[gerikg]

So far in my experience:

1. creating groups and appearing in the Forums, works.

2. I’m able to get the templates integrated to a point, avatars and PMs I’m working on now.

3. Avatars aren’t talking to each other. (there are three different locations to pick which avatar, they need to fix that)

[gerikg]

The only thing is the groups that you created will still be on the sitewide activity until something else replaces it.

[gerikg]

Admin section -> Buddypress -> Component Setup -> Disabled ( Groups Let users create, join and participate in groups.)

[Jeff Sayre]

BuddyPress currently only runs on WPMU.

As far as your question:

…is there a way to convert my wordpress right now on my site to WordPress MU?

There are many resources on the WPMU site and threads in their forums that will help you in this regard.

[Robert]

1. you should use the latest stable version (1.0.3)

2. If it’s a WPMU DEV theme then you should probably talk to them in their support forum.

[peterverkooijen]

Mike Pratt, you’re right, that is one way to do it. Then you have the following fields on your registration form: username, name, first name, last name. That is an excellent solution if your aim is to annoy potential members.

Another option is to use the default “fullname” field for first name and create a second one for last name, but then you’re kinda messing with the system and perhaps causing problems in the future. I have already done this solution in an earlier version. It’s my fallback option.

But why would I have to create custom fields when WordPress already has the first_name and last_name fields in wp_usermeta? And there is even a ready-to-use Buddypress function that synchronizes the fields in wp_usermeta with the fullname in BP.

Unfortunately at the moment that function is only run when the user updates his profile, so it’s completely useless. I’m trying to tweak it and make it useful and introduce to Buddypress the wonders of a first_name, last_name in the database. (Wow, I know…)

Also I’d like to get rid of the username on the form, by autogenerating it from the fullname – make lowercase, take out spaces, store as username. That should be a relatively easy next step once I’ve figured out how to use the fullname input from the registration form in a function.

Also I wasn’t able to get bp tags working in a plugin, where I had no problem pulling first_name and last_name from wp_usermeta, providing they were available…

This should be a really easy plugin for any php coder, but as Jeff Sayre has pointed out, having a somewhat clean, professional user registration in Buddypress is reserved for those well-versed in the codebase or with deep-enough pockets.

@Mariusooms, I need to finish the site before Labor Day, with a related event on September 22nd. When will bp1.0.3 be released?

I’ll figure it out somehow, with or without the help of WordPress insiders.

[Mariusooms]

Hmmm, strange I do have the edit link under my last post. I do know it disappears after a given time.

[Dan Poynor]

Thanks Jeff. I’m logged back in now.

How do I get the ‘Edit’ link back?

Only the pound sign appears and for some reason I don’t see a way to edit the post now.

[Korhan Ekinci]

Thanks Jeff, I created Ticket #924 for this issue.

[Jeff Sayre]

That is more than likely a bug. Could you please post a new ticket in BuddyPress trac. You use the same login credentials for trac as you do for this site.

[Korhan Ekinci]

Any ideas on this please? I have turkish characters not displayed correctly in the bbpress forum side (domain.com/forum/topic/topic-name), but displayed ok from the group forum page (domain.com/groups/group-name/forum/topic/topic-number) – for that specific topic.

Again, when posted from bbpress side turkish chracters are displayed ok.

Strange problem!?!

[gerikg]

JJJ this what happens when I use that plugin

Warning: require_once(BACKPRESS_PATH/class.ixr.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /homepages/0/d188981313/htdocs/website/mu/wp-content/plugins/bpgroups/oci_bb_group_forums.php on line 30

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required ‘BACKPRESS_PATH/class.ixr.php’ (include_path=’.:/usr/lib/php5′) in /homepages/0/d188981313/htdocs/website/mu/wp-content/plugins/bpgroups/oci_bb_group_forums.php on line 30

[peterverkooijen]

Rogercoathup, if I can figure out this plugin, autogenerating a username from fullname is probably a small step that can be included in the same plugin. The big question is how to take fullname from the registration input (field_1) to do stuff with in a function. I think I’m getting closer, after about four months…

Will get back to that later in the coming week.

r-a-y, I doubt GigaOm would be eager to share their trade secrets. I’m also a bit of a potential competitor to them. Shh…

[r-a-y]

Hi Roger,

Try this:

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/default-to-just-a-username#post-14828

Requires hacking a core file and a little bit of CSS to hide the “Create A Blog” block.

If there’s a better method, let us know!

[gerikg]

Additional:

The admin section of WPMU “/wp-admin/wpmu-users.php” the users’ avatars are different too.

