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I am trying to use the Facebook Connect buddypress plugin with 2.9.2 WordPress and the Latest BuddyPress. It doesn’t seem to be working. Is that everyones experience or have I broken something?

TIA

FYI… Elliot updated wp-hashcash for BuddyPress.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-hashcash/

I also am having strange happenings using WP-O_Matic.

The campaigns show up in my forums. I use bbpress intergration for forums.

Still waiting for a solution to this also, as I prefer WP-OMatic over Feedwordpress.

I was thinking of adapting the wordpress plugin from the openinviter.com guys to work with BP. It would be from a profile page. To me that just seems like the right place to be. I’m inviting people to the network after all and not to a group.

at this time it seems like the only way to do it is to do it yourself/hire a programmer. i would like to do the same thing but have not found anything that can migrate or bridge them that works well with phpbb3.

Perhaps this is because you are leaving the sources in the sub directory.

An easy solution will be

1. export the database using PhpMyadmin

2.Do a search fro “OfficialManCard.com/omc” and replace it with “OfficialManCard.com”

3. Move the whole sub directory to root of site.

4. Drop the tables from the database

5.Import the modified database tables to the database

6. Login to wordpress and re save your permalink.

and Hopefully everything should work.

I will advise to do a test on local server/system before doing this sort of thing on server.

Try to rename wp-content/plugins/buddypress to something else and then access your site.

Is your sites front end accessible from http://www.website.com/main/. where you had it.

Is it wordpress/wpmu.

I guess, most probably, it should be an issue with the siteurl in the database. You might have given it to http://www.website.com/ at the time of installation, please check and provide more details.

You might like to get some anti bot plugins from wordpress. I have WordPress MU and Buddypress and use the following plugins to prevent bots from joining my site.

WP-SpamFree – An extremely powerful anti-spam plugin that virtually eliminates comment spam. Finally, you can enjoy a spam-free WordPress blog! Includes spam-free contact form feature as well. http://www.polepositionmarketing.com/library/wp-spamfree/

WPMU Super Captcha – Custom captcha program made to stop spam bots cold in their tracks. Features audio, word files, or random text. You configure it! https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/super-capcha/

Or go to http://www.wordpress.org, click on extend and find them there.

@gregfielding I never said I was “against” BP Gallery, I said it was inappropriate to use a *commercial* plugin with only *one* contributor as a BP core plugin, which is our ultimate goal for the BP Album+ plugin.

No matter what claims are made about this and that being “free”, until Brajesh releases his plugin, properly documented, into the WordPress repository under a GPL license so others can reuse its code, it is a *commercial* plugin.

In terms of features, BP Gallery *currently* has much more functionality than BP Album+.

But over the next couple of months, we’re planning on adding a huge amount of functionality to the BP Album+ plugin, and as we get more people onboard, BP Album+ will probably quickly eclipse BP Gallery.

I’m not going to try and tell you what gallery you should use for your site, but I want to point out some key reasons why I’ve chosen to team up with another developer and write a free open source BuddyPress Photo album plugin (and give it away to the community!) versus just handing over $30 and using BP Gallery for all of my social networking sites:

1) The release date of BP Gallery has slipped six times over three months, and its status hasn’t been updated since Feb 06 2010. Brajesh announced he was releasing RC2 on March 11/12. Didn’t happen. And BP Gallery Stable on March 14/15. Didn’t happen.

2) Simultaneously with all of this, the guy’s released two themes, two other plugins, and has posted that he will be releasing a chat plugin and another BP theme by the end of March. He’s also handing out free subscription extensions to all of his members for not getting his plugins working on time.

That’s impressive. Much respect to Brajesh for sheer volume of work!

But it raises some scary questions:

a) If he’s sprinting to get fifteen different projects done simultaneously under penalty of losing all his members, how efficient, extendable, and secure is the code inside BP Gallery? Has it been checked by other programmers?

b) Brajesh makes his money by releasing several new plugins every month. What incentive does he have to keep *improving* his existing plugins versus writing new ones?

c) If a BuddyPress core update breaks his plugins (as *just happened* with Manoj Kumar’s original BP Album, prompting the development of our plugin) …how long is it going to take Brajesh to repair his dozens of plugins, and where will BP Gallery fit in that lineup?

d) What happens if Brajesh gets hired by Google and quits developing plugins? Who will keep them working with future BuddyPress updates and how will they learn such a huge codebase in time to avoid disaster?

And to the people that keep saying “Well he’s going to release BP Gallery as Open Source in a week or two”, consider this:

e) If you were a website owner that’s paid $30 a month for a site membership to get the BP Gallery plugin, and then patiently waited for 3 or 4 months for the developer to finish it (and don’t kid yourself, that’s what 90% of the site members are there for) …would YOU be happy if the developer finished the plugin, then released it for FREE to EVERYONE as open source?

I’ve been wrong before, but I’d say the odds of BP Gallery being released as free open source any time soon are slim to nil.

It’s a sad situation, because if Brajesh released BP Gallery to the plugin repository, we could continue development on it for him, integrate it with our app, and release a fantastic plugin that gives the community what they want; and he would have more time to work on his other plugins. But again, very unlikely to happen.

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There is a solution to all of the above problems: build ONE application that is FREE OPEN SOURCE, maintained by MULTIPLE developers, and can be EASILY EXTENDED. It’s how Linux is developed. It’s how WordPress is developed. It’s How BuddyPress is developed.

And it’s how the BP Album+ plugin needs to be developed.

….

As for “Community Support” …. we’ve had 600 downloads in 48 hours and will probably hit 1,000 downloads before most people even see this.

Unless Brajesh is pulling $30,000 a month from his site (=1000 members) I’d say we’ve already beat BP Gallery in terms of installed user base.

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@Modemlooper I’m going to turn this around on you and say “What if WordPress had no text editor, no file upload capability, no admin menu, and no comment functionality”. All of these are required elements to make a blog platform run, and that’s why they ship with WordPress. Twitter functionality, on the hand, is not a required element, and that’s why it’s implemented as a plugin. Likewise with BuddyPress, Forums, Profiles, User Activity, and… photo albums … are required elements of almost every social networking community. That’s why I want to stop screwing around with third-party plugins and help build something that’s good enough to ship with the core.

So there’s my thoughts!

^F^

@hachimaki

This post from Sarah Gooding should help get you started with widgets:

http://wpmu.org/how-to-widgetize-a-page-post-header-or-any-other-template-in-wordpress/

there is the invite friends plugin here: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/invitefriends-plug-in/

but it has not been updated for some time

Album or Gallery to me is nothing like what I imagine core media functionality would be like. I envision the ability to upload media directly into the activity stream.

Also, all functionality can not be in core otherwise plugin development would die and we would be stuck with cookie cutter (ning) sites. What if the top 20 most popular plug ins were already built into wordpress. Would the community have grown so large?

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.