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In your theme/child theme, you just need to add new widget areas in, same as any regular WordPress theme. I’m not a theme expert but have a look at http://www.themelab.com/2008/04/18/see-how-easy-it-is-to-widgetize-wordpress-themes/ under “Multiple Widget Ready Areas”

I don’t even have it my options. My site was just a standard wordpress with the buddypress plug in.

only problem with removing the link:

<?php echo bp_get_root_domain() . '/' . BP_GROUPS_SLUG . '/create/' ?> someone could still access the url directly to start the process.

I went ahead and created a plugin (waiting on repo request on wordpress.org) to disable the steps and show a ‘new groups creation is closed’ message. Also added in a midlevel-cap to allow another set of users the ability to create private/hidden + w/forums. I may expand this to restrict other steps in the group creation process (as other plugins using the group extension api may add in their own step)

Basically the plugin removes the $bp->groups->group_creation_steps – adds in a custom position 0 step to display a closed page.

If it’s related to user blogs, you’re better asking over at the wpmu forums,

https://mu.wordpress.org/forums/view/all-topics

Where there are plenty of topics discussing just this very thing. (Yes, it’s possible, yes there are plugins)

If you guys can agree on an existing GPL events plugin that works in WordPress I might consider extending it or forking it to work with BuddyPress. The one that David Lewis mentioned looks promising, and I would probably fork that one since it hasn’t been updated for 9 months (depending on what the author has to say).

The GroupBlog plugin does not fit into that structure really well. While it does some of it, it really is going a different direction in its approach. You’d be best to take a look at this plugin:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-community-blogs/

It is no longer under development for a year and will not be updated either. It will not work with 1.2, but it does do what you desire. You could at least use that as a starting point and port the code to bp1.2.

query_posts() is expecting an array to passed to it for the arg ‘category__not_in’. It looks like you are passing it a string of ids separated by commas. get_exclude_categories_loop() should be returning an array.

query_posts(array('category__not_in' => array(2,6)));

See multiple category handling here:

https://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/query_posts

This is not valid PHP:

<?php

query_posts(array('category__not_in' => array(get_exclude_categories_loop))); ?>

<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

This is:

<?php

query_posts( array( 'category__not_in' => get_exclude_categories_loop() ) ); ?>

<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

I was actually going to use this one since I don’t need registration or payment: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/calendar/

You could try this WordPress plug-in…’wp-members. Works for me.

There’s a plugin for group tags, but that categorizes the groups and not the activity content:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-group-tags/

Andy mentioned that the code for global activity search exists, it just needs a frontend.

Thanks Dfa327… but where to download? The repository at wordpress.org doesn’t seem to be updated?

Thanks for the plug, Erich

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-profile-filters-for-buddypress/ is the plugin you’re thinking of. I updated it about a week ago to work on versions of BP 1.2+ (though you should definitely let me know if it does not work!).

@Nick – the plugin will do what you want. Check out the readme file, which will explain how to make it work.

@gregfielding – That’s a good idea, but at the moment BP is not set up in a way that makes it easy to create those check marks with a plugin. Maybe I’ll submit a core patch that does it, as I’d like to see it too.

In my site I use this plugin. It has all the basic functions I need – RSVP, confirmation emails, payment bridge, etc. – but the interface is a mess. It also has no BP integration, but I don’t really need that in my project.

I had planned to restructure, rewrite and expand the plugin, also including the excellent jQuery plugin FullCalendar. I’m very interested to see what Erwin and Marius Ooms come up with! A connection with groups, Buddypress’ killer app imho, sounds like a great idea as well.

But for my project I really need a solid event management tool, like a self-hosted version of eventbrite.com, integrated with the BP members database. I don’t really need a solution that allows members to create events or put stuff on a calendar.

Will Erwin and Marius solutions be an event management tool or more like an expanded community calendar? I’d encourage them to look into the EdgeTechWeb plugin…

EDIT:

Actually, the EdgeTechWeb plugin is really ugly. I need alternatives…

PayPal Booking Framework

Advanced Events Registration (based on EdgeTechWeb’s…?)

Eventr

…

I like to try any plugin and, hei…

@Dwenaus, this Rate Forum Posts plugin looks cool.

It is fine in my localhost but I found this error in live site

http://iluni-ftui.org/groups/situs-iluni/forum/

WordPress database error You have an error in your SQL syntax;

check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near

‘WHERE object_type = ‘bb_post’ AND meta_key = ‘rfp_rating’ AND object_id = 1′ at line 1 for query

SELECT meta_value FROM WHERE object_type = ‘bb_post’ AND meta_key = ‘rfp_rating’ AND object_id = 1

made by require, require_once, do_action, call_user_func_array, bp_core_do_catch_uri, load_template, require_once, locate_template, load_template, require_once, do_action, call_user_func_array, rfp_after_topic_title, rfp_get_post_rating_signed, rfp_get_post_rating

It solved by adding code below in rate.inc.php

require_once ABSPATH.’bb-config.php’;

global $bb_table_prefix, $bb_meta_table;

$bb_meta_table = $bb_table_prefix . ‘meta’;

Thanks for the plugin.

Now it works. But since I’m still a WP noob.

I don’t know if it is politically correct.

Hi to all those people that watched at at times gave me feedback on my troubles getting BP to work on my site. The short answer… I had BP installed on my “localhost”. So what I finally ended up doing was to export my localhost SQL and then imported it to my server at Powweb. It worked… Now I am just tweaking my install and ironing out the way I would like the site to look.

So to those that watched and answered my hiccups “thank you” I appreciate you taking the time to pass on your expertise.

All the best,

Rod