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When you are viewing your site, not the backend admin area, from the menu bar at the top of the screen My Account > Groups > Create a Group. If you don’t see a menu bar then you have to flip the Site Admin > BuddyPress > Show admin bar for logged out users switch to ‘yes’.

burtadsit,

You know, I may have, but you awesome folks make in so easy to introduce a new brand of trouble just about every semester. Here’s to you, BuddyPress looks awesome, and your support here is no small part of that. Thanks

With regard to the title: “Feature that MUST be included in next version for me..”

I’m in need of event listing. And if we look at how Facebook manage their event list, I think a pseudo-blog would also be a good base to build on. A “blog” that is open to any member to post and comment. The blog post is the event description. The blog custom field can hold specific informations: venue, RSVP, speaker, etc. The category system, tagging, etc. All is perfect, I think. Then we exclude/hide it someway so it’s not considered someone’s blog–to differentiate it with the real blogs.

Anyway, we’re all used to develop WordPress into anything we need aren’t we? 😆

@nicolagreco I think it looks like the same with the earlier version facebook status (without the status comment system)

In the previous revisions, buddypress hold each profile page as blogs. It’s not blog, it’s profile page but use the database structure like a blog. I came here in the end part of that stage of BP. I’m not sure the whole structure behind it.

yes, i wrote some lines of code, i hope it works https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=485

bp-status? Never heard about this. But isn’t BuddyPress wire has the same function as status?

Speaking about personal blog for each user, I think we had gone through this before. Every signed up user once got his/her default profile page in subdomain that acts like a blog. Then Andy made some modifications and threw then away.

Hey all, Trent explains it beautifully here:

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=471

I’m having the identical issue with a fresh install of the Combo Pack (1.0b1). I’ve followed the instructions for installation of Combo Pack (https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/installing-buddypres-from-combo/) but when I select Site Admin > Profile Fields, then “Add a Group,” I get the message “There was an error saving the group. Please try again.” Grateful for any advice on this.

That you ‘toriq’ from #buddypress? Howdy.

Doing that it’s a lot easy, you’ve tu use this buddypress function friends_add_friend($initiator_userid,$friend_userid)

i will work on a plugin now, i hope in 15 minutes i’m here with a new plugin

Mike: if you are gonna mod the adminbar may I suggest this? A plugin that does the work for you without modifying the admin bar code. Andy made some changes to the adminbar to make it possible to replace menu entries easily and add new menu items between existing menu options. I use a plugin to do this. Used to modify it every time a change came thru SVN and got tired of that.

Here’s what I use:

http://pastie.org/344208

That’s a link to the code for a little plugin I use. What that does is it adds a new top level menu item ‘Community’ with the News, Members and all the other items that are available in the home and member themes as buttons.

You’ll need to modify this for your needs but it’s an example of how to add a new top level menu item and all the drop downs. The function oci_get_community_blog_url() goes out and gets some site options I have installed in my root blog theme. I don’t run the home theme on the mu root blog. I run it on community.ourcommoninterest.org. That menu gives access to the ‘community’ directories and recent activity. All the bp home theme stuff.

More on the adminbar in this ticket: https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/174

You are running on windows right? Just a guess. Before installing bp you need to get mu running properly. It’s a pain on windows. What package are you using? WAMP?

To get your subdomains to work you have to edit the ‘hosts’ file in windows for *each* blog you want to have running on your windows box. The hosts file is in:

Windows 95/98/Me c:windowshosts

Windows NT/2000/XP Pro c:winntsystem32driversetchosts

Windows XP and Vista c:windowssystem32driversetchosts

Once you find it you have to create a line for each blog so:

127.0.0.1 ourcommoninterest.dev

127.0.0.1 adminstoy.ourcommoninterest.dev

That’s a sample from my laptop which I use to play with new things in mu, buddypress and bbpress. This is only the beginning of your problems on windows. I know I went thru *all* of them.

