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@thebigbonanza – BuddyPress is overkill for what you want to do. This is what I’d suggest you do with your $700 per your notes above

1. Find a web development tool (free or nearly free) that will allow me to create and customize a social website that a dummy (me) can manage.
– Get a free account at WordPress.com, pay for upgrades to
a) get your own domain name pointed to your free WordPress.com account
b) get a premium theme installed (if you don’t like the offerings at WordPress.com)

2. On this site, I’d like for visitors to be able to upload their own videos of them eating my pizza, talking about it, etc, comment on posts, vote for fave videos, and forward posts to their friends via email, FB or Twitter.
– You’re going to spend a lot more than $700 if you’re going to allow people to upload videos in your own server if you choose that route, and you will need to upgrade your plan again at WordPress.com to allow others to upload videos there at limited upload space at that.
I suggest that you ask your friends to upload videos at Youtube, Vimeo, etc and to send you the video URL. Post that URL to your wordpress.com and enable free Ratings and Poll systems, then add free widgets for Twitter et.al on your sidebar.

3. I’d also like the site to prompt people to sign up for email alerts throughout the contest
– add free Subscription widget to sidebar as well so others can follow your blog.

4. link to PJ’s online locator of PJ stores and online ordering system.
– Add link to PJ’s online locator in free Text Widget you can add to sidebar

There are free tutorials to manage that WordPress.com blog at http://wordpress.tv and there is free assistance at http://en.forums.wordpress.com/

Then after the Papa John’s contest in August, if you want to go full social networking with own server and move over all your posts in info from your free wordpress.com account, then go BuddyPress.

Good luck.

All I really want that WordPress/Buddypress doesn’t do now is a gradebook that will take grades from SCORM or other learning modules. Will BuddyPress Courseware do that? When do you expect a testing version will be available? As an aside I’m also waiting for the latest Scriblio so that the whole setup will include a library and extensive reading program as well; how will their be an API that will allow other plugins to include their data in the gradebook (I think I remember reading that you were going to include one). Looking forward to Courseware.

Oh, i almost forget. I’m using wordpress 3.0 and buddypress 2.4

@peterverkooijen said; “Talk about dropping rigidity and opening up to an amazing new flexibility and power is pure nonsense”. Ah Peter, without visionaries such as yourself, how would we ever have got to where we are..?! Growing out of rigid definitions into new flexibility is where the virtual world is heading, like it or not. Everything you see online now will be long dead in five years, and all the concepts you hold dear buried deep. Might as well get used to it.

BuddyPress is a mess, as I see it. It isn’t really anything, and at the same time it’s too much. If I want a community conversation stream, along with simple WordPress themes, etc., there’s Mingle. If I want a forum on my site that’s easy too; there’s BBPress, Mingle Forum, etc. If I want member groups regardless of these, there’s, erm… there’s… well, BuddyPress does that, kind of, in a big and over-complicated way.

BuddyPress should be about making social contacts. The name’s a bit of a clue, right? In other words, friends and contacts with grouping of such, contact streams, and strong privacy for users so they determine who sees what they post. On top of that, as it’s a social tool; community moderation/banning, and reporting to site admins in a simple and obvious way. Oh, and of course, easy to see notifications such as friend/contact requests, etc. Who thought it was a good idea to *include* forums in all of this, and relate them to groups?! Each entity and its associated operations should be separate and self-sustaining. Basic OOP.

It just doesn’t do anything easily, does it? And the hype on the download pages about plugins to do whatever you like is just hype, really. Oh, it ‘kind of’ does everything you want, but only kind of. You have to jump through hoops, and even then you’re fighting with a forum which tries to be a group trying to hold conversation streams together.

I’m interested in productive discussion about social networking sites and their take-up and impact, though not here as I feel it’s not the right place. For one thing, the developers and those who kiss up don’t like to hear how their baby was malformed from the start. If anyone is interested in finding solutions to creating truly interactive social networks in the easiest and most stable way possible at present, please email any-name-you-like at our domain.

