Could this be the issue? … I had originally installed my wordpressmu under /wordpress-mu/ but then moved it to the root later. My config file says:
/** The Database Collate type. Don’t change this if in doubt. */
define(‘DB_COLLATE’, ”);
define(‘VHOST’, ‘yes’);
$base = ‘/wordpress-mu/’;
define(‘DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE’, ‘cjmoloneys.com’ );
define(‘PATH_CURRENT_SITE’, ‘/’ );
define(‘SITE_ID_CURRENT_SITE’, 1);
define(‘BLOGID_CURRENT_SITE’, ‘1’ );
Is wrong with editing by hand and chaning the $base = ‘/wordpress-mu/’; ?? Everything on my site works fine except registrations. I don’t even know if this is the cause.
That’s the thing, nothing changed. I moved over some wordpress and buddpress tables from an old installation, but I didn’t change any of the bbpress tables.
Gigya Socialize worked for my install… I’ve only tried myspace, facebook and twitter – but it authenticated me correctly and I was able to login to BuddyPress. Only issue I’m having is that each time you login with one of your social usernames, it creates a new username in WPMU/BuddyPress, as opposed to all tying to your one WPMU/BuddyPress account. This created havoc for me, since I want to use groups, and other permissions.
At this point, I’m leaning towards limiting to just the Facebook login. Does anyone know if there is a way to hide/not allow login using the actual wordpress login, and ONLY use the login for Gigya Socialize? I/e allow users to go to wp-admin, but not give them the option to login using the user/pass – only letting them see the Gigya Socialize plugin.
THANKS Burt for the elegant hack!!
Should be part of the core BP option set…!
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I installed wpmu 2.8.3 + buddypress 1.0.3, but when I tried to activate the plugin it shows fatal error… I installed buddypress via ftp… then I deleted the buddypress directory and installed buddypress via add new plugin in the admin area. It works fine but there’s no directory of buddypress in plugin directory… odd!
For testing I’m using the default template of buddypress, in the home page I added some widgets… I added Recently Active Member Avatars and Who’s Online Avatars… I’m getting this warning for both widgets:
Warning: Division by zero in wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-core/bp-core-templatetags.php on line 819
The problem is that I don’t have a plugin directory in the root cause I installed via add new to correct the error…
Anyone knows what’s happening?
As far as I am aware, BP-FB Connect is not supported. It’s doesn’t even currently work properly, really. It is a port/bodge of a FB Connect plugin for WordPress.
I don’t know if the WordPress FB Connect plugin is support/still under development, but I know the WPMU/BP-version FB Connect isn’t.
Wickedbob,
Look at Community Blogs for BuddyPress (https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-community-blogs). You can turn a normal blog into a Community Blog or a Group Blog.
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When I try to access “Settings” page in my member theme I get “permission denied” error even though I am logged in and authorized. (e.g /member/admin/settings)
I know it is somehow related to the theme/directory permission issue as I change the member theme to any other, it just works fine. I played with css folder and settings.php permissions but it didnt help.
Does anyone have any idea what the problem might be ?
I am using bp 1.0.3 on WordPress 2.8.1 with modified (only css) Shouty Member theme. Thanks a lot.
This is my first dabble into AJAX so bear with me.
I have in my template file a link with an onClick to a javascript funtion. The javascript function will, using AJAX, call an external php file to retrieve some data from a database and that php file will subsequently call a template tag to display the new data onto the template page.
The problem is, is that the external php page has no access to buddypress/wordpress functions (or my template tags). It returns an error saying function soandso not found.
Is there a wp_head() or something I need to call in the external php file to be able to access my template tag functions?
It will happen sometime after WordPress and WordPress MU merge. So, not anytime soon.
Hi r-a-y thank you so much for your help!! Sorry it took so long for me to answer but at first i had no idea how to create a new page template but finally i slowly figured it all out and now it sort of works (its not exacly what i hoped for but i think it will do).
Here is what i did:
- I duplicated my current Page template giving it its own name.
- I duplicated all the “sidebars” (widget areas) i wanted giving them unique names so they only are displayed on the “Commuiny” page.
- I then create a new WordPress page and applied the page template i created in step #1.
- In the WordPress Widget admin i added the BP widgets i wanted to the different Sidebars.
- To get the widgets to look more like how they do on the BP Default Home Theme, i coppied some of the CSS and icons frome base.css to my current CSS.
Im pretty new and pretty sure i made some mistake or broke some kind of “best practice” so please correct me or suggest extra ideas!
Thank you!
Okay, I know developers don’t like to give timeframes for when a new release/product is coming out. But, I so need something like Buddy Press on my single install WordPress site, I need to get an idea if it’s really coming and some general idea of when, before I choose an inferior plugin.
I searched the forum and didn’t really find an answer.
Thanks.
Hello guys,
I’m actually dealing with a WordPress MU install, and I’ve been looking for a way to display in our homepage a login form, redirecting the user to his dashboard.
I surfed the net for a while, and the plugin that some people pointed at (here) needs a script which is not avaliable anymore – in the site that the readme.txt points to.
So, as I know that BuddyPress have a simple widget to assign a login-form in any widget-ready area, I was asking if someone knows the way I could use that, without installing the entire Buddy-Press.
I’d like to know how to write that function myself, but I haven’t still the skills.
