Are you running the backwards compatibility plugin?
Some further Infos: in my other install ( subdirectories) exactly the same… 
Strange: some don’t Show content & activity at all but some Show just a few items from a long time ago ( like 9+ months). But there would Be alot more content in the months between!
Argh!
I was shocked after an Upgrade that all the content in hidden and private Groups doesn’t appear anymore. Anyone experiencing the same? Really strange… Didn’t check the database yet… HELP!
Subdomain
1.1.2 Upgrade to 1.2
wpmu 2.9.1.1
I am not trying to compare facebook or ning to BP. I am merely trying to highlight that users will ultimately make comparisons, whether webmasters or developers like it or not.
Most casual users of the internet are you used to the facebook experience where you do everything from the front end. Lets say if i want to use Buddypress to set up an organic farming community for example I am going to have many of my users getting confused with having a backend and a front end and all of the options and admin stuff in the backend.
Most of my users of my hypothetical site are 40 to 50 somethings who hardly know the difference between the front end and the back end and have only recently discovered Facebook. So I will find them struggling and complaining with using the site. So I will have to set up my network on Ning instead, where so many other 40 to 50 somethings have setup groups. It would be better for me to have my own private site but what choice do I have.
Buddypress is an excellent idea but having it religiously follow the dogma of wordpress when its aimed at being a platform for community sites, is ultimately going to cause some issues. All I am merely suggesting is tailoring WP to make it fit to the requirements of users.
Obviously human politics creep in everywhere and as a result this as well as technicalities Andy has his hands tied when it comes to forking WP for example. So why not turn BP into a separate project all together by integrating BP and WPMU into one package and stripping out some of the WP centric things like most of the backend. It can still say based on WPMU on the box but it won’t look and feel so much like WP to the end user if you see where I am getting at.
After all how many people who use BP will also want to use the WPMU only features on their site. Once you set up a social network you can’t go back to just being a multi-user blogging site. So stripping out the WP centric features surely won’t be an issue in the context of running a social network.
Some of the blogs within my BP installation are private. Therefore news posts and comments there should not appear in the general activity stream. Is it possible to disable the blog tracking for certain blogs?
I’ve installed Cimy User Extra Fields plugin. Pluses and minuses.
yep – please!!!
I don’t know why that should be so hard. Isn’t it exactly the function we already have with private messaging? There it works? Couldn’t it be possible to adapt that functionality as soon as someone types @ with anything in front of it (like an Emailadress)?
+1 for that!
PJParticipant
I’ve seen a few mom-and-pop social networks have limits on inboxes for user convenience and to eliminate clutter/burden on the server.
For example, one says “Messages will be automatically deleted after 14 days unless saved, and you are limited to 200 saved messages.”
Unless a user is prudent with their inbox there is the chance inboxes could get cluttered. Any thoughts on how easy it would be to implement something like this or if there is a private messaging limit plugin out there? Thanks.
PJParticipant
The admin can delete the group from the menu bar but everything else is withheld thinking the admin doesn’t have privileges for some reason.
Any suggestions how to fix this?
Well, crap!
I thought I might be able to fade away in my cave, living a private life. But I can see that some of you actually want privacy features in BuddyPress. I guess I will have to get to work.
So, if I vote a -7 will that cancel everyone’s votes out?
@Michael Berra
I understand what you are saying now 
r-a-y is correct as he and I have discussed this privately since he has a plugin which injects media into the activity stream. I am working on integrating Links *directly* with the activity stream so you can attach a link to ANY activity update, just like you see on Facebook. Except I also hope to enable attaching links to replies as well. This is still in the planning stages, so if anyone has some input, now is the time to put in your two cents.
I’d like to see more privacy options … i know there’s someone working on something but i don’t know exactly what this will be …
What I’d like to have is :
– possibility to mark blogposts as private (viewable just for me)
– possibility to mark blogpost as semi-private (viewable for a group or for all registered members)
– restrict profile access to freinds or registered users
Thanks, mark. That’s what I needed.
