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@mercime I deactivated the BuddyPress plugin and it worked fine with the WordPress default registration page (the one that looks like the login page). I’m looking for the whole process to detect if it’s looking for some cookie or something that the system is handing the client when logging in… Any ideas?

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