If i’ve time tomorrow (in italy is midnight), i will write a plugin and i will post it on http://buddypressdev.org 
Thanks for the input. I chose burtadsit’s suggestion and it works fine, but I realize now that I need the News page as a widget or some other solution. Here’s my situation:
1. I don’t want to have member blogs, only users posting to the main blog, so that means not installing bp-blogs in order to hide it across the site.
2. I do need the recent blog posts to arrive on the buddypress-home theme, but without bp-blogs installed the widget isn’t available. So I’m thinking if I could get the News widgetized it would pull posts to the home page instead.
3. I could install bp-blogs to simpley get the widget (what I have right now), but that means removing all instances of ‘blog’ throughout the site including buddypress member areas and that seems like a bad route to go.
4. I have the Prologue post-form installed on the buddypress-home theme just above the three columns of widgets, thus eliminating any need for users to ever see the wpmu admin panel. This should allow me to keep all users as members vs. blog owners.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers
Don’t put them into this thread, but rather a new topic in:
https://buddypress.org/forums/forum.php?id=6
Trent
I’ve added a plugin and component forum where you can post your mods/components/plugins for BuddyPress. Eventually there will be a place to put these on the site, but this will work for now.
Media Temple here as well and I have nothing but good things to say about them and haven’t had any problems with WPMU/bbPress/BuddyPress.
I use media temple, cheapest VPS. Never had a problem regarding getting WordPress MU or BuddyPress to work with them. Hope that helps.
So far I’m just testing BP and have created a few accounts and tried posting a blog on each account. When i write a post, it post it in a default WordPress theme, not apart of buddypress. I know this can be configured so it runs smoothly with buddy press as it does in the demo.
the site is: smallworldgreatminds.com/infini
Salut,
Le site ne fonctionne toujours pas :'(
Je peux donner un coup de main si besoin …
Et je cherche aussi à télécharger le fichier de langue “FR”
O.K. So I got a static I.P. Set up wild-card domains to work with subdirectories, and i’m still having problems with the blog and members page. you can see it here. desmoineslocalmusic.com.
This is set up through go daddy. Does anyone else has buddypress set up on go daddy? My account is up on the 27th and if I can’t get it working i’m going elsewhere.
Any suggestions?
I’ll try this again. 
Anyone know how I might limit the Sitewide Activity widget in the Buddypress Home Theme to show only blog posts? I’ve looked in the bp-activity-widgets.php but can’t figure it out.
Cheers
When you are viewing your site, not the backend admin area, from the menu bar at the top of the screen My Account > Groups > Create a Group. If you don’t see a menu bar then you have to flip the Site Admin > BuddyPress > Show admin bar for logged out users switch to ‘yes’.
Since the Recent Blog Posts is a widget in the Buddypress theme, and the News function acts pretty much the same, can anyone tell me if News could be configured as a widget? Failing that, I’m trying to get the Latest Blog Posts widget to show the entire post versus the title excerpt. Either solution would be good for my application.
Cheers
burtadsit,
You know, I may have, but you awesome folks make in so easy to introduce a new brand of trouble just about every semester. Here’s to you, BuddyPress looks awesome, and your support here is no small part of that. Thanks
Hudatorig in your first paragraph you explain exactly what i think..
My idead Profile Blog is always a blog but more integrated with buddypress, and i think each user need at least one blog to use as profile blog..
Maybe that can be useful to understand my idea: Any user has a DEFAULT BLOG that is a profile blog..
With regard to the title: “Feature that MUST be included in next version for me..”
I’m in need of event listing. And if we look at how Facebook manage their event list, I think a pseudo-blog would also be a good base to build on. A “blog” that is open to any member to post and comment. The blog post is the event description. The blog custom field can hold specific informations: venue, RSVP, speaker, etc. The category system, tagging, etc. All is perfect, I think. Then we exclude/hide it someway so it’s not considered someone’s blog–to differentiate it with the real blogs.
Anyway, we’re all used to develop WordPress into anything we need aren’t we? 😆
@nicolagreco I think it looks like the same with the earlier version facebook status (without the status comment system)
In the previous revisions, buddypress hold each profile page as blogs. It’s not blog, it’s profile page but use the database structure like a blog. I came here in the end part of that stage of BP. I’m not sure the whole structure behind it.
Hi
I’m taking my first steps with wmpu and buddypress, and have got it running on my laptop with windows2000 and xampp. Rather than getting a robust sytem working and going live, I’m looking to get a ‘proof of concept’ up and running just on the laptop. Current problem is that I’m not clear what I should be doing to get the emails sent out when setting up new users : I want to create several dummy users, with their own logons, and as part of the new user registration, an email is generated. Do I need to be sorting out Mercury or sendmail? I’ve got Mercury running but am getting a msg about not being able to relay localhost msgs.