However, for now, you should replace the domain name with your chosen domain name. Replace the subdomain name with any blog subdomain name you’ve chosen. ‘trial’ in your case.

Try reading up on what it takes to install mu. Then what it takes to install mu on windows. Google finds lots of things related to mu. Here’s a start:

https://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic.php?id=4624

You also need to follow the directions in the mu readme.txt file as it relates to apache.

This function isn’t in BuddyPress yet as far as I know but it should be a pretty easy addition. I’d create a ticket on the Trac (trac.buddypress.org) marking this as an enhancement.

Okay, I’m done! Let’s get back to work. I’ll humor you, Burt, and go to irc.freenode.net #buddypress.

Edited: couldn’t figure that out, for now, moving on to those css files…

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bp plugins (except some function and tags) are so similar to wpmu plugin, they are almost the same of wpmu plugins.

Integrate plugin with menus and other it’s difficult but not a lot (for me )..

mmm i think you have to wait next release, but you don’t want do it, you’ve to pay someone that can do that :S and in this time only few people (i think i can) can do a bp plugin, and they ask for an high amount..

Thank you Trent! I’ve been working on getting the forums working since they were first released and have FINALLY got them working thanks to your post and this thread. Looking back I think I had two problems:

1. I had been installing the plugin in bb-plugins, not my-plugins. I had seen my-plugins mentioned a few places but thought maybe it was replaced by bb-plugins in 1.0 and never really looked into it. I still installed and activated the plugin successfully through bb-plugins so I’m not sure if this was or wasn’t the problem but in any case thanks for pointing this out.

2. I previously modified the etc/hosts file mentioned in the other thread but it must not have saved correctly on the first try. I re-edited it to what burtadsit recommended and now we’re working.

Anyways, thanks again!

Do you have irc? We keep posting around each other. Go to #buddypress on irc.freenode.net server. That will work better.

Ah!!! I didn’t know there was css in there.

Burt, I can’t speak for Mike, but as for me…

I am skinning buddypress-home and buddypress-member themes, by using the custom.css in each themes’ css folder. Neither of which affect that alphabet.

Thanks

I am working with custom.css in both the buddypress-home > css and buddypress-member > css. And I can’t change that alphabet.

we could use flicker plugin 4 bp..maybe someone could create a plugin or guide on making bp plugin?

I am building an Alumni social media site for West Point at http://buglenotes.com

Well, you can look at this post for a quick hack to only allow members to see anything on member profiles, groups, etc. That post has a hack that applies to the /wp-content/member-themes/buddypress-member/ theme. The buddypress-home theme in /wp-content/themes/buddypress-home/ doesn’t get the hack

You could apply it to buddypress-home theme in certain places if you don’t even want them to be able to search the blogs, groups, members, etc. but that would be a little harder to follow.

Then, on private blogs, I just use more privacy options so that private and no search engine blogs don’t show in any listings around the site. You can hack the code to actually list them in buddypress if you want, but default pattern is to not show them.

So basically, I would set the privacy for all blogs you don’t want showing and leave the main blog open. It is done with that plugin on a blog by blog basis.

Once Andy puts more of this into the core, it will be much easier, but for now we have to “hack” around a bit

Trent

Any css you put in custom.css overrides *all* css. Unless groups css is being loaded after custom.css and in that case it’s a bug and should be reported in trac. Don’t think it is though.

Example:

ul#group-list li, ul#member-list li, ul#blog-list li, ul#comment-list li, ul.item-list li { background: url(../images/message_thread_back.gif) top left repeat-x;}

That’s in ../member-themes/buddypress-member/css/groups.css. In your custom.css file you can change the ‘message_thread_back.gif’ to something else by overriding it in custom.css

ul#group-list li, ul#member-list li, ul#blog-list li, ul#comment-list li, ul.item-list li { background: url(../images/my_fav_message_thread_back.gif) top left repeat-x;}

This what you need?