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@PiManIII

I think your last question is moot. Developers will very often create plugins and offer them free under GPL license. Just take a look at the WP plugin repo where you’ll find over 13,000 free plugins: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/

But anytime you request something be created or custom-built, it’s best to offer some form of compensation; whether you want some coding done, or a deck built in your backyard

If you can access WordPress’ PHP environment, yes, of course. It’s a function call. If you can’t, you’ll probably have to create your own XMLRPC listener or via an AJAX _POST request and do it that way.

Not really a BuddyPress issue. You need to read up on the loop.

https://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop

when you install BP it attaches to the first blog on MU. You can tell it to attach to other blogs. So you could create a community.url.com bog and put the social (BuddyPress) on that url. Some blogs do not want BP taking over but want to add on a social aspect to WordPress.

It’s possible that bp_init is fired too early in the process for it to be detected with functions.php, which is only loaded with your theme (relatively late). Try hooking to something like ‘wp’ instead. You should be able to detect whether BP is activated by doing something like
`if ( !function_exists( ‘bp_loaded’ ) )
return;`

In any case, you should be enqueuing scripts on the init action, which is unrelated to bp_init: https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_enqueue_script

This looks like just a WordPress site without any BuddyPress in it?

Or is this just spam?

@ risi hi, this plugin has not been updated since 2009, and we dont know whats going on with Giovanni who owns the plugin as all effort to contact hin proved abortive. i have used the plugin before but i got error relating to Zend so i removed it which is what i will Advice u to do for now. i think some guru will look into it may be they can write something similar. but you can also use Invite anyone plugin, which is what am currently using but u have to input email manually. here is the link

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/invite-anyone/

regards

Start a new thread please and supply details about your setup.

Thanks for the info. I have made it that far and have installed the forum but it is giving me a plain white page. How do I activate the forums?

@grow-stories this is an 8 month old thread you have dragged back up. please, in future, if you have an issue you require help with you must start a new post/thread and describe the problem in detail along with any applicable info such as version numbers , custom themes, plugins in use.

You activate the plugin in the usual place for plugins, you visit the BP menu section and configure any options you want such as forum install, extended profiles etc, then visit the theme section and activate the bp-default theme or suitable BP compatible theme you might have.

So I have a WordPress self hosted site and installed the BuddyPress plugin but I do not see where I can access the plugin to utilize it. Any help?

Look for the `bp_adminbar_thisblog_menu` function in `bp-core/bp-core-adminbar.php`. It’s around line 151 (BP Version 1.2.7).

There is an `if` statement with `current_user_can( ‘edit_posts’ )`. Replace `edit_posts` with whatever role you want to check it for. https://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities

And you might already know this, but you should try to make your changes to the function using `bp-custom.php`. https://codex.buddypress.org/extending-buddypress/bp-custom-php/

@boonebgorges BuddiPhone is actually a BP component plugin. It creates a slug /mobile. I would love to use REST and make it native, then I could use the hardware – image uploads – contact lists etc. I messed with this plugin a bit https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/json-api. BuddyPress json post / get would be killer.

Hey Carl – Here are a couple considerations.

– WordPress (which BP runs on top of) already has support for XML-RPC. Here’s the spec: https://codex.wordpress.org/XML-RPC_wp Of course, the details of this spec are not much good for BuddyPress, since for the most part, BuddyPress data objects are different from WP data objects. But the gateways are already there for working with XML-RPC.

– That said, the kind of system-to-system talking that would be appropriate for BP would be much better suited to the simplicity of a REST gateway (as opposed to the generally one-to-one, client-to-server relationship that WP’s XML-RPC support was built for – eg the use case of native Android apps communicating with a WP installation).

– Neither WP nor BP has anything built in for REST support, so you’ll be starting with a clean slate (that is both good news and bad news!). There have been a few add-ons that might be good places to start. The one I’ve used in the past is called WP-RESTful https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-restful/. It’s a nice plugin, but it also has a huge amount of overhead, in particular with a full implementation of oAuth.

– In the very simplest terms, the very easiest way to set up a REST endpoint in WP is to intercept a certain kind of URL query and interpret the POST data. Here is about the most stripped down API possible:
`function bbg_api_listener() {
global $wp;

if ( $r = $wp->request ) {
$ra = explode( ‘/’, $r );
if ( $ra[0] == ‘restserver’ ) {
// Do some stuff with the $_POST
die();
}
}
}
add_action( ‘wp’, ‘bbg_api_listener’, 1 ); // Ensure that the request is parsed before any WP front-end stuff, but after the core of WP is loaded`

In this case, I am assuming that requests will go to example.com/restserver. From there it’s a matter of unpacking the POST action, etc.

– As for outgoing requests, WP has a pretty nice built-in HTTP library called WP_Http. Here is a nice tutorial: http://planetozh.com/blog/2009/08/how-to-make-http-requests-with-wordpress/ It’s a wrapper for cURL with some graceful fallbacks.

– For something to go into the core of BuddyPress it needs to be really flexible, especially in terms of authorization (this is part of the problem with WP-RESTful and its reliance on oAuth). Keep that separation in mind when you’re crafting something.

Can’t wait to see what you come up with. As you know, I’m really interested in this project and will be excited to play along.

Check out the bbpress wordpress plugin. ^^

I use Gravity Forms to do this, although you could also look into TDO mini forms (https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tdo-mini-forms/) if you’re not keen on spending any money. I will say this… the GA plugin is *the* best plugin I’ve ever splurged on, bar none.

If you are talking they post on blogger and same post shows on a WordPress then yes. There are numerous import plugins.

1. It should work as the posts are WP functions

2. You would be adding the codes as seen here https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/content-and-excerpt-word-limit/installation/ into your active theme. Find instances of the_excerpt and the_content in your active theme’s files and replace that with code given above after you’ve activated the plugin.
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/the_content
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/the_excerpt

3. No, this would not work in BP activity wall.

Profanity filter? There was something but I think it was WP post specific but should be possible to achieve with a little work for BP aspects.

There is this:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/webpurifytextreplace/
But it is a paid for solution and although it states BP support it is a little outdated so would need checking with authors as to whether it would work with alter BP versions.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/content-and-excerpt-word-limit/