Any help appreciated.
yes, i wrote some lines of code, i hope it works https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=485
bp-status? Never heard about this. But isn’t BuddyPress wire has the same function as status?
Speaking about personal blog for each user, I think we had gone through this before. Every signed up user once got his/her default profile page in subdomain that acts like a blog. Then Andy made some modifications and threw then away.
In this day, i was developing plugins on my buddypress site..
For a lot of things a user must have a blog.
So, this is a sort of my suggestion that i hope Andy will read.
For every user a profile-blog must be created.
For example with Profile Blog if someone want to write some notes like on facebook and he would like publish notes, he can without creating a blog (because there is already a profile blog).
For example if users have a profile-blog, they could post some things about themselves without write something on their blogs.
A prologue form could be included on member theme, so users could write without go through the profile blog dashboard
Maybe it’s a premonition of what you will make with Status plug-in.
I think it’s more important than some other things.
I and other developers maybe, can’t develope more with this obstacle. I will not develope on it..
I hope Andy will read that..
I’m having the identical issue with a fresh install of the Combo Pack (1.0b1). I’ve followed the instructions for installation of Combo Pack (https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/installing-buddypres-from-combo/) but when I select Site Admin > Profile Fields, then “Add a Group,” I get the message “There was an error saving the group. Please try again.” Grateful for any advice on this.
I’ve developed that plugin as promised.
It add automatically a friend to new registred user,
I haven’t tried it yet but i think it works, so don’t be angry and against me if it doesn’t work, i wrote this code in 15 minutes while i was having breakfast 
<?php
/*
Plugin Name: BP Default Friend
Description: Automatically add a specified user as friend after SignUp
Plugin URI: http://notsecurity.com/default-friend
Author: Nicola Greco
Author URI: http://notsecurity.com
Version: 0.1
*/
function default_friend() {
global $wpdb, $bp;
$wpdb->query("INSERT INTO " . $bp['friends']['table_name'] . " ( initiator_user_id, friend_user_id, is_confirmed, is_limited, date_created ) VALUES (".bp_current_user_id().", ".get_option('bp-default-friend-id').", 1, 0, NOW())");
}
function default_friend_control() {
add_submenu_page("wpmu-admin.php", 'Default Friend', 'Default Friend', 8, 'default-friend', 'default_friend_options');
}
function default_friend_options() {
if(isset($_POST['submitted'])) {
$default_friend_id = $_POST['bp-default-friend-id'];
update_option( 'bp-default-friend-id', $default_friend_id );
echo "<div id="message" class="updated fade"><strong>Options updated.</strong>
</div>";
}
?>
<div class="wrap">
<h2><?php _e( 'Default Friend', 'buddypress' ) ?></h2>
<form action="<?php $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] ?>" method="post" id="options">
<table class="form-table">
<tbody>
<tr>
<th scope="row">Default Friend ID:</th>
<td><input name="bp-default-friend-id" id="bp-default-friend-id" value="<?php echo get_option('bp-default-friend-id') ?>" />
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p class="submit">
<input name="submitted" type="hidden" value="yes" />
<input type="submit" name="bp-default-friend" id="bp-default-friend" value="<?php _e( 'Save Settings', 'buddypress' ) ?>"/>
<?php wp_nonce_field( 'bp-default-friend') ?>
</form>
</div>
<?php
}
add_action( 'wpmu_activate_user', 'default_friend' );
add_action('admin_menu', 'default_friend_control');
?>
Install this plug in in /wp-content/mu-plugins and activate it, then in the Site Admin Menu will appear a new voice “Default Friend”, and write there the id of the default friend
I post that code quickly because i think community will do better
That you ‘toriq’ from #buddypress? Howdy.
Doing that it’s a lot easy, you’ve tu use this buddypress function friends_add_friend($initiator_userid,$friend_userid)
i will work on a plugin now, i hope in 15 minutes i’m here with a new plugin
Mike: if you are gonna mod the adminbar may I suggest this? A plugin that does the work for you without modifying the admin bar code. Andy made some changes to the adminbar to make it possible to replace menu entries easily and add new menu items between existing menu options. I use a plugin to do this. Used to modify it every time a change came thru SVN and got tired of that.
Here’s what I use:
http://pastie.org/344208
That’s a link to the code for a little plugin I use. What that does is it adds a new top level menu item ‘Community’ with the News, Members and all the other items that are available in the home and member themes as buttons.
You’ll need to modify this for your needs but it’s an example of how to add a new top level menu item and all the drop downs. The function oci_get_community_blog_url() goes out and gets some site options I have installed in my root blog theme. I don’t run the home theme on the mu root blog. I run it on community.ourcommoninterest.org. That menu gives access to the ‘community’ directories and recent activity. All the bp home theme stuff.
More on the adminbar in this ticket: https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/174
