One thing. The new post info and event only gets sent over to bp if the group forum is a ‘public’ group forum. Non group forum activity is ignored as is private and hidden group forums. Sitewide activity doesn’t get updated for the private and hidden stuff in bp.
Can’t send over the ‘open’/’community’ forum posts because the sitewide activity has to be associated with a group.
@john, I included some template tags in the bbGroups package that demonstrates some of that theme’s use of bp centric features. I didn’t include the forums feature because it was specific to the theme. I’ll just zip up that theme and post it on my blog for you to look at the code. Gimme a few.
OK. It’s here: http://ourcommoninterest.org/downloads/oci.zip
You should just be able to unzip that in my-templates. One thing though. bbPress doesn’t seem to have a functions.php file that gets run in each theme/template as wp does. So I had all the template specific code being launched from my oci_bb_group_forums.php plugin. I’ve got all the template code living in oci_bb_custom.php so it get loaded up automatically. I included my oci_bb_custom.php file in the template zip. Just drop that in my-plugins and it’ll be loaded by the bbGroups plugin in bbpress.
If you look at the front-page.php file you’ll see how the forum list is generated.
<?php oci_forum_list('open', 'Community Forums', false); ?>
<?php oci_forum_list('readonly', 'Group Forums', true); ?>
<?php oci_forum_list('hidden', 'Private Forums', true); ?>
That fn is a little out of date. I used to have an option in there to generate identicon avatars for all forums. Even the forums that weren’t bp related. I took that capability out. What it does do now is display avs for the currently logged in user’s groups only.
BuddyPress is a set of WPMU plugins, so if you want add new feature, install it and have extended profile, private messages, ecc… the answer for your question is Yes, you can.
These are the tickets left.
I will be posting an announcement on the blog today regarding the release and more information about the plans going forward.
Just thought I’d show interest in an events module/addition to groups too. 
As already mentioned being able to create an event with info, invite members and allow an RSVP would be brilliant. Just throwing in a few more thoughts:
– Allowing users to click say “I’m attending”/”I might attend”/”I’m not attending” buttons and their status showing on the events would be great.
– Have an “invited but not replied” status.
– Have maybe public/private events. Public events allow anyone (in that group?) to sign up/invite others, private events don’t.
As I say – just a few thoughts… Such a module/extension of groups would be amazing.
At the moment yes. Things are as you describe. I’ve got a little plugin coming out when bp goes 1.0 that integrates bp group forums and bbpress. bp Public groups will be readonly in bbpress except for group members. Private and Hidden groups will have their forums hidden in bbpress except for group members. Group admins and moderators will have forum moderation capabilities in bbpress.
Hi, sorry for my bad english.
I looking for a plugin that makes buddypress a private network. I found this plugin: Secure invitations – http://wpmudev.org/project/secure-invitations. But its not work with BP.
Can anyone intagrate this plugin with BP?
Yes, it’s not the blog-privacy issue (although if a blog was private and afterwards set to public I have experienced, that it didn’t really change the way it should…).
@sdq80: Yes, same for me. Sometimes it seamed, that something was deleted (i didn’t look it up in the database). I thought maybe it is a function that kicks activity out after a while…
If the blog is set to ‘Private’ activity will not be recorded for that blog.
Thanks, Burt and Trent, for posting this. Really, really helpful when you have to create a private social network, as I do, at a university.
Yeah, that is what I mean. If adding things like “embed” or “object” code scares you to death, you can always include something like Anarchy Media Player where you can include the javascript in the buddypress theme header and then it will parse the page for the plugin quickcode and display the media that way. That is a way some are already doing it with things like bbPress where the media plugin doesn’t exist yet.
Andy put a filter on the tags used in wire. It allows common HTML now, but with a plugin can also be used to change the allowed tags to anything you want. I am going to do this on an extremely private install, but thinking about Anarchy as well. Just haven’t had time.
Trent
I am sure dsader can fix it without much effort. I opted generally to go with the plugin I have referenced before called “Members Only” on my smallest install which is just for family. Reason I went with this plugin over dsaders was both the RSS feeds as well as the ability to have the blogs you want still being “public” in their settings, but still members only.
What that means is the main WPMU blog can be private and only accessible to logged in members. If blog 1 is public, it shows in the main sitewide feeds. If blog 2 is private to members only, I can still set it as “public access” in the privacy options, but the “members only” plugin will not allow viewing without logging in, but the blog posts will still show in the main WPMU blog widgets.
