I believe GigaOM is using only extended profiles for BP:
http://pro.gigaom.com/
They’re probably haven’t upgraded to BP 1.1, since it’s a highly-customized WPMU/BP site.
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There’s probably no “gotchas” since you’re turning everything off!
Alkivia is an alternative for user profiles:
wordpress.org/extend/plugins/alkivia/
The header is created out of simple
statements; check out the header.php for details. You can also read the codes.wordpress.org for examples on how to automatically add categories/pages to your menu.
I have the next error uploading an avatar
Warning: getimagesize(Object) [function.getimagesize]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /var/www/html/SITE/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-core/bp-core-cssjs.php on line 93
I can upload files in Post, but not an avatar.
These are my configuration:
PHP 5.1.6 (cli) (built: Feb 26 2009 07:01:10)
Apache/2.2.3 (built: Jul 15 2009 09:02:36)
mySQL 5.0.7
WordPress MU 2.8.4a
BuddyPress 1.1.1
chown USER:apache -R /var/www/html/SITE/
chmod 755 -R /var/www/html/SITE/
chmod 777 -R /var/www/html/SITE/wp-content/blogs.dir/
chmod 666 /var/www/html/SITE/.htaccess
chmod 666 /var/www/html/SITE/wp-settings.php
chmod 666 /var/www/html/SITE/wpmu-settings.php
chmod 666 /var/www/html/SITE/wp-config.php
chmod 666 /var/www/html/SITE/wp-content/wp-cache-config.php
Thanks a bunch!
I need to build a site which features user-maintainable profiles for a professional network. A bit of research on my users suggests that they are turned off by “social networking” features – friends, status updates, etc. It is also not clear at this time that they need blogs, forums or groups.
Fortunately, BuddyPress will let me disable all the components except “Extended Profiles.” Has anyone else done this? Is BuddyPress a usable system with most of its features turned off? Any gotchas?
I’ve done a simple test that looks pretty good except that the “BuddyPress Default Home Theme” displays odd gaps when the only visible features are user profiles and the user directory. Any thoughts on another theme that would be more usable with a minimal feature set, or what I’d want to hack in the default theme?
Thanks.
(P.S. As an alternative to BuddyPress my other thought had been to simply use a plugin that extends user profiles in conventional WordPress. Oddly enough I haven’t found a single one that’s current.)
I installed wordpressmu and then Buddypress and then later installed bbpress. I integrated bbpress with buddypress etc but I cannot see the forum link in > buddypress > groups > forum
I can create a group in buddypress/mu, create a forum and topics in bbpress but not link the two so they appear in buddypress groups. Have I missed something?
Website link is http://gramophile.com
Any help much appreciated.
This is just an opinion from someone who’s never used the plugin… but it’s basically for login / registration ease.
You don’t have to register a new account to become a member of someone’s BP network… just login with your Facebook account!
According to the plugin’s description, there are plans to integrate the friend list and also newsfeed publishing.
You might want to head on over to the WordPress MU forums as it sounds more like a WPMU problem:
https://mu.wordpress.org/forums/
You can login with the same username and password you use here to post on the WPMU forums!
@mark, make sure you upgrade your FeedWordpress plugin as I’m guessing you upgraded from WPMU 2.7.1 to 2.8.4a.
FeedWordPress has undergone major changes since then to be compatible with 2.8+.
Oh! and also overwrite the default WordPress RSS library with FWP’s Magpie RSS library.
For more, read the upgrade installation instructions:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/feedwordpress/installation/
Argggg, I spent 24 hours of non-stop trial and error (considering I am a PHP noob) to make my site work after the buddypress 1.1.1 upgrade. Made a lot of tweaking with the avenuek9 theme to look like how my site used to looked like before the upgrade. I hope you gurus can make this How-to- stuff soon. If you look at my site, its still a mess (http://bloggista.net) but it should be back in its handsome form once those minor issues are ironed out. Like, the recently active avatars are lining up in single file down to the bottom as if they’re queuing for the some firing squad.
Thanks folks, looking forward to it.
Hi snagfly. I’m the author of that plugin. It sounds like the problem is that you activated the bbPress trigger plugin inside of WordPress. As is stated in the readme files, this part of the plugin is only needed if you are running a separate installation of bbPress with BuddyPress 1.0.
If you are running BuddyPress 1.1+, you can safely delete the file bb-group-forum-subscription.php, keeping and activating only bp-group-forum-subscription.php.
I would prefer moving all admin for members out of wp-admin into the site, instead of trying to make wp-admin look more like the site. Keep wp-admin for admin only and put all member functionality in the site.
That’s not a bad idea… just making an admin theme that looks more consistent with BuddyPress. Less jarring for newbies.
Previous to BP 1.1, all user registration was dealt with by WordPress, so it’s technically correct to point people towards existing WordPress/MU resources and forums for help.
Since BP 1.1, however, BP changes the new account confirmation/activation email – because on the standard BP 1.1 signup page, the user can pick their own password. And of course, it’s a security issue if we were to somehow send their (encrypted) password back to them. So BP 1.1 overrides the standard WordPress MU email so it doesn’t include the password text.
But, the activation link is part of WordPress. Yes, the BuddyPress default theme uses this behaviour too – but it calls the WordPress code.
Yes it is confusing for users that you have to make a post to one place and to change your avatar to another.
Well what we are doing now, is putting all buddypress ‘admin’ settings in the wp-admin and reorganized them…
right now we have:
Posts
Comments
Messages
Settings
Appearance
(with submenus off course)
Everything else is stripped out. I can imagine 100 of structuring this, but for this particular install, this is what we needed.
