BP is not yet support standalone wordpress, when you implement your site with MU, you can simply disable blog registering for individuals and remove the “Create blog” option in usermenu with some tick.
A few quick thoughts and comments…
1. People use Facebook, YouTube etc. for one reason… volume… millions of “eyeballs” and astronomical amounts of content. It helps that they are a joy to use. Usability is paramount for user adoption.
2. Don’t lock yourself in a closet for 5 years trying to build the perfect solution and unleash it all at once. Who knows where the web will be in 5 years. That’s a lifetime in “web years”. Start small and constantly tweak and evolve.
3. You COULD use WordPress, BuddyPress… but at a certain point I would think you’d get into a square peg / round hole scenario. If you’re really trying to do something new and cool, and you have the funding, build it from the ground up… probably in either PHP of Ruby.
“We have spent around three months with the wordpress and bp software. “
I’ve spent three years working with WordPressMU (before it was in beta even) and the job you’re talking about is *huge*. Like others have said. 
Tip: start in phases. Pick something basic you can start with then build off that. Even the example given about with the tuts plus network, they started with one blog.
you also have to offer value, and in being different, phrases like “like youtube” don’t help. 
Actually that makes more sense than your first post, making multiple services and linking those together is a brilliant idea, I thought you were gonna cramp all of it in one install.
This reminds me of the tuts plus network, what they did is take multiple wordpress intalls and gave every tutorial category their own subdomain ( eg net.tutsplus.com, psd.tutsplus.com etc.). And that network is even part of a bigger network (envato).
Wether it’s possible, I’d say yes, it’s possible. Since your planning on using different servers for all of it.
@superbloggernl
No, I am not trying to do either of your options. I have a realistic ideal and just need some input on what wp and bp can actually do. That’s all. I love the wordpress platform for blogging. That is one reason why we choose wordpress. I just want to make sure we’re going the right route. No complaining here!
Ok, we’re not going to put every service on the internet in one site. We’re going to do certain services that involve social networking. Also the services that we will be offering is going to be on different sub-domains as well on different services.
Let me give you an example:
We’re working on a service for artist and people who love music (similar to purevolume).
On our site they would be on artist.domain.com and this service would be on one server.
Another network would consist of people who are looking for sitters.
They also would be on another sub domain with it’s own server.
So, there would be no bloating. Yes and of course we would integrate other services into our site like google and yahoo. We don’t wont to be a hub for other services. I mentioned facebook and myspace just because of the apps they provide. Facebook has also a business industry that will be part of our services as well. I should have explained myself a little better. Social Networking could be more advanced then what it is today. Why join multiple sites when you could get more than one service on one site? Maybe at the most we would have 10 whole services that would hopefully attract a large group. These services would be popular among internet users. I hope this makes better sense. We just need to know what wordpress can and can’t do. If we’re wasting our time then we might as well throw out wordpress and start our own platform. That would mean deleting everything including members. Maybe I will do a survey of the 10 or so services that we want to offer and see what the public would think. Sorry for the long post.
Ummm. I haven’t gotten the whole idea of wordpress coding yet. So, what someone else has used I can’t ever get it to work on our pages. I tried to use your function above but, no luck. I am thinking that I need to somehow call the main files in wp but, really have no idea of how to do it successfully yet.
I read that back in March there had been some talk of BuddyPress for standard WP. But, I guess that didn't pan out. Otherwise, I suppose that may have been a better choice.
It hasn’t happened yet. Once WordPress and WordPress MU merge, then BuddyPress won’t be far behind.
Well I have figured out a way for members to navigate through our site without the buddy bar but, I am not sure if it’s correct or not. I used the following link on pages that are not apart of wordpress. http://www.chatterbing.com/wp-login.php
Since that page and the home page already redirects users to their account. I was actually looking for a more technical method. Please give feedback on this method or maybe a new method that I haven’t tried yet.
This error has been fixed in 1.2.4. The problem was with the introduction of setting a default groupblog theme in the backend. Now we set the default as wordpress would upon installation, so it doesn’t choke when you do not select an initial theme.
We never came across this error, since we already selected a groupblog theme, once you do that you’ll never be able to reproduce that error. If you do, please tell us step by step how to reproduce and what your ‘saved’ settings are in the groupblog wp-admin section.
I believe Andy is waiting for WordPress 2.9 to come out, since that version will have a lot of media related updates. Not sure when it’ll release, but will most likely be very soon.
