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John, I am using the VERSIONS of software that you suggested already and thought I had it working and was pretty excited until I ran into point 2.

Point 1 : The same exact thing is happening when I ONLY use the forum part. I can create as many forums as I want, but any topic I post goes straight to a “This topic has been closed >> Back to …” no other message.

I suppose this also addresses point #2.

When you say that there will be a lot of action in the bbpress and buddypress realm, do you know this for a fact? Is this insider information? I want to use this for another client project that just came up, but cant do so until all bugs are worked out and the installation is more integrated.

Thanks John and Burt for thinking about this one.

I’m actually a bit fuzzy on what you mean by Deep integration Burt.

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I gave some thoughts to this topic and my conclusion so far is, that it would be the best solution to set up a WPMU + Buddypress System for each language. The only thing that would be needed is a Plugin that shares the Userdata between these systems. A user who signed up on your swedish installation of WPMU + Buddypress should be able to use this account for your english version too and so on.

One could do it as on wordpress.com, where wordpress.com is the main website. If You choose a different language, say german (.de) you get redirected to de.wordpress.com and only german content will appear.

I have this installed and working great, but the facebook connect button seems to screw up the css in internet explorer…it pushes the members/blogs/groups search and the default login together, so there is literally no space between the two, and the facebook connect button is all the way to the right of the screen. Is there any way around that?

Also, I have my BuddyPress theme in a subdomain: (community.mydomain.com), and when you click a member’s name who used Facebook Connect to sign up, their avatar does not work in the member theme…instead it just shows the default avatar monster things.

Should my member theme be showing up as community.mydomain.com/members/user1 or just mydomain.com/members/user1? Because currently it’s the latter, and everything works fine except the Facebook Connect Avatars.

Thanks!

I think this issue was resolved recently. I remember seeing something about that in trac and seeing it come through SVN.

Try the latest svn trunk version of bp: https://svn.buddypress.org/trunk

Anything is possible if you can program in php. See the new skeleton theme download at: https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/create-a-buddypress-member-theme/

That’s if you are talking about the member theme. The home theme is just a normal wp theme and there are tons of docs and sites dedicated to helping you with that. Google is your friend.

I’m going to close this topic and refer everyone to the External Blogs topic going forward.

(Let me know if there are any objections?)

donnacha-

I’ve been following the other thread you mention in your first post. So as not to double post, you can read my recent thoughts on this issue here: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=1485#post-8136

devweb, sorry about the little thread jacking

There is a plugin on WPMU Dev ( http://wpmudev.org/project/default-user-role ) that allows admins to set the default user role on signup. There’s also this plugin ( http://agapetry.net/news/introducing-role-scoper/ ) that seems to offer significant role customization in WP. However, I cannot find this particular plugin in the WP repositry so beware.

You may also get some useful ideas from this thread on the Mu forums: https://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic.php?id=8217

Granted, these are all WPMU-specific ideas, not BuddyPress. But Mu is the platform on which BP sits, so this may be of some use if you’re planning to code your own solution.

(i use wordpressmu 2.65, buddypress svn version more recent than RC1, italian localization)

hi Andy, i’m trying the facebook connect locally.I’ve copie the bp-fbconnect.php file and the bp-fbconnect folder in my plugins folder but after inserting the api key and updating options i receive this error:

Fatal error: Uncaught exception ‘FacebookRestClientException’ with message ‘Template bundles must include at least one one line story template.’ in C:xampphtdocswordpressmuwp-contentpluginsbp-fbconnectwp-facebookconnectfacebook-clientfacebookapi_php5_restlib.php:1857 Stack trace: #0 C:xampphtdocswordpressmuwp-contentpluginsbp-fbconnectwp-facebookconnectfacebook-clientfacebookapi_php5_restlib.php(414): FacebookRestClient->call_method(‘facebook.feed.r…’, Array) #1 C:xampphtdocswordpressmuwp-contentpluginsbp-fbconnectwp-facebookconnectfbconnect.php(567): FacebookRestClient->feed_registerTemplateBundle(NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL) #2 C:xampphtdocswordpressmuwp-contentpluginsbp-fbconnectwp-facebookconnectfbconnect.php(262): fbc_register_templates(false) #3 C:xampphtdocswordpressmuwp-includesplugin.php(311): fbc_admin_options(”) #4 C:xampphtdocswordpressmuwp-adminadmin.php(56): do_action(‘fbc_admin_optio…’, Array) #5 C:xampphtdocswordpressmuwp-adminoptions-general.php(2): require in C:xampphtdocswordpressmuwp-contentpluginsbp-fbconnectwp-facebookconnectfacebook-clientfacebookapi_php5_restlib.php on line 1857

