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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.

Which version of WP out of trunk did you use? Was it from the last 2-3 weeks?

If you have a backup of your files and DB, you can always revert, but I guess it’s too late for that.

Anyway, because this sounds like a WPMU problem, you might want to head on over to the WPMU forums and explain your case there:

https://mu.wordpress.org/forums

How did you make the move to WPMU? That could be the problem.

Also does this problem occur if you use the default BP theme?

Used this in WP installation and is working in WPMU/BP

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-latest-discussion/

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-redirect-to-profile/

i believe this project is no longer alive. I needed this kind of functionality for groups, so I wrote this plugin: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-group-tags/

mm, I’m on a single wordpress install though. I’ll just make a fresh copy of my live site instead.

edit – ok I found the album photos here – /public_html/mysite/wp-content/uploads/album

and deleted everything in there, and dropped the tables you mentioned and disabled and enabled the plugin.

Got the same error, but I uploaded my first photo and no error anymore.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-restrict-group-creation/ to restrict to certain cap levels

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-group-management/ – to add users/manage/etc

Pls add share button when user is in public mode setting by using tweetmeme

http://help.tweetmeme.com/2009/04/06/tweetmeme-button/

The Retweet button is for website and blog publishers that want to encourage their audience to retweet their content on twitter.

We have made our button really smart, with one simple piece of JavaScript we can give you up to date tweet counts and shorten your title and link for the retweets. Best of all it will work on any web page, anywhere!

If you are using WordPress please use our WordPress Plugin.

The Code

Copy and paste the following code where you want the button to be displayed.

<script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://tweetmeme.com/i/scripts/button.js”></script&gt;

Options

When the URL is different from the current URL

The button will automatically grab the URL of the page it is placed on. However if you want to place the button on more than one page or would like it in your feed, you will need to override the URL.

<script type=”text/javascript”>

tweetmeme_url = ‘http://yoururl.com&#8217;;

</script>

<script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://tweetmeme.com/i/scripts/button.js”></script&gt;

Just replace http://yoururl.com with the URL of the page you want to retweet. The URL must be the final destination URL, not an alias, such as a link using a shortening service (eg. Bit.ly).

Changing the size of the button – Compact Button

The Compact Button

We also offer a compact version of the TweetMeme button, with the same options as the larger button.

<script type=”text/javascript”>

tweetmeme_style = ‘compact’;

</script>

<script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://tweetmeme.com/i/scripts/button.js”></script&gt;

For some common questions, take a look at our FAQ

Changing the @username who is tweeted

By default the retweet button will be in the format of “RT @tweetmeme <title> <link>”. You can, however change the button to retweet your user account. By specifying the ‘tweetmeme_source’ parameter in the JavaScript you can change the format to “RT @yourname <title> <link>”.

<script type=”text/javascript”>

tweetmeme_source = ‘tweetmeme’;

</script>

<script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://tweetmeme.com/i/scripts/button.js”></script&gt;

The example above would retweet in the format of “RT @tweetmeme <title> <link>”.

Changing the URL Shortener used

We have also added the ability to use a URL shortener of your choice instead of our default one. If you would like to do this then you need to include the “tweetmeme_service” parameter as shown below:

<script type=”text/javascript”>

tweetmeme_service = ‘bit.ly’;

</script>

<script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://tweetmeme.com/i/scripts/button.js”></script&gt;

Note: tweetmeme_service should be set to the name of the service you want to use. A list of services available and more information is on our URL Shortener page.

I have a few questions. FYI I’m decent at coding, but I’ve spent more time making games in java than making plugins for wordpress.

I heard a few people talking about how you can change the way the plugin works while still being able to properly update it.

How would one do this?

I also have a few feature requests if the above isn’t possible because I don’t feel like changing the core code every time it’s updated otherwise I probably won’t update:

1. Ability to change the name from ‘Album’ to anything you want and same with ‘My pictures’

2. NVM this one can do it on my own

In the current version of BP, the BP “pages” aren’t actually what WordPress calls “Pages.” In a future version, they will be, but that doesn’t help you now.