Yep realise needs to be network mode and most of my test installs are, but that also raises another issue which I left a ticket on ‘ lack of link to dashboard with single blog install’
Hmm on WP 3.0 BP 1.2.6 user with own blog , elevated to ‘contributor’ on main blog, at least logged in as Admin and selected user and changed role from ‘no role for user’ to ‘contributor’ yet logging in as this user shows only their blog under My Blogs. Still not convinced I’m not simply overlooking something obvious so will leave for a while and come back to this when thinking clearer 
You need to have network mode enabled in WP 3.0 to view the “My Blogs” menu.
Do you have this enabled?
No I get no drop down at all and the top level link ‘My Blog’ is not an active link, checking the DOM shows an empty child UL. It’s an odd one, if you say it works for you on same setup there’s probably something I’ve overlooked and I’ll investigate further.
@hnla – Just tested this and it works for me… logged in as administrator and set up an existing user as a contributor on a blog. Logged in as the other user, blog shows up under the “My Blogs” menu.
Using same test environment as you.
The thing the “My Blogs” menu doesn’t do is list the role next to the blog, is this what you mean?
@r-a-y your patch for this issue ticket#2431 was intended to correct the issue of a user elevated to ‘contributor’ or similar supposedly then having links under ‘My-Blogs’ ? The ticket is marked closed/resolved, yet testing on WP 3.0 BP 1.2.5.2 doesn’t produce links for a user with role ‘contributor’ has this issue reared again with WP 3.0 – haven’t time right now to look deeper so didn’t want to reopen the ticket and move to 1.2.6 until sure it is still an issue and why.
okay great… but, what if I just want to keep it off *some* pages?
Ok, so here is my next question… How can I allow google, bing, etc. to index my site while the site is re-directing back to the landingpage for registration purposes… i.e. the bots can’t get in…
Ok to filed some questions… yes, the site is public…. yes, the site requires registration to see “anything”. so, I guess, in this sense, it’s only semi-private… is there some kind of .htaccess /robots.txt trick that will accomplish this?
1. False. We get it everyday in our bug tracker.
2. BuddyPress.org and testbp.org see substantial traffic, and our showcase includes other high traffic BuddyPress powered sites.
3. BuddyPress.org is powered by the trunk version of BuddyPress, and could easily be powered by any 1.2+ version with only modifications to allow it to run on the shared .org space.
4. BuddyPress is operated in a similar fashion as WordPress, and has the complete support of the core contributing team of WordPress. That’s actually a good thing.
5. BuddyPress uses the same license as WordPress does. That’s another good thing.
Posts like this, aren’t healthy or helpful to anyone, as they’re not really founded on any past or current actions or activity.
But thanks for the feedback regardless. Feel free to contact me directly if you have questions about why this topic was locked or any of our responses.
Ok, maybe I am missing something but my buddypress install does not have a members tab so users can just see a list of the members. Al they can do is click Visit Random Member and every now and then it populates the complete list. I find this odd, and registered here as well and once again no members tab. Am I missing something? And what would be the best add on/plugin to install a search box function in the BP bar to find users who have similar tastes or key words? And while I am at it what are the most fun buddypress plugin/add ons out there?
http://clanofthefanboys.com
thats my site. I had a generic log in to use for situations like this to show people but I disabled it long ago. Any help or thoughts would be helpful. It seems silly if my users can not connect to each other out side of the Random Visit function.
Also, can users only make ONE group?
Dang I had a lot of questions.
Okay – Thanks! here’s a second question to follow up. I see that buddypress creates some kind of dropdown menu set of options across the top of all pages. What if I dont’ want that at all? I’d rather only have options like that in a sidebar on the bbpress part of my site. I don’t want those drop downs on the blog or anywhere else. Is this possible? Any instructions lying around that describe this? Thanks!
1) Yes, this is possible via this plugin – http://www.justin-klein.com/projects/wp-fb-autoconnect
2) Yup, BP offers profiles with avatar uploading / cropping.
3) By P2P, I believe you mean the activity stream. You can disable that in the admin area.
4) It depends what you mean by “simple forum”. The forums in BuddyPress do not offer a universal backend to administrate topics. Also, an important distinction you need to know is BuddyPress uses a concept known as “groups”. You need to create a group before you can enable a forum. This is similar to way Facebook works with fan pages. If you need a traditional forum (with forum categories, admin interface), stick to your bbPress install.
If you just want profiles, you can enable just the profiles component and turn off the rest.
The fundamental difference between BuddyPress and bbPress is this:
-bbPress is a forum
-BuddyPress is a social networking script
I believe it’s possible to have extended profiles and avatars on your bbPress install as well. There should be a few plugins out there that does the job.
Re: future of bbPress – it’s pretty much confirmed that bbPress will become a WordPress plugin some time late this year (in fact, work has begun!). Standalone bbPress will cease to exist. However, there are plans to provide backwards compatibility to the new plugin via an import script.
HI there – I’m debating whether I really need buddy press.
I have installed bbpress and it’s working pretty well. It’s not exactly feature-rich, but seems decent. What does buddypress really do that bbpress doesn’t do already?
The things I’d really like are:
1) Facebook connect – is this possible?
