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I actually do run my business from the root domain.

1.customer goes to root.com to register and signup for a site.

2. customer is given a subdomain.root.com blog which I domain mapp to their own domain

That is normal wp operation.

Where it gets sticky:

1. customer whose site is actually subdomain.root.com turns on group blogs and tries to create one…. that creates subdomain.subdomain.root.com

see the problem?

It’s pretty much the exact same type of situation that wordpress.com does.

1. I go to wp.com and register my site, subdomain.wordpress.com

2. If they had group blogs, I would go in and create one, it would create subdomain.subdomain.wordpress.com

I hope this makes it clearer, how I am actually doing what wpmu was intended to do. I run everything off of the root domain, so every customer is subdomain.root.com

The only ‘solution’ I see without having wpmu fixed, would be to give complete fresh installs of wpmu to each client, so they are actually on a root.com instead of a subdomain.

That completely kills the entire concept of wpmu (one codebase for me to maintain). I would have to maintain all the installs separately, which would suck bigtime.

Anyhow, it is not an error with your plugin, but rather an error with wpmu core. I posted question in their forums, and if I can find the ticket system for mu I will report it as well.

Hi DJ Paul, upgraded wordpress and now the default theme is working fine. Still having the same trouble with buddymatic, but i’ll tool around with the CSS in default and get myself something similar.

Cheers mate.

I tested out Kaltura but one thing to caution you about that I saw was that the last updated date was almost 6 months ago and it shows compatibility with 1.0.x and 1.1.x, NOT 1.2. It didn’t seem to be very actively worked on so I started looking at different options. Here’s their wordpress repo link for you to decide on your own.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-kaltura-media-component/

Hm, no real instruction manual as such. And no question is a noob question

With regards to features, you can read this page https://buddypress.org/, find some BuddyPress introduction videos from WordCamp conferences at http://wordpress.tv/category/buddypress/. I’ve just got back from WordCamp Ireland where I did an introduction to BP session; slides are at http://slideshare.net/DJPaul/wordcamp-ireland-2010-introduction-to-buddypress

If you can ask us a specific question about BuddyPress, we can come up with a more specific answer (hopefully!)

The issue isn’t with BuddyPress, its an issue with your WP environment. when you were told to change your Permalink Settings wordpress created a .htaccess file. this probably broke your access to get in, it did mine.

I updated the file so that the rewriter worked correctly and all is better. Enable rewriter and you’ll probably be good.

Sec7

You’re looking for a WordPress <-> phpBB bridge.

Have you tried WP-United?

http://www.wp-united.com/get-wp-united/

I don’t know how to integrate the others into wordpress/buddypress, but you could still disable the forum component in buddypress and use the other features.

It sounds like this plugin will help you:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-geo/

Haven’t tested it though.

BuddyPress utilizes bbPress only for the groups component.

This doesn’t limit you from using using phpBB or vBulletin!

There are a few scripts out there that can integrate phpBB and vBulletin into WordPress.

I’d suggest checking those out.

Are you able to receive emails regularly in WordPress?

eg. when someone posts a comment on your blog or when a new user registers for your site?

The groupblog_blog_id should hold a single value. If this isn’t the case it is misfiring somewhere. Did the following post help at all? Please follow the instructions there and see if you can clean up the meta table. This should not be a problem in 1.4.4, but 1.4.3 causes issues.

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/371370?replies=6#post-1427856

Thanks everyone for the tips and tricks, I’ll be checking this page again!

It’s strange but the moment I upgraded to WP2.9.2 and BP 1.2 spam started again.

Previously, I just added SI Captcha and I went from getting 10-20+ spam registrations to none. I added WP-hashcash now and I’ve only had one registration since.

I’ve just disabled the blog registration on the signup page, hopefully that’ll help too.

By the way, there’s also a meta tag in the header of many templates :

<meta name="generator" content="WordPress 2.9.2" />

Removing that may help too….

My registration link is broken too. I’m using the latest versions of everything (WPMU), no active plugins except BuddyPress and WordPress.com Stats, no custom language, and the default theme. Any ideas?

Make a page in the back-end admin area, make a custom wordpress page, by adding a comment with the template name in the top (https://codex.wordpress.org/Pages#Creating_Your_Own_Page_Templates). After throwing this file inside your themes folder, you get a dropdown on the right side of your page editings page, select the file and you can use normal tags like get_header(); in the php file of the custom page template.

This is the only correct way to make a custom wordpress page as far as I know.

Is it now compatible with a single WordPress 2.9.2 install (for only one blog) with BP1.2.1? or do we have to wait for WP3.0

Does this post help at all: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/371370?replies=4#post-1427856

Do you have access to your db?

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

doesn’t work with 1.2

in desperate need of some more widgets.

@snark

In response to your points up top:

1)

+1 Favorites sometimes = bookmarks in social networking sites. We need to be able to offer this across all types of communication features.

2)

Theme developers need to be able to pull this info in with a loop. Maybe we can already?

3)What is the current state of Favorties plugin development, and is there something in the works that can accomplish the above?

There is the BuddyPress-Like plugin: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-like/

The problem with BP Like is that it now competes with Favorites built-in to BP 1.2. I need to be able to turn off Favorites so that BP Like isn’t confusing/repetitive.

But really, this is something should be rolled into core.

@Peterverkooijen

Forums, yes, were part of an older web community – it was the sole way they communicated. With the advent of social networking came the creation of new ways to communicate. Forums were given less focus but they still have there place. Even today in Facebook you can clearly identify forum-esque features.

I don’t think BP has ever focused on forums. It’s always been on the activity stream/wire. Of course, forum topics are now tied to the activity stream – as they should be – but does not in any way give BP a “schizophrenic” identity.