BuddyPress.org

first question is, do you have buddypress up and running and does everything work like it’s supposed to (eg. forums/messaging/status updates/etc.)? also, are you on a dedicated server at godaddy?

Hey TR123,

Short answer: Right now, you can’t.

There are a couple of requests in the Trac for group categories:

https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/946

https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/1068

I don’t anticipate this coming in 2009; I’m guessing something like this will come in the New Year.

Hope that helps!

If you are using MAMP, then you should not have to touch the .htaccess file.

See this video article that Andy wrote/created on installing BuddyPress locally:

https://buddypress.org/blog/how-to/installing-buddypress-locally-on-a-mac/

hey my friends, I am not able to send a Private-Mail via this website buddypress.org , even not to my BP-friends….. could you please fix this ?

@JJJ

I am using the latest FireFox-browser, but I am quite sure this is not related to the browser being used. The PM-system has worked fine previously, something must have happened in the meantime……

Thanx

I was just thinking about going “online” with my website, but I do not dare yet because of the missing “Privacy Component”.

I think this “Privacy Component” is the single most important feature before everything else…..

In other words, as jjj is saying, search the forum for threads on “deep integration”.

https://buddypress.org/forums/search.php?q=deep+integration

I’m not sure if this is still accurate, but you can also give this a try:

http://theeasybutton.com/blog/2009/07/17/integrating-buddypress-wordpress-mu-and-bbpress/

Should be a simple fix.

just to clarify:

I do LOVE BuddyPress and I am 100% confident that this is the “next big thing” !

There are a few bugs but this should not stop us to support this great software and improve it as a community.

Unfortunately, I am too dumb to be a programmer, but I am trying to help and sitting for hours at testbp.org in order to find some bugs…..and report it in the TRAC-ticket-system (which is a really great tool to track and see how the development of BP-software is continuing to improve).

The BP-development is all in all very visible – which is a great and honest way (other software companies rather try to hide their bugs…).

Just keep up the great work guys !

Thanks,

Erich

hey

Just to keep you posted.I am working on this for a new theme of mine,But for me,I have been doing it on and off and I hope to complete it in next 2 weeks.Then I will release the enhanced here.If someone can do it before ,then that will be great.

btw what you people think,A separate breadcrumb plugin for buddypress which shows the “home” for the profile page and say edit profile page as “Home”->Edit profile will be better or just extending the wordpress plugin ,which shows Home(for the main site)

EKine: is it a BP board? If so, can you tell me what you’re doing to enact the ajax chat there?

I was just looking at the code and I’m not sure the id on the img tag actually serves any purpose. Or does it? Perhaps it could just be removed… in the name of W3C validation? I often come across this actually where an id will be used in a loop and end up creating multiple identical “unique” identifiers upon rendering the HTML page.

If you are able to make a patch to improve this behaviour, upload it to the Trac. Otherwise upload an enhancement ticket as a suggestion.

@gaz: Yes, with the default theme you get a main navigation bar that focuses on BuddyPress features (Members, Groups, Forums). So in that sense, BuddyPress “takes over”. But there’s also the “Blog” link which links to your WPMU main blog. WPMU is nothing more than Posts and Pages. So it’s all still there.

But yes, the main navigation is BuddyPress-focused when using the default theme. However, that is easily changed. Simply create a child theme with a custom header.php file. Your navigation could then be… Blog, About, Products, Contact, Customer Care… whatever you wish. Perhaps those BuddyPress links (Members, Groups, Forums) would be either in a separate navigation bar (like the bottom bar on Facebook) or maybe subsections of a “Community” menu. Or what have you. It’s all very do-able.

Unfortunately… you are also correct that there are very few custom themes right now. And no purpose-specific themes. BuddyPress is too new. So your choices are to either a) roll up your sleeves and be prepared to do a ton of learning and research or b) hire someone.

And Site Architecture is critical of course. It seems like you have a good idea of what you want to do but you’ve started out by taking a default BuddyPress install and working backwards from there. A good sanity check (if you haven’t already done so) is to sit down and sketch out exactly what you want… what sections… what navigation bars… what functionality… etc. Draw it all out (again, if you haven’t already). Then work from there.

I think you’ve made the right choice. It’ll just require some work. WordPress and BuddyPress are so much more flexible and better supported than the other open source alternatives. It’s worth the effort.

@kookjai – Topics marked as resolved (with the green icon) aren’t read very often. You’d have been better making a new topic as your question is different from what the thread is about

Anyway, have a read of https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/how-to-remove-the-admin-bar-from-blogs

We would still really, really answers to those questions we keep linking you to!

