BuddyPress.org

WordPress scales just fine. Is it perfectly and sveltely built for all applications? No.

http://ma.tt/2006/03/wordpress-and-lyceum/ is a good read about this from a few years back.

BuddyPress doesn’t really suffer any of these as advantages or disadvantages, since it currently sits on top of an MU installation; it just kinda “is.”

FYI, here’s the demo of BP on standard WP:

http://bp.scottkclark.com/

Plugin isn’t released yet AFAIK.

At least this allows standard WP folks to test out BP before the merge, I can see this greatly helping development timelines for those looking at standard WP for social networking.

For updates, follow the developer’s Twitter account:

http://twitter.com/scottkclark

However, any geek is quick to point out that “WordPress doesn’t scale”. I’ve always wondered if that was just an urban myth. There must be some truth to it?

I suspect it was just a matter of finding the WPMU functions that don’t exist within WP, recreating them in a plugin and using existing WP functions in their place. This isn’t surprising considering that the platforms share about 99% of the same code, but with the code merge around the corner this plugin is a little bit late to the game for most folks.

A for effort though.

Only extra that buddypress needs now is an easier wordpress intergration, bbPress already has all the core functions of a good forum software, if you need more, write a plugin.

I’d rather not have bbPress get bloated like one of the other huge forum softwares out there.

Yeap! This installation is probably the best example of a site with thousands of active users. You can even see how it works in a sisterly fashion at http;//profiles.wordpress.org. Same user tables but different site/blog so to speak.

Blog support is just disabled, since there is no support in regular WP.

You shouldn’t have to edit the core files at all. I had to whip up something similar today for a client which you may find helpful.

What it does is replace the email that is used to access the gravatar with a different one. I recommend you replace the default email template with your domain, so, the gravatar will remain persistant if it’s an identicon or wavatar:

class DisableUserGravatar {



var $email_template = "member.%USER%@yourwebsite.com";



function DisableUserGravatar(){

add_filter('get_avatar', array(&$this, 'wp_avatar'), 1, 5);

add_filter( 'bp_core_fetch_avatar', array(&$this, 'bp_avatar'), 1, 3);

}



function wp_avatar( $content, $id_or_email){

if( preg_match( "/gravatar.com/", $content ) ){

if ( is_numeric($id_or_email) ) {

$id = (int) $id_or_email;

$user = get_userdata($id);

} elseif ( is_object($id_or_email) ) {

if ( !empty($id_or_email->user_id) ) {

$id = (int) $id_or_email->user_id;

$user = get_userdata($id);

} elseif ( !empty($id_or_email->comment_author_email) ) {

return $content; //Commenters not logged in don't need filtering

}

} else {

$user = get_user_by_email($id_or_email);

}

if(!$user) return $content;

$username = $user->user_login;

$email = md5( str_replace('%USER%', $username, $this->email_template) );

return preg_replace("/gravatar.com\/avatar\/(.+)\?/", "gravatar.com/avatar/{$email}?", $content);

}

return $content;

}



function bp_avatar( $content, $params ){

if( is_array($params) && $params['object'] == 'user' ){

return $this->wp_avatar($content, $params['item_id']);

}

return $content;

}



}



global $DisableUserGravatar;

$DisableUserGravatar = new DisableUserGravatar();

Create a file in wp-content/mu-plugins with the content above.

I’ll put this up on wordpress.org as a plugin.

Isn’t the only big difference between wpmu and wp, the blogs? If you can cramp those in a single table, I wouldn’t see why it’s impossible to run buddypress on a single wp.

@ Bowe: Normally this is correct, but wordpress makes an exception. Only if you want your theme/plugin in the plugin or theme repository over at wordpress.org, you have to have GPL on it. If you want to place your own copyright or copyleft on it, your allowed to do so. I can’t find a page on wordpress clarifying this in detail, since they don’t like you using any other license.

I do have a statement on the forum that verifies this (second post).

