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login using my user/pass for wordpress.org didn’t work for me either. I had to create another login to post here.

Use the older version then:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-redirect-to-profile/download/

@dwpers

Although this isn’t related to the thread, use Brajesh’s BP Redirect to Profile plugin:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-redirect-to-profile/

I can’t wait for bp-events any longer. I’m going to just use a simple WordPress plugin for now. Hopefully at some point bp-events or some other BuddyPress solution will happen. Given the pace and history of development… bp-events 1.2 could be months away. Or not. Hard to say.

There is, but it only kicks in on a MU install. Look at bp_core_add_illegal_names() in bp-core.php. There may be a reason why it is not done on a regular WordPress install — perhaps such a feature doesn’t exist in regular WordPress.

double *bumb* . this is a real issue for me

check out:

http://lud.icro.us/wordpress-plugin-user-switching/

It’s probably because you have “groups” as your wordpress directory.

In wp-config.php, add this snippet:

define ( 'BP_GROUPS_SLUG', 'gatherings' );

Change ‘gatherings’ to something you like.

This will make your new groups URL look like:

hxxp://urbansensors.net/projects/karmayog/groups/gatherings

@pimpmywordpress – It’s running smooth on wp single and bp 1.2.1

@MrMaz Is it safe to run the latest version on a single WordPress Install 2.9.2 with BP 1.2.1? If not when do you think the new version will came out?

“When someone wants to create a blog the url he gets is http://hisblog/mydomain.com/mywpbp, which of course won’t work. Any solution? “

You didn’t install MU correctly and make sure it was working first.

But really, if you just wanted the main blog, then install regualr WordPress with BuddyPress.

@gyonis – the post has only been up 21 hours, and also is quite intimidating to read through (it may have been better to ask each question individually!)

Any some pointers:

Q1. You’ll need to write some PHP code, and also understand the BuddyPress hook function concepts.

There are already some posts on modifying the admin bar, e.g. https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/modifying-the-buddypress-admin-bar/

If your list of blogs is fixed, it should be straightforward. If you want it to dynamically add newly created blogs to the dropdown list, I suggest taking a look at the code in /plugins/buddypress/themes/bp-default/blogs/index.php as a starting point

Q2. I suggest setting up a blog in your install for the NGO Directory, with new users added as contributors… they would then be able to create posts in that blog, but it would need your admin approval before the post goes live.

You could then use categories for each country, and tags to say what type of NGO they are (or simply have another set of orthogonal categories for type). For a simple ‘code free’ solution, you would then just put a sidebar widget in that provides a menu of all the categories and / or tags.

[A more powerful solution (extra features for the NGO), would be to give them an entire blog, instead of a single post for their organisation… although tagging and categorising blogs is / was a nightmare (Burt Adsit did some work on this, but I think it is out of date now).]

[Perhaps the best solution would be to add NGO’s as a different type of member in BuddyPress. i.e. users can register as themselves or as their NGO… Create a BuddyPress group to hold the NGO members, and have country, etc. as searchable fields in the profile. We gave up on a similar 2 types of member project, but there the challenges were considerable, yours may well work with this approach.]

Q3.1.1 You can add additional fields using the ‘custom field’ area of the edit post form. This isn’t particularly user friendly though, so you might want to look instead at something like the flutter plugin, which lets you define separate fields.

Q3.2 Posting from the front end is the ‘Holy Grail’ ! Check out P2 Blog… a theme that was developed by WordPress / Automattic, but seems to have gone very quiet. My wild speculation: @Andy (the developer of BuddyPress) wrote a blog post about P2… I wonder if that means we can look forward to the P2 blog front end features making an appearance in BuddyPress soon. Any comment @Andy?

To do what you want, you’ll definitely need some development skills (PHP), a decent working knowledge of WordPress code, and an idea where to start investigating the BuddyPress code (I doubt if anyone apart from Andy has a good working knowledge of it).

He means either a) install Buddypress with regular, non WPU version of WordPress, possible since BP1.2 or b) go into your Site Admin–>Admin–>Allow new registrations and disable it in the WPMU dashboard.