My challenges are as follows –
1. Import the old data & other fields to corresponding WPMU database fields
2. Convert their passwords to encrypted passwords.
3. Send activation mail to all the users [handled by your plugin]
how many users do you have?
can you not simply enter them by hand and let WPMU generate a “new/temporary” password
yourcurrentuser|theirfirstname theirlastname|theiremail@email.com
that would
– Hash/encrypt their password (they still have to login and change it)
– import them into the DB
– send activation email/username + password
just a thought
Hey Manoj Kumar
great plugin… couple of questions
no matter how I format the user data, I always get “1 Error” and “processing complete”
example
username|firstname lastname|email@email.com => 1 Error
also, I’ve changed the “Full Name” profile field to be “first name” and added an additional field for “last name”… how does that change the format?
like this now?
username|firstname|lstname|email@email.com ?
thanks for your help
Re-read the instructions and try again? It sounds to me like some files aren’t in the correct spots or that some files were corrupted in the upload process.
To address your specific issues:
1.) The BuddyPress admin bar includes the link to your #2 question, but if you want to remove it from the front-end, you would have to check the defined('IN_ADMIN') variable and only load the buddybar if so. Could probably make a filter for this in functions.php, but I’m not in front of the source to give you a turn-key solution at the moment.
2.) The link is part of the buddybar. 
Otherwise you can type it in the address bar yourself or customize the theme to fit the way you want it to perform. Aside from that, none of the WPMU themes will know how to redirect you to any specific blog admin area aside from their own, and they wouldn’t know which other blogs you have access to. That’s what the BuddyBar is fore. (Note to self: It would be cool to have a link to the admin area of each blog when viewing /blogs/my-blogs.)
3.) Are you using a vanilla install with the vanilla theme? Vanilla meaning included… If so, do you have a link to your website so that I can see what’s happening?
Hi, thanks for all your work and your fast answer
To be honest my bp-dev admin is just a feed reader and I’ve just fixed a simplepie bug with this method: http://buddypressdev.org/forums/topic/flickr-plugin-not-working#post-57 but it still the same
Tinymce is activated on the bpdev plugin page.Check my bpdev admin: http://www.lesitedelasneaker.com/images/bpdevadmin.JPG
Thanks for the compliments guys. Glad to have a platforms like WordPress and BuddyPress to work off of. Thanks for the showcase Andy.
http://wannanetwork.com/members/dakota/ gets a 404
while
http://wannanetwork.com/members/markmadsen/ works
I don’t have the error logs on hand but I will post them later.
Thanks!
Yeah, I saw this:
https://trac.buddypress.org/changeset/1222/trunk/bp-languages/buddypress.pot
I download and did the test as well, translated one word “Members” and uploaded the file.
And still, the Members Widget disappears from the sidebar 
You think there is another solution than just wait? I mean if we go file by file to get the right lines would that work? “I mean create a shell/php script to get all the lines and make the .pot file with the correct lines that are suppose to be translated. Or I should not bother with that, Andy is usually fast?
Again, I’m new in this community.
Thank you Paul
Remember guys (and I realize this is no excuse) but neither BuddyPress nor bbPress are even 1.0 yet. As soon as function calls and display functions are finalized and tweaked for a stable 1.0 release, you’ll see tons of themes and templates and frameworks.
The opportunity currently exists for anyone with the time and motivation to swoop in and start blasting out themes for both platforms, but they would do it knowing that they may have to go back and redo some things after 1.0 is out.
I think right now everyone is waiting for the ball to drop, because no one wants to do the same work twice. I’d love to release my bbPress theme, but I have 0 time to answer questions about it or support it, and that’s not fair to anyone either.
Make sense?
Still no bbPress theme available, it’s a shame! 
i’m using hostgator and it’s fine for wordpressmu (and obviously buddypress too)
That could be the case, and may make more sense. In three BuddyPress installs and one test environment, I have yet to experience any avatar issues other than jumpy selection rectangles, which isn’t a BuddyPress issue as much as it’s an avatar javascript code/css positioning issue.