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/260431

Btw, contacted the fellows over at wpmu-dev, they’re 100% GPL, so you could even freely give away their plugins/themes if you wanted to. But I don’t think they’d be giving updates anytime soon if their plugins/themes would be handed out for free.

There are no tutorials about this and no one is working on one either, as far as I know. Changing a normal wordpress theme to a buddypress theme isn’t that hard, since after all wordpress is still the core, but you need a lot of extra template tags and styling in order for this to work properly.

If I understand correctly it does not matter which licensing type they use because as soon as they use WP code it becomes GPL. At least that’s what a read here:

Interesting WordPress GPL implications

This means that whenever a theme or a plugin uses just one function from the WordPress code, GPL license automatically ‘kicks in’ and takes over. And since plugins and themes must use WordPress functions they automatically become GPL as well.

Can someone confirm this is correct?

Then I stand corrected and a mod can delete my post. If this is perfectly fine and accepted in the wordpress community then I am probably seeing this the wrong way..

I personally would find it a bit strange to sell something which isn’t yours.

For example if it took me many hours to create a BuddyPress theme or plugin and decided to sell it, and notice that someone else is selling my plugin for a lower price, I would be VERY unhappy!

Right now everything that’s developed using any WP hooks automatically falls under the GPL so you are not doing anything wrong I think, but I honestly don’t understand why you would do this.. If everyone would start reselling stuff from others the open source community would quickly become a very nasty place to be. This is just my personal opinion and I’m interested in what others think about this.

I am not trying to start a flamewar and I’m sorry for accusing you for stealing, that was uncalled for.

with this,. yes: http://webdevstudios.com/support/wordpress-plugins/buddypress-registration-options/

If you really need a social network on wordpress stand alone, try the plugin “mingle”, it isn’t as advanced as buddypress, but it has the basics.

Looks like a nice design, and a great way to show what you can do with buddypress by extending it with some other software.

I believe you can make a login form outside of wordpress, just direct the action to the wordpress login page. And make the method post. You can even use this to redirect to the page your on right now.

<input type="hidden" name="redirect_to" value="<?php echo $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; ?>"/>

@ Xevo Can you report BP_ENABLE_ROOT_PROFILES clashing with blog names as a bug on the Trac please if this is happening? We can surely add code to the WordPress ‘create blog’ checks to check usernames against the reserved blog name list if BP_ENABLE_ROOT_PROFILES is set.

Hello giast

No, BuddyPress needs WPMU at the moment. It will work in regular WordPress when WordPress and WPMU merge; last I knew, that was probably going to be in WordPress v3.0.

You’ll have to move from wordpress to wpmu first. http://mu.wordpress.org

Already working on two plugin which will enable buddypress/wpmu to take data from the bbpress table’s and vice versa.

I personally like the idea that all automattic software can be used as one (like modules), but at the same time, if you just need bbpress, that you can use it without wordpress.

Agree with you on the option.

Rather than using “forums” slug for group forums directory, I will rather use it for external forums. Instead, I will consider using group-forums slug for that.

Again, why use two copies of bbpress if you want external forums, why not use a single copy but with the tighter integration.

Well, why I said It should not be Integrated.

Currently,Is there anyway for the site admin to manage all the forums on a buddypress at one place.No.

Can You manage all the topics from one place, no , you have to visit individual groups to manage it.

bbpress has been in existence ,before even the conception of buddypress,so how about the people who are already using it as a standalone software,or on their wordpress/wpmu site.We may not force them to install buddypress for using/keep using forum.

I hope ,There are other various reasons why It should not be merged.

But again,I too wish ,there should be more better integration.

Hi Keith

It should be as simple as copying all of the templates from the BuddyPress theme and pasting them into the WordPress theme. Be sure to copy and paste over all of the CSS from the BuddyPress theme also.

I expect you won’t want to overwrite any files that may already be in your thesis theme (index.php, for example).