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Hi mohitkro5,

It sounds like you’re trying to use WordPress shortcodes in Buddypress fields.

Where are you trying to embed your videos?

BuddyPress doesn’t allow WordPress shortcodes to work in profile fields, wire posts and group forum posts.

bbPress has a few plugins to parse videos.

I’m up and running on bbPress 1.0 as well!

Integration appears to work!

FYI, I was on bbPress 1.0 alpha 6 with BP 1.0.2.

Here’s what I did:

-Thanks to Burt and Sam (over at bbPress) for their instructions

1) Backup database

2) Backup bbPress forum plugins and themes

3) Deactivate all bbPress plugins from the bbPress admin area.

4) Comment out only the cookie-related lines in wp-config.php (Do not remove your defined KEYS or SALTS)

5) Manually upgrade bbPress to 1.0 (basically download bbPress 1.0 and overwrite the old bbPress files).

6) Download bbPress Integration plugin into your WPMU plugins folder (/wp-content/plugins)

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-integration/

7) Log in to WPMU and activate the bbPress Integration plugin.

In WPMU admin area, go to “Settings > bbPress Integration”.

Enter in your bbPress URL (eg. http://example.com/forums/) and for WordPress type, select “WordPress MU”.

Hit “Save Changes”.

9) Copy the now-generated “Manual Cookie Settings” to line 2 of your wp-config.php file.

Copy the bbPress define line into your bb-config.php file.

10) Log into your bbPress admin area.

At this point, a bbPress message should pop up asking you to upgrade the database. Do so.

Hopefully, bbPress should have upgraded successfully at this point.

11) Now login into the bbPress admin area, go to “Settings > WordPress Integration”.

Everything should already be set (if you used TheEasyButton’s tutorial for 1.0 alpha 6 that was the case for me!).

Hit “Save Changes”.

12) Reactivate all bbPress plugins.

13) Clear your browser cookies and attempt to login to WPMU and head to your bbPress forums URL. If you’re logged in to bbPress, mission accomplished!

14) If you have BuddyPress group forums enabled, login to your BuddyPress Groups (eg. http://example.com/members/YOURUSERNAME/groups/).

Go into each group’s admin settings area, and uncheck “Enable Discussion Forum” and “Save Changes”. Then re-check “Enable Discussion Forum” again and “Save Changes”.

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This is what worked for me… can’t say it will work in all cases though!

Step #11 will probably differ for some depending on what they did before.

Now I got to update my custom bbPress theme for all the new changes made since 1.0 alpha 6!

Since BuddyPress requires WPMU, this is really a WPMU question. Search their forums.

Here are a few threads to get you started, but do a more thorough search than just relying on the few posts I’ve linked below:

https://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/10028

https://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/13072

I tried very hard to get this to work, and I can not get that code to work, even in the default template or even by creating a blank .php with pasting in the code listed above to upload to the mu-plugins directory.

First of all you should not be placing the code in mu_plugins. Either place it in your bp-custom.php file, create your own plugin that resides in /wp-content/plugins/, or put the code in your member theme’s functions.php file.

But, in the BP Profiles section, the users can simply change their login username to anything they want. This will obviously lead to database errors and people changing their usernames to cause conflicts.

Where do you see the option in BuddyPress to change your login username? The only option you have is to change your display name. This is an entirely different piece of datum.

Yes, when a user registers for a new account, if they choose to enter the exact same datum in the username field as the “Full Name” field, then that is their choice. But, this data is stored and used in different ways. The datum from the “Full Name” field gets placed in two different tables: it populates the display_name field in the wp_users table and it is recorded in the wp_bp_xprofile_data table corresponding to the meta field entitled “Full Name” in the wp_bp_xprofile_fields table.

When a user decides to edit their “Full Name” field via BuddyPress, the changes to that piece of datum have no affect on the login username field stored in the user_login field of the wp_user WordPress table.

So, on the same registration page, you have two questions requesting for what their username is going to be. This is quite ridiculous, and so far their is no way to shut that part off. Does anyone have any ideas?

This is not correct. These fields serve different purposes as detailed above. One field is the user_login, the other is the user’s display name.

You can use HTML code in the Text Widget, and probably in the Welcome Widget as well.

Sample code:

<p>This is my message in the widget!</p>

<img src="PATH TO IMAGE" alt="This is my image in the widget" />

Remember to upload an image to WordPress first, then grab the link of the image.

I have a couple of questions because I still can’t get my discussion to activate in groups. Integration is fine, but that dang “you must configure forums” warning won’t go away no matter what combination of codes & plugins I use.

