BuddyPress.org

Yes, you are right.You need to create a custom component.

here is a great way to start.

Download the skeleton component from here and have a look, you will see ,how can you do it.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-skeleton-component/

I changed the mail address from noreplay to a real one.

That fixed the spam problem for me.

See this plugin:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/mail-from/

So you’re saying you want to use the BuddyBar outside of WordPress?

If so, this article helped me:

http://dev.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2009/10/12/displaying-the-buddypress-admin-bar-in-other-applications/

I used this on a Moodle install and it worked.

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Is your homepage powered by WordPress? If so, the answer will be much easier.

Let us know what your setup is.

Standard bbpress installations have their own admin panel. Since bbpress is actually a totally seperate software it just has a nice extra that it can intergrate with wordpress. So if you installed it manually and did not use the already made bbpress in buddypress, then you can make and administrate your bbpress from its admin panel. If you used the bbpress in buddypress then you won’t have a handy admin panel.

Erich,

Here you go:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/seo-for-buddypress/

I dug through the folder structures to find that the old Plugins folder in wp-content was /plugins/ while the 2.8.6 folder is /mu-plugins/

The plugins folder should always be /plugins/.

/mu-plugins/ are for plugins you want to run sitewide; these plugins are automatically activated; you generally never put regular WP plugins in there!

I suggest starting your install over:

https://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WPMU

If you’re upgrading, restore your backup DB and your previous MU files and read this:

https://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_WPMU

If you’d like to associate a blog with a group, you could use Marius Ooms’ BP Groupblog plugin:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-groupblog/

Most likely the group filter will pick up the blog as a group.

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There’s also Andy’s External Feeds plugin:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/external-group-blogs/

Which you can use to grab an RSS feed and it will populate the group activity and site-wide activity streams.

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About the other questions, I don’t have time to delve into it!

Maybe a mod or someone else can help you.

RTFM https://codex.wordpress.org/wp_list_pages

I’m testing the plugin and it’s got some severe limitations. It cannot handle recurring events and I can’t get it working globally. I am also testing Events Manager 2.0rc2. It seems much more capable of complex functions and display.

This is a good and clear guide for you:

http://www.kristarella.com/2009/05/how-to-move-wordpressmu/

To get rid of Pages, I followed the directions on the link specified above:

Using the following piece of code, the Pages will display without heading and in Page Order:

<?php wp_list_pages(‘sort_column=menu_order&title_li=’); ?>

It can be kind of hard to find, it’s about half way down the page on this link: https://codex.wordpress.org/wp_list_pages

Try the custom filters for BP plugin – https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-profile-filters-for-buddypress/

Allows you / your users to be more prescriptive about what BP ‘auto-links’. Don’t think it will completely stop BP auto-linking some things – though you could, if you wished, tell the plugin to exclude ALL fields from being auto-linked.

You / users can also use the square brackets ‘[ ]’ in profile fields to specify words or phrases they do want linking.

The plugin’s pretty handy for specifying fields like web site / twitter that shouldn’t be auto-linked.

Watch your escape quotes. Each time you write a double quote, it ends the previous quoted segment. If you start a quoted string with double quotes, use single quotes to indicate quotation marks inside. It works as vice versa as well.

If you already knew that and simply wrote it all with double quotes for your demonstration, I would advise that you double check your path to your image.

A word of advice about paths: it is usually a good idea not to hard-code the whole path. It will work on your site if you get it right, but if you ever move things it will break. Instead, use defined constants to represent these path components. WP_PLUGIN_URL points to your plugins directory, and get_option(‘siteurl’) will assume the value of your root domain, with http://. Here is a link that has some more of these useful constants.

Hope this helps.

That is a great method @dpolant! I however wanted to insert this snippet here before

<blockquote>

but it’s not accepting it. Mainly the url value is not accepted I think, how is that done correctly?

$activity_content .= "<img height="20" width="20" class="bla" alt="bla" src="http://wordpress.mu/(...)/bla.png"/><blockquote>"

Thanks!

Hmmm – I installed the Plugin from Dennis Morhard “Invitation Code Checker” (https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/invitation-code-checker) and changed the text a bit, so that my users know, which the code is when they register. Since then (a couple days now) ZERO spam signups… I hope it stays like that and the plugin is not too upset, that I misuse it