BuddyPress.org

1: There are 2 plugins for this: BP Album and BP Gallery (paid)

3: Jeff Sayre is working on the BuddyPress Privacy Componennt: http://jeffsayre.com/buddypress/

5: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-restrict-group-creation/

6: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-ajax-chat and many 3rd party options

9&10: Check the Welcome Pack plugin from DJPaul https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/welcome-pack/

Paid or “membership based” plugins are fine, but NOT for a core component of BuddyPress.

Core components are: Activity Streams, Blogs, Forums, Friends, Groups, Private Messaging, Profiles, and… Photos.

These components are the key elements of *any* social networking site and have to be *tightly* integrated with the core to deliver a quality user experience. That means that the component doesn’t just “plug in” to Buddypress… it’s part of BuddyPress and changes are made to the BuddyPress core if necessary to make it work better with the plugin.

You *cannot* have a core component based on a commercial plugin. In has to be free as in freedom *and* free as in beer, *and* open source. And you definitely can’t have development run by a “one man band” …because time and time again the developer goes away, an update breaks the plugin, and we’re all screwed.

This is not from me. This is from Automattic.

What I’m trying to get going between myself, @francescolaffi, and hopefully a few other contributors (once we’ve got a solid framework implemented) is a canonical photo plugin that will eventually be merged into BuddyPress. It will have to be dependable, extendable, and secure, and give BuddyPress users the functionality they want. In a nutshell: Facebook Photos.

If others want to *extend* the canonical plugin, it will have a wide range of hooks and be exceptionally well documented -making their job much easier. So if somebody wants to make a commercial add-on that gives it image editing capabilities, automatic face recognition, streaming video, or something beyond what the average user needs, then they can do that, find customers, and be paid for their efforts.

I’m not trying to build a plugin that does everything. I want to build a high quality gallery plugin that satisfies 95% of the users out there and becomes the standard.

^F^

You need to set permalinks in your WordPress install.

Hi I have the same problem I have installed WordPress and Buddypress and entered the Admin and when choosing Template and going to see the web site any categoory I click I get HTTP 404. IS THERE SOME BEGGINERS START UP GUIDE WHERE STEP BY STEP IS EXPALINED THE PROCESS OF CREATION A SOCIAL SITE WITH BUDDYPRESS????

I really need to create this site but with no instructions and help this is impossible ….

Thank you

Someone please build it so that I can stop seeing this argument recur on these forums every few weeks. If I didn’t have seven thousand other things to do I’d do it myself but hey – I just took all the thinking out of it by drawing a map

i’m wrapping up a buddypress group forum extras plugin which brings in some bbpress plugins to the bp-group forums (sigs, bbcode or shortcode, quote)… this might be tempting; especially the support forum plugin. i’ll look into it.

I think FeedWordpress had a solution for duplicate posts. Not sure where I’d seen that. I know, not very helpful… But I wouldn’t give up on FeedWordpress too soon. It continues to surprise me.

DJPaul’s Welcome Pack plugin can do this:

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

If you change your permalinks, old blog post activity items will not be updated to the new permalink structure

My suggestion would be to redirect these old blog post permalinks to their new ones using a WP plugin.

I’ve used this one in the past:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/permalinks-migration-plugin-for-wordpress/

It’s a little old, but it worked for me.

But you can integrate BuddyPress into your exisiting theme.

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

There really isn’t a comparable plugin out there.

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

WordPress uses the standard PHP mail() function – http://php.net/mail

If running on VPS, you should at least need 512mb of RAM in order to run wordpress/buddypress smoothly. But that’s just from my experince running wpmu/buddypress on a VPS.

Yeah, that article will help — I love eAccelerator. I also recommend you install this WordPress plugin: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/w3-total-cache/ (read the settings but you at least want “Database Caching” enabled.

@oneill1234-

You have a subdirectory install of WordPress. So, the RewriteBase directive in the .htaccess file needs to point to that directory. Change this:

RewriteBase /

to this:

RewriteBase /community

WordPress single install 2.9. whatever and buddypress 1.2.2.1

I installed this plugin then deactivated buddypress – the plan was to do it just for a sec and then re-activate. But now my whole site is broken and wp-admin kicks this error:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function is_site_admin() in … /wp-content/plugins/buddypress-restrict-group-creation/bp-restrict-group-creation.php on line 286

Please update your plugin so that if it is active and buddypress isn’t, it doesn’t torch the site.

Thanks.

although I’m still unable to solve the core issue of the problem, I discovered a plugin that solved the problem:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/mail-from/