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Egerrits: can you submit this to the WP plugin repo so it will show up on the BuddyPress site?

@Timothy, I believe Erwin is currently battling with the recently updated group template directory structure changes and thus 0.54 does not work fully with the trunk version of BuddyPress. 0.55 will work with trunk build but there is no eta yet.

Simple.

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

Trent

@Edeutsch,

Erwin Gerrits is developing an event calendar plugin for BuddyPress that he says will include group events. As it is still in early development at present however, it does not yet contain the group events functionality.

Regarding YouTube video’s perhaps a variation on Nicola Greco’s BPDEV-YouTube plugin could be created for use with groups.

BuddyPress pages will only run on the root blog, or the blog ID you give for BuddyPress to run on by adding this to wp-config.php:

define( \'BP_ROOT_BLOG\', 1 );

Where \’1\’ is the ID of the blog you want BuddyPress to run on.

This was introduced in a recent build – before BuddyPress would potentially override pages on any blog, which causes problems.

So: http://example.org/subblog/members will not work, but http://example.com/members will work if you do not define the line above.

Thank you Andy.

I noticed that there are so many inquiries about member-themes that their member themes are not loading or doesn’t show up.

To solve this you have to upload the default member theme then under Site Admin-BuddyPress in ‘Select theme to use for member pages:’ chose FaceBuddy.

After that you can now delete the default buddypress theme.

That would hopefully solve your problems.

thanks very much for your answers Sgrunt..

I tried it with default theme and same problem..sorry it s my bad..

I don’t know if it has something to do with my problem here: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=1308

It’ seems similar. Do you have the wrong slugs also in the activity feeds?

I would like to do this too.

What I did is make the buddypress home theme available to memberblogs. The only “catch” is that the member blog appears without any widgets set.

I am curious, if there is a way to “preset” the widgets on a userblog theme to a standard layout.

This image is perfect: https://apeatling.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/blog.jpg

If member blogs could look like that, then I can launch my community.

Best,

Dainis

http://wordpress-blog.nl

Has been updated to the ‘trunk 1281’ version of ‘FaceBuddy theme’ …

I find key! Woh, happy.

When you meet this case. You remember that you active user “admin” in BuddyPress to admin BBPress (3 admin at less)

Thanks

thanks for great theme Sgrunt..it s really nice..

there is a small problem

got to your profile page (/members/admin) and My Activity on the right side..

links are not working..example

You wrote a new blog post: blahblahblah

if you click “You” or “blahblahblah” you get “http://you.com/members/admin/”

is this a bug?

2 Question

do you plan to make a bbpress facebuddy theme? I think many peoples waiting for this..

thanks for your time

/**

* bp_get_options_avatar()

* TEMPLATE TAG

*

* Gets the avatar for the current sub nav (eg friends avatar or group avatar).

* Does not check if there is one – so always use if ( bp_has_options_avatar() )

*

* @package BuddyPress Core

* @global $bp The global BuddyPress settings variable created in bp_core_setup_globals()

*/

What you want is:

<?= bp_core_get_avatar( $user->user_id, 2, 75, 75 ) ?>

I am using WMPU2.7 Buddypress RC1 and bbPress 1.0-Alpha-6

Hopefully someone can help me out here, it’s been 10 days, I’ve searched, this forum, the WPMU forum and the bbPress forum, and I feel like I’m going round in circles!

bbPress and WPMU/ Buddypress work fine as ‘stand alone’ applications, the challenge I am having is integrating bbPress into Buddypress.

I have gone through the whole of Trent’s great topic (https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=471) many times now, even removed bbPress and started all again.

What should on the face of it be a simple process, share users, share cookies, link via xmlrpc, seems incredibly complex, or else it’s the configuration of my hosting company that’s causing it!

I followed, Sam’s basic integration screencast (https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/basic-integration-screencast ), and all went smoothly, I can now logon and logoff from either WPMU or bbPress. I have also edited wp-config and bb-config as needed to use the same keys and to point to the same locations for the cookies.

However I can only access the admin/dashboard section in bbPress if I login in through bbPress, if I log in first via WPMU, the ‘admin’ link doesn’t work. I can access the dashboard of WPMU whichever way I log in.

In Sam’s screencast he talks about bbPress needing extra cookies and using bbpress-integration.1.0-alpha-4.1, I have tried with and without this plugin (which doesn’t appear to work when isntalled in mu-plugins/ ). I have also checked the cookies when logged in via bbPress and only see one extra cookie when actually in the dashboard / backoffice of bbPress.

Do I need this plugin?

Is this the way it should work, or should I be able to log in via WPMU and then go to bbPress and have access rights to the bbPress dashboard?

I have enabled xmlrpc and pingbacks in bbPress.

I have two key users “admin”, the main one created during wpmu install, which is also keymaster for bbPress and another with keymaster rights to bbPress and administration rights WPMU, it works the same for both.

Re Trent’s post, I have the plugin in my-plugins/buddypress-enable.php though there is some discussion as to wether it should be in my-plugins or bb-plugins – some guidance here please?

Also in step 6) where Trent says “Go into your main blog dashboard as the “site-admin” and go to the groups admin page.” I presume that with my configuration it should now read “Site Admin / bbPress forums”, If I click on the groups link, it gives me my list of already established groups to configure / edit. is my presumption correct?

