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Hey there,

All the steps posted are just great and simple to follow

Thanks for it Graeme

WPMU, BP, and BB is working good. But I just can’t get the logins to work, I mean when I login into WPMU, I am not automatically logged into BBPress Forum.

I am guessing thats the reason why in my BuddyPress, the forum is working fine, but who ever posts, there is no gravtar or name is seen

Can someone help, what might have gone wrong.?

Thanks JJJ for the tip.

I’ve been playing with it and it works for me only if the template page is called fun.php instead of example.php.

Anyway I find it very useful.

Thank you

People keep referring to turning certain components off, but as far as I can tell — by searching these forums and by muddling through the admin — there is no way to just “turn off” blogs so that the blog option disappears. Vanishes. As in there is no clicking on create a blog only to get a “blogs have been disabled” message. That just looks messy and like a mistake.

Maybe I’m wrong? I’d love it if I am.

I’m usually capable of working my way through a tutorial and learning something by the end. But this post is of a magnitude that I’m not sure I know enough to tackle all the steps. Is each of your posts, Burt, a step-by-step instruction on how to accomplish Ben’s request, or do you revise your answers along the way?

I’d like mostly what Ben is asking for. I want to use BuddyPress as a member directory. I don’t wish for anyone to make blogs through MU/BuddyPress other than my staff. I don’t want the “create a blog” option to appear anywhere. Not in the member profile, not in the tool bar. Essentially I want the option not to exist for users. Will the tutorial above show me how to do that?

Starting from instructions in post one, I’m finding that changing the admin setting from “only user account can be created” to “only logged in users can create new blogs” results in a “you must login to create a blog,” which takes me to the wordpress sign-in page before I have even registered.

The “only user account” setting generated what I would like to have happen, a signup screen sans “gimme a blog.”

Please forgive my being an ignoramus and let me know if I should patiently work my way from top to bottom, or if there is another solution outlined in a different post.

Thanks!

Try this

http://devbox.computec.de/category/projects/buddypress/

More clues here.

See https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/faq-how-to-code-snippets-and-solutions, “How to hide selected profile fields” and “How to show secondary profile fields while hiding the “Base” profile fields in a user profile”.

These should get you started and this has been discussed elsewhere on the forums, so do a search.

WordPress MU and Buddypress have separate profile/user management tables that aren’t synchronized and in some ways clash. End users will see different profile editing screens, in wp-admin and buddypress front-end, with different data that have nothing to do with eachother. Users are identified by full name, username, nickname, blogname or whatever depending on where in the system you are and how it’s configured. It’s a confusing mess and my pet peeve.

But I’m not even sure if that’s relevant to your problem, so I removed the rant.

Hmm, I think these are triggered because BuddyPress doesn’t pick up who the recipients are.

Not being funny, you are entering correct usernames in the ‘to’ field, right?

I think you’re right, DJPaul.

Was late last night when I replied to that!

Follow DJPaul’s suggestion, jorrie!

Well, looks like WannaNetwork guy grew so fast it put him out of business!

Since our launch of the new WordPress powered platform on WannaNetwork in Early February, WannaNetwork has been growing substantially larger and larger.

With this growth also comes a few negative aspects. Running WannaNetwork as a free service is quickly becoming harder and harder when there are monthly server and maintenance costs adding up.

I just wrestled with that issue here.

A ‘members’ class was added to the body tag on pages under groups and blogs. BP_MEMBERS_SLUG or $bp->current_component are not very “precise” I guess.

I wasn’t able to figure out why this happens. I managed to get it to work, sort of, with the combination of lines in my custom function for the navigation.

Thanks, mariusooms, for your reaction. I updated to the latest trunk with svn this morning. I’m using sub-domains and wpmu is located in my root. WPMU and BuddyPress both work as expected. I’ve activated forum setup and got the message “bbPress forum integration in BuddyPress has been set up correctly. If you are having problems you can re-install”. HOWEVER, no bb-config.php file has been placed at my root (or anywhere else except the dummy default location as far as I can tell).

When I try to create a group, the screen goes completely blank at “/members/admin/groups/create/step/group-settings” and I see a “”POST /members/admin/groups/create/step/group-settings HTTP/1.1″ 403” in my Apache log file. Is that a problem of access rights? As I said, I temporarily set my root to 777 before setting up the bbPress integration in BuddyPress.

Just reporting back. I seem to be the only one with this particular problem, and I’ll try to investigate some more.

I need a more professional member registration as well. I’ll use this excellent plugin which allows login with email address, but there are a lot of other annoying issues I still have to solve:

Restructuring registration process to an industry standard

How to use full name, first name + last name

Make 2+ part name in full name required + xprofile_sync_wp_profile()

Autogenerate or remove username

Generate username (+ blog url) from fullname

Use full name in confirmation emails

ListMessenger (or PHPlist) integration – plugin?

I’m not sure how much GigaOM actually changed. Their form looks a lot like the regular Buddypress (?) registration, minus that annoying username. Not sure how they did that.

They’re not using Buddypress, are they?

Most of it is just a radically customized theme. I suspect they probably also use one of the commercial member subscription plugins.

I’m working on my new site here. The old site has a registration system based on PunBB. I’m not a PHP programmer, so please keep us posted on any progress you make.

Am I reading this right? Couldn’t jorrie just disable user registration?

I’ve renamed this thread jorrie so the title covers both questions which might make it easier for people to find in future.

Heh, two months is nothing. My achievements plugin I announced about two months ago and it’s now coming out Very Soon ™.

I am assuming the developer of this plugin either found other paying work which took a priority or has just been really busy

Since this is more of a WPMU issue than a Buddypress one, like I mentioned in the other thread you made, you might want to consult the nice folks over at mu.wordpress.org/forums/.

Login with the same username and password and make a post there.

Re #3 – Your blogs will stay intact. Buddypress will create a few components called groups and forums (if you have bbPress installed). Groups can be configured by users or admins. BP forums are a part of groups.

Re #5 – There’s a few forum threads about integration and a couple of guides floating around the net.

The next version of Buddypress is scheduled to be released next week (August 11), but I won’t be surprised if they push it back a few weeks since there’s a lot of new stuff being implemented.

Right now, if you want a tight integration, you’ll have to theme WPMU and BuddyPress at the very least. There’s no way around it.

Re #6:

Groupblog plugin – https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/new-groupblog-plugin#post-19344

– It’s still in development… I would just test this for now

Community Blogs for BuddyPress – https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-community-blogs/

– A revision was made by Boone Gorges available here – hxxp://dev.commons.gc.cuny.edu/files/2009/07/bp-community-blogs.zip (change hxxp to http)

– I’ve been meaning to test this, but haven’t yet

Keep in mind that these plugins would give a group a blog, but not a forum for each blog like you want… both have a different way of achieving this method.

The groupblog plugin would be more tightly integrated, whereas the “Community Blogs” plugin provisions group members to an existing WPMU blog.

Nope, not available.

This question has been mentioned many times.

As for the second question, right now, you can’t have one forum per blog (unless you manually set it up in bbPress). Sounds like a future plugin to me!