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I agree. We are doing a number of Stakeholder Engagement programs with Local Government in the UK. The #1 driver for our customers is improving communication throughout a geographically diverse workforce. Local Government is awash with failed intranets/collaboration websites, with ms sharepoint the most common platform. There is big opportunity to build discrete tools like you say (project management/document management etc) on top of wordpress, buddypress. Buddypress will win because it’s focused on engagement not transactional processes. Getting the community engaged is the real challenge and Andy P and the wordpress team naturally understand that.

ahh I see your problem ,while i checked your site.

1.You have wordpress mu installed in a subdirectory wpmu

2.But you have installed wordpress mu to use subdomain style address ,which will not work.

Workaround

1.Install wordpress mu in wpmu(subdirectory as it is now) but at the time of installation select “Sub- directories” and go ahead, your wpmu will work correctly and you will have blogs with address as

idotter.ch/wpmu/blog_address

Or

2.Install wpmu in the root domain with subdomain style,enable wildcard subdomain and you will have blogs like blog.yoursite.com working.

Hope it helps.

If you are interested, I’ve released my Thesis integration.

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/genealogies-theme-integrated-with-thesis

Blakicemg,

Did that method work for you? I am trying to do the same thing: merge BuddyPress with an old WordPress theme

I agree that it’s a big step forward from a usability point of view. The two column side navigation confuses everyone at first (and second) glance. And constancy is critical in user interface design. Floating the admin bar is a great usability idea too. And the “New Post” and “New Group” buttons on those directory pages is absolutely brilliant. That’s a huge leap in usability. People are always very confused with the current Forums directory page. So that’s all great! Very good work.

What I’m really missing though is all the beautiful little details from the previous design. Those ‘speech bubble’ arrows on the title backgrounds (although they were somewhat overused). The nice gradients on the title backgrounds. The beautiful (and useful) little icons in the navigation. The beautiful rounded buttons with their little arrows, icons, checkmarks and busy cursors. And just the overall brand feel of the yellow orange and grey. It really was (and still is) a beautiful design. But generic makes more sense for a default theme. Like the Kubrik theme for WordPress. And easier theme development is always good. I also recognize the the new theme is a work in progress.

Two options… look into the Kaltura plugin:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-kaltura-media-component/

Or just search for a regular (non-BuddyPress) WordPress plugin and host the video contest on the main blog (as opposed to living within the social context of BuddyPress).

I have similar issues with the woo Journal Theme, and will send it out to professionals as soon as I find one.

http://net4us.us

If you really need a nice shop plugin, which is easy to use and don’t mind paying for it, go for the shopp wordpress plugin. Used it before and it works great. Heard they started supporting wpmu now as well.

a vsp host that takes 9 hours to install any WordPress component is purely incompetent… move your site somewhere else, please…

even some cheap hosting like hostgator are taking max 10 minutes to install the whole thing… they even get free support to help you out.

when you take 9 hours to install a script that is released by millions, you seriously have a lack of knowledge in the web industry.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/eshop/

Not sure how well it works with buddypress, but I suppose it shouldn’t make any difference. I’m planning on using that plugin myself as well.

“That” page is actually a WordPress page and as such has not much to do with BP. Let Andy take care of the more important things…

With basic skill level however you should be able to do that yourself like so: http://www.problogdesign.com/wordpress/custom-wordpress-login-screen/

Are there any important hardcoded theme changes in this one Andy (apart from the obvious total css renewal?

I think there are a few plugins that do that. Here’s one that I found in a quick Google search:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/email-users/

Btw, the plugin is now at http://netweblogic.com/wordpress/plugins/disable-user-gravatar/ or https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/disable-user-gravatar/

For web apps there is no need for multiple versions for different devices such as iPhone/Android/WebOS, that’s the main benefit of doing a web app over a native one.

Love the screen shots so far, looking great! Did you see the WP-Touch plugin for wordpress, might be some useful stuff you could use there.

You could use https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/front-end-editor/ for inline editing. Haven’t tried it myself, but it looks pretty good.

http://discussion.accuwebhosting.com/database-management/418-how-mysql-database-backup-restore-procedure-phpmyadmin.html

Try re-logging with your FTP, not sure what FTP program you use, but mine (FileZilla) sometimes shows old files that I already removed with wordpress. Also check the chmod, not really sure if it can block you from removing files, but just to be sure, change it to 777.

Can you explain a bit more on the process of making a child theme? I too would love to have the member blogs have an integrated look and feel into the default buddypress theme – NOT the ugly WordPressMU blue theme :p.

Thanks

Andy,

What type of plugins/multiple db’s/caching do you have enable to handle all the users of this site?

Of course WordPress.com which runs MU has scaled quite well, but I know they do some special things on the backend to make that happen.

WordPress (which is what I’ve done up until now) scales VERY well. I’m amazed at how much traffic I can handle on WordPress for $6 a month.

There are more free buddypress themes at http://freebpthemes.com.

The list at https://buddypress.org/extend/themes/ should have more on it in the next couple weeks. Once updated that list will include https://wordpress.org/extend/themes/tags/buddypress.

Maybe I’m missing it but did you include the URL in the post?