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Thank you so much, Jeff!
For the login redirect, I tried to create the plugin as per Burt’s instructions in that thread, but couldn’t get it to work. Not sure why, but I’ll look at it again.
I’ll look into the rebranding of WPMU.
Good advice on the questions. I sometimes treat WPMU, BP and bbpress as if they are all the same, which they aren’t.
Much obliged.
I have SEVERAL log-in questions.
1) I have read through the posts on the login redirection, but have a specific coding question. Here it is:
In wp-login.php, I have found the following line of code (around line 470):
<input type=\\\”hidden\\\” name=\\\”redirect_to\\\” value=\\\”<?php echo attribute_escape($redirect_to); ?>\\\” />
I want to redirect the user to their profile page, so I changed it to:
<input type=\\\”hidden\\\” name=\\\”redirect_to\\\” value=\\\”http://mysite/members/%5Bwant to include username here]\\\” />
What term/code to generate the username in the URL? Any ideas?
2) How can I change the wp-login page to include my site\\\’s logo instead of the WordPress logo? Is this possible?
Thanks in advance for your help!!
Topic: Feature Questions
Is it possible to add a feature into BP where users can upload their own videos and display them on their profile? It is necessary for the site I am creating. Also, is avatar uploading and storing on our server possible, and not the gravatar.com method as showcased on this site. Thanks!
Hi I would first like to say this is some slick software. Enjoyed trying to get what I want but running out of ideas. First off I am using darkpress theme. It took me a long time to figure out how to get the users blog to appear like the rest and I ended up coping the darkpress theme into the default to get it done. The member page was fine but their blog still appeared as the wordpress theme.
Now I would love to remove the wp backend menus for the members. To do this I need a couple of thing. I need to make their member and blog page come with a standard set of widgets. That way they don’t need to add or remove. I know seems kinda boring but that is how I want it. So I need to figure out how to make the page same for all new members and remove the backend menus for wp.
Thanks for all the help. I am sure I will have more questions later but this will be a great start.
Some questions….
1) Remove all your bp widgets. (Done that)
2) Open translation.po
(Where is that file located?)
3) Find bp-core/bp-core-widgets.php (it is mentioned many times and write down the line numbers)
(Didn’t find it….) ??
4) Open mu-plugins/bp-core/bp-core-widgets.php
5) Translate manually the lines where the translation file was supposed to do it.
(Can anyone tell me the line numbers?)
6) re-upload mu-plugins/bp-core/bp-core-widgets.php
7) activate widgets that now will be named on your translation language e.g. “welcome” will be “Bienvenido”
send me a beer!(Ill send you 20 beers if you help me)
Thanks yall!!
Topic: Question about the future..
I\’ve been thinking a lot about future compatibility issues; bear with me while I try to convey my paranoia. Say we have WPMU, BP, and bbPress all working together as they should. Down the road when WPMU hits 2.7.1 and BP hits its full release, what\’s to say bbPress will still work correctly with them? Or what will happen a year from now if bbPress changes their code in such a way that it no longer plays nicely with BP? Would Andy, hypothetically, rewrite the BP code to MAKE it work? Or would we scrap bbPress for a different forum engine?
From my non-technical mind it seems that everything is working now because it\’s been glued together with integration plugins between bbPress and BP, WPMU and bbPress. Am I wrong to think that, as time goes on, these bonds will weaken and not strengthen? What sort of practices are in place to keep systemic failures from occurring each time a new version of something is released?
I understand that BP is a set of plugins and not a separate entity such as bbPress, but I hope my questions are clear. Thanks.
Please read this:
http://trac.buddypress.org/changeset/1303
This is the change needed to support automatic updates, and the reason why 1.0 has been delayed until WPMU 2.7.1.
Any questions, please post them here and I will try and help out.
**** UPGRADE INSTRUCTIONS ****
For the plugins:
- Delete all the BuddyPress plugins from /mu-plugins/
- Download the latest from the trunk (via svn co is best) or use the zip link at the bottom of this page: http://trac.buddypress.org/browser/trunk
- Extract or checkout all of the plugins to /wp-content/plugins/buddypress/
- Log in as a site admin, and head to the \”Plugins\” admin panel. You will need to activate the \”BuddyPress\” plugin.
If you are using the default BuddyPress themes with no changes:
- If you are using the default themes with no changes, delete the /wp-content/member-themes/ directory.
