nevermind, I found the Template Tags section in the codex but it’s empty. Is this going to be complete once the first version is launched?
I’ve seen similar posts to this but not quite exactly the same question but my apologies if this is a redundant question.
I’ve got BuddyPress installed fine(I believe) and I’ve created a homebase and I’m a bit confused how/where I manage design/plugins etc. Specifically, I want the home page of my site to look exactly – at least layout-wise – as it does on the http://testbp.org/ site. I also want the individual user’s pages to look the same and not give them ability to have blog-specific themes. My problem is that I don’t know where I go to change the theme – i.e. I go to the admin of the homebase site and I don’t have a ‘Design’ option. I do have it in the admin of the WPMU portion of the site but the only buddypress related theme I see there is the theme that you see when you are in a user account – I don’t see one for the overall home page of the BuddyPress site(and for that matter, I’m a bit confused as to what the overall home page of the site should be – should it be the home page of the WPMU portion or the BP ‘homebase’). I do notice that when I go to ‘plugins’ on either side, I’m not seeing the buddypress plugins that I uploaded showing as available so this may be part of my overall confusion. Sorry for the rambling – I’m liking the apparent promise of BP/WPMU(I’m evaluating Elgg also) – so I really want to see it in ‘action’. Any insights would be greatly appreciated.
Is there a codex for all the BuddyPress Template Tags similar to what WP currently has? If not is there one in the works?
Andy has tossed around a few ideas about having the solution you are looking at as an option. There is a thread in these forums that is pretty recent.
I get how the buddpress homepage is coming along with groups, recent posts, etc… It’s very nice! Do you know when approximatley you’ll have a search? In addition, do you happen to know what the intentions are for virally spreading a buddypress websites existence?
Take yammer.com for instance; supposedly they had something like 60,000 sign-ups in a couple of weeks??? I have a site thats up and some people join every once in a while, however it seems like something is missing. Some sort of linkage, maybe a giant flaw in my business model?
Do you think a twitter type plugin will help? Or do you have something in mind that you are working on, or some type of advise? Much appreciated for your time…
Plus, I would like to take the time to formally thank you, all contributors and automattic for creating what I believe will help my website tremendously. Thanks again for your time.
I have my site set to a regular home page, however I set my profile page under http://mysite.com/members
I do not want to use my homepage as the (buddypress homepage) member page, I want to use the member page, however, it is set as a buddypress profile page. I want that page to be the buddypress home page. However, there is not an option to change it under the profile admin somehow the design function is disabled. What are my solutions??? Thanks
anyone? this is very important
Thats fantastic news! I’ve really “REALLY” been wanting to use BuddyPress on the MU project I’m building but really “REALLY” been put off by the multiple sub-domain issue. I’ll be looking forward to seeing this in action! 
Can’t wait to hear more on this, would love to add BuddyPress to regular WordPress as well.
So on the plane to London I worked out how to fix the member profile URLs and not require a pseudo-blog for each user.
So user profiles can be found at:
http://domain.com/members/andy
and then for each blog, a redirect can be set up from (as an example):
http://domain.com/members/andy/blogs/myblog TO http://myblog.domain.com
Interestingly enough, I think the way I have done it would make it quite possible for BuddyPress to work on regular WordPress. I’m not sure yet, I need to test this all out a bit more.
I’ll update with more info this week.
I knew I wasn’t going crazy 
Thanks Andy! We’ll be looking at the forum and other BP parts later. By then you may have released the first stable version… but good to know that the integration with BBPress is taking shape.
I’ve integrated bbPress with WPMU to share user logins (couldn’t get cookies to work unfortunately) and was preparing to launch them both this week. Should I hold off on launching bbPress until you’ve integrated it more fully, or would I be okay using the system as I have it now and simply adding the BuddyPress forum functionality down the road.
Thanks!
Thanks for posting about this. I was going to try that plugin soon, but will wait for a fix before I give it a go.
Talked with Donncha about this. A check needs to be added to check if the blog_id = tag_blog_id and if so, return from the function. This will stop the infinite loop.
Looks really great! Fantastic to see real world examples of BuddyPress in use.
Hopefully you’ll be able to add more features soon once their a bit further along. Sam Bauers and I worked out a way of integrating BBPress with BuddyPress, without integrating them completely. That way you can keep BBPress up to date within your installation. I’ll be adding that in soon.
Set the main blog to use the ‘home’ theme and don’t assign or have or have available the ‘buddypress’ theme for anyone.. it’ll automatically be used for profiles.
@owe, BuddyPress only works with WP Mu. If you want to use the normal WP, then you’re better off to find some plugins that will give you the functionality you want. There is an avatar plugin for WP as well as a private messaging one. There may be a friends one too, I can’t remember. Just look through the WP Codex Plugin directory.
I’ve put this into the Trac already.
Watch out when using Donncha’s site wide tags plugin with BuddyPress. You may get hundreds of duplicate posts in the tags blog as the plugin enters into an infinite loop until the PHP script timeout is reached when someone posts a new blog post.
I traced it to the activity recording mechanism when a user writes a blog post. Buddypress hooks into the “publish_post” action which, for some reason I have not established, interferes with the site wide tags plugin.
So if you are using both on your site and experience this behavior, you know why.
I simply commented out the publish_post hook in bp_blogs.php until there is a fix.
@nolageek the external site integration is a plugin we’ve developed to allow entering and checking the blog RSS and selecting an avatar image for the blog. Then we aggregate the external content using SimplePie RSS. SimplePie makes this very easy. On the Latest Posts page for the network blogs, we use the multifeed aggreagation feature of SimplePie. Just throw an array of RSS feeds at it and it comes back with the content. SimplePie uses disk caching so it’s pretty zippy once the feeds are loaded.
Thanks for the feedback.
It seems I am having the same problem. I am testing Buddypress for a new project of mine here: http://demockeracy.in/. When I am logged into my profile (http://demockerat.demockeracy.in/) and type something into the Wire box and say ‘Post’, the page refreshes, but the Wire does not get updated. It just says ‘There are currently no wire posts.’
The Activity feed is working fine for me, though.
Excellent. Is the external site integration a plugin or something custom y’all cooked up? I was just thinking that’d be a great idea.
I’m confused. That site looks like an elgg site. Is there a way to private message on here? I’d like to ask you some questions. I’m torn between WordPress MU/Buddypress and Elgg.
