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I assume that people told you this before when you reported, but just in case: this is a WordPress issue rather than a Buddypress issue, I’m pretty sure.

Reporting the bug here won’t help much — if nobody has an answer on the forum here, you’d be better off seeking some help through the WP/WPMU support system.

If you know a bit of php, I’d try Prelovac’s WordPress Plugins. Actually, even if you don’t konw PHP, I’d get a php book and this book and WordPress Complete 2.7.

You could also just learn wordpress-specific php online. Read up on template tags, loops, functions. Again php is helpful to understand how all this functions. Don’t worry about MySQL.

Not sure what to do about BP as there is no real book that covers 1.2, but the Dummies book should explain the concepts.

I am currently testing the flashchat script which is cheap – only $5 – on one server, wnd will be testing integration with phpbb and with wordpress to see how it works.

Someone wrote an integration script for it and wordpress 2,7 –

http://forum.tufat.com/showthread.php?t=49926

so I am thinking it may work – although the script has user roles from wordpress for user, moderators and admins – it says it does not pull the info for gender icons – If someone would modify that it would be awesome, as it is cheap.

I have looked into the ajaxchat, and it looks cool with the way it can integrate into buddypress, was that on wpmu.org I think? – But as I commented there, I am concerned about the ajax chat and server resources, and privacy issues. Not that I have had any issues with it, I just imagine with a lot of people using it at once it may start to hiccup since it relies on sql for messaging. I would love to here real world performance issues with it running 75 users at once on a shared server.

An integrated chat room would be awesome – wish I could help more with it!

(now back to my learning php for dummies book) sigh.

I use realchat ( Realchat dot com )on a couple of websites, and it is really solid – it’s not the cheapest thing out there, but it’s also not the most expensive.

Unfortunately there is no buddypress or wordpressmu integration, although there are free integration plugins for vbulletin, phpbb, drupal, and others. So I would think that a plugin developer could look at the code on this page:

http://www.realchat.com/doc/database-integration.html

and create a plugin that would allow logging in via wordpress/buddypress and show buddypress avatars – that would be awesome. In fact I would pay $100 for someone to make that a reality.

BP inherits the registration system from WordPress, so therefore you’d need to override WP’s username functionality.

Yes, I made a plugin for this called BuddyPress My Friends Widgets. Let me know if you have any issues with it! https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/my-friends-widgets-for-buddypress/

That’s right, Mike.

David Aubin’s port of BlueImp’s AJAX Chat to BP has group functionality:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-ajax-chat/

The original chat interface isn’t polished enough though and the actual port by Dave has its bugs.

I currently have a v1.2 “re-port” of BlueImp’s AJAX Chat working on my test server. It functions well, but outputs quite a few warnings and notices in the server log! If I can get it to a stable state without the warnings, I might release it.

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If there’s a better, open-source chat plugin that supports multiple rooms, that would be another option!

Group Documents – Huzzah!

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-group-documents/

Although, this thread seems a little redundant – isn’t this the purpose of the “compatible up to” field? Maybe what we really need is for the WP plugins search to have a version filter.

BuddyPress for Dummies is out or almost out. Also the WordPress Bible, Digging into WordPress and WordPress for Dummies.

Welcome Pack 1.6 – https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/welcome-pack/changelog/

Welcome Pack’s been updated to work with 1.2.

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

I forgot to comment that you’ll need to go back into the Welcome Pack config page (which nows lives under “Settings”) and re-enter all your details.

Read up on in_category():

https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/in_category

The WordPress plugins repository is primarily for WordPress plugins!

Maybe Andy can code something to check a plugin’s meta for some new parameters on buddypress.org/extend/plugins?

FYI, my oEmbed plugin for BP 1.2 is coming either today or tomorrow

Thanks for starting this list. There’s another forum list of broken bp 1.2 plugins but I can’t find it now. It would be a nice feature if BP Plugins pages allowed for some sort of commenting or rating of ‘works with 1.2’, etc. I know wordpress.org offers this (and that’s where the plugins are actually hosted) but buddypress.org is typically more active with current information. Right or wrong most comments regarding buddypress plugins are found here.

I haven’t spent enough time with 1.2 to say with certainty what’s working. I can say the following are Not for me:

Group Blog

Group Forum Subscription

Welcome Pack

Invite Anyone

Whenever I try to add a link i get the following error message:

Please fill in all of the required fields.

As far as I can tell there is only one field. The link url. The other 2, Edit Avatar Options & Edit Advanced Settings have nothing in them.

I am running wordpress single user, BP 1.2 stable and BP Links dev. version.

You need to upgrade to WPMU 2.9.1.1 to use BP 1.2.

Also since you were using 1.0.3, I would have recommended upgrading to 1.1.3 first before upgrading to 1.2.

One other thing, you might also need the BP Backwards Compatibility plugin:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-backwards-compatibility/

Arrowchat looks cool. Their screenshots advertise WordPress integration, so a BP integration should be quite simple.

Rather than having a fancy AJAX footer chat, I would much prefer a chat app that has some form of permissible group functionality.

I don’t really understand what you mean. You can create a static WordPress page and set that as the home page under “Settings > Reading”.

Ok. So I’ve tried Comet Chat. Listen to me carefully..Do Not Buy. Horrible documentation, horrible support (or lack there of) and didn’t work properly with BuddyPress.

On the bright side. Here is what you need and should released with a week that will work with WordPress and I’m sure BuddyPress with little or no changes:

http://www.arrowchat.com

there’s also twitter, http://jobs.wordpress.net, the wp-pro mailing list and other job sites.

No problem. I would suggest mentioning the WPMU requirement on https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-group-wiki/ as well.

I’m not sure when 1.2 final will be out. The revisions of the release candidates moved by quickly, so one can hope it would be soon?

If you’d like a BP 1.2.rc3+WPMU tester, drop a message.

Also is https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-links/download/ the place to look to if there are revised betas coming out (say 0.4-beta for example)? Keep up the great work!