BuddyPress.org

Extra note:

Trying to achieve this look & feel:
http://ayudawordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/blog-buddypress.jpg

With pretty much every user created blog to be part of the main site…

@nahummadrid, Thanks for the response.

You’ve got me thinking that I already have an issue then.

For instance I have a page named music. The URL for it is myblog.com/music.

If a user signed up and made their username music then their blog URL would be the same myblog.com/music.

Or am I missing something?

Maybe a prefix can be added to the blogs like what has been done for all of the other elements within wordpress.

Like this plugin: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/vertical-scroll-recent-post/

But this plugin has limited features

I had some time earlier to create a little spider that basically:

– Scans the extensions page (all 12 pages!) for the direct URL’s of each plugin
– Extracts meta-data from each of the pages (title, rating, downloads, last updated, compatible, requires.. etc)
– Normalizes a little bit
– Dumps to text file for database import or CSV

Anyhow, for about 30 minutes worth of work, I was able to get most of the meta-data into a report. Some pages threw errors, probably because I didn’t set a delay between fetches or something but I could easily improve on this and cron the process into a database. Anyhow, I was mostly curious about searching through the extensions more effectively. Here’s a sampling of the top 20 or so by downloads:

# | Title, Version, Updated, Requires, Compatible, Downloads
1 | Plugin: BuddyPress 1.2.7 92 days ago 3 3.0.4 446618
2 | Plugin: W3 Total Cache 0.9.1.3 126 days ago 2.8 3.0.4 263812
3 | Plugin: MapPress Easy Google Maps 2.28 70 days ago 3 3.0.4 120369
4 | Plugin: All in One Webmaster 6.9.9.3 44 days ago 2.9 3.1 117468
5 | Plugin: Tweet Blender 3.2.4 50 days ago 2.8.0 3.0.4 81710
6 | Plugin: WP-Hashcash 4.5.1 296 days ago 2.9.2 71257
7 | Plugin: Login With Ajax 3.0.3 53 days ago 2.8 3.0.4 60193
8 | Plugin: Codestyling Localization 1.99.7 121 days ago 2.5 3.0.4 50702
9 | Plugin: Transposh – translation filter for wordpress 0.7.0 10 days ago 2.8 3.1 40218
10 | Plugin: Post video players, slideshow albums, photo galleries and music / podcast playlist 1.95 2 days ago 2.0.2 3.0.4 36651
11 | Plugin: Author Avatars List 1 121 days ago 2.8 3.0.0 32541
12 | Plugin: Buddypress-Ajax-Chat 1.3.8 31 days ago 2.9.1,1.2 30325
13 | Plugin: BuddyPress Media 0.1.8.7 14 days ago 2.9,1.2 3.0.4,1.2.7 26729
14 | Plugin: Twit Connect 2.56 77 days ago 2.7.0 3.0.4 20029
15 | Plugin: Welcome Pack 2.1 223 days ago 2.9.x,1.2.3 3.0,1.2.4.1 17864
16 | Plugin: Invite Anyone 0.7.1 51 days ago 2.8,1.1 3.0.1,1.2.7 16969
17 | Plugin: BuddyPress Links 0.5 91 days ago 5.2,3.x,1.2.6 5.2.x,3.x,1.2.6 15916
18 | Plugin: BuddyPress Group Email Subscription 2.7.9 46 days ago 2.9.1 1.2 3.0.1 1.2.5.2 15806
19 | Plugin: BuddyPress Like 0.0.8 53 days ago 2.9 3.0.4 14836

@Andrea_r, thanks, but I think it is also a little deffirent, BP must built a group first, and everyone has his own ‘timeline’ in twitter.
@r-a-y, I clicked the testbp.org, but the google tells me the link is bronken. Then I click the site Cached, and I see the page `BuddyPress Test Drive`, how to setup if there has a tutorial? is there everyone get one page like this? or still relay on creating a group?
Thanks to all.

Many of the linkss on the pages I would copy and paste directly into the page article I was writing. Could it be the links that are causing the conflict. The other links I just used the link editor to link things up. But heres the deal, even when I make a new menu with no links or anything still no drop down menu..
I did disable BP,and every plug in..nothing

I did update my wordpress a few days ago, but the dropdowns worked fine after that..

