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hi swingJazz,

I sow you are using http://www.gigya.com/.

I want to know how is it working with buddypress.

Please give me a feedback.

I believe this project came to a halt 3 months ago. I’m planning on releasing a few cool buddypress themes soon, so sit tight.

@ illwill79: If you need help with something, pm me.

I looked into Elgg for a few weeks a while ago. My conclusion? Well… you know what they say… if you don’t have anything good to say… don’t say anything at all. But I guess that’s saying something LOL.

As others have said… just turn off blogging and hide the “Blogs” menu item. Simple.

A few quick thoughts and comments…

1. People use Facebook, YouTube etc. for one reason… volume… millions of “eyeballs” and astronomical amounts of content. It helps that they are a joy to use. Usability is paramount for user adoption.

2. Don’t lock yourself in a closet for 5 years trying to build the perfect solution and unleash it all at once. Who knows where the web will be in 5 years. That’s a lifetime in “web years”. Start small and constantly tweak and evolve.

3. You COULD use WordPress, BuddyPress… but at a certain point I would think you’d get into a square peg / round hole scenario. If you’re really trying to do something new and cool, and you have the funding, build it from the ground up… probably in either PHP of Ruby.

What about a twitter-like function that with a @username the person gets an email and my message occurs in his/her activity… Just dreaming, but woulöd be GREAT

I put in a feature request ticket for this a while back.

If you deactivate buddypress, do your permalinks work?

I read that back in March there had been some talk of BuddyPress for standard WP. But, I guess that didn't pan out. Otherwise, I suppose that may have been a better choice.

It hasn’t happened yet. Once WordPress and WordPress MU merge, then BuddyPress won’t be far behind.

obviously yes.Just turnoff the blogging and let the users register for the username only.So you have all the features except the blogging there.

and as far as server requirement is concerned,when blogging is turned off,the database size is small enough for your server and load is just ok ok.

Again,this is what I think with my experiences, and I think,wpmu+buddypress is best suited for your need(better than elgg ,as the wp community is much more versatile than the limited options available with elgg).

Hello all,

My setup:

1. I’ve upgraded last week my MU from 2.8.5 to 2.8.6.

2. Buddypress is version 1.1.2.

I have a similar issue with user slugs that have a blank space converted to a dash in them.

For example, this does not work:

http://centres-sociaux.fr/members/dominique-garet/

When I activate the compability mode, the new slug doesn’t work either:

http://centres-sociaux.fr/members/dominique garet/

Yet, with or without compability mode, alpha character slugs work just fine, like this:

http://centres-sociaux.fr/members/kgjerstad/

I also changed the user_nicename in wp_users to see if that had any effect, but it also failed to fix the issue:

http://centres-sociaux.fr/members/dgaret/

Any tips, or hints, would be greatly appreciated.

PS. This is my first posting in the forums, so I take the opportunity to show my appreciation to this lively community and to the great features BP offers. Longlive the Open source communities!

I believe with the new activity-stream coming up, there would be a very new and very interactive approach for posting into forum-topics… The question is, if it is possible (and if Andy wants to do this) that activity-comments are also forum comments/answers (or in other cases blog-article-comments etc). See this thread about activity-streams for more info:

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/activity-commenting#post-29956

Ps: And leave your thoughts/feedback

Please also see the suggestion of changing the “layout” and “navigation” for the specific “Group Forum”:

https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/1396

yeah, the “Forum” / “Forums” and posting is very confusing. I guess this way the Forums will be under-utilized by users, although a Discussion-Forum is one of the most important features for a Social-Networking website.

When you come to the point of having the need to explain the average user how your website works, then the website is crap and will never get any users signing-up. I saw many BP-websites which have videos in order to explain the use of the website.

Keep things as simple as possible, so that a user will understand how to navigate your website without having the need of watching 5 videos at which you explain how to navigate.

