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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)?

Hey jimmiejo,

Use TheEasyButton’s most recent tutorial:

http://theeasybutton.com/blog/2009/07/17/integrating-buddypress-wordpress-mu-and-bbpress/

This worked for me.

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?

as per your information, here is a product that answer your needs: http://www.thinkinginwordpress.com/2009/03/limit-number-of-blogs-per-user-for-wordpress-mu-and-buddypress-websiteblog-network/

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.

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.

I repeat myself: if you have come up with a patch which improves I18n in WordPress, then create a ticket on the core WP trac so people can look at it.

BuddyPress, as it stands will work perfect for a single domain setup, like 99% of the typical audience will predictably use it for, and for wp.com if bits and pieces of it are used for that purpose.

@anointed, this isn’t a “flaw” in the software so much as it is BP floating on top of MU’s infrastructure. With any of the multi-site plugins, when I look at my site-wide users, I still see ALL users registered from ALL domains/blogs/etc… When I look at a particular blogs users, then of course all that exists there are the users of that blog. Because a “site” is just another “blog” the terms here mean the same thing. 1 central user base, and all users rotate around them.

There might be a few hacks and methods to counter this behavior, but they involve checking user-meta for a list of blogs that user “belongs” to above and beyond roles and caps, or adding additional tables to route users around… It just is a strange setup and something that needs to be built custom for that particular need.

Think of how all the *press.org sites work. One central user base, yet you can login to all of bbpress.org, wordpress.org/com, buddypress.org, and all of their respective tracs and blogs, etc… That’s the same thing that BuddyPress does. The MU multi-site plugin does something a little extra, that none of the other platforms really do, and that’s allow multiple domains to use the same installation… bbPress has the power to do something similar, but no one has really explored how to do it yet, but even in that case you’re probably still sharing user tables and just mapping roles and caps again…

Am I making sense yet? haha

The only way to fix it is to delete the older blogs and remake them manually.

Of course, for some crappy reason, WordPress does not actually export a complete archive when you use the admin ‘Export’ function.

This means the fixing a lot of details manually, e.g. Links/blogroll are not archived and all image addresses need to be corrected individually.

Blogs can have their own users in MU; they always can. The line gets blurry when you start talking about “sites” though, because a “site” is just another blog where users have roles and caps… The WordPress dashboard doesn’t really make this a clear thing visually, but at the end of the day you still only have 1 users table, regardless of how many sites or blogs you setup and how many users have what roles/caps on which blogs/sites.

Dizzy yet?

I’d recommend SB and MB for Single blog and Multi blog. Like Andrea said, it has always kind of been irksome that it was called WordPress Multi User when it really allowed multiple blogs.

actually you have two situations here:

1- add plugins to your Buddypress front-end

2- add plugins for your members blogs

if you need plugins for your front-end, check that they are compatible with buddypress but also read the HowTo, because some of them need to be activated sitewide, some not.

if you need plugins for your members blogs, you have to check if these plugins are compatible with WordPress…

notes: do not install plugins that are morethan 300 days old, for safety and compatibility. what works with WPMU will work within Buddypress as well.

and btw, yes, it’s a use it breake it situation in the WordPress community, because not all plugins are coded by pros, and they are not tested before added to the repository. for each plugins you have rating and comments, so read them.

Permalinks were set to a custom setting, so I switched to default and now everything is working just fine. Thanks for your help! I’ve been using regular WordPress for a while, but MU and Buddypress have me kind of flummoxed.