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Hey gyonis,

For #1:

You’ll want to turn off blog registration and also set the default user role in WPMU to be “author”; that way everyone will be able to make a post on the root blog.

You can do this by going into your WPMU admin area and navigating to “Site Admin > Options”. Set “Allow New Registrations” to “Only user account can be created”. And set “Dashboard User Default Role” to “Author”.

For #2:

You’ll want to use some type of customized post screen plugin such as Flutter or my personal favorite Custom Field Template.

That should get you going!

You might also want to read this thread which talks about how to create a community blog.

The reason you have not found much on this on these forums, is because this questions are in WPMU’s domain. Have a search on their forums as these components aren’t provided or controlled by BuddyPress.

Yah… always best to use unordered lists for navigation. It just makes the most sense semantically speaking. Once you have your navigation being output as nested lists… there are any number of CSS/JS solutions to hide the nested lists and turn them into drop downs. The most lightweight solution is the old tried and true suckerfish menu… which is pure CSS with just a teeny tiny bit of javascript code to make it work in IE. But since jQuery is already included in WordPress… may as well go with something a little more fancy… with a mouseout delay… etc.

You’ve probably already tried removing and re-adding the Text widget, right?

The default text widget should always work… but you should check out the WordPress forums to see if anyone has a similar problem, since it’s more of a WP issue than a BP thing.

Do any other tags work besides P and BR in the Text widget?

One other thing to note is if you have any filtering plugins activated, that could affect the widget output, but it’s highly unlikely.

Here is a clearer example.

jQuery comes with WordPress, but remember to change $ to jQuery in the javascript, like this:

jQuery(document).ready(function(){

jQuery('li.headlink').hover(

function() { $('ul', this).css('display', 'block'); },

function() { $('ul', this).css('display', 'none'); });

});

It’s to prevent clashes with other javascript libraries.

Hey chargertech,

I’m guessing BuddyPress wouldn’t work for a sub-blog on WPMU, which is what I’m guessing you want it for.

You could try defining the BP_ROOT_BLOG in /plugins/buddypress/bp-core.php to the blog ID in question, that could work… although I’m not entirely sure.

You could also try Alkivia as an alternative – https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/alkivia/

How can i enable intensedebate plugin for all the blogs sitewide.

Looking at the WP plugin repository for this plugin, it does not indicate that it is meant for WPMU.

Doing a quick Google I found this discussion on the IntenseDebate blog:

New Customization Options

Go 7 or 8 comments down and you’ll see this reply from Beau Lebens:

BuddyPress runs on a WPMU install, and ID is currently in use on a number of WPMU sites. There’s currently no way to “auto-activate” it for every blog created, but you can definitely activate it (and go through the install process) for each different blog you create on a WPMU install.

First, always read the “readme.txt” file before proceeding with any WPMU or BuddyPress upgrade.

Before installing BuddyPress from trunk, you need to make sure that you are running WPMU 2.8.4a. If not, you need to deactivate all WPMU plugins, upgrade WPMU, and then try again. The latest WPMU version can be found here.

Once you’ve installed BuddyPress, make sure you move the theme files into their proper location.

That’s a good question. Can you login with your old account on any other *press website? bbpress.org, wordpress.org, etc?

There is a bug in the deep integration script

if ( !defined( ‘ABSPATH’ ) & !defined( ‘XMLRPC_REQUEST’ )) {

define( ‘WP_USE_THEMES’, false );

include_once( ‘/your/absolute/path/to/wordpress/wp-blog-header.php’ );

header( “HTTP/1.1 200 OK” );

header( “Status: 200 All rosy” );

It looks like everything is working fine, but a user from the german buddypress forum ( mt ) find out, that wordpress overwrites the buddypress header and so there comes header 200 back and often it is a 302 or even a 404.

this is the new script from mt.

if ( !defined( ‘ABSPATH’ ) & !defined( ‘XMLRPC_REQUEST’ )) {

define( ‘WP_USE_THEMES’, false );

include_once( ‘/your/absolute/path/to/wordpress/wp-config.php’ );

$wp->init();

$wp->register_globals();

I post it hire because I think it must be interesting for everyone. In fact it is really important for seo and the german forum is far away from hire…

You just use this very light plugin, http://www.matteoionescu.com/wordpress/embed-html/ or https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-fields-shortcode/ . I have used the latter.

It makes use of the custom field in embedding videos.

Hi,

I get this error msg after setting up bp-custom.php and editing the register.php:

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /blah/wordpress-mu/wp-content/mu-plugins/bp-custom.php:1) in /blah/wordpress-mu/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-xprofile/bp-xprofile-signup.php on line 5

What went wrong here?

pxlgirl.

Profile visibility is discussed many times, and there’re even profile plugin and bp-custom hacks to keep privacy. Do search the topics.

User registrations… this is not really a buddypress thing. WordPress is lacking user management function, and I understand your frustration. However using plugins you can force users to answer certain question, otherwise user is not registered.

OK, done that. I’m now getting an error after the first creation screen, and this error in my logs

WordPress database error Unknown column ‘avatar_thumb’ in ‘field list’ for query INSERT INTO wp_bp_events ( , referer: http://domain.com/members/admin/events/create/

It appears as though the plugin isn’t creating that field in bp-events.php, I can’t find any reference to it anyway, and then in bp_events_classes.php, avatar_thumb and avatar_full have commands to have information inserted into them in the save() function.

I added the necessary lines to add those fields in the sql create and everything works…

Read through this WPMU Codex article on changing your site URL. It should provide the assistance you need.

You could make a custom login page with BP trunk like…

define('BP_LOGIN_SLUG', 'login');

function bp_show_login_page() {

global $bp, $current_blog;



if ( $bp->current_component == BP_LOGIN_SLUG && $bp->current_action == '' ) {

bp_core_load_template( 'registration/login', true );

}

}

add_action( 'wp', 'bp_show_login_page', 2 );

Then put a template file named “login.php” in your frameworks registration folder and steal some code from the buddypress login form to help with getting started…

There’s a few examples online on how to redirect the WordPress login page with .htaccess. Could give that a shot too?

@Mariusooms

– can I have a Group-Blog instead of the BBPress-Forum ?

– I would like to disable User-Blogs for each single user, but instead have a Group-Blog using P2-theme. Does this work with your plugin ?

– Is your plugin compatible with BP-version 1.1 ?

– what is the difference from your Group-Blog-plugin compared with the one from Burt ?

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-community-blogs/

Many thanks,

Are you using the BuddyPress Skeleton Component as the framework with which to code your plugin? If not, you should download it and see how the example code that adds an admin page to WPMU’s backend is written.

The example code is in bp-example-admin.php.

Is there a series of tests that we can perform to make sure that the WPMU+Buddypress upgrades have completed without any damages? WordPress says all upgrades went off well but I am still concerned about finding problems later.