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Buddypress is great, but how member/profile data is stored in the database is a mess.

Nice. Just what I need about right now.

“low development activity on WP MU in general” – the WPMU folks have been on fire lately, not sure what slow dev universe you speak of. I second Jeff’s comments.

As for some of the features you speak of, a simple cruise through Andy’s http://testbp.org would answer those questions. Compared to the mind-numbing admin work required for Drupal and Joomla, BP is a joy. Of course, if you don’t want to do any work under the hood, go with Ning and have your entire experience dictated to you.

You really need to understand buddypress…and maybe bit about WordPress. Everything is explained in readme.txt

1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, or whatever, BuddyPress stays in plugins directory as it’s a plugin for wpmu.

Since this is buddypress forum, I think johnegg is looking for membership plugin that works on buddypress interface aka frontend.

@Peterverkooijen: You should post that question on wpmudev forum, or contact them to find out more.

Using an existing WordPress theme will require work on your part. WordPress themes are designed for blogs, not for all the extra features that BuddyPress offers. You will be able to integrate the header and footer and overall look and feel, but specific features will still need CSS styles.

See my comment on your ticket:

https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/1117#comment:2

Both of these are known issues and we are aware.

awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I’m marking this as “not a support question” as it’s a question about site customisation/theming and not a bug with BuddyPress core.

You can do whatever you want if you can code a plugin for your needs. I hear it shouldn’t be hard for wordpress plugin developers to make one for buddypress as they’re the same.

This is 1.1 only, so if you are using an earlier version then you wouldn’t have seen them.

There are no specific checks on group names etc yet, but you can do this:

<?php if ( bp_is_groups_component() && 'my-group' == bp_current_item() ) : ?> This is my-group <?php endif; ?>

I was just writing up something, but Andy won that competition.

It’s also worth pointing out that rather than doing $bp->current_component != ‘groups’, you should be using $bp->current_component != $bp->groups->slug. This works if a site has decided to rename one of the built-in components.

I thought someone else reported this problem, and you were also reporting your problem there. I’m not sure if another of this is needed. But when you post questions, you SHOULD always include your server setup, like buddypress version, wpmu version, plugins in use.

In 1.1 you have:

bp_is_blog_page()

bp_is_register_page()

bp_is_activation_page()

bp_is_directory()

bp_is_single_item()



bp_is_profile_component()

bp_is_activity_component()

bp_is_blogs_component()

bp_is_wire_component()

bp_is_messages_component()

bp_is_friends_component()

bp_is_groups_component()

bp_is_settings_component()



bp_is_messages_inbox()

bp_is_messages_sentbox()

bp_is_messages_compose_screen()

bp_is_notices()



bp_is_user_friends()

bp_is_friend_requests()



bp_is_user_blogs()

bp_is_user_recent_posts()

bp_is_user_recent_commments()

bp_is_create_blog()



bp_is_user_groups()

bp_is_group_create()

bp_is_group_home()

bp_is_group_invites()

bp_is_group_members()

bp_is_group_forum_topic()

bp_is_group_forum()

bp_is_group_wire()

bp_is_group_leave()

bp_is_group_admin_page()



bp_is_user_profile()

bp_is_profile_wire()

bp_is_change_avatar()

bp_is_profile_edit()



bp_is_user_activity()

bp_is_user_friends_activity()

If you wanted to see if this was a single group page, in your template you could do:

<?php if ( bp_is_group_home() ) : ?>Show this on group home pages <? endif; ?>

Or if you wanted to show something on every single group page, regardless if it was the home page or not:

<?php if ( bp_is_groups_component() && bp_is_single_item() ) : ?> Show this on all single group pages <?php endif; ?>

I kinda think this looks weird/bad too, I love the standard way of communities too just focus on what you just clicked. I’ve been trying to find a solution to get rid of those 3 columns. But nothing so far.

I did saw a site a few weeks ago that looked like facebook while being build on buddypress. Would be nice if buddypress changes to this or at least provides an option to do this.

Edit: I found something great, http://3oneseven.com/08/bruce/. These buddypress themes are exactly what I’m looking for. I can’t test them right now, but if they work with the newest buddypress then this would be a solution for me.

Have any of those 20 people filled out their profile pages? See this Trac ticket for more information: https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/470

Also, with BuddyPress v1.1, the Group API has been significantly rewritten. You may find that this issue goes away.

To add further credence to the healthy, continued existence of WordPress Mu and the strength and solidity of BuddyPress, 8 months ago I went through the same investigation, searching out the strongest, best supported, most flexible open-source based platform with which to build out a very large social network. I decided that WPMU + BuddyPress was the solution for me.

Since that time, I’ve fully immersed myself in both platforms, even becoming a moderator on theses forums (as you can see). Over that 8 month period, WPMU and BP have become even stronger, have improved in numerous ways. They are both at the stage where I am now very confident in their foundation. My project is now a go and I am currently feverishly working on building my platform. I hope to be rolling out a beta of my “professional grade community” by the first of the new year.

So do not worry about the future of WPMU or BuddyPress. The future is strong, bright, and healthy.