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@reinergaer Don’t confuse Andy’s plugin (which draws external blog RSS feeds into a group) with the under-development Group Blog plugin which adds full blogging functionality seamlessly into a group

Hi again!

Read this:

“I’ve used a WordPress theme for my blog with the default BuddyPress member theme”

Over at:

https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/upgrading-a-buddypress-1-0-theme-for-buddypress-1-1/

You’ll have to edit things and if you’re not comfortable with that you’ll probably need more help than you can get here.

I don’t know your level of knowledge. Search around the forums and read up on the topics you need. I haven’t had answers to all my questions here in the BP-forums. You’ll have to search for some of them on your own.

Groups have several ways of interacting them with code. Which do you mean?

Profile only has https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/custom-buddypress-loops/the-profile-data-loop-bp_has_profile/

This is – obviously – a WPMU question, not a BuddyPress question.

You are probably giving that user admin rights on a specific blog. If you mean for that user to become a site wide administrator, then go to Site Admin -> Site Options and there is a text box near the bottom of this page (“Administration Settings”).

Hi abcaa6!

There are just a few themes right now that are meant to work with 1.1 unless you make som modifications. So (I assume) DjPaul is advising you to use the default theme template and not others (or the only other one found at buddypress.org/extent/themes/).

The parent theme + its child is one of the few that works right now. Unless you rebuild it yourself:

https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/upgrading-a-buddypress-1-0-theme-for-buddypress-1-1/

I’m off trying that myself right now. Cya folks!

Thumbs up…

I wish that could be done for user profiles too…

Thanks andy…

this is a great plugin. since I do not want anyone to create a blog with a group (so far users are only allowed to start their own group and blog registration is disabled): How could I – as admin – exclusively attach blogs to certain groups? Is there any way that only admins (of bp and not group admins) are allowed to create “group blogs”?

thanks,

Reiner

I’ve got no first hand experience with the domain mapping plugin myself, but I have used the multi-site plugin and it seems capable of doing what you want if I understand you correctly.

Ultimately there will still be a shared userbase between the sites though, even if they’re on different domains and you only want one of them to have a buddypress’ish community feel to it.

May I ask a possible dumb question? I’ve upgraded to 1.1.1 on 2.8.4a and am using a premium theme for my main blog. I’ve currently reverted back to the old BuddyPress theme system for now.

Here’s my question, can I leave my Premium WordPress theme as the Parent theme, create a child, and place the bp-sn-parent folders and the “optionsbar.php”, “userbar.php” and “plugin-template.php” in the child theme? Also place header.php in the child with the appropriate code for the usernav bar? And then edit the appropriate css?

Is that a workable and effective approach?

Many thanks.

@Jeff Sayre and others.

May I ask a possible dumb question? I’ve upgraded to 1.1.1 on 2.8.4a and am using a premium theme for my main blog. I’ve currently reverted back to the old BuddyPress theme system for now.

Here’s my question, can I leave my Premium WordPress theme as the Parent theme, create a child, and place the bp-sn-parent folders and the “optionsbar.php”, “userbar.php” and “plugin-template.php” in the child theme? Also place header.php in the child with the appropriate code for the usernav bar? And then edit the appropriate css?

Is that a workable and effective approach?

Many thanks.

Default settings for new blogs for WPMU plugins DO exist. Again, this is nothing to do with BuddyPress. Look on the WPMU forum.

Think of something like Usenet, which was basically just a group of people talking back and forth inside their own little forum. Since BuddyPress is a community centric, user centric plugin for WordPress, the focus is on the interaction between people inside their respective groups. Forums are currently a feature of groups, but forums could be a feature of other things later too if plugins choose to support them, since bbPress is included and a great example of an API exists within BuddyPress.

Events could have their own discussion forums, blogs, users, activity feed items could be topics, etc…

Give me the weekend to test a theory. This should be possible by setting the BP_ROOT_BLOG to be the ID of the blog you want it to be, but if it’s not working that way I need to take a look at why.

You’ll want bp_enable_multiblog set to false. Setting it to true allows all subdomains to have access to the directories and profiles areas. This is mostly useful if you’re trying to use specific subdomains for specific pieces of BP, or if you want all blogs/subdomains/sites to have access to the directories from within themselves.

If you take a look at profiles.wordpress.org, you’ll see how they have BP used there within a subdomain.

I also think the better answer to your question would be to create a custom theme that only shows BP elements in the domain/subdomain that you want to show them. But, that takes a little more work I suppose.

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/when-asking-for-support

I’ve submitted an enhancement ticket for BuddyPress version 2,389, 493.1 beta. Time Machine please! Must be capable or bi-directional time travel. Come on guys… every other CMS has one.

Bug reports go in our bug tracker, I’ve added it this time for you – https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/1213.

At a minimum, we also need you to complete the details on https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/when-asking-for-support

First of all: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/when-asking-for-support

Secondly: I am assuming you are using the default BP 1.1 theme for the moment – are you? If not, use the default theme until you have it all working. Make sure it is in /wp-content/themes/. Activate the theme in the normal way and select it; this warning message should go away.

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/when-asking-for-support

Is this an upcoming function? I don’t know, give me a time machine and I’ll find out.

In the interim, make an enhancement ticket on https://trac.buddypress.org/ with the same username and password that you use for this site.

@kas2 – can you try this on your install without running any plugins other than BuddyPress?