[Michael Berra]

No one experiencing this? I don’t give up !

[vick717]

@Jeff Sayre

We apologize if our comments made a promotional sense. We didn’t intend to do so.

We have created a new thread as you suggested.

Thanks.

@Gpo1

The comments feature may take some more time but Buddypress with KalturaCE would be out within 24 hrs.

@all

Please check out the thread below

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/buddypress-kaltura-media-component-for-video-image-audio-uploading

[Jeff Sayre]

@fid

Above you state:

Now that’s a post I have been waiting to read for ages! I am telling you this would rock the vbulletin forum world. Do give us updates on when it will be released.

If you go back and read Anointed’s post, in his first paragraph, he says this:

I have no plans of releasing the software, but I can give you a little insight into why no-one has responded to your request.

So, unless Anointed and his crew change their minds, I would not count on their work being made available to the public. It sounds like it took a significant amount of effort and I can understand why their company would not want to make it freely available. VB, after all, is not an open source application.

[fid]

I too am in the market for a WPMU / vB integration. Did some googling and found out someones working on it recently!

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/integrating-several-buddypress-one-vbulletin#post-25949

I just hope he does it! I will donate for sure!

[fid]

Now that’s a post I have been waiting to read for ages! I am telling you this would rock the vbulletin forum world. Do give us updates on when it will be released. Now that vbulletin 4 is around the corner, hopefully it will be made for that! Also yeah do keep an option for just WPMU – vB … some people..wouldnt wanna use BP as vB has most of those features of BP.

Loved reading the post. Cant wait for the plugin to release! Way to go! I will surely donate you people for this hard work!

[dwarfsibling]

Got that – thanks! I was looking in the wrong spot for header.php (see OP)

In any case, that looks good – so now it’s just a matter of updating all the php on the site with a reference to ‘group/groups’ on it?

Usually if I’m trying to hard, I start to look for other solutions so I’m going to peruse the forums for a bit, but I would call this thread solved/closed with the following recap for the next person;

To modify the labels for BuddyPress’ main front-page navigation, modify the following file

<webroot>/wp-content/themes/bp-sn-parent/header.php

[gpo1]

@kapil and vick717,

Welcome to buddypress forum, and thank you for creating this plugin which as been a headache and now see the light.

Like Jeff Sayre, said start a new thread and you shall get the max reponses !

awaiting BP with kalturaCE & comments features !

[Jeff Sayre]

@kapil and vick717

I suggest creating a new thread in the “Third party Components & Plugins” forum as this thread was originally started for discussion of the features that members would like to see in any media plugin, not just your plugin.

This thread should not be used to support your Company’s Kaltura plugin or make announcements about your plugin as you are not the OP. Besides, you will more than likley get more interest and visibility by starting a new thread.

When you have created a new thread, simply make a quick post here announcing the new thread.

[Paul Wong-Gibbs]

It is easier to reinstall WPMU. However, it is possible to change it manually. I suggest you search on the wpmu forums as this isn’t a BP question.

[tr123]

Thanks Ray

[Brajesh Singh]

have you copied the buddypress themes to themes folder and activated default theme.

Does your wpmu works before activating the buddypress.

Please have a look here

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

and provide more details.

[Mike]

first question is, do you have buddypress up and running and does everything work like it’s supposed to (eg. forums/messaging/status updates/etc.)? also, are you on a dedicated server at godaddy?

[r-a-y]

Hey TR123,

Short answer: Right now, you can’t.

There are a couple of requests in the Trac for group categories:

https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/946

https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/1068

I don’t anticipate this coming in 2009; I’m guessing something like this will come in the New Year.

Hope that helps!

[joshuagrech]

I’m having the same problem. I’m working on a child theme (which isn’t finished yet, so that may be the problem) however Home and Blog works just fine. Members, groups, forums and blogs seem to be redirecting to Home as there is no subdomain to go to. I’m on a mac with a new install on a MAMP localhost. I went in to edit the htaccess doc as the forum suggested to mod_rewrite but I am no expert when it comes to anything server-based. I rewrote from security to:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>

<Files async-upload.php>

SecFilterEngine Off

SecFilterScanPOST Off

</Files>

</IfModule>

Not sure if this is correct, but it hasn’t seemed to work so far.

[Jeff Sayre]

In other words, as jjj is saying, search the forum for threads on “deep integration”.

https://buddypress.org/forums/search.php?q=deep+integration

I’m not sure if this is still accurate, but you can also give this a try:

http://theeasybutton.com/blog/2009/07/17/integrating-buddypress-wordpress-mu-and-bbpress/

[arsenalinsider]

i have checked out this link but it does not tell me alot…

[David Lewis]

@gaz: Yes, with the default theme you get a main navigation bar that focuses on BuddyPress features (Members, Groups, Forums). So in that sense, BuddyPress “takes over”. But there’s also the “Blog” link which links to your WPMU main blog. WPMU is nothing more than Posts and Pages. So it’s all still there.

But yes, the main navigation is BuddyPress-focused when using the default theme. However, that is easily changed. Simply create a child theme with a custom header.php file. Your navigation could then be… Blog, About, Products, Contact, Customer Care… whatever you wish. Perhaps those BuddyPress links (Members, Groups, Forums) would be either in a separate navigation bar (like the bottom bar on Facebook) or maybe subsections of a “Community” menu. Or what have you. It’s all very do-able.

Unfortunately… you are also correct that there are very few custom themes right now. And no purpose-specific themes. BuddyPress is too new. So your choices are to either a) roll up your sleeves and be prepared to do a ton of learning and research or b) hire someone.

