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I’m trying to integrate P2 in the bp-groupblog plugin. Haven’t tried BP theme template pack.

P2 apparently only works on a regular blog index.php. On a group home (and probably other BP pages like members home etc.) it can’t find the right blog and the Ajax breaks.

The fix probably involves setting the blogID somewhere and changing settings in P2’s js.php. If it’s possible at all…

I appreciate your rationale and enthusiasm, Tim.

It’s because certain issues might not be relevant anymore.

And I doubt Alessandro is reading this thread.

r-a-y, I definitely understand that these days people like to consider older posts and forum threads dead after a short period of time. Some user just like to jump on old stuff without finding the answers in newer threads. However, when there is a dearth of information about a particular topic and people are trying to properly research before posting and all that comes up is old threads, I’m of the opinion that they should be resurrected. Why start a new post asking the same questions and diverging the threads? I’m actively searching for information about this and scrounging through PHP code and websites for answers. I’ve uncovered some good information that I’m trying to share, but am still looking for more answers. If I run a search and it returns all these “dead” threads and no new threads, the masses are going to as well.

Plus, I just replied to other threads offering to help with questions you’ve asked here months ago to which I see no answers. If you’ve figured all this out, why not update those original threads with the answers for newer folks trying to figure things out? If you haven’t figured everything out, then why not be happy that the threads are going active again and information is being shared?

Please don’t take this the wrong way, I just don’t understand why some forums seem to be filled with people complaining about “old” threads being responded to and others appreciate it. And why don’t the forums that are dead-set against replying to old threads, simply close out the old ones?

seanx820, I’m pretty experienced in PHP, WP, and am now diving into BP (since it works on non-WPMU installs). I’ve done a lot of theme mods, including making changes to the navigation links, both in standard WP themes and now in BP themes. My site http://xtremelysocial.com sounds similar to what you are trying to do in that your blog is your main focus, but you want to add social-networking type features on top of that.

One of the big challenges with BP is theme support. There are almost no BP themes out there and adding full BP support to an existing themes is very difficult. However, there are some resources for you to check out.

Your best bet if you want to keep your current theme is to use this plugin. Its very basic and won’t have the BP sections in your site looking sharp, but it will work.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-template-pack/

Also, here are some more details on hacking themes for BP.

https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/

@timnicholson

Why revive an 11-month thread?

Alessandro, I’m a bit confused with what you are trying to do. It sounds like you have a normal (single) WP installation and are looking to go social with it. A lot has happened since you posted this and BuddyPress is now available for single WP installs. I’m testing it out now. In WP v3.0, WordPress MU will be merged with the single WP installation and there will be a migration path. I can help answer questions around this… just let me know some more specifics.

I already had the beginnings of a Thematic/BP theme when I decided to use the BuddyPress default template instead. I had already set up a few pages and posts.

I want to place the BuddyPress menu on the top Admin Bar and my normal WordPress pages as a menu in the header.

For the Admin Bar I tried the code Peter Anselmo posted, but it places ONLY my WP menu in the Admin Bar, but not my BuddyPress menu, as desired. How do I “filter in” only the BP menu?

function mytheme_add_top_pages() {

wp_list_pages( 'title_li=&depth=1');

}

add_action('bp_adminbar_menus','mytheme_add_top_pages');

For the Header, line 85 of bp-default/header.php produces a menu that includes BOTH my WP and BP items. If I comment out this line, I get ONLY the BP menu, but not my WP menu, as desired. How do I “filter in” the WP menu?

How can I get this to work?

Thanks in advance,

PB

If you’re using MU, the best thing to do is go check and see if I wrote a tutorial on it already.

Getting member blog posts on the main page

and https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-mu-featured-posts/

I don’t see why not. This is just a matter of styling the template files for the homepage, blog indexes (index.php) and post pages (single.php) more like a newspaper site would. You’d probably want to have a Print button with each article – there are plugins for that. Several big newspapers already use WordPress.

Our Dear Leader on the subject – scroll down beyond the ridiculously humongous header.

I’m seeing the same behavior where only new members are being added to BuddyPress. I don’t think it has anything to do with where things are installed. I don’t think BuddyPress attempts to add “old” WordPress-only users. You’ll also notice that past blog posts and comments, etc. aren’t shown in your BuddyPress activity stream. However, if you go into an “old” blog post and simply hit update, it gets added to the stream.

What we need is a utility that can be run that will load all the existing WP users into BP. I’d also love to see one that will load up the BP activity stream with WP blog posts and comments as well, but that’s probably asking for too much.

I did find a BuddyPress plugin that talks about being able to import users into BP. However, its not what we are looking for. It is designed to import a list of users that you cut-and-paste into a text box on the plugin. I checked the code and it will only work with WPMU and it will also (re)create whatever users you import into WP as well causing duplicates. https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/user-import-for-buddypress-all-fields/

I’m going to dig around in the BP core to see how it goes about keeping BP and WP users in sync and see how hard it would be to write a program or plugin that would simply trigger BP to add all the existing WP users that aren’t already in BP.

I use this plugin instead of captcha:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/invitation-code-checker/

You can set an ivitation-code and everyone who wants to register has to write the code in a registration-field.

I changed the plugin a little bit for my needs so the code to write is seen on the registration-page.

You need to write a plugin then, and / or delve into the wordpress hooks and functions – best to check out the buddypress codex: https://codex.buddypress.org/

You see, my plugins are designed to work with wordpress, wordpress MU and buddypress…

I am having an awful headache just trying to keep them working up to date, and don’t have any time to make more detailed configurations… Even through I’d like to.

Check out this plugin: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-profile-filters-for-buddypress/

It will allow you to exempt that field from the standard BP search string function. You could also add a little customisation in the settings file to set your Company field to redirect to somewhere else as you’re suggesting here.