Yeah, I know it is a little backwards, hah. I just like the idea of using wordpress as the UI for my community. Actually, I found something that is pretty close to what I need. It is still being developed, but it looks promising:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/collabpress/
I’ve liaised with the developer regarding 4sq plugin, He says it fine for the amendment but release it back to the wordpress.org!
Please can one guru amend it for BP?
rich! @ etiviti ( @nuprn1 ) –
Have you seen my WordPress Hook Sniffer Plugin? I created it out of necessity to figure out all the BuddyPress hook issues I was having.
I’d look into the apache configuration!
@wordpresschina – Thanks for the suggestion, this is exactly what I was looking for. I really do not understand one thing. Why when someone wants to register they get redirected to the Buddypress version of the registration, but when someone wants to login they go to the standard WP login page? Maybe there is something wrong with my install 
Unfortunately, I am importing very basic information so I am not having the same issues as you. The only “special” info I am importing is for s drop down selecting menu. It should be noted that it does not force matching, meaning if the field requires 1 – 10 and the CSV file has 12, it will import the 12. The import only really matches up the columns. FYI… if you type something wrong in the top row like Website instead of “company website” the import will actually create a new xprofile field.
Hope this helps (or at least answers some questions.
By ‘confused’ do you mean that you haven’t set up the server side proxying? simply enabling the plugin without having re-configured your server is unlikely to do a blind thing!
ahhhh that will be the reason why… so does the add to group plug in only work with WordPress MU?
I just recently installed wordpress mu and everything worked, I am still able to access the dashboard through my blog: globalinx-itc.com/Study, however if I try to do anything now after I installed buddypress, for example add a new group or click on anything on the front page, I receive object not found 404 error.
Can you please help me and see if there is something I am doing wrong?
Thank you so much,
JOe
After a delay, without responses, I just decided to rebuild the menu as a separate menu in the code for the page.
I still wonder if there is a simple way to integrate WordPress and Buddypress Menu items for future projects
Could anyone explain why BuddyPress forces username to be in lowercase / numbers only? When creating WordPress users, we can add uppercase, hyphens… So why does BuddyPress have this limitation, and how can it be removed?
Thks
@chrismitchell You will only see the menu if you use WordPress MU.
I tried using the bp-custom.php file in the wp-content/plugins/ folder, but I could not get it to work.
Could anyone upload an example version of this that I could tinker with to fit my needs?
My problem is I am running WordPress 3.0 RC1, with WPMU and Buddypress installed. Avatars work on the main blog, but not on sub-blogs, so I need to figure this out. For the sub-blogs only the Mystery Man appears.
@yocalif
You could try this plugin: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-coming-soon-page/
It has options to allow visitors to subscribe via email, link to your Twitter/Facebook pages, launch date countdown…
@ffemtkl – to customize those emails, what about trying this plugin:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/new-user-email-set-up/
When you were importing info, were you importing checkbox data? That was alsop problematic for me and I have no idea what format I should prepare that data so it goes in nicely….
Thanks for the reply.
I know how to disable buddypress components, my bigger question is how to display everything in the wordpress backend (which I see you asked about at the end of your reply). The reason that I want to do this is because I have several other user related tasks integrated into the backend, and I want buddypress there as well (mostly just for uniformity).
-Joe
Okay, after literally hours of phone calls, trial-and-error, google searches and bugging the tech guys at my hosting company I finally found the fix. I’ll outline here in case anyone has this same issue in the future.
First of all this is a HUGE wordpress-mu issue. There are tons of folks out there with the same problem, which is apparently related to folks on dedicated servers.
The problem I finally realized was my FTP client couldn’t actually change the read/write on blogs.dir
I kept doing a chmod but didn’t see that it never took. Once I realized the problem I found out that somehow wordpress-mu creates new files/folders dynamically using apache:apache as the owner:group. So the server then denied the creation because it wasn’t the right “owner” for those permissions.
Here was my fix (hopefully I haven’t mucked up my security too much doing this).
1) I turned off safe mode in Plesk. I’m hoping since I’m the only one in there, this won’t be too big of an issue.
2) I used an SSH login session to go to my wp-content directory
3) I did a chown OWNERNAME:GROUPNAME blogs.dir -R command
4) went back to my FTP session and did a chmod on the blogs.dir folder recursively
Now it appears to work (*fingers crossed*)
@themeanwhile – you can enable or disable the various components so if you want Activities only, enable that and disable other components. After you activate BuddyPress, go to the new BuddyPress menu item on the left column of dashboard, and go to
a) General Settings – these are your choices
Base profile group name:
Full Name field name:
Disable BuddyPress to WordPress profile syncing?: Yes No
Hide admin bar for logged out users?: Yes No
Disable avatar uploads? (Gravatars will still work): Yes No
Disable user account deletion?: Yes No
Disable global forum directory?: Yes No
Disable activity stream commenting on blog and forum posts?: Yes No
Default User Avatar – For users without a custom avatar of their own, you can either display a generic logo or a generated one based on their email address
b) Component Setup
Activity Streams – Allow users to post activity updates and track all activity across the entire site.
Enabled Disabled
Blog Tracking – Tracks blogs, blog posts and blogs comments for a user across a WPMU installation.
Enabled Disabled
bbPress Forums – Activates bbPress forum support within BuddyPress groups or any other custom component.
Enabled Disabled
Friends – Allows the creation of friend connections between users.
Enabled Disabled
Groups – Let users create, join and participate in groups.
Enabled Disabled
Private Messaging – Let users send private messages to one another. Site admins can also send site-wide notices.
Enabled Disabled
Extended Profiles – Activates customizable profiles and avatars for site users.
Enabled Disabled
I would suggest you set up a test install so you can check the features for yourself.
“Of course, activity filters, profile page, friends page, settings page, etc, would also need to be migrated to display in the backend.”
Why? If you want to make the BP Activity section private, you can add conditional tags for is_user_logged_in …
Take a look at this one.
https://codex.wordpress.org/Dashboard_Widgets_API
Specially the section which describes how to remove the widget from dashboard.
You might want to put your code in bp-custom.php/as a plugin so that it affects all the blogs on your network(if you have allowed multiblog) otherwise just putting them in functions.php of your theme will suffice.
sjParticipant
wel i went to wordpress and created a page named settings … and i defined a template file into child theme root named settings so thats giving me the out put i want…
is there a way to organize the template into like a folder named settings ??
is it required for wordpress that a tempalte file should always be in primary root directory of child theme ?
@jujunkie should you encounter the bug which @r-a-y mentioned above, do this
http://wordpress.pastebin.com/WCmvpvnU
what about xmlrpc? i’m working on a receiver plugin which allows profile activity updates and a new blog post updates (ie, if someone sent an update from an external wordpress blog when a new post is published)
@Giovanni I just used Invite Friends plug-in here http://talkpian.com/wordpress/ and getting Fatal error: Call to undefined function bp_core_add_subnav_item() in /home/talkpian/public_html/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/invitefriends-plug-in/bp-invitefriends.php on line 49
I’m using wordpress 2.9.2 with buddybress Version 1.2.3 …
please help if you have some solution…
@Giovanni any update available now? I just used Invite Friends plug-in here http://talkpian.com/wordpress/ and getting Fatal error: Call to undefined function bp_core_add_subnav_item() in /home/talkpian/public_html/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/invitefriends-plug-in/bp-invitefriends.php on line 49
I’m using wordpress 2.9.2 with buddybress Version 1.2.3 …
please help if you have some solution…
what about a rewriterule before the htaccess wordpress stuff?
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/(mydirectory).*$ [NC]
RewriteRule . – [L]
