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(This is a very outdated plugin, so some stuff in there might need replacing.)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.
BuddyPress, as it stands will work perfect for a single domain setup, like 99% of the typical audience will predictably use it for, and for wp.com if bits and pieces of it are used for that purpose.
@anointed, this isn’t a “flaw” in the software so much as it is BP floating on top of MU’s infrastructure. With any of the multi-site plugins, when I look at my site-wide users, I still see ALL users registered from ALL domains/blogs/etc… When I look at a particular blogs users, then of course all that exists there are the users of that blog. Because a “site” is just another “blog” the terms here mean the same thing. 1 central user base, and all users rotate around them.
There might be a few hacks and methods to counter this behavior, but they involve checking user-meta for a list of blogs that user “belongs” to above and beyond roles and caps, or adding additional tables to route users around… It just is a strange setup and something that needs to be built custom for that particular need.
Think of how all the *press.org sites work. One central user base, yet you can login to all of bbpress.org, wordpress.org/com, buddypress.org, and all of their respective tracs and blogs, etc… That’s the same thing that BuddyPress does. The MU multi-site plugin does something a little extra, that none of the other platforms really do, and that’s allow multiple domains to use the same installation… bbPress has the power to do something similar, but no one has really explored how to do it yet, but even in that case you’re probably still sharing user tables and just mapping roles and caps again…
Am I making sense yet? haha
I gave up stumbling in darkness and had to remake the blogs in order that they are seen and recognised by Buddypress. A process not helped by WordPress not exporting all information in its admin Export feature.
Serious omission in the code here folks …
The only way to fix it is to delete the older blogs and remake them manually.
Of course, for some crappy reason, WordPress does not actually export a complete archive when you use the admin ‘Export’ function.
This means the fixing a lot of details manually, e.g. Links/blogroll are not archived and all image addresses need to be corrected individually.
The new version is now available at https://wordpress.org/extend/themes/buddymatic.
Also, if you have a minute, can you give it a rating. Someone gave it a rating of 1.
Blogs can have their own users in MU; they always can. The line gets blurry when you start talking about “sites” though, because a “site” is just another blog where users have roles and caps… The WordPress dashboard doesn’t really make this a clear thing visually, but at the end of the day you still only have 1 users table, regardless of how many sites or blogs you setup and how many users have what roles/caps on which blogs/sites.
Dizzy yet?
I’d recommend SB and MB for Single blog and Multi blog. Like Andrea said, it has always kind of been irksome that it was called WordPress Multi User when it really allowed multiple blogs.
I know that it already been brought up in many different forums about this. I read some comments which it confused me a bit. I guess this place is a best place to get the straight answer. WordPress.com is planning to move forward on MU platform however it ll be merging the code with WPMU/WP to be able to run Buddypress. There are different comments made it clear that we still have WPMU for self-hosted platform not merging with WP.
Andy commented on this issue that it will be merged but does that applies on self hosted installation or it will be a single codebase for self hosted platform, right? Time is approaching for v3.0 by 2010 if v2.9 is going to be released soon. Injersey.com created a large project under WPMU platform and many others so I should go ahead to switch over to WPMU/BP right now or still better off to WAIT but WHEN? That’s my dilemma to wait or not.
Hello people,
I am using WordPress MU 2.8.5.2. and buddypress 1.1.1 and faced this problem about new member registration. They are able to register but not able to activate their account. Please advice what could be done.
Sorry if this a repeat of question, but after searching 10 pages. I got a little lost.
Thanks
actually you have two situations here:
1- add plugins to your Buddypress front-end
2- add plugins for your members blogs
if you need plugins for your front-end, check that they are compatible with buddypress but also read the HowTo, because some of them need to be activated sitewide, some not.
if you need plugins for your members blogs, you have to check if these plugins are compatible with WordPress…
notes: do not install plugins that are morethan 300 days old, for safety and compatibility. what works with WPMU will work within Buddypress as well.
and btw, yes, it’s a use it breake it situation in the WordPress community, because not all plugins are coded by pros, and they are not tested before added to the repository. for each plugins you have rating and comments, so read them.
@Bowe
I’m talking about that list of bp only plugins. But in fact currently it lists all the wordpress plugins with “buddypress” tag, no matter if the plugin is really for buddypress or not (like Mingle for example).
Permalinks were set to a custom setting, so I switched to default and now everything is working just fine. Thanks for your help! I’ve been using regular WordPress for a while, but MU and Buddypress have me kind of flummoxed.
btw,try to re save the permalink ,and It will be hopefully solved.
try this
Dashboard->settings->permalink
and just click save.
Go and check,this should solve your problem.In WordPress Mu 2.8.x I have seen this as a common issue and after re saving the permalink ,the problem went away most of the times.