I just tried the SMTP plugins you suggested but no matter what I do with it’s settings, it just keeps giving errors…

The below error for example;

Test Message Sent

‘The result was:

bool(false)
The full debugging output is shown below:

object(PHPMailer)#878 (45) {
[“Priority”]=>
int(3)
[“CharSet”]=>
string(5) “UTF-8”
[“ContentType”]=>
string(10) “text/plain”
[“Encoding”]=>
string(4) “8bit”
[“ErrorInfo”]=>
string(36) “Could not instantiate mail function.”
[“From”]=>
string(23) “noreply @www.sevenos.net”
[“FromName”]=>
string(5) “81300”
[“Sender”]=>
string(0) “”
[“Subject”]=>
string(44) “WP Mail SMTP: Test mail to sevenos @gmail.com”
[“Body”]=>
string(68) “This is a test email generated by the WP Mail SMTP WordPress plugin.”
[“AltBody”]=>
string(0) “”
[“WordWrap”]=>
int(0)
[“Mailer”]=>
string(4) “mail”
[“Sendmail”]=>
string(18) “/usr/sbin/sendmail”
[“PluginDir”]=>
string(0) “”
[“Version”]=>
string(5) “2.0.4”
[“ConfirmReadingTo”]=>
string(0) “”
[“Hostname”]=>
string(15) “www.sevenos.net”
[“MessageID”]=>
string(0) “”
[“Host”]=>
string(9) “localhost”
[“Port”]=>
int(25)
[“Helo”]=>
string(0) “”
[“SMTPSecure”]=>
string(0) “”
[“SMTPAuth”]=>
bool(false)
[“Username”]=>
string(0) “”
[“Password”]=>
string(0) “”
[“Timeout”]=>
int(10)
[“SMTPDebug”]=>
int(2)
[“SMTPKeepAlive”]=>
bool(false)
[“SingleTo”]=>
bool(false)
[“smtp”]=>
NULL
[“to”]=>
array(1) {
[0]=>
array(2) {
[0]=>
string(17) “sevenos @gmail.com”
[1]=>
string(0) “”
}
}
[“cc”]=>
array(0) {
}
[“bcc”]=>
array(0) {
}
[“ReplyTo”]=>
array(0) {
}
[“attachment”]=>
array(0) {
}
[“CustomHeader”]=>
array(0) {
}
[“message_type”]=>
string(5) “plain”
[“boundary”]=>
array(2) {
[1]=>
string(35) “b1_1470c9ad82e79af6f6f5232da168c73a”
[2]=>
string(35) “b2_1470c9ad82e79af6f6f5232da168c73a”
}
[“language”]=>
array(13) {
[“mailer_not_supported”]=>
string(25) ” mailer is not supported.”
[“provide_address”]=>
string(55) “You must provide at least one mailer is not supported.”
[“execute”]=>
string(19) “Could not execute: “
[“instantiate”]=>
string(36) “Could not instantiate mail function.”
[“authenticate”]=>
string(35) “SMTP Error: Could not authenticate.”
[“from_failed”]=>
string(35) “The following From address failed: “
[“data_not_accepted”]=>
string(30) “SMTP Error: Data not accepted.”
[“recipients_failed”]=>
string(56) “SMTP Error: The following SMTP Error: Data not accepted.”
[“connect_host”]=>
string(43) “SMTP Error: Could not connect to SMTP host.”
[“file_access”]=>
string(23) “Could not access file: “
[“file_open”]=>
string(33) “File Error: Could not open file: “
[“encoding”]=>
string(18) “Unknown encoding: “
[“signing”]=>
string(15) “Signing Error: “
}
[“error_count”]=>
int(1)
[“LE”]=>
string(1) “
“
[“sign_cert_file”]=>
string(0) “”
[“sign_key_file”]=>
string(0) “”
[“sign_key_pass”]=>
string(0) “”
}
The SMTP debugging output is shown below:’

@thecoup

I can confirm that your method to troubleshoot my particular problem was successful.

So the final verdict: Do not use Dreamhost’s One-Click Installs to install WordPress if you want to use BuddyPress. Instead, do a manual WordPress install and continue from there.

Thanks to everyone for their help! Hope this information saves other people headaches in the future.