[Trent Adams]

I have seen a plugin on the WPMUDEV.org Premium forums that lets you choose where the logged in user goes, but using wp-login.php sends the user to the admin by default. If the user logs in from the main page, it stays there.

[nicolagreco]

I think that privatizing a bbforum in this case is easy..

I dont remember when but i read that wp function can be included in bb. So you can privatize forums easily,

add an action that makes the forums hidden (hid in english?) if the visitor is not logged in

add an switcher action that makes the forums hidden if the group is not public

create a function that checks if loggedin user is in the group.

I think privatization is simple. Burt’s idea is really useful, but more difficult that privatizing forums, but it can be done..

You’ve to see how bp-groups (not bp-forums) works with forums and studing how it integrates groups with forums and creating own function that do the same..

[Anonymous User 303747]

Re. RSS – Group wires, group creations, friends notices. No forum, no blog posts.

[Trent Adams]

I have never seen this on any of my installs. Anyone else seen this? As side note, I does your feed not work have any specific content in it? Mine dies if there are forums posts in it. Might die with group posts as well, not sure.

[Burt Adsit]

trent, I just gotta:

get all groups from bp

for all groups make readonly or hidden based on group type

for logged in bbpress user get user’s groups and alter access to specific groups

getting all groups

getting users groups

What I’m working on now.

[Trent Adams]

Interested in your ideas on only showing groups forums to members on the bbPress side Burt.

[Burt Adsit]

lol. OK stop. Isn’t there already a ‘Burt’ cult? I know of at least one member.

It’s doable, just how is the question. Deep integration, xmlrpc, plain old sql from the wp database. Exploring.

[fishbowl81]

Lets get the general public forum working, before we get greedy. I do like the idea, but for the general good I think you could just form your own cult group, make it private and be good.

Please post any progress you make on the privatization of group forums, I would like to do something so I don’t have to maintain 2 installs of bbpress.

Thanks,

Brad

http://gorgeousgamers.com/beta/

[Trent Adams]

There are many places that you can discuss this that I mentioned above including the wpmu, hackers, wordpress & other lists if you want to further discuss this.

WPMU forums as well as in the WPMU Advanced Forums as well as on the WPMUDEV Premium Forums

[Burt Adsit]

chadeverson, the blog directory built into bp is just what you are talking about. It has alphabetic lookup, search and featured which is just random(). Get more than just a few blogs and the list option is long and unwieldy.

[chadeverson]

Is there a way to get a “blogs” widget for bp just like the groups and members widget? I am not a code guy, I only know cut and paste, but I am looking for an easier way to navigate from my bp main page http://www.theodoremedia.com to where I really want my visitors to be going is my blog networks on wpmu install. I think of Bp as the wheel that connects all the blog networks wpmu contains. I am trying to figure out an easier way to let my visitors and members travel in, throughout, and around in my bp/wpmu install. right now, they seem to be stopping at the bp theodoremedia.com and getting frustrated. your idea of using this code to bring up a list of blogs that is linked would be very useful for me all throughout the install.

Could I get something like a drop down of all my blogs in the navigation bar of bp?

Hell, I would settle for a widget!

thanks

Chad

[Anonymous User 303747]

gpo1 – you posted that already here: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=319#post-1291

Let’s try to keep threads on topic or things will become unwieldy very quickly.

[Burt Adsit]

realfam, bp covers wpmu, bbpress and bp itself. We try to address all three environments simply because we *have to* to get bp running. That thread was a little off topic for the forums. Even though it did relate to wpmu sorta, kinda.

Then again I just get cranky at times.

[Burt Adsit]

This thread contains non core mod fixes for the above issues:

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=814

[Mike Pratt]

Wow. I am so deep into BP now that all my requests re driven by my excitement for how much more we can do. Here’s a taste:

1. Facebook like image management

a. taggable with members

b. cross ref with groups

c. albums, etc.

d. geo tagging (ok that’s asking a lot!)

e. commentable

2. gpo1’s idea – events

a. full event , map integration functionality

b. association w/ groups ie a group event

3. integrated chat with online members

4. full featured address book/ friend management

a. friend groups

b. better message addressee handling

c. group messaging – ok these are more feature request than plugins

5. fully integrated content search

a. results by type (members, groups, posts, forums postings – a la FB)

[moodleman]

Hi Trent,

Thankyou for all your advice. Now works like a charm.

The devil is in the details ppl. make sure you read everything!

