sounds awesome! will this be integrated into the buddpress status updates that will be incorporated soon?
The core Buddypress files do not live in /mu-plugins/ anymore. They should be in /plugins/ instead. If the location of BuddyPress is hardcoded into the Toksta chat plugin, then that is the problem.
Contact the Toksta chat developers and ask them to update their plugin to the proper path–and not via a hardcoded path.
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I’m excited about this, its almost exactly what i was looking for…
I would however really like to see tweet by wire integration (perhaps a small check box that says tweet this)
Without knowing the details, it would be nice if you could somehow ‘pull’ the post form into a custom home theme in BP. This way users could seamlessly cross-post to Twitter from the home page using one form. I’m using P2 theme as my home theme so the need is obvious, but perhaps this could be possible somehow.
Regardless, very happy to hear this is coming soon.
@Gpo1: Whatever you can do with the tweet form at Twitter, you can do with the tweet form in this plugin.
@Kunal17: It’ll be ready soon as we get the search widget created. Possibly this weekend. And no, we won’t use RSS for that. We’ll make it happen via the API because that is more flexible.
RC means release candidates and it’s a programming term for referring to specific pre-release versions of software. Buddypress has had 2 so far – RC1 and RC2.
On a similar vein, most programmers use something known as a revision control repository throughout development, primarily for easy access to previous versions (“commits” in this context) of software. One of the advantages of this is that it saves duplicating a folder on your computer each time you make progress. Each commit will have a version or release number. Imagine having 1303 folders on your hard drive with only slight differences between them.
As far as we are concerned here, RC1, RC2 and rXXXX (where X are numbers) refer to a particular snapshot or version. Now Buddypress has had it’s version 1.0 release, every live website ought to be running version 1.0.
Rules of thumb: any BP-specific plugins ought to run on v1.0. Any theme that says RC1, though, probably WON’T run on v1.0. There is probably a lot of tutorials etc that refer to a specific release number (like r1303 in your example). That’s just the nature of ongoing development – documentation is prone to getting out of date easily.
If you’re trying to follow some specific instructions and get stuck, just post here and we’ll help.
Very interesting video and article Burt. Thanks. 
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Im wondering how I know what “rc” Im running I keep seeing it being asked when looking at plugins and tutorials.. but don’t know how to find out.
Thanks.
This is why..
does not support BuddyPress r1303+
I dont know what that means or how to find out what Im running.
My problem during last installation with bbpress alpha 6 and buddypress 1 was that all users in bbpress were set to ‘inactive’ and only bbress admin could post on bbpress via buddypress group forum – so it’s another thing to check out if you run into problems with integration…
@Timschmi
As stated above, a blog is typically more personal… written by one person. A Wiki is the opposite. The whole point of a Wiki is group collaboration… group being the key word. So within an organization, you may have a Management group, an IT group, a Training group… etc… and they would all have their own documentation to manage and collaborate on. So to me… Wiki’s within a group just make sense. Right now, the only thing you can share within a BuddyPress group is chat on the wire. But within an organization (for instance)… groups have much greater needs that that.
In case you couldn’t tell… I’m hoping to use BP someday as an Intranet… which to me means social networking + collaboration and document sharing. BP 1.0 has the social networking aspect nailed right now. It’s VERY nice. So sweet. I just hope it takes off and developers start getting on board to extend it.
p.s. I like the Elgg approach of having Wiki’s and Files within groups but also allowing you to browse *ALL* Wikis and Files on the site… so you don’t have to get to them from the group.
yeah! start a movement now! i might try that balloon thing.
Just thought you should know.
Mention the site name, please
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I’ve just recently been one BuddyPress based site and signed up.
They have the little chat bar running along the bottom just like facebook do when logged into their system.
Does anyone know how this is done, Im interested to get this working on my site.
Thanks,.
This plugin does it have the same function like twitter like tweet your followers replies & group followers etc?
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Hi, Im currently translating some parts in Buddypress that aren’t translated with my nl_NL files. But i run into some problems.
For example: All content in the Groups Directory are translated correctly but in the Featured Groups Widget is find some english words. Are thoose hard coded? I’m pointing to Members: and Description: in the widget.
Anyone can give me a direction where I can edit these words?
Another thing I cant find to edit is Viewing group 1 to 8 (of 8 groups). Its not present in the language files and can’t find it anywhere in the code.
Hope someone can help me with these two. Thanks.
I have fixed db-cache plugin to work with wordpress mu and buddypress.
To try it download original version 0.6 from http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/db-cache/ http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/db-cache/
and replace file db-module.php with
http://prague.es/db-cache-fix-for-buddypress/db-module.php.txt
and then activate the plugin
Changes in db-module.php file are marked with a string “//mch” (replacement of functions and variables)
I have tested it little bit but I’m not sure if its working well.
You can see caching stats in at the bottom of generated html page.
eg.
<!– Generated in 2.814 seconds. Made 10 queries to database and 145 cached queries. Memory used – 31.56MB –>
<!– Cached by DB Cache –>
!!!Please post your experience with db-cache plugin and buddypress!!!
Why I’m not using wp-super-cache plugin? Cause it doesn’t work well with bp-facebook connect plugin ( bp-fbconnect ).
M, the plugin is sounding great. Please let us know as soon as you have something for release. Do you have an ETA for an initial release?
Would it be easier to start with if the plugin just handled RSS feeds from twitter search instead of taking the search parameters from withing the plugin itself? Maybe 2 different plugins that integrate well will make things accessible to both basic and advanced users.
Still looking for some help with my error.
Should the ‘mysite’ in (BPLANG’, ‘mysite’) be ‘buddypress-mysite’ as my .mo file is called buddypress-mysite.mo?
@Gpo1: Not sure what you mean by all of that except your question about tweeting. Can you elaborate please?
Right now there is a separate page for sending new tweets. But we might integrate an option into the Wire screen. We’ll check into it before releasing.
As for Facebook, we might be able to add that via a different plugin since it doesn’t exactly pertain to Twitter.
@Kunal17: Search sounds cool. We could add a widget for that. Twitter search API is diverse, so we’ll have to figure out how to handle that without making a widget config overly confusing for plugin users.
We added a new feature to the plugin today: Rate limit detection. What – you didn’t know Twitter only allows X number of data downloads per hour? Ya, they do. So we’ve added code to help ensure that limit isn’t exceed (it should only happen in rare circumstances) and if it is then a friendly message shows up to let readers know that the tweet and trend content might be not entirely fresh at the moment.
Details: Twitter limits API calls to 100 per hour per user, or 100 per hour per IP address if you’re not authenticating whiile making an API call. So basically, those limits would only be exceeded if some BP user had plugins all over the planet each downloading their tweets or they were using a badly designed twitter plugin somewhere else (unlikely, but it could happen). Or, it could happen if a site is on a shared hosting account and lots of other sites on the same server are making Twitter API calls for trend or search data – again, unlikely, but it could happen.
So we try to handle those cases gracefully via code. And, so far I’ve not seen any other Twitter plugins for WP or WPMU that deal with those possibilities.
We try to be thorough (perfection is impossible 
Wow; I’m really digging Buddypress. Just started delving into it, but I’m running into a roadblock. The test site I’m using is at http://www.tribblogs.com/wpmu — I can’t seem to find any way to remove the excerpt from the site-wide activity widget.
Should I be using a straight WP/PHP command instead of a widget, or are there other alternatives? Any help is appreciated.
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Im excited to know too, and might i add, I love BuddyPress.
Hello Tracedef,
You can subscribe to this group: https://buddypress.org/groups/buddypress-job-board
Gaetan
