What exactly is a component?
Am I just supposed to start reading the function reference and some code and try to understand?
Most articles I found there seem mere stubs that only make sense when you know what you’re looking at.
When I started with WordPress I kind of rolled into it and looked some things up when I needed them etc.
For WordPress there are 2 excellent guides to get you started developing plugins and themes.
With BuddyPress I have absolutely no sense about what it does, how it works from the inside and where to start.
Aren’t there any books or tutorials to get started developing in an easy way?
Hi,
Thanks for this plugin.
It seems to work very good on my site, exept for the homepage. Maybe I missed something but the title of my homepage is “Blog”. I’ve checked WordPress options (site name, and site title, it’s not “Blog”) and I don’t find homepage option in BuddyPress SEO.
Any idea ?
Excuse my english.
Cordialement,
Guillaume Coulon.
And I am waiting for Boone to write a plugin that will build my BP community, fill it with thousands of members that will click on hundreds of ads which in turn will make me billonaire.
Sorry for the OT, but I really think Boone can do it…
UPDATE: getting back on topic, wpmu.org will start building a Ning Migration Tool: http://wpmu.org/ning-to-buddypress-wordpress-migration-plugin/
Will it be free or not ? Place your bets !
i had a similar issue, this is how i fixed it.
htaccess on root directory:
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
permalink structure:
/index.php/%postname%/
then i had to make sure that apache has the mod_rewrite module enabled.
running wordpress 2.9.2, apache 2.2.11 and php 5
FYI, Buddypress Ajax Chat updated their plugin on April 11th. I think they may have fixed their issue so you might want to update the list if they have.
if this helps anyone but my quick start for markitup (just the group forum areas for now – something funky with the activity entry textarea)
http://etivite.com/groups/buddypress/forum/topic/quick-tip-adding-markitup-to-group-forum-textareas/#topic
markitup will handle html or bbcode (enable the shortfilter and use this plugin https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/boingball-bbcode/) – and you can fake the WYSIWYG part by using the preview option
BuddyPress is running fine in http://www.venture4change.com/community, but I see what you mean….perhaps there are two installations? It’s possible…I used the host’s lousy wordpress installer, which was likely simplescripts.
What’s your recommendation?
It’s just a start, but after I heard the news about Ning I wrote a plugin that will import users from Ning to WordPress: http://teleogistic.net/2010/04/importing-ning-users-into-wp/.
Sadly Ning doesn’t offer easy export of the rest of the content. But I think some folks out there are working on ways for you to get your forums, discussions, blog posts, etc out of there as well.
@Robert
the avatar issue seems to come form an incorrect value for the upload_path option in wp_options for the main blog. Make sure it is set to: wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files
Once I updated the option manually in the database, everything worked fine. Also if you have an old .htaccess file from WPMU, it needs to change to use the new ms-files.php in the rewrite rules:
RewriteRule ^files/(.+) wp-includes/ms-files.php?file=$1 [L]
@Andy Peatling
I’m using WP3.0 beta-1 and BP 1.3-bleeding and things seem to work OK for the most part except the Blogs area is a bit shaky. I don’t get the My Blogs admin bar menu item.
So the recommendation is to use BP 1.2.3? Hm, how do I downgrade? Can I just disable BP, reinstall 1.2.3 and then reactivate it?
Out of curiosity i’m wondering if anyone has tested this out yet, how well does the WordPress Search Function work with BPAlbum+ is there anyway to allow people to search through images where if they type in a tag name that image will show up?
You need to create a new WordPress page before this will work. Create a wordpress page, then the option will appear.
I’ve been using the alpha’s for 2 months and its been great so far. using sub-folders and actually running bp off of a sub-blog and not the main blog. few bugs..but overall great.
Have you guys tested the fresh installation?
Im about to test this scenario:
1) WP 2.9.x
2) BP install (current state)
3) Upgrade WP to WP3.0b
4) Go to multisite network
5) Refresh BP
Does anybody some strong recomendation (like DONT DO IT 
?
The upcoming 1.2.4 release will be tested/fixed to work with WordPress 3.0. Current version is not guaranteed to work.
Found this plugin which says it works under WPMU: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/display-widgets/
Haven’t tested it under BP though…
@Gpo1
Re:”Am impressed with the plugin,so far and awaiting below because users are using smartphones like Iphone & android more for internet .”
The plugin *already does* what we just described. The functions, and documentation on what they do, are located in:
bp-album-templatetags.php
sub-album-templatetags.php
sub-media-templatetags.php
sub-meta-templatetags.php
This is a situation where I can’t post a block of code for you that magically does what you want.
You’ll need to select the right functions for your application from the X-templatetags.php files, and write code that uses them to output the correct data for your template.
I really don’t want to sound like one of those “elite” programming types that won’t show others how to do stuff, but honestly, the wordpress codex site does a *much* better job of teaching how to do this stuff than I could ever achieve writing forum posts.
Start here: https://codex.wordpress.org/Stepping_Into_Templates
And then here: https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/
And if you need to learn how to use PHP, go here: http://www.php.net
Also, be sure to use a proper code editor, which you can get here: http://www.netbeans.org …if you’ve never used a “smart” editor before, the experience could be life-changing… 
Enjoy!
^F^
@snails07
I’ve been looking for something like this too…from what I can tell in these forums, nothing exists that will work. The plugin is this one https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-member-filter/
But, it doesn’t work with current MU or BP versions.
In theory, this could enable search menus for members by any profile fields…location, profession, hobbies, etc.
The Rate Forum Posts Plugin https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-rate-forum-posts/ does something like this. You would need to tweak it a bit to aggregate the three tiers you are looking for, but it’s a start.
You could use the Custom Profile Filters for Buddypress plugin. I know it’s not exactly what you are looking for, but it would enable you let your users identify themselves in one of your 5 categories, then that word they have selected will become a link that will take them to a page will all of the other users who also selected that category.
Perhaps this plugin will give you the building blocks you need to create the solution you need.
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-profile-filters-for-buddypress/
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Just a reminder to everyone on the thread, that the current beta we are now discussing is
version 0.1.9.2 which you can download here:
https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/bp-album/branches/foxly/0.1.9.1/bp-album-BETA-0-1-9-2.zip
It’s *hugely* different from the 0.1.7 version currently being distributed on the wp plugin site.
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You may find this plugin useful: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ozh-who-sees-ads/
I believe you’ll need to edit the different template pages to have the ads display… I could be wrong on that though. It’s been a while since I’ve played around with it. It may now just require moving some widgets around.
So, your question is really a WPMU question. You should try asking the question on a WPMU support site as it will likely get more response than here.
As for the blog thing – you currently have users with no blogs. If you create a new blog for every user then what default content are you going to put on that blog for the users who have no interest in the blog? Are you going to leave the default Welcome to WP post with the comment from Mr WordPress? As a user, I’d be annoyed by that if there wasn’t some way for me to delete the blog. Oh, yeah, there is a way – don’t automatically create a blog for a user that’s not interested.
But anyhoo, I assume you have asked your user base and this is what they all want so do what you need to do.
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Works fine for a single install for me…
