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An update to my situation in the post above..

I deactivated buddypress. Deleted all files in the buddypress foldder. Uploaded fresh 1.2.2.1 buddypress files. Reactivated buddypress. Then my forums tab disappeared from the public home page. So I went into the dashboard, clicked don forums setup, and it said I could install, etc… So I clicked to install a fresh bbpress.

It said it could not write a bb-config file and gave me the code to create one manaully.

I copied the code and put it in the root of my wordpressmu install as it said.

Forums tab now shows. I went to add a forum post, and the same thing happens – it just disappears.. like it is not saving any forum posts…

Any ideas?

FYI –

I’ve run into the same identical situation.

I’m with WP2.9.2 (latest) and BuddyPress Version 1.2.2.1 (latest)

WordPress Install is a fresh install

I’m on a linux VPS with HostGator.

I have no plugins installed, other than BuddyPress

I’m using BuddyPress Default 1.2.2.1 theme.

As far as I can tell, all links are working, except 2.

One is http://www.gjzone.com/forums –> returns a 404 and there is nothing in the logs that indicates a problem

Two, if I create a group, and place a check in the box for including in forum discussion, I get a 404

I don’t see anything in the logs (which seem to be limited in scope anyhow)

My htaccess is 644, and seems to have standard WP stuff

the bp-config.php file gets written and looks ok (no garbled input, etc)

I have forums enabled

I’ve deactived/re-activated buddypress plugin

I’ve disabled/enabled forums

Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.

Matt

What peteranselmo said. In addition, you might find it easier to adapt existing WP theme by using the https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-template-pack/

I am trying to use the Facebook Connect buddypress plugin with 2.9.2 WordPress and the Latest BuddyPress. It doesn’t seem to be working. Is that everyones experience or have I broken something?

TIA

FYI… Elliot updated wp-hashcash for BuddyPress.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-hashcash/

I also am having strange happenings using WP-O_Matic.

The campaigns show up in my forums. I use bbpress intergration for forums.

Still waiting for a solution to this also, as I prefer WP-OMatic over Feedwordpress.

I was thinking of adapting the wordpress plugin from the openinviter.com guys to work with BP. It would be from a profile page. To me that just seems like the right place to be. I’m inviting people to the network after all and not to a group.

at this time it seems like the only way to do it is to do it yourself/hire a programmer. i would like to do the same thing but have not found anything that can migrate or bridge them that works well with phpbb3.

Perhaps this is because you are leaving the sources in the sub directory.

An easy solution will be

1. export the database using PhpMyadmin

2.Do a search fro “OfficialManCard.com/omc” and replace it with “OfficialManCard.com”

3. Move the whole sub directory to root of site.

4. Drop the tables from the database

5.Import the modified database tables to the database

6. Login to wordpress and re save your permalink.

and Hopefully everything should work.

I will advise to do a test on local server/system before doing this sort of thing on server.

Try to rename wp-content/plugins/buddypress to something else and then access your site.

Is your sites front end accessible from http://www.website.com/main/. where you had it.

Is it wordpress/wpmu.

I guess, most probably, it should be an issue with the siteurl in the database. You might have given it to http://www.website.com/ at the time of installation, please check and provide more details.

You might like to get some anti bot plugins from wordpress. I have WordPress MU and Buddypress and use the following plugins to prevent bots from joining my site.

WP-SpamFree – An extremely powerful anti-spam plugin that virtually eliminates comment spam. Finally, you can enjoy a spam-free WordPress blog! Includes spam-free contact form feature as well. http://www.polepositionmarketing.com/library/wp-spamfree/

WPMU Super Captcha – Custom captcha program made to stop spam bots cold in their tracks. Features audio, word files, or random text. You configure it! https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/super-capcha/

Or go to http://www.wordpress.org, click on extend and find them there.

@gregfielding I never said I was “against” BP Gallery, I said it was inappropriate to use a *commercial* plugin with only *one* contributor as a BP core plugin, which is our ultimate goal for the BP Album+ plugin.

No matter what claims are made about this and that being “free”, until Brajesh releases his plugin, properly documented, into the WordPress repository under a GPL license so others can reuse its code, it is a *commercial* plugin.

In terms of features, BP Gallery *currently* has much more functionality than BP Album+.

