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Alright, I am on to my next install and having a few different problems.

“There was an error posting that reply.” is the group error message after posting, BUT the post is still made. Meaning, all my test users can post to the group forum as expected (and no data is lost), but I get the ugly red bar saying it didn’t work out.

IF I disable buddypress-enable.php in bbpress plugins, then I don’t get the error message – I get the green success message – and everyone can post accurately.

Thoughts?

I’m running the latest trunk (r 1197), and I installed the plugin into my /plugins folder so an example path is /wp-content/plugins/bp-fbconnect/bp-fbconnect/wp-facebookconnect/common.php.

I am running the BuddyPress theme in my “community.mysite.com” subdomain, so I’m trying to activate it through that dashboard, not the mysite.com dashboard.

However, when I go to activate the plugin, I get the following fatal error in my plugin menu:

Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.



Warning: require_once(/home/zmdy/public_html/wp-content/wp-config.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/zmdy/public_html/wp-content/plugins/bp-fbconnect/bp-fbconnect/wp-facebookconnect/common.php on line 11



Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/home/zmdy/public_html/wp-content/wp-config.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/zmdy/public_html/wp-content/plugins/bp-fbconnect/bp-fbconnect/wp-facebookconnect/common.php on line 11

error logs show:

[Mon Mar 09 22:39:58 2009] [error] [client 76.187.253.103] PHP Fatal error:  require_once() [<a href='function.require'>function.require</a>]: Failed opening required '/home/zmdy/public_html/wp-content/wp-config.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/zmdy/public_html/wp-content/plugins/bp-fbconnect/bp-fbconnect/wp-facebookconnect/common.php on line 11, referer: http://community.mydomain.com/wp-admin/plugins.php?error=true&plugin=bp-fbconnect%2Fbp-fbconnect.php&_error_nonce=1a91b34821

[Mon Mar 09 22:39:58 2009] [error] [client 76.187.253.103] PHP Warning:  require_once(/home/zmdy/public_html/wp-content/wp-config.php) [<a href='function.require-once'>function.require-once</a>]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/zmdy/public_html/wp-content/plugins/bp-fbconnect/bp-fbconnect/wp-facebookconnect/common.php on line 11, referer: http://community.mydomain.com/wp-admin/plugins.php?error=true&plugin=bp-fbconnect%2Fbp-fbconnect.php&_error_nonce=1a91b34821

Need some help…could it be a bug with installing this into a virtual domain?

There is a Amazon S3 plugin for WP Mu however I am not sure if it is tested with buddypress

-Mark

Hi nicolagreco

Is your plugin for Your Member available?

I went through buddypressdev but could not find anything.

Please PM me if this is available.

Thanks

Mark

This sucks.

PART 1 : I am installing this for a client on WAMP and have had no luck in getting the forums to work flawlessly. I can get the forum to be created though the group’s setup page, but the group cant post new topics to the forum. (or can they?)

PART 2 : When I post something to the forum, it is closed instantly before I can view it. So the main page shows 5 posts, but none are actually in the forum when I click on it, it just gives me the main post a new topic.

Any help with this sort of issue would be a blessing. John, how the hell did you get the forum working on yours.

And BuddyPress people, do you use bbpress for this site as well??

I have to give you props for this one–that is sick! It works sweet…

I just have a question, when I use another home theme or blog theme the facebook icon doesn’t show up??? Might you know why it wouldn’t show up in a different theme that is based on the buddypress home theme? Thanks

The need being addressed here is not to pad the user profiles and activity streams with content generated elsewhere but, rather, to make the profiles more useful, having the humility to accept the fact that the most important information about someone may not be located on their profile page within our BuddyPress network but elsewhere, and allowing that user to indicate wherever it is he considers to be his online “home”

I agree with donnacha’s sentiment. When it comes to creating a new social network, it’s not only possible, but probable that many members will already have a website url they consider their primary domain. BP needs to have a away for members to place one or more clickable links within their profile.

@donnacha

Cool, I understand. It’s just that one of the elements of our discussion was “real world” usage of BuddyPress so an overly simplistic approach in those terms may not be sufficient .

