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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.

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…