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Topic: WordPress
There is some activity this morning on Twitter about someone having made a plugin to enable BP to run on regular WP. Well done to the author, but it is not impossible to do as essentially you are recreating the (missing) set of WPMU code; a compatibility layer.
I have seen and used this technique before. Long time followers of the IRC channel may even recall this being discussed in some detail/code samples.
The point of this post is just to say that at the moment this is an unsupported use of BuddyPress. I believe I can speak for the moderators of this forum that where we will of course try to help all users of BuddyPress, any WP-specific problems will be beyond our scope to resolve and that we can’t take any responsibility for any issues further down the line (e.g upgrades) and incompatibillty with any existing BP plugins.
I’ve been looking for solutions for a few days now and after a failed attempt, I am stuck and needing to start over. I managed to get the CSS swapped and BuddyPress to work with the old WordPress theme but the style is off and the forums pages are very misaligned and off the margins.
Can anyone recommend a tutorial that explains exactly which files to edit and exactly what code is needed to work?
Willing to do a reasonable hire as well.
Thanks!
Topic: BuddyPress Twibbon
Just made a Twibbon for BuddyPress. You can add it to your Twitter avatar from within its Twibbon page.
There’s a few WordPress Twibbons already, so I took some initiative and made us one too.
I had a bbPress install that was integrated with BuddyPress the old way. I wanted to switch it over to the new integrated installation but it seems that the way BuddyPress integrates an old install still uses to files of the old install. Presumably this is for people that want to maintain the functionality of a separate install and still have BuddyPress integration. However, there should be a third option to BuddyPress (besides “create new” or “integrate old”) which is to integrate the old database completely to use the integrated component while migrating over an existing database.
I’ve done the following and wanted to confirm this is the correct way to completely integrate a previously used bbPress database. Unless I missed this somewhere, it should be part of the BuddyPress setup or at least included in the doc section about the new bbPress integration.
1. After the BuddyPress upgrade I went through the documented steps to integrate with an existing install.
2. I moved the bb-config.php from the old install location that I gave BuddyPress to the root directory of the WordPress mu install.
3. I edited the wp_sitemeta table and updated the bb-config-location meta key to point to the file in the root directory of the WordPress install rather than in the old bbPress install location.
4. Backed up and deleted the previous bbPress install.
5. (Optional) Attached forum posts that were not part of a group to a new BuddyPress group so the posts were not lost.
As far as I can tell, these steps allow you to completely integrate an old bbPress install into the new BuddyPress paradigm. Can anyone confirm if I missed something here?
Topic: Status Update Cloud
Hey,
I’ve been playing around with this plugin for a while and it’s really cool, generating a cloud of tags based on your posts.
I was wondering if it would be easy to convert to a BuddyPress plugin to show trends in status updates, I think it could be amazing!
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-cumulus/screenshots/
James
Looks like a nice design, and a great way to show what you can do with buddypress by extending it with some other software.
I believe you can make a login form outside of wordpress, just direct the action to the wordpress login page. And make the method post. You can even use this to redirect to the page your on right now.
<input type="hidden" name="redirect_to" value="<?php echo $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; ?>"/>Hi!
I should like to present http://sheepworld.de, a website based on wordpress-mu and buddypress.
About my client and me
Sheepworld is a German company designing and selling postcards as well as various gifts with sheep design. I was working as webdesigner while I was studing. Now I am a lawyer soliciting webdesigners, but work part-time as designer and coder for sheepworld in order to stay in the subject.
About the goals
Sheepworld had in the past many different websites. A Blog, a shop, a children & youth community, corporate page and many more. The aim was to bring them all under one roof. Another aim was a simple maintenance as well as handling of the content by sheepworld’s staff.
Choosing the plattform
I’ll write only about those on the short list. We didn’t choose between free and paid software. The only requirement was an open code.
Since we had experience with typo3 we rejected the idea of using this software, because it was too difficult to handle. Actually I was the only one writing typo script so in emergency no one could fill in. Further it was anything but easy to handle different templates for different pages. And typo3 doesn’t provide many extensions for a community. No offence, it is a great piece of code, but rather for “serious†websites with many domains and editors.
Another candidate on the shortlist was Drupal. And if buddypress had not popped out of nowhere last spring, we would have chosen it. It is in my opinion more complicated, though. And the template handling is not as easy as that of wordpress. In addition sheepworld used wordpress already for blogging and thus there weren’t any reservations among the staff (the editors as well as the technicians).
I confess that I had some doubts as to the development of buddypress, for it was brand new. But after watching Automattic’s or better Andy Peatling’s passionate work on it and its rapidly growing community I was sure it won’t become a flash in the pan.
