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Roadmap is here: https://buddypress.org/about/roadmap/ lets start a new thread please.

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Honewatson I am happy to give it a whirl.

Welcome Pack v1.22 just pushed to the WordPress plugin svn. Expect to see it up in an hour or so. #buddypress

Burt, I am going to try it out ASAP!

I will need some instructions as to how to make bp-events work with this…

Great job so far! It’s quite a complicated project!

Make sure you have the bpmember theme in the proper place: /wp-content/bp-themes/

Then, make sure you have it selected in WPMU’s backend by navigating to the BuddyPress menu grouping like this:

BuddyPress > General Settings > Select theme to use for BuddyPress generated pages

Choose the “BuddyPress Default Member Theme”.

I took a look at my .htaccess file which currently has the

AddType x-mapp-php5 .php

Command to force the server to use php5. When I add the text from the htaccess.dist

Also, concerning the .htaccess file. It will automatically be created for you during the WPMU install. So, if you went to it and did not see anything, then something went wrong with the install. Why did you have to add the text from htaccess.dist to your .htaccess file?

Everyone is always very quick to advertise the benefits of a single-sign on service, or a go-between to allow users to sign into your website using any number of different credentials, but there are a few major flaws with this idea, and they are going to become extremely apparent very soon.

The first MAJOR flaw I see in this design, is that all it takes is one website to put up password stealing/sniffing code, and now you’ve given your twitter password to anyone with access to the sites malicious intentions.

The second MAJOR flaw I see from a developers standpoint is that you as a site administrator no longer have control over the user data that is using your website. This means tracking down a problem user that creates an account with their facebook, you ban them, their google, you ban them, their open_id, you ban them, etc… That, along with the fact that these user registrations tend to add their own cryptic names into your database fields; now you’re forced to try to know who “fb8288373” really is, when had they registered the normal way, you could see they are “johnjamesjacoby.”

From a user perspective, I don’t plan on using Facebook for the rest of my life, so when I delete my account in a few years, that means I can no longer use your site without creating a new profile.

Also, if I’m logged into facebook on my computer, and close facebook, and then my girlfriend walks over to a site and clicks on facebook connect and continue, it logs her in as me because I am still logged into facebook. Now I’ve registered at a website that I didn’t want to register at, and I have no way to delete that account, and who knows what kind of information they’ve decided to store about me by this point…

Quite frankly, I can’t wait for this trend to die. It’s a headache waiting to turn into a brain tumor in my opinion.

We need this has a buddypress plugin?

libationblog, basically BuddyPress/WPMU will meet all of your needs and wants, but you might have to hold its hand and then twist its arm to get it to listen.

When you consider that WordPress alone can do just about all of the things you mention with the help of independent plugins, adding BuddyPress on top of it alleviates all of the user profile woes that WordPress alone can’t do. But if you plan on using BuddyPress, then you need to step up to WPMU, which sounds like you might not really need, but have to have to use BP.

The nice thing about WPMU is that you don’t need to let people have their own blogs, so it will work exactly the same as a single user WordPress installation does, but with BuddyPress on top of it.

I say give it a go, and give yourself a few solid days to get used to how BP works, and you will probably be pretty happy with what you end up with.

Haven’t tested the localization yet myself Burt, but I’m about to now and it looks like it should work at first glance.

I just hope translation file is added soon, so I can translate into Japanese.

I guess you would need to elaborate on what your “custom info for alerts and updates” are going to be.

The rest of them can be remedied with what you said.

But, the cool thing about BuddyPress is you can enable/disable various components, so say you don’t need groups or blogs or friends, you can disable that in the BP admin area.

It sounds like you really only need profiles, and perhaps the wire, or maybe groups, to faciliate the alert service. The bpEvents plugin by Erwin Gerrits can help you for events as well.

There’s also a Facebook Connect plugin available and a Twitter plugin in the works.

Hope that helps in some way!

Please answer these questions: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=2674

I was wondering if you were using single-user WordPress.

I’m assuming that was just the regular wordpress install and not wordpress MU. Could that be the issue I’m having? If so, what do I do to rectify it?

BuddyPress currently works only with WordPress Mu. How do you rectify it? You install WPMU. Here are some more details on how to do that.

Once WPMU is proeprly installed and working, you install BuddyPress.

Just make it buddypress plugin, so users won’t have to visit wp-admin/profile.php to change which IDs they use. If this setting can be done on frontend, it would be perfect.