Glad you found and shared a temporary workaround. This was also brought up in another topic recently, and Andy said “In the first version for the end of the year, BuddyPress will only support open networks. However, the plan is to put together a generic privacy component which can be used by all components to restrict and allow customizable privacy levels.”.
Privacy isn’t built in yet but it will be soon enough.
Did you install them in /mu-plugins/ or just /plugins/?
Plugins installed in /mu-plugins/, such as BuddyPress, will not show up on the plugins page as plugins in this folder are automatically activated across the entire WPMU install.
On the other hand, if plugins are only needed on a blog-by-blog basis they are to be installed in the regular /plugins/ directory and will be shown on the plugins page just as in regular wordpress.
The BuddyPress plugins are supposed to be installed in /mu-plugins/ per step 3 of the instructions.
Here’s what I did as a temporary solution (this is prob. not the best way, so I wouldnt recommend it). In each /theme/buddypress/plugin folder, for example /theme/buddypress/profile/index.php after div id=”content”> I added
<?php
global $bp, $wpmu;
$potential_friend_id = $bp['current_userid'];
$friend_status = BP_Friends_Friendship::check_is_friend( $bp['loggedin_userid'], $potential_friend_id );
if ( $friend_status != 'is_friend' && $potential_friend_id != $bp['loggedin_userid']) {
echo "You must be friends to view this profile.".bp_add_friend_button();
} else { ?>
then before the last </div> in the file i added
<?php } ?>
Delete what you have, and install the trunk:
https://trac.buddypress.org/browser/trunk
Use the “zip archive” link at the bottom of that page.
Was your WPMU install clean and functioning properly when you attempted the BuddyPress install?
Yep, group administration and editing will be in the next version of the groups component. I’ll be moving onto that next, once the home theme is in.
That slide was really only for a high level overview. The best bet is to look at each component here:
https://trac.buddypress.org/wiki/roadmap
Basically, everything on the list for each component needs to be done before it’s considered ready for a first real release.
I can try taking a stab at that in a few days. It would be nice if ideally the syntax was the same between all BuddyPress installations (even though some use subdomains for blogs and others use /blog syntax).
Any suggestions on what the ideal URL syntax would be for all of this?
/home/andy – home?
/blogs/andy – all of andy’s blogs?
/profile/andy – andy’s profile?
Thanks for the feedback. Please post bugs in the bug repo:
https://trac.buddypress.org/newticket
Log in with the same login you used for the forum.
I believe Will Norris is having a look at this. He’s just completed the OpenID v3 plugin for WPMU, so it’s a matter of porting it to BuddyPress.
That is actually what I’d prefer and that’s how MySpace works but users could also request more blogs under this system (just as they do now in BuddyPress) as WPMU allows users to be assigned to multiple blogs, I’d just like their first one to be on their username subdomain instead of an entirely different subdomain.
There are also user online plugins for bbPress for those who have integrated forums and are looking for other alternatives, though the one I linked above definitely works with MU.
I’m looking forward to the chat plugin duanestorey. I’ve hosted chat rooms before but it’d be nice to have one that ties into the MU/BuddyPress login system.
There is going to be an album plugin, it’s just not finished yet. For more about it check out the about page.
As for what features it will include I don’t know off hand but it wouldn’t be too difficult of a task to add ratings and comments I presume if they weren’t included.
Same idea here https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=25#post-92 , where Andy linked to this topic 
.
I think we need to discuss more about it.
We can handle such URL like http://domain.com/andypeatling/home or http://domain.com/user/andypeatling simply by customizing the home theme. Instead of using another theme for the home base, let the home theme handle it.
I hope the other components have enough flexibility to be used in such way.
As far as I know this plugin should work with BuddyPress, I know it works with WPMU 2.6.2.
There’s a privacy plugin available for WPMU, but it works on the blog part only and I’m not sure how well it would work with Buddypress.
http://wpmudev.org/project/More-Privacy-Options
For number 2 see: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=26
Number 1 is not possible right now, but a plugin could be written for this.
This is on the roadmap but probably won’t make it in for the first version:
https://trac.buddypress.org/wiki/roadmap/friends
In the first version for the end of the year, BuddyPress will only support open networks. However, the plan is to put together a generic privacy component which can be used by all components to restrict and allow customizable privacy levels.
See https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=26 for number 5.
The rest of them are a no at the moment, but plugins could be created to add all of your desired functionality.
Possibly, but it does rely heavily on the way URLs are structured at the moment.
See https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=26 for more information.
I’ve created a trac page where people can list details of custom components they are creating:
https://trac.buddypress.org/wiki/custom-components
If you can start of the list and add some details there, that would be great. Once we have a couple of useable ones, I’ll add a tab to the main site with more information and download links.
File them in trac.
https://trac.buddypress.org/newticket
(Oh hey, I just noticed the links at the bottom of the page…)
Until the bbPress integration is fully done with BuddyPress I just integrated bbPress with WPMU. I’d speculate that the global forum should actually be the easiest to implement since bbPress can already integrate with MU’s user tables.
Also, will the bbpress dashboard be in the buddypress dashboard? Meaning, not 2 seperate installations?
Thanks a bunch.
Matt
What I’d look for in a default theme is not necessarily the styling but the functionality. It should provide all possible features of BuddyPress and be documented reasonably well to make customisation easy. Hardly anyone will use a theme out-of-the box anyway. If anything you wouldn’t want to overload it with too many styles and graphics .
The theme looks nice and goes with the look and feel of the BP profile theme.
By the way, what will the criteria for the active/popular groups and members tabs be?
