[old account]

@Andy

i have an idea that i want you to comment on. please respond.

modify searchform.php with the custom search code (sorry but i’m referring to Google here just for site wide search) having only single box+button only, i.e no dropdown menu.

modify search.php with the custom search result code, putting the results from the members, blogs, forums and groups search in their respective tabs with ajax.

This way user skips a step and also gets a better looking simple search box.

This shall do the trick like it did in WP and WPMU. Later on someone clever (like you and not me) could probably put a plugin to do that.

[Samuel Aguilera]

@Xevo: Installing BBPress apart gives you all the power of BBPress perfectly integrated with BP users?.

Can you tell me a BP community using forums this way?

Thanks in advance.

[Paul Wong-Gibbs]

This is something controlled by WPMU so your post best to go on their forum as it is nothing to do with BP

[benbowler]

Ah yes, that’s an interesting way to implement forums…

[tajulsharby]

I wish I could but unfortunately it will take some times for me and my guys to get other customized plugin to work with the new release as we all have been playing with the current version which we had going in to for quite some time.

Yeah, I know the latest version has the solution but I really hope for a technical solution (hacking the core files i guess?) which will solve the problem logically.

Anyway, the variable $topic which I debugged through in the bp-groups.php file was not holding any value which I might suspected to be the source of the problem:

function groups_new_group_forum_topic( $topic_title, $topic_text, $topic_tags, $forum_id ) {

global $group_obj, $bp;



if ( $topic = bp_forums_new_topic( $topic_title, $topic_text, $topic_tags, $forum_id ) ) {

bp_core_add_message( __( 'Topic posted successfully!', 'buddypress') );



/* Record in activity streams */

groups_record_activity( array( 'item_id' => $group_obj->id, 'component_name' => $bp->groups->slug, 'component_action' => 'new_forum_topic', 'is_private' => 0, 'secondary_item_id' => $topic['topic_id'] ) );



do_action( 'groups_new_forum_topic', $group_obj->id, $topic );



return $topic;

}

bp_core_add_message( __( 'There was an error posting that topic.', 'buddypress'), 'error' );

return false;

}

Anyone have ideas what the $topic variable does?

[stwc]

I have had total cessation for the last two weeks without using plugins, using the procedure I outlined here.

[Xevo]

Getting wordpress to play nice with other software has been an issue for a long……. time. Only thing I’ve seen so far is a link between wikimedia and wordpress.

http://ciarang.com/posts/mediawiki-with-wordpress

You could use that as a guide to create a bridge between wordpress and your own software.

(This is a very outdated plugin, so some stuff in there might need replacing.)

A user dashboard on the front has come to discussion before on these forums, but no one has done or tried anything yet (as far as I know). Would be interested in this as well, keeping the users away from the complicated and scary admin panel.

Edit: Found another one, this one connects to phpBB.

http://www.wp-united.com/

[maburker]

Yeah thanks I figured it out within 10minutes after posting to the forum. It wasn’t that hard after I found all the right elements.

[Xevo]

Forums in buddypress are coupled to a group, so create a group and use the forum in that.

(I personally just use a seperate bbpress install, since I dont like the group forums.)

[af3]

All, thanks for the guide — got the integration finally working with WPMU+BP+BB.

I do have a question related to BP Group — how do i create a group that can be linked directly with existing forum in BP (BP is integrated with existing forum + topics) ?

At the moment, when i created a group in BP, the group will appear as a new forum in BB.

When I created a forum in BB, this is not automatically created as new Group in BP..?

[Andy Peatling]

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

[Andy Peatling]

It’s really just about reading the instructions. if you read the instructions step by step then it’s not hard at all.

[Kunal17]

Thanks Ray,

Ill give this a try and get back.

[Paul Wong-Gibbs]

Reporting issues with the WordPress blog export function should go on to the WordPress forums or Trac. It’s not to do with BuddyPress.

Please everyone keep posts here on topic, civil and polite.

[still giving]

Yes, I am using sub-domains. No, I did not go back and forward.

If the plugin does not work with sub-domains … <i>which, let’s face it, are pretty core to WPMU</i> … then I suggest that it would be good practise to add a block, warning or at least instructions during the setting up process which prohibits the use of the plugin.

There is nothing in the readme either.

‘example’ and ‘example.com’ is just the usual ‘example’ computerspeak not the actual name used.

The header error as above happen on the first and every attempt at blog creation, not going back and forward.

I went forward until the white error page. I could neither go back nor forward. When I came out of the plugin set up, I discovered that it had partly set up the blog on the home page (<i>but that other elements of groupblog did not work of it did not work</i>). It stalls on stage 3.

I also found that previously made groups (<i>made before the groupblog installation</i>), did not have a blog and I could not make a blog for them.

As for the rest, see my perfectly polite and helpful comments … here.

Can I also say, for the future, it would be a really great feature if, when removing the plugin, it removed (or gave the option to remove) all the changes it made to one’s database.

Its a really great idea but perhaps … in all fairness … you should reduce it from a 1.0 + release for just now until it does work?

[maburker]

They might work for a button but, what about a function like so……

//*********Site Navigation*********//

function site_nav_links(){ ?>

Explore

<ul class=”your-ul-list-css-classname”>

Blog

Members

<li class=”alt”>Groups

Forums

<li class=”alt”>Blogs

<?php

}

I tried a hundred ways and all I get is a white screen. I am not sure if I am writing the loggin user part correctly or not. The above function works well for the public but, once you try to hide it from the public it goes blank. I have almost given up.

