BuddyPress.org

If you goto the directory where you checked out the svn repository, and run this, it will tell you the version you currently have checked out:

svn status -u

The out may look something like this, depending on how close to current you are:

~/public_html/beta/buddypresssvn]$ svn status -u

Status against revision: 845

if you are not up to date, it will show changes between your checkout and the trunk, similar to this:

~/public_html/beta/buddypresssvn]$ svn status -u

* 844 bp-languages/buddypress.pot

Status against revision: 845

This tells me that the language file has been updated since my last checkout.

you can then run

svn up

to bring your directory up to currrent status.

If you used the zip to download a copy this will not work.

I’ve not tested it extensively yet, but this plugin:

http://wpmudev.org/project/More-Privacy-Options

seems to allow the blocking of all users, except the registered community, from viewing anything related to buddypress.

If I set “I would like my blog to be visible only to registered users from blog community” for the main/first blog where all the buddypress features sit, then you have to login before being able to see anything except for blogs, which have their own privacy options.

Is it really this simple to create a private social networking community but allow the blog privacy to remain under the control of the blog owner? I hope so. Perhaps someone can test and verify this?

Thanks.

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=591#post-2876

I don’t believe their is such a thing as “buddypress forums”, I believe buddypress requires bbpress for it’s forum capabilities.

WordPress MU will scale without question beyond the needs of any individual providing enough server backend power.

BBpress as a stand alone should be able to scale large enough for most people. Due to a the different nature of forum database structure, it isn’t as easy to breakup among many servers as a the mu blogs are. An active forum can easily have 100k’s of posts, and I’m not aware of a way to archive older posts into backup tables. BBpress uses 1 table for all posts, it would be possible (there might even already be a plugin to do this) to move each forum to a seperate table, and therefor possibly a separate server.

My concern would be for the XML-RPC mechanism used to talk to the forums. This was designed, with good caching, but on a very large buddypress install with 100’s of active groups and 10000’s of members I wonder how much overhead the xml-rpc adds compared to a straight database lookup. It does allow for the bbpress to be moved to a secondary server, which is good, and is safe as it stores a bbpress creditials and not database creditals if the admin account happened to get compromised. The nice part is, the it was written with the bbpress_live class, which could be replaced with any other class. So someone could, if so desired actually rewrite the class to talk to a vbulletin forum or other solution. It could even do direct database lookups and inserts if desired. I’m sure we will see this in the near future, as some large vbulletin sites may want to add the social abilities of buddypress, and maintain their forums, as buddypress groups.

I have only used BBpress inside of Buddypress, so I haven’t yet had to deal with scaling issues, as I beleive mine has about 45 posts total.

Any Thoughts?

Brad

http://gorgeousgamers.com/beta/

or you could do this: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=591#post-2876

http://buddypressdev.org/plugins/bpdev-example

try hacking this

I’d start with the readme document

but everything should be uploaded to mu-plugins and then make sure you put the themes in the correct places. you won’t see anything regarding bp in your plugins, but you will see a buddypress option under “site admin”

you need the core and xprofiles folders to get it running and then install any extras you want

but read the readme!

you can actually get the instruction at buddypress-comboINSTALL-README.txt

For me the problem was installing WPMU, after go thru it everything is a lot more easy…

While phpmotion integrated would be nice, I’m almost afraid it’s vaporware lol.

I use v2 of their software and finally gave up waiting on v3.

A complete buddypress video system would be amazing, especially if it supported ‘flash media server, or wowza streaming servers’.

yes,

http://testbp.org/news

that is the standard theme applied to the initial blog.

Be warned, you may have problems with some features. It is not recommended to be used on normal wordpress.