- Move /wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/ to /wp-content/bp-themes/
- If you want to use the BuddyPress home theme, move /wp-content/bp-themes/buddypress-home/ to /wp-content/themes/buddypress-home/
If you are using your own customized themes:
- Copy the functions.php in /buddypress-member/ theme to your own BuddyPress member theme\’s functions.php file.
- Copy the header.php from the /buddypress-member/ theme to your own BuddyPress member theme, make any adjustments you need.
- Copy the /directories/ folder from the /buddypress-member/ theme into your own BuddyPress member theme.
- Copy the \”directories.css\” file from the /css/ directory into your own BuddyPress theme\’s /css/ directory (or paste the styles into your style.css file if you do not have a css directory.
- Make sure your BuddyPress member theme is sitting in /wp-content/bp-themes/[theme-name] NOT /wp-content/member-themes/[theme-name]
If you are using a modified version of the BuddyPress home theme:
- Copy the functions.php in /buddypress-home/ theme to your own home theme’s functions.php file.
- Copy the header.php from the /buddypress-home/ theme to your own home theme, make any adjustments you need.
Once WordPress MU 2.7.1 is released there will be a proper zip to download of RC2, so people can ease into these changes. Shortly after 1.0 will be released.
1) bp widgets are available to all blogs. There isn’t a way in bp to restrict blog admins from using whatever widget is available to them.
2) The plugins that are located in /mu-plugins run on all blogs and don’t need activation by the site or blog admins. Plugins located in /plugins need to be activated on a blog by blog basis.
3) The avatars are located in /wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/1/avatars/1 and should not be set to 777 but 755 and the apache user for your server must have write permission in that directory.
*Nothing* that you have control over should have 777 settings on your server. It’s a security hole.
Stupid people are the ones who don’t ask questions and live in ignorance.
Topic: Some questions about BP
Hi all,
I use BP since few days and i have some questions…
– is it normal that when the users create a blog they have all the widget like members, site wide activity, groups ?
if yes, is there a solution to keep all the widgets for the admin and just some one for the “normal users ?”
– Same question with plugins, where must i put the plugins for admin and the plugins for users ? what’s the difference between /muplugins and /plugins
– Where are uploaded member’s avatar ? i suppose we must chmod 777 this directory but i don’t find it
Thx for your answers and sorry if u find some of them stupid
Topic: A million suggestions
OK, I’m no programmer, but I’m an idea guy.
If some programmers are feeling bored, or just needing some inspiration, here’s some ideas, pulled from various places around the web which could really allow the BuddyPress platform to take over the web. It goes without saying (but can never be said too much… thanks to all the programmers who’ve worked so hard on everything we have so far!) These are in no specific order.
1. BOOMj.com has a fantastic interface for their members section. Basically, you answer some questions, and it will import the data into a specialized template. It’s probably no different than creating a member theme for BuddyPress, but I love the interface. I’ve been playing around with the member theme a bit, and after I get some things figured out, I’ll upload some ideas into this site myself, but until then, if someone gets some inspiration from that site and can create something similar… please do!
2. BOOMj.com Rewards Center. WordPress already has a plugin called CubePoints which would be a great starting point for a system to gain points. BOOMj offers points for uploading a picture, etc whereas the CubePoints system only allows for points for leaving comments and things like that. As far as redemption options for points, we’d probably need some discussion as a community over what things we can offer if people get tons of points. I’d love to see this point concept expanded into something end user configurable, as different people have different needs and goals with their sites, but some starting points include:
* 1 point for viewing a post
* 5 points for leaving a comment
* 100 points for uploading a picture
* 100 points for filling out (perhaps) each section of a profile
* 50 points for joining a group
* 500 points for referring a friend who actually signs up
* 25 points each day a “game” is played (see idea 3 below)
* or other things.
The entire point of this plugin would be to encourage our users to get in and interact with the site.
3. Games. As anyone who’s played a Facebook game knows, They are incredibly addictive. http://apps.facebook.com/zoobuilder/ is one example that keeps me glued to my computer screen at least a half hour per day. It’s a brilliant concept in that the only real way to “succeed” with the game is to interact with other people on the site. I throw out that Facebook game as one idea, but I’m sure there could be others.
4. Suggested Friends plugin. All the big social networking sites seem to operate around a geographical area (a city or town), a school (college or high school), or other common interests. Perhaps a plugin could be developed which would incorporate all this data, and help members find other members with similar backgrounds and interests, and the plugin would automatically “suggest” them to members.
