BuddyPress.org

The only media options right now are third-party plugins.

BP-Gallery seems to be close to a release for v1.2 – http://buddydev.com (paid plugin)

Kaltura for BP hasn’t been updated to v1.2. I would suggest you contact them for an update:

http://wpveda.com/buddypress-kaltura-media-component/

I wouldn’t be too worried about this. Any software (inc. wordpress) is filled with functionality that has been patented before one way or another (and the facebook news feed patent includes many elements that have been patented by other companies before). Most of these patents have so much prior art that they would never hold up in court. If wordpress core and plugin devs had to check for existing patents for every single function they added wordpress development simply woudn’t be possible and grind to a halt.

A second issue is that software patents aren’t valid outside of the US, so if you’re really paranoid about this kind of thing you can always host your site in Europe.

Well, to be honest that pretty much sums up CSS doesn’t it – ‘just way too much css tweaking required’. Every site I’ve ever developed has required a fair bit of CSS tweaking / hacking / fighting!

As someone who hacked BP1.1 into a premium WP theme (and boy was that a headache!) I actually found that in comparison, BP 1.2 with @andy’s BP Template Pack was a dream. Granted, to get it exactly how you want it takes a little work, but I managed to update a new WP theme in under an hour! Then gradually bringing in BP css from the default theme along with some changes of my own has pretty much worked for me.

The default structure / css is never going to work for everyone – I think it has to follow WP to a point, after all, they’re related apps – but look at it this way: at leastyou haven’t had to create a whole social networking plugin!

@timnicholson – let me know if / when you’ve knocked together the tutorial and I’ll throw in any useful tips that I come across as I finish my own mods.

I agree that this is more difficult than it should be. I’m finding that when I try following the buddypress codex on this with using @imports, the admin bar works fine, but pulling in the default theme css screws up a lot of things. I’ve found that just grabbing the default buddypress theme’s css sytles that are in addition to the core wordpress ones is working better.

I really think that the buddypress default theme should do a better job at segregating core wordpress css tags from the buddypress specific ones. The buddypress-specific css styles seem to be too dependend on the core wordpress ones. For example, core wordpress typically removes the dots from

• entries and the wordpress sub-nav tabs assume that’s already done. I’d like to see the buddypress specific tabs assign all the css properties they need so those can be pasted into an existing theme with ease.

While I’m making progress, the time involved to get it perfect is too high. Not to mention buddypress really adds a lot of overhead and slows down my site. I haven’t even installed the bbpress forums yet as I’m scared to death of what that will do to site performance. I’m on a dedicated server, too, and its just not good.

I’m thinking about writing a tutorial on my site http://xtremelysocial.com to document what I’m doing to help others with this. However, regarless of what tutorials get published, in the end there is just way too much css tweaking required.

I just upgraded to BP 1.2.1 (from BP 1.1.3) last night and noticed that right away. In fact I created a brand new user, logged in as them, and then deleted my account… only to find out that I wasn’t logged out by the deletion. So I manually logged out… and then logged back in as the deleted user. All of my activities on the site had been erased but the user was definitely still there.

I had to go into the admin dashboard and delete the user from the WordPress MU Users list.

So I guess this is a bug then?

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-real-names/

I tried that but the registration form doesn’t change and all and when I click the Buddypress button in the site admin it redirects me to my homepage. The title of the plugin sounds good, but if it worked that would be better.

You have to go inot the BP folders that are added to the theme, and wherever there’s a “content” div, match that up to the HTML markup in the original theme.

If it;s overly complicated in the theme – yeah, pain in the ass. (which is why there’s unfinished themes on my hard drive )

@Andrea_r it was globalpress bought it from themeforest pain in the bum to do.

I basically follow the steps as in the Buddypress template pack, however I have had issues with matching up the div and content classes / containers.

I know that once I have actually done it once, I will be able to do it again but its a nightmare, I think the theme is overly complicated.

don’t forget to vote for and rate other buddypress plugins you’ve tried: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tags/buddypress

Code revised to give protection even if buddypress gets deactivated: adds a second line of defence by hooking a wordpress action too. I’ve assumed that there’s no conflict here, but I don’t know if these two hooks collide. It seems to work ok.

<?php

/*

Plugin Name: BuddyPress Lockdown

Plugin URI: https://buddypress.org/

Description: Lock down your BuddyPress site if a user is not logged in.

Author: Andy Peatling & Andrew_S1

Version: 1.2

Author URI: https://buddypress.org/

Site Wide Only: true

*/



function bp_lockdown() {

global $bp;



if ( BP_REGISTER_SLUG != $bp->current_component &&

BP_LOGIN_SLUG != $bp->current_component &&

BP_LOGIN1_SLUG != $bp->current_component &&

!is_user_logged_in() ) {

bp_core_redirect( site_url( BP_LOGIN_SLUG ) );

}

}

function wp_lockdown() {

if ( !is_user_logged_in() ) {

auth_redirect( 'wp-login.php' );

}

}



add_action( 'bp_init', 'bp_lockdown');

// if no buddypress, have a backup plan

add_action( 'send_headers', 'wp_lockdown');

?>

I pasted Burt’s code to the end of function.php and I get a blank page

Did I miss something?

[wordpress2.9.2 + buddypress1.2.1]

What theme was it? Some themes are pretty straightforward, some are a nightmare. (I’m working on a pile of them in my “spare time”)

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wpmu-new-blog-defaults/ This is the one most of us have been using.

I actually found this quite difficult and still cannot convert a theme! Damn by technical capabilities.