I am looking for someone to convert my existing customized wordpress installation to buddypress without losing data.
I am looking to see if anyone can help me to installed WordPress MU + Buddypress + BBpress for me.
I pay for the fee.
Thanks
WordPress has a group todo list for the blog but it is in the admin settings.
http://wordpress.byexamples.com/2007/01/29/our-todo-list-plugin/
Is there a way to widgetize this so it can be display and used on the main page(or others)?
check out this plugin:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tinymcecomments/
Why the need of a preview box if you have the What You See Is What You Get Editor in the same place as your visitors type in the comments?
This plugin turns the comment field from a primitive into a WYSIWYG editor, using the internal TinyMCE library bundled with WordPress 2.0 or up, without the need of another separate installation. Functions that only available to writers like adding images were removed and will not show up in the toolbar.
If you add to the mu-plugins and add this line to the end of the plugin file:
add_action(‘template_notices’, ‘mcecomment_init’);
This is only the concept, I have not tested it, and don’t have the time but wanted to point you in a direction.
Brad
http://gorgeosgamers.com/beta/
If it creates a user in WordPress then it will show up in BuddyPress. BuddyPress is using the wp_users table.
Two things i have noticed in Site Wide Activity.
Deleted posts from the sub domain blogs remain after being deleted.
And the alignment and caption code using wordpress media to insert an image shows up as part of the quote.
Otherwise. Sublime.
How would this work for BP? does it mean a user from FB can login and start using BP or what?
So if this sixjump works can it just enable it on wordpress and it should work for BP
http://www.sociable.es/facebook-connect/
Best look in the WPMU forums for things (plugins) to help. Off the top of my head, some of the better ones are WP-Hashcash, Signup Question and Admin confirm new blogs. Hashcash is available at https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins and the others are at http://wpmudev.org/plugins/
Loads of good ideas though in the WPMU forums and that is the best place to start looking.
Trent
Defiantly,
I have already skinned up a members theme, home theme and a host of blog themes for my users.
Its not hard at all, infact just like normal wordpress themes so expect to see a load available soon.
One thing i wish was easier was controlling the page names / urls buddy press assigns as default.
I have manually changed all references but when i upgrade my changes will be reversed 
It would be helpful to add a more intuitive link between BuddyPress and the WordPress Dashboard and “Add a Post†functions.
A suggestion would for users own profiles on the “My Blogs†screen to provide an “Add a Post†link under each users blog.
Otherwise new users not familiar with Blogging tend to keep clicking on “Create a Blog†and creating multiple blogs. When what they want to do is add a post to their existing default blog created during registration. This is a real usability issue for new users.
Also, in the “My Blogs†vertical navigation bar there should be links to New Post and Dashboard for the initial default blog.
Hey, newbie here to the whole WordPress / BuddyPress world. I have an existing on-line portal/mag/social network at http://www.doorQ.com. We’re looking at moving the entire thing from its limited dotnet framework over to the open source BP. We know there will be a few issues with the data conversion, but I have some people comfortable enough with SQL to make that work.
What I was looking at is combining the social networking with the magazine features, to try to replicate what we have going now. I wanted to use a theme like this: “www.woothemes.com/demo/gazette/” as the main page for the site, have a few of the social networking aspects pop up on that page (like most recent or active members along with their icons) and then have a second page that aggregates all of the social network activity.
Make sense so far?
Here are my questions:
1) If I use the gazette or similar theme, make it the default theme for the BP install, and add the various components to the appropriate theme folders, I can then draw on the PHP script to add whatever buddy features I’d like to any of the pages created by that theme? Like having the currently on-line members appear on the page?
2) For what is now the BP home page — listing recent activity, users, etc — I can then hard code that as a page on the site, so that, from the main magazine page, there is a link that says something like “Social Network?”
I want everything to be interlinked, the way things are now, on my existing site. In theory, this should work, right?
Ok Great News, changed 4 lines of Code, and get ratings working at a simple level for users.
Foldio 2 – Portable Lightbox
I took the wp-postrating plugin, normally designed to allow vistors to rate posts, and feed in the custom id of the user id. I had to bypass the area where it try’s to validate the number as a post, but overall seems to work.
Now I can take the widget and modify that to show top users, instead of top posts.
Try it out here:
http://gorgeousgamers.com/beta/members/bradmkjr/
Let me know what you think,
Brad
http://gorgeousgamers.com/beta/
I’me getting this error when I try to upload any avatar:
“Upload Failed! Error was: The uploaded file could not be moved to the upload folder.”