We’ll see how it goes. On our flokka site we call these external blogs “Network Blogs” and have appropriate sections under the Latest Posts widget on the home page and the Latest Posts page. Also, they are listed in the Blogs directory and can be set as featured blogs. We found that most members actually use the external blogs feature rather than create a new blog on the site…

I’ve mentioned this before but it went ignored, perhaps nobody was interested at the time? lol

I’m not sure how localization works with BuddyPress, but I’m guessing it just takes the WPLANG constant which can be defined in wp-config.php

There are language switching plugins out there which define this on a per-user basis, perhaps try getting the basic WPLANG definition feature from this ( http://www.poplarware.com/languageplugin.html ) working with WPMU/BuddyPress?

@anointed

Writers familiar with syndication are certainly going to require that, but I think what we all need to realize that even ordinary users, “civilians”, are now aware of the importance of linking to their other online points of presence, whether that be their Facebook/Digg/YouTube profile or even their own website.

The idea that anyone is going to stumble across our BuddyPress sites, create a profile and start filling the blog we give them with content, without the standard “reward” of a link back to their “real” online home, is ridiculous.

BuddyPress is a beautiful piece of work, but we need to start thinking about what drives actual usage when you don’t happen to be Facebook. We need those external blogs listed right next to native blogs.

‘Trunk’ means the latest development build in the SVN repository, which you can access and ‘check out’ here:

https://svn.buddypress.org/trunk

More information about using SVN here: https://codex.wordpress.org/SVN

Ok so…integration for me is working between BBpress Alpha 1.6, Buddypress RC1 and WPMU 2.7. I can seamlessly switch between platforms while logged in. Everything is installed properly…However when I go to activate/enable any forum for a group i get this:

Are you sure you want to do this?



Please try again.

@spisio

Yeah, real world usage makes a big difference. BuddyPress 2.0 is going to be AWESOME

Really looking forward to this! +1

I’m just working on updating the flokka site we developed to the latest version of BuddyPress. For this site, we have developed external blogs functionality. I’ve re-written the original external blogs plugin and now have a BP plugin that implements the ability to add an external blog and feed in the member profile. It uses SimplePie RSS for feed discovery, aggregation and management.

I will need to see how to now integrate this into the site part, like the Blog directory etc… Once I finish, I may be looking at releasing this as a BP plugin to the community.

Incredibly, I don’t think any of the main developers see this as an important feature; I made a similar request about a week ago, after Andy’s announcement about the upcoming non-MU version of BuddyPress (which will, absolutely, need to be able to list external blogs) but, apart from a short, interesting discussion, no-one seemed to agree that it was a vital feature:

Useful BP and non-MU BP feature: list outside blogs

My conclusion was that this is one of those situations in which the people in a position to introduce a feature haven’t yet realized how important it is – it isn’t yet an itch they feel the need to scratch.

But, yeah, it is one Hell of an omission, hopefully it will be introduced once the main guys have got their real-world BP communities running at full tilt and realize that most users will want to link to their main blogs.

Well…I hate to ask such seemingly infantile questions, but…

I have had wp-recaptcha working fine on the buddypress registration page on http://sportsblognet.com/sbn-start.php (WPMU 2.7/BP RC-1)

now to the questions…

Did you apply for a wp-recaptcha Key?

Did you adjust the settings to work on the registration form? (check two boxes in the settings)

Did you place wp-recaptcha in mu-plugins?

I have had no problems and it worked “out-of-the-box” no core files needed to be edited.

I’m assuming you did all of these things, but the hacking of bp-core-signup.php was not necessary for me, so I had to confirm.

Hi John:

Is the permissions plugin the same thing as the privacy component Andy mentions in this thread (post #4)? https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=39#post-158

I literally just started (i.e. this morning) coding a bare-bones privacy plugin for BP that in essence controls privacy at the profile subgroup level.

A simple radio button array appears in each subgroup’s title bar with options to grant or deny viewing access. It offers the following granular subgroup level of control:

• allow/deny anyone (i.e. globally public or private)
• allow/deny only logged in users
• allow/deny only friends

It’s not much of a privacy filter, but it is a start.

If it is the case that V1.1 will have the first generation of the privacy component, then perhaps I should simply wait. I’m sure the core developers will provide a more powerful (and better) solution than I could.

Jeff

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.