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So it was supposed to be ready? Very interesting. We’ll there’s at least two of us who know the truth about that statement. It’s too bad. I just started with BuddyPress and with so much attention I expected to see something a little more polished. Am I expecting too much given it’s maturity? I’ll have to evaluate that question a little closer.

Keep tabs on this ticket:
https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/2403

same: https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/wordpress-3-0-buddypress-1-2-4-1-and-activity-stream-as-front-page-possible-fix/

no solution at the moment

I’d recommend not using Twire.

Try Tweetstream instead:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tweetstream/

I’ve got something to help you out.

Wait until BuddyPress is 3.0 compatible.

I actually thought it would be out of the gate considering the time frame of the WordPress 3.0 development and the popularity of BuddyPress.

I just tried an upgrade and it was a failure to say the least. One of the issues is what your encountering.

@r-a-y thanks for this and I have seen this code before and tried it several times but I cant get it to work…I know its me….Im just not putting it in the right place on the functions.php page. Ive put it at the very start of the page. For example:

function sh_walled_garden()
{
global $bp;

if( bp_is_register_page() || bp_is_activation_page() )
return;

if( ! bp_is_blog_page() && ! is_user_logged_in() )
bp_core_redirect( $bp->root_domain .’/’. BP_REGISTER_SLUG );
}
add_action( ‘get_header’, ‘sh_walled_garden’ );
/* Stop the theme from killing WordPress if BuddyPress is not enabled. */
if ( !class_exists( ‘BP_Core_User’ ) )
return false;

/* Register the widget columns */
register_sidebars( 1,
array(
‘name’ => ‘Sidebar’,
‘before_widget’ => ‘

‘,
‘before_title’ => ‘

‘,
‘after_title’ => ‘

‘

blah blah……….

Is that correct? Because when I do this I get an error reading.

I just need to know “exactly” where to put it on the page. For example put it between “x” and “y”.

Thanks for getting back to me promptly though…appreciate it.

Hi @simoncreative, just one recommendation.
Have you thought about installing a cache plugin, you don’t have one yet, do you?.
I’ve tried W3 TOTAL CACHE https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/w3-total-cache/ and WP SUPER CACHE https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-super-cache/. Here you have some WordPress Cache Plugin Benchmarks http://cd34.com/blog/scalability/wordpress-cache-plugin-benchmarks/ to select for yourself. W3 TOTAL CACHE has a complete JS/CSS minify system and helps you to work with CDNs, but maybe its more difficult to use.
But that’s not all, you always can find out what you have to improve with Yslow, PageSpeed, Firebug firefox addons.
One of this “Improvements” will be “Add expire headers”, my friend AD7six has made up a simple .htaccess that will resolve this problem http://gist.github.com/440336 (here is the conversation on Vladimir Prelova blog http://www.prelovac.com/vladimir/improve-website-yslow-performance-grade-in-a-blink-of-an-eye ).

I think this might be helpful for all.
By, and great work!!

If your site relies on Groups, you can try out the BP Group Documents plugin:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-group-documents/

Using this plugin, your users can upload documents to a group. You can set the plugin to upload certain file extensions like .ZIP or whatever.

i think a really great plugin would be one to integrate BigBlueButton with WordPress, and specifically with Buddypress. Then, as mentioned above, individual users or Buddypress groups could be easily invited to sessions. The api for integration is here:
http://code.google.com/p/bigbluebutton/wiki/API

and the main site is here:

Home

If you’re speaking more about distance education and e-learning, I invite you to look at a few resources on my site:
http://thecorkboard.org/category/instructional-technology/online-learning/

PJ mentions the Scholarpress plugin, which, I agree, is a bit faulty at the moment. But keep track of the Google Summer of Code project that looks to blend Scholarpress with BuddyPress and improve its features as well:
http://thecorkboard.org/gsoc-buddypress-and-sp-courseware/

I think a lot of what you want to accomplish is inherently available within BuddyPress. Meetings could equate to groups. Conferences could be a specific BuddyPress site with some features on or off. I’ve found that looking at BuddyPress – and WordPress for that matter – with a different lens has expanded my perspective on what this software can really do.

~Kyle~

When you integrated this with Thesis what version of BuddyPress were you using? Were you using WordPress MU or regular WordPress?

I’ve been playing around with this today. I am running regular WordPress 2.9.2 with Thesis 1.6 (need to try 1.7 but he really changed things there).

I installed the BuddyPress Template Pack plugin and went to work.

I don’t think you do the thing with the bp-custom.php file anymore, right?

I followed the instructions and copied all of the templates to my /wp-content/themes/thesis_16/ folder.

Then I started digging into how Thesis outputs its content and started updating all of those templates with different HTML markup and calls to Thesis functions to get headers, footers, and sidebars, etc.

So I got the pages like Members, Groups, Activity, etc. looking OK, but not pretty. There is going to be a TON of CSS development needed to make this look as pretty as it all does here.

The thing I’m not yet clear on is how to get it all to flow under one tab like it does here with the Community tab?

And I have LOTS of other questions….and work to do to make it fully functional and tightly integrated into the navigation and flow of the site.

Is it even worth it I’m wondering?

Just thought I’d share. I’d love to find out someone has already done ALL of this and can provide instructions, or files…would be worth something I think!

You might enjoy 37 Signal’s service called Campfire or Basecamp for team/staff interactions: http://37signals.com/

I heard about https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/scholarpress-courseware/ in the blogosphere lately. I wasn’t impressed with how it worked so I took it off my beta site. I hope one of both of these will help.

Make sure you actually do have WP Super Cache uninstalled and removed:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-super-cache/other_notes/

@holgria – don’t know what WP/MU version you’re using … dsader’s code below from mu.wordpress.org forums is working for me in WPMU 2.9.2 (subdirectory and subdomain structures) placed in mu-plugin folder
http://wordpress.pastebin.com/7dcWBXtp
As always, backup your DB first.

The buddypress-member-profile-stats plugin might interest you: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-member-profile-stats/

@LPH2005 good see you’ve fixed the headers already sent error earlier. I just checked out ExamView and and it looks like a great add-on for a school site. Thank you

EDIT – per your 1st post re suggestions:
1. Changing too-wide login to horizontal login under header – here’s some HTML and CSS you could try – adjust accordingly or let me know if it needs some tweaking
2, The right column looks good in home page but takes over content space which is more important imho in the inside pages.

@thegreatdaysho – Login to your FTP and navigate to /wp-content/plugins. Rename the BuddyPress Template Pack plugin directory to something else. Then reload your site.

FYI, I deleted your other topic because of double posting.

@thegreatdaysho

Try to disable the plugins by removing them from the /wp-content/plugins/ folder