OK – I’ve found the answer.
please ignore my first suggestion above.
the solution is to either:
a) wordpress, admin, settings, privacy (site visibility) – allow search engines to index this site – must be set
OR
b) include the following filter in my plugin (or themes functions.php file):
`
add_filter(‘bp_is_blog_public’,’scl_bp_is_blog_public’,10,1);
function scl_bp_is_blog_public($is_blog_public) {
return true;
}
`
i chose the second method for my purposes.
note: BP seems to make very confusing/ambiguous use of the wordpress ‘blog_public’ option – in the file functions referred to in my first post above, it makes an explicit test of this option, and if not set to public then disables posts or comments from appearing as items in the activity stream.
i note that issues around this factor were raised as a ticket a year or so back and this mechanism was provided as some sort of solution (to exactly what problem i am uncertain – though luckily a filter was provided).
personally, i cant see the point of it – surely a BP option to specifically allow/disallow wordpress post and comment activities would have been far better – after all, what has WP search engine visibility got to do with BP activity streams – i have no idea! (perhaps someone could enlighten me).
meanwhile, I am considering raising a new/reopening a ticket on this (since the situation appears unchanged in the new BP 1.6 code).
be interested in others views.
hope this helps someone.
Best place for this is https://buddypress.trac.WordPress.org — post it as an enhancement ticket. Thanks.
ps. having scanned though the buddypress source code i’ve just found a clue to what the problem maybe:
file: bp-blogs-function.php
function: bp_blogs_record_comment
– takes a parameter ‘is_approved’ – if it is false, then blog comments are NOT added to BP activity stream.
this suggests that WP comments are ONLY recorded in BP activity stream IFF comments are wide open and ‘automatically approved’/’do not require approval’. If on the other hand, comments are set as ‘requiring admin/moderator approval’ (as they most usually will be), then they will NOT EVER be posted to BP activity stream
this seems to be confirmed by the appearance of a NEW function on the forthcoming BP 1.6. The new function is:
bp_blogs_transition_activity_status
– and its purpose seems to be to enable WP comments status to appear on BP activity stream WHEN/IFF admin/moderator approves them.
please could someone confirm this is the case?
is there any workaround for BP V 1.5.4?
many thanks
Hmm, I installed clean wordpress, clean buddypress and clean database – the problem remains .. http://s2.ipicture.ru/uploads/20120324/UNK7xT0a.jpg
@piccollopete we don’t quite know from what application/software you are migrating from in the first place. I can only guess from the first post that you’re migrating from another forum software. The easier route then is to import data/users from that software into WordPress with bbPress plugin, after which you can install BuddyPress which works with bbPress plugin.
Do post at bbPress.org to check whether an import script has been created for your specific forum software.
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-multi-network/ is probably no longer compatible with the latest buddypress.
Did you try the patched version: http://alantait.net/2011/07/27/wp-multi-network-plugin-fix-for-wordpress/ ? In the comments of that page @johnjamesjacoby mentioned ( 12/02/2012 ) that he planned to update wp-multi-network soon…..
@boonebgorges recently wrote http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/a/45682/7401 which seems particularly relevant to your question. In the post he mentions Networks + as an alternative way to enable multiple networks but it is a premium plugin.
I don’t think we can just ignore the -2 issue, because I think that it points to a larger confusion between `user_nicename` and `user_login` on your installation. I’m not sure what kind of further debugging can be easily done at this point, though, without direct access to your system. I guess I would check a couple of things if this were my system:
– Drop some debug `var_dump()`s around https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/1.5.4/bp-core/bp-core-catchuri.php#L239, to see how BP is determining your displayed user ID
– Check directly in your database to see if there is some strangeness in the way that your user_nicename is defined in wp_users. The nicename should not contain capital letters or spaces, though user_login can.
mercime and aces thank you guys for your replies
@mercime
1 – No its not just the posts, I want the blog owners to interact and be friends with each other.
3 – I did try this method, used Networks for wordpress and WP multi network by @johnjamesjacoby.
that would obviously solve the problem but there were few limitations because of which I had to give-up.
my story was- I was planning for a site under which other users could create their own subsites (blogs).
I am also using several domains for it, so that if a particular blog name is booked by someone then others could get same name blog on other domains ie networks.
the Limitation was – If a particular blog already exsisted on one network, then new users were unable to create blogs(of same name) by themselves on other networks.
i had chat with the plugin authors and other experts but unfortunately this was not possible.
2 – The second method that you described i found hope in it. So I went ahead and tried it.
the issue was- I could not have users create their own blogs on those mapped domains, when someone tries to register it redirects them to the main site instead of letting them create subsites from mapped domains.
yes I am saying subsites from subsites using Network plugins, but in the end its the same problem as above.
btw thanks for in detail explanation mercime 
@aces – hey buddy what I understood was this feature would add a link on blogs same as buddypress to display contents of BP.
Have you guys seen any website WP or non-wp which offers blogs on sub domains/directories using multiple domain names ?
One way is to use:
http://www.hitreach.co.uk/wordpress-plugins/allow-php-in-posts-and-pages/
Then create a page called ‘Invite’ in wp-admin and put this on the page
between open and close [ php ] tags without the spaces
` locate_template( array( ‘some-theme-dir/invite.php’ ), true ); `
The url for that page won’t be your-site/members/invite
It wil be your-site/invite
If it has to be /members/invite, then I’m not sure how to do it.
