BuddyPress.org

There are no sub-…’s all is as fresh installation.

1. Which version of WPMU are you running? WordPress MU 2.9.1.

2. Did you install WPMU as a directory or subdomain install? directory

3. If a directory install, is it in root or in a subdirectory? subdirectory

4. Did you upgraded from a previous version of WPMU? If so, from which version? no

5. Was WPMU functioning properly before installing/upgrading BuddyPress? i believe so.

6. Which version of BuddyPress (BP) are you running? latest

7. Did you upgraded from a previous version of BP? If so, from which version?

8. Do you have any plugins other than BuddyPress installed and activated? no

9. Are you using the standard BuddyPress themes or customized themes? standard

10. Have you modified the core files in any way? no

11. Do you have any custom functions in bp-custom.php? no

12. If running bbPress, which version? Or did your BuddyPress install come with a copy of bbPress built-in? built in

13. Please provide a list of any errors in your server’s log files.

14. Which company provides your hosting? heart internet

Great work! I haven’t had the time for a detailed test, but i have some short feadback for the beginning:

1. Everything works fine and seems logical. Thats great. There could be some front-end twaeks, but i will come back later next week with some more detailed ideas and mockups.

2. From our experience it is great to have advanced edit functions but hide them in a second row from the avarage user (like the wordpress backend editor does). For a wiki article the user (students) should focus on the content instead of any fancy formating. Basic options could be a select-box for h1, h2, h3 (this is important and must be easy accessible, because it will build the toc and people should get used to it) bold, italic, url link, unordered list, and numberd list. Everything else could go in a second or third row which appears if you click some “advanced options” button.

3. (future release) A searchable wiki directory page with all public pages.

4. (future release) “Suggest a wiki page” button so that non admin-members could ask the admin to create a new wiki page for them.

5. (future release) non-admin wiki page creation

@dwakabayashi, where can we get your BP plugins?

“you will have a merge script to port any existing installation to the new structure,”

Just a minor correction: in 3.0 you just upgrade. That’s it.

There were tow conversations going on about needing a script, one was in regard to making wp 3 have multiple blogs. This happens now in trunk via switching on an option. (way cool btw)

The other conversation about needing a script, was referring to people who had multiple single WP installs and wanted to merge them into one wp 3 install.

So – if you start now with BP on MU or on WP, when 3.0 comes out, you upgrade as usual.

And it’s WordPress 3.0.

Enrich73, we are working with speaklike and worldwide lexicon on a plug-in that will allow WP blogs to be translated by humans and/or machines.

Of course our work is GPL

We built all of our work on it.

Hi,

have you checked the buddypress-group-documents plugin?

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

@DCCartwright – i think it’s a winner. I think you’ll find a lot of interest in this… Folks have hacked it (mediawiki) together in various ways..and you might benefit from a team effort with some of these guys that have done so.

Just to clarify – you should not be moving any themes from the BuddyPress directory. From WordPress 2.9 onwards the themes will be automatically detected in the BuddyPress plugin folder. You can simply create a new child theme in wp-content/themes and it will automatically know that the parent is in the BuddyPress plugin folder.

Mike: Not sure why you want to remove the custom header functions? They simply provide a UI to uploading a custom header image in Appearance > Custom Header.

BuddyPress 1.2 is still in development – you can download either by

SVN – svn co https://svn.buddypress.org/trunk OR you might prefer

Zip file near bottom of page – https://trac.buddypress.org/browser/trunk

As for widgetizing sidebars, it is not BuddyPress-related but basic WordPress function. When your user creates a blog, he/she can choose whatever theme you’ve uploaded to your WPMU installation. Just make sure the sidebars of those themes are widgetized or are “dynamic sidebars” and your users can change widgets via their own dashboards at Appearance > Widgets.

This is basic WordPress, see https://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags and click on the link to the specific template tag you’ll need to add.

e.g. if you want a list of categories on your sidebar, you click on wp_list_categories link and you get this basic template tag, <?php wp_list_categories( ); ?>, and you add arguments per page I linked to.

