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@itoube he’s using WordPress not WordPress MU.

question is interesting for me too.

excellent summary, Thomas!

has anyone had any issues with the avatars in the sidebar? Mine are all showing up in a vertical line instead of a block. I’m using the BP Template Pack with BuddyPress 1.2.1. I’m working on a client site that isn’t live yet and I would love to get the bugs worked out before we upload it to a permanent url. http://workingonthisnow.com/MHA

Thanks!!

I will be making a child theme for P2. From there you can set that theme as the default group blog theme, wish will enable frontend posting.

That is not the same as frontend posting on the group home page. You can already use P2 as the group blog theme now.

Also note that in 1.1.3 group blog defaults are overridden by the blog defaults plugin. Haven’t yet tested if that is different in bp-groupblog for 1.2, but for my site I don’t want another category of blogs that looks and behaves different from the other blogs.

For me the groups and blogs serve different purposes; the blogs are for “individual expression”, the groups are for interaction, collaboration, community, etc. I don’t want to mix and confuse those functions.

The group home in my site should become a collaborative space. Front-end posting is a first requirement, so I’ll continue to bang my head against the wall trying to figure that out.

…which you can get from https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-group-documents/

@designodyssey, it’s pretty much the way you see it in screenshots https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-group-tags/screenshots/ and when you click on the tag, the page will show groups that are tagged e.g. “plugin”

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I have the same problem audriusme had, except that blogs.php is in the right place.

If I use Firebug to edit the <img/> tags to add “wp-content” to the @src attribute, then everything works just as it should.

I’m running on WPMU 2.9.1.1 and I just upgraded BP from 1.1.something to 1.2.1. In fact, since it wasn’t working, I also deactivated everything again and deleted BuddyPress altogether from the server and then did a manual install, just to be sure it wasn’t a problem with the upgrading process.

I’ve searched both the BuddyPress forums and the WordPress forums for hours and it seems that all the other references to group avatars is “almost” similar to my problem, but not quite the same… until I saw audriusme’s post above about the missing “wp-content” in his <img/> tags. That’s exactly my problem.

Any clues?

You have to create a new WordPress Page called “Blog” and then go into “Settings > Reading” and switch the front page mode to static with the “Blog” page selected as your “Posts page”. I think it will use the index.php template. Do you have a custom homepage?

If you want your users to make posts to the main blog from the “site theme” and not from the “wp-admin” then you’ll need to use a theme that supports front end posting such as the default buddypress theme or P2.

Otherwise posting to a blog from the “site theme” is not an option bundled with BuddyPress.

I think that I may have come up with a solution for my issue with custom signup fields using BuddyPress 1.2.1 on a standalone installation of WordPress 2.9.2. After much digging around I basically ended up with a function that looks a little like the one below in my bp-custom.php file.

function bp_custom_signup_fields( $user_id) {



$bpCustomField = $_POST['bp_custom_field'];



update_usermeta( $user_id, 'bp_custom_field', $bpCustomField );



return $user_id;

}

add_action( 'user_register', 'bp_custom_signup_fields' );

This seems to be working as I want it to, but if anyone is aware of any issues that this may cause, please do let me know.

I’m also trying to understand the differences…

I have a standard wp site that with multiple blog authors and am thinking of adding Buddypress to it… at the moment even authors don’t have a link in the admin section to post to the blog… so i’m a bit confused about how that functionality is going to work.

I also wonder it will be possible to add a public useable contac form to member profiles – if anyone could point me to a plugin that would be great because at the moment i’m guess they are all geared to ward BP/WPMU?

Did you patch vars.php?

http://www.surmunity.com/a/21699-wordpress-permalinks.html#post250688

That’s the solution for your problem.

I too have also tried to use the tutorial that carrotcreative has mentioned, but not managed to get it working. The reason for my problem though I believe is that I am trying to use BuddyPress 1.2.1 on a standalone installation of WordPress 2.9.2. The tutorial is referencing the hook “bp_core_activate_account” which as far as I can see is in turn calling the function “wpmu_activate_signup” which I am guessing doesn’t exist outside of MU.

I’ve tried using the “user_register” too hook onto and run the “update_usermeta” ,but that doesn’t appear to be working. Does anyone know what hook should be used for standalone WordPress in the absence of “bp_core_activate_account”

Thanks.

You’ll need to install bbPress as an external install.

Download bbPress @ bbpress.org/download.

Find integration guides @ bbpress.org/forums or this link:

http://theeasybutton.com/blog/2009/07/17/integrating-buddypress-wordpress-mu-and-bbpress/

Omit the BP integration steps in that guide.

