Ahhhh… the wpmu + buddypress + integrated wiki platform question. Something we’ve actually spent quite a lot of time thinking about ourselves!
– First up, unfortunately there’s nothing out there 
– Secondly, a third party approach is definitely a decent idea as good wikis are hard to build!
– But finally, that’s not as easy as it might at first appear – and you might end up wanting to simplify things a little and build a native plugin (which is what we’ve been toying with for sometime).
You can actually see an example of a very basic (internal) wiki setup over at our Edublogs Campus sandpit site: http://universityofblogs.com
U: admin P: pass (gets wiped every hour)
First up there’s our (pree BP 
communities: http://universityofblogs.com/wp-admin/communities.php
And as you can see each community gets its own uber simple wiki, for example: http://universityofblogs.com/wp-admin/communities.php?action=wiki&cid=1
Am not pitching http://edublogs.org/campus/ (well, ok, I am a bit 
but rather I think it’s an example of what you can get done in a fairly simple way.
Of course though – having an extra ‘communities’ tab is kinda counter-BP-stylee… so you can make your mind up on that too, I’m sure most of the regulars around here would definitely see mucho lacking in our setup as opposed to BP (as do we!)
Hope that helps.
Cheers, James
are you able to force the Facebook Connect Avatars to do the same thing? This exact same issue is presented with FB Avatars in BuddyPress.
Make sure you submit this to the WP plugin repo and tag it with “BuddyPress” in your readme file.
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/about/
-rather than limiting access to members only, a perfect feature would be that the user choose (if permitted – I mean, choices allowed should be defined by the admin) how he wants to protect his profile : for each group of fields; public | members only | groups | friends.
I think this would be rather necessary !
That is a good idea for a plugin.
Is this something you are recommending be included with BuddyPress, or that someone optionally make this for you?
If you want it to be part of BuddyPress, add it as an enhancement by using the Trac:
https://trac.buddypress.org/login
You can use your same login and password as for these forums.
Create a new ticket, and under type, select “enhancement.”
If you’d like someone to take this task on for you privately, you will want to explore being added to one of the development mailing lists (which I don’t have a link to right this second but will find for you shortly.)
how are “the settings…” set??
I use the Poedit to do the translation. I always get this error message.
11:23:10: 
wampwww8phetwp-contentmu-pluginsbp-languagesbuddypress-vi.po:844: a format specification for argument 1 doesn’t exist in ‘msgstr’
11:23:10: wampwww8phetwp-contentmu-pluginsbp-languagesbuddypress-vi.po:2566: a format specification for argument 1 doesn’t exist in ‘msgstr’
11:23:10: msgfmt: found 2 fatal errors.
I believe that related to Settings…. But I don’t know how to set it.
Can someone help please.
thanks
First, read this webpage:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API#Actions
That’ll explain the basics of hooks and filters. If you want to know which hooks are in BuddyPress, scan through the source code and look for do_action() functions as well as apply_filter() functions, those are your hooks, and you can “hook” into them using the functions add_action() and add_filter() respectively. I don’t think there’s too much documentation around for BuddyPress hooks, so it’s best to look into the file/function you want to extend and find your hooks.
@jjj
Good points although I still think that if a user actually uses their blog, they will be aware of the difference between that and their wire. I mean, you have to consciously dip down into your blog, you are clearly no longer in the profile space.
“Anyone familiar with Twitter doesn’t need help becoming comfortable with what’s going on.”
Perhaps the comparison with Twitter is a little misleading, insofar as the visitor does not see the Twitter-style box, it is more a “QuickPress on steroids” for the blog owner.
It is not so much a question of making the blog owner comfortable, rather it is about that box sitting there as a call to action, an inducement to “Just Do It”. We all need a little encouragement sometimes – not having to dive into the dashboard to post will inevitably result in more posts.
“I think new users would relate more to a photo gallery type of layout than a twitter layout.”
Photo gallery layouts have the disadvantage of looking like a deflated balloon until the user actually uploads some photos. I suspect that, six months down the road, we are all going to be struggling with the problem of encouraging users to even make their first post, nevermind getting them to upload photos.
If getting people to use their blogs is going to be the problem, P2 could be the answer.
-limit access to members only
-protect email adresses against spam
hi!
@ezd
here are some referenzes:
http://bp-dev.org/phpxref/nav.html?index.html
https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/creating-a-custom-buddypress-component/
https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/create-a-buddypress-member-theme/
if i understand you corectly your aim is make a simplified buddypress-home theme or a replacement for the standard home theme. right!? you may be want to take a look here: http://kommune.ngcorp.de – it is my own simplified home theme. i took the orginal home theme and striped it down. only for an example what is possible
Let me make sure we are looking at the same code. You are on RC1?
Rev 870 is: “Fixing incorrect use of “You” when viewing a person’s empty activity stream.”
That may or may not be what you are talking about in one issue mentioned above. Can you post these things in trac please?
https://trac.buddypress.org/
There has been a fix come thru svn for the custom permalink problem: https://trac.buddypress.org/search?q=1188
Okay thanks, that clears it up a bit. Im not that strong in php but I still managed to build a custom theme in WordPress using the inbuilt template tags.
burtadsit > Do you know if there’s a similar page with template tags and a description for each tag for BuddyPress / The skeleton theme.
Like an “Overview” page that maybe looks like this: https://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags
That page helped me so much delveloping my own theme and understanding the function of each tag.
I’ve deleted evrything, during the lack of good theme’s for both …
Suc6!
And Seeya
hmm… i’m not sure how to explain this. I only want to but post’s into left colum area in buddypress themes. Not user’s post only mine. You know, like those are in default template in wordpress.
Now i can but widgets into left colum ( post’s and blog’s ) but if i do that theres no “comment” link.So i suppose that i have to modify widgets code?
Now even im confused 
I think this using this as the default theme might confuse the purpose of the wire.
It’s a good idea to have something similar to this, but I think new users would relate more to a photo gallery type of layout than a twitter layout. Anyone familiar with Twitter doesn’t need help becoming comfortable with what’s going on.
Again, just my opinion.
@nicolagreco
In case you hadn’t noticed, I posted another suggestion for a plugin that I believe would be immensely popular, a hack of the current Friends plugin to create a new, simpler form of relationship to be used in addition to Friends:
Fans
I think it would be a great addition to the plugins you provide at your BuddyPress Dev site.
I had this problem too when i attempted to adjust the buddypress-member theme. http://sportsblognet.com/members/rich
It’s caused by the base.css in the the buddypress-member theme calling
input, select, textarea {
width: 100%
}
you can either adjust that in the base.css (not recommended)
or you can place
#wp-admin-bar input {
width: auto;
}
below the previous call in the base.css, that way it will call the 100% width for other inputs, except for the wp-admin-bar.
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.
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?)