[profitsbuzz]

Well ray I am using a ines theme. I hope is it not deprecated forum. I have seen it work, somehow the other person did not have the same problem as I have I am trying to find out why.

[Anointed]

@JJJ we are on the same page, and both talking about the same thing.

Here is what I was hoping to accomplish:

have a field in the database that says user ‘abc’ is a member of blogs/sites ‘1,2,3,78’

(I think that is already in the database — shows up in admin which users are mapped to which blog)

Then it would be a matter of ‘filtering’ the bp output to only display information from users belonging to the blog being displayed.

I guess my question would be:

Is it currently possible to use filters within bp to say:

blog id#3 is being called upon for display…

Member ‘abc’ belongs to blog #3 so display his/her profile,groups,forums, activity streams.

Member ‘xyz’ does not belong to blog #3 so filter all that members information so it’s not displayed on blog #3…

Not sure how else to pose the question…

EDIT: I just re-read the title of this post, and realized that I am not talking at all about multi-site bp, which is probably causing the confusion. I was more talking about a single wpmu install with each blog within the one install having it’s own ‘filtered’ bp…. my bad… sorry about that

[still giving]

What am I missing? See other post here;

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=5451

When I go to create a blog, I get this on step 3. It creates the blog but happens every time. Not good for user confidence.

Thanks,

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in/public_html/wp-content/plugins/bp-groupblog/bp-groupblog-admin.php on line 37

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /public_html/wp-content/plugins/bp-groupblog/bp-groupblog-admin.php:37) in/public_html/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-groups.php on line 507

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /public_html/wp-content/plugins/bp-groupblog/bp-groupblog-admin.php:37) in /public_html/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-groups.php on line 508

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /public_html/wp-content/plugins/bp-groupblog/bp-groupblog-admin.php:37) in /public_html/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 865

[r-a-y]

Hey DJPaul,

I think jamesyeah is talking about a general online status icon for BP and not for the buddypress.org/forums/.

@jamesyeah, check out the /bp-core/bp-core-classes.php file.

This will give you a headstart:

global $bp;

$user = new BP_Core_User( $bp->displayed_user->id); //i'm assuming you're viewing someone's profile page here

$user_status = $user->status;

I’ll take a look at this later tonight, but we’ll see if a solution is posted by then

[Anointed]

Yes, please release this if you are willing.

@JJJ [blockquote]Ultimately the problem comes from the shared userbase, which means even a new “site” has no real way to say these 10 users only belong to this site, and these 12 users to this one, and these 20 users to this one…[/blockquote]

On my wpmu setup I am using a number of plugins from the premium site which was setup by Andrew. I am not sure which of his plugins does this, but on my setup, each blog does have it’s ‘own’ members.

I had asked awhile back about how to properly go about allowing a user to register on a subdomain blog without ever leaving that blog. This way each blog can have it’s ‘own’ members.

So when I look in my admin, I actually have a list of blogs, and the members belonging to each blog.

Would this be what is needed in order to get bp to filter the activity for each blog, to only display members/blogs/forums/activity streams etc… from the given blog being displayed?

For the life of me I cannot figure out exactly which plugin from Andrew is allowing this. Maybe Andrea would know…

I have many blogs that have been bugging me non-stop to try and figure out how to bring social networking to their site, but have no solution for them. I know that I could simply install multiple copies of wpmu and give each blog their own complete setup with bp, but that destroys the concept of one codebase to have to update and maintain. It would quickly become a nightmare trying to manage multiple wpmu installs just to get bp working for each blog independent of each other.

[tallydigtalbiz]

Just completed new installation of BuddyPress and activated new bbPress. Settings show that the Forums are installed correctly. I have a couple of groups that are “Public” that have at least one topic. I am incorrect in thinking that these topics should be visible on this page:

http://worsttofirstcampus.org/forums

It seems like it just defaults to http://worsttofirstcampus.org

Does it have anything to do with the theme I have selected for BuddyPress pages?

[r-a-y]

Hi Kunal,

I’m using both on my test environment right now (still undecided if I want to go with embedded bbPress or external!).

You should be able to use BP’s internal bbPress forums by going straight to the BP forums slug.

By default, this is:

http://YOURBPINSTALL.com/forums/

If your external bbPress install is the same as this slug, you’ll need to modify your BP forums slug to something else.

You can do this by adding this line in your wp-config.php:

define( 'BP_FORUMS_SLUG', 'somedifferentslug' );

[petronic]

I made a little plugin that allows you to have different BP on each domain, but there are limitations.

As jjj said, there is always one user base and plugin just adds different BP components on each site (like activities that user take, groups, messages..).

I’m not using forum so I’m not sure if this plugin would made different forum instances.

My plugin is basically making copies of tables for each site, e.g.

for friends table which is “wp_bp_friends”, plugin makes copies like:

wp_bp_1_friends (for site with id 1)

wp_bp_2_friends (for site with id 2)

[Kunal17]

I upgraded from Bp 1.0.3 to 1.1.2 yesterday and I went ahead and activated the external bbpress forum I had earlier. I would like to instead use the built in forums now so that I can have a forums dashboard like that on testbp.

Is there any way that I can now switch without losing my forum posts?