Not the best solution for larger sites, but I am assuming that when Andy has a chance to implement the privacy options into buddypress, this will be a moot issue at some point.
Just some additional thoughts.
Trent
I’ve just posted this to the WPMU forums, but it’s just as relevant here: Regarding dsader’s more privacy options plugin…
“I’m testing this plugin on a WPMU 2.7 and BuddyPress (both from SVN) installation. It can turn BuddyPress into a private social network quite simply by making the main/first blog private. However, there’s one issue I can see:
the ../activity/feed RSS feed is private when the ‘main’ blog is private.
But, member’s activity feeds i.e. ../members/josswinn/activity/feed remains public.
Any way to fix this? I appreciate that the plugin wasn’t written to support BuddyPress, but it’s so close to working well on BuddyPress that it would be good to look at this and provide a way to create truely close BuddyPress networks.
Thanks!”
I’ve since found that this is happening to me on a site installed in a sub-dir but not on an install using wildcard DNS/sub-domain. Can anyone verify this?
That’s very reassuring that you’re using dsaders privacy plugin, too. Nice to see such a simple solution already exists to provide private BuddyPress communities while not affecting the privacy of individual’s blogs. In education, I can see this being very attractive. Hopefully Andy is aware of this for future core feature development.
I’ve not tested it extensively yet, but this plugin:
http://wpmudev.org/project/More-Privacy-Options
seems to allow the blocking of all users, except the registered community, from viewing anything related to buddypress.
If I set “I would like my blog to be visible only to registered users from blog community” for the main/first blog where all the buddypress features sit, then you have to login before being able to see anything except for blogs, which have their own privacy options.
Is it really this simple to create a private social networking community but allow the blog privacy to remain under the control of the blog owner? I hope so. Perhaps someone can test and verify this?
Thanks.
Good idea for new plugins..
Use a hidden group. Site admins can invite but not add without acceptance. You could write a plugin to do that though.
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/
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
Hopefully this will make sense
I have 4 directories, which I download the svn update to, and then copy them over to the live site:
/bbpresssvn
/buddypresssvn
/wordpresssvn
/privatedevsvn
By logging into the command line, I can do this
svn up
inside each of those 4 folders and it will update them to the newest trunk release. Then I run this command (or similar for buddypress)
cp -R * ../beta
and copy the files to the dev server. So far this has worked really well.
The private dev svn is where I upload my own plugins and themes I’m doing development on. This method is extremely fast as I never have to ftp any files between the internet, my laptop and back up to the web server. It does require command line access and knowledge of svn.
Hope this helps,
Brad
http://gorgerousgamers.com/beta
wardeh, sorry it took so long to get back to you. Been busy. From what I gather all wpmu and bp functions are available. However none of the actions and filters on the mu side are in effect. I’m still not sure what that means. Just something I’ve read.
I don’t know if this deep integration is even what I want. I know it’s problematic at the moment. I think it’s going to take some time for sambauers and the gurus at bbpress to work out the kinks. I generate enough problems on my own. I’d like to keep the problems to *me*. I have a chance of fixing those. 
I do know that xmlrpc works *now*. That’s what bp is using for the bp-forums component. Loading all of mu just to get at a few functions is kinda overkill. I think what I’m gonna do is create a couple of more xmlrpc methods on the wpmu side that will be called from bbpress. Such as:
‘get_all_group_forums’ – gets all bp groups that have forums and the forum id so that read-only-forums and hidden-forums can be automagicly configured. My plan is to configure all public group forums read-only and private and hidden groups hidden-forums.
‘get_all_group_members’ – Foreach group with forums get the members of that group and automagicly configure an override for each group member in that forum.
So from the bbpress side to configure read-only and hidden-forums, we get all the groups that have forums and then all the members of those groups and make the two bbpress plugins work with that info. Should be enough.
Using xmlrpc is better than loading all of wpmu just to do those two things. Especially since this deep integration is still flaky.
xmlrpc has added benefits. It’s way cooler. My forums don’t have to reside on the same server as my bp/wpmu install. I keep hearing rumblings, rumorings and hintings about xmlrpc. It’s kinda like sleeping and lurking. Getting ready for something. Comments by wpmu gurus about xmlrpc privately, Andy relying on it for forums. Something’s brewing.
I have exactly the same issue here. Don’t know why, but at my test setup (http://www.dutch-dig.com) the blog entries at http://robert.dutch-dig.com are not shown in robert’s user profile. At first the blog was set to private. I’ve changed that to public and still roberts blog is not shown.