There may be a little trickiness in the worldwide end of setting up a database which has all the schools in each city (if we wanted to get that tricky) but ClassMates.com seems to have the same dataset that BOOMj and Facebook have, so it’s out there somewhere. If that database could somehow be pulled into this plugin, and when the plugin was activated, it would automatically add the “what school did you attend?” question to the profile signup page, it would be awesome.
5. Pokes and Flirts, and other such things. I still don’t know what to do on Facebook when someone pokes me, but enough people do that it’s a very popular feature. Once again, it leads to end user interaction. If there were some level of flirting (not exactly sure what to call it, but you could flirt or FLIRT with someone (the later would express more interest than the former) that would be an even better feature.
6. On the subject of Facebook, tagging has become really big. Someway to incorporate something similar would be great.
7. Dodo integration. There’s a wordpress plugin called Dodo, which hasn’t been updated for a year, but it’s a wonderful start to an idea. Basically, it tracks what a user is looking at, and suggests related content specifically for that user. My only real issue with the plugin is that you can’t seem to use it if you have a home.php file. If someone could wigitize it (as a start) those of us with content and BuddyPress on our sites would be able to use it to provide a more user friendly atmosphere.
8. On that user specific end comes two ideas. On my BuddyPress installations, I offer users blogs, primarily because the standard profile doesn’t allow the users (in my opinion) enough options to express themselves. Using idea one above, perhaps we could offer user “themes” which would be quickly changed by the user. It’s sort of somewhere in between a blog and a profile. The site would store the users preference, and display that user theme whenever that user’s profile was viewed. (A simple start would be to develop one user theme, and offer various color options… Over time, there could be pretty pink themes with flowers, and big black themes with chains, or white picket fences,etc.)
Secondary to that (or perhaps primary) Google (at http://www.google.com/ig) and Yahoo (at http://my.yahoo.com/) have ways for a user to customize what appears on their “dashboard”. Could something similar be integrated?
9. Similar to Idea 7 above, we could offer the same options for groups.
10. Live chat. This is a big one, and probably way outside the capabilities of what BuddyPress can handle at the moment, but a live chat feature would be great. I know there are plugins which as supposed to be able to handle this, and I honestly haven’t played around with too many of them.
11. “Other Site” integration. There’s Facebook, BOOMj, MySpace, Gay.com, and a million other social networking sites. I can’t think of the others, and I’m not even really sure what I mean by this, but someway for users to easily switch from the big guys to a BuddyPress enabled site would be a HUGE thing. Each of those sites has their own idiosyncrasies, so that would be problematic, but someone will get what I’m trying to say and hopefully explain it in this forum.
12. Last idea (for now) would be a sort of “BuddyPress Member Pool” Various sites using BuddyPress would be able to opt into some sort of main site which would know that Member 123 is a user of site ABC, but would really be interested in the content of site XYZ. Through some sort of shared protocol, his or her user data could be shared with site XYZ, and XYZ’s content would be shown within the interface of site ABC. Members and groups could operate in this same fashion, wish shared friends and group lists, etc.
I know on my own sites, I have trouble getting people to sign up because it’s a very small community. (I only have 7 members on the biggest site… 10,000 visitors per day to the content section, but only 7 people have signed up to be members). Through this “sharing” system, it would appear as if I had a lot more members, and more people would sign up (would you have signed up for MySpace if there were only 6 other people there?) People in this system would not only have more active communities, they’d have shared content, and eventually get more visitors, as people from ABC would be traveling over to XYZ and back again.
Well… that’s enough for people to think about today. I’ll be back with more ideas later. Please comment in this forum and let me know what you think, perhaps help figure out what the priorities should be, or expand on these ideas.
Thanks in advance,
Eric
A lot of this comes down to your budget, so you’re going to get a wide array of answers here.
You’re going to need at least php5, and to do subdomains you’ll need to be able to see if they allow you to add a wildcard for that too.
Currently I use 1and1 for most of what I do, but I have to use subdirectories because they don’t allow for wildcarding like that. I also need to force php5 in my .htaccess files because they default to using php4. Blech…
But, so far nothing has ever crashed, I’ve never lost any data, and their prices are relatively cheap compared to some other shared hosts…
This is one of those questions where everyone is bound to give you a different answer, so be prepared to either get a wide variety of responses, or none at all.
