ended up reinstalling wordpress and buddypress. not sure what the problem was but its working now.
@snark
In response to your points up top:
1)
+1 Favorites sometimes = bookmarks in social networking sites. We need to be able to offer this across all types of communication features.
2)
Theme developers need to be able to pull this info in with a loop. Maybe we can already?
3)What is the current state of Favorties plugin development, and is there something in the works that can accomplish the above?
There is the BuddyPress-Like plugin: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-like/
The problem with BP Like is that it now competes with Favorites built-in to BP 1.2. I need to be able to turn off Favorites so that BP Like isn’t confusing/repetitive.
But really, this is something should be rolled into core.
@Peterverkooijen
Forums, yes, were part of an older web community – it was the sole way they communicated. With the advent of social networking came the creation of new ways to communicate. Forums were given less focus but they still have there place. Even today in Facebook you can clearly identify forum-esque features.
I don’t think BP has ever focused on forums. It’s always been on the activity stream/wire. Of course, forum topics are now tied to the activity stream – as they should be – but does not in any way give BP a “schizophrenic” identity.
I have done this with a WordPress site before, but not a whole BuddyPress community. I wish I didn’t have to do this, but I feel that I need to use a better hosting provider.
Has anybody else gone through this process and can lend me some pointers.
I am going to setup the new site first, import all plugins, settings, and my WordPress export. I will also export the database tables from my old site and import them into the new site.
What else should I do?
I’m having the same issue – so there’s a conflict between BP blogs and wordpress single user?
up on the repo
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-restrict-group-creation/
lemme know about any bugs/issues/features.
This plugin will restrict group creation and settings to certain WP Capabilities. In addition, this plugin will auto-demote the group creator to group mod to ensure group settings may not be modified after creation. You may also define a group admin and mod that will be auto-assigned all new groups created.
Auto-assigning an admin and/or mod to new groups
In your wp-config.php file – set the following constants and check ‘Auto demote group creator to group mod‘ under the settings page.
define( ‘BP_RESTRICTGROUP_AUTOADD_ADMIN_USER_ID’, the_database_user_id );
and/or (admin inherits mod – no reason to define the same user_id twice)
define( ‘BP_RESTRICTGROUP_AUTOADD_MOD_USER_ID’, the_database_user_id );
I’ll change this step in the future to selecting users via the admin settings page.
http://blog.etiviti.com/2010/03/buddypress-restrict-group-creation/
Basically, I changed up the group creation steps (removed all the others, add in a closed one) – then demote the group creator to a mod so they can’t go back and change the settings. You map an overall group creation cap level. Also you can map different cap levels to enabling a forum and the group status levels (private/hidden). If you leave those blank – then nothing appears and force a public only group otherwise make the same as the overall.
Good to know WP is working for you.
Best of luck with your site 
Yes, WordPress MU will do what you need without BuddyPress at all.
Hi,
I’m looking into BP for a new project which is something similar to this: http://www.talenttrove.com/. It’s basically a talent platform where the talents can upload their media, communicate with other talents and where scouts can search through the talents and start auditions etc.
Can this be done with BP or should I develop it as a standalone script (not WordPress that is)?
Any feedback is greatly appreciated.
@MrMaz Does 0.4 will allow to integrate BP links within groups on single WordPress install?
i’m trying to include user’s status update on the mainpage where i have my posts listed, i guess you could say within the loop, when i use the solution in this thread: http://buddypress.org/forums/topic/how-to-get-a-users-last-update nothing comes up..
i wasn’t sure whether or not to make a new thread, or post in that thread, so do forgive me.
i’m using the latest version of buddypress and wordpress mu
I also get the same error on a fresh installation of wordpress….
i am starting a new social site using buddypress… the question is should i go with wordress or wordpress mu.
i wont have blogs for users or even a single blog for that matter…so wordpress seems to be the choice, however i see most of the plugins only work with mu. i dont know much about the future directions of buddypress or its plugins so any sugestion will be very helpful.
apologies if it has already been discussed
Hi Ron. Thanks again for this – it will mean I won’t have switch themes mid-development to integrate BuddyPress into a project. Very grateful!
