BuddyPress.org

A number of people have asked me what my alternate solution is… it’s just a WordPress events plugin. There are lots of them. There’s no BuddyPress integration. It’s not ideal… but it will do for now. Specifically, I chose this plugin: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/calendar/

That’s totally up to you!

Check out:

https://wordpress.org/extend/themes

Keep in mind that the main BuddyPress blog needs the BP default theme or a BP-compatible theme.

User blogs can use any theme.

Nope, you’re on a BuddyPress powered site, but the forums that are integrated into BuddyPress are powered by BBPress.

What I’d want:

1. WordPress widget system capable of adding Open Social gadgets

(I think there’s one plugin, but the last time I saw it was outdated.)

2. xprofile, where user can add their own gadgets to customize

Either way, http://shindig.apache.org/ should most probably help developers.

If you want forums, then BuddyPress is not the best tool. Try bbpress, that’s the forum for wordpress.

+1, really need this! BP Contents seem to cover everything suggested in this thread, if not more.

I have a feature suggestion, though I’m unsure which platform (WordPress vs BuddyPress) it actually targets. I would like the ability to make certain categories and tags private, i.e. for moderators and above only. I found a plugin called “private tags”

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/private-tags/

This plugin however hides content, while all I want to do is to hide the option of adding certain tags. For instance if your website pulls official site news from various sub-blogs by checking for the ‘official’ tag, ordinary users should not be allowed to apply this tag.

“I really do like WordPress/Buddypress, I am just unable to structure the forums in buddypress in a true forum layout.”

If you’re just looking for a forum, then look at bbpress or any other forum package. BuddyPress has its focus on the social networking aspects. the forums area are minimized on purpose.

It sounds like you want a just a forum, not BuddyPress.

I’m having the same problem, the white screen of death.

I disable all plugins changed the theme to default and still can’t run the plugin. I renamed to via the control panel to get wp back up and running.

Help, I’d really like to get this plug in up and running.

Dan

Are there not open social widgets for WordPress you can use already?

I think the display issues I posted about earlier are caused due to a conflict with the WP-Minify plugin: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-minify/

At present it is easier to add blogs to phpBB, and build community, than add a discussion forum to BP.

It seems to me that this strikes at the heart and tradition of what WordPress is … as in one way broadcasting (single blogs) … rather than discussion.

I think WordPress is the best blogging platforms but I would argue that real community building happens around discussion, not one way broadcasting.

Imagine the different between

100 people standing in the street all talking aloud to themselves about their thing … and now and then being heckled by a passerby

100 people sitting down at a conference having a managed, or group discussions, about various topics ….

The first example is a WordPress blog farm.

The second is a phpBB discussion forum … and a community.

I am not exactly sure yet where Buddypress fits in or what its roadmap is.

If you want to add an integrated blog, which is picked up by a site search, you can do so to phpBB via a blog MOD. Imagine the above “conference” attendees having somewhere to be able post their conference speech papers.

The real problem is, BBpress was a badly starved project, as a discussion forum, before it was chosen to be integrated into WMPU and Automattic do not, seemingly, have a strong interest in integrating it.

I am wondering if it was a wrong choice and they should have gone with something mature like a bridge to phpBB.

A few folk liked BBpress because it was so slim and minimal … but then a few folk also like playing with 68k Apple Macs and Ataris too.

I hope that helps …

BuddyPress 1.2.2.1 isn’t built or tested for compatibility with WP 3.0-Alpha yet; I suspect it won’t until WP 3.0 gets to Beta.

@MrMaz Or we can just wait until WP 3.0 comes out ( http://wpengineer.com/wordpress-3-multisite-settings/ ) since it will have multisite capabilities and it will create a blogs.dir subfolder in wp-content which is compatible with the plugin. But then again I’m not sure how long it will take for v3.0 to hit when we’re currently at v2.9.2.

i just checked it into the development version

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

Ah, okay. I know there were issues with this 2-3 weeks ago. I’ll see if I can go find out what’s up.