Andy, the problem is that the More Privacy Options plugin adds new privacy levels, like on wordpress.com and the Activity Stream doesn’t recognise those. It only knows about Searchable/Not Searchable ‘privacy’ options (I’ve never understood why blocking search engines is referred to as ‘private’ – I think it’s misleading).
If the blog is set to private (not visible to search engines) then it won’t show in activity streams.
Take a look at the BP MPO ACTIVITY FILTER plugin. Just be aware that if you’re logged in as Site Admin you’ll see ALL private posts in the activity stream which may lead you to believe it’s not working. Log out and the posts should not be visible. I am getting the following in my error log with this plugin activated (on wpmu 2.9.1/bp 1.2): “WordPress database error Table doesn’t exist for query”
http://teleogistic.net/code/buddypress/bp-mpo-activity-filter/
Public. Set it to private and then to public again.
@disbas – Can you confirm that the blog in question is public or private?
Hello,
We use dsader’s More Privacy Options plugin (http://wpmudev.org/project/More-Privacy-Options) on our install, which is pretty common, I think. I’ve noticed that users with their blogs set to one of the privacy options provided by this plugin, still have posts show up in the activity stream.
I know from past experience, (http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/10008) that it may mean just a simple edit to exclude all blogs that are not set to ‘public’, but I’m not sure where to make this change.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
Thank you
Is there a plugin to hide the body of message when using the private message function notification or does a file need to be modified? If file, which one? TIA
example:
from this
============================
user123 sent you a new message:
Subject: this is a test
“is this working? thanks.”
To view and read your messages please log in and visit: http://example.com/members/admin/messages/
============================
to this
============================
user123 sent you a new message:
Subject: this is a test
To view and read your messages please log in and visit: http://example.com/members/admin/messages/
============================
Hi,
thanks for the answers so far!
Setting up a separate bbBress is not really what I want, because it somehow would be overhead and a lot of additional for maintaining and everything.
Restricting Group creation sounds good. However this would require that all users are automatically created as members for the default group which will be used for getting the Forums. Additionally that would require some work on the theme, so that the users don’t get to see any Group related stuff.
I guess all this would be possible and I’ll look into it, but it’s not really what I had hoped…
@ashfame:
Just because I don’t want to use Groups, BuddyPress is still well suited for my project. I currently have most of the other components disabled as well (like Blogs, Friends, Activity Stream), but nevertheless there are enough features that I can use for a private community. I especially like the easy administration (from within the WordPress Frontend basically), because I don’t want the users to be in the WordPress admin area.
All of this is superior to a plain bbPress installation, because I get all the WordPress features with it “for free”. So basically this enables me to keep the current website for the project but add some community features to it.
Regards,
Tobias
Hi,
I’m new to BuddyPress and just set up a test install of BP 1.2 on WP 2.9.2 (single).
Everything works fine, but there’s something that I could not figure out yet:
I would like to use the Forums component independently, i.e. without the Groups component.
I’m planning a private community and don’t want any groups, but just one main Forums section.
Has anybody done this before?
Thanks!
Tobias
That reminds me… my guess is that people spend 99% of their time on this site in the forums and as a result (since we rarely view profiles)… we don’t know where we’re all from. I was talking to Andrea_r last week by private message and it was only then that I realized that she’s also an Atlantic Canadian… living in just the next province over!!!!!!!! Ha! Which got me to thinking… location should be part of the forum avatar… right under name.
I might be less busy in a month or so. Feel free to drop me a private message with details and I’ll let you know if/when I’m likely to be able to do anything.
hey all, the plugin can be downloaded at https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-announce-group/ (once they approve it)
but for the time being it can be found at http://bluemandala.com/plugins/bp-announce-group.zip
it is pretty straight forward and can work with public groups, private or even hidden groups. Basically it make is to that only admins and moderators can add content. Regular members can join the group but can’t add any content.
Don’t think anyone’s really gonna develop until 1.2 is out, you could wait or try sending the more populair developers a private message (brajesh, mr maz, etc).