@Peter: WordPress is the same. If you want to do something that it doesn’t do by default you have to dig into the Codex and forums and figure out a little bit of PHP. The only changes you can make with “some html/css” are visual changes. No matter what the software is. If you take a look through the WordPress.org forums you will find thousands of posts with people discussing code, php, template tags, action hooks, custom queries, arrays. And WordPress plugins break after updates too. All the time.

Sorry… what was the original question again? Oh yah… different user types. I guess that has already been answered above… as best as it can be. Topic has been marked as “resolved” too.

Not so much your theme, but compare the 1.1 default BuddyPress theme http://dangerous-minds.org to the 1.2 theme http://testbp.org/. 1.2 also has the following big features:

Standard WordPress support (not just MU)

Activity stream threaded commenting.

Ability to mark an activity stream item as a favorite.

Activity stream item permalinks.

Advanced activity stream filters.

New default theme with improved usability and customization options

There have been some template tag changes (incl. the template tag loops), I would advise you get a copy of the 1.1 default and 1.2 default theme, look at the changes and apply them to your site. There’s no documentation written yet.

If you can wait about two weeks, you’ll be able to use BuddyPress on your regular WordPress site!

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To create forums, you need to create a group with discussion forum enabled.

Why’s that worrisome? It just shows how fast you can get results with BP.

Only when you are a PHP programmer. If you are not, you waste weeks figuring out little things like storing firstname/lastname, fixing Ajax buttons that are intricately connected with CSS elements and fixing plugins that break between versions of WPMU.

The worrisome thing is when BP developers assume the end users are all PHP programmers. Or if they are not, that they should learn PHP.

WordPress was originally intended for content creators who know some html/css, but don’t have to know “programming”. I’d hate to see Buddypress abandon that goal.

That basically means you talk an aweful lot about things you really don’t know that much about…

I don’t and make that very clear, but I still need to figure out ways to get these little things to work or they would derail my project. And I can’t afford to hire anyone to do it for me.

I know general structural things; I don’t know programming from scratch. In particular working with arrays etc. is pure hocus pocus to me.

You need a test case!

Here’s a thought…

I am creating a social networking site for entrepreneurs.

http://networkingpeople.biz/

You can use my website as an example, and interview me as I go through the process of learning buddypress and setting up my site.

I’ve been working with WordPress for 5 years, but am not a PHP programmer. I’m guessing this probably defines most of the (non-developer, business oriented users) who will be using Buddypress.

I am open to ideas.

– Derek

You can contact me at:

dlittle800@gmail.com

Hi there,

I dont understand the fix you’re proposing Issidha, because when I go to the WordPress MU files you indicate need tweaking, I dont SEE those lines pertaining to taking out the www in front of URLs… ??

I tried entering the domain name where i’m trying to have Buddypress with a www. in front but I have the same issue:

— > The main page is showing up but all other pages ( Members/Blog…) are not accessible: ie, I get a wrong URL message.

As in:

Trying to go to : http://www.sitename/groups

*** The requested URL /groups was not found on this server. *****

I and other users CAN access wp-admin ( http://www.sitename/wp-admin/) , as if only the WordPress MU was working, and not all the Buddypress features.

I also installed a fresh copy of WP MU, and installed Buddy Press 1.1.3, as recommended, through the instal Plugin of the WP MU dashboard.

I had also installed a couple more plugins, the Buddypress SEO, Hashcash and a forum subscription plugin for BP, which I just deactivated to see if that helped. But it makes no difference.

Thanks for your advice…

@Peter: Yes… BuddyPress is quite new. Comparing it to WordPress isn’t really fair since WordPress has been around for 7 years. BuddyPress hasn’t even turned 1 yet. The first public release was last spring.

I am having the same problem and also any of the links /members, /groups, /register (which goes to the login form), and /login (“The page you were looking for was not found.”) and also al the links related to does not work.

Please tell me how can I get it to work, whithout having to reinstall all of the scripts in there.

I am using WordPress 2.9.1.