I ended up using this plugin and I am really happy with it: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-mu-sitewide-tags/
Tags, Categories and search (if you want to) – works great!
I’ve just installed , Buddypress 2.8.4a, (using my host’s cpanel – so I assume it was installed correctly) and I’m using sub-domains.
I haven’t made any admin changes whatsoever except turn on/activate the four themes that come packaged with the install and then tried to activate each one to check them out.
WordPress ‘classic’, ‘default’ and ‘mu homepage’ all work fine.
When I click to activate ‘BuddyPress Default Home Theme 1.0.3 by Andy Peatling’ my site shows a completely empty page with no source code in it at all.
When I then go back to activate one of the other three themes the ‘BuddyPress Default Home Theme 1.0.3’ does not show in the activate window as the current theme either.
Is there something I’m overlooking here as this is a completely clean install and I haven’t touched anything else at all except tick the theme boxes in site admin.
Demo Data Creator
For anyone looking to populate a test site with BuddyPress data, this seems to be the right way to go.
This thread is a) old, b) about plugins rather than BuddyPress itself and c) about to be eaten by a grue.
Any uncompatibilities need to be discussed with the authors of these plugins. There is also enough google results about jquery incompatibility with WordPress and plugins.
Is there a way I can place the BuddyBar inside the div header? So take it out from the current level (where it is placed with the footer, container and header). The thing is I want to give it an absolute positioning inside the header and not inside the whole body.
Also how can I disable the buddybar just for the WordPress admin directory?
Thanks and have a great weekend everyone!
Try SEO for BuddyPress:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/seo-for-buddypress/
Make sure you remove your <title> tag in your BuddyPress theme otherwise you’ll have double <title> tags.
Not sure about the plugin’s compatibility with BP 1.1-RC1.
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Also just some friendly words of wisdom… try not to bump your post less than 24 hours after you have posted.
I tried on 1.1rc and r1964 today and both times using the theme provided by buddypress the blog, members, groups, and forums links do not work. They just give a ” page not found” error in the main content and the sidebar widgets load.
I’m using wordpress MU 2.8.4a
Buddypress themes in theme folder only and the bp default enabled and activated.
view site and page loads but those links don’t work and the related buddypress links in the buddypress bar don’t work either.
Normal wordpress posts seem to work fine just not the Buddypress stuff.
WordPress mu is set up to use subdirectories for blogs
Wordpress mu installed in website root.
I read forum threads and didn’t see any solutions for this issue.
I read your example. I need something with a wider net. First off, the robot registration never leave an e-mail address. Unlike WP comment spam, WPMU registration robots appear able to bypass required fields, including e-mail address.
I receive e-mails announcing new registrations that contain only IP addresses. Meaning I would need to include hundreds of IP addresses in your code.
The real solution is somehow create a bullet-proof required registration field or move the registration page behind a firewall. I’ve seen single-user WordPress installations that move the wp-admin or wp-signup pages to avoid robot attacks using the default name and location of these pages.
Did tried this plugin ?
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-members/
Seems to do what you looking for.
@ wordpressfan
Did you read this post ?
I give a solution. Not perfect but it works
https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/fighting-splogs#post-22687
Askimet does great catching spammers comments on regular WordPress installations, but WordPress MU is commonly the target of spam registrations, which is my problem. I tried reCaptcha and the same day had to delete spammers.
I’m hoping a future version of BuddyPress or WPMU will include finer security, allowing admins to block access to only humanly-registered users, rather than either shut off all registrations. Another possibility would be to follow the example of WordPress and allow admins to relocate or rename the registration component.
What socialpreneur said.
Your error message usually means you are trying to run BuddyPress on regular WordPress, not WordPress MU. Are you sure you have installed WPMU? Where did you download it from?
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I am using the latest release of buddypress and wordpress MU and I got a error at the recent site wide activity widget – the information is updated, posted but not written. I mean the row for the update appears but it’s empty. My site is http://www.jurnaldelectura.ro . Can you help me?
beta Version: 1.9.4 – Supports BuddyPress 1.0.3 and 1.1
Same download URL:
http://www.642weather.com/weather/scripts/si-captcha-for-wordpress1.9-beta.zip
Testers?
I think I figured it out.
Anybody with BudyPress 1.1 want to test the registration CAPTCHA for me?
beta Version: 1.9.3
Same download URL:
http://www.642weather.com/weather/scripts/si-captcha-for-wordpress1.9-beta.zip
Since there’s no admin panel in the integrated bbPress, you’d be best to try to port those bbPress plugins into a WordPress one, and add any BuddyPress specific features to it.
Thanks for testing.
Did you install in plugins or mu-plugins?
Did you activate the plugin?
What version does it say it is?
9 hours ago I uploaded beta Version: 1.9.2
Same download URL:
http://www.642weather.com/weather/scripts/si-captcha-for-wordpress1.9-beta.zip
It had a fix for changing settings on WPMU forced activation installs.
Make sure the plugin is newest version or it may contain wpmu related bugs.
Mike
Most such wordpress plugins work with wpmu. The best thing is to build a test site, install each plugin that you are interested, and test it.
Hey wordpressfan, understand that BuddyPress runs on top of WordPress MU so any spam issues are still, at its core, a WPMU issue.
The WPMU readme.txt has some info on how to counter spammers:
https://trac.mu.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/README.txt (read line 165 and on)
For the Darcy Norman link, use WPMUTutorials’ variation for BuddyPress:
http://wpmututorials.com/how-to/spam-blogs-and-buddypress/
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Also, for your suggestion on moderating signups, WPMUTutorials also has an article on that:
http://wpmututorials.com/hacks/how-to-moderate-signups/
Read the last comment in that post for info on modifying the article’s instructions for BuddyPress.
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You might also want to check out SI Captcha:
https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/si-captcha-for-wpmu-and-buddypress
The beta version has support for BP as well.
Hope that helps in some way!
Please help me beta test the next version of SI CAPTCHA
I have tested it in WP – WPMU – BuddyPress and it works for me.
Your testing can help me to be sure..
Here are the changes in this BETA release:
= 1.9 BETA =
– (24 Sep 2009) – Added full WPMU and BuddyPress compatibility. WPMU and BuddyPress users can now protect comment form, registration, and login from spam.
– Added login form CAPTCHA. The Login form captcha is not enabled by default because it might be annoying to users. Only enable it if you are having spam problems related to bots automatically logging in.
– New feature: An “advanced options” section to the options page. Some people wanted to change the text labels for the CAPTCHA and code input field.
These advanced options fields can be filled in to override the standard included text labels.
– Added new advanced options for editing inline CSS style of captcha image, audio image, and reload image.
– Minor code cleanup.
Download the beta here:
http://www.642weather.com/weather/scripts/si-captcha-for-wordpress1.9-beta.zip
SI CAPTCHA plugin site:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/si-captcha-for-wordpress/
Thanks for your help, Mike Challis
Hi JJJ,
are you still working on this ?
Where to find “BuddyPress/WordPress theme repo” ?
Thanks a lot !
Hi guys
As a continuation on from my last post about setting up an advertising site, is there any way to set the user profiles as a normal wordpress page without comments (or set the users blog as a page) ?
Also I want to make certain categories or groups (available on the sidebar) that users can put themselves into when they register.
cheers
Cheers for checking it out. I apologise for my bad description. I am new to Buddypress, and just testing it out at the moment. I just assumed that this was how it worked, much like sub-pages in vanilla wordpress.
