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I’d put a download manager on your site anyway.

That’s pretty much how to do it. You have to go thru the BP files you added to your theme and change the markup to match your WP theme.

@geoffm33 – ah yes I can instantly understand why. You can tell my test sites don’t often exceed 20 users! Sorry for this and I will get a fix out this evening.

And the delete_blog_option – I’m actually blaming this on BuddyPress as it has missed this function from its regular WordPress compatibility files. Again fix out this evening.. thanks very much for the feedback, it is appreciated.

I’ve tried this on two standard WordPress themes and it breaks the CSS in the theme each time at the content section. any ideas on this?

These are the directions I used.

https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/

BP isn’t remotely accessible – you need to load the PHP files. I do not have a working knowledge of Flex but I suggest you look into WordPress/bbPress “deep integration” and find out which files in the bbPress theme header are included to bring in WordPress.

We need to version that .zip otherwise we are going to have to wade through hundreds of confusing topics in future BP versions.

That looks like what everybody needed

Great, the zip is filled with loads of .tmp, .svn, _MacOSX files though (346 files in 187 folders!). Andy/whoever made it, maybe it should be repackaged?

Also, the instructions on https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/ are a bit confusing; if somebody got it working, maybe they can edit the documentation with some example codes?

I’m still working on this, I’ll post an update when I know more. It’s out of my control right now.

Does this help? https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/

There’s wp-answers https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-answers/ too, for rating comments on wordpress posts. It’s a rough plugin that lurches into Spanish now and again, and doesn’t work on buddypress forums. However, it might offer a few more clues on how to get there.

The other thing to do would be to look for a buddypress plugin https://buddypress.org/extend/plugins/ for forums that added some metadata to forum posts.

Please do report back if you make any progress – I’ll be interested to hear how it goes.

And if I make progress with my mailman <-> forum plugin, I’ll let you know how I went about adding metadata to, and manipulating, forum posts

Anytime you want.

My install of BP 1.2 final on my WPMU doesn’t seem to work with the v1.6 Welcome Pack plugin. It activates fine, preferences save, but when new users join, they’re not welcomed with anything. Any ideas why it installs fine but doesn’t seem to work at welcoming new users? Thanks.

pjnu – Works for me. What type of WordPress MU install do you have (example.com/blogs or blogs.example.com). Anythign in your error log? Emails not being caught as spam?

Exactly. I believe this to be off-topic, but try disabling BuddyPress. If the issue still occurs, then it’s a WordPress problem. If it only breaks *when* you enable BuddyPress, file a report on http://trac.buddypres.org/ using your username and password from this site.

@Andy

Do you have an updated ETA on the WP theme to BP theme tutorial mentioned above? Thanks!

I assume that people told you this before when you reported, but just in case: this is a WordPress issue rather than a Buddypress issue, I’m pretty sure.

Reporting the bug here won’t help much — if nobody has an answer on the forum here, you’d be better off seeking some help through the WP/WPMU support system.

If you know a bit of php, I’d try Prelovac’s WordPress Plugins. Actually, even if you don’t konw PHP, I’d get a php book and this book and WordPress Complete 2.7.

You could also just learn wordpress-specific php online. Read up on template tags, loops, functions. Again php is helpful to understand how all this functions. Don’t worry about MySQL.

Not sure what to do about BP as there is no real book that covers 1.2, but the Dummies book should explain the concepts.

I am currently testing the flashchat script which is cheap – only $5 – on one server, wnd will be testing integration with phpbb and with wordpress to see how it works.

Someone wrote an integration script for it and wordpress 2,7 –

http://forum.tufat.com/showthread.php?t=49926

so I am thinking it may work – although the script has user roles from wordpress for user, moderators and admins – it says it does not pull the info for gender icons – If someone would modify that it would be awesome, as it is cheap.

I have looked into the ajaxchat, and it looks cool with the way it can integrate into buddypress, was that on wpmu.org I think? – But as I commented there, I am concerned about the ajax chat and server resources, and privacy issues. Not that I have had any issues with it, I just imagine with a lot of people using it at once it may start to hiccup since it relies on sql for messaging. I would love to here real world performance issues with it running 75 users at once on a shared server.

An integrated chat room would be awesome – wish I could help more with it!

(now back to my learning php for dummies book) sigh.

I use realchat ( Realchat dot com )on a couple of websites, and it is really solid – it’s not the cheapest thing out there, but it’s also not the most expensive.

Unfortunately there is no buddypress or wordpressmu integration, although there are free integration plugins for vbulletin, phpbb, drupal, and others. So I would think that a plugin developer could look at the code on this page:

http://www.realchat.com/doc/database-integration.html

and create a plugin that would allow logging in via wordpress/buddypress and show buddypress avatars – that would be awesome. In fact I would pay $100 for someone to make that a reality.

BP inherits the registration system from WordPress, so therefore you’d need to override WP’s username functionality.

Yes, I made a plugin for this called BuddyPress My Friends Widgets. Let me know if you have any issues with it! https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/my-friends-widgets-for-buddypress/