If you are talking about your installation somewhere ,you can easily turn it off (if you are a admin) from the “Buddypress” submenu under the “Site Admin” menu.there is an option “Allow non-friends to post on profile wires:”. you can select “no” for that.
But if you are talking about this buddypress.org site, Andy may think that this feature can be very useful for developers (like us) for contacting each other without having to wait for the invitation accept.
and Don’t forget to turn those Lights OFF.(only if this answers your Question)
I will work towards enhancing this plugin whenever I get time.
Please put your wishlist regarding bulk import users at plugin page.
the latest trunk of buddypress requires a change in the name of member theme folder:
OLD:
/wp-content/member-themes
NEW:
/wp-content/bp-themes
https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=1675
Well that would be bit difficult but not impossible because we have about 2200 users to be imported from old database. I also need to import their other profile data. Is this possible?
ZapDog, I’m glad I found your post. This is exactly what I would like to use Buddypress for. If anyone knows of a plugin in the works or an existing solution, any information on how to accomplish this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Andy for all your outstanding work on Buddypress.
you should use one install of mu and then use multi site manager it uses just the one database
you can then use it like so to access members profiles
eg
http://hyrxx.com/members/Hyrxx/ (dot com)
http://hyrxx.tv/members/Hyrxx/ (dot tv)
Here is my thoughts:
1) It is already easy enough to share wp_users across several WPMU installs or WP installs, so that part would be pretty simple (even using HyperDB)
2) Having two WPMU installs being able to write to the same BP tables might be a disaster, but it might work. Once again using something like HyperDB, but it seems as though BP has issues with tables not being in same database as main WPMU tables.
I am still playing with this myself on test installs, so if I learn anything new, I would be happy to report.
Trent
Hi, you mean in the buddypress front end or bb front end? Do you install this plugin: http://code.ourcommoninterest.org/2009/02/14/buddypress-group-forums-for-bbpress/
It did the same thing to me before I’ve installed it on bp front end now its working but not in bbpress!
I replaced the images/logo.gif with my own graphic, and made a file called site-wide.css and it had either no effect, or not the desired effect. The graphic changed, I can see the top of my graphic in there, but the top section of the site cuts it off. I put this in my site-wide.css:
#attempt to make the logo area larger
#header h1 a {
text-indent: -999em;
background: url(../images/logo.gif) top left no-repeat;
overflow: hidden;
width: 550px;
height: 141px;
display: block;
float: left;
}
Any guidance appreciated!
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! 
