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So has anyone seen Gigya Socialize yet? http://www.gigya.com/public/Content/GS/Home.aspx

Same idea/principle as RPX, only a little more integrated. They have a WordPress plugin, but I can’t seem to get it working on MU, at least not my local copy (which may be the problem).

BuddyPress *really* ought to have the implementation of the “social stack” as high priority, even though much of the specs on what that all entails is still being ironed out.

But with Facebook, Google, MySpace, Yahoo, etc. all embracing OpenID, you can see where this is all headed. (Joseph Smarr calls it a “sea change”: http://therealmccrea.com/2009/04/10/surviving-thriving-in-the-online-identity-wars-joseph-smarr-at-web-20-expo/

Anyway, I’m going to be trying to implement one of these OpenID signin authenticators, and get it working from the main page. I’ll try and remember to report if I learn anything or get it working.

See 1037.

@kipperman

I’m sorry that your having issues getting BuddyPress up and running.

One request first: since this post is marked as resolved and is a month old, in general it is better to start a new thread as most people that can help you will often ignore posts marked resovlved, preferring to spending their time focusing on threads that still are unresolved. Please read this for more information.

Concerning your issue, this is a known bug that has been discussed here. Basically, BuddyPress 1.0.3, the next release coming very soon, will take care of this issue. So, in the meantime, you may need to stick with WPMU 2.7.1 and BP 1.0.2.

Also, before upgrading BuddyPress and WPMU, it is very important that you first deactivate all BuddyPress-dependent plugins. Then deactivate BuddyPress itself. Finally, it is recommended that you deactivate all other non-BP related sitewide plugins as well. Once finished upgrading WPMU, you then upgrade and reactivate BP. Then, you reactivate the other BP-dependent plugins.

Using Comment Form Quicktags (which puts it for the blog), I was able to tweak a little and get it to work by manually editing files.

For the Wire, I edited my theme’s membertheme/wire/post-forum.php from

<textarea name="wire-post-textarea" id="wire-post-textarea"></textarea>

to

<script type="text/javascript">edToolbar();</script>

<textarea name="wire-post-textarea" id="wire-post-textarea"></textarea>

<script type="text/javascript">var edCanvas = document.getElementById('wire-post-textarea');</script>

In theory the plugin should be hackable, but adding this:

add_action('wire-post-textarea', array(&$this, 'detect_end'));

to

/**

* Start to detect <textarea>.

*/

function detect_start($file) {

ob_start(array(&$this, 'add_tags'));

$this->ended = false;

add_action('comment_form', array(&$this, 'detect_end'));

add_action('wp_footer', array(&$this, 'detect_end'));



return $file;

}

didn’t work so I’ll have to keep poking around.

You’ve got it correct. The action from the js is taken and called with an action prefixed with “wp_ajax_”, just like above.

Check_ajax_referer() checks that a valid nonce was passed with the request – to find out more about nonces, see here.

You should be upgrading the wordpress MU 2.8.1 !

There are two plugins that you’ll need to sync up the cookies; one of them is included with BuddyPress under bp-forums/bbpress-plugins/, this one gets copied into your bbPress/my-plugins/ folder. The other you will want to download from the WordPress plugins repository (wordpress.org/extend/) and install and activate in your WordPress admin.

Once you have each plugin installed, one for each platform, configure them and follow the directions for each one, and then report back.

Hmmm…maybe I can still figure this out…found some more stuff to fidget with…will try that.

Hi Manoj…I am trying it your way, but then I don’t see the forums option part when creating a new group once I am one, and am confused…

At

“8. Head back to your BuddyPress installation and sign up as a new user. Once you have

activated the new user, make a note of the username and password given.

9. Log back into your bbPress installation as the administrator, and head back to the admin panel (/bb-admin).

Go to the “Users” tab and look for the new user you signed up in step 8 in the list. Hit the “Edit”

link for that user, on the end of the row.”

I try creating a new user but it doesn’t show in bbPress…and then I am just fidgeting with settings, using the bbpress “Key Master” in the WP admin when trying to do the forums integration…does anybody know what else needs to be fidgeted manually to make it work?

Thanks,

Ben

Same problem for me…I think step #3 in the integration ReadMe may need some changing…I didn’t see a dropdown option either.

Whenever a new user registers he get an email saying click this to activate.

And when I click it it takes me to a wierd place to crop avatars

Okay, I’m a little confused by what you are reporting:

1. So, are you just testing a new BuddyPress installation? Why else would you be clicking on a new user’s registration.
2. If that is the case, have you tried using two different browsers–one for each user?
3. Have you cleared old session cookies before registering a new user?
4. Which version of BuddyPress are you running?
5. There should only be one confirmation email sent. It is the one with the activation link. Are you using different emails for each account? Be default, WPMU makes sure that there are no duplciate accounts.
6. Are you using a custom themes, or the default themes?
7. Do you have any other plugins, besides BuddyPress, installed and activated? If so, have you tried deactivating them to check if they might be causing a conflict?

I don’t use XAMPP, but WAMP should be pretty much the same.

Can you confirm you ever had cookies working successfully? Even before bbPress? Sounds silly to check, but lets make sure it’s working correctly without bbPress.

Do you have the BuddyPress bbPress Integration plugin on the bbPress side? Do you have the bbPress Integration plugin on the WordPress side?

If yes and yes, the next round of trouble shooting is to make sure you have your edits exactly like the plugins say to have them.

Since you’re using MU 2.7.1, you need to have

define('WP_AUTH_COOKIE_VERSION', 1);

in your bb-config.php. This will tell bbPress how to handle your integration cookies.

That’s about all I can recommend for now?

Versions I’m using:

WordPress MU 2.7.1

BuddyPress 1.0.2

bbPress 1.0.1

Short answer: theme error is complicated. I’m writing up a Trac ticket and will put the link here later.

Workaround: duplicate your /bp-member/* folders into /wp-content/themes/. This will populate the correct info in the drop-down box. Once this issue is fixed, you can remove the duplicates from /wp-content/themes/.

FYI, you can also trick this with a link.

from /wp-content/themes:

$ ln -s ../bp-themes/THEMENAME THEMENAME

Worked great When you’re done, delete the link.