Julian

[sunya]

Great idea,,

[Burt Adsit]

I thought about doing the same thing. I setup 2 instances of bbpress. One for groups and one for ‘the community’. The groups forums were hidden. I didn’t like it too much. I wanted the public groups to be public forums but read only until users joined a group. I also wanted the private and hidden groups to have hidden forums.

See this thread: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=696

[Trent Adams]

Found another tip for you all if you have tried everything and it still won’t work….

If you manage to have done everything and it seems to not work, check your bp_groups_groupmeta table and delete any entries that deal with the forum. Make sure you back things up before doing this though! If an existing entry is there for forums, it won’t allow you to create a new one!

[Burt Adsit]

I was thinking about this kind of thing as well. In more general terms. I’m creating a bp member theme skin. Right now just trying to integrate it with the rest of the site. As I’m doing this I’m going over the features that are in that theme. Since I’m fooling with them, I’m thinking about them.

What do I want to see in this theme. How would I change it. I was thinking more about how I operate on my site and other sites. What changes would I make that would make my life easier on the net.

The first thing I would implement is a ‘favorites’ or ‘watch’ component. Kinda like rss feed aggregation. I make comments on people’s blogs. I start topics on the forums and reply to topics. I don’t remember all the junk I do in one day. So being reminded of *my* activity is important.

Viewing my group’s activity is important. Some blog’s are important and I want to see posts from those select blogs. *Some* of my friend’s activity is important. Forum and blog posts for some of my friends.

I’d like to be able to see *all* that stuff above and selectively see a subset of that. That subset is what’s important to me at the moment. It’ll change day to day.

Favorites, watches. Things I want to monitor. I’d like to be able to just dynamically add and delete such things.

I want to do this in one place. One screen. A bp/mu Heads Up Display. For me. I want ‘My HUD’.

[Burt Adsit]

What does this have to do with bp? This is a buddypress forum.

[Burt Adsit]

Kinda something like this?: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=540

[Maxaud]

Also, noticed that the “Group Forums” section isn’t present in WPMU 2.7 but it is in 2.6.5

It says the following and has the following options:

“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.”

– bbPress URL

– bbPress username

– bbPress password

– Cache requests

– Caching enabled

– Cache timeout

[Burt Adsit]

I have a signature running on other forums that reads: “You’re not doing anything wrong. Stop trying to do it right.”

In this case that’s appropriate. The stock behavior for mu and bp is to redirect back to the original url. But we don’t have to live with stock behavior. We got code.

The offending hunk we’re talking about is the various places that bp allows a user to logout. In all cases it has ‘redirect_to=’ site_url(). This takes the user back to where the logged out from. site_url() is what you want to change.

You need to say get_blog_option(1, ‘siteurl’) instead of that. That gets the url for the root/home blog in mu, blog id 1.

You’ll see two logout lines wherever bp allows a logout option. One is for mu 2.7 and it reads: wp_logout_url(site_url()). The other just reads ‘redirect_to=’ site_url()

The mu 2.7 version adds some security stuff to the mix and needs that wp_logout_url() call. In both cases and in all spots change ‘site_url()’ to get_blog_option(1, ‘siteurl’) and things will work as you want them to work.

I see the header in the home theme, two places in the member theme and the admin bar as spots to change.

header.php - www/wp-content/themes/buddypress-home line 48 <?php if ( function_exists('wp_logout_url') ) : ?>

header.php - www/wp-content/member-themes/buddypress-member line 46 <?php if ( function_exists('wp_logout_url') ) : ?>

bp-core-adminbar.php - www/wp-content/mu-plugins/bp-core line 81 if ( function_exists('wp_logout_url') ) {

bp-core-templatetags.php - www/wp-content/mu-plugins/bp-core line 55 if ( function_exists( 'wp_logout_url' ) ) {

Those line numbers may not be exact in all cases but it’ll be in the general vicinity.

The problem that you have to be aware of is that you are modifying stuff that will get overwritten when you update your bp installation. You’ll have to make sure that if you use SVN things get merged in properly and if you’re not using SVN then you’ll manually have to go around and put the mods back in each time.

[Burt Adsit]

elishahong, this forum is running with a cache operating. You have to refresh your browser to see your post. Sending your post and returning to the original page doesn’t do that. You had about half a dozen messages saying the same thing. Sometimes you see your post and sometimes you don’t. Gotta mention that to the powers that be.

Let me go look at the source of those errors you are getting.