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Wickedbob,

Look at Community Blogs for BuddyPress (https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-community-blogs). You can turn a normal blog into a Community Blog or a Group Blog.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/achievements/

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/achievements/ !

Not anytime soon! sorry

It will happen sometime after WordPress and WordPress MU merge. So, not anytime soon.

I’m usually capable of working my way through a tutorial and learning something by the end. But this post is of a magnitude that I’m not sure I know enough to tackle all the steps. Is each of your posts, Burt, a step-by-step instruction on how to accomplish Ben’s request, or do you revise your answers along the way?

I’d like mostly what Ben is asking for. I want to use BuddyPress as a member directory. I don’t wish for anyone to make blogs through MU/BuddyPress other than my staff. I don’t want the “create a blog” option to appear anywhere. Not in the member profile, not in the tool bar. Essentially I want the option not to exist for users. Will the tutorial above show me how to do that?

Starting from instructions in post one, I’m finding that changing the admin setting from “only user account can be created” to “only logged in users can create new blogs” results in a “you must login to create a blog,” which takes me to the wordpress sign-in page before I have even registered.

The “only user account” setting generated what I would like to have happen, a signup screen sans “gimme a blog.”

Please forgive my being an ignoramus and let me know if I should patiently work my way from top to bottom, or if there is another solution outlined in a different post.

Thanks!

WordPress MU and Buddypress have separate profile/user management tables that aren’t synchronized and in some ways clash. End users will see different profile editing screens, in wp-admin and buddypress front-end, with different data that have nothing to do with eachother. Users are identified by full name, username, nickname, blogname or whatever depending on where in the system you are and how it’s configured. It’s a confusing mess and my pet peeve.

But I’m not even sure if that’s relevant to your problem, so I removed the rant.

Well, looks like WannaNetwork guy grew so fast it put him out of business!

Since our launch of the new WordPress powered platform on WannaNetwork in Early February, WannaNetwork has been growing substantially larger and larger.

With this growth also comes a few negative aspects. Running WannaNetwork as a free service is quickly becoming harder and harder when there are monthly server and maintenance costs adding up.

I need a more professional member registration as well. I’ll use this excellent plugin which allows login with email address, but there are a lot of other annoying issues I still have to solve:

Restructuring registration process to an industry standard

How to use full name, first name + last name

Make 2+ part name in full name required + xprofile_sync_wp_profile()

Autogenerate or remove username

Generate username (+ blog url) from fullname

Use full name in confirmation emails

ListMessenger (or PHPlist) integration – plugin?

I’m not sure how much GigaOM actually changed. Their form looks a lot like the regular Buddypress (?) registration, minus that annoying username. Not sure how they did that.

They’re not using Buddypress, are they?

Most of it is just a radically customized theme. I suspect they probably also use one of the commercial member subscription plugins.

I’m working on my new site here. The old site has a registration system based on PunBB. I’m not a PHP programmer, so please keep us posted on any progress you make.

Since this is more of a WPMU issue than a Buddypress one, like I mentioned in the other thread you made, you might want to consult the nice folks over at mu.wordpress.org/forums/.

Login with the same username and password and make a post there.

Re #3 – Your blogs will stay intact. Buddypress will create a few components called groups and forums (if you have bbPress installed). Groups can be configured by users or admins. BP forums are a part of groups.

Re #5 – There’s a few forum threads about integration and a couple of guides floating around the net.

The next version of Buddypress is scheduled to be released next week (August 11), but I won’t be surprised if they push it back a few weeks since there’s a lot of new stuff being implemented.

Right now, if you want a tight integration, you’ll have to theme WPMU and BuddyPress at the very least. There’s no way around it.

Re #6:

Groupblog plugin – https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/new-groupblog-plugin#post-19344

– It’s still in development… I would just test this for now

Community Blogs for BuddyPress – https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-community-blogs/

– A revision was made by Boone Gorges available here – hxxp://dev.commons.gc.cuny.edu/files/2009/07/bp-community-blogs.zip (change hxxp to http)

– I’ve been meaning to test this, but haven’t yet

Keep in mind that these plugins would give a group a blog, but not a forum for each blog like you want… both have a different way of achieving this method.

The groupblog plugin would be more tightly integrated, whereas the “Community Blogs” plugin provisions group members to an existing WPMU blog.

I have “WordPress Failure Notice” error you are getting, webatease with BP v1.0.3. I haven’t spent any time investigating it further yet tho.

Yeah, r-a-y’s spot on. I’m going to close this thread as it’s very old.

@Tore

http://wpmudev.org/project/New-Blog-Defaults

Though I should note that this plugin has absolutely nothing to do with the original poster’s question!

It is extremely handy for setting up what you want for new blog defaults though.

@Pr102

I know this topic is old, but if you’re talking about when you post a comment on a blog, that your name should link to your BP profile… this is possible via this plugin:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-blog-author-link

@ Hyrxx

I can’t seem to find it. Remember any other details?

I am getting the emails appropriately, but when I click on the link to approve/accept the group add, it gives me a website with “WordPress Failure Notice” at the browser title, and it asks “Are you sure you want to do this?” But it has no option for me to select yes, or check anything to actually approve. So this is still in the queue.

Similarly, I cannot reject the request – and if I click on the link in the email that says to view the request, it takes me to the user’s profile – but the request is not listed. In fact, in his of groups, it lists (1) as the number of groups (assuming because he requested), but then underneath it says he “hasn’t joined any groups yet.”

You could do it, but it is no five minute job, as you’d have to learn of a WordPress theme template works and add the code of the widgets to the code of the theme you are using. This means you pretty much have to learn PHP. Do you know PHP?

May I ask why you don’t want to use the widgets?

I also think this will be great!

I deactivated the BP-plugin. Problem remains. So it’s probably an issue with WordPress MU and the P2-theme?!

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