Thats fantastic news! I’ve really “REALLY” been wanting to use BuddyPress on the MU project I’m building but really “REALLY” been put off by the multiple sub-domain issue. I’ll be looking forward to seeing this in action! 
Can’t wait to hear more on this, would love to add BuddyPress to regular WordPress as well.
I knew I wasn’t going crazy 
Thanks Andy! We’ll be looking at the forum and other BP parts later. By then you may have released the first stable version… but good to know that the integration with BBPress is taking shape.
I’ve integrated bbPress with WPMU to share user logins (couldn’t get cookies to work unfortunately) and was preparing to launch them both this week. Should I hold off on launching bbPress until you’ve integrated it more fully, or would I be okay using the system as I have it now and simply adding the BuddyPress forum functionality down the road.
Thanks!
Thanks for posting about this. I was going to try that plugin soon, but will wait for a fix before I give it a go.
Talked with Donncha about this. A check needs to be added to check if the blog_id = tag_blog_id and if so, return from the function. This will stop the infinite loop.
Looks really great! Fantastic to see real world examples of BuddyPress in use.
Hopefully you’ll be able to add more features soon once their a bit further along. Sam Bauers and I worked out a way of integrating BBPress with BuddyPress, without integrating them completely. That way you can keep BBPress up to date within your installation. I’ll be adding that in soon.
Set the main blog to use the ‘home’ theme and don’t assign or have or have available the ‘buddypress’ theme for anyone.. it’ll automatically be used for profiles.
@owe, BuddyPress only works with WP Mu. If you want to use the normal WP, then you’re better off to find some plugins that will give you the functionality you want. There is an avatar plugin for WP as well as a private messaging one. There may be a friends one too, I can’t remember. Just look through the WP Codex Plugin directory.
@nolageek the external site integration is a plugin we’ve developed to allow entering and checking the blog RSS and selecting an avatar image for the blog. Then we aggregate the external content using SimplePie RSS. SimplePie makes this very easy. On the Latest Posts page for the network blogs, we use the multifeed aggreagation feature of SimplePie. Just throw an array of RSS feeds at it and it comes back with the content. SimplePie uses disk caching so it’s pretty zippy once the feeds are loaded.
Thanks for the feedback.
It seems I am having the same problem. I am testing Buddypress for a new project of mine here: http://demockeracy.in/. When I am logged into my profile (http://demockerat.demockeracy.in/) and type something into the Wire box and say ‘Post’, the page refreshes, but the Wire does not get updated. It just says ‘There are currently no wire posts.’
The Activity feed is working fine for me, though.
Excellent. Is the external site integration a plugin or something custom y’all cooked up? I was just thinking that’d be a great idea.
I’m confused. That site looks like an elgg site. Is there a way to private message on here? I’d like to ask you some questions. I’m torn between WordPress MU/Buddypress and Elgg.
yes, i tried a fresh reinstall, with still no luck. the buddypress user home base does not seem to be creating users. i have no idea why the subdomain lookup would be so slow.
Could you create accounts in MU before you added Buddypress?
After 1.0 at the end of the year there will be a lot of focus placed on how we can make BuddyPress as open and distributed as possible. There has been quite a bit of talk about open standards support, and this is something I’d really love to see working.
Before any of this can happen though, all the basic functionality you’d expect of a social network platform needs to be completed. You can’t run before you can walk, so to speak.
That’s a good idea. Perhaps not fully open. Instead, let us confirm & permit some other buddypress site to allow their users participate in ours, creating a network of social networks.
Please use the trunk version of BuddyPress.
I read here the answer: http://comox.textdrive.com/pipermail/buddypress-dev/2008-June/000355.html
I didn’t really understand what it means, but it addresses your problem, If you fix it please be so kind as to post the solution. Thank you!
Can you please post the file so we can all benefit from it?
This will be in the next version of the groups component:
https://trac.buddypress.org/wiki/roadmap/groups