Thanks for your help !
This is interesting. Originally I felt that WordPress was solely lacking author pages – someone publishes an article and there isn’t an easy way to simply have the author’s name as a clickable link to their profile page with the latest X articles written by that author and links to all articles written. Such a feature would seem standard. When I look at buddypress, it seems like it has a whole bunch of other features but I’m wondering if I’ve missed a part where you can see all the articles a member created. Most users never use blogs, from my experience, and “articles” would seem to be much more useful. Forgive me if what I’m saying has an obvious solution but I haven’t seen it and I would think it should probably come out of the box. Thanks and look forward to developing more with buddypress.
I’m usually capable of working my way through a tutorial and learning something by the end. But this post is of a magnitude that I’m not sure I know enough to tackle all the steps. Is each of your posts, Burt, a step-by-step instruction on how to accomplish Ben’s request, or do you revise your answers along the way?
I’d like mostly what Ben is asking for. I want to use BuddyPress as a member directory. I don’t wish for anyone to make blogs through MU/BuddyPress other than my staff. I don’t want the “create a blog” option to appear anywhere. Not in the member profile, not in the tool bar. Essentially I want the option not to exist for users. Will the tutorial above show me how to do that?
Starting from instructions in post one, I’m finding that changing the admin setting from “only user account can be created” to “only logged in users can create new blogs” results in a “you must login to create a blog,” which takes me to the wordpress sign-in page before I have even registered.
The “only user account” setting generated what I would like to have happen, a signup screen sans “gimme a blog.”
Please forgive my being an ignoramus and let me know if I should patiently work my way from top to bottom, or if there is another solution outlined in a different post.
Thanks!
WordPress MU and Buddypress have separate profile/user management tables that aren’t synchronized and in some ways clash. End users will see different profile editing screens, in wp-admin and buddypress front-end, with different data that have nothing to do with eachother. Users are identified by full name, username, nickname, blogname or whatever depending on where in the system you are and how it’s configured. It’s a confusing mess and my pet peeve.
But I’m not even sure if that’s relevant to your problem, so I removed the rant.
Well, looks like WannaNetwork guy grew so fast it put him out of business!
Since our launch of the new WordPress powered platform on WannaNetwork in Early February, WannaNetwork has been growing substantially larger and larger.
With this growth also comes a few negative aspects. Running WannaNetwork as a free service is quickly becoming harder and harder when there are monthly server and maintenance costs adding up.
The last 12hrs have been nothing but disappointment in regards to the themes listed on BuddyPress. I don’t know if they are spam, poor coding or both.
I created a new install with WPMU 2.8.2 and BP 1.0.3. Tried the Avenue K9 theme, the Facebuddy theme and the Solitude theme. All of them failed to work properly or display accurately. In most cases, they throw an error when select various menu items; I tired of trying to figure out why, figuring that if a simple side-by-side test against the default theme wasn’t done by the developer, it’s likely I’ll find even more things wrong.
I’m willing to pay for decent themes, but I expected the same level of quality contributions that WordPress is afforded.
Has anyone found any themes that work 100% out-of-the-box?
I need a more professional member registration as well. I’ll use this excellent plugin which allows login with email address, but there are a lot of other annoying issues I still have to solve:
Restructuring registration process to an industry standard
How to use full name, first name + last name
Make 2+ part name in full name required + xprofile_sync_wp_profile()
Autogenerate or remove username
Generate username (+ blog url) from fullname
Use full name in confirmation emails
ListMessenger (or PHPlist) integration – plugin?
I’m not sure how much GigaOM actually changed. Their form looks a lot like the regular Buddypress (?) registration, minus that annoying username. Not sure how they did that.
They’re not using Buddypress, are they?
Most of it is just a radically customized theme. I suspect they probably also use one of the commercial member subscription plugins.
I’m working on my new site here. The old site has a registration system based on PunBB. I’m not a PHP programmer, so please keep us posted on any progress you make.
Since this is more of a WPMU issue than a Buddypress one, like I mentioned in the other thread you made, you might want to consult the nice folks over at mu.wordpress.org/forums/.
Login with the same username and password and make a post there.
Re #3 – Your blogs will stay intact. Buddypress will create a few components called groups and forums (if you have bbPress installed). Groups can be configured by users or admins. BP forums are a part of groups.
Re #5 – There’s a few forum threads about integration and a couple of guides floating around the net.
The next version of Buddypress is scheduled to be released next week (August 11), but I won’t be surprised if they push it back a few weeks since there’s a lot of new stuff being implemented.
Right now, if you want a tight integration, you’ll have to theme WPMU and BuddyPress at the very least. There’s no way around it.
Re #6:
Groupblog plugin – https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/new-groupblog-plugin#post-19344
– It’s still in development… I would just test this for now
Community Blogs for BuddyPress – https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-community-blogs/
– A revision was made by Boone Gorges available here – hxxp://dev.commons.gc.cuny.edu/files/2009/07/bp-community-blogs.zip (change hxxp to http)
– I’ve been meaning to test this, but haven’t yet
Keep in mind that these plugins would give a group a blog, but not a forum for each blog like you want… both have a different way of achieving this method.
The groupblog plugin would be more tightly integrated, whereas the “Community Blogs” plugin provisions group members to an existing WPMU blog.
