[John James Jacoby]

I’m going to close this topic and refer everyone to the External Blogs topic going forward.

(Let me know if there are any objections?)

[jeff-sayre]

donnacha-

I’ve been following the other thread you mention in your first post. So as not to double post, you can read my recent thoughts on this issue here: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=1485#post-8136

[jeff-sayre]

devweb, sorry about the little thread jacking

There is a plugin on WPMU Dev ( http://wpmudev.org/project/default-user-role ) that allows admins to set the default user role on signup. There’s also this plugin ( http://agapetry.net/news/introducing-role-scoper/ ) that seems to offer significant role customization in WP. However, I cannot find this particular plugin in the WP repositry so beware.

You may also get some useful ideas from this thread on the Mu forums: https://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic.php?id=8217

Granted, these are all WPMU-specific ideas, not BuddyPress. But Mu is the platform on which BP sits, so this may be of some use if you’re planning to code your own solution.

[gpo1]

Maybe adapting Amazon s3 or Cloud Front,so that users can store their images/video in one amazon s3 account?

FYI

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=1533#post-7696

https://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic.php?id=6351

This could save load balancing. What do you think?

[Burt Adsit]

It’s a security hole and it’s closed by default. If you choose to open it you can modify the filters that bp uses. Example is the forums filter system:

bp_forums_add_allowed_tags() in ../bp-forums/bp-forums-filters.php is the filter you can extend.

function my_allowed_tags($allowedtags){

$allowedtags = array();

return $allowedtags;

}

add_filter( ‘edit_allowedtags’, ‘my_allowed_tags’ );

Create a file called bp-custom.php and put it in the /mu-plugins directory with the rest of the main bp files. Put that function in there. It’ll get loaded by bp.

Other components have a /bp-<component>/bp-<component>-filters.php file also.

[peterverkooijen]

Apparently it’s an underdocumented peculiarity of WordPress MU.

[peterverkooijen]

BuddyPress strips object and embed tags from my posts entirely.

[John James Jacoby]

I beat you by 4 minutes. Too slow!

[Burt Adsit]

PART 2: ‘it is closed instantly’ What does that mean? I’m hazy as to exactly what is happening.

You create a group with a forum. The forum gets created because you can visit the bbpress side and see the new forum. You create a new topic in bp and what happens? Does the topic show up in bbpress?

Can you create a topic in bbpress within that forum and have it show up in bp? What happens when you create topics and replies in a group forum on the bbpress side? They should show up in bp.

Are you using deep integration?

This is bbpress 0.9x here.

[John James Jacoby]

Haha I used one of my three wishes to make it work, so I’ve got two left. Burt is my genie.

First things first. You need to use WPMU 2.7, BuddyPress RC1, and bbPress 1.0alpha6. Any other combination will result in a giant stress headache on your behalf for at least a few days.

To address part 1: When you say that you haven’t gotten the forums to work flawlessly, are you speaking of integration, or alone? Obviously the first thing we need to have is a fully functioning bbPress installation before we can attempt to integrate them together.

To address part 2: That is bizarre. When you say closed, do you mean the topic is marked as closed, or that when you submit the post that it just refreshes the page immediately back to the main front page?

The BuddyPress forums are currently running the most stable version of bbPress in the 0.9 branch. The alpha’s have gone through some growing pains in the past few months, mostly due to pressure to make integration work with the rapidly changing WordPress.org updates. bbPress and BuddyPress are both going to get some major super mega awesome momentum this year however, so the next few weeks are going to be pretty fun.

[Matt Kern]

Alright, I am on to my next install and having a few different problems.

“There was an error posting that reply.” is the group error message after posting, BUT the post is still made. Meaning, all my test users can post to the group forum as expected (and no data is lost), but I get the ugly red bar saying it didn’t work out.

IF I disable buddypress-enable.php in bbpress plugins, then I don’t get the error message – I get the green success message – and everyone can post accurately.

Thoughts?

[Chad Holden]

This sucks.

PART 1 : I am installing this for a client on WAMP and have had no luck in getting the forums to work flawlessly. I can get the forum to be created though the group’s setup page, but the group cant post new topics to the forum. (or can they?)

