldn’t it?”

Hopefully you’ll have booted them out & warned them. Don’t upgrade on the middle of a Thursday, for instance. First thing Monday morning, early on a Saturday – those are times I pick, though I also have the advantage of being in an earlier timezone than my users.

“So you also do not (even) deactivate the BP-plugins?”

I mostly do MU sites, but yeah. I’d just keep on going… (Do the instructions say to deactivate it? I can’t say I ever looked…)

I tyr the auto-upgrades first, and then if needed (or if it’s a big upgrade) I do it manually. Much safer.

“By the way, myself and some others had a white screen of death last upgrade. Not just just main blog, but all blogs, the moment I clicked the de-activate BuddyPress button. Apparently this could have been prevented by switching theme first”

Yep. the theme is looking for BP and you turned it off. Kind of predictable, really.

I did a post here about backups, mostly via ssh, if someone wants to give it a read-over.

http://wpmututorials.com/basics/how-to-backup-wpmu/

This is nothing but an white space issue.

Check for the white spaces after closing tags of php(that may be on different line than the 3).

best bet ,disable all other plugins except buddypress ,if the error is there,It is because you have got white spaces in your header.php

Hope,that should help.

That’s because there is no buddypress theme for your users blogs, they just take the standard wordpress theme, just like when you would make a WPSA install.