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Yes thanks again Brajesh Singh. I’m using mediatemple.com and went to admin and selected to use php5. Not working yet. However I’d suppose it might take some time.

Only “error” I’ve discovered thus far, Im very pleased. Cheers to the wordpress Org. people.

Ok, I would like to say that I appreciate everyone’s post to this topic. The site is open and anyone can join as of now. It’s live and I never really said I was going to sit around for five years. A lot of people are getting that idea. I think one person actually got the idea that I am trying to do.

@Mariusooms

Drupal is a good software but, slow for development just like you had said. That’s a good reason why we didn’t use that software.

@David Lewis

I don’t think we’re going to fork it.

@Andrea_r

Yes, we would have our own custom code and maybe a whole new platform. That wouldn’t be a bad thing. At least I wouldn’t think so. I would love to talk to another developer and see what they thought. I have a few in my contacts maybe I’ll give them e-mail and see what they think.

Everyone here as actually looked at the idea not the possibility. I just wanted to know if wp and bp could handle a service like this? I am thinking about wordpress.com and how many users they might be running. If it’s in the thousands than good. We can at least learn where the faults might be(if any) that might be preventing them from growing. The whole idea in a nutshell is to have a social networking site that anyone can join and use. Of course we wouldn’t want to be bloated and non-usable.

P.S.- No I am not trying to sound harsh, mean, or any other unkind word that someone may think of. Just tired and cranky from a long day:)

@Mike Pratt

I think a lot of people are misunderstanding what I was asking. I am impressed with the two software but, we’re looking into the coding part not just the functionality of the software. I have used the wordpress software out of the box before. I have never tried to mess with the guts until now. That’s why I posted a few examples of what we were trying to do with the software. I am trying to get an idea of how much the coding could be changed without breaking and then becoming unusable to members. Bp out of the box is really generic and why create just another generic site? Just trying to change the code so it works for us. When I have changed some coding the site breaks and I get some errors. And no I am not asking how to do it.

@superbloggernl

No, I am not trying to do either of your options. I have a realistic ideal and just need some input on what wp and bp can actually do. That’s all. I love the wordpress platform for blogging. That is one reason why we choose wordpress. I just want to make sure we’re going the right route. No complaining here!

Ok, we’re not going to put every service on the internet in one site. We’re going to do certain services that involve social networking. Also the services that we will be offering is going to be on different sub-domains as well on different services.

Let me give you an example:

We’re working on a service for artist and people who love music (similar to purevolume).

On our site they would be on artist.domain.com and this service would be on one server.

Another network would consist of people who are looking for sitters.

They also would be on another sub domain with it’s own server.

So, there would be no bloating. Yes and of course we would integrate other services into our site like google and yahoo. We don’t wont to be a hub for other services. I mentioned facebook and myspace just because of the apps they provide. Facebook has also a business industry that will be part of our services as well. I should have explained myself a little better. Social Networking could be more advanced then what it is today. Why join multiple sites when you could get more than one service on one site? Maybe at the most we would have 10 whole services that would hopefully attract a large group. These services would be popular among internet users. I hope this makes better sense. We just need to know what wordpress can and can’t do. If we’re wasting our time then we might as well throw out wordpress and start our own platform. That would mean deleting everything including members. Maybe I will do a survey of the 10 or so services that we want to offer and see what the public would think. Sorry for the long post.

Ummm. I haven’t gotten the whole idea of wordpress coding yet. So, what someone else has used I can’t ever get it to work on our pages. I tried to use your function above but, no luck. I am thinking that I need to somehow call the main files in wp but, really have no idea of how to do it successfully yet.

Well I have figured out a way for members to navigate through our site without the buddy bar but, I am not sure if it’s correct or not. I used the following link on pages that are not apart of wordpress. http://www.chatterbing.com/wp-login.php

Since that page and the home page already redirects users to their account. I was actually looking for a more technical method. Please give feedback on this method or maybe a new method that I haven’t tried yet.