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Am dealing with an entirely different mysterious monster here: After running for weeks, I somehow corrupted my db and felt a fresh db was the only way to go (only test data to worry about) Currently running 2.7, BP latest trunk and a bbPress 1.0a4.

After getting all the way to bbPress/Wordpress integration menu (and seeing all the properly entered cookies/salts) when I enter the “wp_” prefix and click “Save settings” I am kicked out to the bbPress forum login screen and upon login of the keymaster or any other account, I am returned the error message “user does not exist” and thus completely locked out of the install. This happens whether I clear cookies or not at various stages in the process. Please help!

hi burtadsit,

I’ve tried editing the php.ini and my notification emails are still sending out as “myusername@box441.bluehost.com”. I’ve tried changing my outgoing email in Operational Settings in wordpress’s dashboard to an email that i’ve set up on bluehost but that’s not working either. It appears that a ton of people are having this same problem on bluehost. there’s gotta be a simple answer. could it be the pluggable.php file or some other file in wordpress that I can manually edit? I can’t launch my new site with buddypress until i resolve this.

thanks in advance for your help!

Nick

In wp-includeswpmu-functions.php change this:

add_user_to_blog(‘1’, $user_id, ‘subscriber’);

to this:

add_user_to_blog(‘1’, $user_id, ‘author’);

That should take care of all future signups, however existing users will be unchanged. If you don’t have too many users yet you can simply manually change them to authors, however, if you have a lot of signups check out this thread for a way to mass add users as authors.

I don’t think a Twitter-like functionality will be added to the BP core but this can be done now with around 10 minutes of work.

All you’d need to do is create a blog such as whereareyou.domain.com. Then add all existing users as authors and auto-add new users as authors to the blog (see this post for details on doing this, it only takes a minute). Finally install and tweak the prologue theme to suit your site. The updates users post to the blog will automatically show up on their profile like other blog posts.

This is a really basic implementation of a “Twitter-like” functionality, but with a little tweaking this setup works really well.

Hi Andy,

I tried updating the home and member themes…but dont see any success. I’m getting the following error when I select the buddypress theme from the ‘design’ console:

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Fatal error: Call to undefined function bp_search_form_action() in /home/thekartn/public_html/chennairunnersorg/site/wp-content/themes/buddypress-home/header.php on line 33

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I’m using WordPress v2.6.5 and the latest version of Buddypress (downloaded from the website on 1st Jan ’09). Is there a compatibility issue? Thanks in advance for the help!

Karthik

Just as a follow up to this, here is the relvant urls:

http://willnorris.com/2008/10/wordpress-openid-v3

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/openid/

According to Will, it’s already working in WPMU so we’ll have to look and how to make this work in BP. I’ve got a client interested in this, so hopefully I might report back in the near future.

I have done exactly what you are talking about at http://buglenotes.com. I set default role to Author, turned off new blog creation, and then modified menus as nec to remove personal blog options (so as not to confuse). I also renamed the News menu item to Blog. Now everyone contributes posts to a “central” blog. So far so good. Of course, this could all backfire after launch

It works for the main blog too, thought the search function isn’t all that useful given there would only be a single blog but all the other functions work with the main blog.

All you’d need to do to get this setup is to change the default role for the main blog from subscriber to contributor and disable blog registration. Also, you may want to hack at the code to remove things such as the blog directory, the list of user blogs, etc. but this is optional.

usually I search the whole wordpress directory for the string do_action or apply_filters, then look for the best place to hook my functions to.

I wanted to give an update here as I am continually impressed with this shopping cart (http://shopplugin.net/). I would recommend it to anyone needing a solution. (Im not the only one singing its praises: http://lbnuke.com/2008/12/30/wordpress-ecommerce-plugins-shopp-vs-wp-ecommerce/ )

Anyways, its now publicly available as a 1.0 release for $55 standalone, plus $25 for gateways ($300 for developer license – he doesn’t specify where wpmu falls on this)

So, with the latest 1.0 release, the developer behind shopp fixed the global database issue I had previously mentioned. I can now install it in a wordpressmu environment (with buddypress installed, too) and get it running on 2 different blogs, each with their own products/carts! It requires further testing to declare it production ready, but I could not find anything wrong with it from an hour of testing. The only issue I found was doing the automated upgrades causing an error in wpmu – so if/when upgrading the plugin, be sure to do it manually instead of through the automated process (but Im sure that will get fixed in future releases as well)

like this?: http://premium.wpmudev.org/project/sitemaps-and-seo-wordpress-mu-style

what is your site burtadsit?