BuddyPress.org

Awesone plugin. I just paid ye.

buddypress does what you are wanting with both blogs and social, it works for me with the WPMU version of wordpress. From what I understand some people have it working with the new wordpress 3.0 series that is in kind of a testing phase at this tine. I am not sure if any blog themes have come that match the current default buddypress theme exactly – but it wouldn’t be hard to sculpt a WP theme like painter or constructor to be very close in most details.

But what you are asking, is exactly what buddypress does. I would go back over all the of the installation instructions, and recheck all the steps and settings. If you are trying to use regular wordpress, and not wordpress mu – that may be an issue – haven’t tried that yet. Maybe there is another setting that is not in the instructions for that?

@dancole

It depends on your definition of “near future”. Since all authentication is handled by WordPress, not BuddyPress, this project is truly a WordPress-specific feature. We are forming a group to work on this issue and also discuss the possibilities of implementing Semantic Web and / or Open Stack protocols in BuddyPress.

But, this will not be a core WP feature–at least not in the near term. I imagine that we will let the WP 3.0 series work out any new issues once that series is released. So, sometime around the WP 3.1 or 3.2 public release might be a reasonable target for releasing a WebID plugin for WP.

Do you have any specific interest and / or experience with WebIDs?

@jeffsayre

How likely is it that you or any of the other developers you’ve been talking with would make a plugin that adds WebID to WordPress in the near future?

@Tapaninaho:

Check out Peter Anselmo’s Group Documents plugin: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-group-documents/

Peter does great work, and this plugin might get you very, very close to what you need. It provides a document repository for groups, allows uploaded files to be categorized and provides a backend management tool to determine allowable file types – among other features.

Profile works for me:
http://thesillycupid.com/wordpress/members/shawna/profile/

Using the BP Template Pack plugin is not plug-n-play! What you need to do is alter the CSS of your theme to make BP better fit the design of your site.

If you want users to have blogs, then you should use WP MU. Also, certain plugins only work with WPMU or WP. So, that should be part of the decision making process too. Otherwise, both of them will work.

I am having the same issue, but normal users can not upload either, when I recieve the following error “Catchable fatal error: Object of class WP_Error could not be converted to string in C:Webspacepack119.netwwwwp-contentpluginsbuddypressbp-corebp-core-avatars.php on line 292” when I go to upload an image. I have WordPress 3.0-beta2-14729 and Buddypress 1.2.3 revision 3015

Line 292
$bp->avatar_admin->image->url = str_replace( WP_CONTENT_DIR, BP_AVATAR_URL, $bp->avatar_admin->image->dir );

I think that predominately most will be backing up by performing SQL dumps of the DB. it’s the usual and safest method and simple to do via a tool such as MyPHPAdmin.

I think you’ve said that you have a Plesk control panel available to you? Plesk panels should have access to the DB server via MyPHPAdmin which will allow you to select the appropriate DB and download a full dump of all tables.

The codex.wordpress.org has guides on how to perform SQL backups.

All those interested in events & buddypress might want to check out this: http://gsocevents.wordpress.com/

Try Stealth Login. I uses .htaccess to block direct access to wp-admin and create a new slug for that. That’s great plugin.

What Andrea_r said.

Or just password protect the entire /wp-admin/ dir from the server level.