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Usually/ sometimes/ possibly IE problems are caused by uncleared floats.

try adding something like:

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@johnjamesjacoby, I see the same thing John. The integration of ‘standalone’ apps such as blogs and forums under the bp umbrella using XMLRPC if necessary. We can’t rely on the possibility of deep integration of apps to be a given. Why should we even assume that it is possible? With that mechanism we don’t have to. bbpress and wp have full blown interfaces to their respective guts.

It’s possible to even completely decouple bbpress, wpmu blogs and bp so that only user identity is the common thread throughout each that ties the apps together. The implication is that they don’t *have* to run on the same server or be managed by the same site admin. I have ideas about that but I’m already way out of the zone and tone of this thread.

Being a fan of wpmudev and buddypress this is a great news that you guys are now getting into the game.

For the plugins I was thinking about the photo/media gallery.

I know it’s on the bp road map but maybe if you guys could make the built-in wp media library and bp talk together that would be really great.

The extension of the “Upgrades” plugin as miguael mentioned or even the “Supporter” plugin could also be a good idea.

AMEN to everything mentioned above (by the way: cool, that you guys are picking it up, james)

One thing that comes to my mind:

The “Upgrades”-Plugin you already have would be nice to be extended… So that people in BP can get extra stuff with the credits. For my purpose it would be great if member could buy credits but also earn them with their activities for the greater good (or something ). The credits “interface” would also be accessible from frontend in BP (because alot of BP-Hosts will try to keep members without blogs from the backend).

Ps: When do you think will the first releases come, James?

Burt, I think I’m picking up what you’re putting down, and I plan on integrating much of what you’re mentioning. Trying to bring MU and bbPress underneath the BuddyPress umbrella a little more really, to open up some of the core abilities and release them to the integrated apps.

I wish I understood the ixr more, because I think the purpose of it is to not have to deeply integrate the components, but rather build bridge plugins to turn on only the functions we would need, much like you did with the bbGroups.

Did I mention the member theme? Heavy lifting? Ya, I see I did.

We’ve got two themes going on in bp. The ‘blog’ theme and the member theme. bp ships with a home theme that is a widget framework. It serves as the theme that many activate as their ‘blog’ theme to run on the wpmu root blog. You’ll also see lots of standard WP themes being used and adapted to serving as the root blog theme. Lots of wonderful examples of what is possible are available.

Developing new member themes seem to be the challenging area that needs attention. Since the gurus are asking, I suggest you folks do some heavy lifting in that area.

Standard WP themes could also use a touch of bp flavor. Integration of some bp features into a WP theme might be nice. bp flavors such as:

– Profile and avatar support in blog posts, comments. When viewing an author or comment stream many times I’d like to leave a quick private note to somebody. Within the avatar/name/vcard block perhaps a link to send them a bp private message.

– Use of bp’s Groups for blog orientation. By orientation I mean that the blog theme should be constructed with multiple users in mind. As a given and not an afterthought. That the blog is a cooperative endeavor and should reflect that fact.

– Integration of the wire component as an ‘aside’ tool. General, quick comment area for members not tied to specific posts.

– A blog is also an individual’s way of expressing themselves yes. However in bp people have friends, belong to groups and have a personal activity stream. Perhaps some way of including that without launching the entire member profile for somebody would be nice.

I guess all my suggestions have to do with integrating useful bp features into standard WP themes so that the theme reflects to visitors they are just not in WP’s version of Kansas anymore. Which they aren’t. We don’t have to hit people over the head with social networking features, just include them in a natural and appropriate manner.

The sort of functionality I was looking for was the following:

An admin of a group can go to the group settings page and select ‘Create Group Blog’, which would take them to a blog creation page.

They could set the name of the blog, they could set the privacy level (to appear in Google searches or not), and they could choose from the members of that group who would be set as contributor, editor or admin of the new blog, probably through radio buttons next to each group member.

Then, they could click ‘Create’, and the blog would be registered with the group members added and their relevant roles set.

