[modemlooper]

uhh I’m confused because on the demo page it links to what you get OOTB and a few links to what you can do with BP. So the statement it doesn’t do what is advertised is WAY false.

This site is an example of what you can do with BP and the demo links to what you get OOTB.

[Bowe]

@michel: There’s also an easy solution to the member blog themes matching your regular theme. you can read a tutorial Andrea_r wrote about it on BP-Tricks.com. I’ll release the BP 1.2 member blog theme as soon as 1.2 launches. The forum thing is more complicated and if you want to do that right you need to invest in a programmer/designer

My experience with BP so far has been the complete opposite.. If you spend some time getting to know people and helping others out, before you know you’re part of the people you call “the insiders”.

[John James Jacoby]

BuddyPress.org is the insider community. If you’re registered and paying attention, then you’re one of the cool kids.

There’s a few reasons why BuddyPress.org works and looks different than a usual BuddyPress installation does out of the box. I’ll do my best to explain them for you (and everyone else) but I can assure you, there’s nothing stopping anyone from mimicking this or infinite other kinds of hybrid installations.

1. This site uses the old and very yucky deep integration method with bbPress. Before BuddyPress 1.1 that was the only way to do it. With 1.1 Andy wrote an abstraction layer for bbPress to seamlessly bring its functionality into a WordPress installation.

2. The decision was made that forums made the most sense when linked directly to a group of users. Rogue forum categories without a group of users to attach them to, have taken a back seat for the time being. This has been the topic of debate for a while, but it won’t change for 1.2 and probably won’t change until bbPress as a whole gets a little more attention.

2. Because BuddyPress.org links directly with WordPress user and usermeta tables (which is why your 1 login works at all WP related sites), upgrading and shifting around over a million registered users isn’t a task to be taken lightly.

3. Since Buddypress 1.1 was released, BuddyPress.org hasn’t changed a single bit. Little to no attention has been paid to the inner workings of this site, and all efforts have been poured into the project itself in a very successful attempt to deliver a much more stable and solid project. Even group avatars on this site are still broken from the conversion.

4. The purpose of the support forums is to have a central community devoted to the questions and answers that a wide array of users have while installing, theme-ing, and in general just using BuddyPress. If you have needs that don’t fall within the core code then you’re stepping outside of core support and looking for custom development.

5. Many people on the forums (including myself) have stepped up and taken on side projects (pro bono or as paid clients.) A slew of plugins are available specifically to enhance parts of BuddyPress, but just like with WordPress if nothing currently exists that does what you need, you either need do it yourself or find someone to do it for you in a way that fits your budget.

6. BuddyPress 1.0 launched in April of 2009. It’s less than a year old and 2 major updates have already come through with even more to come in 2010. It’s still a baby compared to WordPress and bbPress, and I think Andy and myself will be the first people to say that it’s still capable of a lot more. Patches are always welcome, and in the past year the number of code committers has doubled (from 1 to 2 ) and the number of significantly contributing code patchers, bug reports, and trac tickets has just about doubled also.

So, if you’re unhappy, I can understand why. In a way BuddyPress.org sets an unrealistic expectation of a turn-key installation. If you feel you’ve been mislead in one way or another, that makes sense to me. Your opinion is valid, and when the site is updated to 1.2, I think you’ll be pleased.

In the meantime, if you choose not to use it that’s okay. If you choose to study the code and start submitting ideas and patches, that’s cool too. Whatever anyone decides to do, I don’t think anyone will be mad. We’re all buddies here, remember?

[abcde666]

@michel,

not sure I understand your post, but it sounds like somebody hitch-hiked you into Skype-calls of “how to work with Social-Networks & BuddyPress” ?

Get yourself a good programmer (search for a coder in the job-forum at this website) and I am sure you will find a reliable person who will set-up your very own Social-Networking-website using BuddyPress-plugin-software. For a standard-setup-install (including Group-Forums), this should not take any longer than 1 hour (cost of 1 man-hour).

BuddyPress and WordPress is the most ethical software you can get.

What you will get is not a website the same as buddypress.org, but even better a website very similar to what you can see at http://www.testbp.org and then you can customize it to your needs if you want.

I had to “burn” 2 programmers (they were only asking for money but basically not doing anything or doing things wrong and not giving any feedback) until I found the right person who is reliable and understands his job. Its all about test & fail to find a good and reliable coder, same as finding correct and reliable people in real life.

[Mike Pratt]

Dude – You’ve been watching too many conspiracy theory movies lately. Let me try and put some of your questions to rest:

1. There is no group of insiders. Just folks who have been around since Andy started putting code in the repository. There is no conspiracy for those “in the know” to get guys like you to pay for stuff. We’re all here on our own dime. Some make money in WP/BP related endeavors but they are still here on these forums because it validates their skill set and they’re also good people.

