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BP is just a plugin that provides the social interaction components. Everything still works like any other WordPress site.

Try one of these:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/auto-join-groups/

http://brentandmary.net/2009/10/24/bn-auto-join-group-plugin/

http://buddypress.webdevstudios.com/blog/2009/11/13/buddypress-registration-options/

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/welcome-pack

I think that one of them does what you’re describing or could be modified to do what you want.

As an added bonus, here’s one that should subscribe people to a blog at sign up:

https://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/13675

I got this after trying to download and install from the WP admin:

Downloading install package from https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/buddypress-activity-as-blog-comments.0.1.0.zip.

Unpacking the package.

Could not create directory /xxx/xxx/xxx/wp-content/upgrade/buddypress-activity-as-blog-comments.tmp

Uploading via ftp and activating worked fine.

I think you may have a mod-rewrite issue going on. I’m having the same thing happen and that is the direction I’m headed. I’ll let you know the outcome.

Thanks!

CPC

Make sure you have read this first: https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API

Here you can find a listing of most (all?) of the current WordPress hooks: https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Action_Reference

Here you can find a listing of BuddyPress hooks, although this is out of date:

https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/action-reference/

As far as your particular project, you probably can find the proper hook to tie into by searching the register.php file in the BP default theme. There are many hooks you can use.

Also, if you want to learn more about the current BuddyPress hooks, I would recommend searching for all “do_action” and “apply_filter” calls within BuddyPress.

@jivany and @DJPaul It’s not a production site. It is my bleeding edge site where I run nightly builds of WordPress and BuddyPress so I can monitor what issues I may have with plugins and functionality on my development and live site. Though I must say I was a little surprised with how much went wonky when adding 1.3-bleeding.

You could also potentially use the “Search Engine” plugin by Scott Kingsley Clark:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search-engine/

It works as a spider so it indexes all content on your site (so I’m guessing it would include BP content)… I should state that I haven’t used this though.

OK, I tried Scott’s “Search Engine” plugin on BP. It is well intended, but still in very deep beta. As far as I could tell, it was only indexing blog posts, and I couldn’t seem to test even that, because each time I hit the search box, the result was always a single, non-clickable Google Search Result unrelated to the content that should have been indexed.

Google Custom Search also seems to have issues with BP, as it was not indexing forum posts. Perhaps a site map needs to be submitted for GCS to pick up on forum posts?

Only time will tell. I imagine a competent lawyer could argue that Channel Definition Format (CDF)–the original subscribable news feed and the precursor to RSS 2.0–was created by Microsoft in the mid 1990’s long before Zuckerberg even knew how to spell computer. It led to the wide-spread use (via RSS 2.0) of creating and distributing syndicated content throughout the Internet.

http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2006/12/who_invented_rss.html

So, did Facebook invent the news feed? No. They may have been one of the first to have locked it inside its own walled garden–which is antithetical to the spirit of the news feed. But IMO this is just an application of the concept, not a demonstrable innovation of something sufficiently new and patentable.

I imagine that some of the earliest blogging networks (before Facebook’s time) might be seen as early walled gardens and therefore their RSS feeds could be looked at as internal to the network. If you weren’t a member, you could not get access to the feed. So WordPress could then be viewed as the facilitator of the first internally-subscribable news feeds.

As a fully-licensed and practicing armchair lawyer, I look at this as just another example of a very large, powerful company being able to successfully overinflate its importance and contributions to the USPTO. Clearly the lead government patent lawyer failed the public on this one.

Just make a custom wordpress page that looks like it and make it your index page in your wordpress settings? It won’t be called index.html anymore, but that wouldn’t be that big of a problem.

Search before you post.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/polldaddy/

Hi there,

I too am facing a problem with Avatars.

I am installed BP on a fresh WordPress, no MU involved.

The BP is installed here http://www.waapsols.com .. some how I can’t get the upload avtar thing to work.

It fails during cropping. Can you please check and comment.

Unfortunately the plugin “BP Member Filter” is a plugin by JJJ is not working anymore, read this thread: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/374052

I’ve run in to this with importing a userbase to a Buddypress install. WordPress likes login names to be lowercase, with no spaces, and no non-alphanumerics (except, I think for dashes (‘-‘).

Users can, of course, make their display name anything they like.

The follow-on problem though, is with @username notifications in BP1.2+, which work on the login name and not the display name, so if a user has the login username johnsmith and the display name John, only @johnsmith will work.

(I’ve also just recently encountered a problem in that usernames with dashes cause @notifications to fail. That is, if a username is johnsmith, @johnsmith works, but if his username is john-smith @john-smith fails.)

BP Member Filter is a plugin by JJJ that does what you want:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-member-filter/

I’ve tested this back in the BP 1.1.3 days and it worked to some extent.

Haven’t tested this with BP 1.2.

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You could also potentially use the “Search Engine” plugin by Scott Kingsley Clark:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search-engine/

It works as a spider so it indexes all content on your site (so I’m guessing it would include BP content)… I should state that I haven’t used this though.

But it wouldn’t offer the “advanced search” functionality you’re looking for. More like a sitewide search.

You can create any home page you want and then choose that page in the admin.

Read up! https://codex.wordpress.org/Pages

With less than a day left now,there’s probably little value in putting the blog post up.

But, you can refer to these links for ideas.

http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AtgQiOrXrZ0ZdE5rUnRzTXB0VWtqTUtvVkp1Rk9lYXc&hl=en

https://buddypress.org/about/roadmap/

Some things I’m excited to see:

An events component that doesn’t *require* bp-groups

Privacy that uses WordPress roles and capabilities

REST API

Inappropriate content flagging

User attachments

Surely there’s some WordPress plugins that do this? They ought to work with BuddyPress.

The siteurl and home (url) are required by BuddyPress to properly determine where it needs to look to find its various support files. So, that is why you could still access BP but the layout looked funky. BP could not resolve the path to the theme’s CSS files.

If you changed the url back to the original, proper path, it all should work now without any issues. Is that the case?

I assume that you were trying to provide your friend some assistance to a different issue. If you have a new issue, unrelated to this particular topic, please start a new thread and mark this one resolved.

By the way, for future reference, the topic you posted here is a WordPress issue and not a BuddyPress issue. That’s fine that you posted here, but if you have additional problems related to this particular issue, I’d suggest posting in the WordPress forums instead as most people here ignore issues that are not BuddyPress specific. I just happened to be looking at the right time!

Of course, if you have BuddyPress-specific issues, then post them in these forums.

Based on your description of where you were and what you did, I assume that your friend’s install is running WordPress and not WPMU (the multiuser version of WP). All is not lost.

You need to gain access to the backend of the MySQL database that is being used by WP. The easiest way to do this is via phpMyAdmin. Your friend’s hosting provider should have a version of phpMyAdmin. Your friend, or whomever created the MySQL instance for the WP install will have the username and password for the MySQL database–which is different than the one used for WP Admin access. If they don’t have it, you can find it in the wp-config.php file of the WP install.

Once you have access to the MySQL DB, you navigate to the wp_options table (the first two letters of the table name might be different). In that table, search for two entries: “siteurl” and “home”.

They should both be reset (this is what you did) to ventureforchange.com. You need to edit those two separate fields adding back the “/community ” reference. Of course, do not include the quotes.

Once that is done, try accessing the Admin dashboard again. It should now work.

if you use Group Forum Extras Plugin – i have a simple function in which you can wrap the ‘freshness’ col to the last post anchor

for the function code: “Link the freshness time_since to the last post”

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-group-forum-extras/other_notes/

in action::

http://etivite.com/forums/