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The short answer is Yes. The long one is they are made for filling out forms and submitting them. A drop-down is just a field that they might encounter, so expect the functionality. On the other hand we are talking here about bots that look for WP/MU installations to exploit the default sign up or comment forms. As a rule of thumb, anything that you can do to change the default behavior, do it. It’s like Andy said: if you make it the default, the spammers will figure out a way to get around it.

Also: try very hard to stay away from the following in your URLs: wp-signup.php, wp-register, register, wpmu, wp, and anything that hints at a wordpress installation.

For BuddyPress 1.2, I’ve been using this.

function your_custom_loader() {

// Put the code that needs BuddyPress here. This could be something like...

require_once( WP_PLUGIN_DIR . '/your-custom-plugin/your-plugin-buddypress.php' );

}



if ( defined( 'BP_VERSION' ) )

your_custom_loader();

else

add_action( 'bp_init', 'your_custom_loader' );

This way it isn’t loading any files and isn’t force loading BuddyPress; instead it’s looking to see if it’s active, and if it is your plugin loads; if it’s not it adds itself to the new bp_init action at the end of the BuddyPress load cycle, and loads then.

This method also follows the philosophy that plugins should be made for WordPress but be BuddyPress aware. This way you can tuck your BuddyPress functions and features away in a special your-plugin-buddypress.php file, and only load that file when BuddyPress is already loaded and active, and without errors.

Also, you’re not adding any overhead by doing this, other than a binary check for BP_VERSION. Your plugin will load itself as usual in the WordPress plugins screen, and will only start looking for BuddyPress code when BuddyPress tells it too. This is actually how I made the BuddyPress Backpat plugin load itself.

If you’re not using the default themes, or you haven’t created a theme that is a child of bp-sn-parent then you need to install the back compat plugin to get this back again:

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

@zvhipp, Does it work fully and any pit-falls?

@designodyssey That login section looks good,does it run wordpressMU?

http://www.reverbnation.com/controller/main/signup

Seems Gigya does work with BP 1.2 on WordPress. Only thing it would require is to modify avatar section so it can display yahoo avatar if linked just as facebook connect does. And display log in button with default buddypress login box.

Ok, I think this time a first version will be finally ready in some days…Let’s say… about one week I think ! A bunch of hours…

For WPMU+BP 1.2.

When WordPress 3.0 will be released; it will also work for single WP+BP.

First version will not support picture galleries.

Okay… when I try this new way of leaving the themes in the plugin folder… my child themes now give me an error saying “The following themes are installed but incomplete. Themes must have a stylesheet and a template.” and “Template is missing”.

Do you have to reference “Template: bp-default” differently from a child theme? With a full path perhaps? How does WordPress “know” about those themes inside the BuddyPress folder? I’m at a loss I’m afraid. And I’ve followed the instructions on the “building-a-buddypress-child-theme page” to the letter.

Have you RU lang activated in BP (not WPMU) general settings ?

Notice: On the trac, the RU.mo trunk version is for 1.1.2

https://i18n.trac.buddypress.org/browser/ru_RU

Translator is SlaFFik

https://profiles.wordpress.org/slaffik/

1. yes, It works same as on wordpress.com, she can always start a new blog(if you have not put any restrictions.

2. Yes, they can move, they same way, you move from wordpress.com to selfhosted. Export the posts and move.

Hi,

I have installed the latest version of buddypress version 1.2 beta and im using this on wordpress 2.9.1. I would like to know how i integrate bbpress v3.1 with wordpress/buddypress. I’ve read many articles on this but all see to take about WordPress MU which i’m not using.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thankyou.

Murphy

bbPress is only up to 1.0.2 so I have no idea what you’re talking about. It’s probably best to make a new thread.

@do77 , David’s method will save a lot when you will upgrade.

Now for your questions

1.No, You do not need to copy any file(because you want the same layout, so child theme inherits it from parent).

2. Create style.css, and put there the content as David has pointed(do not miss the parent tag and theme name in comments, wordpress uses this to recognize the theme)

3.yes, then you can use firebug to override it as you have already given an example

4.You may not need to do that, because you are not using any other files than css.

5, yes, but please read about wordpress child theme, that will help you in long run.

@dpee

Is this a new Installation of mu, I mean, Mu is installed on your root domain http://mysportspress.com

or http://mysportspress.com/wordpress-mu/

If Mu is not on root domain, you may not use subdomain style blogs, In that case You will have to go for category style sub blogs.

If Mu is on root domain, follow what @Obuisson1976 has mentioned, or just create a wild card subdomain, (i.e. *) in your cpanel->subdomains.

That should make it work.

Hi,

I have installed the latest version of buddypress version 1.2 beta and im using this on wordpress 2.9.1. I would like to know how i integrate bbpress v3.1 with wordpress/buddypress. I’ve read many articles on this but all see to take about WordPress MU which i’m not using.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thankyou.

Murphy

this is a plugin issue and you might consider asking for help from the plugin author and/or following this thread.

Until bbPress is a core WordPress plugin, BuddyPress hijacks your forums and takes over the controls.

@katemgilbert

Are you using WordPress MU or normal WordPress?

If you are using MU, follow what DJPaul recomments; create a new MU blog (assuming you’ve selected subdirectory installation); then change the root blog to whatever that blog_id is. That will tell BuddyPress which blog will be the root of all of its features like profiles, directories etc…

If you are using single WordPress, that’s a little different. You could make traditional WordPress page templates for each BuddyPress page that you need, and copy the BP code into your custom WP template. That would allow you to mish-mash the page locations freely.

You can also widgetize other areas quite easily and drop BuddyPress widgets in there as you please. You can widgetize a custom page template if you want to. It’s really quite flexible. I wrote a tutorial on how to change different areas of your template files to be able to include widgets: http://wpmu.org/how-to-widgetize-a-page-post-header-or-any-other-template-in-wordpress/ That might help you.

Hmm. So like the helloecoliving.com site, you can set up wpmu and load buddypress on a subblog like community? I thought that bp had to reside on the root install. I apologize if I sound like an idiot for not realizing that, but is that the case? This might be the answer to my problem where I can have a standard wordpress site/theme for the root, but a bp enabled theme for the community blog.

Yes, it runs a database upgrade when you update the plugin, it has always done this since 0.1. If you didn’t back up then you’ll need to fix the problems you are having with trunk.

Try installing this plugin:

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