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@rickbradford

…I want all member blogs on a single site…

If you want to offer your members their own blog, then you will need to use WPMU. The fact that each of your members has their own blog does not mean they have their own site. All the blogs are located on and served from your site.

If you only want to have one blog but offer a social networking layer on top of that using BuddyPress, then single-version (solo-blog) WordPress is all that you need. But, with both WPMU and WP, BuddyPress will allow you to create a social network. As Andy says, the only difference is whether you want to offer your members the option to create their own blogs on your site.

So excited for Monday! Thanks for looking into that foxly.

This is the plugin I was referring to – https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/cubepoints/

There documentation – http://techcube.net/docs/1.3/docs.html

It’s the only points system for WordPress Single Install

The debate about the wire vs activity stream has happened several times already on this board, so it’s probably not worth rehashing it, though for what it’s worth xspringe I think you make some fair points.

For the moment, if you want to keep the wire, use the backward compatibility plugin: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-backwards-compatibility/

That’s because he specified “http://www.cfcommunity.net/” in his Facebook Application, but his website is identified as “http://cfcommunity.net/” by WordPress (see http://www.justin-klein.com/projects/wp-fb-autoconnect#faq11 )

I’m having a similar problem, people sitting next to me who are online and the widget is saying ‘There are no users currently online’.

WordPress MU 2.9.2 , BP 1.2.1

Presumably if this is a timezone issue, as suggested in the ticket, then this is a product of the same problem.

@etiviti you rock. Thanks for your speedy replies.

I’ve had your forum extras installed for a couple days and things were fine. I just tried to install a TinyMCE plugin – https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-tinymce/ – which works great as well.

Unfortunately with BP-TinyMCE activated the Quote function no longer loads any text in the comment box. It just changes to “quoted” but that’s all that seems to happen.

Do you know what’s causing the conflict? Is it something you can change or is it a problem with BP-TinyMCE? I *need* a way for my users to format their topics so if it comes down to it I’ll just leave Quote deactivated…but it would be cool to have both. Perhaps if you get it working you can include BP-TinyMCE in forum extras?

WP 2.9.2 BP 1.2.2.1

He should also add the FB connect button to the BP sidebar login form using the action “bp_sidebar_login_form”. And also add the buddypress tag to the plugin. If someone wants to let him know that..

Also, the plugin is phoning home with server details, I think that’s against the repo rules? Check function jfb_auth().

Edit: Not sure if it does break the rules (http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/2010/02/11/how-to-get-plugin-removed-from-dir/) but I still find it a bit off, even if it is harmless.

I should have done a bit more testing before providing feedback. BTW, I am using BP Links with a Single WP install on my development server.

*** I made an error earlier: avatar images aren’t uploaded in their original size to your wordpress uploads folder. The single link page embeds the original fullsize image from the site one links to (again, not the greatest thing if you’re working with a fixed width template), but the thumbnails shown on my Directory Links page are the fullsize image, just scaled down by width and height pixel values. ***

@MrMaz I’m glad to hear that BP Links is handling resizing and creating thumbnails to the BP constants. I guess things are being handled differently on a Single WP install at the moment. I’ll continue to test this plugin as things develop. Or I might just migrate to WP MU, though I’ve heard WP 3.0 will have a multi-blog feature that one can enable.

FYI, I encounted another issue. When I created a second test link the Directory Links page only shows one link now (the newest one). However, both created links appear in my Activity Stream.

In regards to the filtered RSS link:

I hope other people request this as well. I plan on adding the Most Popular or Highest Rated feed to the site’s twitter updates via twitterfeed.

you can download the group forum extras – but you don’t have a need for all of that. this code snippet will enable wp shortcodes on post content

add_filter( 'bp_get_the_topic_post_content', 'do_shortcode' );

I’m working on a new version of this site that will automatically create a group for every new BuddyPress plugin that appears in the repo. This means plugins will get all the functionality of BP groups – a forum, activity stream, a list of members who are interested in the plugin, etc etc. I’m also going to add a donate page, which should help out a bit.

This has been held up a little right now because I’m trying to get the new upgrade/install wizard done first. This will allow BP to use WordPress pages instead of hacking with root components. It’s all bits of the jigsaw that need to be put in place before I can continue. Hopefully by the end of the month I should have at least the first iteration of the site close to completion.

The WordPress Codex has detailed instructions on extending the software without modifying core files: https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API. In short: wherever you see do_action or apply_filters in the BP/WP core files, a hook is being created. You can then write custom functions in a plugin file that modifies WP’s behavior without modifying the core code by hooking into those actions or filters.

Short example: If you want to add a piece of metadata to an activity item, you might try something like this (in a file called bp-custom.php in wp-content/plugins):

function add_genre_to_activity( $content, $user_id, $activity_id ) {

if ( strpos( $content, 'rock' ) )

bp_activity_update_meta( $activity_id, 'genre', 'rock' );

}

add_action( 'bp_activity_posted_update', 'add_genre_to_activity', 10, 3 );

which will add the meta value ‘rock’ (key ‘genre’) whenever an activity item contains the word ‘rock’. Of course, this is probably not how you want to determine the genre, but this shows you how to add the metadata without touching core code.

@etiviti – the new version of the plugin appeared on my dashboard – thanks for this!

I clicked on the upgrade plugin for the umbrella plugin of te Forum Extras and got this:

QUOTE

Downloading update from https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/buddypress-group-forum-extras.0.1.5.zip.

Unpacking the update.

Installing the latest version.

Deactivating the plugin.

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home1/fromvict/public_html/comunidade/wp-admin/admin-header.php:18) in /home1/fromvict/public_html/comunidade/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 868

Removing the old version of the plugin.

Plugin upgraded successfully.

Attempting reactivation of the plugin

Plugin reactivated successfully.

UNQUOTE

Do you think this can cause any problem?

The buttons are appearing on Forum discussions of Groups -thanks!

However the buttons do not appear on Group wire or when sending direct messages of one user to another.

One great improvement for the future could be adding images straight from our computer, instead of using a URL.

Cheers!

I am not sure how to enable display_errors, reporting.

I am running wpmu 2.9.1.1

One thing I did track down is that forum extras is conflicting with

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-field-template/

(other than bp probably the most important plugin I use and the best in it’s class) Allows me to easily create my own custom meta boxes on a per post_type basis.

Anton, you aren’t by chance using this plugin, are you? https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-include-non-member-comments/ I have heard from some people that they’re having the problem you described, though I can’t for the life of me reproduce it myself.

bug report

environment:

bp 1.2.1

wp 3.0a

plugin 0.1.4

bp forum extras enabled

bp forum extras- signatures enabled

what caused it:

went to dashboard>buddypress>forum extras>signatures

error: