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The permissions plugin will be an integrated part of BuddyPress when version 1.1 comes around. As it stands today, it isn’t available to anyone but the developer(s).

If I am understanding you correctly, profile groups and fields are used as pages of user editable information within their profiles, so you can have a group for “Personal” one for “Contact” one for “Pets” one for “Vehicle” etc… It’s part of the Extended Profiles plugin, and will also get a bit of a facelift for 1.1.

If you need to set permissions right now today, unfortunately I don’t have a real great answer for you yet, other than kind of side stepping what you need until a built in option comes available.

Mark, trentadams is a moderator here and has the scoop on the multi-db solution. Look for his posts. Or he hangs out on irc.freenode.net #buddypress with the rest of us.

Hi Everyone

I am familiar with WordPress Mu however new to Buddypress and one of my clients wanted a ning.com type site however using ning, you do not own the system and there are many limitations.

So I dived into buddypress in the last week and on my 4th install sorted out all the requirements to get a nice smooth WP Mu + Buddpress + bbpress system integrated.

The system is still in development as the social networking aspect is only one part of this sport coaches membership site. I am still trying to get YM Membership plugin to work on it as it needs to be a paid membership site.

Here is the site: http://networkofcoaches.com/noc

I learned several important lessons:

1. If an existing wordpress install is present 1 level down such as in the root folder then WP Mu will not install until you temp disable wp-config.php and wp-blog-headers.php in that existing installation

2. When installed WP Mu in a sub folder as I have it ./noc you cannot use the sub-domain installation and must install WP Mu using the sub folder option. If your WP Mu is in the root of your domain then you can use sub domains.

3. WP Mu and Buddypress are relatively simple however integrating bbpress is a mission. I used these resources and it works now perfectly: http://umwblogs.org/wiki/index.php/Integrating_WPMu%2C_BuddyPress%2C_and_bbPress

and

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/basic-integration-screencast

4. Now going to use bp-test to add extra top level menu options

My wishlist:

1. A themes upgrader system to modify WP themes for buddypress

2. Top level menu built in editor

3. Paid membership script integration and/or JV Manager2 (Fantasos) integration

4. Video integration especially All-In-One-Video

5. RSS and Twitter feeds

6. Easier homepage and widget editing (so far I can only add widget to the left column, even if I add one to one of the other columns, the system then adds it to the left column?

7. When a user request is received, unless you are already logged in you get a forbidden page, this should rather go to a login page and then process the friend request. My very 1st test user was very concerned over this forbidden page

Overall, I am very impressed. It is a little technical but once you have one successful install it is much easier.

I have a large free WP Mu system that I will be adding WP Premium plugins to and will market with Buddypress and bbpress installed. Keep an eye on http://besteportal.com

In fact I will have Buddypress integrated in a week and feel free to grab an account, in fact you will be helping me test the load on the system if you signup and play around as there are only 4000 blogs currently. I will be adding many additional functions to this site and it will effectively be a wordpress.com type offering however with Buddypress social networking and a few of my tricks.

A question I have is if I use the WP Premium multi db plugin which can split the WP Mu database into as many databases as you want to vastly improve efficiency and performance, then how will Buddpress+bbpress respond as it shares the same database. Perhaps I should have used a seperate database for bbpress?

Keep up the great work BuddPress!

Best Regards

Mark

Felix, the kinks are that I have a few pages that need incorporating, and I’d like to find something better to do with the bbPress login, registration, and profile pages, like redirect them cleanly to the BuddyPress equivalent.

You can check out where it’s at right now at my live test platform but do me a favor and don’t register unless you’re actually a Honda del Sol owner.

http://delsolownersclub.com/discussions/

Note to self: Setup actual test platform soon.

@hempsworth, I think the scope of this plugin for right now is really just getting the initial sign-up/login functionality down. Creating a virtual link between facebook and BuddyPress, while a cool idea, is actually quite a task considering the complexity of fbl.

After speaking with Andy last night, part of the problem comes from how Facebook locks down your profile if it’s set to be private (which I’m willing to bet a majority are these days.) If your profile is private, all you get is the facebook user_id, and that’s it.

As far as having the feeds sync up, it would take an active facebook plugin to feed info to both places from both directions. It is a great idea though. I personally wish my Facebook would update my twitter and vice versa.

dw, anything is certainly possible!

Right now, there is no built in “rank” structure, but it wouldn’t be too hard to build one. As it stands right now, the permissions plugin for BuddyPress is going to get a brief make over to accommodate some changes to WordPress MU. Once we have a look at how that is going to work, the best way to make user ranks without worrying about backwards compatibility will probably be fairly obvious.

Do you need to configure buddypress files for it to work?

