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We have avatar uploading problems only with some users. After checking directories I suspect the problem stems from active users PRIOR to buddypress integration.

All users that signed up after we installed buddypress have no avatar problems.

Users that were already registered in wpmu prior to our buddypress install can upload avatar files but they are incorrectly (not) processed.

E.G. a prior user may have a blog ID=120 but when they try to upload an avatar then a directory is created in the wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/avatars folder with number 131 (so not matching a blog ID).

Also the JPG files in that folder are not processed and retain their original name instead of the processed names like 7ba85e67359e35737060794b4690e67-bpthumb.jpg.

Hope this helps with debug ..

My question for now is: Is there a way to safely create a new avatar for the “broken” users through FTP while this bug is worked on ? e.g. can I create a folder with correct number and place image files in there ? (they would not have a processed name then) …

p.s. These users were assigned a random wavatar correctly at time buddypress was installed. It’s only when they change from random wavatar to their own pic that problems arise.

@nocomment yeah, we’ve fiddled and tested BP & multisite together.

@DJPaul – will investigate right-quick!

There are cases where clients have a use for multiple sites, each with its own distinct buddypress. So that would be cool. (I think we’re working on a trac ticket – don’t hold me to it yet tho)

Edit: quick confer with Ron, and the multi-blog part is a seperate isue than on multiple sites. Still thinking.

It looks like a cool plugin, choice is always good for people.

Mingle’s activity stream and commenting is the way BuddyPress should have done it.

I’ve never understood why status updates and the wire are considered separate.

This will not be the case with 1.2. I’m working on merging activity streams, the wire and status updates into something more “live”.

Yes, you are right.You need to create a custom component.

here is a great way to start.

Download the skeleton component from here and have a look, you will see ,how can you do it.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-skeleton-component/

This isn’t what you want, but thought I’d share as it’s sort of related and in case anyone comes across this post via Google at a later date – BP_ENABLE_MULTIBLOG:

https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/changing-internal-configuration-settings/

So far, buddypress is not multi-site aware.

There are situations where you may want it to be like that though, but as above, no way I’d do it on a shared host.

No this is impossible or either not recommended. If you go look inside a database with wpmu/buddypress you’ll see that without even a second wpmu/buddypress install, it’s a total mess since you get a few new tables for every blog/user, now imagine that you have 200 wpmu/buddypress installs in one database and then have 10.000 users per install. It’ll be a huge mess and probably make your server/sites really slow.

Only possible solution would be to make multiple databases, with one database per install. If your on a cheap host, this’ll be impossible, but if your on a dedicated or self hosted, you could get this to work. Still won’t recommend this though, since it’ll take a lot of resources.

and if you still want to keep the default BP forums, you can apply permission like here: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/disallow-ordinary-users-to-create-groups so just the admin can create groups, and you simply use your admin level to create these groups, and have the first group to host all the forums, making only account #1 the forum manager, showing all the forums at the same place… that’s what i plan on doing…

Catherine-

Are looking to have a sitewide forum instead of group-based forums? If so, read my response in this thread:

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/cannot-add-topic-in-bbpress-forum#post-29032

Read my thread response here:

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/cannot-add-topic-in-bbpress-forum#post-29032

Hi @ all, I build the Seo for Buddypress plugin.

When I saw this discussion, I decided to write an article about Seo.

(Sorry for my terrible English, I hope I will be able to bring my thinking on the point.)

First of all, Search-Engine-Optimization and Link-marketing is hart and long work.

If you aspect to do nothing and become a good ranking and search results,

forget about it.

The way google ranks content of a website is not explained in a small forum article.

But I will try to explain you the most important.

Seo is marketing ! Most keyword marketing.

So you need to have harmony between your Title, Meta Description and the Content of the page.

A clear title (for human understandable) and a real description, where the Keywords also are used in a understandable sentence.

Google knows English and many other languages. And it can realise if you wrote a real sentence, which is unique in a way and has something to do with the content of the page.

If your Title, Your Meta Description, Your Keywords (not so important any more)

are filed in correct, and the main keywords are in the title and the description and comes back in the content of the page, than google knows that this content is real and has something to say.

Google does not like generated titles and descriptions with no sense.

Or even just copying the content from the website in the description is not the way google like. Also google do not like if your description looks similar all over your site.

For example:

If we looking at the Profile Page.

If you always have the sentence:

This is a profile page from my social network for pet lovers.

Google will find this sentence with every users profile on your site.

So if you have 10 members, Google will have 10 times the same sentence.