If you can duplicate the issue like you’ve described and keep a log of the steps you’ve taken to do so, (size of file uploaded, type of file [jpg|png|gif], new user/group, update user/group, etc) that would be awesome and would help us see more specifically what (if anything) needs tweaking.
Once we’re at that point, we take that info and add it to the trac as a ticket to say we’ve found the problem and here is how to recreate it.
guys where is this file? I’m not familiar with buddypress yet
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It’s the BuddyPress Slash Attack of 2009. Andy is a sophisticated slash eliminating cyborg sent from the future to rid our support forums of quirky slash creating filters.
It’s actually quite exiting! 
The filters on this install are a little quirky right now, so there will be some slashes here and there. I will fix it up soon. It’s nothing to do with group forums in BuddyPress.
My guess is that you were able to get that avatar back, or that they uploaded a new one, because it appears to me that they have an avatar now.
I haven’t looked into the specifics of what happens to an avatar once it has been uploaded, but what John S. Server Support is saying is that the anonymous user that is responsible for uploading an image to that directory on your server doesn’t have permission or that BuddyPress isn’t properly listening to the permissions of that directory.
I’m not sure how this is possible because BuddyPress does work for so many individuals in so many different situations. Running a directory permissions reset in a chronjob doesn’t really seem like a fix as much as it is a patch to an existing problem, because if it was working correctly it wouldn’t need a chron to go back and check its work.
To reiterate, you said what is happening is that the image gets uploaded, it’s physically on the server and visible in their profiles, and then out of no where the file just disappears out of the folder?
1. congrats on the members
2. I don’t believe it has been done yet.
Depending on your mysql abilities, you may find it easier to just write a quick and dirty php file with a mysql connect to show members. The overhead that wordpress and buddypress would add to this process wouldn’t be worth the minimal gains of the buddypress functions.
But if you don’t know much mysql, then you may be forced to do it inside of an admin plugin.
Here are a few quick and dirty sql lines to get you started:
find all users:
SELECT user_nicename FROM wp_users;
find all users, and show full name (from profile fields)
SELECT users.user_nicename , profile.value FROM wp_users users, wp_bp_xprofile_data profile WHERE users.ID = profile.user_id AND profile.field_id =1
You mean the same theme as the main install? The buddypress-home theme? It is possible by using one of the plugins out there to make a theme default (premium.wpmudev.org) or by just renaming the buddypress-home theme to “default” so that wpmu picks it up. Not sure if anything is hardcoded in the buddypress-home or member themes that would screw up, but might be worth testing out.
Trent
Burt – Mike’s talking about the apostrophe issue with the extra slash before it.
It appears in the topic you just closed (in the title) – https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=1838
The text is posted on the buddypress interface for a topic. The number of replies isn’t important, it’s the amount of characters contained in all replies. From my testing, the limit seems to be around 80,000 characters (with spacing). That sounds like a lot but really isn’t in an active topic.
For example, here’s a link to the problem – http://brentandmary.net/groups/usma-87/forum/topic/9
Here’s that same “topic” via the bbpress backend – http://brentandmary.net/forums/topic.php?id=9
To reproduce
- Have a buddypress install with bbpress integrated
- From buddypress, go into a group
- Create a new group topic
- Copy 80,000 or so characters into the topic
You’ll eventually get to a point where buddypress returns a message “There are no posts for this topic.”
Yesterday, I looked at that post about “LSMaxSearchCount” but I don’t see anywhere that’s configured nor where to configure it. Seems like a likely culprit.
Try the bp job board Kathleen. https://buddypress.org/groups/buddypress-job-board Gotta close this topic.
You can use the new function bp_core_remove_subnav item
and create the new subnav
bp_core_add_subnav_item( $bp->groups->slug, 'create', __('Create a Group', 'buddypress'), $groups_link, 'groups_screen_create_group', false, is_site_admin() );
I’m using Buddypress [of course which works through WPMU]. I could not replicate the error. But I’ll try uninstalling and installingthe plugin. I did it on XAMPP.
Nice work Deep and Artsafact.I’m working on this one: http://lesitedelasneaker.com/bp/users/ this is a community website around the sneakers culture.