I had similar problems with translating, then I figure it out what I did wrong. You should uploaded these files to server:

1. /wp-content/mu-plugins/bp-languages/

– file: buddypress-***.mo

2. /wp-includes/languages/

– file: ***.mo

*** is the name of your language (etc. for Slovenian language: sl_SI)

I hope this helps

Andy, thanks for working on this – it was previously discussed but didn’t seem to go anywhere.

Obviously you’re just working at getting basic functionality into it, but I thought I’d paste my featurelist from the other topic, to see whether you would consider building these features in at some point:

For me, a good feature set would be:

* On the signup page have a ‘Create an account using your Facebook details’ button so that information is already added when the users account is created.

* For existing users, a button they can press to connect their accounts up.

* New events on the BuddyPress site to be published on their Facebook account. So, what you would normally have on their profiles ‘Activity’ area, posted onto Facebook. Eg, “John created a new group on The BuddyPress Demo Site”.

* This activity ‘syncing’ can be configured from the users settings page on BuddyPress, so they can turn off activity updates.

* In the same settings page, the user can choose to either use their Facebook avatar, or their BuddyPress one

* Have a page like buddpress-site.com/members/MEMBER/friends/invite, and having the ability to ‘Invite your Facebook friends to BuddyPress Demo Site’, would be great.

Cheers, I’ll be testing out the current version ASAP.

@Fishbow181, I like your idea,but please can you adapt Amazon s3 or Cloud Front,so that users can store their images/video in one amazon s3 account?

FYI

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=1533#post-7696

https://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic.php?id=6351

Any help is welcomed.

I like my solution, I just built a general forum plugin, using the forum code from group forums and adopted it to work on a general level.

http://gorgeousgamers.com/beta/forums/

(disregard the large error, I have a ticket out for it, otherwise I need to hand edit a file everytime I do an update from svn)

Brad

Wow that’s a fancy idea.

Does each item need to be added manually, or are they imported from Amazon into your database?

Since there are no admins for those items, technically who can edit them and create forums, etc? Basically just the main admin, correct?

It’s ideas like this that make me love BuddyPress more everyday. Good work!

Done and done!

https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/576

Hey John, irc.freenode.net #buddypress

When you do, please pick a handle shorter than your username. May I suggest ‘jjj’?

I didn’t know that. Surprised me. Now watch, it won’t be the solution.

Since John exhausted all other possibilities. I dove into the source code.

Do you have the file plugin-template.php in your directory /wp-content/member-themes/buddypress-member ?

It loads that as the template for the settings screen. If it’s missing (I renamed mine as a test) it give that error.

wp-recapcha won’t have any idea how to hook into the BuddyPress registration page, you’ll have to tell it how.

I haven’t used this plugin myself, but I’m sure that it only hooks into a normal WordPress registration page, and not the new BuddyPress one.

Trent, the part I glossed over was

>>1) you have bbpress installed and a new user created on the “bbPress” side which you granted “administrator” rights by the keymaster

Reading it now, it is obvious, but before – I was not creating a second user and giving him administrator rights. I was using my first “admin/keymaster” account as the main one.

Once I created that second account and followed the rest of your directions, the xmlrpc worked fine.

The other part was

6) …and go to the groups admin page.

It is actually the “bbPress Forums” page. Maybe the terms changed at some point.

As far as cookie integration, this seems to be the definitive resource so far

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

But I just can’t seem to make it happen yet.

Thanks for all the help Trent. I appreciate it.

I think this is an essential request! Instead of adding tons of new features the focus should be on the basic features again; to build a tool that connects people and allows communitation! Everyone who wants to use Buddypress for an international purpose needs multi-language support for the frontend. It would be great to have language filters for the contents like on wordpress.com or facebook.com. If the user prefers swedish instead of english for instance he should only get blog posts/groups and forums in his choosen language. This is definitely one point that should be considered in future development.

Whats your thoughts about this?

Alright, got xmlrpc all worked out. I was make an assumtion in Trents directions that was not correct. I found this doc and it answered a few questions I had.

https://trac.buddypress.org/browser/trunk/bp-forums/installation-readme.txt (btw – this link should be made much clearer in the BP install docs. Maybe make is a sidebar nav link)

Still trying to integrate cookies. Anyone got any words of wisdom on that one?

I was working on the same problem. Have a look at this thread. I’m not sure how secure my solution is, but it was quick and if you come up with some better coding to handle it, then let us know. See:

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=1508

What version of BuddyPress are you using? It is also possible this could be a _nonce key issue if you’re not using RC1, or if you’re using a hybrid of files or file versions from partial upgrades.

The files that this uses are actually part of the BuddyPress core plugin (in mu-plugins/bp-core/), so next on the list of things would be to totally delete the bp-core directory, and reupload them from the RC1 zip, to make sure they are all up to date and valid uploads that aren’t corrupted somehow.

To answer your question, the file specifically that “Settings” uses is bp-core-settings.php. Permissions on the server should be the same as the others, set to 644.