Google won’t find this sentence attractive. It will think all your member pages are not interesting and will mark your site with duplicate description.

This will be very bad for you!

If you would write a user name in:

This is a profile page from “name”, one user of my social network for pet lovers, google would like this more.

But still the sentence is to similar. Just one word has changed.

All the other look the same. In the end google will mark your site with duplicate description

again.

So if you would have a sentence like this:

This is “name” profile page he has a “ped”. He likes “Interests”. He comes from “…” and is looking for “…”

Google would love every user profile.

Every body has different ped’s, hobby’s, comes from different places and so on.

In this fact google would mark your profile pages as made from a human.

This is real Search-Engine-Optimization

You see what I want to explain.

Title, Meta Description and Content must be meaningful!

For this I build the Plugin.

It gives you the possibility to make a unique meaningful Title, Meta description and keywords-marketing for all sites and parts of your Social Network.

For this you have to think about every part of your website to feed the needs.

The special tags in the plugin for example group-name, user-name, event-name are your place holders to create descriptions from your content.

This plugin is in an early state.

0.6.6

Buddypress changed allot in the last versions, and I had enough to do to keep it working.

In the next versions I will add all the special tags, who are needed.

If all the special tags are added, I will make a global configuration.

That means If you install the plugin, a most common Seo optimization will be there.

And the Special Tags will be used by default.

Then you have your full automatic Seo optimization.

But this would be never so effective, as doing it properly by hand for every part.

At the moment, buddypress does not add descriptions and keywords at all.

So if you use the plugin and have static descriptions because of the missing special tags in this early state, don’t worry.

Its still better to have a description then have no at all.

There are many other thinks I will integrate in the Plugin in the future, xml sitemap for all buddypress sites, alt tags for images and much more…

Also I will write some more articles about Search-Engine-Optimization. If needed.

I’m looking forward to BP-tricks.com from Bowe. Maybe I will have the chance to go deeper in Search-Engine-Optimization there.

I hope I could make thinks more clear!

So you’re saying you want to use the BuddyBar outside of WordPress?

If so, this article helped me:

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

I used this on a Moodle install and it worked.

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Is your homepage powered by WordPress? If so, the answer will be much easier.

Let us know what your setup is.

Well if I use the bbopress in buddypress for new installation, HOW do I add forum sections?

You can’t add forum sections.

BuddyPress forums are tied to groups. So you’ll have to create new groups with forums in order to emulate forum sections.

If you’re trying to setup BuddyPress forums to be like this:

http://testbp.org/forums

Remove bbPress and reinstall BuddyPress. This time, follow these instructions:

https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/setting-up-a-new-installation/

Specifically the “Setting Up Forums” section.

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If you plan on using a separate install of bbPress, you’ll need to theme it.

No way around this I’m afraid.

You could use Manoj Kumar’s BuddyPress theme for bbPress to get a similar looking BP feel:

http://manojkumar.org/buddypress-theme-for-bbpress/

Hope that helps!

No nothing like that has been made for wpmu or buddypress yet.

See this.

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/make-your-own-custom-buddypress-page

Standard bbpress installations have their own admin panel. Since bbpress is actually a totally seperate software it just has a nice extra that it can intergrate with wordpress. So if you installed it manually and did not use the already made bbpress in buddypress, then you can make and administrate your bbpress from its admin panel. If you used the bbpress in buddypress then you won’t have a handy admin panel.

Hey Vividbreeze,

What are you trying to do?

I’m guessing you want to use BuddyPress’ embedded bbPress forums like this:

http://testbp.org/forums

If so, go into your WPMU admin area, and under “BuddyPress > Forums setup” and select ““Set up a new bbPress installation”.

If you’re trying to integrate a separate bbPress install, reply back and let us know.

Erich,

Here you go:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/seo-for-buddypress/

Just tried out Mingle and I’m very impressed with it, especially at the fact that it’s such a young plugin.

Mingle’s activity stream and commenting is the way BuddyPress should have done it.

I’ve never understood why status updates and the wire are considered separate.

Mingle also has basic out-of-the-box privacy features so you can choose if your profile is visible to your friends only or to the public.

The author of the plugin is Blair Williams, who has also made the excellent Pretty Link plugin.

No sitewide activity stream, pretty permalink support for user profiles, private messages support, or groups, but that’s understandable.

So far I like Mingle because it’s simple and I hope it stays that way.

It’s not enough to jump ship from BP, but it’s definitely a plugin to keep an eye on.