[Burt Adsit]

@PerS you have experience with js? Andy is looking for some help in that area. Another pair of eyes : https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=847

[Joss Winn]

Excellent. Just saw the problem and resolved it with this five minutes later. Much appreciated.

[Joss Winn]

I now see where you’re coming from. The BuddyPress Forum settings state:

“To enable forums for each group in a BuddyPress installation, you must first download, install, and setup bbPress and integrate it with WordPress MU.

Once you have bbPress set up correctly, enter the options below so that BuddyPress can connect.”

Well, I’ve turned the integration off but can still post. I need to look at this some more.

[Famous]

As my nephew says, sick sick. Thanks Burtadsit, without that I would be stuck–not able to continue my plan. Without you on this forum helping out I would be sitting around wondering, so once again thanks for the community love…

[Burt Adsit]

There isn’t any configuration option to do what you want. You’ll have to customize wpmu or use a plugin if such a thing exists. Try searching the wpmu forums https://mu.wordpress.org/forums/ or over at

[SNIP] cancel all that.

As I was getting the url for wpmudev.org and their plugins area the front page has this:

http://wpmudev.org/project/default-user-role

This seems to set the default user role for new blog owners. Go figure.

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[Burt Adsit]

In the mean time : http://code.ourcommoninterest.org/2009/01/12/group-forums-fixes/

[Anointed]

LOL

This is exactly what I was coming over to ask about.

I’ve been searching high n low for a script or set of scripts that would allow me to run a ‘ning’ type network on my servers. For now I would be happy to just have the type of features these sites have, but I can see extending it to offer subnets like ning does.

So far I have yet to find any piece of software that I can purchase that allows users to have blogs/photo’s/video’s (upload with conversion through ffmpeg, not youtube links etc), forums/social groups etc.

It seems that buddypress may well someday be the closest, enless there is a whole other field of professional software that I am unaware of

[Famous]

I see ticket #300. C’mon Andy, hustle up!!!

JK! Thank you grandmaster BP, will wait patiently…

[Famous]

does anyone have an idea?

The forums in BP are not carrying formatting???

[Joss Winn]

BuddyPress does have forums (you’re using them on your site . It’s one of the standard set of plugins, called bp-forums. Accessible when you create a Group. I’d like to create a ‘Support’ Group where people are directed to for user-to-user support. I could use bbPress, but it seems like it’s adding yet another application to manage.

If the BP group forums are intended to scale well, it seems easier for my needs to run the BP group forums rather than bbPress.

[Andy Peatling]

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=591#post-2876

[fishbowl81]

I don’t believe their is such a thing as “buddypress forums”, I believe buddypress requires bbpress for it’s forum capabilities.

WordPress MU will scale without question beyond the needs of any individual providing enough server backend power.

BBpress as a stand alone should be able to scale large enough for most people. Due to a the different nature of forum database structure, it isn’t as easy to breakup among many servers as a the mu blogs are. An active forum can easily have 100k’s of posts, and I’m not aware of a way to archive older posts into backup tables. BBpress uses 1 table for all posts, it would be possible (there might even already be a plugin to do this) to move each forum to a seperate table, and therefor possibly a separate server.

My concern would be for the XML-RPC mechanism used to talk to the forums. This was designed, with good caching, but on a very large buddypress install with 100’s of active groups and 10000’s of members I wonder how much overhead the xml-rpc adds compared to a straight database lookup. It does allow for the bbpress to be moved to a secondary server, which is good, and is safe as it stores a bbpress creditials and not database creditals if the admin account happened to get compromised. The nice part is, the it was written with the bbpress_live class, which could be replaced with any other class. So someone could, if so desired actually rewrite the class to talk to a vbulletin forum or other solution. It could even do direct database lookups and inserts if desired. I’m sure we will see this in the near future, as some large vbulletin sites may want to add the social abilities of buddypress, and maintain their forums, as buddypress groups.

I have only used BBpress inside of Buddypress, so I haven’t yet had to deal with scaling issues, as I beleive mine has about 45 posts total.

Any Thoughts?

Brad

http://gorgeousgamers.com/beta/

[Per Søderlind]

or you could do this: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=591#post-2876

[trcwest]

thanks trent got it all working nicely on spotskenya.com thanks to you

[plock]

Flag Profile!: I think BP really could use profile moderation.

How Flag Profile could work:

1. The flag profile button could be displayed on the top of each user’s profile, on the bottom or on the side.

2. A user can click on this to “flag” the profile which sends a message (With a link to the profile in question) for moderators or admins. User can enter the reason for flagging or choose from a checkbox.

2a) In later versions, this could be put on a moderation menu kind of like a ticket system where more than 1 admin can go look and solve the issue.

3. Admins and moderators get message in their Inbox, and can go check out the profile in question. They can choose the option of “Warn” or “Delete”

3a) Moderation can be more automated to make less messages for admins. A threshold could be set (# of votes for a flag) before a problem profile makes the attention of admins/mods. A profile could be “hidden from view” until an admin makes a decision about it.

I mentioned this in the other forum as well: Photobucket plugin and/or photo uploads would be cool too.

[lazypoet]

Hehe, quite true. *I* did.

And deleting the bp-forums.php along with the folder fixed it. Thank you guys very much!

[Trent Adams]

When phpmotion 3.0 is released, I will get something hacked up for it to work I would imagine the other video plugins to work off will be pretty wicked by then. There is no sense doing anything now since the user RSS feeds don’t exist and looking at the plugins, there is no sense adding them as they are limited. I might even add some filters for people to embed videos into their wire or forum posts though ahead of this release. Time is not my friend lately though….

[Anonymous User 303747]

so *it* really didn’t – *you* did

[Anonymous User 303747]

Discussed many times on the forum. Simply do not install the blog module.

[Burt Adsit]

@nicolagreco The readonly and hidden forums are already done. Two plugins by _ck_ do just that. I’m using those. The problem is getting the info about groups and group members in bp over to bbpress.

It’s not as simple as just including a wp or bp function. bp and bbpress might not be on the same server. They might not even be part of the same mu install.

XMLRPC is the path I’ve chosen. It fits in with the plans I have for bp, blogs and forums in the future.

[Andy Peatling]

delete bp-forums.php

[lazypoet]

It F*cked up.

Warning: include_once(bp-forums/bp-forums-admin.php) [function.include-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in...

[Anonymous User 303747]

It did for me so give it a shot if you don’t mind taking a chance.

[lazypoet]

Well I just installed the combo module. Would deleting the forum folder from my mu-plugins folder fix it?

[Anonymous User 303747]

I avoided that by simply not installing the forum module.