I have configured the full path (with the “/”) and user details for bbPress in the “bbPress forums” option.

When I turn on Group Discussion, I don’t get a forum created in bbPress, nor can I post in ‘forum’ in the group in Buddypress, it comes up with “There was an error posting that topic.” not surprising really (no forum)

If I go to create a new group the box for “Enable discussion forum” is greyed out / missing replaced with a note that says” Attention Site Admin: Group forums require correct setup and configuration of a bbPress installation.”

Also from bbPress if I try to post I get “Warning: cannot yet handle MBCS in html_entity_decode()! in /home/sites/mydomain.com/public_html/forums/my-plugins/buddypress-enable.php on line 53 which I guess is because it’s not linked back. (I’m running MySQL/5.0.67 PHP/5.2.8 and PHP5/5.2.

Trent also suggested “check your bp_groups_groupmeta table” there was nothing in my data relating to forums.

I’ve tried it with and without the ” WordPress cookie integration speedup” and ” WordPress database integration speedup” in the bb-config.php file – it made no difference.

I’ve tried almost all I can think of,

@Burtadsit would your xmlrpc-test-rig be worth exploring? Do you have a download link for it?

“http://ourcommoninterest.org/downloads/xmlrpc-test-rig.zip&#8221; looks like it’s not there at the moment.

From here: http://umwblogs.org/wiki/index.php/Integrating_WPMu,_BuddyPress,_and_bbPress says:

You will need to install and activate the following plugins in your WPMu installation:

* bbPress Integration: “https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-integration/&#8221; This is essential, but keep in mind that this plugin is only useful if you are running bbPress version 1.0-alpha-4 or later.

* WPMU Enable bbPress Capabilities (0.1) “https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/wpmu-enable-bbpress-capabilities/&#8221; : Enables bbPress member capabilities when a user is created within WPMU. This allows immediate login as a ‘member’ after a user is created in WPMU.

Do I actually need either of these with my confguration?

@johnjamesjacoby said “In theory, to create a post from within the Group forum, you should not need cookie integration, because the XMLRPC request happens very ajax-like behind the scenes and does not require for you as a specific user to be logged into both platforms.”

So any help would be much appreciated, Thanks.

to answer the 2nd part of your question:

Buddypress uses bbpress-live, which is an api interface for bbpress. If there is a api interface for vbulletin, it would be pretty straight forward to make an api interface for it.

It looks like there is an api, here is the code documentation:

http://members.vbulletin.com/api/

But, after a quick review, I don’t see anyway to read the forum posts?

The theme and the profile back end don’t support this right now but there is a mod you can try.

Change line 11 which reads:

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

To read:

<?php if ( bp_field_has_data() && bp_field_has_public_data()) : ?>

In /bp-themes/buddypress-member/profile/profile-loop.php

Then you will manually have to use phpmyadmin and go into the table bp_xprofile_fields and change all the profile field records that are parent fields and have \’0\’ in the column \’is_public\’ to \’1\’ for the fields you want to show on the profile and \’0\’ for the fields you don\’t want to show.

Parent fields are the ones that have a \’0\’ in the \’parent_id\’ column.

I am also getting this.

I am hosted with 1and1, WPMU 2.7 and BuddyPress RC1

WPMU was working fine until I uploaded the BP files, then it started.

Trying to isolate it something odd happened when I took bp_groups.php out of the picture, then it began to function a little bit, the profile admin bar was appearing on the site, but any time I attempted to go anywhere on it it would return to the 500 Internal Server Error. I cannot even go to the wp-admin without getting the error. If I remove BP from the mu-plugin directory, it returns to normal again.

All files are chmodded to 755. I tried 777 just to see if it changed anything, which it did not.

So I am stumped at this point, there is clearly something in BP that my hosting does not agree with as WPMU works just fine otherwise.

Any ideas? Other things to look at to isolate the problem? Database weirdness? I will keep working on this

Also try using the object caching support:

Improving Performance

WordPress MU itself is not designed to run on a shared server, so you should really avoid that if you can.

Personally i think it is your shared host; WPMU+BP needs pretty healthy servers to run optimally. I’m quite obsest with speed and testing. The WPMU+BP sites need at leats 512MB ram and CPU resources so any servers with avg load >3 it will just die. I’d say on shared hosting the HDD is being battered and trying to run BP MySQL queries on a shared host for it will run out of memory and start using the already busy HDD to store temp tables and data. Even using Super Cache you are reading and writing from an overworked HDD.

I’m not saying it is your shared host but i think its likely.

But i would still test it. Move your site to one side. Install the latest stable WPMU + BP and see what happens. If its still sluggish on those then its your host.

In my experience you need at least 512Mb free RAM, CPU load averages <3, good HDD health, basic apache (unnecessary modules removed), Super Cache, WP_Cache and e-Accelerator or x-cache if you can compile it into apache.

I tried to get nginx setup as a reserve proxy but had issues, that would be the ultimate.

Take a look at the latest trunk

https://trac.buddypress.org/browser/trunk

They have re-organised the themes into a bp-themes folder. Maybe in the future you could drop any member theme in there and manage it through the admin to select what theme you want to use.

At the moment its just more logical.