In the interim; it looks like you’ve got the theme in the correct place with its functions PHP. A google suggests that hostmonster allows htaccess by default. I’m going to assume you’ve been able to confirm that the htaccess is being loaded.

More googling suggests that hostmonster is a subsidiary of bluehost, which we’ve seen problems with on this forum before.

Was WPMU and/or BuddyPress installed via SimpleScripts?

Gaz-

I’m glad you’re back on track. We aim to please and sometimes we actually manage to do just that!

All I can share from personal experience is this: It’s real easy to get lost in all the gloss. About two years ago when I was hunting down low-cost, self-hosted, white label social networking software, I narrowed it down to two choices, Elgg and Dolphin. What I loved about Dolphin was how intuitive and pretty the whole backend was — you could easy drag/drop/rearrange different menu items and easily swap out your pages/columns/widgets. You could even change the sizes of certain page elements with just a few mouse clicks. It was almost like a Square Spaces for social networks. But then came more research. And upon that research, I found that Dolphin has some of the ugliest code ever written. On top of breaking tons of add-ons during upgrades, there also wasn’t (and probably still isn’t) an active support group available — more like a commune of helpless, p/o’ed customers who were all experiencing the same bugs. That’s not to say that it’s useless. I’m sure it works fine for a good handful of users who dumped a lot of money into development. But it became apparent that I needed to look into Elgg instead.

Now, Elgg does everything it says right out of the box 100% and we had instant love affair — http://www.michaelkuhlmann.com/category/elgg-vs-buddypress/. The whole installation took me about 10 minutes and there wasn’t a single problem… until I tried to re-design it. It was virtually impossible creating an entirely different layout. In fact, I have yet to see an Elgg-powered site that looks completely custom-made like the BuddyPress-powered VW TDI Truth & Dare site. Again, I’m sure Elgg fulfills the needs of many of its users – and probably a lot more so than Dolphin – but when it came to theming the software, it just fell a bit short. Although I could see how it could seem *ahead of the game* with its ease of use and drag’n’drop capabilities, it really isn’t compared to BP.

So BP came right along just as I finished *theming* — I should actually just say “colorizing” – my Elgg installation. Immediately, I dumped Elgg and switched to BP. I had seen what Andy did with ChickSpeak several months before the BP/Automattic venture was announced, so it looked quite promising. Then, the first release came out. First, I had trouble installing WPMU. Next, I had trouble installing BP. Following that, I couldn’t figure out how to get forums up and running. I sounded just like Mythailife – frustrated to the core. But I also remembered what an amazing difference a few months of development did to WordPress going from version 2.3 to 2.7, so I decided to stick around.

Up until now, I can easily say that BP has made strides in development. Out of the dozens of forums that I’ve visited, BP has *consistently* given the most support to its users in a timely fashion – FOR FREE. I have to stress the complimentary tech support part, because a lot of people tend to demand an answer to every single question immediately after they’ve posted their question, which is ridiculous. And if that speaks to you, here’s what you are getting – again – FOR FREE:

– A social networking system built on top of one of the best open source publishing systems, which means you’re also inheriting tons of great functionalities like WordTube/MapPress/eCommerce/Facebook Connect

– Loads of documentation including WordPress for Dummies and the upcoming book BuddyPress for Dummies (books are not free, of course, but they do count towards documentation)

– Support forums, development roadmaps and overall project transparency

– Ability to customize/theme BP exactly the way you want it to appear

– Dozens of available plugins

– Did I mention that this is built on WordPress?

If you don’t have the luxury of time to wait for support-related questions or still feel like this project is lagging AND you have deep pockets, there’s always Crowdfusion and Anahita. Otherwise, don’t get lost in the gloss, because BuddyPress is the next-best-thing to come out of the Automattic vault.

@slicktig1

Andy’s post that Xevo is referring to is in this thread that you started.

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/is-there-a-plugin-for-sitewide-comments#post-27677

By the way, just in case you are not aware, there are a few high-profile business-based sites that are using BuddyPress–at least some of BP’s components. For instance, http://pro.gigaom.com/ has integrated BP, although it does not have all the components enabled.

The main reason I switched to BP (this is a continuation of a post I made on another thread) is because of the potential I saw in it as a platform to build robust, serious, social-based business platforms.

I found one fix – it might not work for everyone, but see the last couple of posts from me in this thread – https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/grasping-at-straws-now-should-wpmu-bp-be-in-same-db-or-different