BuddyPress.org

I wish I could show you the site, but it’s behind security for internal use only!

I too had trouble getting my head around the problem. What I really wanted was a blog that everyone could use in all workgroups, but filter by workgroup. And based on credentials, some users would never see some groups postings. However, I don’t think WordPress is really set up for that… at least I never managed to find a way to do it, or a plug-in that would do it for me!

After beating my head against that wall, I eventually did what someone had suggested – build a Commons in a Box site and test it.

It looks more complicated than it is. My primitive understanding is like this:

– Commons in a Box (CBox) requires a Multi-Site installation of WordPress (easy to do)
– When first installed, CBox gives you the base site that everyone in your group would use. The Infinity theme it uses by default is fine for my purposes but I think you can configure other themes if you want.
– CBox automagically creates subsites on demand. I created a subsite for each general workgroup I wanted to keep separate blogs for.
– Users can be given access to any or all of the subsites, with different privileges on each.
– Subsites can use pretty much whatever theme you want. I use P2 for the features you already know about.

You can set up groups, which seems to do about what I did manually… that confused me at first because I thought groups would give me different functionality… it didn’t, so my recommendation would be to leave that part alone, or let it create all the subsites. Mixing manual creation with Groups creation was confusing for me and didn’t add anything of use!

You probably don’t want the forums activated either, unless you need to add that function in addition to the top posting P2 blog! I felt the forum would just spread information around too much, making it difficult to find what you want.

I strongly suggest you set up a sandbox and give Multi-Site and CBox a try… 🙂

I combined my theme with the twenty twelve theme and found out that the error is in the functions.php file. It was because I added the snippet “remove private from post title” I fount on CSS tricks

WP 3.5.1
BP 1.7.2

Theme: Custom Community Pro

Plugins:

AA’s Digg Digg Alternative
All In One SEO Pack
BP Auto Login on Activation
BuddyMobile
BuddyPress
BuddyPress Automatic Friends
BuddyPress Group Calendar
BuddyPress Like
BuddyPress Media
Buddypress Sitewide activity widget
Contact Form 7
CubePoints
CubePoints Buddypress Integration
Email Users
Facebook Friends Inviter
Go Daddy Quick Setup
Google Analytics for WordPress
Hyper Cache
Participants Database
Peter’s Login Redirect
Regenerate Thumbnails
Simple:Press
Slideshow
Spam Free WordPress
Yet Another Related Posts Plugin

I went to Commons in a Box, which is a giant plug-in for WordPress that includes BuddyPress (and many other plug-ins) and allows me to create a multi-site installation with a blog/site for each workgroup I wanted to integrate. Now that the new release of BuddyPress seems to work with most themes that weren’t designed to be specifically BuddyPress-compatible, P2 Theme just seems to work.

The only issue I have now is that the new P2 Theme seems to have broken the P2-Check-In plugin as I can no longer see the “I’m Here” button on the header. Otherwise, I’ve got most of what I needed working via Multi-Site and Commons in a Box.

I cannot be the only one with this problem. I did a clean install, with only wordpress, buddypress and bbpress and everytime I click ‘yes’ the radio button will not stay checked ‘yes’. It sends an email to the people in the group saying ‘group details for the group “xxxxx” were updated:

But when changes are made to the group nothing is emailed. There is no way I am the only one, can someone verify that this thing actually works?

Thanks

Ok, the link function doesn’t work. Here’s a try without the link function.

https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4505

Sorry, here’s the link:

So, I just installed everything again in my host and the error continues. New database, and only wordpress + buddypress, latest version of both.

Any help?

Could have been any (or all) of the following plugins:
BP Group Documents (ancient, don’t think I can find it online again)
BP Unread Posts https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-unread-posts/ (also obsolete)
U BuddyPress Forum Attachment http://urlless.com/u-buddypress-forum-attachment/
I haven’t reactivated any of these 3 and am about to delete them.

It appears a case of too eager to upgrade without properly checking existing potential conflicts. Too much haste and not enough care in my excitement about 1.7 – my bad. Thanks for your support Paul.

Hi @bp-help

Thank you for answering, as I told Im not a speciallist, just a pharmacist that learned a bit of html/php/mysql alone. A beginner.

I tryed again this thing in two webserver that we have, first dedicated localweb and second hostgator shared. The dedicated stopped 5 minutes and came back. Shared one stopped for 20 minutes, and stoped 2 others sites in the same server, one wordpress and another magento based.

Yesterday and today we received from hosting messages of “high memory usage by…”

I searched on Google and I found some ways/tips to avoid this, some wordpress users seems to have same problem. It´s seems to be the script that return the page that consume memory with each request. Not a simple $get/$post.

If anyone is having the same problem and have a solution. I´d appreciate.
Sorry about the bad english, I´m not a native speaker.

@mercime Hi! Thanks for the link and the advice! It is certainly appreciated. I have been using WordPress now for about 2 years…but I’m no expert by any means, but in the last 2 years I’ve really learned a lot and I really enjoy working with WordPress. I’m sure that BuddyPress and bbpress will be just as challenging and just as much fun to learn.

As I was telling @ubernaut, the site we are going to be adding the forum and networking to has a lot of users that are very passionate about their interests. They are already very active in conversations so I believe the forum will be a welcome addition to the site. I will definitely want to activate the group forums as the site is already broken up into some groups just through association.

I am thankful that you guys are out here! LOL After looking at the link you sent me and looking over the bbpress documentation, I have a feeling that this might be a little bit of a challenge. But, I am up for it and I’m sure with all the expert help here, I’ll be just fine.

Thank you all for your help and encouragement! I’ll be sure to let you know how everything turns out and send a link to the site.

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