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Go to admin side of your blog then click from left menu Settings -> Miscellaneous Settings — I don’t think this menu is available in WordPress MU, am I missing something?

Please don’t bump your own thread three hours after your initial post. 24 hours is a good duration before bumping again.

As for your question, set the WordPress default role to “Contributor” (https://codex.wordpress.org/Settings_General_SubPanel) and the member should be able to post. Though your member will have to use the WordPress dashboard to post, unless you use a front-end posting plugin.

Doesn’t something like this already exist?

Secure Invites for WPMU (not standard WP)
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-mu-secure-invites/

There should be other similar types of plugins as well.

Just do a search in the WP plugin repository.

eor highlights the other difference. Some plugins were designed for WPMU and won’t work with WP and vice versa. So, the plugins you want to use should be part of the decision also.

the same, the only difference is the blog creation.

@Andrea_r I don’t know why you brought it up or think I don’t know, but for the record WPMU will not be merged with a single WP until 3.0 is launched. Furthermore WPU is not compatible with WPMU.

http://www.wp-united.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=703&start=0&hilit=wpmu

anyway….

I clearly said it works with current WP and phpbb versions.

As you can see on the WPU site (http://www.wp-united.com) there is a gap on posts from:

December 2, 2007:
Version 0.6.0 released.

The next post

May 10, 2009
“Many apologies for not posting here for such a long time. WP-United development has been stalled for the past year while I have had to attend with personal life — a new job, and more recently, the financial crisis. The current version of WP-United up on the download page here is out of date — it will need a few changes in order to work with the latest versions of phpBB3 and WordPress.”

May 31, 2009
Version 0.7.0 released.

That’s over 18 months.

@3sixty Not only will it not integrate into the activity stream it won’t integrate profiles.

When I try to upload a avatar on my profile for my website (blabitup.com), I’m given a question mark. How do I fix this?

Im currently using WordPressMU and I do not have a miscellaneous setting.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-registration-options/ working in BP 1.2.3 @3sixty

Yes, this has been an issue with beta 1 forward (even WordPress 3.0-beta2-14597 has the issue). Hopefully it will get resolved with BP 1.2.4

Addendum: two free ning to buddypress importers
http://ningtobuddypress.com/

Import from Ning: Import Ning users to WordPress and BuddyPress

Andrea,

Thank you for your reply, so would you suggest that I take wordpress mu out of the Case_study folder and put it in the root?

It blows my mind that this is not a core feature of WPMU, WP, or BuddyPress. It is the most obvious first defense against sploggers and spammer-members.

There is a plugin called Pie Registration that claims to do user moderation of unverified users before they are allowed to post. It seems to be a resurrection of an older (discontinued?) plugin called Register Plus. Find it here: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/pie-register/

Will check it out now.

EDIT: It says that the feature “Moderate all user registrations to require admin approval” will only work when Email Verification is DISABLED. I can’t get it to work, though.

Also found this:
“Register Plus plugin seemed to be working fine in 2.9.2, with custom logo and all, but now I’ve just discovered that it only sends the registration email if the registration is done in IE. In Firefox or Chrome the mail is not sent. How can this be?”
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/376015

Hey Robin! I also migrated from Ning to Buddypress. You will find the forum participants/moderators here to be quite responsive and informative. In fact, I have received hints from generous forum moderators that were very helpful in getting my blog setup. Basically, any question you search for on google with regard to setting up wordpress/ buddypress many times will point to this site. You will find that other people have asked similar questions and received answers from those who already know how to do it.

If you can get someone to help you set up a wordpress blog/website, then you can become accustomed to the admin control panel for wordpress. From there you can install the buddypress plugin and get your social network up and running. Ning webmasters still have till July to move it or lose it, so you have time to learn the wordpress/buddypress stuff.

I would suggest test WordPress/WordPressMU with BuddyPress out of the box at http://testbp.org/ (except header image which was added by Andy). Same username and password as you used in this site.

I am game for getting involved in such a project. What frustrates me about Facebook is that they had the opportunity to link into the LOD cloud and did not take it. Their “Open” graph API pirates the concept of microformats, RDF, and schemas that have been around for years. They pretty much just took the ideas and made their own version. Bad form, I say!

What is missing from this conversation, though, is the idea that a distributed social network is not as much about where the data is and who controls it as it is about how the data is defined or “marked up.” So, yes, each person has that “virtual calling card” you define above, but it is in a standard XML file like RDF using a specific schema or “vocabulary” common to people who use a particular service. That RDF file, though, belongs to me, the user, and I can choose to add my affiliation with a specific network to that file or not.

Seems to me that what Mu (or the very excellent WordPress 3.0) needs is its own “vocabulary” within the LInked Open Data cloud to be a truly “open” distributed network.

Just my 2 cents…

@rossagrant – Not certain that these core hacks will be in for v1.2.4, but I’ll see if I can sway the dev team

Re: profile loop – http://testbp.org/members/andy/profile/ – it’s the part right underneath the profile tab.

I just noticed a small bug and just put out v0.51. If you can’t wait for WordPress’ plugin repository to update, you can manually download the files here:
https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/buddypress-usernames-only/trunk/