[Paul Wong-Gibbs]

So, what changed? Did you change server, database, BuddyPress version?

[Paul Wong-Gibbs]

edit: stupid forum has ate code. Download my Achievements plugin, look up those functions, copy + paste.

[peterverkooijen]

How do you handle fullname/real name in these school community sites:

1. students can just fill in whatever they like in the standard BP fullname field?

2. or did you add code to check for a two-part name?

3. or do you have code that synchronizes the firstname and lastname fields in wp_usermeta with the fullname field in BP xprofile?

4. did you create a custom xprofile field for lastname and use fullname for first name?

I still haven’t figured out what the best solution is…

Also how do you keep track of members when the admin areas use the usernames? Did you find a way to synchronize usernames with fullnames? What about blognames/urls?

Chris Kenniburg, is your Set Privacy plugin available somewhere? Is it a regular WP(MU) plugin?

[peterverkooijen]

Privacy controls are in the development roadmap, I think for version 1.3, release date tbd.

Until then you could use this code, but it doesn’t have a working ‘restricted area’ message with ajax or redirect, so you’ll have to code something yourself if you want to use it.

In this thread Chris Kenniburg mentions a Set Privacy Settings plugin.

[Jeff Sayre]

This is not a BuddyPress issue. It is a WPMU issue. I would suggest searching the WPMU forum for an answer. If you cannot find an answer there, then post a new thread in that forum.

[hatiro]

David,

Sorry realised that I’d already got body width at a fixed size but not in site-wide, which when looking at it now seems obvious.

Problem with IE however is in the calculating of sizes. When a user resizes the screen some elements are left floating and are not in line with the rest of the page. Hitting refresh works but it doesn’t help the user experience.

The body width works fine in most cases, but the need to fix the rendering bug in IE is what has been causing the problem. That is what the javascript has been about. But in drilling down through various forums, the answer has been to try and fix the css. The problem seems to be the inheritance or lack of it of position:relative in IE. Adding this to a top-level div seems to work (for me anyway)…

Hope that makes sense…..

[Pratik Bagaria]

hi there,

Integration was smooth for me, except for one thing

here is the site in question: http://www.waapsols.com

Its running Buddypress.

These are the steps I followed to integrate BB and BP… https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/bp-103-and-bbpress-which-version-plugins-cookies#post-20006

WPMU, BP, and BB is working good. But I just can’t get the logins to work, I mean when I login into WPMU, I am not automatically logged into BBPress Forum.

I am guessing thats the reason why in my BuddyPress, the forum is working fine, but who ever posts, there is no gravtar or name is seen

Can someone help, what might have gone wrong.?

[Mark]

I think I can simplify my question from a few days ago. To recap- I believe my bp and bbpress integration is working properly, but I’m not sure because of two issues:

1. Forum posts deleted from the bp group forums are removed from the bp group but remain in the bbpress forums.

2. Tags can be added to forum topics in bp groups but the tags don’t serve a purpose in bp. Tags are only accessible/searchable when directly using bbpress.

Is this how integration presently works? If not, any suggestions?

Thanks for your feedback. wpmu 2.8.2, bp 1.0.3, bbpress 1.0.2, subdomains

[nepf]

And it’s actually not working. When I activate the plugin, the group forums disappear in all BP groups.

I have the same problem.

Some ideas?

[mattlay]

This is great I am sure it will be much used. Perhaps it should be cut and pasted into a post entitled WP 2.8.1/BP 1.01/bbPress 1.0.3 (or something) Integration and made sticky.

I have read several people say they are on hold or gave up due to the difficulty in integrating these pieces. It is a shame it is difficult because all three are top of class work. Our forums are faster and cleaner than anything we have used in the past.

If only integrating cookies, users, and looks was a button click I think 90% of the frustration would be gone IMHO.

[Pratik Bagaria]

Hey there,

All the steps posted are just great and simple to follow

Thanks for it Graeme

WPMU, BP, and BB is working good. But I just can’t get the logins to work, I mean when I login into WPMU, I am not automatically logged into BBPress Forum.

I am guessing thats the reason why in my BuddyPress, the forum is working fine, but who ever posts, there is no gravtar or name is seen

Can someone help, what might have gone wrong.?

[jorrie]

So looked around and indeed no decent default solution for a 1 blog per blog.

Could i Make a forum and just link and show 1 categorie of it then?

I could create 1 forum with different categories for differerent users, then integrate each forum categorie for each blog inside my blogs on wpmu, any thoughts about this?

[elemsee]

People keep referring to turning certain components off, but as far as I can tell — by searching these forums and by muddling through the admin — there is no way to just “turn off” blogs so that the blog option disappears. Vanishes. As in there is no clicking on create a blog only to get a “blogs have been disabled” message. That just looks messy and like a mistake.

Maybe I’m wrong? I’d love it if I am.

[peterverkooijen]

More clues here.

[Paul Wong-Gibbs]

See https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/faq-how-to-code-snippets-and-solutions, “How to hide selected profile fields” and “How to show secondary profile fields while hiding the “Base” profile fields in a user profile”.

These should get you started and this has been discussed elsewhere on the forums, so do a search.

[jorrie]

Ok that;s a shame its not possible to have 1 forum per blog..

perhaps indeed a good idea for a plugin, if anyone interested please let me know in this topic, perhaps we can work something out together.

[peterverkooijen]

I just wrestled with that issue here.