Tom

This might be a good place to start https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-template-pack/

you might try this ~ How to Install WordPress MU on IIS 7 on Windows 2008 Server, and I know there used to be quite a bit of rewrite mods for IIS 6 and there is plenty of information available to get in running in the MU forums

I am trying to install Buddypress 1.2 with WordPress 2.9.1 (SU) & Buddypress Tempalte Pack. I am unable to activate Buddpress. It gives a Error 500: Internal server error. Please help.

There is a new plugin I just found called BuddyPress Rate Forum Posts — https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-rate-forum-posts/. I haven’t tried it yet, but I plan to. It allows thumbs up/down voting on Forum posts and in the process users receive “karma points” for the quality and frequency of their posts. So, in theory, spammers would get bad karma scores from other users, and you could search for users with bad karma and then delete them.

yeah … you can do a lot with that sort of thing if you just take a bit of time to learn it. This little tutorial really opened my mind to the possibilities – Frontend Admin Menu in WordPress – That guy’s website is great. Lots to learn.

At the moment, the classes are added to individual posts in a topic, by javascript. This results in extra server load, because wordpress has to do two whole startups for each such page. The trade-off is adding another apply_filter and a do_action to the theme, but as this plugin already benefits from one such proposed theme change, we can get two for the price of one.

Proposed change to buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/groups/single/forum/topic.php, from line 26:

<ul id="topic-post-list" class="item-list">

<?php while ( bp_forum_topic_posts() ) : bp_the_forum_topic_post();  ?>

<li <?php

$topic_post_id = bp_get_the_topic_post_id();

echo "id='post-$topic_post_id' class='",

apply_filters('bp_single_forum_topic_post_css',array('class'=>'', 'post_id'=>$topic_post_id)),

"'";

?> >

<div class="poster-meta">

<a href="<?php bp_the_topic_post_poster_link() ?>">

<?php bp_the_topic_post_poster_avatar( 'width=40&height=40' ) ?>

</a>

<?php echo sprintf( __( '%s said %s ago:', 'buddypress' ), bp_get_the_topic_post_poster_name(), bp_get_the_topic_post_time_since() ) ?>

</div>



<div class="post-content">

<?php bp_the_topic_post_content() ?>

</div>



<div class="admin-links">

<?php

if ( bp_group_is_admin() || bp_group_is_mod() || bp_get_the_topic_post_is_mine() ) :

bp_the_topic_post_admin_links();

endif;

do_action( 'bp_single_forum_topic_links' , $topic_post_id );

?>

<a href="#post-<?php echo $topic_post_id; ?>" title="<?php _e( 'Permanent link to this post', 'buddypress' ) ?>">#</a>

</div>

</li>

<?php endwhile; ?>

</ul>

Proposed change to buddypress-rate-forum-posts/bp-rate-forum-posts.php, insert:

// modifies the css class for topics to highlight popular posts, and hide very unpopular ones

function rfp_css_class_for_post($args) {

global $rfp;

$class = $args['class'];

$post_rating = rfp_get_post_rating( $args['post_id'] );

$rfpclass = '';

error_log('rfp='.print_r($rfp,true));

if ( $post_rating == NULL )

$rfpclass = '';

else if ( $post_rating >= $rfp->superboost )

$rfpclass = 'rfp-superboost';

elseif ( $post_rating >= $rfp->boost )

$rfpclass = 'rfp-boost';

elseif ( $post_rating <= $rfp->hide )

$rfpclass = 'rfp-hide';

elseif ( $post_rating <= $rfp->diminish )

$rfpclass = 'rfp-diminish';

//error_log("in rfp_css_class_for_post rating '$post_rating' adding class '$rfpclass' to '$class' with args ".print_r($args,true));

return $class.($class?' ''').$rfpclass;

}

add_filter( 'bp_single_forum_topic_post_css', 'rfp_css_class_for_post', 3);



function rfp_echo_hidden_post_link($post_id) {

global $rfp;

$post_rating = rfp_get_post_rating( $post_id );

if ( $post_rating && $post_rating <= $rfp->hide )

echo "<span class='rfp-show' onclick='jQuery(this).remove();jQuery("#post-$post_id").removeClass( "rfp-hide" );'>Click to show this hidden post</span>";

}

add_action( 'bp_single_forum_topic_links', 'rfp_echo_hidden_post_link', 3);

And then the javascript section starting jQuery(document).ready( function() can be removed from buddypress-rate-forum-posts/js, and the corresponding section can be removed from the end of buddypress-rate-forum-posts/rate.php

I have installed BP on wordpress SU and already with some contents posted by admin & authors. but i need to use plugins like ajax-chat & photo album which do not support wordpress SU.

Must i migrate from wpsu to wpmu? how to do it?

Right now the difference is having more than one blog. Other than that BP is no different.

If you want user blogs use MU.