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I have to give you props for this one–that is sick! It works sweet…

I just have a question, when I use another home theme or blog theme the facebook icon doesn’t show up??? Might you know why it wouldn’t show up in a different theme that is based on the buddypress home theme? Thanks

How do you install this on custom theme and also in future can FB-connect feature invite FB friends etc?

I added padding to the bottom of the members and blogs and it fixed my issue with it showing up offset to each other.

This is what I added to the theme CSS.

ul#members-list.item-list li, ul#blogs-list.item-list li, ul#groups-list.item-list li, ul#featured-member-list.item-list li, ul#recent-posts.item-list li {



padding-bottom: 10px;

line-height: 1.5em;

overflow: hidden;



}



ul#featured-blog-list.item-list li {



padding-bottom: 10px;

line-height: 1.25em;

overflow: hidden;



}

http://sportsblognet.com

How do we make this work on a custom theme?

Hi Everyone

I am familiar with WordPress Mu however new to Buddypress and one of my clients wanted a ning.com type site however using ning, you do not own the system and there are many limitations.

So I dived into buddypress in the last week and on my 4th install sorted out all the requirements to get a nice smooth WP Mu + Buddpress + bbpress system integrated.

The system is still in development as the social networking aspect is only one part of this sport coaches membership site. I am still trying to get YM Membership plugin to work on it as it needs to be a paid membership site.

Here is the site: http://networkofcoaches.com/noc

I learned several important lessons:

1. If an existing wordpress install is present 1 level down such as in the root folder then WP Mu will not install until you temp disable wp-config.php and wp-blog-headers.php in that existing installation

2. When installed WP Mu in a sub folder as I have it ./noc you cannot use the sub-domain installation and must install WP Mu using the sub folder option. If your WP Mu is in the root of your domain then you can use sub domains.

3. WP Mu and Buddypress are relatively simple however integrating bbpress is a mission. I used these resources and it works now perfectly: http://umwblogs.org/wiki/index.php/Integrating_WPMu%2C_BuddyPress%2C_and_bbPress

and

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/basic-integration-screencast

4. Now going to use bp-test to add extra top level menu options

My wishlist:

1. A themes upgrader system to modify WP themes for buddypress

2. Top level menu built in editor

3. Paid membership script integration and/or JV Manager2 (Fantasos) integration

4. Video integration especially All-In-One-Video

5. RSS and Twitter feeds

6. Easier homepage and widget editing (so far I can only add widget to the left column, even if I add one to one of the other columns, the system then adds it to the left column?

7. When a user request is received, unless you are already logged in you get a forbidden page, this should rather go to a login page and then process the friend request. My very 1st test user was very concerned over this forbidden page

Overall, I am very impressed. It is a little technical but once you have one successful install it is much easier.

I have a large free WP Mu system that I will be adding WP Premium plugins to and will market with Buddypress and bbpress installed. Keep an eye on http://besteportal.com

In fact I will have Buddypress integrated in a week and feel free to grab an account, in fact you will be helping me test the load on the system if you signup and play around as there are only 4000 blogs currently. I will be adding many additional functions to this site and it will effectively be a wordpress.com type offering however with Buddypress social networking and a few of my tricks.

A question I have is if I use the WP Premium multi db plugin which can split the WP Mu database into as many databases as you want to vastly improve efficiency and performance, then how will Buddpress+bbpress respond as it shares the same database. Perhaps I should have used a seperate database for bbpress?

Keep up the great work BuddPress!

Best Regards

Mark

Felix, the kinks are that I have a few pages that need incorporating, and I’d like to find something better to do with the bbPress login, registration, and profile pages, like redirect them cleanly to the BuddyPress equivalent.

You can check out where it’s at right now at my live test platform but do me a favor and don’t register unless you’re actually a Honda del Sol owner.

http://delsolownersclub.com/discussions/

Note to self: Setup actual test platform soon.

I would have thought so, you need to edit the template though to reflect this. Secondly, about redirecting, I managed to do this, although I can’t remember exactly off the top of my head but I believe I editted this file:

wp-content/mu-plugins/bp-core/bp-core-signup.php

I THINK from here is where I made the changes to redirect. Hope this helps, sorry its not accurate!

Regards

DW

I like my solution, I just built a general forum plugin, using the forum code from group forums and adopted it to work on a general level.

http://gorgeousgamers.com/beta/forums/

(disregard the large error, I have a ticket out for it, otherwise I need to hand edit a file everytime I do an update from svn)

Brad

Since John exhausted all other possibilities. I dove into the source code.

Do you have the file plugin-template.php in your directory /wp-content/member-themes/buddypress-member ?

It loads that as the template for the settings screen. If it’s missing (I renamed mine as a test) it give that error.

Burt (one of the other moderators here) and myself are both working on similar (but separate) projects, and I’m sure we’ll collaborate at one point to come up with a workable solution. Burt is much more knowledgeable on the backend subject of how these two speak to each other, so he’s the brains behind the operation.

Mine requires “deep integration” and Burt’s bbGroups plugin to work as expected, and in my opinion it shouldn’t be any other way right now.

To my knowledge there isn’t a bbPress/BuddyPress theme available for download yet, but it will be my pleasure to release mine once I have worked out all the kinks.

That would be great if there was one

Really cool!

They’ve allready developed a buddypress theme for bbpress, take a look at their own forum

They just have to realese it …

Sweet!

I would recommend installing WPMU in the root directory, and modifying home.php in your buddypress-home theme to best match your existing site while still incorporating most of the typical, familiar BuddyPress links.

To answer your questions, WPMU gets installed in the root directory, and BuddyPress is installed in the wp-content/mu-plugins/ directory. (Check codex.buddypress.org for install help.)

The BuddyPress homepage is the home.php file I mentioned above. The files in your root directory are just functionary place holders to help tell WPMU/BuddyPress what content to get from the database and then to tell them which theme files to display that data with.

This is where the member theme gets tricky and throws a curve ball…

Check out /mu-plugins/bp-groups/directories/bp-groups-directory-groups.php

Those files technically aren’t part of the member theme, because they’re not really displaying any specific member or group info; they’re part of the BuddyPress Groups Directory page, and they are meant to be styled site wide using the home themes header and footer files, not the member themes.

Tricky eh?

You have javascript errors that are causing the other scripts to stop.

jQuery("div#members-list-options a").livequery is not a function - line 3 of:

http://phoenix.fanster.com/wp-content/mu-plugins/bp-core/js/widget-members.js?ver=2.7

shutterReloaded is not defined - line 1 of:

http://phoenix.fanster.com/wp-content/themes/azsh_mag/js/jquery-1.2.6.js

Fix those and see if your ajax returns.

Cool idea,

this week i’ll commit bpdev extra groups,

so groups could have extra field and if you want do that you need add meta for theme like

Add new field for theme:

Theme : – 1 white theme

– 1 black theme

and after do that

bpdev_theme_register_style(

'my-styles', // your style slug name

'XBOX Styles', // your style name

"xbox_color{$color}", // callback

'on', // status "on" on default

'off', // off will not display it in admin interface

( bpdev_get_groupmeta($groups_obj->id, 'color' ) == $color ) ? ( true ) : ( false ); // the group ID

);

wait less than a week to do that

Ah I love it when a plan comes together. Woop woop!