Normal WordPress uploads are working fine.
Working on WPMU 2.7 “Bleeding Edge” and BuddyPress r832
Can you clarify…does this plug-in work with BuddyPress/WPMU? The installation instructions seem to be for WordPress in general, not MU. And I saw in another forum that this plug-in breaks WPMU.
Can you verify that it works with BuddyPress? If so, can you provide installation instructions?
Thanks.
I tried this script http://www.dagondesign.com/articles/import-users-plugin-for-wordpress/all-comments/ and it works great, but only creates WP users – I would like to know how to mod this easily to create BP users also. I just need pointers and I will get to work.
Thanks
I’m not sure what you mean. It’s possible for users to choose traditional WordPress themes for their blogs, while using BuddyPress themes for the BuddyPress-related stuff. I struggled with this too, but if you read the instructions for the individual theme downloads, it makes more sense. The instructions for the package download don’t exactly make it clear.
So, I’ve got a BuddyPress home theme with its own name, a BuddyPress member theme (which is required), and then a traditional WP theme I’ve set to “default” (by changing its directory name to “default”), which is the default things for user blogs. And I will also have a selection of traditional themes that users can switch their blogs to.
Good luck!
Mark
Thanks Andy for the link. I do find it a bit confusing how the current themes are working.
If I understand it correctly, all the “My Account” pages are defined in the user theme, while they should be, in mine opinion at least, be in the home theme. The reason why I think this, is because it are all pages which aren’t linked to the users blog. Most people probably want to give these pages the same look and feel as the home page.
For the user themes, I would expect to only find things which are related to the users blog.
Personally I would like to give my members a selection of themes where they can choose from for their blog, so they can individualize it a bit. As far as I have been able to figure out, that isn’t possible yet.
When you would have the possibility for members to select a theme for their blog, it would only make more sense to have all those pages like the “My Account” pages in the home theme.
But that’s just my 2 cents. I would love to read your opinion about it.
I now see where you’re coming from. The BuddyPress Forum settings state:
“To enable forums for each group in a BuddyPress installation, you must first download, install, and setup bbPress and integrate it with WordPress MU.
Once you have bbPress set up correctly, enter the options below so that BuddyPress can connect.”
Well, I’ve turned the integration off but can still post. I need to look at this some more.
There isn’t any configuration option to do what you want. You’ll have to customize wpmu or use a plugin if such a thing exists. Try searching the wpmu forums https://mu.wordpress.org/forums/ or over at
[SNIP] cancel all that.
As I was getting the url for wpmudev.org and their plugins area the front page has this:
http://wpmudev.org/project/default-user-role
This seems to set the default user role for new blog owners. Go figure.
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Can you use normal wordpress themes as user themes in buddypress or are the themes different?
What would be needed to change a wordpress theme into a buddypress theme?
I don’t believe their is such a thing as “buddypress forums”, I believe buddypress requires bbpress for it’s forum capabilities.
WordPress MU will scale without question beyond the needs of any individual providing enough server backend power.
BBpress as a stand alone should be able to scale large enough for most people. Due to a the different nature of forum database structure, it isn’t as easy to breakup among many servers as a the mu blogs are. An active forum can easily have 100k’s of posts, and I’m not aware of a way to archive older posts into backup tables. BBpress uses 1 table for all posts, it would be possible (there might even already be a plugin to do this) to move each forum to a seperate table, and therefor possibly a separate server.
My concern would be for the XML-RPC mechanism used to talk to the forums. This was designed, with good caching, but on a very large buddypress install with 100’s of active groups and 10000’s of members I wonder how much overhead the xml-rpc adds compared to a straight database lookup. It does allow for the bbpress to be moved to a secondary server, which is good, and is safe as it stores a bbpress creditials and not database creditals if the admin account happened to get compromised. The nice part is, the it was written with the bbpress_live class, which could be replaced with any other class. So someone could, if so desired actually rewrite the class to talk to a vbulletin forum or other solution. It could even do direct database lookups and inserts if desired. I’m sure we will see this in the near future, as some large vbulletin sites may want to add the social abilities of buddypress, and maintain their forums, as buddypress groups.
I have only used BBpress inside of Buddypress, so I haven’t yet had to deal with scaling issues, as I beleive mine has about 45 posts total.
Any Thoughts?
Brad
http://gorgeousgamers.com/beta/
