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@timnicholson

Why revive an 11-month thread?

Alessandro, I’m a bit confused with what you are trying to do. It sounds like you have a normal (single) WP installation and are looking to go social with it. A lot has happened since you posted this and BuddyPress is now available for single WP installs. I’m testing it out now. In WP v3.0, WordPress MU will be merged with the single WP installation and there will be a migration path. I can help answer questions around this… just let me know some more specifics.

I already had the beginnings of a Thematic/BP theme when I decided to use the BuddyPress default template instead. I had already set up a few pages and posts.

I want to place the BuddyPress menu on the top Admin Bar and my normal WordPress pages as a menu in the header.

For the Admin Bar I tried the code Peter Anselmo posted, but it places ONLY my WP menu in the Admin Bar, but not my BuddyPress menu, as desired. How do I “filter in” only the BP menu?

function mytheme_add_top_pages() {

wp_list_pages( 'title_li=&depth=1');

}

add_action('bp_adminbar_menus','mytheme_add_top_pages');

For the Header, line 85 of bp-default/header.php produces a menu that includes BOTH my WP and BP items. If I comment out this line, I get ONLY the BP menu, but not my WP menu, as desired. How do I “filter in” the WP menu?

How can I get this to work?

Thanks in advance,

PB

If you’re using MU, the best thing to do is go check and see if I wrote a tutorial on it already.

Getting member blog posts on the main page

and https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-mu-featured-posts/

I don’t see why not. This is just a matter of styling the template files for the homepage, blog indexes (index.php) and post pages (single.php) more like a newspaper site would. You’d probably want to have a Print button with each article – there are plugins for that. Several big newspapers already use WordPress.

Our Dear Leader on the subject – scroll down beyond the ridiculously humongous header.

I’m seeing the same behavior where only new members are being added to BuddyPress. I don’t think it has anything to do with where things are installed. I don’t think BuddyPress attempts to add “old” WordPress-only users. You’ll also notice that past blog posts and comments, etc. aren’t shown in your BuddyPress activity stream. However, if you go into an “old” blog post and simply hit update, it gets added to the stream.

What we need is a utility that can be run that will load all the existing WP users into BP. I’d also love to see one that will load up the BP activity stream with WP blog posts and comments as well, but that’s probably asking for too much.

I did find a BuddyPress plugin that talks about being able to import users into BP. However, its not what we are looking for. It is designed to import a list of users that you cut-and-paste into a text box on the plugin. I checked the code and it will only work with WPMU and it will also (re)create whatever users you import into WP as well causing duplicates. https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/user-import-for-buddypress-all-fields/

I’m going to dig around in the BP core to see how it goes about keeping BP and WP users in sync and see how hard it would be to write a program or plugin that would simply trigger BP to add all the existing WP users that aren’t already in BP.

I use this plugin instead of captcha:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/invitation-code-checker/

You can set an ivitation-code and everyone who wants to register has to write the code in a registration-field.

I changed the plugin a little bit for my needs so the code to write is seen on the registration-page.

You need to write a plugin then, and / or delve into the wordpress hooks and functions – best to check out the buddypress codex: https://codex.buddypress.org/

You see, my plugins are designed to work with wordpress, wordpress MU and buddypress…

I am having an awful headache just trying to keep them working up to date, and don’t have any time to make more detailed configurations… Even through I’d like to.

Check out this plugin: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-profile-filters-for-buddypress/

It will allow you to exempt that field from the standard BP search string function. You could also add a little customisation in the settings file to set your Company field to redirect to somewhere else as you’re suggesting here.

Me too!

Latest Buddy Press.

Latest WordPress

I’m trying to get two new sites up and running so would appreciate some help please?

Yes

When you say blog post you mean more than just updating the front page activity stream? (as seen here: http://testbp.org/ )

You mean actually writing a blog post?

There’s 2 ways you might go about doing it.

1. In your blog dashboard go to “Site Admin” >> “Options” and change the “Dashboard User Default Role” to Author. That will now allow every user on your site who signs up without creating a blog of their own to be able to post on your site’s main blog.

They still won’t be able to post on the front without going into the dashboard until you switch your main blog to a theme that supports front-end posting such as P2. To make the P2 theme compatible with BP install the “Buddypress Template Pack” plugin: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-template-pack/

2. Or you could instead go into your Dashboard to “Settings” >> “Reading” and set the “Front Page” to “Activity Stream”. Then install the “Oembed for Buddypress” plugin: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/oembed-for-buddypress/

I believe this is what you are looking for:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/sidebar-post/

Brajesh Singh has a plugin for that:

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

You might have to modify it to suit your needs.

There are also these:

BP-Links: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-links/

BP-Gallery (paid plugin): http://buddydev.com

Yes… https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/oembed-for-buddypress/

Enjoy!

@muratk

Have you tried https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/front-end-editor/ ?