[Tore]

Do you mean that perhaps a youtube video would show in the “site wide activity”?

[Kevin Pine]

Thanks – We actually had other issues due to the fact we are using IIS7 on windows server 2008. This article has info: https://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/12659

[r-a-y]

Send Brent a message:

https://buddypress.org/developers/westpointer/

Although you should know that Brent is now helping Boone Gorges on another group forum notification plugin that already has translation support:

http://dev.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2009/10/12/translate-group-forum-subscription-for-buddypress/

[Gianfranco]

@proceon

A lot about what you’re trying to achive is said here: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/new-theme-framework-and-exisiting-wp-themes

Otherwise, I myself am trying to get a step by step procedure to integrate BuddyPress as a section of a “normal” website, that is not full BuddyPress based.

So far, form my experiments with theaming and integrating I can say:

1) Delete all the files from “bp-sn-parent” that are already in your WP Theme (header.php, footer.php, index.php, …). Leave just all sub-directories and “optionsbar.php”, “userbar.php”, “plugin-template.php”, “style.css.

2) Copy this at the bottom of “header.php” (WP Theme):

<?php if ( !bp_is_blog_page() && !bp_is_directory() && !bp_is_register_page() && !bp_is_activation_page() ) : ?>

<?php locate_template( array( ‘userbar.php’ ), true ) /* Load the user navigation */ ?>

<?php locate_template( array( ‘optionsbar.php’ ), true ) /* Load the currently displayed object navigation */ ?>

<?php endif; ?>

3) In the header (comments) of the “style.css” in “bp-sn-parent” theme write this:

Template : your-wp-theme-name

…so you make this theme a child of your WP Theme, right?

4) Activate the “bp-sn-parent” theme in the backend, under “Site Admin/Themes”, then activate it under “Apperance/Themes”.

This will be the theme ofor the whole site, but it’ll call all the WP theme templates when no BuddyPress functions are needed. It’s a reverse way of doing the integration. I think it’s better.

This procedure makes a lot of what you need, I think. Like, it gets your WP Theme working as it should and it “calls” the BuddyPress into play only when needed.

But, I need to warn you that I am still struggling with styling (or skinning) the BP theme.

So, I am still on it. But maybe it was worthing sharing already what I got so far, so that other may take it from there.

Hope it helps…

[Mariusooms]

Check out this plugin…it will do mostly what you need, including creating a group specific blog. What more, it includes a theme for that blog and remains tied to the group, so you can pull in group information on that blog.

However, it only allows one blog per group. Check out the details here:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-groupblog/

Group specific forums are already inherently part of groups since BP1.1 came out.

[Paul Wong-Gibbs]

All easy except “one or more associated blogs”; this hasn’t really been worked on yet. You could test https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/external-group-blogs to see if it is suitable for your site.

[Boone Gorges]

Hi welshpixie – is there a chance you’re using More Privacy Options for WP? You might want to see the following https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/more-privacy-options-private-blogs-and-activity-streams

[belogical]

I’ve been at this for 2+ years now, doing a social niche site. Started back in August of 2007. I had always wanted to create a niche community site, but didn’t know where to go. I found WPMU first and started my community on it. WPMU alone was a great platform. I plugged and patched and mangled together to the best of my ability a “community” site. When I look back on my beginnings and site launch, it wasn’t pretty, but mostly functional. I had friends, mail, blogs, blah blah blah… I had heard about buddypress when it barely had a site, but it was never really polished enough. I think it was recommended to me by andrea over in the WPMU forums. It wasn’t polished enough at the time in it’s infancy, so I looked at Elgg and just didn’t like it either. Even the install process was clunky so I stayed the course with WPMU. I remember the second time I came upon buddypress and was like WOW, this is everything I was looking for. I couldn’t wait until launch day of 1.0.

With as little coding skills as I have (you would laugh if you saw my component code), I have been able to manage and run a VPS with buddypress for almost a year now. I love how buddypress started, the members, and Andy (in a non gay way, lol). I’m trying to slowly build my community (around 140 active) and then really expand away from the default look of buddypress, which I actually happen to love.

So, is it a good enough for a professional grade community? I would say Y-E-S!

Take a look at how fast testbp.org is with 12,229 “active” members. A lot of activity on that site and it’s still cooking!

[grosbouff]

Ok, the rewrite module from Apache was turned off…

I turned it on, problem resolved !

[Detective]

I already did: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/extending-wordpress-themes-post-experiences

[grosbouff]

Same problem here.

I Reinstalled WPMU 2.8.4a, (with subdirectories instead of subdomains) and BuddyPress from trunk, because I updated my localhost (WAMP 1.7>2.0).

My old .htaccess (which was working before)

If I use the .htaccess, the wordpress-mu directory under 127.0.0.1/kine disappears and I can’t access WPMU.

If I don’t use it, I can access WPMU & Buddypress, but I get a “404 Not Found” for every page other than home…

HEEEEEELP

[Detective]

Check out this: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/extending-wordpress-themes-post-experiences#post-24546

[takuya]

Looks like your question should go under wpmu forum than here.

Are you trying to change buddypress component permalinks?

[bpisimone]

You’re probably not the only one. I’ve had another problem with wp-signup though and my question would be:

Is there a way to have all links pointing to wp-signup (e.g. from wp-login), point to /register instead? There should only be oone possible sign up page!

[Paul Wong-Gibbs]

Hi

Please don’t make the assumption that us moderators have done something like this. 2levelsabove still appears to be an open account. Moderators on this forum – with the possible exception of apeatling – can’t actually ban or close user accounts. We can only edit and move posts and lock/sticky threads.

That thread has been closed which means no-one can reply to it, as per the same as all the other threads of that nature. Is that what you mean by silent ignore?

If your posts aren’t appearing, try this: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/help-i-cant-post-readme

[intrepidhosts]

From what I see in that original forum topic you were not put on ignore but topic was closed and other users were directed to contact you directly via your email account instead of posting responses.

Also the forums have a bug that causes a problem when trying to post and you have to log out and log back in. And unless your paying close attention you may think you have posted but infact the page reloads and says you have to be logged in to post. I know when I first tried posting the first 3 times here I thought I had left posts but came back next day and posts were not there. Until I saw the HELP I CANT POST topic https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/help-i-cant-post-readme.

[Paul Wong-Gibbs]

Because semantically BuddyPress views the wire and forum components as part of groups (and other components); they aren’t stand alone.

[Paul Wong-Gibbs]

See https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/can-buddypress-activation-emails-be-turned-off too.

[Paul Wong-Gibbs]

Actually that’s rubbish. This is WPMU not supporting www. It never has; have a look on their trac tickets and forum.

[takuya]

https://mu.wordpress.org/forums/

[driz]

What if I have disabled groups? And I just want forums at domain.com/forums/ why would I need any groups for a simple set of forums?

[stripedsquirrel]

I guess the confusion comes from the fact that you need to create groups first, and then attach forums to them. Ths is not clear and I had searched a lot for my famous forums as well before walking that way

[driz]

Yes.

[Andy Peatling]

Fixed.

[John James Jacoby]

There is no core fix for this yet.

This problem will continue to exist until a newer version of WPMU adds an additional filter to the sign-up location.

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/wp-sigupphp-and-register#post-25253