I find it hard to conceive of why a social networking site would NOT have a single place of communication, e.g. for tech support, newcomers, general discussion.
Create groups for “Tech Support”, “Newcomers”, “General Discussion”. I consistently fail to understand how people don’t get this. I’m in the process of converting BuddyPress.org to this model, perhaps then people will get it.
@Andy Sounds good I look forward to the new design. Have you considered integrating something like this: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/idea-for-stimulating-plugin-development ?
Using 1.2.1? If not then this is the problem.
Sorry to pick that up… I thought I won with the spammers for I did what stwc wrote in his article (by the way – the site there is down 
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But yesterday until now I got about 100 spam-registrations. I did not delete wp-signup.php anymore, because the “reigster” in the admin-bar anywhere else but on the root-blog needs that file… So I thought it’s not a good idea.
BUT now, the spammers registered with just the name. Although I have alot of additional, required field… How is that possible? I guess, they didn’t come in through the bp-register. Maybe the wp-signup.php directly?
I have forums disabled altogether and as far as I know this issue with registering through bb-press should not be an issue anymore.
Would appreciate if someone could give me a further tipp what to do or where they could come from.
PS: @andy (or the developers): Why is it, that on subblogs the admin-bar “register” doesn’t point to the register-slug but is somehow a redirect from wp-signup.php (which doesn’t work anymore, when I delete or empty the file…)
Also, I don’t see how this will specify it to be underneath the random blogs listed on the blog directory in the right column.
This is the magic:
add_action('bp_after_directory_blogs_featured', 'my_custom_content_after_random_blogs');
This tells the “bp_after_directory_blogs_featured” do_action part of code in /wp-content/themes/bp-sn-parent/directories/blogs/index.php to plug in your custom code.
Posthaste experiments go nowhere. I’m closer to a solution with P2, with the theme integrated directly into the bp-groupblog plugin (old version for 1.1.3…).
I’ve boiled the problem down to this: I need to tell the p2.js file which blog it is operating in. Without a blogid it assumes it’s working on the main blog.
The solution is probably in here somewhere: Get blog_id in external files. Also mentions the switch_to_blog function that Marius Ooms pointed out to me in bp-groupblog.
How can I turn that into a line of javascript that I can add at the top of p2.js? ‘var something = something;’?
Or should I add something to functions.php? It has functions like this:
function latest_post_permalink() {
global $wpdb;
$sql = "SELECT ID FROM {$wpdb->posts} WHERE post_type = 'post' AND post_status = 'publish' ORDER BY post_date DESC LIMIT 1";
$last_post_id = $wpdb->get_var($sql);
$permalink = get_permalink($last_post_id);
return $permalink;
}
What should I add to a function like this to tell it from which blog to get the last post permalink? Or can I add $blogid as global or something like that?
So HTML and script objects will work fine with this method? Also, I don’t see how this will specify it to be underneath the random blogs listed on the blog directory in the right column.
I’ll give it a go, but I want to understand what I’m doing 
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EDIT: Thank you for the directory structure for the components, if I can’t figure out your bp-custom method, I’ll be able to do it directly.
add_action() is your friend.
No need to edit the templates directly.
For example, to add custom content after the random blogs:
Add this to /wp-content/plugins/bp-custom.php:
function my_custom_content_after_random_blogs() {
echo 'MY CONTENT AFTER RANDOM BLOGS';
}
add_action('bp_after_directory_blogs_featured', 'my_custom_content_after_random_blogs');
How do you find these actions? Look for do_action() code in your /wp-content/themes/bp-sn-parent/directories/COMPONENT/index.php.
think this is a bug https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/1999,
managed to workaround it for now by removing STRICT from the my.ini mysql startup config.. not sure of impact.
so, now to figure out the next problem.. why the members tab says members(2) and underneath, “this group has no members”
I already have a group, it only has one member in it through, and everytime I try to post to it it says “There was a problem posting your update, please try again”. unsure where to go from there.
Hello! I had the same problem until I increased the memory limit of my PHP pages via php.ini – then I retried the one-click forum setup and it worked perfectly.
@Symm2112: is “multiblog=true” really something like BP_ENABLE_MULTIBLOG as described in http://premium.wpmudev.org/forums/topic/buddypress-corporate-buddypress-community-buddypress-fun-and-buddypress-social-updated ?
According to https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/bp_enable_multiblog, BP will function on any sub-blog with a BP-enabled theme, even without this setting. The explanation there
If your main site is example.com and your hosted blogs are blog_x.example.com. example.com/members would go to the members directory, and so would blog_x.example.com/members.
is a bit lost on me, I must admit. Can someone explain what that means?
Thanks again and again
In any regard I see the “forums setup” option inside buddypress, I choose “set up a new bbpress installation” and it said “All done! Configuration settings have been saved to the file..” but where are my forums? No new forum menu options appeared, are they supposed to?
No. In BP, Forums are part of Groups. Create a group, and you’ll notice it will have a forum section. Once you make a post, the forum directory will appear on the main nav.
There is a way to integrate a forums install in the more traditional way, but I suggest you have a look at the default first 
I still have not been able to figure this out – does anyknow know if I have to install a seperate forum component to get forums on BuddyPress?
I’m just trying it out on a test site but have the same problem. The groups button works, but the blogs, members and forum just reload the home page.
have since fixed the problem as per https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/500-errors-1and1-webhost#post-29415 as my hosting provider is 1and1.com
expanding on @peter’s view. My personal objective is merely to give a more deliberate, extensive posting mechanism to Groups. Forums are great but they are for raising and issues and starting a discussion. Sort of a quicker, more crude method when compared to a full length blog-type post (in fact, I am tiring of the over-use of the word ‘blog’ here are my users don’t need that term confusing everything)
So all group members, according to their admin set permissions, will be able to do rich postings in the group (keeping things topically relevant) Group members will be able to comment, etc.
To that end, front-end posting will be a big boon as most members will appreciate the simplicity and non-confusing interface. I plan on making it yet antother template view within the group structure…as if you never left.
Finally, I will make use of either categories and/or tags to allow grouop members to browse and find postings that are important to them.
Keep up the good work, this is a “most excellent start, coder dude” (paraphrasing Bill & Ted!!)
@DJPaul – well it’s all groups isn’t it – as there’s no group forums on here, and no longer a wire, there’s nowhere to post content to groups is there? Or am I missing something?
Sorry, off topic I know.
@pandragon give some more info on your ‘avatar problem’ and someone can probably help you on here.
I will be making a child theme for P2. From there you can set that theme as the default group blog theme, wish will enable frontend posting.
That is not the same as frontend posting on the group home page. You can already use P2 as the group blog theme now.
Also note that in 1.1.3 group blog defaults are overridden by the blog defaults plugin. Haven’t yet tested if that is different in bp-groupblog for 1.2, but for my site I don’t want another category of blogs that looks and behaves different from the other blogs.
For me the groups and blogs serve different purposes; the blogs are for “individual expression”, the groups are for interaction, collaboration, community, etc. I don’t want to mix and confuse those functions.
The group home in my site should become a collaborative space. Front-end posting is a first requirement, so I’ll continue to bang my head against the wall trying to figure that out.
Thanks david. I don’t want blog posts on home page as I use custom home page. In top navigation (home, activity, groups, forums etc), how to I add ‘Blog’ and clicking on the link would display blogposts. This is how it used to work in prior to 1.2 upgrade
If all you want is an additional forum to the blog perhaps you’d like to have a look at:
http://simplepressforum.com/