PART 2 : When I post something to the forum, it is closed instantly before I can view it. So the main page shows 5 posts, but none are actually in the forum when I click on it, it just gives me the main post a new topic.

Any help with this sort of issue would be a blessing. John, how the hell did you get the forum working on yours.

And BuddyPress people, do you use bbpress for this site as well??

[Burt Adsit]

I’ve been thinking about this also. I was planning on creating a group/personal blog component for bp. Andy convinced me that something like the project he talked me into would be more beneficial. I have plans to allow bpContents http://code.ourcommoninterest.org/2009/03/05/bpcontents-tags-everywhere-for-everything/ to have content types that are external to a bp/wpmu install.

bbPress topics are external to the install. bp group forums use xmlrpc to communicate with bbPress. It’s an external resource for bp. My plans are to create some standard content types that exist within the bp site such as blog posts, wp pages and the wp links table.

I always thought it was important to be able to relate external resources and treat them as if they were ‘just another resouce’. When I found out that the bp-bbpress communications mechanism was xmlrpc and exactly what that implied I jumped at learning and developing for that comm method.

Practically all blogs, no matter what type they are, have an xmlrpc interface. Gonna make it another content type in bpContents. It’ll provide the ability to get the external posts into bp, inside tags.

[bobman024]

Oh and to update the previous post…I can’t delete groups either. Same error!

///****Update*****/////

Ok so this was fixed by adding in the nonce stuff from RC1. I didnt follow the upgrade instructions properly from beta2 to RC1…

It should be noted that now I don’t get the error message anymore, but my forums are still not synced up.

[bobman024]

Ok so…integration for me is working between BBpress Alpha 1.6, Buddypress RC1 and WPMU 2.7. I can seamlessly switch between platforms while logged in. Everything is installed properly…However when I go to activate/enable any forum for a group i get this:

Are you sure you want to do this?



Please try again.

[Donnacha]

This issue has now also been raised by spisio in another thread: External Blogs

If anyone else agrees that this is an important missing feature, please make your opinion known by posting in either thread.

[Donnacha]

Incredibly, I don’t think any of the main developers see this as an important feature; I made a similar request about a week ago, after Andy’s announcement about the upcoming non-MU version of BuddyPress (which will, absolutely, need to be able to list external blogs) but, apart from a short, interesting discussion, no-one seemed to agree that it was a vital feature:

Useful BP and non-MU BP feature: list outside blogs

My conclusion was that this is one of those situations in which the people in a position to introduce a feature haven’t yet realized how important it is – it isn’t yet an itch they feel the need to scratch.

But, yeah, it is one Hell of an omission, hopefully it will be introduced once the main guys have got their real-world BP communities running at full tilt and realize that most users will want to link to their main blogs.

[jeff-sayre]

Hi John:

Is the permissions plugin the same thing as the privacy component Andy mentions in this thread (post #4)? https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=39#post-158

I literally just started (i.e. this morning) coding a bare-bones privacy plugin for BP that in essence controls privacy at the profile subgroup level.

A simple radio button array appears in each subgroup’s title bar with options to grant or deny viewing access. It offers the following granular subgroup level of control:

• allow/deny anyone (i.e. globally public or private)
• allow/deny only logged in users
• allow/deny only friends

It’s not much of a privacy filter, but it is a start.

If it is the case that V1.1 will have the first generation of the privacy component, then perhaps I should simply wait. I’m sure the core developers will provide a more powerful (and better) solution than I could.

Jeff

[Mark]

Hi Everyone

I am familiar with WordPress Mu however new to Buddypress and one of my clients wanted a ning.com type site however using ning, you do not own the system and there are many limitations.

So I dived into buddypress in the last week and on my 4th install sorted out all the requirements to get a nice smooth WP Mu + Buddpress + bbpress system integrated.

The system is still in development as the social networking aspect is only one part of this sport coaches membership site. I am still trying to get YM Membership plugin to work on it as it needs to be a paid membership site.

Here is the site: http://networkofcoaches.com/noc

I learned several important lessons:

1. If an existing wordpress install is present 1 level down such as in the root folder then WP Mu will not install until you temp disable wp-config.php and wp-blog-headers.php in that existing installation

2. When installed WP Mu in a sub folder as I have it ./noc you cannot use the sub-domain installation and must install WP Mu using the sub folder option. If your WP Mu is in the root of your domain then you can use sub domains.