@roxor If you mean 10 WP installations with their own respective DB’s then no.
Alternatives:
1. If it’s just the posts, then you can set up RSS feeds for the 10 in your WP/BP installation in one WP install without BuddyPress so that the links to aggregated posts will show up in a page or over a number of pages.
2. You could also create a single Network out of one of the 10 WP installs, create the subsites, install Domain Mapping plugin, then install BuddyPress plugin, then import other WP sites one by one as subsites into the multisite installation. https://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network and https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-mu-domain-mapping/
There is one instance of BP for a multisite installation, so as @aces pointed above, you can enable multiblog so that you don’t have to navigate to main site to post in activity or forums, etc.
3. You could also create a Multi-Network out of one of the 10 WP installs and have multiple instances of BuddyPress with BP Social Networks, import remaining 9 WP sites as a network into the multi-network installation. The multiple instances of BuddyPress in this case are separate i.e., don’t overlap activities, memberships, groups, etc. http://wpmututorials.com/news/new-features/multiple-buddypress-social-networks/
Not sure where to start with this, but the `-2-2` problem reminds me of https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2642. Note that that ticket had to do with a very specific problem which is, I think, different from yours in the details, but may have the same root issue. As an experiment, try commenting out the following line in `bp-members/bp-members-functions.php`:
`add_action( ‘pre_user_login’, ‘bp_core_strip_username_spaces’ );`
We have job postings and different user roles running on a couple of our BuddyPress based websites.
Essentially though, it’s a task that requires a skilled developer, rather than being a simple configuration.
You’ll need a bespoke build – in our case, we have our own custom post types for jobs, use WordPress user roles & capabilities to differentiate between user types, and ‘hook’ them in to BuddyPress as a new component. For the bells and whistles, we also integrate payments and cron jobs to monitor and tidy up when job ads expire.
There is something wrong with your register page as, I think, it should have Name ( at least ) as a required field under the profile details section.
If I click on ‘complete sign up’ without filling anything in then it redirects to the front page whearas I think it should stay on the same page but with error messages.
Is https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/page-links-to/ the plugin that you mentioned in the other topic?
I wonder if it is compatible with buddypress. Buddypress is quite particular about it’s permalinks….. If you disable page-links-to, do you get the profile details content on the register page then?
It could be something else to do with permalinks and the .htaccess file that should be in the same directory as the wp-config.php file.
The usual method for diagnosing issues is to disable all plugins and revert to bp-default. If it then works one can start to reactivate plugins and theme until something goes wrong – ie the last thing you reactivated would be the chief suspect!
oops, i deleted it, so here it is again http://sumtips.com/2011/01/enable-multisite-feature-wordpress-3-1.html
I think the `ErrorDocument 404 /index.php?error=404` line might be complicating things, so I would suggest removing it ( or putting `#` in front ) until the site is working properly again….
oh yeah, it’s not originally wordpress…I am interested to see the results I get on this tonight. I know the guy that built the original table is still around, I’m just not sure how available he is to help me out. And, I chalk this up to a really good opportunity for a learning experience.
# BEGIN WordPress
ErrorDocument 404 /index.php?error=404
RewriteRule ^index.php$ – [L]
# uploaded files
RewriteRule ^files/(.+) wp-includes/ms-files.php?file=$1 [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^ – [L]
RewriteRule . index.php [L]
Options All -Indexes
AddType audio/x-m4a .m4a
AddType audio/x-m4b .m4b
#END WordPress Multi Site
# END WordPress
Coming up sometime soon https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3598 so if you have numerous postings already in your group forums, you might want to use group forums first and wait for the official way to safely move group forums (BP internal bbPress) to sitewide forums (bbPress the plugin)
If the old site isn’t WordPress –
You’ll need to write a script to insert the existing users to your new database.
Might be tricky.
Do a search on migrating from code-base-of-your-old-site to WordPress, you might get lucky.
@hallsy – are you using the “Activity stream extras” plugin? i believe that plugin outputs that message.
http://etivite.com/wordpress-plugins/buddypress-activity-stream-extras/
Many thanks but nothing really works automaticly as it does on WordPress with theme-my-login or equivalent plugins.
I tried to use the ‘pending’ status for user and it does not work either.
At the end of the day, I use Buddypress and Private BuddyPress and I unclick the ‘anyone can register’ tick box.
– Users are then created manually by the Admin. Probably the most effective moderation.
– Blog and pages are public, social network remains private.
== my sister has had to re do a passwords more then 10 times, every time she updates it here she has to re do it again at word press ==
Nope. You only need to create an account at WP.org and you can use the same username and password here and at bbPress, among others.
== we are going to kickapps were we know support is live ==
Know that we are all volunteers living in different time zones. You have the freedom to choose whatever platform meets your needs even if you have to pay for it.
Thank you for your feedback. Good luck.
Honestly I searched for Social Networks CMS ( EVERYTHING YOU CAN THINK OF) Unless you feel like paying 200 bucks for a program or a download link buddypress is the way to go..
Buddypress is very simple to edit and change…
As far as Privacy settings go.. yeah I know buddypress lacks that but it’s REALLY easy to create your own type of plugin to handle the privacy settings, or even script it in.
At times you don’t get a reply, but other times you do. When I did get a reply it helped out a lot.
Perhaps learn some PHP or how Buddypress and WordPress works.
Or just download Elgg and let me know how well that goes.
Best of Luck.
Ps. Buddypress ROCKS