Ups and Downs
The most prominent advantage of buddypress & wordpress is the simplicity of the development process. After one week of study you can develop own plugins and templates, which will allow you extending buddypress easily and safely. However, basic knowledge of html, css, php is necessary. I recommemd to get acquainted with jQuery as well. Sure thing, one can install buddypress w/o these languages, but in case of problems it might become an ordeal to find a solution.
Further buddypress is transparently written and allows finding solutions w/o having a code documentation. For instance, if you want to understand how an avatar is displayed you first search in the template files for a function that does this. Than you look for the function in core files (or just enter it on google) and see how the function is applied.
Thirdly, updating of wordpress and buddypress is a dream. As long as you follow this procedure “backup-deactivate plugins-update-activate buddypress-activate other plugins†there shouldn’t be any trouble.
The downside of this simple and understandable code is that it doesn’t go quite easy on resources. Thus we had to install a caching solution (we chose “W3 Total Cacheâ€-plugin, which runs really well and supporty gzip as well as eAccelerator on the server in order to cache compiled php code. This is not a big deal, though. The issue is that pages for logged in users cannot be cached. Imagine you would get cached activities or an admin bar with cached notifications of someone else. So the caching speeds up the page only for non-logged-in users. This may take the load from your server and speed up the whole page, but my wish is a caching system for logged in users (don’t ask me how
).Another downside results from the young age of the project. There are still features missing (native gallery, native privacy options, no Ts&Cs checkbox during registration) and the documentation isn’t very extensive. But these features are coming up and the community delivers a lot of solutions.
Combining with other Software
Beside to wordpress and buddypress we are using the OXID shop system for the shop, PHPlist for the newsletter and osTicket for the support system.
Implementing osTicket was quite easy. All I head to do was including wordpress’ header and footer into the contact form.
However this didn’t work with the Shop, so we had to create a static version of the header and footer and include them as html into the shop’s templates (we do it every 24h by using a cron job). The downside: There are no user features (login fields, notifications) within the admin bar on that page.There are also plugins that allow connecting PHPlist with wordpress.
User & Staff Experience
The users adopted fast the new page as well as the editors. However, I cant say anything about using buddypress as platform for a blog network, since we don’t use this feature. Our users may only create groups and forums. Summing up my client and me we are very happy and recommend buddypress.
STOP TALKING!
Alright, I stop my monologue here, a far more extensive version (German) can be found in my blog: http://www.advisign.de/webdesign/2009-12/sheepworld-de-ein-schafiges-projekt-mit-wordpress-mu-und-buddypress
If you have any questions, plz feel free to ask them.
Thanks
A big thank goes to the whole community and especially to Andy Peatling for the great work and the support! Our sheep appreciate your involvement in creating their new meadow.
You’ll have to move from wordpress to wpmu first.
http://mu.wordpress.org
Agree with you on the option.
Rather than using “forums” slug for group forums directory, I will rather use it for external forums. Instead, I will consider using group-forums slug for that.
Again, why use two copies of bbpress if you want external forums, why not use a single copy but with the tighter integration.
Well, why I said It should not be Integrated.
Currently,Is there anyway for the site admin to manage all the forums on a buddypress at one place.No.
Can You manage all the topics from one place, no , you have to visit individual groups to manage it.
bbpress has been in existence ,before even the conception of buddypress,so how about the people who are already using it as a standalone software,or on their wordpress/wpmu site.We may not force them to install buddypress for using/keep using forum.
I hope ,There are other various reasons why It should not be merged.
But again,I too wish ,there should be more better integration.
Topic: Navbar issues
Hello all. I searched around and could not find any specific information in regards to this and the edits I have attempted do nothing. Basically, I am trying to setup a way that the navbar stays in an bsolute position. Right now it justifies to the right, but if the page is made smaller it starts to have some strange effects that I am not too happy with. Here is the link to the site I’m currently working on: http://www.up-your-game.com/wordpress-mu/
Using firebug I can see the container fields and would like to do a couple of things:
1) Make the navbar reside on the bottom portion of the header field.
2) Make the navbar stay in it’s position even when the page is made smaller; i.e. make scrollbar appear instead of moving the navbar position.
I guess a better way to explain it would be that when the navbar is about to collide with the logo field, I would like the navbar to NOT move and instead, create a scrollbar. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Just want to ask if our new wordpress site http://www.harvesteating.com which was built using thesis theme, can be converted to buddy press so we can use the social features of buddy press
I had asked my developer this awhile ago..cant remember what he said..so thought I would inquire here.
any pointers? site is on wordpress.org now…self hosted…
Keith