2. You need to hang out at http://testbp.org for awhile. It is what you get “out of the box” in BP. I don’t want to be to snarky here, but that fact is written all over the place. Not sure how you don’t know that. The theme at buddypress.org is (aside from being pretty outdated as far as BP goes) Andy’s own creation. He has not once said it is what you get with BP nor has he intimated that it would be available. Way back when, we asked him to make it available with no luck. O well, no big deal. You seem to think it’s his fault for not giving it to you? FYI, buddypress.org is not a typical BP install. Groups are barely used. Why do you have it in your head that it is?

3. No matter how much nice language you use, calling this community “two-faced” is not only a sure-fire way to make enemies but it’s a total falsehood. In fact, it’s an insult to all the volunteers who put in countless hours answering questions of people to lazy to read all the good info at their finger tips who’d rather just rehash the same basic stuff over and over. It’s a miracle we still get their awesome help.

SO here’s a few suggestions: Quit masking your contempt for this community in polite prose. Fill out your profile with links and such so you are more than just a username throwing barbs. Read the codex and all the great documentation and to what DJPaul, jjj and all the other selfless BP-asisters tell you.. Perhaps a thread like “I’m trying to replicate the forum functionality the way Andy does it here on bp.org, does anyone know how that’s done” might be way to start.

Good luck to you. We’re always here to help

[djsteve]

I use realchat ( http://www.realchat.com/ )on a couple of websites, and it is really solid – it’s not the cheapest thing out there, but it’s also not the most expensive.

Unfortunately there is no buddypress or wordpressmu integration, although there are free integration plugins for vbulletin, phpbb, drupal, and others. So I would think that a plugin developer could look at the code on this page:

http://www.realchat.com/doc/database-integration.html

and create a plugin that would allow logging in via wordpress/buddypress and show buddypress avatars – that would be awesome. In fact I would pay $100 for someone to make that a reality.

I am currently testing the flashchat script which is cheap – only $5 – on one server, wnd will be testing integration with phpbb and with wordpress to see how it works.

Someone wrote an integration script for it and wordpress 2,7 –

http://forum.tufat.com/showthread.php?t=49926

so I am thinking it may work – although the script has user roles from wordpress for user, moderators and admins – it says it does not pull the info for gender icons – If someone would modify that it would be awesome, as it is cheap.

I have looked into the ajaxchat, and it looks cool with the way it can integrate into buddypress, was that on wpmu.org I think? – But as I commented there, I am concerned about the ajax chat and server resources, and privacy issues. Not that I have had any issues with it, I just imagine with a lot of people using it at once it may start to hiccup since it relies on sql for messaging. I would love to here real world performance issues with it running 75 users at once on a shared server.

An integrated chat room would be awesome – wish I could help more with it!

(now back to my learning php for dummies book) sigh.

[Andrea Rennick]

Are you loading it up while your internet is disconnected? It does several call outs.

Also, this is a WPMU question and shoudl be over in their forums. (where I’d give the same answer, heh. )

[Boone Gorges]

C’mon, nexia, everyone’s got to start somewhere.

nig3d, I gave a couple suggestions for how to learn more about the interiors of BP here: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/set-activity-filter-to-specific-value#post-36194

As for debugging, you should get to know how to use tools like var_dump, which, when dropped into a piece of code, can give you a sense of where and why things are not going the way you expect.

[Jean-Pierre Michaud]

locally mean random… we have not a single bit of idea how your server is set, so the answer will be “we have no idea”…

give some details, please: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/when-asking-for-support

[m@rk]

Keep us up to date please. I’m also looking for adaption of this plugin: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/bp-12-bppicture-album-plugin

[m@rk]

Thanks to Brajesh, this is solved here : https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/how-to-get-a-users-last-update

[PJ]

Problem solved:

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/php-fatal-error-rc2-rc3#post-36584

I’m always impressed with this BP community!

[pierreristic]

Ok: I understand: i need a group to se the forum… Thanks. It helps !

[Brajesh Singh]

@pierreristic

I am the author of Cosmic Buddy.

I don’t see any issue with your install.

You seem to be a little bit confused by the forum notion in buddypress.

When you install forums inside buddypress, they are internally used by the groups. So you won’t have standalone forums(which you are expecting).

yes, when you create group, you can associate(enable) forum with that. Those will be available from the group only.

