[altaran]

Yeah Jomsocial is still far superior in terms of navigation and media.

If making a directory with Joomla wasn’t so complicated (like everything else it seems) I’d definitely buy a Jomsocial license.

I’m still hesitating because Jomsocial has great integration with some forums, an area in which BP seems pretty limited

[peterverkooijen]

Thanks for responding DJPaul!

I guess the hook would be this:

user_register

Runs when a user’s profile is first created. Action function argument: user ID.

Or maybe this?

register_post

Runs before a new user registration request is processed.

I have a wish list of things I need to do with input from the registration form:

1. synchronize fullname with wp_usermeta firstname + last name

2. autogenerate username/blogurl from fullname

3. add new user to the ListMessenger mailing list

They all require taking input from the registration form, processing the input and then storing the results in specific database tables. I’m trying to puzzle together one or more plugins to do that.

[Jeff Sayre]

Information on upgrading single-user WP to WPMU can be found on the WPMU forums.

As far as this question:

I have a good many members and would like to know how to add them as a community member or does this automatically do this on install?

BuddyPress does not do any importing of your existing members. There is a plugin that can help though: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/user-import-for-buddypress-all-fields/

I am not sure if that plugin is yet compatible with 1.0.3.

[Marcus (aka @msykes)]

Glad to help. Shame it’s so hackish, but at least it works!

[plrk]

To begin with, try upgrading to the latest version of each of WPMU/BP/BB

[hatiro]

OK, found that if I comment out

//require_once( BACKPRESS_PATH . ‘/class.ixr.php’ );

in oci_bb_group_forums.php it all works happily together…!!!!

[Nommo]

Hey James, thanks for the reply… I am pretty sure I could do it with a little help – it can’t be more complicated than forums platforms as you say… there is no ‘recipe’ out there yet so there is a chance to explore new territory

I don’t really think it ‘competes’ – they are both GPL community platforms, ccHost being more niche for sure, but I think a social site with creative commons music functionality would be a killer direction for buddypress…

This seems to be a lifetime project for me (yesmate.com) – starting back in the days before wordpress, when open-source CMS were rare… I am in no hurry

Perhaps it would be better to design some plug-ins for WP/BP that emulate what ccHost does (I know from trying to subscribe to an ‘editors picks’ feed on cMixter via my n95 that WP does RSS and pretty URLs better lol).

Peaces

[hatiro]

Jeff,

I don’t agree that this is just a WPMU question. Getting bbpress and buddypress to ‘talk’ to one another to use the groups plugin is an issue for shared hosting, which may not be resolved in the WPMU forums. A few hosts have been mentioned on this site but it would still be good for this issue to be aired with those not using dedicated servers.

Perhaps, in terms of scalability it is different but for those starting out how far shared hosting will take you before shelling out for better hosting is valid.

Buddypress will be picked up and used by a lot of ‘hobbyists’ (I use the term in quotes not to offend) and shared experiences in this forum is surely what it’s all about.

As for me, I’ll be starting out using shared hosting, but am still at the testing on home server stage so not yet positive enough to say how it will pan out.

</rant>

[Kieran]

Just to say if anyone is interested in making this change the if statement is:

<?php if ( bp_is_home()&& bp_profile_activities( ‘type=friends&max=10’ ) ) : ?>

Plus this change is required: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/how-to-have-friends-activity-on-profile-page

This will allow users to see their friends activity on their own profile page.

BUT I still can’t figure out how to add Avatars to the activity templates. I think it would look great if, for activities with excerpts (blog posts, forum posts, wire posts etc), the users avatar is shown (a la facebook).

Can anyone help or is this a major change to attempt?

Thanks a lot!

[peterverkooijen]

My latest attempts were here, for a plugin for a related problem that will hopefully also lead to a solution for username/blogurl.

I have to decide first how I am going to put firstname + lastname into the database; split the fullname value out to wp_usermeta or turn fullname into firstname and add another xprofile field for lastname.

Again, I’m not really a php programmer. I’m trying to puzzle it together from code examples and googled bits and pieces. I’ll need all the help I can get!

I can’t figure out how the fullname moves from the registration form to the database; which pieces of code are involved and how to “intercept” it to “do stuff” with it. That’s where I’m stuck at the moment.

“user profile meta” is put “in a session ready to store”. Is that an “array”? Anyway, that’s higher level php to me. No clue how to extract the fullname value from that.

