I am sure dsader can fix it without much effort. I opted generally to go with the plugin I have referenced before called “Members Only” on my smallest install which is just for family. Reason I went with this plugin over dsaders was both the RSS feeds as well as the ability to have the blogs you want still being “public” in their settings, but still members only.
What that means is the main WPMU blog can be private and only accessible to logged in members. If blog 1 is public, it shows in the main sitewide feeds. If blog 2 is private to members only, I can still set it as “public access” in the privacy options, but the “members only” plugin will not allow viewing without logging in, but the blog posts will still show in the main WPMU blog widgets.
Not the best solution for larger sites, but I am assuming that when Andy has a chance to implement the privacy options into buddypress, this will be a moot issue at some point.
Just some additional thoughts.
Trent
I’ve just posted this to the WPMU forums, but it’s just as relevant here: Regarding dsader’s more privacy options plugin…
“I’m testing this plugin on a WPMU 2.7 and BuddyPress (both from SVN) installation. It can turn BuddyPress into a private social network quite simply by making the main/first blog private. However, there’s one issue I can see:
the ../activity/feed RSS feed is private when the ‘main’ blog is private.
But, member’s activity feeds i.e. ../members/josswinn/activity/feed remains public.
Any way to fix this? I appreciate that the plugin wasn’t written to support BuddyPress, but it’s so close to working well on BuddyPress that it would be good to look at this and provide a way to create truely close BuddyPress networks.
Thanks!”
I’ve since found that this is happening to me on a site installed in a sub-dir but not on an install using wildcard DNS/sub-domain. Can anyone verify this?
I can’t see why not in the future. Once things are more stable, I am sure that someone will try (if not Andy) to port this, but that won’t be for awhile.
It’s not htaccess. I just did a clean install of the latest wpmu trunk and the latest buddypress trunk (941). I received the same error you are seeing. I delete buddypress, installed trunk 913 (downloaded on Jan 23) and the error went away. I don’t know why but it’s something in the latest trunk.
From the readme.txt in /buddypress-themes:
2. Move the /member-themes/ directory into /wp-content/member-themes/
I was referring to the current development version at:
https://trac.buddypress.org/browser/trunk *Zip at bottom*
I would make a backup of everything before trying it as the standard disclosure! There are loads running that version now (included me) and it is working fine.
Trent
Trent
That is Buddypress Home theme (modified)…but even so, the drop down menu, verification and about me box is missing on my page. Hmmmmm….
I see the trac here: https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/330
But what good does it do? I still have this problem. Users are complaining and some of them are leaving.
Isn’t there really a fix for this?
There is nothing built in yet to the buddypress suite of plugins. You would have to search for options on WPMU itself. There are a variety of ways. Off top of my head:
1) Have members email the site-admin about registration and then have the site-admin manually create their account (whole time with all registrations off)
2) Use a plugin like “Signup Question” and then make the question and the answer something that you only give out to members you want to join. Almost like “invitation” so to speak.
3) There are plugins that exist for the admin to “approve new blogs”, but don’t know of any that deal with user accounts themselves, but that might work.
4) Create a page that users can use to signup by giving all the required information to the site-admin and then manually create them (so they don’t have to email you).
In terms of WPMU, there really is a “hole” in the invitation or restricting registration. It would be nice if something was created for sure, but as far as I can tell, options really are limited on solutions already created.
Trent
should I have the theme installed somewhere else?
Does WordPress MU work without BuddyPress installed? If not, then you need to fix that first.
Search or look at the sticky posts before you post:
https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=962
Andy has intentions of making the privacy components at some point. Right now, there is no privacy without plugins. I have a little plugin created already that makes it so member pages cannot be seen without being logged in, but it only covers member profiles and not groups yet. If you are interested, it is over at http://buddypressdev.org as well as in the ‘Plugins and Extending’ forum here at these forums.
trent
Hi folks !
The WPMU pot file exist !
You can found it here:
http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress-i18n/pot/mu/trunk/wordpress.pot
The file contains all the lines for wp, but also for wpmu.
I translated it in french for 2.7 beta without problems; Just take care off many plural forms who need to be translated too…
I’m looking for a bbPress translation who works. Actually, the forums are only half translated. If somebody has a solution ?
This is a known and reported problem: https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/330
Did you previously have group forums installed and operating correctly?
See: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=471
Okay, I’m not sure what the problem is but here is how I fixed it.
First I totally wiped out all buddypress and WPMU files from the site. I then downloaded the SVN from this URL: http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress-mu/trunk. This gives you the WPMU 2.7 version which is still beta at this time but seems to work fine. After setting up WPMU and setting it up so that blogs come under a subdomain (ex. yourblog.yoursite.com) I updated my svn version of buddypress (https://svn.buddypress.org/trunk) and uploaded to the site and installed it. Everything is now working.
I have no idea why it wasn’t working before. I had tried to rewrite some of the code but to no avail. ANywho … doing it this way will get your site working. Also I think it may be important to use subdomains for the blogs. Not sure if that is true but I believe it may be.
@gpo1
Due to all communication of buddypress and bbpress being done over xmlrpc, the normal plugins most likely won’t work. I have been looking at ones like a view counter and they require massive modification of buddypress. Because of caching, the forums are not always pulled from bbpress. So it would produce falsely low view count.
Also, group forums, are just a single forum in bbpress, this changes the administration and moderation of the forums and topics. If someone is a moderator on bbpress, they can moderate the whole site I believe, with buddypress a moderator is only a moderator of that group forum.
Hope this helps,
Brad
Pretty simple really:
1) Make a backup of your DB just in case you change your mind.
2) Remove anything that has prefix of bp in your /mu-plugins/ folder
3) Delete the folder /wp-content/member-themes/
4) Delete the folder /wp-content/themes/buddypress-home/
5) Delete any tables in your DB that start with the prefix bp
6) Delete the tables that are in format of wp_user_X_activity ….. Not wp_users, just those specific to BP
7) Change your main WPMU blog to use a different theme
Be prepared for hits to non-existent information if you have been hit by search engines
Really, it is just reversing what you did in the installation process. Making backups before and after are really important as you don’t want to make a mistake. It is also good practice to tell your members that you are doing it since they might have issue with the changes, or at least need to be notified.
Hope that helps.
Trent
I DID it but still have stuff in my DB and the template in wp_content/themes. Now everytime i add a new blog it shows a blank page because no template is choosen. When i switch de BP Template off in the admin the other Templates disapear too!
You just remove the components that live in /mu-plugins.
What album plugin for wordpress mu do you recommend for now?
official 1.0 release date yet?
http://buddypressdev.org/phpxref/nav.html?_functions/index.html
That is a complete list of every function in buddypress, along with location of code and places where it is referenced.
As far as your request for a function which returns groups created by a particular user, what did you need the list for? and where did you want to use it?
Hopefully that helps.
Brad
