This error has been fixed in 1.2.4. The problem was with the introduction of setting a default groupblog theme in the backend. Now we set the default as wordpress would upon installation, so it doesn’t choke when you do not select an initial theme.
We never came across this error, since we already selected a groupblog theme, once you do that you’ll never be able to reproduce that error. If you do, please tell us step by step how to reproduce and what your ‘saved’ settings are in the groupblog wp-admin section.
I believe Andy is waiting for WordPress 2.9 to come out, since that version will have a lot of media related updates. Not sure when it’ll release, but will most likely be very soon.
In the meanwhile you could use kaltura or the buddypress picture album plugin.
Your request will not be responded too btw, the buddypress development theme wont start basing their core on other people’s plugins. If you want something like that, ask the wpmu dev team to create this once it’s build into buddypress.
Hey Guys and Gals who code this wonderful product,
I have one hopefully simple question. I’ve got a site that’s in active development that I’m waiting patiently for the Photo Album features that’s promised on the /About page:
“Photo Albums (Late 2009)
Members of a BuddyPress installation will be able to create their own photo albums. These albums can be shared with friends and groups.
Each member will be given a certain amount of space, which can be set by the site administrator. Albums and photos can be tagged. It will also be possible to browse public photos via photo tag pages that other members can browse (just as you browse blogs via tags on wordpress.com)…. blah blah blah….”
That roadmap says late 2009, yet this roadmap:
http://buddypress.org/about/roadmap/
Says absolutely nothing about the Photo Album Features in any of the next four releases.
I’m not in a terrible rush our anything, just want to know what the timeframe is for that feature.
Keep up the good work… I love what you are doing so far.
Request: not sure if you would do this or if the folks over at premium.wpmu.org would, but they have a supporter plugin that restricts certain features of Buddypress to paying members… it would be wonderful in the photo albums would tie into that. (ie- paying member can have more space or more ablums or both.)
does the vBulletin integration to WordPress could work with Buddy
“DOES NOT and WILL NEVER support WordPress MU”
I’m not farmiliar with vBulletin, but if your sure 90% of Buddypress will be useless, why not totally use vBulletin (not that I agree with you that buddypress is only good because of it’s groups and forum)?
ok, i want to add flash games with scores integrated to my community. i already have the vBulletin ibproArcade which work perfect even if have too much features, but that’s all…
so, the question would be… does a arcade game exists for WP/buddy … and if not, does the vBulletin integration to WordPress could work with Buddy? http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=205388 is the one!
if there is no arcade but the vbulletin integration works, i would have to drop the forums/groups and use vBulletin instead… so 90% of buddypress would be useless… SO we need a buddypress solution, isn’t it?
lol
the “adminbar” is set inside buddypress/wpmu, you can use ANY WordPress theme and the adminbar will rise.
the theme you show here can be used for a user’s blog, but would require a rewrite if you want to use it as the front page theme… as it does not contain a single buddypress tagged function… but it could be used for it…
Done that, been there. Works brilliantly.
1. Install WPMU.
2. Install Buddypress.
3. Change your keys in wp-config.php.
4. Install bbPress with intergrated settings (make sure you use the new keys you made). Make sure you install it in /forums and not in /forum because buddypress will nicely redirect his own /forums to your newly made bbPress install.
5. When everything works good, use this plugin.
Edit: Btw, if you wanna use buddypress login/profiles you can just use redirects.
Worked a charm for me.
In trying to find the definitive process for integrating bbPress and BuddyPress to create a forum, with sophisticated user profiles.
bbPress is a fantastic forum application, but falls a little short when it comes to plugins and features (compared to WordPress). Having it work hand-in-hand with BuddyPress (WPMU) is a fantastic premise, but I can’t seem to find a definitive guide to doing this.
The best I’ve found is nearly a year old:
http://theeasybutton.com/blog/2009/04/30/integrating-buddypress-10-wpmu-and-bbpress/
And fails to achieve synchronized logins or true integration with the latest versions.
So I was wondering, if we could collectively lay out the steps to integrating the latest versions of each of the big 3 apps:
- WordPress MU 2.8.6
- BuddyPress 1.1.2
- bbPress 1.0.2
My goal is to have WPMU and BuddyPress as the root install (www.domain.com), bbPress in a /forums/ sub-directory (www.domain.com/forums), and have the users and logins synced between the two.
BuddyPress.org has essentially done this already, and I’d love to know how 
I should say, I’m not looking to use the Groups or Forums functionality of BuddyPress, just primarily the profiles. Private messaging would be nice, but that’s just icing on the WP-Buddy-BB cake
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Hi,
We have installed in our website wordpress mu 2.8.2 and buddypress
yesterday we have upgraded wordpress mu to 2.8.6 and now users can´t upload avatars.
They get this error
“¡Error en la subida! El error fué: El tipo de archivo no se ajusta a las directivas de seguridad. Prueba con otro.”