Yes, buddypress provides a forum directory, which lists the recent forum topics, As I see, It is on your site but since you have no forum topics in any groups, so it says your forum directory is empty.

try creating group, enable forum with that and see it.

It is actually a little bit differently handled in Buddypress(No standalone forum).

Hope, It helps

Thanks

Brajesh

[danbpfr]

tu peux aussi demander ici

http://buddypress-fr.net/bpdemo/

[bedo02]

Hi Dainismichel, I am not sure what you are trying to figure out. Send me an email at admin@ecoflare.eu I can try to help you.

[Andrea Rennick]

This’ll help.

Installing WordPressMu – The E-Book

Also, there’s a WordPressMU forum here:

https://mu.wordpress.org/forums/view/all-topics

[D Cartwright]

Put it up on the wordpress repo with the appropriate tags

I was thinking of making a plugin that would create forums in ways that don’t require group creation/membership…perhaps this is something that shares similar functions to your plugin.

[mrjarbenne]

Well isn’t that inconvenient. Something in the forum has obliterated the ampersand, number sign, and the number 039; that made the I’m a reader Profile Group Name problem a problem. Making my post look a bit confused; eliminating the / that is causing all the trouble in the first place.

[Paul Wong-Gibbs]

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/when-asking-for-support

[danbpfr]

@andrea-r,

sorry to be a little out of topic, but if you speak about future, i would ask what about code optimization and php memory ?

When reading on the codex, nothing is said that WP need by default 32 mo php RAM.

And the wp-health plugin is still under alpha dev…

And sure there is a problem with php memory.

On most shared host, this php memory is set to 16 Mo max… and no way to give more (even throught htaccess, wp-settings, wp-config tricks..)

This mean that WP/Mu can’t work with more than 4 or 5 plugins in best case.

And since 2.8, the memory consumption is growing a lot.

[peterverkooijen]

I’ve installed the Carrington theme/plugin site-wide on this site, but I don’t have a smartphone yet, so I don’t even know how to test it. If you have a chance to take a look on your mobile, let me know…

I guess it’s not detected in online emulators, not this one anyway. Are there other/better emulators I could try?

The Carrington theme is only WordPress of course. I’m curious if it at least works on the blog parts, including member blogs, or not at all. Perhaps it is possible to expand that theme.

[snark]

Ok, I figured it out. In the RC3 version of bp-forums-templatetags.php, it says the old function this was calling has been deprecated, and what to replace it with:

/* DEPRECATED use bp_has_forum_topic_posts() */

function bp_has_topic_posts() { return bp_has_forum_topic_posts( $args ); }

function bp_forum_topic_posts() {

global $topic_template;

return $topic_template->user_posts();

}

/* DEPRECATED use bp_forum_topic_posts() */

function bp_topic_posts() { return bp_forum_topic_posts(); }

function bp_the_forum_topic_post() {

global $topic_template;

return $topic_template->the_post();

}

/* DEPRECATED use bp_the_forum_topic_post() */

function bp_the_topic_post() { return bp_the_forum_topic_post(); }

So I swapped the offending line and now have it working again using this function in my child theme functions.php file:

/* Custom function to re-write Forum title tags */

function my_page_title( $title, $b ) {

global $bp;

if ( $bp->current_action == ‘forum’ && $bp->action_variables[0] == ‘topic’ ) {

if ( bp_has_forum_topic_posts() ) {

$topic_title = bp_get_the_topic_title();

$title .= ‘ | ‘ . $topic_title;

$title = str_replace( ‘ | Groups’, ”, $title );

$title = str_replace( ‘ | Forum’, ”, $title );

}

}

return $title;

}

add_filter( ‘bp_page_title’, ‘my_page_title’, 10, 2 );

?>

[snark]

@r-a-y @boonegorges — Unfortunately, this function just broke under BP1.2-RC3:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: bp_has_topic_posts() in…

Here is the complete function from you guys provided above:

/* Custom function to re-write Forum title tags */

function my_page_title( $title, $b ) {

global $bp;

if ( $bp->current_action == ‘forum’ && $bp->action_variables[0] == ‘topic’ ) {

if ( bp_has_topic_posts() ) {

$topic_title = bp_get_the_topic_title();

$title .= ‘ | ‘ . $topic_title;

$title = str_replace( ‘ | Groups’, ”, $title );

$title = str_replace( ‘ | Forum’, ”, $title );

}

}

return $title;

}

add_filter( ‘bp_page_title’, ‘my_page_title’, 10, 2 );

?>

Any help on this greatly appreciated. Thanks.

[Brajesh Singh]

haha, keeping up with the trunk teaches you everything

btw, the forum is always there, so I hope you will not have to worry about this in future