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Hi there, when I first rate a post, this msg appears:

Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in /opt/lampp/htdocs/wordpress-mu/wp-settings.php on line 765

Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in /opt/lampp/htdocs/wordpress-mu/wp-settings.php on line 780

If I refresh, everything goes back to normal.
Using WPMU 2.9.2, BP 1.2.3 and malleable for BP 0.0.7 on localhost.

Regards,

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.

You can ignore notices for the most part; it’s something the BP core dev team needs to clean up, but won’t affect the functionality of BP.

I believe you have WP_DEBUG defined in wp-config.php, if you do, uncomment that line.

Try the BP Groupblog plugin instead:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-groupblog/

It’s been awhile since I’ve used BP Community Blog (back in the ol’ BP 1.0 days), but I believe it allows you to give a group access to an existing blog to post at. This wouldn’t be on the BP frontend. It’s more of a WP admin thing. Just glanced the code a bit, and I *think* the code should still hold up…

You don’t need the BP Template Pack if you’re doing this.

What you’ll need to do is:

1) Deactivate the BP Template Pack plugin.
2) Activate the BuddyPress Default theme on your blog.
3) Setup WP 3.0 in network mode as a subdirectory install.
4) Create a new user blog and activate whatever theme you want on this new blog.

Try Boone’s BP Group Management Plugin:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-group-management/

I’ve only ever seen ones that the blog owner sells stuff. I wonder if https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-e-commerce/ or other WP plugins have been tested on WPMU so that blog owners could sell stuff too.

You will need to go over the conditional tags for WordPress and BuddyPress sections
https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/conditional-template-tags/
https://codex.wordpress.org/Conditional_Tags

Check this out, maybe it helps
http://wpmu.org/using-jquery-with-wordpress-a-quick-crash-course-and-performance-tips/

Hi @Burkie .. Do you have any idea when EventPress will be released? Looking at the site, development seems to have stopped.. http://gsocevents.wordpress.com/

Also, I’m not able to see the “Create Event” page anywhere! I can see the /events/ page but that’s it.

Has anyone come across this problem?

What did you install before you had that problem? If plugin, rename the folder of the plugin you installed in plugins folder via FTP or cpanel. If that doesn’t work, access your database and check if you’re still admin.

@bostonnorm

Maybe this work for you:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/wordpress-mu-secure-invites/

Why not just use a group for this?

There isn’t a way to do this in BuddyPress without writing your own code to do it. You could use WP_User_Search to look up users, it is defined in /wp-admin/includes/user.php starting near line 637.

Here’s an example from http://www.clarksonenergyhomes.com/wordpress/2009/03/16/wp-get-users-by-role-function/ (found via Google).

function get_users_with_role ( $role ) {

// gets all users with specified role

$wp_user_search = new WP_User_Search( '', '', $role );

return $wp_user_search->get_results();

}

This type of user search is intended for use in Administration Panels, not on public-facing pages. So be sure you know why you’re exposing that information before you do it. I’d urge against ever showing a member’s user role publicly. It’d probably be much better to use a Group for those users and display them that way — based on their membership in a certain group instead of their user role.