Ha! Didn’t know you could add a TOS as a CC license!
Cool of WordPress.com to offer one! Will take a look at this later.
@motionsw – yes you can use it as a guide for your own.
Here’s the part that says you can:
…you’re more than welcome to steal [this TOS] and repurpose it for your own use, just make sure to replace references to us with ones to you, and if you want we’d appreciate a link to WordPress.com somewhere on your site. We spent a lot of money and time on the below, and other people shouldn’t need to do the same.
I just installed buddypress onto a wordpress site. I couldn’t get the custom template thing to work (would be nice if more documentation on how to do this stuff) so I am just sticking with the basic theme until i get it going. How do people sign up. If you look on my site churchplantcity.com there is no place for sign up, only logging in.
Ryan
Thanks guys, definite help. I’m going to test it somewhere else as you’d mentioned.
Now I can figure out the logistics and edit/create regular wordpress themes just fine, but when it comes to buddypress, I’m LOST. Is there an easy way to at least understand how to go about making my own theme/merging two? Sorry if I’m not specific, let me know what you need to know.
You can use the regular <img> HTML code to show images.
<img src="YOUR IMAGE URL" />
There are also some third-party plugins to attach images:
*BP-Gallery beta (paid plugin) – http://buddydev.com
– adds a gallery component to BP; you can attach images to groups (and profiles) this way as well
* Forum Attachments for BuddyPress -https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/forum-attachments-for-buddypress/
– allows you to attach images to forum posts only in BP
– needs some testing in BP 1.2 though; i’ve only tested this a bit in BP 1.2, needs a little work
r-a-y’s right, but I can’t help but feel that what you’re proposing could potentially be trouble with regards to XSS and people trying to break your site.
Another approach, with different benefits and drawbacks, would be to utilise either WordPress 2.9’s custom post types or just upload a number of background images using the Media Uploader; you’d still use the xProfile field to get users to select which image they want, but you write some code that switches the image selected with the actual image URL from the media library.
BuddyPress works with standard WP, so yes you can use it with your site!
You’ll probably need to use the BuddyPress Template pack plugin if you want to use your existing theme with it.
Like DJPaul said, you should test BP locally to see if it fits your site’s needs.
There’s also another option for social networking on WP called Mingle. Some consider it easier to setup with an existing WP theme.
Hope that helps!
BuddyPress isn’t all-or-nothing; it’s built to let people integrate it into existing themes and websites. I’d set up a test copy of your blog somewhere (or on your local PC) so you can install BuddyPress and give it a test to see how it fits in with your existing content/theme.
I have a pretty popular, standard, blog at http://www.allaboutaddiction.com
I’d love to incorporate a social-networking aspect to the site, but also want to continue working with content the way I have been. Does this sound like something that I should install buddypress on my site for or should I direct users from my site to an alternate “buddypress only” version of my site?
Buddypress pages are not listed in the admin. To edit those you need to make a child theme.
https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/
If you want to make additional pages you can via admin like you do any normal WP blog. Admin >> Pages >> add new
If you know how to make wordpress page templates you can create anything you want and then in admin >> settings >> reading choose your custom page as the static front page.
I’m writing a BP 1.2 and WP article for a major online education magazine and would like to know if any colleges, universities and online course providers are using Buddypress 1.2?
I’m trying to prove the case for moving to WP and BP for online education.
the article is “7 reasons to consider WordPress and Buddypress for online education”
Any help, research, or contacts you can provide would be excellent.
I posted this in the plugin page but also wanted to post here in case it’s checked more often.
Fatal error: Call to undefined function is_site_admin() in /wp-content/plugins/welcome-pack/welcome-pack.php on line 82
below showing lines 79-83
add_action( 'admin_print_styles-settings_page_welcome-pack', 'dpw_admin_add_css_js' );
function dpw_admin_menu() {
if ( !is_site_admin() )
return false;
[wordpress2.9.2 + buddypress1.2.1]
Sorry Tadziz but that’s a simple WordPress question. There’s a lot of tutorial around on “how to add widgetized areas” on sidebar. Just google it. 
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/welcome-pack/ is the URL for the welcome pack. It does show that it’s been updated for 1.2
Okay, that was an embarrasing release! But thanks for your patience guys, sorry for the mess up!
BuddyPress Like 0.0.7 is now available.
* Fixes a couple of major bugs
* Bug fixed: Posts, drafts etc would not be saved, giving error “You do not have permission to do that.”
* Bug fixed: Could not save ‘Likers Visibility’ options from the BuddyPress Like settings screen
I found this plugin and it seems to allow you to moderate new users I think this will help everyone a lot:
http://webdevstudios.com/support/wordpress-plugins/buddypress-registration-options/
I’ve already answered this question.
If you have a spammer with admin access on a blog, they can add new users to that blog. They are then new users in the system since WPMU shares a global users table. So essentially once a spammer has a blog they can get others in.
This is simply the way WPMU works, and if I try and change that, people shout and scream at me. The reality is, if you want to use WordPress MU and BuddyPress along with it, you are going to have to manage this somehow. Otherwise, just use standard WordPress since it doesn’t have these issues.
Hi guys, I have just started using Buddypress and I’m amazed at how well it is executed, great job.
However, I am trying to build a website that is more–less revolved around photographs and videos, and it seems to me that this aspect is completely left out of BuddyPress, or am I wrong?
Basically what I would like to have is:
* Users being able to attach an image or a video to a forum post (or embed it from a third–party site)
* Users being able to have their gallery
For the first issue I have installed the excellent oEmbed plugin and it certainly takes care of the videos, but images are still a problem because oEmbed only recognizes Flickr–hosted images.
Regarding the second issue—I am mostly interested in a plugin that would add photo gallery functionality to each user. If there is no such plugin around, do you think it is possible to develop one? I am willing to pay someone to do it, I just need someone to tell me if it’s possible. I am a web designer, so I would be able to provide full documentation and frontend code and templates, but when it comes to PHP, I’m basically lost after echo date(‘m/d/Y’); lol.
Any help is appreciated, thanks.
PS
I am using a regular WordPress install, not MU and would like to keep it that way.
just a thought: How about the intruder coming from another end than wordpress? There are so many theoretical ways to enter some data in the database.
Of course that doesn’t mean it’s not a wordpress problem – just to keep an eye on other things too.
Our website uses the WordPress.com TOS made available as a CC license: http://en.wordpress.com/tos/
I assume you know the email login plugin? Do you mean you want to give the user the choice, have either work?
With the default theme shipped with Buddypress 1.2 I noticed that comments on BP pages (Activity Stream, Members pages, Group Pages, etc) are pretty powerful and (obviously) support all the cool features in Buddypress, whereas comment con WordPress pages and posts are plain UGLY
I’d like to find a solution for this, since I plan on usign WP/BP full time and I want comments to be consistent between all the pages in the site. So there are two routes:
1) Work on WP’s comments.php and try to hook all the features in BP
2) Plug BP’s commenting system directly inside WP, except I can’t seem to find such thing…
Could you suggest me a direction or where to look at? At this point I think it would be much simpler to follow 1), but at some point BP should be bold enough and substitute WP’s commenting system with its much better own commenting system.
So, before putting this on trac and see how I can help, I’d like to hear from you!
Thanks