// put the user profile meta in a session ready to store.

for ( $i = 0; $i < count($bp_xprofile_callback); $i++ ) {

$bp_user_signup_meta['field_' . $bp_xprofile_callback[$i]['field_id']] .= $bp_xprofile_callback[$i]['value'];

}

[graduatebuddy]

are these powered by bbPress????? forums??? and SimpleScripts make no difference manual installations have same problems

[mattlay]

Brilliant it worked thanks!

[mattlay]

Thanks for the help I will try and do that.

New instructions… I shall take a look having issues with that too.

[Marcus (aka @msykes)]

I ran into this problem too.

I have a temporary fix which will enable you to reenable your components, via the database :

The record is in table wp_sitemeta and you want the record with meta_key = bp-deactivated-components

If you make the meta_value field blank all your components will be enabled again. You can edit the value as well just to disable one component, but for simplicity’s sake do that and disable the ones you want again from the admin area.

Now onto the bigger problem I’m having, integrating the forum with Andy’s new instructions?

[wicosta]

Same error too. I re-enable it manually, going to the wp-content/plugins/buddypress/pb-forums.php and set 1 on the second line. Now it´s running.

My problem now is to make the option “forum” appears on the main menu.

[mattlay]

Yes that is it exactly. Sorry John I tend to be a little unclear when I describe things but what jverhine and Diossabot said is exactly what I am having. It is like you can only activate 7 of 8 components. They are all on to start with but once you disable one then this happens.

I disabled the wire component as it is the least needed at this point.

[Mariusooms]

Currently the forums is acting as a group forum, specific to each group and its members. The tables get created when creating a group. You should then be able to create and post on topics made from within the group front end interface.

As of yet there is no backend available.

The forum setup will create a bb-config.php file in your wpmu root. There is an additional blank bb-config.php file in the bp-forums directory. It resides there to prevent access to the backend, so just leave that as it is. In fact you shouldn’t have to mess with the bb-config files what-so-ever.

As far as my testing goes, it works as advertised and installs correctly after I figured out that you need to create a group to trigger the table creation.

Try that and so how it goes.

PS. It should however create the bb-config.php file even if you don’t create a group, so I’m not sure about that. Are you using sub-domains or directory install? Is wpmu located in your root or sub-folder?

[Jeff Sayre]

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/the-theme-for-this-site#post-13460

[Paul Wong-Gibbs]

I suggest if you have problems with the new group stuff in the trunk, please report it as a bug on the Trac. This is exactly what beta code needs (testing) so thank you.

[hatiro]

I had a similar issue after upgrading to the latest stable version. Comment link worked in additional blogs not using bp-home theme, but didn’t work on main blog, simply clicked on comment link and got nothing.

Searched forums and this was the second post that was similar to my problem, but none of the solutions fixed it. After a bit of playing I noticed..

In the dashboard there is a check box on the right hand side of the main edit blog admin page in a box called Blog Themes next to: WordPress mu Homepage. After checking this [active] check box, comments worked and were visible after clicking in the main blog..

This may make sense to those suffering the same problem, sorry if its not that clear.

[Burt Adsit]

I haven’t updated bpgroup to be compatible with trunk bp yet. There’s a trac ticket by me whining about the lack of wp actions on group creation with the new group creation stuff.

[oriste]

Same here. I pulled everything from the subversion trunks:

WPMU:

– Checked out revision 1908.

BuddyPress:

– Checked out external at revision 148. (that would be bbPress I guess)

– Checked out revision 279.

– Checked out revision 2316.

– Checked out revision 1629.

But I didn’t get a bb-config.php file in the root of my WPMU installation as expected (had set the root to chmod 777 before activating the BB Forums in BuddyPress).

In Component Setup of BuddyPress, bbPress Forums are enabled. When I go to Forums Setup it says “bbPress forum integration in BuddyPress has been set up correctly. If you are having problems you can re-install”, but it ends there, just like Mariusooms reported.

This is a local install on Mac OS X in /Library/Webserver/Documents. All the other stuff related to WPMU and BuddyPress works flawlessly (Thanks guys for such a easy setup procedure).

Would appreciate someone telling us what I’m missing.

[lokers]

I have tried that too. It doesn’t work that’s why I’ve edited the core. Also, I sent PM to Burt with link to this post few days ago.

[r-a-y]

There should be a sticky with the topic title – “This forum theme and the BuddyPress theme used on this site will not be made available!”.

But I bet even if such a sticky was made, there still would be the occasional person that will ask anyway!

[jverhine]

i’m now having this error. disabled the bbPress Forums and now when i try to enable then save, it doesn’t enable – it stays disabled.