[onethousandseas]

Thanks! I’ll try out the tutorial

[David Lewis]

Same here in Safari… but only while in the Forums section. Looks like the forum pages are not linking to / importing the admin-bar.css file

[westpointer]

Released today! I appreciate all comments!

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/auto-group-join-plugin-added

[thomasbp]

1) 2) is solved in BP 1.1. see https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/better-avatar-crop-function

3) Well I wanted to refer to the user settings, where the user-delf-delete checkbox was in 1.0.3. But in 1.1 Ican’t find it anymore even though the self deletion is activated in buddypress’ backend settings. What happended to it?

4) The simplest way would be CSS (the activity remains in the code, though)

[stwc]

The one thing I’m wondering about, once 1.1 drops (looking forward to tomorrow, Andy!), is how my users (if the site I’m building takes off) will adjust to the overall way of thinking that Buddypress (and social apps in general these days) tend to bring to the fore.

What I mean is that the interaction model is more things-are-presented-to-me and less I-am-searching-for-things. The way my brain works, I tend to organize myself mentally in the latter way — I want to find a piece of information or a conversation or a comment or something, and am hungry for a clear way to get to it. A more static way of viewing the structure, I guess. I’m old.

But Buddypress and (to pick an example, Facebook) are more about the ‘flow’, I think. About jumping in and having ‘oooh shiny!’ moments, and moving more fluidly through the web of interactions.

They’re both perfectly good ways of organizing things, of course, and for the tasks at hand, Buddypress is great. I guess my worry is that it will be confusing for users when it comes to things like forums and the traditional architecture of them, but I’m hoping that with 1.1 it will all come together smoothly. I’m really excited about the future of the app and WP in general, and very hopeful that the site I’m working on (which I’ll pimp when it’s ready, of course) will gather a vibrant userbase. The community I’m targetting really needs it.

Edit: reading this which is, I guess hot-off-the-presses doco, I’m thinking running a traditional forum using bbpress alongside the group-attached forums might be an option, if it’s not too confusing. I’m guessing it’d be pretty easy to port the Buddypress styling over to the ‘sidecar’ forums to make it all look right… we’ll see!

[candydate]

Thanks, guys! You are very helpful. May I still drill a bit deeper?

@Mike Pratt:

the WPMU folks have been on fire lately, not sure what slow dev universe you speak of

I was under the impression that a significant fraction of all commits from the sole committer are simply merges from wp.org’s trunk or tiny bug fixes. Care to share any pointers to other signs of activity, perhaps a road map of sorts?

Of course, if you don’t want to do any work under the hood…

Oh, I’m not that naive but rather looking for war stories from real life BP admins to help me gauge the resource requirements. Setting up a test site for a fistful of dummy users did not really help in this guesstimation.

[José M. Villar]

Yeah, I used this tutorial instead: http://theeasybutton.com/blog/2009/07/17/integrating-buddypress-wordpress-mu-and-bbpress/

Bear in mind that I am not very skilled at BP/WPMU/bbP, so my answer to your previous question could be wrong !

[onethousandseas]

Oh I see, is this the old way? http://umwblogs.org/wiki/index.php/Integrating_WPMu%2C_BuddyPress%2C_and_bbPress I’m not sure because I just installed them both today and set up integration during the bbPress install. So right now I’ve just been controlling the integration through bbPress -> Settings -> WordPress Integration.

[José M. Villar]

Mmmh, no, I think that what Andy means is that BP 1.1 includes a “one click” forum integration BUT with groups attached.

If you want to have forums independent from groups, U need to install and integrate bbP the “old” way.

[onethousandseas]

Ah, so does that mean that if I wanted multiple forums I’d also need multiple bbPress installations?

[takuya]

We have a lot of information with quite a lot of user experiences posted here.

Read the document first.

https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/setting-up-a-new-installation/

Your install seems clean install, but you should also read this sticky topic.

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/upgrading-to-1111-beta

You’ve figured how to post on this forum, it shouldn’t be difficult to find documents and extra information (searching, etc.), right?

btw, you are right about link missing. We need to call Andy here.