2) Better profiles – with real avatars (not gravatar) and so on…
3) I don’t *really* care that much about the personal messages and p2p stuff, I’d be happy with facebook connect.
4) A really cool forum that is very simple and just works
Do I realy need buddypress?
ALso – bbpress appears to be dead as far as development is concerned. Am I right on this? Is buddypress going to move it along?
@bostonnorm
I’m creating a website built on top of BuddyPress that could be used for a parents association and at the same time act as a fundraiser for the association as well. I’d love to chat to see what you think of what I’m creating.
The secure invites could work also. You could also probably modify a security question plugin to work like this. Usually they ask questions like “What color is grass” or some easy math problem. You could just have the question be, “What’s the code-word?”
Well solved #1 by doing this
<?php
if ( in_category( array( 11,9,13,12,10,1 ) ) and !is_home() ) {
if ( function_exists(‘yoast_breadcrumb’) ) { yoast_breadcrumb(‘
‘,’
‘); }
}
?>
Anyone know my question 2?
oh and the plugin im talking about is album+
Two questions:
1. I need this plugin in Persian. I translated the language files but the problem is that the chat box does not have the option for Persian. Arabic and Hebrew are the only right-to-left languages listed. How can I add Persian to the language list?
2. How one can set up a certain language and theme as default for every user?
1. So i got Yoast breadcrumbs, but i wanna exclude it from all buddypress links including album+ , how would I do that efficiently?
Here is the PHP code:
if ( is_home() or is_page_template(‘forum.php’)) {} else {
if ( function_exists(‘yoast_breadcrumb’) ) { yoast_breadcrumb(‘
‘,’
‘); }
}
2. Is there an easy way to have a page listing all albums of people, preferable sortable by custom fields like Date modified etc? Or is this a feature to come?
@intimez thanks for the info. What version of Chrome and Firefox are you using?
I said possible related, because who knows exactly what “can’t crop” means. It could mean they are completely unable to crop, or it could mean that it’s the same issue as you. That’s why it’s always good to give as much detail as possible. I am however inclined to agree with you since you’re having the issue on Chrome and Firefox.
As far as posting images on Trac, you just click the add attachment button. Make sure you fill in the “Description” box when adding an image so people know what they’re about to see.
From your images, it looks like you were uploading a transparent gif or png. Is this correct? If so, which one? If it’s a png file, is it 8-bit, or 24-bit? Would you mind posting, for download/testing, the actual image you used where you got the error. Along with this, do you get the error on every image you try, or was it just that particular image? I know that’s a lot of questions, but they help.
Hello all,
I am a new WP/BP convert (and total newb), coming from a terrible member management CMS (MemberClicks) and abortive attempts at Ning (too simple) and Drupal (too complicated).
I hope to one day be a productive member of the community but for now am a no-good moocher, so please help me out.
I am creating this website for a non-profit organization that derives some of its operating revenue from paid members. As a result, I want to charge for membership (while still having some ‘public’ pages), but I would LOVE to have people fill in forms/data through logging in with FB/Twitter/OpenID/etc
I envision people clicking on a ‘FB’ button, logging in with FB, and (if they’re a new user) seeing a Registration page fully filled out with info (name, email, etc) from their FB profiles and a link to PayPal to pay. People could from then on login with their FB instead of remembering yet another username/password (an option which I’d like to still offer for those who prefer not to login via system-wide IDs)
I know Jainrain/RPX offers login via tons of different providers, but doesn’t (as far as I know) allow for paid memberships… Are there any plugins/widgets out there that do?
While I’m at it.. a few side questions:
1) Whats the best plug-in to use for charging members, even if it has no Facebook Connect? There are so many it gives me a headache
2) Whats the best Plug-In that I could use to enable video-chatting (or text chatting for that matter) between members?
Other cool plugins you think are ESSENTIAL for a membership site? Tips? Tricks? Please share…
I will try and put together a ‘walk through’ of my own experiences and post it online, and I will credit everyone that helps me Applying some flame-retardant: I did quite a bit of research before coming here, but just couldn’t find the right solution..
Thanks a million,
RG
Hmmm, before someone asks…
Clean install of WP 3.0 downloaded this morning
BP version is 1.2.5.2
Installed to /public_html/
MU is subdomain and working fine
Those are the questions I see on the list that pertain to this…
Here’s the details for the free PollDaddy account:
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100 Survey Responses per Month
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Polldaddy Link in Content
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A BuddyPress specific poll plugin would be just dandy though.
Hi Ray!
Thanks for your answer. I am thinking many of my troubles are caused by the theme i was using. I have switched to BP default for now.
I am honestly not comfortable working with any sort of script as I am not a developer at all. I was wondering, once I have installed bbPress (which I did), can I uninstall it. I’m not sure it’s even working.
I can’t even post a forum topic whatsoever. I will go to post a topic and enter the info and the entire posting screen disappears and nothing posts. Is this a bug in BP do you think? It’s baffling me.
Thank you for clarifying the auto group join. That’s really handy.
So I guess my main questions is why aren’t posts working? I switched the theme to see if that was the culprit, but it does not seem so. Are there any settings I should check? So far I’m the only member and I am Admin.
Thanks so much!