3. WP Mu and Buddypress are relatively simple however integrating bbpress is a mission. I used these resources and it works now perfectly: http://umwblogs.org/wiki/index.php/Integrating_WPMu%2C_BuddyPress%2C_and_bbPress

and

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/basic-integration-screencast

4. Now going to use bp-test to add extra top level menu options

My wishlist:

1. A themes upgrader system to modify WP themes for buddypress

2. Top level menu built in editor

3. Paid membership script integration and/or JV Manager2 (Fantasos) integration

4. Video integration especially All-In-One-Video

5. RSS and Twitter feeds

6. Easier homepage and widget editing (so far I can only add widget to the left column, even if I add one to one of the other columns, the system then adds it to the left column?

7. When a user request is received, unless you are already logged in you get a forbidden page, this should rather go to a login page and then process the friend request. My very 1st test user was very concerned over this forbidden page

Overall, I am very impressed. It is a little technical but once you have one successful install it is much easier.

I have a large free WP Mu system that I will be adding WP Premium plugins to and will market with Buddypress and bbpress installed. Keep an eye on http://besteportal.com

In fact I will have Buddypress integrated in a week and feel free to grab an account, in fact you will be helping me test the load on the system if you signup and play around as there are only 4000 blogs currently. I will be adding many additional functions to this site and it will effectively be a wordpress.com type offering however with Buddypress social networking and a few of my tricks.

A question I have is if I use the WP Premium multi db plugin which can split the WP Mu database into as many databases as you want to vastly improve efficiency and performance, then how will Buddpress+bbpress respond as it shares the same database. Perhaps I should have used a seperate database for bbpress?

Keep up the great work BuddPress!

Best Regards

Mark

[gpo1]

@Fishbow181, I like your idea,but please can you adapt Amazon s3 or Cloud Front,so that users can store their images/video in one amazon s3 account?

FYI

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=1533#post-7696

https://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic.php?id=6351

Any help is welcomed.

[fishbowl81]

I like my solution, I just built a general forum plugin, using the forum code from group forums and adopted it to work on a general level.

http://gorgeousgamers.com/beta/forums/

(disregard the large error, I have a ticket out for it, otherwise I need to hand edit a file everytime I do an update from svn)

Brad

[John James Jacoby]

Wow that’s a fancy idea.

Does each item need to be added manually, or are they imported from Amazon into your database?

Since there are no admins for those items, technically who can edit them and create forums, etc? Basically just the main admin, correct?

It’s ideas like this that make me love BuddyPress more everyday. Good work!

[John James Jacoby]

Yes it can be done, and number 1 is your best bet.

Things to remember:

1. You’re going to want to create new Salt keys in your wp-config.php and bb-config.php files.

2. You won’t have any access to your website until you get all of the domain references in the second database aimed at your second domain.

The way that I did this was actually to get everything fully installed and synced together, and then dropping all of the tables in the DB and importing them from the original, and then tweaking as necessary.

[Matt Kern]

Well, I hate to resort to a hack, but I did get integration going.

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/share-solution-for-bbpress-10-alpha-6-wordpress-mu-27-cookie-integration

simply defining BB_HASH as an emtpy string.

I did notice them my cookie names did not seem to follow the naming convention that the Reverend was mentioning on his site.

Anyway, now I can move on to the fun stuff….

[Matt Kern]

Trent, the part I glossed over was

>>1) you have bbpress installed and a new user created on the “bbPress” side which you granted “administrator” rights by the keymaster

Reading it now, it is obvious, but before – I was not creating a second user and giving him administrator rights. I was using my first “admin/keymaster” account as the main one.

Once I created that second account and followed the rest of your directions, the xmlrpc worked fine.

The other part was

6) …and go to the groups admin page.

It is actually the “bbPress Forums” page. Maybe the terms changed at some point.

As far as cookie integration, this seems to be the definitive resource so far

http://umwblogs.org/wiki/index.php/Integrating_WPMu,_BuddyPress,_and_bbPress

But I just can’t seem to make it happen yet.

Thanks for all the help Trent. I appreciate it.