Hmmm. Now that I’m thinking about that and looking at that fn, it should use the mu excerpt for the post if it exists. Doesn’t. Might help with your problem. Users can create a ‘tuned’ excerpt. That’s the purpose of having a separate excerpt box. ‘eh?
That would be for blog posts. You were talking about forum stuff. Totally off topic. Hey, get off my back. It’s early for me.
/mu-plugins/bp-core.php
Mornin’ Mike. (It’s morning for me. I keep explaining that I don’t live in a human time frame..)
I don’t think a Twitter-like functionality will be added to the BP core but this can be done now with around 10 minutes of work.
All you’d need to do is create a blog such as whereareyou.domain.com. Then add all existing users as authors and auto-add new users as authors to the blog (see this post for details on doing this, it only takes a minute). Finally install and tweak the prologue theme to suit your site. The updates users post to the blog will automatically show up on their profile like other blog posts.
This is a really basic implementation of a “Twitter-like” functionality, but with a little tweaking this setup works really well.
Can someone tell me where the bp_create_excerpt is? I have looked in every file can’t find it. I’m sure it’s under my nose
on the other hand…..this is a Forum and the link I just included DID get interpreted correctly. Hmmm. Must be me. Any help is appreciated.
ok, you’re correct, it’s the 404 bug that’s causing this. I tried to create slugs as you mention at https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=666#post-3003 but it didn’t help.
As long as I now the cause I can live with it, http://snakkis.no is a beta site.
there’s a forum topic listing all sites
AND FOR THOSE OF YOU ***STILL*** HAVING PROBLEMS after everything that’s detailed above, you can always use this plugin http://simplepressforum.com/ which is a breeze to install on WP (haven’t tested in WPMU).
It’s been in development for quite some time and it’s skinnable. All you’d have to do is add the “Forum” link to BP nav and you’d be set. Hope this helps for those of you who’re getting a receding hairline because of all the hair you’ve pulled out in trying to install the BP forum. SPF and BP don’t talk to each other but, then again, neither do BP forum and BP itself 
Please add this to: https://trac.buddypress.org/newticket log in with your forum credentials.
@kellylind I’m not running the home theme but it sounds to me like that is what happens with an excerpt that isn’t being filtered completely. The recent blog posts widget displays an excerpt. It’s not stripping the [caption][/caption]s because bp uses the standard wp striptags() function.
If you are the adventurous type I found this on the wp forums. Same problem you have.
$text = preg_replace( '|[(.+?)](.+?[/\1])?|s', '', $text )
Looks like it’ll work. Ya gotta mod the bp core to get it to work though. I’ll put in a ticket for this in Trac. You can wait or you can modify bp_create_excerpt() in bp-core.php.
What a wildly useful and wonderful thing is buddypress.
It’s just occurred to me that I could setup a support forum on my site for the Community Blogs plugin. Then it occurred to me that I could setup a bp group for that purpose and have all the benefits that buddypress and groups provide. (duh) (been buried with my head in code way too long)
Then it occurred to me that I need a blog for this too. I can move all my personal blog junk, which is just code I’ve created and modified, over to this new Group Blog.
Now I need to hook the new group blog up to my new support group. I can’t do that right now but I will be able to. Be back in a few days… 
That’s good to know, Trent. I won’t frequent the bbPress forums, and almost relying on my BuddyPress community here for any bbPress+BuddyPress tips. Nice to know we have a bbPress pro in the house. <end kissing butt>
Don’t fear. Just change the register.php form in your bbPress template to not have the registration form in it and replace it with a link to your register form on your WPMU install. There are quite a few threads on the bbPress forums about this. If you use the default theme, copy folder to /my-plugins/ and then adjust the theme. That way it won’t break when you upgrade.
Trent
You know, this was happening to me the other day. I was pulling RSS feeds from bbPress forums and one of them would not work. I scrapped the whole idea. Sorry I can’t help!
Figured anything out?
Yes, graphic integration.
I read yesterday on bbpress forums about “deep” integration where you include wp with the loading of bbpress: https://bbpress.org/documentation/integration-with-wordpress/#func
But all I get is a blank screen when I try to do that. I’m not sure I’m adding the right code to bb-config.php.
Do you means a graphic integration ?
Have you seen this?
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/support-forum/
Turns a forum into a support forum.
thanks so much, finally got the integration to work. pesky #7 and the “my-plugins” stuff was screwing me up badly. kudos.
@wardeh – I haven’t actually tried that plugin with a custom member theme, but it might not be working for 2 reasons.
First might be because the plugin is calling $is_member_page, it might not work unless you have all the functions included with the normal buddypress-member theme.
Second reason might be because the header('Location: ' . get_settings('siteurl') . '/register'); is calling the register page on the main theme that doesn’t exist? Maybe change that line to header('Location: ' . get_settings('siteurl') . '/wp-signup.php'); and see if that works?
The bbPress plugin should work if you are calling it out of /my-plugins/ but I am pretty sure you have to have the <?php bb_head(); ?> in your template header as well as <?php do_action('bb_foot'); ?> in your template footer.php.
Let me know, as the bbPress plugin is just a “redesign” of the force login plugin found in the bbPress forums.
Trent
Finished,
Wrote it as a customization to the profile fields, managed to do it in about 10 or so lines of php. Read my complete post here:
https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=604
or check out the running example here:
http://gorgeousgamers.com/beta/members/bradmkjr/
Thanks,
Brad
http://gorgeousgamers.com/beta/
Trent,
I’ve been meaning to ask you about those.
On the first: force-member-login. Since I’ve been using my own theme, it doesn’t work. This is the error I get:
Not Found
You tried going to http://my-site.net/register, and it doesn't exist. All is not lost! You can search for what you're looking for.
And with the second: force-login. My forums are still accessible. Well, hang on. I am not using the group forums anymore. So it is my actual forums installation that is still accessible. Perhaps your plugin won’t work for this application?
I take it you don’t have time right now to help me, so I can wait until you have time. This is not urgent.
If you look at the method that I used in the bbPress Force Login plugin (in plugins forum here) and combine it with the member-login plugin I wrote, it would be quite possible to combine the 2 into a complete site solution with excluding the login and register pages. I don’t have time to look at it now, but it is possible.
Trent