A ‘members’ class was added to the body tag on pages under groups and blogs. BP_MEMBERS_SLUG or $bp->current_component are not very “precise” I guess.

I wasn’t able to figure out why this happens. I managed to get it to work, sort of, with the combination of lines in my custom function for the navigation.

[oriste]

Thanks, mariusooms, for your reaction. I updated to the latest trunk with svn this morning. I’m using sub-domains and wpmu is located in my root. WPMU and BuddyPress both work as expected. I’ve activated forum setup and got the message “bbPress forum integration in BuddyPress has been set up correctly. If you are having problems you can re-install”. HOWEVER, no bb-config.php file has been placed at my root (or anywhere else except the dummy default location as far as I can tell).

When I try to create a group, the screen goes completely blank at “/members/admin/groups/create/step/group-settings” and I see a “”POST /members/admin/groups/create/step/group-settings HTTP/1.1″ 403” in my Apache log file. Is that a problem of access rights? As I said, I temporarily set my root to 777 before setting up the bbPress integration in BuddyPress.

Just reporting back. I seem to be the only one with this particular problem, and I’ll try to investigate some more.

[peterverkooijen]

I need a more professional member registration as well. I’ll use this excellent plugin which allows login with email address, but there are a lot of other annoying issues I still have to solve:

Restructuring registration process to an industry standard

How to use full name, first name + last name

Make 2+ part name in full name required + xprofile_sync_wp_profile()

Autogenerate or remove username

Generate username (+ blog url) from fullname

Use full name in confirmation emails

ListMessenger (or PHPlist) integration – plugin?

I’m not sure how much GigaOM actually changed. Their form looks a lot like the regular Buddypress (?) registration, minus that annoying username. Not sure how they did that.

They’re not using Buddypress, are they?

Most of it is just a radically customized theme. I suspect they probably also use one of the commercial member subscription plugins.

I’m working on my new site here. The old site has a registration system based on PunBB. I’m not a PHP programmer, so please keep us posted on any progress you make.

[Paul Wong-Gibbs]

I’ve renamed this thread jorrie so the title covers both questions which might make it easier for people to find in future.

[r-a-y]

Since this is more of a WPMU issue than a Buddypress one, like I mentioned in the other thread you made, you might want to consult the nice folks over at mu.wordpress.org/forums/.

Login with the same username and password and make a post there.

[r-a-y]

Re #3 – Your blogs will stay intact. Buddypress will create a few components called groups and forums (if you have bbPress installed). Groups can be configured by users or admins. BP forums are a part of groups.

Re #5 – There’s a few forum threads about integration and a couple of guides floating around the net.

The next version of Buddypress is scheduled to be released next week (August 11), but I won’t be surprised if they push it back a few weeks since there’s a lot of new stuff being implemented.

Right now, if you want a tight integration, you’ll have to theme WPMU and BuddyPress at the very least. There’s no way around it.

Re #6:

Groupblog plugin – https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/new-groupblog-plugin#post-19344

– It’s still in development… I would just test this for now

Community Blogs for BuddyPress – https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-community-blogs/

– A revision was made by Boone Gorges available here – hxxp://dev.commons.gc.cuny.edu/files/2009/07/bp-community-blogs.zip (change hxxp to http)

– I’ve been meaning to test this, but haven’t yet

Keep in mind that these plugins would give a group a blog, but not a forum for each blog like you want… both have a different way of achieving this method.

The groupblog plugin would be more tightly integrated, whereas the “Community Blogs” plugin provisions group members to an existing WPMU blog.

[jorrie]

Thanks for the reply much appreciated.

1& 2 all clear work that out

3) If you already have users blogging on WPMU, BuddyPress will detect these user’s blogs (I’m quite sure BP detects them!). BP groups and forums build off of WPMU’s userbase; groups being a BP thing and forums being a BP/bbPress thing. So when you install BP, your users will have to configure their groups and forums from scratch.

Could you clarify this a bit more?

5) BuddyPress does indeed utilize bbPress for forum functionality. The next buddypress when does it get released?

Is there some documanation on bbpress + wpmu + buddypresS? I once did a regular wordpress and bbpress integration but could not find a simple way to integrate the bbpress forums in a wordpress page or match there layouts

Great thanks! going to look into this today

[r-a-y]

Nope, not available.

This question has been mentioned many times.

As for the second question, right now, you can’t have one forum per blog (unless you manually set it up in bbPress). Sounds like a future plugin to me!

[r-a-y]

1) With WPMU and a user account, you can comment on any blog (provided you’re logged in)

2) This is possible… that page is a template file, so you could customize that with whatever you want.

3) If you already have users blogging on WPMU, BuddyPress will detect these user’s blogs (I’m quite sure BP detects them!). BP groups and forums build off of WPMU’s userbase; groups being a BP thing and forums being a BP/bbPress thing. So when you install BP, your users will have to configure their groups and forums from scratch.

4) Not sure on this one. There’s an option in WPMU to disable blog registration, but if you do that I think it will disable blog registration sitewide. This would be a better question for the WPMU forums.

5) BuddyPress does indeed utilize bbPress for forum functionality. The next version of BP will make it easy to integrate with. Right now, it still requires some grunt work.

You say want a forum for each blog? That’s a little overkill… but something like this can be accomplished with groups and a BP plugin (Marius Ooms’ groupblog plugin or Burt Adsit’s BP Community Blog plugin)

6) Yes you can list all blogs on a page using a WPMU function.

Hope that helps!