What can be happening?
Yours,
Francisco
Very nice! How did you get the Feature Content Gallery Working with WordPress MU?
We have a total of 5, Joomla, affiliate program, pligg, youtube clone software and, open-x ad server. They all have profiles and we want to integrate them into wordpress. Joomla could do all of this but, we liked the word press platform for blogging. All software that is currently running on our servers will be developed further. We just need to get it integrated before we go further. The dashboard would be the main place for users to see and edit the services that they allow. We will be adding more services but, these will be developed as a plugin.
We have thought about developing these services around wordpress but, we wouldn’t get the same features or results. The cost of hiring developers would eat us alive as well. We would have to hire help to pull this off if we developed ourselves.
Ummmm. So if someone has done it with mediawiki & wordpress then it’s possible to do it with others. Once I read the links that you posted I’ll get to work on this. If I am successfull I will post it here. I’ll do the same with the dashboard too. Thanks for your reply!
Yeah, mine has the same problem too…Ive tested the xmlrpc and the additional “$bb->bb_xmlrpc_allow_user_switching = true” code in bb-config.php file, added the bp-group plugin but still no luck in getting rid off the “There was an error posting that topic” message. It seem to be happening with all the sudden..or it may be a side effect of me activating certain plugins which I may not realize the effect of it.
Anyway i think my xmlrpc communicates well with the class.ixr file by using a plugin named xmlrpc – Say hello from bbPress. The expected output produces successfully which I think the source of the problem may not be from the xmlrpc thing.
I’m using bbpress 1.01, WordPress MU 2.8.1 and Buddypress 1.0.3.
Really appreciate if someone could provide me suggestions.
You guys rock!!!
Getting wordpress to play nice with other software has been an issue for a long……. time. Only thing I’ve seen so far is a link between wikimedia and wordpress.
http://ciarang.com/posts/mediawiki-with-wordpress
You could use that as a guide to create a bridge between wordpress and your own software.
(This is a very outdated plugin, so some stuff in there might need replacing.)
A user dashboard on the front has come to discussion before on these forums, but no one has done or tried anything yet (as far as I know). Would be interested in this as well, keeping the users away from the complicated and scary admin panel. 
Edit: Found another one, this one connects to phpBB.
http://www.wp-united.com/
Hello,
I don’t know where to find the right information to build a bridge between to connect the word press to other software. Instead of having users sign-up more than once. Is there information that I could read to do. I think all we need to do is make sure that the databases use the same user name, password, etc.
Also how hard is it to create a dashboard for the main site (not the blogs)? A page that all of their information is on and they can navigate from there to edit their information. I am new to wordpress and need a little assistance.
Hey,
I have seen this talked about here before, it is becoming a serious problem for me, I’m getting around 20 fake account signups a day, all of the same format. They look like this:
username: ernestforeman1955
email: ernestforeman1955@eusermail.com
name: Ernest Foreman
about: 4QIqzqoBHhr
I have both the latest versions of SI CAPTCHA Anti-Spam and Akismet, all on the latest version of Buddypress and WordPress MU.
This is becoming an epidemic and a serious problem for many Buddypress sites, any suggestions as to how we can work to stop it?
James
Reporting issues with the WordPress blog export function should go on to the WordPress forums or Trac. It’s not to do with BuddyPress.
Please everyone keep posts here on topic, civil and polite.
Marius,
If you read the English, it was a comment regarding the WordPress Export function (which exports posts and page but not it seems the blogroll) … not your plugin.
That seems like an awfully strange and unnecessary omission … and a PITA to administer when it comes to having rebuild a community by hand.
I am sorry but spending one’s times to ‘beta testing’ other folks’ software, and bug reporting back, is also service to the community and improves it.
Nothing good comes from being oversensitive about fair observations … especially those addressed in polite enough terms to others.
There’s Andy’s External Blogs plugin for Groups:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/external-group-blogs/
You need to create a group first in order to take advantage of this.
If you’re looking for external blogs for your personal activity stream, there isn’t one… yet.
Thank you gentlemen.
I would love to get my theme working via official means. I’ve tried for a few weeks now to follow Jeff’s instructions (which he has kindly provided to me for the third time above) with no luck.
Because all my bp CSS and formatting is written for the now deprecated bpskeletonmember theme, following the “I’ve used a WordPress theme for my blog with the default BuddyPress member theme†instructions from the above link results in a member theme without my CSS after I delete the bp-themes directory. That’s why I was asking how to salvage the deprecated theme. I’m a little desperate now as I only have until weeks end to work on this.
I wish it was that simple but, it doesn’t work like that for our site. Our main page is located on a subdomain outside of WordPress it self. When people refer to our main domain then they are redirected to home.subdomain.com. From there they can log in. When new visitors try to register they can gain access to the entire site through this page.
I repeat myself: if you have come up with a patch which improves I18n in WordPress, then create a ticket on the core WP trac so people can look at it.