I to had the 404 error when trying to show the activity stream on the home page. I already upgraded to WP 3.0 and BP 1.25 and things were working fine. I found this thread and installed the patch. Now it won’t let me change anything and only the activity stream shows up on the home page. When trying to access my home page it now forwards to the activity stream. Is there a way to get it to stop forwarding? I have tried re-installing the functions.php file from 1.2.4.1 and even deleting the patch from the current functions file.

My site is http://www.WorkoutJourney.com. Notice how it forwards to http://www.WorkoutJourney.com/activity. I have the settings set at Front Page Displays: Your Latest Posts.

Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks

WordPress.com has been steadily building some of these features for blogs. However, they have yet to release any sort of plugin to be able to do this. I have a feeling it’s because it would require a fair amount of server configuration that most people wouldn’t know how or be able to do. I’ve seen people ask for them to release it, so maybe they will some day. If they do, then we’ll probably see a lot of things built on this like the forum reply as you describe. However, I haven’t seen anything else that does this in the WordPress world either.

There are a variety of ways to create home page – also depends on what WP version you’re on. In any case, you might want to look at @modemlooper‘s https://wordpress.org/extend/themes/buddypress-widget-theme

this might interest you http://sushkov.wordpress.com/2010/04/04/scholarpress-buddypress/

I’m using https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/maintenance-mode. Can be seen on http://teronggosong.com.

congratulations. The struggles paid off.

The version number is at 0.57.
Plugin checks are done every 12 hours (I believe).

You can always do a manual overwrite.

This works the same way as if you registered from within WordPress. If I remember correctly, WordPress purges unactivated sign-ups after a certain number of days, but I will need to research this to make sure.

Can you give me an example? Chances are this is for readabilities sake. There shouldn’t be any /extra/ spaces anywhere. The WordPress coding standards do ask us to put spaces in before and after such things as closing and opening brackets, after commas, and things like that. The BP code isn’t minified in anyway, and we’ll probably look into doing that for CSS and JS in future versions, but the PHP code will continue to stay the way it is.

“–notification when using @mention in wordpress side (blog, comments, etc.)”

@intimez i’d imagine easy to set that up – just reuse the notification/atmention functions and hook it into wp. – the comments already hook add_filter( ‘pre_comment_content’, ‘bp_activity_at_name_filter’ );

please add for topic
–notification when using @mention in wordpress side (blog, comments, etc.)
–wordpress type moderation in buddypress (blacklist, admin must approve, author previously approve, etc.)
–buddypress import/export backup

Simon –
Have you gotten a response to your post about – Catchable fatal error: Object of class WP_Error could not be converted to string in /web/sites/wordpressmu292/wp-includes/wp-db.php on line 488.

I’m having the same issue.

There is no problem.
1. Turn off everything (all plugins sites).
2. Delete bp-default and bp-sn-parent
3. Delete old buddypress
3. Install version 1.2.5. (Or 1.2.4 if you want it).
4. Install Buddypress Sitewide activity Widget plugins
5. Install BuddyPress Widget Theme 1.2.1 by modemlooper
6. Enable rest
See other plugins that are compatible with version 1.2.4. (Download the latest versions).
I have had:
– BuddyPress Group Documents
– BuddyPress Links
– BuddyPress Sitewide Featured Posts
– BuddyPress Album+
– BuddyPress Sitemap Generator
– Facestream
– FeedBurner FeedSmith
– FollowMe
– JR Favicon for WordPress
– Lightbox 2
– Post videos and photo galleries
– SPNbabble
– Tweetstream
– WP Google-buzz
I did upgrade to four sites with thousands of customers and have not had any problems.
Make it a battle plan that does not look anything changes from the old buddypress and everything goes well and is ok (you will not lose anything).

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/my-category-order/