I’ve just posted this to the WPMU forums, but it’s just as relevant here: Regarding dsader’s more privacy options plugin…
“I’m testing this plugin on a WPMU 2.7 and BuddyPress (both from SVN) installation. It can turn BuddyPress into a private social network quite simply by making the main/first blog private. However, there’s one issue I can see:
the ../activity/feed RSS feed is private when the ‘main’ blog is private.
But, member’s activity feeds i.e. ../members/josswinn/activity/feed remains public.
Any way to fix this? I appreciate that the plugin wasn’t written to support BuddyPress, but it’s so close to working well on BuddyPress that it would be good to look at this and provide a way to create truely close BuddyPress networks.
Thanks!”
I’ve since found that this is happening to me on a site installed in a sub-dir but not on an install using wildcard DNS/sub-domain. Can anyone verify this?
I can’t see why not in the future. Once things are more stable, I am sure that someone will try (if not Andy) to port this, but that won’t be for awhile.
It’s not htaccess. I just did a clean install of the latest wpmu trunk and the latest buddypress trunk (941). I received the same error you are seeing. I delete buddypress, installed trunk 913 (downloaded on Jan 23) and the error went away. I don’t know why but it’s something in the latest trunk.
Hi Folks
I love the look of this, and wonder if anyone knows if this is liable to be ported over to be used with a normal WordPress.org installation?
Hi! I’ve been working with wordpress for sometime but as soon as i heard about buddy press i changed to wordpress MU and now i’m somehow stuck on the installation of buddy press because i have some questions.
They said that buddypress couldn’t be installed in a subdomain. Is it true? will it work on a co.cc domain?
Thanks for this awesome project, I’m serious, I am so AMAZED about it!
Thanks!!
http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic.php?id=10902
Here’s a thread that I started over at mu.wordpress.org. I’m bringing it over here as I think the problem may have to do with BuddyPress.
In summary:
I’ve just upgraded to 2.7 with the latest BP Combo and can no longer find a place to add users when logged in as a regular user. I can’t even find a place to activate registration so that they can sign up for individual blogs themselves.
I found these directions under Site Admin->Option:
“Allow blog administrators to add new users to their blog via the Users->Add New page.”
This seems like it is the answer, except I see no “Add New.”
If I go to /wp-admin/user-new.php I do see the Add User page. In other words, that sidebar link is gone, but the functionality is still there.
Here’s a copy of my sidebar with the missing page link.
http://media.bssd.org/media/temporary/wmpu_sidebar.png
Note that the Users button at the top takes you to /wp-admin/wpmu-users.php , which is part of SiteAdmin. This link allows me to add users to WPMU, but normal users won’t be able to add users to their individual blogs.
What’s needed:
1. We need access to /wp-admin/user-new.php in the side panel so users can add users to their blogs.
2. We need a way for people to register themselves on each others blogs.
From the readme.txt in /buddypress-themes:
2. Move the /member-themes/ directory into /wp-content/member-themes/
Why it’s taken me so long to stumble on to BuddyPress I don’t know but the work you have done is great!
Looking forward to having a scour through the codebase and seeing what i can do with it all 
Many thanks for the hard work, i hope to return the favour in the future!
I was referring to the current development version at:
https://trac.buddypress.org/browser/trunk *Zip at bottom*
I would make a backup of everything before trying it as the standard disclosure! There are loads running that version now (included me) and it is working fine.
Trent
Trent
That is Buddypress Home theme (modified)…but even so, the drop down menu, verification and about me box is missing on my page. Hmmmmm….
I see the trac here: https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/330
But what good does it do? I still have this problem. Users are complaining and some of them are leaving.
Isn’t there really a fix for this?
There is nothing built in yet to the buddypress suite of plugins. You would have to search for options on WPMU itself. There are a variety of ways. Off top of my head:
1) Have members email the site-admin about registration and then have the site-admin manually create their account (whole time with all registrations off)
2) Use a plugin like “Signup Question” and then make the question and the answer something that you only give out to members you want to join. Almost like “invitation” so to speak.
3) There are plugins that exist for the admin to “approve new blogs”, but don’t know of any that deal with user accounts themselves, but that might work.
4) Create a page that users can use to signup by giving all the required information to the site-admin and then manually create them (so they don’t have to email you).
In terms of WPMU, there really is a “hole” in the invitation or restricting registration. It would be nice if something was created for sure, but as far as I can tell, options really are limited on solutions already created.
Trent
Hi,
I’m preparing a Hungarian translation for my BuddyPress/WordPressMu site, but when I upload the .mo and .po files all but one of my Home page widgets disappear. I got an error message when recompiling from the source files saying the v escape could not be used in internationalization and replaced the v with n .
The affected widgets are:
Welcome
Recent Posts
Who’s online
Members
Groups
Any help will be appreciated,
Michael
should I have the theme installed somewhere else?
What about adding a Video/Mp3 upload and Album for users? Such as a little “youtube” plugin. Is there any possibility to add this to buddypress.. Could be realized like the photo albums but with music and videos..
What do you think about that?
Cheers
Does WordPress MU work without BuddyPress installed? If not, then you need to fix that first.
Search or look at the sticky posts before you post:
https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=962
Andy has intentions of making the privacy components at some point. Right now, there is no privacy without plugins. I have a little plugin created already that makes it so member pages cannot be seen without being logged in, but it only covers member profiles and not groups yet. If you are interested, it is over at http://buddypressdev.org as well as in the ‘Plugins and Extending’ forum here at these forums.
trent
Hi folks !
The WPMU pot file exist !
You can found it here:
http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress-i18n/pot/mu/trunk/wordpress.pot
The file contains all the lines for wp, but also for wpmu.
I translated it in french for 2.7 beta without problems; Just take care off many plural forms who need to be translated too…
I’m looking for a bbPress translation who works. Actually, the forums are only half translated. If somebody has a solution ?
My request is to make configurable the visibility of buddypress profiles for logged in users only.
I think this would be better for a community that shares their interests internally but whose personal info may not be suitable to be visible for unregistered, not logged-in users.
That would be a grat addition.
Unregistered and users that are not logged in would see the main site and the personal individual blogs, but not any of the personal profiles, to do so, they should log in or register.
This is a known and reported problem: https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/330
Did you previously have group forums installed and operating correctly?
See: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=471
This one is strange.
I create a group in buddypress, that part works.
then I go to the ‘groups’ page, and it’s not there.
So I check the admin, and sure enough it is there.
Seems to me that the groups were showing a max of 4, and every time I add a new group, a group currently in the list disappears. (I am not talking about the sidebar, but the groups page itself)
anyone run into this but me?
Okay, I’m not sure what the problem is but here is how I fixed it.
First I totally wiped out all buddypress and WPMU files from the site. I then downloaded the SVN from this URL: http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress-mu/trunk. This gives you the WPMU 2.7 version which is still beta at this time but seems to work fine. After setting up WPMU and setting it up so that blogs come under a subdomain (ex. yourblog.yoursite.com) I updated my svn version of buddypress (https://svn.buddypress.org/trunk) and uploaded to the site and installed it. Everything is now working.
I have no idea why it wasn’t working before. I had tried to rewrite some of the code but to no avail. ANywho … doing it this way will get your site working. Also I think it may be important to use subdomains for the blogs. Not sure if that is true but I believe it may be.