But over the next couple of months, we’re planning on adding a huge amount of functionality to the BP Album+ plugin, and as we get more people onboard, BP Album+ will probably quickly eclipse BP Gallery.

I’m not going to try and tell you what gallery you should use for your site, but I want to point out some key reasons why I’ve chosen to team up with another developer and write a free open source BuddyPress Photo album plugin (and give it away to the community!) versus just handing over $30 and using BP Gallery for all of my social networking sites:

1) The release date of BP Gallery has slipped six times over three months, and its status hasn’t been updated since Feb 06 2010. Brajesh announced he was releasing RC2 on March 11/12. Didn’t happen. And BP Gallery Stable on March 14/15. Didn’t happen.

2) Simultaneously with all of this, the guy’s released two themes, two other plugins, and has posted that he will be releasing a chat plugin and another BP theme by the end of March. He’s also handing out free subscription extensions to all of his members for not getting his plugins working on time.

That’s impressive. Much respect to Brajesh for sheer volume of work!

But it raises some scary questions:

a) If he’s sprinting to get fifteen different projects done simultaneously under penalty of losing all his members, how efficient, extendable, and secure is the code inside BP Gallery? Has it been checked by other programmers?

b) Brajesh makes his money by releasing several new plugins every month. What incentive does he have to keep *improving* his existing plugins versus writing new ones?

c) If a BuddyPress core update breaks his plugins (as *just happened* with Manoj Kumar’s original BP Album, prompting the development of our plugin) …how long is it going to take Brajesh to repair his dozens of plugins, and where will BP Gallery fit in that lineup?

d) What happens if Brajesh gets hired by Google and quits developing plugins? Who will keep them working with future BuddyPress updates and how will they learn such a huge codebase in time to avoid disaster?

And to the people that keep saying “Well he’s going to release BP Gallery as Open Source in a week or two”, consider this:

e) If you were a website owner that’s paid $30 a month for a site membership to get the BP Gallery plugin, and then patiently waited for 3 or 4 months for the developer to finish it (and don’t kid yourself, that’s what 90% of the site members are there for) …would YOU be happy if the developer finished the plugin, then released it for FREE to EVERYONE as open source?

I’ve been wrong before, but I’d say the odds of BP Gallery being released as free open source any time soon are slim to nil.

It’s a sad situation, because if Brajesh released BP Gallery to the plugin repository, we could continue development on it for him, integrate it with our app, and release a fantastic plugin that gives the community what they want; and he would have more time to work on his other plugins. But again, very unlikely to happen.

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There is a solution to all of the above problems: build ONE application that is FREE OPEN SOURCE, maintained by MULTIPLE developers, and can be EASILY EXTENDED. It’s how Linux is developed. It’s how WordPress is developed. It’s How BuddyPress is developed.

And it’s how the BP Album+ plugin needs to be developed.

….

As for “Community Support” …. we’ve had 600 downloads in 48 hours and will probably hit 1,000 downloads before most people even see this.

Unless Brajesh is pulling $30,000 a month from his site (=1000 members) I’d say we’ve already beat BP Gallery in terms of installed user base.

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@Modemlooper I’m going to turn this around on you and say “What if WordPress had no text editor, no file upload capability, no admin menu, and no comment functionality”. All of these are required elements to make a blog platform run, and that’s why they ship with WordPress. Twitter functionality, on the hand, is not a required element, and that’s why it’s implemented as a plugin. Likewise with BuddyPress, Forums, Profiles, User Activity, and… photo albums … are required elements of almost every social networking community. That’s why I want to stop screwing around with third-party plugins and help build something that’s good enough to ship with the core.

So there’s my thoughts!

^F^

@hachimaki

This post from Sarah Gooding should help get you started with widgets:

http://wpmu.org/how-to-widgetize-a-page-post-header-or-any-other-template-in-wordpress/

there is the invite friends plugin here: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/invitefriends-plug-in/

but it has not been updated for some time

Album or Gallery to me is nothing like what I imagine core media functionality would be like. I envision the ability to upload media directly into the activity stream.

Also, all functionality can not be in core otherwise plugin development would die and we would be stuck with cookie cutter (ning) sites. What if the top 20 most popular plug ins were already built into wordpress. Would the community have grown so large?