BuddyPress.org

A tutorial for this will be put up, it’s not a priority until after 1.2 is released.

I’m also pretty new to WordPress and did not know the history that surrounded Premium plugins and the conflicts which occured in the past. I’m used to paying for plugins/3rd party extensions for software so I was kinda suprised by how the WP community sees this. I’m still not sure if it’s a good or a bad thing, but it’s one of the things that makes WP special.. I haven’t felt more at home then in the BP community so it says something about the general atmosphere around here

You don’t have to do anything.. Just install BuddyPress on a single WordPress install and all your users are contributors by default.. This means they can submit posts easily. You can make the process much easier by using a plugin like TD Midi Forms which allows your users to submit posts from the front end and even allow them to edit their own posts. A good tutorial:

http://thedeadone.net/blog/tutorial-video-for-tdo-mini-forms/

Good luck

One of the things I would like to cover on the new BP-Tricks site, is how to do this.. Maybe with a videotutorial or atleast a few written tuts. This will be a matter of time, don’t forget how much is changing everyday for BP, there are only a handfull of people who have done this

@Scotum

I fully agree with you on all points. I would love to make Buddypress part of my existing website.

I would expect someone who really knows how this thing works, will create a set of theme files to drop into an existing website, in order to allow the buddypress plugin to work properly. It just might be we are here a month to early.

Today another release candidate came out. They are hoping to have the final version early next week; so it is written. I have a feeling the whole team is focused on getting 1.2 finalized and will deal with theming issues soon after.

“and the themes are likely to have uncompatibilty issues. “

I can count on one hand the number of WordPress themes that don’t work right in MU. Most of them are fine.

BuddyPress themes are different.

The merge is done in trunk. Seriously, the work has been done already. People have announced this merge since last May-ish. We’re just about at feature freeze, so from here on out will be bug fixes only (plus some UI work on the MU menus).

While I think it;s quite possible to downgrade MU to single WP, the reverse isn’t true and it would be much better to wait until 3.0. You’ll upgrade as usual, and there will be instructions on how to turn off the network and go back to a single blog. (probably cuz I’ll write them… )

Hum, actually Chouf is close to the truth… with the latest 3.0_ bleeding trunks *(testing ground), the MU of wordpress is completely merged, but the officiel 2.9.1 is not yet…

the merge of both projects will be announced soon, but the date of early april would be correct based on the rumors…

They are shooting for April:

https://wordpress.org/about/roadmap/

Take a look into the bp-group-blog plugin;

it allows user rights independantly of wp

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search.php?q=buddypress+groupblog

The fatal error you are receiving is probably from not disabling buddypress linked plugins and THEN the actual Buddypress plugin itself BEFORE upgrading (Read more here – https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/upgrading-from-10x). I have crashed my site in the past from doing this. My theme itself really only has minor code changes and it’s not really possible to crash a whole site as it takes most of the code from the default theme.

The Unplugged theme also works ONLY with Buddypress 1.2rc+ and WordPress 2.91+. Installing Buddypress on a wordpress website in general may be a steep learning curve at the start but please read all the instructions on that link to guide you through.

@Scotm

The conversation has a little traction over here

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/new-theme-framework-and-exisiting-wp-themes

you will want to read over this as well.

https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/upgrading-a-buddypress-1-0-theme-for-buddypress-1-1/

Hi there,

I’m getting the same error when I try to activate buddypress.

Buddypress 1.2 RC2

Wordpress 2.9.1 (not MC)

mySQL 5.0

hosting is done by 1and1.com

I’d appreciate any help you can offer…

@thebloghouse

…thought about selling our plugin and making some cash per user download but the main inhbiting factor for us was that we would be limiting it’s reach by it not being available in the WordPress repository.

I believe it is important to give back to the community–especially if you directly profit from using any of the WP ecosystem products. That is why many people prescribe the freemium model where you offer a standard version of your plugin for free (this is the one you host on the WP repo) and then offer your premium version on your on site or another hosted site.

It is important, in my opinion, to offer real value in the standard version, not just fluff that whet people’s appetite and then makes them trade up to the “real” plugin. With regard to this point, along with additional functionality, one of the differentiating factors between your standard and premium versions could be support level. You offer basic support for the standard version and more robust support for you premium version. It is up to you to decide what standard and robsut support actually means.

Again, in my opinion and the opinion of many others in our community, themes and plugins must be GPLed. There are certain exceptions like the few I outlined in my first post in this thread. Another exception is if you call a propritary algorithm hosted on a remote server via an API–much like the Akismet service’s code is not GPLed. However, I am not a software attorney (or any other type of attorney for that matter), so if you do want to sell non-GPLed themes or plugins for use with WordPress, I suggest you contact one before doing so.

Since a lot has been written about the GPL issue, I suggest searching the Web for more details if you’re interested.

Lots of different opinions about this, but lets face it, will wordpress sue you if you don’t use GPL license on your plugin/theme? Anyway, I haven’t found any legal evidence that your forced to use GPL on your plugin/theme, just speculations and opinions.

Vladimir Prelovac gave solutions of this problem on his blog a while back.

The solution exists and is technical in nature. For plugins you can develop your whole code as a library under your own licensing model. Then you would have the wordpress plugin which will call functions from your library. The plugin itself becomes GPL but the library not and you are free to slap any kind of license and restriction to it.

For themes it is a bit of a different story. Having read the GPL FAQ carefully this is my interpretation. First solution: You do not need to call any WordPress functions in your theme, but you can connect to the database directly and get the information you need. This method is possible but not elegant at all.

Second solution is to have your theme in external php files and one WordPress index.php. This file will use WordPress functions and only include() your files as neccessary. Again index.php would fall under GPL, all other files won’t.

Set up a test environment on your local pc and create your website, plain php and theme changes can be copied easily to a new place (another server for example), just db stuff needs to be implemented later, make sure to test this on your local pc before going to your live site.

When your sure the site is running correctly on your local pc and you found out a way to copy the db stuff to your fresh installation on your local pc, make a new clean install with the same settings on your live site, remember to notice members on this before doing the upgrade. Put your site behind a htacces maintenance referral, excluding your own ip, so you can still edit and test the site, but others get to see the maintenance page. If everything goes right, you’ll have your new site running in no time.

MAKE SURE TO BACKUP THE WHOLE OLD SITE BEFORE SWITCHING TO YOUR NEW ONE!

@ David: Yes there’s a plugin for wordpress that allows you to put it in maintenance mode as well, but then there would have to be a wp installed already, the above solution just refers to a html page through htaccess.

Really interesting thread guys.

We are a few weeks away from releasing our first and potentially very lucrative plugin (WP not BuddyPress) and thought about selling our plugin and making some cash per user download but the main inhbiting factor for us was that we would be limiting it’s reach by it not being available in the WordPress repository.

In an ideal world we would also like to do the ‘nicer’ thing and go down the GPL route for everything we do without thinking twice but at the end of the day after many months of development your first GPL plugin is the hardest one to get out the door as it is a complete mind shift from the old closed software model we have been used to!

If you’re using WordPress MU, the groups admin menu can be found under “Site Admin > Groups”

This site uses an external bbPress install, and is not the conventional BuddyPress method for setting up forums.

An example of the conventional BP method can be found here: http://testbp.org/forums

If you like the way the bp.org forums look, you’ll have to integrate WordPress with bbPress.

One guide to integrate WP and bbPress can be found here:

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

Other WP/bbPress guides are available over on:

https://bbpress.org/forums