We have very limited time.
So what i did is used an existing “admin theme plugin” and changed it so the wp-admin matches the look and feel of our front end. (think eg. facebook ‘front and back’, or lastfm etc ).
The most difficult part is getting the bp functionality such as messages completely work back end. Which atm we haven’t managed yet.
I’m still lost. I also don’t really have time to look at this until the weekend sometime. Could you help me again please?
Yep, I go to the main blog via Users menu (not site admin>users) and…
Could you give me a sample link (feel free to cut your domain off the beginning), i.e. http://example.com/how_to/get_to_this/page. I’m being a noob and can’t see it 
...EXCEPT the email with username & randomly generated password that should replace that activation email shown above. (I'm thinking this is a wordpress email? Not sure.)
Correct. Welcome Pack doesn’t (or shouldn’t) touch the activation email, which is why this issue is so weird-sounding.
You ARE aware since BP 1.1, if a new user registers via http://testbp.org/register, they are able to pick their password and as such it isn’t emailed to them? (Though they still get a confirmation/account activation email)
@jeff
I appreciate the feedback and perspective. What’s weird is I built a modular php/mysql site circa 2002 basically overusing includes, very basic css and taking functionality from Hotscripts.com’s PHP repository. In fact, what I liked about php was the modularity of what I was doing (even if a bit sloppy). BP/Wordpress seems to promise the same, but frankly the number of sites that deviate from the structure of the standard theme is small (maybe it’s too new). It’s like the complexity of the theme structure has scared people off or the fact that the themes are both style and functionality makes it difficult to be modular.
I’m hard-headed and have no hurried timeline – I’m designing for myself. I’ll probably take this on and suffer the pain of BP’s infancy just like I did in 2002. That was my education. What would be helpful is a methodology for taking on something like this.
My threshhold question is whether to use a theme framework as a starting point or whether that’ll be too restrictive and I just need to bite the bullet and build my own theme. I’d be on the hook for updates (sucks), but it sounds like it may save some pain. My limited understanding of actions/filters is that I should be able to build almost anything from a good theme framework using functions.php and style.css, etc., but not sure if that’s true or whether it’s worth pain of learning that way of developing instead of just tearing apart templates.
I’m sure, by the time I’m done there’ll be dozens of modular BP themes/frameworks to choose from. That’s what happened after I slaved over the site in 2002. Who knew WP was there with plugins for most of the stuff I hardcoded myself.
I assume you mean the plugin Group Forum Subscripton for BuddyPress found here:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/group-forum-subscription-for-buddypress/
You need to contact the plugin developer and provide them with the details about your issue.
I’m moving this thread to the proper forum, “Third Party Components & Plugins”.
Most of the sites that you mention required many weeks to months of hard design and custom coding work. You need the proper design, CSS, and PHP skills to tackle this on your own. Or, you need to hire out an expert WordPress/BuddyPress developer like GigaOM Pro did–or even a team of developers.
Yep, I go to the main blog via Users menu (not site admin>users) and input the username and email address, select skip confirmation email, send. I get all of the notifications welcome pack sends out EXCEPT the email with username & randomly generated password that should replace that activation email shown above. (I’m thinking this is a wordpress email? Not sure.)
The weird thing is when I do the same process from a sub-blog everything behaves the same except I DO get the email with the username & randomly generated password in addition.
In case it helps here’s what happens over 3 tests from each main & sub blog dashboards:
MAIN BLOG DASHBOARD:
1. Broken activation email – came first all 3 times
2. Then these 3 come, random order each time:
Welcome pack welcome email
Welcome pack friend invite email notification
Welcome pack group invite email notification
SUB BLOG NEW USER:
1. Broken activation email
2. Then these 4 come, random order each time:
Account is setup email with username and randomly generated password
Welcome pack welcome email
Welcome pack friend invite email notification
Welcome pack group invite email notification
Using google, beginning to answer my own question.
http://vocecommunications.com/blog/2009/07/expanding-wordpress-with-buddypress-the-tasty-kitchen/
Now I’m wondering if I’m biting off more than I can chew. Anyone else taking on something this aggressive?
I’ve searched and there are lots of posts, so maybe it’s because I’m a noob, but . . .
How do I integrate BP into a site for functionality like the sites on the WP showcase of BP http://wordpress.org/showcase/flavor/buddypress/ ??? Tastykitchen, Tank Wars, GigaOm Pro? We see them on the home page for inspiration, but I’d like someone to explain the methodology.
Not do the work for me (although that’d be nice), but explain:
1) How they went about it – methodolgy
2) What level of modification to BP was necessary
3) What were the key hurdles and how resolved
4) What they learned about BP/WP/bbP from the experience
This would be extremely helpful to me. If my searches were insufficient and someone has a link to this information – please post it.
What happens when you disable FeedWordPress?
If the errors go away, then there is an incompatibility issue with that plugin and the current version of BP and/or version 2.8.4 of WPMU. Contact the plugin developer, provide them with the details about your issue, and ask when the plugin will support BP 1.1.1 and WPMU 2.8.4.
Looking at the listing for FeedWordPress ( https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/feedwordpress/ ), it does not mention that it is even compatible at all with BP. It also indicates that it is only compatible up to version 2.8.1 of WP.
Well, I agree with WordPressfan…
But i’m still stuck 
Hello to all,
we released new version of Buddypress Multilingual.
It works out of the box with Buddypress themes (tested with BuddyPress Default Home Theme 1.0.3).
Next week we are going to see if migration to Buddypress 1.1 will require any adjustments and test it more on guest blogs.
@Erich73: we added switching on the fly. Thanks for suggestion.
