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Is MultiSite plugin suitable for such purpose? That would be awesome.

I’m also looking for a solution to set up individual buddypress instances with different languages but with the same user base. So a user who has registered on http://www.domain.org would also be able to log in on http://de.domain.org.

Sure the user has to enter his profile details again for each language version he choose, but he can use one username and password to get logged in o whatever language version he wants.

This would be similar on what wikipedia is doing. They have different instances of mediawiki for each language, but you can change between these instances without an additional log in.

not sure if this is associated with “Multi-Language”:

https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/771#comment:5

that´s what I have been looking for.

Hope this will make it into BP-core ?

Andy is making changes to buddypress.org including forums and documents. Should be find by tomorrow.

@Candydate, i have a similar reflexion and my first choice is Drupal (+ plugins) to create that “community site i dream off”.

I discovered BP very recently, i’m not an expert but my reflexions tell me now that :

– I will be able to do all i want with drupal with many plugins and customization

– i will be able to do all i want with BP with less plugins and customization

Why ?

Just because the core features i want (friends, groups, networks, wall, …) are in BP and not in Drupal.

Maybe you should create your roadmap v1.0, 2.0, …. and just compare what feature comes naturaly with each solution.

About the WP/WPMU/BP discussion, i’m not afraid of that, i just look at the popularity of WP

and how excited the community is about BP.

Edit : Google trends about ‘drupal social’ vs buddypress : http://www.google.fr/trends?q=drupal+social%2C+buddypress&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0

@knight_

BuddyPress v1.1–shipping shortly!–has an entirely new avatar cropper. It should solve the issues you are currently having with 1.0.3.

Regarding your 3rd question, the “Delete Account” feature works fine in all versions of BP. I assume you are logging into your BP install as the Site Admin. If so, that is why you do not see this feature.

If the Site Admin where allowed to delete their account–and actually did so–it would be very problematic. So, BP checks to see if the current viewing users is the Site Admin, and if it is, it does not render the “Delete Account” submenu under “Settings”.

1) 2) is solved in BP 1.1. see https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/better-avatar-crop-function

3) Well I wanted to refer to the user settings, where the user-delf-delete checkbox was in 1.0.3. But in 1.1 Ican’t find it anymore even though the self deletion is activated in buddypress’ backend settings. What happended to it?

4) The simplest way would be CSS (the activity remains in the code, though)

The one thing I’m wondering about, once 1.1 drops (looking forward to tomorrow, Andy!), is how my users (if the site I’m building takes off) will adjust to the overall way of thinking that Buddypress (and social apps in general these days) tend to bring to the fore.

What I mean is that the interaction model is more things-are-presented-to-me and less I-am-searching-for-things. The way my brain works, I tend to organize myself mentally in the latter way — I want to find a piece of information or a conversation or a comment or something, and am hungry for a clear way to get to it. A more static way of viewing the structure, I guess. I’m old.

But Buddypress and (to pick an example, Facebook) are more about the ‘flow’, I think. About jumping in and having ‘oooh shiny!’ moments, and moving more fluidly through the web of interactions.

They’re both perfectly good ways of organizing things, of course, and for the tasks at hand, Buddypress is great. I guess my worry is that it will be confusing for users when it comes to things like forums and the traditional architecture of them, but I’m hoping that with 1.1 it will all come together smoothly. I’m really excited about the future of the app and WP in general, and very hopeful that the site I’m working on (which I’ll pimp when it’s ready, of course) will gather a vibrant userbase. The community I’m targetting really needs it.

Edit: reading this which is, I guess hot-off-the-presses doco, I’m thinking running a traditional forum using bbpress alongside the group-attached forums might be an option, if it’s not too confusing. I’m guessing it’d be pretty easy to port the Buddypress styling over to the ‘sidecar’ forums to make it all look right… we’ll see!

Hey, thanks. You are great!!! I was looking for the same

Also, consider that because BuddyPress uses WordPressMU which is compatible with most of the normal WordPress plugins out there, you have an existing free library of pretailored website features and upgrades that jump-start your development time.

On a large scale, using plugins like HyperDB and donncha’s cache plugin can help manage server load… Consider that wordpress.com uses a codebase very similar to WPMU to manage millions of users and blogs and activity, and it’s easy to see that WordPress is capable of handling a ton of pages and data… BuddyPress also now powers the http://profiles.wordpress.org pages too, so you can see how it handles tens of thousands of users there as well.

Don’t install BuddyPress until tomorrow, when 1.1 comes out. I’m updating the docs so a lot of things will be broken/out of sync until then.

In your wp-config.php add the line:

define( ‘BP_DISABLE_ADMIN_BAR’, true );

Yeah, I used this tutorial instead: http://theeasybutton.com/blog/2009/07/17/integrating-buddypress-wordpress-mu-and-bbpress/

Bear in mind that I am not very skilled at BP/WPMU/bbP, so my answer to your previous question could be wrong !

1) What is “Activate avatar” e-mail? I’ve never heard it nor seen it on any of my bp installs so far.

2) maybe you need to reinstall buddypress. Or use 1.1 rc for better usability.

3) Global configuration option to enable/disable self user account deletion is introduced from 1.1. Are you sure you are running 1.0.3, as it doesn’t even offer you such option. Users can just click to delete.

4) You can simply delete those functions from theme files, or maybe better hack available. Check for sticky posts.

We have a lot of information with quite a lot of user experiences posted here.

Read the document first.

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

Your install seems clean install, but you should also read this sticky topic.

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/upgrading-to-1111-beta

You’ve figured how to post on this forum, it shouldn’t be difficult to find documents and extra information (searching, etc.), right?

btw, you are right about link missing. We need to call Andy here.

@JS I would be glad to see a glimpse of your project ?

Nice ! Thanks !

Peterverkooijen: I’ll be reworking the schema in 1.2, interested to hear your ideas.

although not an actual plugin, amember can integrate with the front end of buddypress and wpmu. So I don’t think it should be so easily discarded. If you explored it more I think you would be impressed at how well it can integrate and provide a much more stable and feature rich membership package.

But agreed, if it has to be a wpmu plugin then it won’t work for you.

Ps- I don’t work work for amember

@socialpreneur, I did not post the original question, just a follow-up question. Anyway I want to be sure I’m trying membership plugins that actually work with Buddypress, so I’d like to hear what people have to say on this forum.