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@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although tagging and categorising blogs is / was a nightmare (Burt Adsit did some work on this, but I think it is out of date now).]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.

@corin-rules BuddyPress 1.2.x requires at least “Requires at least: WordPress 2.9.1” (regular or normal). This may or may not have anything to do with your problem, though you will find other problems running it on 2.8.

It’s already here. BP1.2 runs on WP standard.

I am having the same issue. Both on the front end and in the admin area. Any of these links simply take me to the homepage of the blog.

1. WordPress MU 2.8.6
2. subdomain install
3. installed in a sub directory
4. a fresh install
5. wordpress MU is functioning as normal before and after buddypress install
6. Buddypress Version 1.2.1
7. Did not upgrade buddypress
8. No other plugins installed
9. Using Buddymatic theme with a custom child theme, (though switching back to buddymatic default, coffe with friends or kubrick hasthe same issues)
10. No modification of core files
11. No custom functions in bp-custom.php
12. Not running bbPress (yet, one thing at a time
13. I have no server error logs afaik, but i do get this error when activating the plugin*
14. The blog is currently hosted inhouse on a development server, I could request permission to reveal more details about this if requiered

* –

Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare bp_loaded() (previously declared in /home/astateofwriting/wordpress-mu/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-loader.php:54) in /home/astateofwriting/wordpress-mu/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-loader.php on line 55

BuddyPress -> Component Setup–>Let users create, join and participate in groups would seem to be for disabling Groups entirely, so that’s not it.

Not sure what I had in mind, there. I wonder if you can hook Buddypress permissions into Justin Tadlock’s excellent Members plugin (http://justintadlock.com/archives/2009/09/17/members-wordpress-plugin)

Basically I’d just disallow Subscribers (if that’s your default role) from creating groups, but I’d have to go digging to figure out how to do that….

I haven’t actually tried!

check out my interview here: http://wpmu.org/wordpress-as-a-learning-management-system-move-over-blackboard/

lmk if you have questions

@thecorkboard

Set this in wp-config.php:

define('WP_MEMORY_LIMIT', '80M');

Read more here:

https://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php#Increasing_memory_allocated_to_PHP

You can actually do just about anything in WordPress if you really know your stuff… so for me it comes down to usability. Joomla and Drupal both tend to be very complicated for the average (or even ‘expert’) user. For usability, no one comes close to WordPress… in my opinion.

Pages are for static content like “contact us”. They are organized and retrieved by a fixed hierarchy and cannot be tagged or categorized.

Posts are for topical content like news articles. They can be organized and retrieved in and a multitude of ways… by tag, category, date, month, etc. You can even setup a custom taxonomy to add custom metadata to posts… like for instance… if it were a movie site… cast, release date, genre, etc. By default… with most themes… the homepage will simply spit out a stream of your most recent posts. But again, you can customize things in a million different ways if you know your stuff.