In the meanwhile you could use kaltura or the buddypress picture album plugin.
Your request will not be responded too btw, the buddypress development theme wont start basing their core on other people’s plugins. If you want something like that, ask the wpmu dev team to create this once it’s build into buddypress.
does the vBulletin integration to WordPress could work with Buddy
“DOES NOT and WILL NEVER support WordPress MU”
I’m not farmiliar with vBulletin, but if your sure 90% of Buddypress will be useless, why not totally use vBulletin (not that I agree with you that buddypress is only good because of it’s groups and forum)?
the “adminbar” is set inside buddypress/wpmu, you can use ANY WordPress theme and the adminbar will rise.
the theme you show here can be used for a user’s blog, but would require a rewrite if you want to use it as the front page theme… as it does not contain a single buddypress tagged function… but it could be used for it…
Done that, been there. Works brilliantly.
1. Install WPMU.
2. Install Buddypress.
3. Change your keys in wp-config.php.
4. Install bbPress with intergrated settings (make sure you use the new keys you made). Make sure you install it in /forums and not in /forum because buddypress will nicely redirect his own /forums to your newly made bbPress install.
5. When everything works good, use this plugin.
Edit: Btw, if you wanna use buddypress login/profiles you can just use redirects.
Worked a charm for me.
Very nice! How did you get the Feature Content Gallery Working with WordPress MU?
We have a total of 5, Joomla, affiliate program, pligg, youtube clone software and, open-x ad server. They all have profiles and we want to integrate them into wordpress. Joomla could do all of this but, we liked the word press platform for blogging. All software that is currently running on our servers will be developed further. We just need to get it integrated before we go further. The dashboard would be the main place for users to see and edit the services that they allow. We will be adding more services but, these will be developed as a plugin.
We have thought about developing these services around wordpress but, we wouldn’t get the same features or results. The cost of hiring developers would eat us alive as well. We would have to hire help to pull this off if we developed ourselves.
Ummmm. So if someone has done it with mediawiki & wordpress then it’s possible to do it with others. Once I read the links that you posted I’ll get to work on this. If I am successfull I will post it here. I’ll do the same with the dashboard too. Thanks for your reply!
Yeah, mine has the same problem too…Ive tested the xmlrpc and the additional “$bb->bb_xmlrpc_allow_user_switching = true” code in bb-config.php file, added the bp-group plugin but still no luck in getting rid off the “There was an error posting that topic” message. It seem to be happening with all the sudden..or it may be a side effect of me activating certain plugins which I may not realize the effect of it.
Anyway i think my xmlrpc communicates well with the class.ixr file by using a plugin named xmlrpc – Say hello from bbPress. The expected output produces successfully which I think the source of the problem may not be from the xmlrpc thing.
I’m using bbpress 1.01, WordPress MU 2.8.1 and Buddypress 1.0.3.
Really appreciate if someone could provide me suggestions.
You guys rock!!!
Getting wordpress to play nice with other software has been an issue for a long……. time. Only thing I’ve seen so far is a link between wikimedia and wordpress.
http://ciarang.com/posts/mediawiki-with-wordpress
You could use that as a guide to create a bridge between wordpress and your own software.
(This is a very outdated plugin, so some stuff in there might need replacing.)
A user dashboard on the front has come to discussion before on these forums, but no one has done or tried anything yet (as far as I know). Would be interested in this as well, keeping the users away from the complicated and scary admin panel.
Edit: Found another one, this one connects to phpBB.
http://www.wp-united.com/
Reporting issues with the WordPress blog export function should go on to the WordPress forums or Trac. It’s not to do with BuddyPress.
Please everyone keep posts here on topic, civil and polite.
Marius,
If you read the English, it was a comment regarding the WordPress Export function (which exports posts and page but not it seems the blogroll) … not your plugin.
That seems like an awfully strange and unnecessary omission … and a PITA to administer when it comes to having rebuild a community by hand.
I am sorry but spending one’s times to ‘beta testing’ other folks’ software, and bug reporting back, is also service to the community and improves it.
Nothing good comes from being oversensitive about fair observations … especially those addressed in polite enough terms to others.
There’s Andy’s External Blogs plugin for Groups:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/external-group-blogs/
You need to create a group first in order to take advantage of this.
If you’re looking for external blogs for your personal activity stream, there isn’t one… yet.