I would suggest to re-design the Forums-page in order to make it easier for users to understand how Group-Forums work and also make the posting-process a lot easier.

see this:

https://trac.buddypress.org/attachment/ticket/1389/sketch_2.gif

from the concept a little similar to this:

http://vancouver.en.craigslist.org/forums/?forumID=6

I’m intrigued by the linking of forums to groups. But I think the main issue is whether people will understand without instruction. I know I didn’t get it at first. Right now you can click Forums in 2 ways, one through the main link and one through the group link. Both do different things, meaning that what happens when you click Forums (same word, different locations) depends on what “mode” you’re in (group or non-group). Confusing.

Maybe on the forum page a button for posting a new topic could lead them through the group finding/creation process?

Gotta say, though. BuddyPress is really pretty.

have a look at this plugin.

It should be helpful

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-profile-filters-for-buddypress/

I guess I understand now what you are saying (@Michael, @Tore):

– when I make my comment to a Forum-Post, then my comment is showing-up at the “Home-page” and also within “My Activities”, but my comment is currently NOT showing-up within the specific Topic at the Group-Forum.

I do agree: All comments being made to a Forum-Topic, should be also made visible within this Group-Forum.

Also, I would suggest a re-design of the “Forums”-page:

https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/1389

https://trac.buddypress.org/attachment/ticket/1389/sketch_2.gif

this would make the “Forums”-page much more interesting for users and an easy understanding of how the “Group-Forums” are working.

see a similar example here:

http://vancouver.en.craigslist.org/forums/?forumID=6

If you totally want to restyle the buddypress theme then you should indeed just copy the bp-sn-parent folder, give the copy a new name and start editing that. Though, it’s recommended that if you just want small changes, to build a child theme.

You can find a guide here on building child themes.

https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/

I just tried that as I am out of alternatives…

Just noticed when testing the new signup slug that the user gets an email with the following text:

“You can log in to the administrator account with the following information:

Username: test

Password: bd36dc14

Login Here: http://test.biketravellers.com/wp-login.php”

? : Why does the user get a random password sent as he alreaady chose a non-random one? This random one does not work by the way.

Is this a result of the spam procedures or a regular bug?

Cheers, Bike

“2. In the test-group: http://testbp.org/groups/buddypress-testers-614548248 there are interesting discussions. One is about “feeding back” the comments to the original source (Blog-Post, etc) and one about the topic if the forums still make sense with that kind of activity-stream. Check it out and get involved in the discussion here – I think those are very important topics!

My answer is: As simple as possible for the end-user. Merge as much as you can!”

I’d also like to see merging. If not, there will be comments to forumposts that are lost in the clutter of comments everywhere.

The buddypress theme uses “wp_list_comments()” to get the comments, it’s a new template tag since wp 2.7.

Your able to change the output of this tag. See this article.

http://freebpthemes.com

Now that I tested it a little some thoughts (constructive I hope):

1. In the sitewide activity it doesn’t show a comment, when it’s belonging to an older entry… I think it would be cool, if it would show up on top, no matter how old the original entry was, because with the comment, it’s getting “New” again (hope you are getting what I mean with my english…)

2. In the test-group: http://testbp.org/groups/buddypress-testers-614548248 there are interesting discussions. One is about “feeding back” the comments to the original source (Blog-Post, etc) and one about the topic if the forums still make sense with that kind of activity-stream. Check it out and get involved in the discussion here – I think those are very important topics!

My answer is: As simple as possible for the end-user. Merge as much as you can!

An idea I posted in the group about the forum etc would be: Finding the topic and tagging would be the only benefit for forums. What if forums are topically organized with the overview and everything, but the answers would be the comments in the activity stream…?!

I guess technically (in the background) it would “measure” if it is a forum-post, blog-post or just a status-message your commenting to in the activity and handle all of it differently… (maybe that is very complicated, but would be great!)”

3. It really would be a loss, if there isn’t an option in the group anymore, to send a message to all members of the group… Right now I don’t see it anymore…