Burt – Congrats on what appears to be a successful plugin. Could you humor me? I don’t quite understand the use case for it. Is it for folks who want to leave the confines of the BP Group forums and interact via the bbPress door to the same forums? I don’t deny that someone would but I’m not sure why since they can do it right there in BP (at least on my site)
http://blogpeporia.com
Running RC1. I still can’t upload any avatars, and the Recent Blogs widget causes errors on the widget page.
I have been consistently having issues with the Recent Blogs Widget. It will ork fine for days, then the list of Recently Updated Posts go missing from my blogs and when I check out the widget page for these blogs, this is what I see:
`%BEG_OF_TITLE%Recent Blog Posts%END_OF_TITLE% ‘
I delete the file bp-blogs.php file from the mu-plugins folder and the error message vanishes. Sometimes an hour later, sometimes a day later, I can upload bp-blogs.php and all is well again.
And when it errors out on one blog, it errors on on ALL blogs using it.
I am running it on primepress theme, WPMu 2.7 and BuddyPress RC-1.
I’ve been having this problem for weeks, previous attempts to get some help for this proved fruitless.
Hey John. I was just going to suggest on the other thread that we move any discussion to here. You’re way ahead of me.
Keep banging on it.
There are things that have been left out intentionally. Lack of time. Don’t know what to do with certain things. Certain areas in bp haven’t been fully developed yet.
It’s not a stupid question, but it is worded a little strangely.
BuddyPress basically works inside/outside of WPMU, taking what is otherwise just a random assortment of administered blogs, and adds a social networking flair on top of it to allow a layer of interaction between registered users and blog owners.
One install of BuddyPress per one install of WPMU.
Does that make sense?
So far this is working for exactly as advertised and intended. Major thumbs up and I’m quite surprised it isn’t a built in part of BP.
Haha… You know I can sense your sarcasm, even through the internet.
I’m gonna. Gotta do some things first.
I like your attitude John. You’re so laid back. Hardly anything gets you excited.
BuddyPress is a set of WPMU plugins, so if you want add new feature, install it and have extended profile, private messages, ecc… the answer for your question is Yes, you can.
I’ve searched everywhere for this answer. Let’s say I have a standard blog site on WPMU and I want BuddyPress to run secondary to it using the same registered members. Basically I want to run a standard blog site and then have the social networking added on.
Can I do that? Or was BuddyPress meant to be a standalone with one install of WPMU?
Hope this wasn’t the stupidest question of the year. Thank you for your time.
We have liftoff! All systems go! Let me take a look around and see what this thing can do!
Try this one. I just changed the fn names on the bbpress side to be unique and wrapped a couple of fns in if(function_exists()) that I know are mu fns.
http://ourcommoninterest.org/downloads/bp_group_forums_0.21.zip
ok. Thanks John. Gimme a few and I’ll change the fn names to be unique on both sides.
Okay, got everything installed, no errors, however when I try to import, I get…
Last import Saturday 14th of February 2009 03:41:32 PM, 1 seconds
0 groups with forums enabled
0 forums updated
0 users updated
However I do have 1 group, with 4 users in it, that does have a forum already active. There aren’t any topics in that forum however.
When activating the oci_bb_groups_forums.php plugin, I receive this error…
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare oci_server_methods() (previously declared in [...]/wp-content/mu-plugins/oci_bp_group_forums.php:417) in [...]/discussions/my-plugins/oci_bb_group_forums.php on line 249
This comes from my using “deep integration” on the bbPress side, including wp-load.php to allow access to the WP/BP functions (despite being told not to do this, ha!)
Adding some if function does not exist checks might be a good measure…
Did this for:
oci_service_methods
oci_escape
oci_authenticate
oci_xmlrpc_query
trailingslashit
untrailingslashit
Also, I added this around the ixr inclusion:
if (defined(BACKPRESS_PATH)) {
require_once( BACKPRESS_PATH . '/class.ixr.php' );
}
Might not be correct, but it did get rid of the double inclusion for me.
After those changes I was able to get that file to include without problem. Gonna keep testing.
Howdy all. I’ve got a little plugin ready for testing that allows bp group forum functionality in bbPress. From the readme.txt:
Description
Enable BuddyPress group forum features in bbPress.
BuddyPress has three types of groups. Public, Private and Hidden. In all three
cases users must be members of a group to participate in group forum conversations.
These two plugins modify a standard bbPress forum installation to allow
BuddyPress group members to carry on discussions in bbPress.
BuddyPress public groups will be read only in bbPress. Anyone wishing to participate
in a public group discussion must be a member of that group in bp.
BuddyPress private and hidden groups will be hidden in bbPress. Only members
of these groups will see the forums and be able to participate.
BuddyPress group admins and mods have moderator privileges in bbPress.
The moderator role is restricted to their group forum.
I’m gonna do a blog post about this but first I have to run up to the store and get something for my girlfriend. Something pink and expensive. Candy people, candy. This is Valentines Day right? Forgot all about it being buried up to my eyeballs in php for the past week.
EDIT: I’m back. Girlfriend is happier. I’m happier that she’s happier.
Read more and download the plugin:
http://code.ourcommoninterest.org/2009/02/14/buddypress-group-forums-for-bbpress/
lol! Yay! I’m gonna give it a whirl right now! Ha ha!
You probably will be John. You posted 16 minutes ago:
http://ourcommoninterest.org/downloads/bp_group_forums_0.2.zip
I haven’t even done an announcement message yet.
Yay! Very happy to hear about this, and I will try to be one of the first to try it out!
u’re welcome mark, i’ve announced this in the buddypress-it.it site (italian) if the german team have a solution, please share it!
arturo84, thanks for your quick reply. Feedback becalms in first…
So: Andy Andy Andy (we believe in you) 
P.S.: i announced this issue in the german BuddyPress forum.
Sadly, i must confirm this issue with a german BP RC1, too … 
Exactly the same problem as sgrunt declared.
The only workaround to handle/ display widgets again seems to be deleting the wp-content/mu-plugins/bp-languages/buddypress-de_DE.mo (or what language ever).
Praying for this issue being solved soon, since I had planed to launch my BP-Site “officially” this weekend …