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I currently use vbulletin and a regular wordpress blog and find that the bridge is so nice. I agree that an MU/VB bridge would set things perfect for me. However, seeing that we can’t have the bets of both worlds just yet, can anyone give me a good reason why I should more to bbPress? I understand that it is a young forum but does anyone really see it getting better? And if so, soon?

Looks like this was fixed in Changeset 1157. Therefore, the bug still exists if you’re using RC1.

You have two choices:

1. Either upgrade to the latest trunk (as Burt says) following these instructions: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=1994

2. Or, wait until WordPress MU 2.7.1 is officially released and an official BuddyPress RC2 zip is available.

Hi Tutsie,

This type of change would typically be done with a plugin. Keep in mind that this isn’t a BuddyPress customization as much as it is a WordPress MU one.

I did a quick Google search for “change wordpress admin profile link” and found a few places you could start.

In this WordPress forum topic is some code that would change the behavior of the profile link (albeit for a different reason); this method of changing the admin behavior isn’t recommended, however, since it requires hacking a core file. A plugin would be much better since it doesn’t require changing the core file (and having to stress about updating your WordPress MU code later).

Depending on how much you want to work on this, you could download these two plugins: WP Hide Dashboard and Admin Menu Management, open them up in a text editor, and look at how they change the menus in the WordPress admin area.

Plugins do two things: (1) they provide a new functionality and (2) they hijack the normal WordPress behavior and perform the functionality described in the plugin instead.

Hope that helps…

“It is coming”

GREAT!

If you just downloaded it from bp.org then it’s RC1. If you are not using svn then you can by getting a client app like TortiseSVN for Windows. http://tortoisesvn.net/

The url to get the latest source is: https://svn.buddypress.org/trunk

Running the trunk version of bp requires you to be running wpmu 2.7.1 which is only available by svn at: http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress-mu/branches/2.7

There have been changes in the member theme directory and bp’s move from the /mu-plugins dir to the /plugins dir in wpmu.

Not a stupid question at all.

btw, when I enabled openid plugin from wordpress.org, the version 3.2.2 (the latest you can get from wporg), all active accounts of my install got locked out. Of course RPX was already inactive…

FYI.

You can use Twitter Tools to creat tweets of your new blog post, and it also allows you to tweet from wordpress.

What exactly do you want to be tweeted (tweet? tweeted?)?

hi Mypop,

Do you add this line into your bbPress bb-config.php to enable user switching ? $bb->bb_xmlrpc_allow_user_switching = true;

i followed those advices below to install my forum. I hope it can help you

here is a video :

http://wordpress.tv/2009/01/23/integrating-a-bbpress-forum-with-your-self-installed-wordpress/

and there some good tips :

http://trentadams.com/2009/04/01/buddypress-forums-tutorial/

I notice that the twitter plugin makes some conflits with the bb_press install. I deleted it.

You could try using https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/remove-buddypress-admin-bar/ and then create a little plugin that copies the parts of the bar you want and hooks into wp_head.

(Heads up: check the source of the remove-buddypress-admin-bar plugin: there is a parameter you may need to set based on what version of BP you’re running.)

@Gpo1

We have two social network sites (one with a semantic web component) that we\’ll be hosting on slicehost. We plan to utilize Amazon\’s S3 for storage of all user uploaded media content.

As the sites grow, we may also use Amazon\’s CloudFront for a more robust content delivery network. I do not see us using Amazon\’s EC2. Slicehost combined with S3 will give us more than enough control over our costs, bandwidth utilization, and server load.

For one of these sites, we are also experimenting with HyperDB, the replacement database class to the standard WPDB.

would the fix be to change the ‘budypress’ to ‘wordpress’

Gpo1-

You may want to also contact Joe Tan ( http://tantannoodles.com/ ). He is the one who made the Amazon S3 WordPress plugin I linked to in your other thread on this topic.

He already knows the technology and may be able to more easily adapt and expand his S3 plugin.

I am using aMember with buddypress and muWordpress. They sell the muWordpress plugin that is needed to work with aMember. It works the way it was made, which is for subdirectories. It does not work with subdomains. So, I set it to only create a user account and then go in manually to create the blog. Not the best ideal, but it works.

Should be simple as this:

svn co http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress-mu/branches/2.7 ./wpmu

cd wpmu/wp-content/plugins

svn co https://svn.buddypress.org/trunk ./buddypress

svn co [my-plugin-repo-url] [my-plugin-dir]

Then when you want to update WPMU just svn up in /wpmu/ and when you want to update BuddyPress just svn up in /plugins/buddypress/

Hi Burt,

your plugin works excellently… thanks.

On a related note…

if the user attempts to login with an incorrect username / password, they are thrown to the WP login screen.

Is there a straightforward way to keep them on my BuddyPress login screen?

Cheers,

Roger

ok i got it. where did you get your WPMU 2.7.1?

you should pick the one that is under tags in mu.wordpress.org trac.

EDIT: get the latest trac here…

http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress-mu/branches/2.7/