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This is awesome. Of course, I’m not a coder and don’t understand it yet, but it’s a beginning. I will try the same thing with Hybrid theme next month. Not sure about using the custom function, but if it’s easier and more flexibile, I guess I’ll learn.

Thanks for sharing this. I’m sure MANY are thinking about how to do this

@proceon

A lot about what you’re trying to achive is said here: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/new-theme-framework-and-exisiting-wp-themes

Otherwise, I myself am trying to get a step by step procedure to integrate BuddyPress as a section of a “normal” website, that is not full BuddyPress based.

So far, form my experiments with theaming and integrating I can say:

1) Delete all the files from “bp-sn-parent” that are already in your WP Theme (header.php, footer.php, index.php, …). Leave just all sub-directories and “optionsbar.php”, “userbar.php”, “plugin-template.php”, “style.css.

2) Copy this at the bottom of “header.php” (WP Theme):

<?php if ( !bp_is_blog_page() && !bp_is_directory() && !bp_is_register_page() && !bp_is_activation_page() ) : ?>

<?php locate_template( array( ‘userbar.php’ ), true ) /* Load the user navigation */ ?>

<?php locate_template( array( ‘optionsbar.php’ ), true ) /* Load the currently displayed object navigation */ ?>

<?php endif; ?>

3) In the header (comments) of the “style.css” in “bp-sn-parent” theme write this:

Template : your-wp-theme-name

…so you make this theme a child of your WP Theme, right?

4) Activate the “bp-sn-parent” theme in the backend, under “Site Admin/Themes”, then activate it under “Apperance/Themes”.

This will be the theme ofor the whole site, but it’ll call all the WP theme templates when no BuddyPress functions are needed. It’s a reverse way of doing the integration. I think it’s better.

This procedure makes a lot of what you need, I think. Like, it gets your WP Theme working as it should and it “calls” the BuddyPress into play only when needed.

But, I need to warn you that I am still struggling with styling (or skinning) the BP theme.

So, I am still on it. But maybe it was worthing sharing already what I got so far, so that other may take it from there.

Hope it helps…

Check out this plugin…it will do mostly what you need, including creating a group specific blog. What more, it includes a theme for that blog and remains tied to the group, so you can pull in group information on that blog.

However, it only allows one blog per group. Check out the details here:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-groupblog/

Group specific forums are already inherently part of groups since BP1.1 came out.

I assume you are talking about my widget, the one that you can download from here:

If so, then as it clearly states on that page, it is not yet compatible with BP 1.1.1. It is not yet updated to use the new widget API that the 2.8 series of WordPress introduced.

I do plan on updating it, once I finish my alpha version of the BuddyPress Privacy Component. I’m almost done with that project. I’ve been away from coding for about a week so it should not be too much longer.

Once that is delivered to Andy for his inspection, I’ll update my Featured Member’s widget.

All easy except “one or more associated blogs”; this hasn’t really been worked on yet. You could test https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/external-group-blogs to see if it is suitable for your site.

If at all possible, use 301 redirects for the old blogs so they redirect over to the new blogs.

Easiest way would be to use the same style of permalink structure and using a RewriteRule in your .htaccess file.

If this sounds like jargon, look up each term on Google!

I think the hardest thing will be actually migrating the blogs.

Depending on the blogging system you’re migrating from, this could be a challenge!

If the old blogs use WordPress, you could get away with using a database export or by using Ron Rennick’s excellent Advanced Export plugin.

Did you have to patch MU 2.8.4a to get this plugin to work? I just get the following error:

Sorry, I deleted the post. I pasteed it into the wrong topic.

Same problem here.

I Reinstalled WPMU 2.8.4a, (with subdirectories instead of subdomains) and BuddyPress from trunk, because I updated my localhost (WAMP 1.7>2.0).

My old .htaccess (which was working before)

If I use the .htaccess, the wordpress-mu directory under 127.0.0.1/kine disappears and I can’t access WPMU.

If I don’t use it, I can access WPMU & Buddypress, but I get a “404 Not Found” for every page other than home…

HEEEEEELP

Check out this: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/extending-wordpress-themes-post-experiences#post-24546

This is how to install SI Captcha globally on WPMU.

Step 1: upload the /si-captcha-for-wordpress/ folder and all it’s contents to /mu-plugins/

Step 2: MOVE the si-captcha.php from the /si-captcha-for-wordpress/ folder to the /mu-plugins/ folder.

Please report back here is this worked for you.

Why did you uninstall SI captcha?

SI CAPTCHA Anti-Spam works with WordPress 2.6+, WPMU, and BuddyPress

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/si-captcha-for-wordpress/

WP-reCAPTCHA is not up to date for BuddyPress 1.1, that is why it does not work.

https://mu.wordpress.org/forums/

This is an interesting topic, one that concerns me too because I have been looking at the various options out there. I must say that BP is still somewhat in its infancy, I have been waiting for another project to open up their codebase namely Anahita Social engine, but maybe its me I just don’t like it when things get built on top of eachother and that project appears to be built on top of Joomla. BP is also built on WPMU and I am still trying to see if that will be a good or bad thing.

What concerns me is when things get built on top of eachother that it opens up security holes. WordPress itself has had its fair share of vulnerabilities but has proven to be a good platform so I having something built on top of that is something I am ok to live with.

Something I have been looking at is Community Engine which a Ruby on Rails (ROR) based community engine as the name says. Anyone got any experience with that?

1. You should not post wpmu questions to a forum dedicated to buddypress.

2. You should read wordpress documents, as this is a very basic question.

3. Google it.

Those are just placeholder values because it’s an example plugin which has been uploaded to wordpress.org/extends.