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@Anointed

I take it that you are using Elgg 0.9 or at least a pre-1.0 version of Elgg. The granularity of Elgg’s ACL system is brilliant but in my experience of running an Elgg system for two years (https://els.earlham.edu) is that most users do not grasp the power of this system and/or forget to use it when posting to their blog for example. In addition, it seems like most if not all of the access control system has been jettisoned with versions 1.0 although I notice that 1.6 has brought something similar back. But my conclusion is that from the user’s perspective the granularity of access control that elgg provides is over the top — much more comprehensible to have all postings to a group blog be only accessible by the group for example than to have to set access for each individual post. Does this make sense?

Thus it seems to me that Jeff’s conclusion “Offering privacy control on BuddyPress’ core component objects is more than sufficient.” would actually address 99% of what I might need for a college social networking system. Also I want to say that this development is very exciting and definitely encouraging me to move over to BuddyPress. Well done Jeff!

readme.txt says,

Move “/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-sn-parent” and

“/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default” to “/wp-content/themes/”

But when bp-themes does not exist, alert box with message below appears on General Settings page.

Please move the default BuddyPress themes to their correct location (move /var/www/html/test/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/ to /var/www/html/test/wp-content/bp-themes/) and reload this page.

Which is correct?

Me too! An privacy option is very important. This http://devbox.computec.de/2009/06/buddypress-xprofile-privacy-plugin/ does not work with 1.1

Edit: it does work! But user must select before. But privacy fields like birthday etc. should never be visible for guest. Maybe with an click to activate, but at the moment thats not good.

@sschablow

The auto upgrade usually does its job. But you are using a version of WPMU (2.7.1) that is 5 months old. Also, you were attempting to upgrade from a version of BP that was at least that old as well.

Whenever that many months have elapsed between your updating software versions, it is wise to check the readme.txt files and make sure that the versions you are using are compatible with each other. Had you done so, you would see at the top of BuddyPress’ v1.0.3 readme.txt file that you need at least WPMU 2.8.1.

=== Plugin Name ===

Contributors: apeatling

Tags: wpmu, buddypress, social, networking, profiles, messaging, friends, groups, forums, activity

Requires at least: WordPress MU 2.8.1

Tested up to: 2.8.1

Stable tag: 1.0.3

During those five months, many updates have been made to both platforms. In fact, it is recommended that you upgrade WPMU to 2.8.4a for security reasons. Here’s some information that might help in upgrading WPMU.

As for your comment here:

Crash occured after fatal error during BP upgrade (If it’s not possible to upgrade automatically you REALLY SHOULD REMOVE THAT S***[edited for content] FROM THE OPTIONS. DAYUMN. )

That is an issue. I’m not sure that it has been reported, but as you are the first to report such a bug in the BuddyPress forums, you should check in WPMU Trac and see if it has been reported. If not, add a new ticket.

Before activating BuddyPress, did you delete the /bp-themes/ directory? If you do not, and then activate BP and choose the new theme framework, BP can have issues resolving which theme system–the old or the new–your wanting to use.

Next version is a minor release to work with BP 1.1 but yeah I’d like to do that.

The achievements plugin is pure awesome. A truly great way to incentivize participation, all with a nice sense of humour. I’d love to a builder-type tool to allow admins to create new achievements without writing code..

Report it as a bug on https://trac.buddypress.org/ – use the same username and password that you do for these forums.

@sschablow : Please try by renaming plugins folder to tmp_plugins or something.

I have deleted it and now it shows this error message

‘You do not have any BuddyPress themes installed.

Please move “/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/” to “/wp-content/bp-themes/” and refresh this page. You can download more themes here.’

are u sure deleting is correct?

Jeff, where do I sign up for the alpha tests? I’ve been contemplating the “Members Only” plugin limiting access to registered users. Aside from the question of how it would work with BuddyPress (any experiences with MO?) there is the granularity which your component seems to offer. I want some of my membership site open to the general public, but the core information – profile data – I want to provide access to premium subscribers.

This is a very old thread that has not seen any activity for 5 months until your post. BuddyPress has changed significantly during that time, so whatever was the OP’s issue it is more than likely not the same as your current issue. Also, this thread is marked as resolved so it will more than likely get passed over by most people.

Please read this thread and then start a new post.

Coming from an ‘elgg’ point of view, I’m curious if your privacy plugin is going to be similar.

When I create any new item in elgg, be it an image/video/audio/post/etc.. I have the ability to assign the object to a given group at the time of creation.

Meaning, if I upload a new picture, or a new blog post, I have a dropdown permission box where I can set the groups allowed to see the item. (I can select multiple groups if needed).

One thing I absolutely love is I can assign the privacy settings to groups of users.

For instance, I have multiple ‘friends’ groups, ‘coworkers/family/friends/etc’ so when I make a post, I can say that only ‘friends’ are allowed to see it. Or, if I am a member of different ‘groups’, I can assign the permission to members of the given group (that part is really cool)

Basically the permission system is so extensive, that my profile page looks completely different depending upon the permissions of the user visiting my page. (I’ve even managed to take it to the level of custom styles/css on a ‘per permission’ basis)

Of course I can edit permissions on any object after creation should I choose to edit it later.

Is this type of system basically the same as what you are talking about?

Read Andy’s comment here:

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/members-groups-and-blogs-pages-brokennot-working-properly#post-23801