An item in the groups sidebar, under ‘Forum, Wire’ etc, could be ‘Blog’, and would go to the designated blog for that group. We could even output their posts *within* the BuddyPress theme, either pulling from the RSS feed or directly from the DB, and have a ‘Visit the blog here’ link above the most recent posts.

Is this at all possible? I think it’s a much more user-friendly way for groups to set up team blogs.

That’s great news! I’ve always been so thankful for WPMU DEV when building MU based sites, its brilliant your getting excited about BP and helping us out!

Something that’s currently being discussed is a Facebook Connect plugin, I’m sure you will have read the thread already. I pinpointed some key features I’d like to see from such a plugin (http://is.gd/kC9C), and I’m getting some feedback on those ideas at the moment. The community seems willing to chip-in on paying for this, and I’m eager to see it remain open source thereafter.

A real beast of a component would be ‘Live Chat’, much like the IM features seen on Facebook/Bebo at the moment. At least making a start on that and keeping it open source for people to add to would be great?! I can imagine you charging for that, but I’m sure people using BuddyPress at the moment would chip-in to see it built; but I’m guessing you’d want continuous revenue from such a component!

Also, until it becomes core, a dedicated ‘Invite Friends’ component would be great, where you could insert your email address (Gmail, Hotmail etc) and invite all of your friends that way.

So yeah, my 2 cents!

I did the same concerning the columns, but this is not what brings the ie Problem, its some kind of a problem with margin: 0 auto; in body.

If you open buddypress demo and you have a big screen you will see (on making ie browser smaller) that elements like avatars and some other content are getting weird.

I think this is some kind of a serious bug, which needs to be fixed in next versions.. I was centering/scaling down buddypress (because now it looks much better (; ) and got confronted with this problem.. Maybe a Javascript could fix that..

The home theme is just a theme, you’re free to do anything you want with it.

I made the above changes and the center column is gone. It has left an empty space, however, the right column did not take up that empty space. Since the above recommendation is a bit dated, are there any additional changes to be made if running RC-1? Thanks. Maybe a future BP version will allow the admin to choose between two or three columns.

Oh. “site admin”, you must be using Tarski theme or have the meta widget running in your theme. I thought you were talking about “site admin” in the mu backend.

Do you get an error msg saying “Invalid group slug: ‘your-group-slug'”?

I’m going to repost my BuddyPress on this page if no one minds…

http://delsolownersclub.com

It’s now a fully integrated BuddyPress/bbPress install, with a bbPress theme to match the Member Theme style layout that BP has become popular for.

I invite any/all of you to join as well (maybe don’t create a blog if you don’t need one) if you’d like to check it out and give it a test drive.

just my 2c

I’m using http://www.slicehost.com for some of the wpmu/buddypress sites I’m building now. I’ve started with a 256MB slice, and will/can expand when needed to a larger/more slice(s). My configuration is/will be:

– nginx instead of apache (implemented)

– eAccellerator (implemented)

– Multi-DB from premium.wpmudev.org (implemented soon, 256 DBs)

– WP-SuperCache or WP-SuperCache-Plus (not sure which one yet)

– offload themes to S3 (maybe)

I think the main css elements are based here:

/member-themes/buddypress-member/css/base.css

As far as I can see these can be changed in

member-themes > buddypress-member > header.php

Search for id=”nav” around line 39

Would be good to have a language file for these elements.

BP is about inspiring community interactions, so it looks like it’s doing its jorb.

I think the idea is not to have BuddyPress permanently alter the WordPress related data. Right now, and please correct me if I’m wrong, but past of the design and development process of BuddyPress is that it can be added and removed without any changes done to the WPMU data structure, apart from conveniences like changing a password, etc…

You can rename the “Full Name” in the BuddyPress to say “Nick Name” or “Display Name” or whatever you’d like, and then code your themes to use that info if you so choose…

To be honest, from a developers standpoint, I like how it is right now, as it allows me to keep things separate. If you’d like to open up the ability to modify the fullname, then really BuddyPress should be able to modify ALL of the original WordPress user info exactly like the profile admin panel does, with website, info, firstname, lastname, etc…