BuddyPress.org

Check out this plugin: It’ll get you started

http://wiki.thisblueroom.net/wiki/Wordpress_MU_sitewide_recent_posts_plugin

It displays all the recent entries for the particular user.

The BP-Gallery plugin by BuddyDev.com is your best bet; it’s still in beta though.

Also, it’s a paid plugin. Cheapest membership rate is $30 for 3 months access to the entire plugin and theme gallery.

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There’s also MrMaz’s BP-Links plugin – https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-links/.

And oEmbed for BuddyPress – https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/oembed-for-buddypress/

Both of these plugins rely on third-party video sites like YouTube, DailyMotion, etc.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/exclude-pages/

Adds a checkbox on each page in admin to allow you to exclude pages from nav.

Thats not the right way to do it. You will need to use some of these files.

Plugin here that guides you through it

https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/

I have not tested this out but I’ve been looking for something similar and also found the “My Favorite Post” plugin which links the database to the user profile rather than the wp-favorite-posts plugin which uses cookies. This may better integrate with user profiles in buddypress (if it works). If anyone tries it out let me know and if I get any updates I’ll post them:

http://www.kriesi.at/archives/wordpress-plugin-my-favorite-posts

If you are running buddypress with wordpress single version (not wpmu), then dreamhost, hostgator, and others should be fine.

But if you intend to host blogs or use buddypress with wpmu, then those shared servers won’t be capable of your applications. I currently use wpmu/buddypress on Media Temple grid server.

Media Temple are not bad , have one of their Dedicated virtual servers, possibly a bit pricier than the others, but excellent fast support, very good KB, good active forum, server performs well has plenty of bandwidth, memory and disk space, plesk panel plus licences not that I like control panels that much. Full SSH root access, do what you like with the server etc.

As for memory required to run something like WPMU and Buddypress it really all depends on how busy the site is we have on this particular server 1.5GB which is plenty. WP/BP should run fairly well in less, min I would want though is 512MB. More important I would have thought is having a full set of resources to dedicate to the site so wouldn’t consider running on any form of shared hosting only VPS or Dedicated especially when things start to get busy.

All of the hosts mentioned are good and all I think are recommended on wordpress.org so should be fairly safe whichever you choose.

since i use bbPress as an external install (on a subdomain and within bp) – want to carry over some of the basic plugins. So, I’m working on bb-signatures, bb-code, bb-smiles into the BP group forums section (maybe ajaxed quote – not sure yet)

also, i have company directory app (standard address, contact, members, deals, reviews, tagging) that runs on a hybrid wordpress based site – i’m thinking about converting this into a bp component (based on groups?)

i just wrote a plugin to restrict group creation to wp cap levels, pretty basic for the first release though

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-restrict-group-creation/

The BB forum is for the people who installed Buddypress to get into this newfangled social networking thing and then decide they need something more familiar looking.

To my eyes the discussion beneath an item from the activity stream looks the same as the discussion in a forum.

Group Blog with front-end posting and threaded comments via P2 will do everything you can do with a forum, but in a much more native WordPress/Buddypress way.

+1 to having forum categories on a per group basis.

I already run a number of vb sites with hundreds of thousands of users and would love to someday bring that platform to wordpress/bp.

The problem is that my forums are huge (millions of posts) and without separation, it would be impossible using group forums.

I’d rather not have to create a separate group just to have a separate forum, as then I would end up with hundreds of groups (one forum I run has about a hundred or so subforums all are very active). That would only diminish the value of using groups imho.

I just don’t see the feasibility of doing it this way.

For instance, how in the world would you convert a site like vbulletin.org forums over to bp groups?

Even with very fancy templating it would still not work properly

(Yes, I know, groups are really just uber powerful forum categories… for a lack of a better way of putting it)

Dreamhost all the way,

Been with them for 4 years now. Their servers are optimized to work with WordPress (and WPMU if you get a dedicated server), therefore Buddypress is a piece of cake. Their shared servers are really good actually, you get the best plans (seriously the stuff you can do is a lot more than the usual hosting package), and really good prices.

I may experience about 2-3 downtimes a year, which are usually for maintenance, seldom for hardware failure.

Plus, the guys at support really know what they’re doing and they can fix about anything really quickly, or even move you instantly to another server if it’s not working… and you dont have to do anything!

thank you

ticket created https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/12569

my first time posting ticket, hope the info is what is needed.

Hey gang,

Just moderated my first thread; removed some sentences due to topic irrelevancy, but the main gist is still there.

Going back to stwc’s initial post:

– forum inline attachments – Boone has a port of _ck_’s old plugin working for the most part

– quote – i’ll take a look at this one when i have some time

– forum whispers – not really interested in this one… maybe someone else can take a look at this?

– gui for textarea – Boone has a TinyMCE plugin for this

Peter, as you well know, you can disable forum integration. Privacy is an issue, yes. There’s no complete solution right now (patiently waiting for Jeff’s plugin), but one solution I’ve tried is Jehy’s Registered Users Only 2 plugin. Though, I did modify it a tiny bit for BP needs. I can post the modified code if anyone’s interested.

@ if I can find the ticket system for mu I will report it as well.

is merged into wp trac !

https://trac.mu.wordpress.org/wiki

I actually do run my business from the root domain.

1.customer goes to root.com to register and signup for a site.

2. customer is given a subdomain.root.com blog which I domain mapp to their own domain

That is normal wp operation.

Where it gets sticky:

1. customer whose site is actually subdomain.root.com turns on group blogs and tries to create one…. that creates subdomain.subdomain.root.com

see the problem?

It’s pretty much the exact same type of situation that wordpress.com does.

1. I go to wp.com and register my site, subdomain.wordpress.com

2. If they had group blogs, I would go in and create one, it would create subdomain.subdomain.wordpress.com

I hope this makes it clearer, how I am actually doing what wpmu was intended to do. I run everything off of the root domain, so every customer is subdomain.root.com

The only ‘solution’ I see without having wpmu fixed, would be to give complete fresh installs of wpmu to each client, so they are actually on a root.com instead of a subdomain.

That completely kills the entire concept of wpmu (one codebase for me to maintain). I would have to maintain all the installs separately, which would suck bigtime.

Anyhow, it is not an error with your plugin, but rather an error with wpmu core. I posted question in their forums, and if I can find the ticket system for mu I will report it as well.

Hi DJ Paul, upgraded wordpress and now the default theme is working fine. Still having the same trouble with buddymatic, but i’ll tool around with the CSS in default and get myself something similar.

Cheers mate.