I just gave this a quick install tonight and here are a few issues:
– Error message in the branding area;
Warning: call_user_func_array() [function.call-user-func-array]: First argument is expected to be a valid callback, ‘bp_core_admin_bar’ was given in /home/.perro/czoltok/my-url.com/wp-includes/plugin.php on line 339
– Clicking on usernames redirects to homepage;
– It seems that there are two version of the navigation bar – the regular one, and the buddypress one – stacked on top of each other. On the top row are my regular pages and a search bar that has been added in my functions file, and just below, there are tabs for “Home” and “Members”, as well as the BuddyPress bar.
– I have the admin bar of Buddypress set to not show in the functions file, but there is a gap in my WordPress admin page where it would normally go (it’s blank, but the gap remains).
I’d prefer not to put the testing site up here, so I’ll DM you the URL.
Thanks!
the more you try to get this one alive, the more you kill it on your own.
no answer mean no solution YET…
I’m not going to let this one die.
sorry boone it’s an old update. I should have mentioned that.
I added another person to the group just now and their avatar showed up, so it’s fixed… thank you
I’m curious if you have any plans of adding the ability for the admin or moderator to add members who are not friends to a group via the front end instead of the back end.
Basically I am doing everything I can to keep people away from the back end of wordpress. I plan on having a lot of moderators for bp, who really should have no reason to ever see the back end if possible.
If not, no worries, the plugin works perfectly as it is. a HUGE thank you!
Hi dpee,
We are using the plugin found here: http://www.myreviewplugin.com/
I HIGHLY recommend it. The support is amazing (we have found a few bugs and they were fixed within a day). It is the best WordPress review plugin hands down.
when I click on the Log-in-button at my BP-website, the Error-Message pops up:
ERROR: Cookies are blocked or not supported by your browser. You must enable cookies to use WordPress.
I actually do have Cookies enabled at my FireFox-browser and did not experience any Cookie-Error-messages at any other website, just at my own BP-website.
Where is this coming from and how to fix it ?
using WP 2.9.2 and BP 1.2.1. I have wp installed in a subdirectory called wordpress, but the index.php file is in the root directory, which points to the wordpress directory, and this runs just fine. When I installed BP, all of its links in the bar at the top of the page all use the wordpress directory as part of its URLs, which results in 404 errors.
How do I get BP to use the root URL without adding the wordpress directory on to it? Do I need to move the WP install up a directory level? Is there some other solution that will work?
I use 1and1 for a couple of my sites…
From what they tell me, 1and1 will not work with most wordpress or wordpress mu sites because they only allow php limited amount of memory.
You can change the memory in php.ini and if you use phpinfo it will show up as 64mb, but at the server level they have it configured for this:
These are the following restrictions on our “Linux shared business” hosting packages.
A process may only use a CPU at 100% for 6 seonds
A process may use a maximum of 12 mb of RAM
A maximum of 12 process to be run at any 1 time
They do have a shared developer package with a lil better memory, but you’ll probably still get the issues…
Can somebody help me please?
I’m using one database to hold 6 different WordPress Blogs. I decided to put in one of them BuddyPress, and now I can’t go in like an administrator in this Blog. All others are functioning okay, so I believe the problem is only with themes or something like that on this blog. Something that was caused by BuddyPress installation. When I try to access to: http://www.aqplink.com/sanmartin70/wp-admin/ it tells me that I don’t have permission to access to this page. What should I do? All was working fine, until I install BuddyPress, so it is something that I didn’t take care of. I didn’t read too much after I saw a messages that encourage to install, because even our grant mother could install it without problems. And since I’m used to install plugging without any precaution…I closed my eyes and proceed…
Please help me.
Hi Guys
Hoping someone in the community could help.
I am the creator of my community, and Im getting about 10 people to help me moderate the site.
Id like to highlight these moderators throughout, eg:
a) highlight something around the avatar
b) maybe put a nice border around all their forum posts and activity updates etc
c) etc
This sort of thing is usually done on wordpress blogs, where the author comments are highlighted, but id like to do it across buddypress to “show off” the moderators
Could someone please help me with the CSS etc to make this happen?
(Im using default BP 1.2 theme)