[gerikg]

Refer to this: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/questions-about-groups#post-14157

tell me if it works ;x

[gerikg]

Fresh start installations, I made three users two with unique avatars and one without.

I change Mystery Man to Monster. Now all it shows are the Monster.

WPMU 2.8.4a + BP 1.0.3 + BB 1.0.2

I posted a topic in a forum from both sides BBpress & BuddyPress both give the same icons.

Sidenote:

On BBpress Forums I had to put this

<?php echo bp_core_get_avatar( get_post_author_id() ); ?>

but get_post_author_id() doesn’t work in WP/BP side.

[Jeff Sayre]

Dan-

Read the sticky thread on the forum’s homepage entitled “HELP I CAN’T POST! – README”. That should take care of it!

[Jeff Sayre]

This is a WPMU question so it is best to ask in that forum. Please do so.

In addition, this plugin may be of use: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/advanced-export-for-wp-wpmu/

[Jeff Sayre]

bp_the_topic_poster_avatar() pulls the avatar of the people who post in a particular forum thread. It does not pull the overall group avatar.

Do all your users have unique avatars?

Are you on a dev site?

Log into WPMU’s backend as Site Admin and navigate to “BuddyPress > General Settings > Default User Avatar” and see if you have selected the Mystery Man avatar. If so, change it to something else and save your settings.

[bpisimone]

I would like to bring this topic I posted yesterday to this thread’s attention: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/how-to-use-bphome-functions-on-bp-member-pages

[peterverkooijen]

Thanks for the additional clues DJPaul!

In the latest attempt I was going back to my first approach, trying to catch the input straight from the form, so that has to run on initial user registration, not on activation.

Or is user_register not used in Buddypress at all? Is there a wpmu or bp equivalent I could try? Should I use wpmu_create_user? According to this blog post:

the do_action for wpmu_new_user is directly at the bottom of wpmu_create_user in the wp-includes/wpmu-functions.php the wpmu_create_user gets sent the username password and email and checks if the username or email exists, if not create the new user in the database and assign a user_id to the return, also assigning capabilities and level … this happens on *all* levels of registration and is the perfect hook point to add them into the database

the do_action do_action( ‘wpmu_new_user’, $user_id ); so you get the immediate user_id soon as it’s created which you can use in your table

Apparantly this is like a flowchart of registration events in wpmu (wp-includes/wpmu-default-filters.php):

add_filter ( 'wpmu_validate_user_signup', 'signup_nonce_check' );

add_action ( 'init', 'maybe_add_existing_user_to_blog' );

add_filter ( 'xmlrpc_methods', 'attach_wpmu_xmlrpc' );

add_filter ( 'wp_authenticate_user', 'wordpressmu_authenticate_siteadmin', 10, 2 );

add_action ( 'wpmu_new_user', 'newuser_notify_siteadmin' );

add_action ( 'wpmu_activate_user', 'add_new_user_to_blog', 10, 3 );

add_action ( 'sanitize_user', 'strtolower_usernames', 10, 3 );

Should I focus on these wpmu action hooks instead of regular wp hook? Does bp have a list like this somewhere?

I couldn’t figure out how to serialize that $meta data and extract the fullname from it, so I abandoned the approach hooking into wpmu_activate_user for now. Also when I put in the $user_id and $password arguments I got the error messages about missing arguments. wtf?!

I think this bit of code grabs the input from the registration form:

$fields = BP_XProfile_Field::get_signup_fields();



if ( $fields ) {

foreach ( $fields as $field ) {



$value = $_POST['field_' . $field->id];

fullname is the input from field_1, but I don’t know how to finish the php to get to $fullname = … . The two latest attempts above did not work.

I have to give up for now. Deadline at my day job coming up…

[gerikg]

As of now they can have their own group that translate to their own topics/forum and they can be the admin of their “discussion” You can just have the groups only and no link to the bbpress section. The forums will be under groups. make sense?

[Tore]

Fantastic! I hadn’t seen your post. I’m used to have email updates from forums (I’ve seen that on the roadmap).

Thanks for the info on 1.1 also! I’ve checked the IRC for daily updates and it seems there’s lots of changes coming.

Now I can get back on track.

[José M. Villar]

@Korhan thanks for the warning. At the beginning I won´t have any member blogs, just the “main” one. My project will start with the latest news about the football team I support (like Feherbace !) and then evolve to a fan community with forum.

That´s why it Facebook login will prove very useful

Regarding ID, I don´t think I will implement it until they provide front-end translation, which is in their roadmap but with no ETA yet.

@r-a-y thanx again