It’s a security hole and it’s closed by default. If you choose to open it you can modify the filters that bp uses. Example is the forums filter system:

bp_forums_add_allowed_tags() in ../bp-forums/bp-forums-filters.php is the filter you can extend.

function my_allowed_tags($allowedtags){

$allowedtags = array();

return $allowedtags;

}

add_filter( ‘edit_allowedtags’, ‘my_allowed_tags’ );

Create a file called bp-custom.php and put it in the /mu-plugins directory with the rest of the main bp files. Put that function in there. It’ll get loaded by bp.

Other components have a /bp-<component>/bp-<component>-filters.php file also.

BuddyPress strips object and embed tags from my posts entirely.

@burtadsit

That XMLRPC approach sounds interesting. Your BPContent concept looks very promising. Should provide a great framework for all sorts of shenanigans with Buddypress .

While XMLRPC is provided by blogs, often it has to be explicitly enabled, which I guess is fine. I assume that the benefit of using XMLRPC over plain RSS is also that you can get more info out of external blogs, like number of comments for a post – that would be cool.

I’ll keep an eye on this thread for sure . Thanks.

I think we’re saying the same thing in two different ways.

Colors, yes. bbPress, yes. BuddyPress integration, No.

They don’t. Not one that’s meant for BuddyPress anyhow.

Remember this website, while orange, isn’t using BuddyPress.

http://itoma.cn

No I understand, and I would certainly reshape my theme to match the orange one of BuddyPress also. Seamless integration is the goal.

Currently there is no “Default Blog Widgets” plugin, but I’ve thought long and hard about making one.

Currently hard coding the sidebars is our only option to do this. It isn’t difficult, but it does involve some knowledge of HTML and WordPress/BuddyPress functions.

There are however tons of articles in the WordPress codex on how to do this, as well as write ups from random WordPress enthusiasts all over the web that explain very well how to do this.

The way I did it, was to copy the buddypress-home theme files into a new directory called buddypress-user. Edit the style.css file and rename the second theme to whatever you’d like. Delete home.php. Delete the sidebar code in functions.php. Go into sidebar.php and delete the widget function call. Still in sidebar.php, start editing and inserting your HTML and php functions.

Goto Site Admin->Blogs and click Edit on your root blog for me.

Under “Path” what do you have set there?

Then under Blog options (wp_1_options) under “Siteurl” what do you have set there? And under “Home”?

I noticed also that you haven’t edited your Member theme’s header.php file yet to match your home theme. Your member theme still wants to direct you to yourdomain.com/blog, instead of blog.yourdomain.com, which is weird because I see you have a subdomain installation in your WPMU.

It feels like there’s a few different things going on, so lets check those settings first.

Remember, http://community.beardownarizona.com is supposed to be the root of your blog, not the root of your BuddyPress install. The root of your BuddyPress install should just be http://beardownarizona.com. If you install BP in a subdomain, but also enable subdomains for your blog, you would need to have http://john.community.beardownarizona.com, if that makes sense?

Haha I used one of my three wishes to make it work, so I’ve got two left. Burt is my genie.

First things first. You need to use WPMU 2.7, BuddyPress RC1, and bbPress 1.0alpha6. Any other combination will result in a giant stress headache on your behalf for at least a few days.

To address part 1: When you say that you haven’t gotten the forums to work flawlessly, are you speaking of integration, or alone? Obviously the first thing we need to have is a fully functioning bbPress installation before we can attempt to integrate them together.

To address part 2: That is bizarre. When you say closed, do you mean the topic is marked as closed, or that when you submit the post that it just refreshes the page immediately back to the main front page?

The BuddyPress forums are currently running the most stable version of bbPress in the 0.9 branch. The alpha’s have gone through some growing pains in the past few months, mostly due to pressure to make integration work with the rapidly changing WordPress.org updates. bbPress and BuddyPress are both going to get some major super mega awesome momentum this year however, so the next few weeks are going to be pretty fun.