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@fatjay good job. I see that the layout is as it should be 🙂 Marking this topic as resolved.

As for the sliders, there are different ones available in WP plugin repo https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search.php?q=slider

This is something near and dear to my heart, and I hope others will pick up on this thread. Social intranets are something that I’ve been investigating for organizations that go beyond a simple few people. I’ve done a ton of research into this and to start off, I think you need to read this book: The Collaborative Organization by Jacob Morgan. I’m not associated with the book or the author, but when it comes to doing what you are attempting, understanding beyond the software capabilities is something that we should all be living and breathing.

I’m in the very early stages of a project in which I want to deploy WP/BP as an SaaS for organizations while allowing those organizations to take advantage of the iteration quickness and overall flexibility that WordPress offers when compared to SharePoint, Yammer, Basecamp, SocialText and Mango Apps.

After reading the Morgan book, which I cannot recommend enough to anyone who is considering BP as an intranet solution, you begin to realize that there are things that go beyond BP. You need to not only know BP and WP, but you need to know about all the available plugins out there, both premium and repository. I’ve been living and breathing this stuff for the last 6 months as I researched and studied.

What you are talking about is emergent collaboration, and it goes beyond micro-blogging, activity streams, forums and rich profiles. It might mean document management, relevance-based searching and more. More importantly, the Morgan book talks about how IT deployments work in organizations. Understanding how to deploy a setup like this, even in a small organization of ten people, goes beyond understanding how to build templates and hack BP.

What you are doing can certainly be done, but don’t go any further until you’ve read the book. It’ll help yo understand better the impact of what you are working on once it gets past novelty. That book will also help excite you about your project, it will help you think big, even if you don’t need to (because your organization might be small). The main thing you have to remember is that when using you WP/BP as the platform for an intranet, you are not building a website, you are building a communications platform. Having your mindset right along those lines will help guide you as you build and test because you will be asking yourself, “How does this impact communications?” It’s different than a website, because everything about it is about communications and information discovery.

Also, don’t bother reading any tutorial currently on the internet about BP as a Intranet. I’ve read them all, and they are all woefully inadequate. A 1000-word blog post doesn’t do the concept justice – even you are only building a platform for 10 people. There is so much more to the discussion than the existing content about this topic provides and the overall conversation about BP as an intranet solution is only just beginning in the larger community.

Hi all,

Thanks @bphelp for the post, I want to add some news here :p

Buddypress Activity privacy 1.0.3 is out now, i was add some integration to make it work with others plugins like buddypress Follow and Buddypress Activity Plus.

I Hope this integrations, will make happy many users of this two plugins :P.

Good News ! Activity stream privacy Is Now here https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-activity-privacy/

Im working for new feature for next release

– Member can change the privacy for an alredy posted activity
– Add Admin backend config for Privacy levels (Admin can enable/disable privacy levels).

Any suggestions are Welcome!

Regards,

I have been having the exact same issue. Clean install of both WordPress 3.5.1 and BuddyPress 1.7. Presuming you have checked the box “anyone can register” in Settings > General it’s a mystery.

I did consider it might be a permalink issue, but have tried all combinations thereof. No joy. You might however want to try this perhaps. Also, it’s worth checking which pages are assigned to your registration and activation in BuddyPress settings.

There are various threads on the same topic in this support forum, everybody experiencing exactly what you have mentioned, but none of them are resolved (so far as I can tell).

Leads me to think that this is a SERIOUS bug in an otherwise fantastic plugin. It’d be nice for some of clarification on this though, even if the answer is ‘it’s a bug’.

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Ditto – same experience as bp-help

There is now a reasonable body of tools to allow truly excellent (possibly superior to any other networking platform) “privacy/moderation”

This plugin is one such tool

and then there is

http://www.philopress.com/products/buddyblock/ (premium – but great! -gives your members the power to decide who can see and interact with them)

and also possibly

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-moderation/ (though you do need to consult the WordPress Forum to add up-to-date tweaks to get it working properly!)

These plugins should help 😉

This one is used for members to choose the group they want on registration.
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-roles-at-registration/

This plugin assigns specific profile groups to the roles you want.
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-xprofiles-acl/

These both work great together, and I am using them on the most recent WordPress and BuddyPress versions.

@shonesss WP/BP versions?

but the installation wizard does not show up

There is no longer an Installation Wizard since BP 1.7, so no worries.

I thought I’d plough on ahead anyway so I installed Buddypress Template Pack

As of BP 1.7, BuddyPress is compatible with nearly all WordPress themes, which means you do not need to install/activate the BuddyPress Template Pack plugin. https://codex.buddypress.org/bp-17-upgrading-template-packed-themes/

no buddypress navigation shows so its impossible to use.

Go to Appearance > Menus, then add the BuddyPress Pages to your custom menu.

@baskers I got a 404 page when I visited your link. Try renaming the subdirectory folder where you installed your WordPress and BuddyPress from RickyTweetUp to rickytweetup

@felixrami

• my best suggestion is to try and reinstall WordPress and BuddyPress & bbPress manually via ftp.
• If that doesn’t work, you’re best bet is to reinstall the most recent versions of those (before the upgrade of course) and then upload your most recent .sql backup via phpmyadmin to restore your site pre-upgrade.
• Once your site is back online, you can check your server logs for errors and report them here for assistance in finding the core issue and a best practice solution to implement to overcome it.
• Then definitely move everything to a localhost so that you can try to replicate the issue

Also, when you try to replicate the issue on your localhost, try to upgrade without any other plugins activated to see if there is a conflict with any of your plugins and the update. You can also search for “buddypress + {your plugin name here}” for each of your plugins that haven’t issued an update since buddypress 1.7, as they could possibly be the culprit.

I hope this helps and good luck with restoring your site. It can be stressful, but you’ll get it bud.

Hi, BP group documents plugin now compatible with BP1.7 in beta version can be found on http://lenasterg.wordpress.com/2013/04/30/buddypress-group-documents-for-bp-1-7-and-wp-3-5-1/