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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!

Would be nice to see this happen..

1) With WPMU and a user account, you can comment on any blog (provided you’re logged in)

2) This is possible… that page is a template file, so you could customize that with whatever you want.

3) If you already have users blogging on WPMU, BuddyPress will detect these user’s blogs (I’m quite sure BP detects them!). BP groups and forums build off of WPMU’s userbase; groups being a BP thing and forums being a BP/bbPress thing. So when you install BP, your users will have to configure their groups and forums from scratch.

4) Not sure on this one. There’s an option in WPMU to disable blog registration, but if you do that I think it will disable blog registration sitewide. This would be a better question for the WPMU forums.

5) BuddyPress does indeed utilize bbPress for forum functionality. The next version of BP will make it easy to integrate with. Right now, it still requires some grunt work.

You say want a forum for each blog? That’s a little overkill… but something like this can be accomplished with groups and a BP plugin (Marius Ooms’ groupblog plugin or Burt Adsit’s BP Community Blog plugin)

6) Yes you can list all blogs on a page using a WPMU function.

Hope that helps!

Hey pollyplummer,

I replied to a similar post:

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/use-bp-default-home-theme-on-a-different-url-then-root#post-21284

But you have the right idea!

Yeah, r-a-y’s spot on. I’m going to close this thread as it’s very old.

@Tore

http://wpmudev.org/project/New-Blog-Defaults

Though I should note that this plugin has absolutely nothing to do with the original poster’s question!

It is extremely handy for setting up what you want for new blog defaults though.

@Pr102

I know this topic is old, but if you’re talking about when you post a comment on a blog, that your name should link to your BP profile… this is possible via this plugin:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-blog-author-link

I suggest you post this on the WPMU forums as it looks likely to be a WPMU problem and not a Buddypress problem

@ Hyrxx

I can’t seem to find it. Remember any other details?

Try disabling BuddyPress, and see if you can access the hosted blogs in the standard WPMU way. I’d recommend against using WPMU outside a domain root, as it seems to cause so many problems.

No people, it’s works, I used Both, comments and WPMU/BuddyPress login

@blackarbor:

You could modify the BuddyPress TOS plugin and change that to an Age Verification field.

http://wpmudev.org/project/buddypress-terms-of-service