BuddyPress.org

BP would benefit from some table reduction.

Andy and I talked at WordCamp San Fran about how some components would benefit greatly from using the posts table, like Private Messages and Groups. Other components like XProfile would be more tricky and may not see any performance improvements, but would still be doable similar to the WP3.0 Menus.

So, it’s a likely direction, but don’t quote me yet.

I could be wrong, but I’m guessing the bp.org site is running a bleeding-edge version of BuddyPress, since it appears that URLs like /communitiy/members are using WordPress pages.

My advice? Wait for BP 1.3.

Front end creation will prove critical and make the next generation of buddypress way more usable and flexible. If users have to go to a blog dashboard to do something as simple as share a photo or a movie review (examples of custom post types), it’s going to turn people off.

We need front end ability…and, come to think of it…we need it for regular old-fashioned blog posts too.

@boonebgorges and his work may help with both

1. Under BuddyPress, Profile Field Setup, you can add a new field or field group, including text box type fields. As stated on that admin page, “Any fields in the first group will appear on the signup page.” An URL entered will be picked up as a link in the profile’s public view.

While setting up profile fields, have a look at Custom Profile Filters for BuddyPress https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-profile-filters-for-buddypress/ with which, among other features “Administrators can specify certain profile fields that link to social networking profiles.”

2. See BuddyPress External Group Blogs https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/external-group-blogs/ with which individual users might include RSS in group and site activity streams even without blogs being enabled. See BP External Activity https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-external-activity/ for more admin options, or even FeedWordPress https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/feedwordpress/ for user blogs.

@jeffsayre ‘s right. We figured it out thanks to his McGruff The Crime Dog Hook Sniffer plugin. I highly recommend if you want to do some serious under-the-hood looking

@chiron

1) Wherever your bbPress theme is, add a functions.php. eg. my-templates/MY-BB-THEME/functions.php… if you’re using Kakumei, then it would be /bb-templates/kakumei/functions.php.
2) The path has to be an absolute filepath and not a URL. eg. /var/www/wp-content/uploads/avatars/. I’ve tried to guess where your WordPress install is using $_SERVER, but you might need to adjust this for your particular install.

Have a look at or refer to https://codex.wordpress.org/AJAX_in_Plugins. I’d also suggest you do a find-in-files in BuddyPress for “wp_ajax_” to see how BuddyPress does it.

What you’re describing is the expected behavior of BP/WPMU. BP is designed to work on a single blog in a WP installation. Additional blogs are more or less totally independent (“more or less” because BP still tracks activity that happens on those blogs).

You might be able to do what you’re trying to do with a plugin like https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wpmu-new-blog-defaults/, which lets site/super admins determine defaults on new blogs. You could set your home theme as the default.

If you want to offer child themes, you’ll have to build them. Make them children of your BuddyDress theme, make them available through Site Admin > Themes, and then your users will be able to select them.

I think I’ve solved this problem the same as every here has been describing.

After about 3 re-installs and 10 cups of tea, I finally dawned on me like a chisel falling from the grasp of a tired granite mason.

You do indeed need to install at the domain level, this also includes as I have found, the sub-domain level.

1) Create sub-domain. http://www.SUB.DOMAIN.com
2) Fresh wordpress install to your new sub-domain
3) Then Buddypress install

Hey Presto works, get your self one final cup of your favourite beverage, that you can now take the time to enjoy.
Then get some sleep, you’ve earned it.

my twitter is @samuelmunro if it worked for you or didn’t I’d like to know either way.

The above steps takes into account the understanding that you already know your way around cPanel, at least to the same level as me, which boasting aside is about one level higher than that of a monkey with lobotomy.

Or you could use the free version I built. Again, just for users and profiles. http://teleogistic.net/code/wordpresswordpress-mu/import-from-ning/

will this work on a Single install of WordPress?

@joesanch “I’ve tried several installs and found using the activity stream and a blank blog page as static pages generates a page cannot be found error on the home page. However, this works fine with 2.9.2. Any suggestions? Thx!”

I have same problem with wp 3.0 rc network and buddypress ( blank page and cannot be found error on the admin page )
Any suggestions?

Ok, really sorry about this but I’m a complete newbie to wordpress. My host is 1and1 and I have the installation working, but when I try to activate the buddypress plugin I get the 500 error. I see the recommendation here to modify the .htaccess file, but I don’t have one! Any tips?

please please send me the mystique/buddypress convert….
(david at musicaltheatrepro . com)

I would really appreciate it.. it’s perfect for what I do and I really can’t use buddypress in the current state… I don’t know enough about code to fix it! Thank You

@mazen I’m planning to look at this as well. Just haven’t had time yet. My plan was to look at how this plugin does it: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-fb-autoconnect/ Hopefully that can be used to do the automatic login. I know there’s a paid plugin that does it so it’s possible.

You see roadmap says:

1.3

* WordPress 3.0 support

No mention that 1.2.4 can run on WP 3.0

Ah so 1.2.4 was conceived as WP 3.0 ready, be good to know could possibly do with a little more detail in the roadmaps, or maybe there is and I just haven’t paid enough attention.

It’s a case of too much work for far too small a team! that will need to be addressed as BP grows exponentially

i believe 1.2.4.1 is wp3-ready and bp1.3 will come out after to take advantage of wp3 only features. (have to brush up on last week’s dev notes)