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I am a very conventional idiot. I seriously doubt I will ever be in a position to afford a custom code.

What are the perils of choosing open source scripts for main projects?

How long these projects like wordpress will be in good shape with continuous updates?

I heard Automattic is profitable. But what if the leading developers loose interest and leave?
(Tumblr has overtaken WordPress for having more blogs on the web)

How safe will we be then?

Is it wise to choose such a plug in like buddypress for a bread and butter project?

so I have a clean install of wordpress with multi site enabled. when I network activated buddypress this white gap which I would say is around an inch keeps appearing on my dashboard between the wordpress bar like you see at the top and the rest of the dashboard content below like the sidebar and wordpress news. so does anyone know what can be causing this?

I’ve spent about an hour now googling and reading on the buddypress site, and scouring other sites online for information about this, but i havent found anything that quite addresses my issue. I am certain this has had to be asked before, so if thats the case, can someone point me into the right direction?

I already have an established wordpress site which I have been using for releasing news information about a sport. I also have a phpbb3 forum that is on site but obviously is not synced with wordpress. It exists on a subdir on the domain.
Right now I have a menu item that brings up a page on wordpress with forum registration info and then forwards you to the site.com/forums/index.php

Ive been watching buddypress for a while, and I want to try it out and completely replace my existing forum. bbpress can handle the forum stuff within buddypress, and all the social networking bits of buddypress can take things to the next level.

My problem is when I install buddypress it pretty much takes over the entire site. (or at least I havent figured out how to not make it do so).
Id like to have my site exist as normal, and then be able to have a menu item that when clicked opens a page (or whatever else) and buddypress and all its menus can then exist within that…

So in a sense the buddypress install becomes a feature of the wordpress news site and not the entire site. Is this possible, and if so is there any documentation on it?

First, let me apologize for probably frustrating you with such a common issue!

I have tried to edit the files, and have successfully managed to get the content appear in the right place, but no matter what I try the sidebar still appears in the footer, rather than beside the main content.

I only edited the buddypress-header.php and buddypress-sidebar.php

I am using the latest versions of buddypress ad wordpress.

Thanks!

I have a hook into the WordPress Add New User process via an `add_action(‘user_register’, ‘doMyFunction’);` hook.

What results is that I am (Step 1) adding a new user through WordPress and then (Step 2) having to add the same user to BuddyPress in order to get the user fully activated in WP/BP with the proper role.

I would prefer to just add a new user/member once through the Buddy Press Add User page and have it go through my hooked function.

Is there a Buddypress hook I should change too on the hook I show above in order to eliminate the 1st step described in my process?

Thanks for helping.

I would like to have a situation where one user can write a document, and another can proofread and edit it. All privately. There doesn’t seem to be any direct way to do this – is there maybe a workaround? If you know of another plugin which may be more suited to this task, that would also be helpful.

I’m currently running:
Wordpress 3.4.1
BuddyPress 1.5.6
BuddyPress Docs 1.1.24

Thanks a lot