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I don’t see how Buddypress is using this field. When I change it to a different url in the backend, Buddypress member links still take me to their profile. Or, is it used in some other way?

If you click on your name here in the forums, you get taken to your BuddyPress profile page, instead of your personal website. That feature is by design and that’s what I mean when I say BuddyPress sets your account’s website as your BuddyPress profile.

That’s not the same as my ‘home’, but I suppose you could muck about with the BuddyPress files to change the default website to be something else. I’m not sure how that would work, as all it would do would be to take you to my blog when you click on my name, vs my profile. Is that what you want?

mklcst, this thread has been marked as resolved. This means most people will not read any new replies to it.

Your problem is a known issue and is because you are using BuddyPress 1.0.2 on WPMU 2.8.1. I am under the impression that an interim release of BuddyPress (1.0.3) will be released soon which will improve compatibility with WPMU 2.8.1.

The template files for custom pages as per WordPress only work on the blog(s) on your WPMU site. If you want a custom page or area under the members page – i.e. http://myblog_url/members/y2khjh/something_here – then yes, you do need to create a custom component as the members page is part of BuddyPress.

Just to address JohnJamesJacoby’s first concern, that’s not how OpenID works. “Sniffing” ain’t allowed. Authentication takes place *not* on the new site, but on the old site, i.e., Google or Facebook, and the *only* thing the new site is getting in terms of authentication is an oAuth token saying “Google says you’re good, so I’m going to authenticate you, using Google’s token and whatever other information you and Google have chosen to give me.”

That means the new site gets NO password.

ZERO.

ZILCH.

Now porting other data, and concerns over privacy with regards to that? Well, it’s not using Google or Facebook’s data, it’s *porting* it, so, yes, I can see privacy concerns cropping up all over the place with that, and it is a little Wild West right now.

But that will get better over time. Somebody will think of a way to better secure your data, etc.

Incidentally the OLD way for porting data *did* have the new site capture your password, i.e., to import friends on Facebook, you had to enter your email and password for, say, gmail, and then trust that Facebook wouldn’t keep it but would only scrape the data from gmail *one time*…THAT is dangerous, and, thankfully, OpenID and oAuth (distributed social networking) is doing away with that bad practice.

Hi guys, i have the same probleme

You do not have any BuddyPress themes installed.

Please move "/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/" to "/wp-content/bp-themes/" and refresh this page. You can download more themes here.

What could be?

Incidentally, I did just implement RPX on my local copy of BuddyPress.

Totally works. Very cool.

I’ll let you know when I figure out how to transfer the RPX functionality to a main page.

You could probably get away with a single install of bbPress, but you would need a plugin or some theme work.

After installing and integrating bbPress with WordPress MU, I installed BuddyPress and got the group forums working. I created a group and saw that the forum created for that group was a child of the forum that had been created during the install of bbPress. I changed that forum to be a category, so that no topics could be posted in it.

It is entirely possible that you could filter out content that belongs to that category for the main forums. So when using BuddyPress groups, you can see group forums, but when viewing the bbPress forums, the BuddyPress forums are filtered out.

I am also using the hidden and read-only plugins with the BuddyPress Groups for bbPress plugin, and that is working well. However, you could suppress the content rather than marking it up.

Mariusooms, you should be aware that very soon the group creation process and access to features will change. See Andy’s docs about this:

https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/group-extension-api/

This is going to happen in bp 1.1 which will be out next month. You really should have this change in mind when coding.

You should take a look at how the skeleton component does this kind of thing.

https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/creating-a-custom-buddypress-component/

Did you move the bpmember and bpskeletonmember directories from “wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-themes” to “wp-content/bp-themes“?

Also if you are using WPMU 2.8.1, there are bugs that are currently being ironed out by the BP dev team. So if you are using WPMU 2.8.1, you’ll have to find one of the workarounds on the forums.

So has anyone seen Gigya Socialize yet? http://www.gigya.com/public/Content/GS/Home.aspx

Same idea/principle as RPX, only a little more integrated. They have a WordPress plugin, but I can’t seem to get it working on MU, at least not my local copy (which may be the problem).

BuddyPress *really* ought to have the implementation of the “social stack” as high priority, even though much of the specs on what that all entails is still being ironed out.

But with Facebook, Google, MySpace, Yahoo, etc. all embracing OpenID, you can see where this is all headed. (Joseph Smarr calls it a “sea change”: http://therealmccrea.com/2009/04/10/surviving-thriving-in-the-online-identity-wars-joseph-smarr-at-web-20-expo/

Anyway, I’m going to be trying to implement one of these OpenID signin authenticators, and get it working from the main page. I’ll try and remember to report if I learn anything or get it working.

I too am confused about this. “BuddyPress > General Settings > Select theme to use for BuddyPress generated pages” just gives me a list of my regular installed themes (minus bphome), but there are no “member” themes in the list. Is this a bug?

In 1.0.2 the support for the bbpress helper plugin was pulled out. This ticket: https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/853 has the essentials for re-enabling the helper plugin support in 1.0.2.

I stuck the ticket’s attached code into bp-custom.php and it works from there fine. I don’t see any need to hack up a bunch of core files. This is going to be a temporary situation.

We need to still run the bbpress helper plugin and the support code in bp 1.0.2. Nothing is gonna work right otherwise.

Omgitsrfb – you said your domain was just blank then site up and running. What did you do to get it working again?

I’d also like to know if tables need to be deleted and if that will affect a re-install of BP in the future?

Could you maybe explain to us how? Because this is a feature that I really miss in buddypress now.

Hey Mohit,

Check out “wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-core/bp-core-adminbar.php”

All the function calls are there.

Try this:

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=1478&page=2#post-7670

It worked for me when I had a similar problem that you’re experiencing, although not identical regarding the IXR class.

However I’m using WPMU 2.7.1 and not 2.8.1.

A couple of considerations here.

If you use this login panel, you’ll most likely want to disable the BuddyBar. Just something you might want to think about.

Secondly, play around with that jQuery script. When you have the script actually toggling, then the next step is to implement the BP login form.

For this, you’ll want to examine the bp_login_bar() function (found in wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-core/bp-core-templatetags.php – line 589 and on).

You can either call this function directly or create a copy of the function and modify it for your needs.

You’ll probably also need to style it so it works the way you want it.

Hope that helps!

Woo Hoo! Thank you for everyones help : @JJJ and @Rohan

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Fully Integrated with the following:

1) 2.8.1 WPMU (latest trunk – 1867)

2) BuddyPress 1.1

3) bbPress 1.01 (latest trunk – 1361)

4) BuddyBar 1.03

5) Modification of of two core files

a) wpmu-functions.php b) capabilities.php

Thanks Again

@the wall:

I spent most of the day trying to figure out (like many others) why buddypress groups and bbpress wasn’t integrating. In the end I managed to track down that, in my instance, the xmlrpc wasn’t working for some reason. The connection seems to be closed prematurely. When I eventually tracked down the fault to where the buddybar plugin gets included, and once I deactivated it, the xmlrpcs (and thus the integration) started functioning properly.

Please excuse if this has already been addressed in this thread, it’s been a long day, so don’t have the energy to read through everything right now, but I wanted to share what I found out in case it could help anyone else.

As soon as I can, I’ll try using the bleeding edge version and see if I can’t figure out what’s happening with the particular setup I’m working with to cause this to happen. The odds are good that it might even work without any fuss using the above-mentioned version.