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they haven’t create it yet “BBpressMU” or I think it’s called “Talkpress”.

You want the user create one forum topic or have their own forum?

Andre Tan, I suspect the issues you’re having are related to shared hosting + the XMLRPC interface for including forums into groups. Future versions of BuddyPress will not have this problem as it includes bbPress and references it directly going forward.

It may still end up being a little heavy on the server, but you should experience the random load issues that you are currently.

BuddyPress has functions to get most of the data that you need without globaizing the $bp. I think different people will give you different answers about globals, but the general idea is that the less you use them is the better off you will be.

BuddyPress wraps most of the return/echo functions for most content in the -templatetags.php files for each specific component. If you need data that isn’t available, you can always build your own function in bp-custom.php or whatever.

If you look at the built in BP functions, you’ll see that $bp is globalized a lot in those functions, so the answer to your question comes down to the nuts and bolts of how PHP operates deep within the core of it, and how globals are processed on a per library basis and at what point in the process it occurs.

Long story short, if it gets you where you need to be safely, it’s probably fine enough unless you notice a slow-down or something.

For some how the code above did not go through correcty, I will paste the first part again:

<div id="search-login-bar">



<?php if ( is_user_logged_in() ) : ?>



<div id="logout-link">

<?php bp_loggedinuser_avatar_thumbnail( 20, 20 ) ?> &nbsp;

<?php bp_loggedinuser_link() ?>

<?php

if ( function_exists('wp_logout_url') ) {

$logout_link = '/ <a href="' . wp_logout_url( $bp->root_domain ) . '">' . __( 'Log Out', 'buddypress' ) . '</a>';

} else {

$logout_link = '/ <a href="' . $bp->root_domain . '/wp-login.php?action=logout&redirect_to=' . $bp->root_domain . '">' . __( 'Log Out', 'buddypress' ) . '</a>';

}



echo apply_filters( 'bp_logout_link', $logout_link );

?>



<?php do_action( 'bp_login_bar_logged_in' ) ?>

</div>



<?php elseif ( get_option('users_can_register') ) : ?>



<form name="login-form" id="login-form" action="<?php echo $bp->root_domain . '/wp-login.php' ?>" method="post">

<input type="text" name="log" id="user_login" value="<?php _e( 'Username', 'buddypress' ) ?>" onfocus="if (this.value == '<?php _e( 'Username', 'buddypress' ) ?>') {this.value = '';}" onblur="if (this.value == '') {this.value = '<?php _e( 'Username', 'buddypress' ) ?>';}" />

<input type="password" name="pwd" id="user_pass" class="input" value="" />



<input type="checkbox" name="rememberme" id="rememberme" value="forever" title="<?php _e( 'Remember Me', 'buddypress' ) ?>" />



<input type="submit" name="wp-submit" id="wp-submit" value="<?php _e( 'Log In', 'buddypress' ) ?>"/>

<input type="button" name="signup-submit" id="signup-submit" value="<?php _e( 'Sign Up', 'buddypress' ) ?>" onclick="location.href='<?php echo bp_signup_page() ?>'" />



<input type="hidden" name="redirect_to" value="http://<?php echo $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] . $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] ?>" />

<input type="hidden" name="testcookie" value="1" />



<?php do_action( 'bp_login_bar_logged_out' ) ?>

</form>

<?php endif // get_option('users_can_register') ?>



<div class="clear"></div>

</div>

Hi Kunal17, I use prologue theme as default user theme and I also wanted to keep the login form on top, so I added this to the header of the prologue theme:

<div id=”search-login-bar”>

<?php if ( is_user_logged_in() ) : ?>

<div id=”logout-link”>

<?php bp_loggedinuser_avatar_thumbnail( 20, 20 ) ?>  

<?php bp_loggedinuser_link() ?>

<?php

if ( function_exists(‘wp_logout_url’) ) {

$logout_link = ‘/ root_domain ) . ‘”>’ . __( ‘Log Out’, ‘buddypress’ ) . ‘‘;

} else {

$logout_link = ‘/ root_domain . ‘/wp-login.php?action=logout&redirect_to=’ . $bp->root_domain . ‘”>’ . __( ‘Log Out’, ‘buddypress’ ) . ‘‘;

}

echo apply_filters( ‘bp_logout_link’, $logout_link );

?>

<?php do_action( ‘bp_login_bar_logged_in’ ) ?>

</div>

<?php elseif ( get_option(‘users_can_register’) ) : ?>

<form name=”login-form” id=”login-form” action=”<?php echo $bp->root_domain . ‘/wp-login.php’ ?>” method=”post”>