And Site Architecture is critical of course. It seems like you have a good idea of what you want to do but you’ve started out by taking a default BuddyPress install and working backwards from there. A good sanity check (if you haven’t already done so) is to sit down and sketch out exactly what you want… what sections… what navigation bars… what functionality… etc. Draw it all out (again, if you haven’t already). Then work from there.

I think you’ve made the right choice. It’ll just require some work. WordPress and BuddyPress are so much more flexible and better supported than the other open source alternatives. It’s worth the effort.

[Paul Wong-Gibbs]

@kookjai – Topics marked as resolved (with the green icon) aren’t read very often. You’d have been better making a new topic as your question is different from what the thread is about

Anyway, have a read of https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/how-to-remove-the-admin-bar-from-blogs

[Paul Wong-Gibbs]

To quote myself from 5 months ago about bluehost problems:

...I have heard BlueHost supports only subdirectory installs as it doesn't support wildcard subdomains, so can you confirm you're trying the subdirectory install?

And

Try removing your WPMU / BP install and databases and try reuploading/reinstalling manually, not using SimpleScripts. A search on this forum has revelead at least one person saying that their problems on BlueHost went away after they did a manual install.

[Paul Wong-Gibbs]

We would still really, really answers to those questions we keep linking you to!

In the interim; it looks like you’ve got the theme in the correct place with its functions PHP. A google suggests that hostmonster allows htaccess by default. I’m going to assume you’ve been able to confirm that the htaccess is being loaded.

More googling suggests that hostmonster is a subsidiary of bluehost, which we’ve seen problems with on this forum before.

Was WPMU and/or BuddyPress installed via SimpleScripts?

[Mike]

All I can share from personal experience is this: It’s real easy to get lost in all the gloss. About two years ago when I was hunting down low-cost, self-hosted, white label social networking software, I narrowed it down to two choices, Elgg and Dolphin. What I loved about Dolphin was how intuitive and pretty the whole backend was — you could easy drag/drop/rearrange different menu items and easily swap out your pages/columns/widgets. You could even change the sizes of certain page elements with just a few mouse clicks. It was almost like a Square Spaces for social networks. But then came more research. And upon that research, I found that Dolphin has some of the ugliest code ever written. On top of breaking tons of add-ons during upgrades, there also wasn’t (and probably still isn’t) an active support group available — more like a commune of helpless, p/o’ed customers who were all experiencing the same bugs. That’s not to say that it’s useless. I’m sure it works fine for a good handful of users who dumped a lot of money into development. But it became apparent that I needed to look into Elgg instead.

Now, Elgg does everything it says right out of the box 100% and we had instant love affair — http://www.michaelkuhlmann.com/category/elgg-vs-buddypress/. The whole installation took me about 10 minutes and there wasn’t a single problem… until I tried to re-design it. It was virtually impossible creating an entirely different layout. In fact, I have yet to see an Elgg-powered site that looks completely custom-made like the BuddyPress-powered VW TDI Truth & Dare site. Again, I’m sure Elgg fulfills the needs of many of its users – and probably a lot more so than Dolphin – but when it came to theming the software, it just fell a bit short. Although I could see how it could seem *ahead of the game* with its ease of use and drag’n’drop capabilities, it really isn’t compared to BP.

So BP came right along just as I finished *theming* — I should actually just say “colorizing” – my Elgg installation. Immediately, I dumped Elgg and switched to BP. I had seen what Andy did with ChickSpeak several months before the BP/Automattic venture was announced, so it looked quite promising. Then, the first release came out. First, I had trouble installing WPMU. Next, I had trouble installing BP. Following that, I couldn’t figure out how to get forums up and running. I sounded just like Mythailife – frustrated to the core. But I also remembered what an amazing difference a few months of development did to WordPress going from version 2.3 to 2.7, so I decided to stick around.

Up until now, I can easily say that BP has made strides in development. Out of the dozens of forums that I’ve visited, BP has *consistently* given the most support to its users in a timely fashion – FOR FREE. I have to stress the complimentary tech support part, because a lot of people tend to demand an answer to every single question immediately after they’ve posted their question, which is ridiculous. And if that speaks to you, here’s what you are getting – again – FOR FREE:

– A social networking system built on top of one of the best open source publishing systems, which means you’re also inheriting tons of great functionalities like WordTube/MapPress/eCommerce/Facebook Connect

– Loads of documentation including WordPress for Dummies and the upcoming book BuddyPress for Dummies (books are not free, of course, but they do count towards documentation)

– Support forums, development roadmaps and overall project transparency

– Ability to customize/theme BP exactly the way you want it to appear

– Dozens of available plugins

– Did I mention that this is built on WordPress?

If you don’t have the luxury of time to wait for support-related questions or still feel like this project is lagging AND you have deep pockets, there’s always Crowdfusion and Anahita. Otherwise, don’t get lost in the gloss, because BuddyPress is the next-best-thing to come out of the Automattic vault.

[Jeff Sayre]

@slicktig1

Andy’s post that Xevo is referring to is in this thread that you started.

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/is-there-a-plugin-for-sitewide-comments#post-27677

[Jeff Sayre]

What type of tech support are you specifically looking for? There is a lot of free support on these forums.

[slicktig1]

Greips, sorry. did I hijack your forum post? I’m only hoping we are reaching closer to your problem and mine together. thanks.

[gazouteast]

I found one fix – it might not work for everyone, but see the last couple of posts from me in this thread – https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/grasping-at-straws-now-should-wpmu-bp-be-in-same-db-or-different