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Please do not cross post. You’ve asked the same questions in this post. Someone will answer you. Please be patient. Also, for everyone’s information, as this is an all-volunteer support forum, do not bump a post until 24 hours have passed.

@Arturo Thanks! Blog tracking? Meaning how posts can show up in BP’s activity streams and on profiles etc? And is blog creation in MU = to “network” in WP3.0?

First q: BP on WPMU — the BP member functionality is site-wide and not local to each individual blog?

If so, q 2: would you say that BP on WPMU is much like BP on WP except that members can have their own blog with its own subdomain and other WPMU-specific features like optionally setting their own blog plugins etc?

Q3: BP + WP + “community blogs” plugin (I think it is) is = to or is NOT = to BP on WPMU? I assume not?

Thanks!

Do any of you have more detail about the differences in how BuddyPress works on WP vs on WPMU? (And maybe differences in how BP might work on WP3.0 since that sounds like it will have WPMU-like functionality)?

First q: BP on WPMU — the BP member functionality is site-wide and not local to each individual blog?

If so, q 2: would you say that BP on WPMU is much like BP on WP except that members can have their own blog with its own subdomain and other WPMU-specific features like optionally setting their own blog plugins etc?

If yes, is that kind of functionality not possible with BP-on-WP via it’s own plugins?

Thanks much!

the only difference is the blog tracking for BP and the blog creation in MU or “network” in WP3.0

Do any of you have more detail about the differences in how BuddyPress works on WP vs WPMU? (And maybe differences in how BP will work with WP3.0 since that sounds like it will have WPMU-like functionality)? Thanks!

You only need to create a child theme if you’re making changes to the default BP theme.

If you’re using an existing WordPress theme, then only use the BuddyPress Template Pack plugin with your WordPress theme:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-template-pack/

Gotcha… just briefly glanced the post
So you just want to list a bunch of blog links that the displayed user is a contributor to?

Blog roles were removed in BP 1.2.3 due to performance reasons. However, you might want to look for a WPMU-specific function for this.

Try get_blogs_of_user():
https://codex.wordpress.org/WPMU_Functions/get_blogs_of_user

Hey Peter, didn’t see your post until just now.

You’re right that documentation is sparse, but that’s up to users like you and me to add it to the BuddyPress codex.

BuddyPress uses a different method to validate that’s why you can’t just hook in the WPMU validation function that WP-reCAPTCHA uses.

Like I stated above, look for clues in /buddypress/bp-core-signup.php. Check out the global $bp variable, especially $bp->signup->errors. This is what you have to use in place of what the check_recaptcha_wpmu() function uses.

FYI, I’m not using WP-reCAPTCHA.

Might I suggest using a math challenge plugin? It’s more user-friendly than a captcha plugin.
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wpmu-block-spam-by-math/

[EDIT]
Here’s another captcha plugin that supports BP:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/super-capcha/

@holgria – Are you using a WordPress theme or a BuddyPress theme?

If you want to use an existing WordPress theme, use the BuddyPress Template Pack plugin:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-template-pack/

Then do what techguy stated – modify “registration/register.php” in your WP theme’s folder.

https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/

Did you solve this problem?

wpmututorials.com

Disclaimer: It’s my blog. But, also Ron’s blog, and he’s wpmuguru who has been actually working on the merge.

Also, wptavern is an *excellent* resource for any new in the WP world.

It’s pretty easy to do with just a normal wordpress page and a custom template for that page.

The bug is with the plugin, not BuddyPress. Look at https://buddypress.org/community/groups/bp-community-blogs and where it says, “Last Update: 411 days ago” and “Compatible to: (WordPress) 2.7.”

Your best bet is to leave the author, Andy, a message and see if he intends to update.

Good idea for future enhancement. As I can’t move this post to the ideas forum, could I ask you please @intimez to post this on https://trac.buddypress.org/ with your username + password from this site as a future enhancement suggestion? Thanks

Example: http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=%2B”is+proudly+powered+by+WordPress+and+BuddyPress”; (front page of every BP site on the net)
Example: http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=inurl:%22/community/members/%22+%2Bbuddypress (members page of every BP site on the net)

Very much behind this, but I will mention that changing those two things are the first thing I’ve done with my BP installs (along with other stuff I mentioned in the article I did for the I-guess-it’s-not-coming-back bp-tricks.org). Agree that an install routine that forces the user to customize their slugs (explaining possibly consequences if they don’t) would be a great idea.

will need a plugin – see the function bp_activity_at_message_notification how it is done now.

Yeah, this is an annoyance, and a WordPress thing as opposed to something that can be changed in BP. Users can, of course, case their display names however they like, but the actual login must be lowercase with no non-alpha characters. And Buddypress will only send @notifications to the login name, as opposed to the display name. (In other words, @moddedlife will notify you, but @Justin won’t, and may send a notification to completely the wrong person, if it works at all) I’ve reported other issues surrounding that too, but since the redesign of this site, I can’t find anything, or I’d link to it.

The login/display name thing is suboptimal and potentially very confusing for users, but I don’t know if there are any plans to do anything about it.

Where exactly do I need to put this code snippet, please?

I just replied to a topic about Virtual Multiblog. It treats each WP blog separately – including userbase, themes, plugins, login. So you could potentially have multiple, separate BP installs running on one set of WordPress files.

It does require a little knowledge of symlinks and vhosts, also not sure how things like the new multi-site functionality in WP 3.0 will work with Virtual Multiblog… but it’s an alternative!