<input type=”text” name=”log” id=”user_login” value=”<?php _e( ‘Username’, ‘buddypress’ ) ?>” onfocus=”if (this.value == ‘<?php _e( ‘Username’, ‘buddypress’ ) ?>’) {this.value = ”;}” onblur=”if (this.value == ”) {this.value = ‘<?php _e( ‘Username’, ‘buddypress’ ) ?>’;}” />

<input type=”password” name=”pwd” id=”user_pass” class=”input” value=”” />

<input type=”checkbox” name=”rememberme” id=”rememberme” value=”forever” title=”<?php _e( ‘Remember Me’, ‘buddypress’ ) ?>” />

<input type=”submit” name=”wp-submit” id=”wp-submit” value=”<?php _e( ‘Log In’, ‘buddypress’ ) ?>”/>

<input type=”button” name=”signup-submit” id=”signup-submit” value=”<?php _e( ‘Sign Up’, ‘buddypress’ ) ?>” onclick=”location.href='<?php echo bp_signup_page() ?>'” />

<input type=”hidden” name=”redirect_to” value=”http://&lt;?php echo $_SERVER[‘SERVER_NAME’] . $_SERVER[‘REQUEST_URI’] ?>” />

<input type=”hidden” name=”testcookie” value=”1″ />

<?php do_action( ‘bp_login_bar_logged_out’ ) ?>

</form>

<?php endif // get_option(‘users_can_register’) ?>

<div class=”clear”></div>

</div>

You can maybe replace the

<div id=”search-login-bar”>

<?php bp_login_bar() ?>

<div class=”clear”></div>

</div>

part of your header.php file with the first code and I hope it will work for you.

BBpress theme

Theme Name: looks-like-buddypress

Theme URI: http://manojkumar.org

Description: Try to give similar look as default buddypress theme for users how integrate bbpress with buddypress.

Version: 0.01

Author: Manoj Kumar

Author URI: http://manojkumar.org

Just disable blog registrations in your Site Admin > Options panel. And please take some time to do a cursory search of Google or the WPMU forums as this is a basic question and nothing to do with Buddypress.

No, BP doesn’t provide a BB theme. And before someone asks, no the forum theme on this site is not being released. I’m sure if someone invented 30 hour days, then BP might come with a BB theme.

You cannot tie BuddyPress to a blog url. This is not how it works.

WPMU handles blogs, BuddyPress handles the social networking aspect. You can selectively decide which blogs BuddyPress will show or which blogs BP will link to, but you cannot make a blog the parent of BuddyPress.

…when there are possibly more users hammering on the shared box that we’re hosted on.

There are just too many variables to address when you’re hosting a WPMU install on a shared box. It could be your install, it could be the server’s resources are being hogged by a few other domains on that server, it could be, it could be…

This BP thread may be helpful: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/buddypress-and-shared-hosting

In case you have not seen this, here’s an article in the BP Codex about improving performance.

If you happen to use a Mac… CSSEdit is amazing. It a CSS development tool that let’s you see your changes in real time as you type your code. Similar to Firebug… except that it’s an actual development tool / editor.

General theming guidance is beyond the scope of these forums as it really is more an issue of learning how to use CSS and WordPress/BuddyPress template loops to create the design you are after.

But, to help get you started, here a few links:

1. Advice on using the default BP themes or Skeleton Theme that comes with BP
2. A great tool to use while designing your theme.
3. Basic how tos on WordPress theme design. NOTE: this link pertains to wordpress themes in general, not BuddyPress themes. But, you should really understand WP theming before you set out to do a BP custom theme.

There is no server-specific data used by Buddypress. Export all the BP tables and import them into the new database.

For specific advice on migrating a WPMU installation, it’s probably best to look at the Wu forums.

I know WP has an Export feature, BBpress has an export plugin, I don’t know about BuddyPress information.

If no one can answer the export information on BP then I would suggest to have both domain point to the same server/folder. Then change all URLs on the admin page to the new one.

If you backup your SQL data it will still point to the old site.

blackarbor, are you hosting it?

Happens to me as well. Are you blogs not working for member accounts by chance? (mine aren’t…)

I’m using the WordPress P2-theme for this functionality. It won’t be integrated into Buddypress like the status update (since it’s a WP theme), but its the right thing for me. You might want to consider it.