[Andy Peatling]

No, but you will need to set up bbPress separately.

[José M. Villar]

+1

How do I enable the old functionality where I could have forums with no groups associated ? Has this been disabled ?

[peterverkooijen]

@socialpreneur, I did not post the original question, just a follow-up question. Anyway I want to be sure I’m trying membership plugins that actually work with Buddypress, so I’d like to hear what people have to say on this forum.

[nightowl99]

I’m sorry if I missed something vital but I’ve searched without luck for some time now. My mu/bp experience is rudimentary, to say the least.

Group forum support is working but how do I get it to work on the main site? Currently, topics from groups forums show up, but of course no way to post unless you’re a member of that particular group.

Mu 2.8.4a

Bp 1.1-rc

squidlog.net

[takuya]

This topic may mislead new comers that this forum also supports wpmu blog discussions. I suggest you to move this topic under wpmu forum, or wpmudev forum.

[takuya]

Since this is buddypress forum, I think johnegg is looking for membership plugin that works on buddypress interface aka frontend.

@Peterverkooijen: You should post that question on wpmudev forum, or contact them to find out more.

[Andy Peatling]

See my comment on your ticket:

https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/1117#comment:2

[Paul Wong-Gibbs]

Both of these are known issues and we are aware.

[Andy Peatling]

In 1.1 you have:

bp_is_blog_page()

bp_is_register_page()

bp_is_activation_page()

bp_is_directory()

bp_is_single_item()



bp_is_profile_component()

bp_is_activity_component()

bp_is_blogs_component()

bp_is_wire_component()

bp_is_messages_component()

bp_is_friends_component()

bp_is_groups_component()

bp_is_settings_component()



bp_is_messages_inbox()

bp_is_messages_sentbox()

bp_is_messages_compose_screen()

bp_is_notices()



bp_is_user_friends()

bp_is_friend_requests()



bp_is_user_blogs()

bp_is_user_recent_posts()

bp_is_user_recent_commments()

bp_is_create_blog()



bp_is_user_groups()

bp_is_group_create()

bp_is_group_home()

bp_is_group_invites()

bp_is_group_members()

bp_is_group_forum_topic()

bp_is_group_forum()

bp_is_group_wire()

bp_is_group_leave()

bp_is_group_admin_page()



bp_is_user_profile()

bp_is_profile_wire()

bp_is_change_avatar()

bp_is_profile_edit()



bp_is_user_activity()

bp_is_user_friends_activity()

If you wanted to see if this was a single group page, in your template you could do:

<?php if ( bp_is_group_home() ) : ?>Show this on group home pages <? endif; ?>

Or if you wanted to show something on every single group page, regardless if it was the home page or not:

<?php if ( bp_is_groups_component() && bp_is_single_item() ) : ?> Show this on all single group pages <?php endif; ?>

[Jeff Sayre]

To add further credence to the healthy, continued existence of WordPress Mu and the strength and solidity of BuddyPress, 8 months ago I went through the same investigation, searching out the strongest, best supported, most flexible open-source based platform with which to build out a very large social network. I decided that WPMU + BuddyPress was the solution for me.

Since that time, I’ve fully immersed myself in both platforms, even becoming a moderator on theses forums (as you can see). Over that 8 month period, WPMU and BP have become even stronger, have improved in numerous ways. They are both at the stage where I am now very confident in their foundation. My project is now a go and I am currently feverishly working on building my platform. I hope to be rolling out a beta of my “professional grade community” by the first of the new year.

So do not worry about the future of WPMU or BuddyPress. The future is strong, bright, and healthy.

[Paul Wong-Gibbs]

Please search the forums before asking questions, you’d have found your answer. I suggest you read https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/buddypress-privacy-component-an-update#post-23764.

[takuya]

You’d better not keep this conversation about qtranslate here. If there’s dedicated topic, post there. Or if there’s no active topics, create new one with “bp and qtranslate” kinda title.

[lostdeviant]

If anyone already has found a working hack please let me know what you changed.

[Jeff Sayre]

I’m glad you found the culprit. If you search these forums for “qTranslate”, you will see that there have been a number of issues reported in using that particular plugin with BP.