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Now that I have this site built I’m having a hard time wrapping my head around everything related to BuddyPress and how it should operate as a multi-network. So in my setup I have the following:
WPMU, BP, BP Multi-Network, Networks+

I have the following networks:
Main Site: http://teamnu.net
Network: http://active.teamnu.net
Network: http://business.teamnu.net

This continues for a current total of 6 more networks. What I need is for the following to be available:
1. Multiple communities created to target areas related to that community. So the Active community will have groups which pertain to being Active. Same for business and the other network communities. So in other words I need for the groups to be isolated to that community.
2. Each community provides the ability for users to register and purchase blogs, or groups, within that community. This will always be an option but I just want this feature specific to be available to that community.
3. All user accounts are shared across the entire network resulting in a single sign-on.

This is a totally new undertaking so bear with me as this is where things start to get a little hazy:

1. The first thing I’m seeing is that when a user registers they don’t see groups from other communities in the registration form. So what I’m wondering is if there’s a plugin which will pull all groups from across the network and display them in the registration form regardless of which community the user registers with allowing for a true single sign-on? From the way things are looking now users would have to register multiple times to opt into the various network groups. Although I “think” I’m ok as I’m hoping to give users the option of picking what communities and groups within that community they’d like to join I just don’t know if this will become a annoyance. I know I want user dialog to be isolated to that community.

2. If a user creates a new post on their blog by default it appears in their activity wall. I came across a Recent Network plugin which allows you to display the post on not only the blog but also within the community. The problem is that it pulls all info of the info which would normally be displayed on the wall. I just want the post to appear within the community. This way the post appears on the blog and within the community. Is there a plugin which allows this?

This seems skittish but I’m trying to piece this together as I go along so again please bear with me as I do have more questions.

Hello Everyone,

I believe this topic has been asked before, and I’ve seen it on the WordPress forum but it hasn’t been resolved, so I wanted to bring it up again.

I’d like to make my registration form a little more interactive. Meaning, different profile fields depending on which type of user you select at the beginning. On my site (an athletic site), users can indicate whether they are a player, coach, parent or instructor. If you are a player, I want questions pertaining to their position, for example, to show. If you are an instructor, you may be interested in displaying your company name or website and so on.

Does anyone have any ideas on how to accomplish this? Currently, profile fields are heavily geared towards players and it seems awkward for other users. Any ideas would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance

Groups opening on the home (activity) tab is confusing as users write questions there rather than on the group forum. I’d like this to be deleted and the group to open on the forum tab. There were a couple of posts written about this that provide solutions that no longer work on 1.5. Does anyone have a simple solution for this?

You’re help is very much appreciated.
Guy

I’m creating a site for a wedding company. They do weddings all over the world and have local stylists represent the company at the various locations. I’d like to use buddypress for the all the stylists to collaborate and post events and photos. So it would be more of a closed circuit community, not just anyone could join, the site admin would create the new user (stylist.domain.com). Questions: 1. How customizable is the users page? I’d like to make it look nice like it is their personal website. 2. The picture portfolio is very essential. I’d like there to be a photo gallery that a customer could filter down to location, type of wedding, or stylist. Also when a person clicks to view a stylists profile they have their own mini gallery with just their work. Is there is a gallery feature or plugin that handle something like that?

I’ve used the Group Extension API to store custom fields with my groups and these fields can be edited through admin through screens I’ve built. So that part’s done and working.

So say I have a custom field called zip code. I want to have a custom form where you could enter a zip code and return all groups that have that zip code. But I want it to function the same way the Group search does on the default BuddyPress theme so it’s basically just altering the Group loop to output the list of groups (and it’s nice and AJAXy)

I can build the form and front-end fine, but I’m not understanding where my backend code needs to go.

So here are my questions:

– Do I need to hook into groups_get_group to do this? I see in that function where I pass search terms, but I don’t know how to pass search terms if they’re custom database fields that I’ve created. So I’m assuming I need to write my own custom function to replace groups_get_group? I’m not sure where I need to start there.

– I noticed the group search uses AJAX and calls wp-load.php and then somehow returns just the piece of HTML to replace the list of groups. Do I need to call a different action URL in my javascript?

Basically, I think I need to write a hook into some function and I’m not quite sure where to start. I’m not afraid of writing code, and have written other small WP plugins, but I’ve never really done a hook like this before.

Any help you could give me would be great. Thank you!