1. “Upgrade to bbpress 1.0”

Upgrade from what? I’ve never been able to get an RC version to work so I’m running alpha 6.

2. By upgrade, do you mean install the new version or should I find an upgrade button somewhere? (not seeing one on alpha 6)

3. Buddypress enable plugin (from buddpress>>bp-forums)

Where did you put this? In my-plugins or bb-plugins or nowhere?

4. “Go into bbpress admin and the wordpress integration settings. Fill out the forms properly”

Anytime I EVER EVER (haha) try to change stuff in there, it totally boots me out of all of the bbpress logins. No login name/pw will work.

That’s it for now but I’ll probably be back with more questions.

**Edit — #5 (told ya I’d be back) Did you put the “allow user switching” code at the bottom of the bb-config?

Thanks

The Post Haste WP plugin: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/posthaste/ could replicate some of the functionality of P2, and it has the advantage of theme portability.

It took me weeks to find it, but I think it’s pretty great, especially for buddypress themes.

I recommend the Post Haste WP plugin: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/posthaste/ to replicate some of the functionality of P2, but having the advantage of theme portability.

It took me weeks to find it, but I think it’s pretty great.

Cool! I made a post on the WordPress plugin forums about an hour ago asking about 1.0.2 compatibility for this plugin!

Looking forward to the update, Giovanni!

I got the discussion forums for bp press working fine after updating to bbpress v1.0:

Instead of fully installing fresh the bbpress v1.0, I decided to take a different route and just updated the bbpress directory from bbpress v-1.0-rc-3 to v1.0.

That went very smoothly. I followed the update instructions that are listed on the bbpress website for the old 0.9.0.2. Those update instructions still work, but the bbpress v1.0 seems to update much more smoothly then that.

The Steps I followed for upgrading(Keep in mind I have WPMU):

– Make sure WordPress is updated to fullest version, mine is currently WPMU 2.7.1

– Make sure you already have the following plugins installed, updated and configured:

a) BuddyPress 1.0.2

b) bbPress Integration 1.0

– Now follow the directions listed on the bbpress website, which is the old upgrade/update procedures for bbpress 0.9.0.2.

(Although my current version was bbpress v-1.0-rc-3)

– Make sure that you have the following:

a) I had to create a separate bbpress keymaster account for it to work, so I have the admin account for my wordpress mu and a separate keymaster account for my bbpress. That was the only realistically way of getting this to work for me, it kept erroring on me if I didn’t.

b) While in your keymaster bbpress account make sure that you have the plugin BuddyPress Support Plugin installed (You might check for an update version.)

c) Now begin the documentation upgrade/update stuff. You don’t have to turn off the plugins as I didn’t and it worked fine.

d) You will want to follow the instructions and remove the directories through FTP in your bbpress that need removed.

Here is it word for word from the bbpress website:

To upgrade bbPress from a previous version takes just a few minutes.

These instructions cover upgrading to version 0.9.0.2

First, you should always back up your files and your database in case something goes wrong.

Second, deactivate all plugins.

Third, keep the following files and directories.

1. Rename your existing config.php file to config.old.php (and keep it)

2. my-plugins/ (if you have it)

3. my-templates/ (if you have it)

and delete everything else.

Fourth, upload the newest version of bbPress to your server.

Fifth, visit your bbPress site and run the installer which appears. On step one of the installer, enter the database details for the same database you had been using for the previous version. The installer will either create a new config file or show you the contents to paste into a file manually. Then complete the rest of the installation process.

Sixth, log in and visit your bbPress admin panels. If you see an upgrade link instead of the normal screens, click it. If you don’t see an upgrade link (it would have been really obvious), continue to the next step.

Seventh, visit the new “Settings” area of the admin and edit any details or settings in the “General” section. Also reactivate your plugins one by one (some may need to be upgraded as well).

Eighth, sit back and relax; you’re done!

e) Now, just upload your new bbpress v1.0 files to the directory. Go, to the url of your installed bbpress and insert the bbpress sql database information that you created.

f) At this point it will politely yell at you once you click next, informing you that the database is already created and that a bbpress is already installed.

g) Now, keep in mind that your bb-config.php file is brand new now. So, you will need to copy your old “KEYS” from the bb-config.old.php back to the new bb-config.php. Otherwise the discussion group forums check box won’t appear in the buddypress group creations.

* @since 1.0

*/

define( 'BB_AUTH_KEY', '###########################' );

define( 'BB_SECURE_AUTH_KEY', '##################################' );

define( 'BB_LOGGED_IN_KEY', '#####################################' );

define( 'BB_NONCE_KEY', '###########################################' );

define( 'WP_AUTH_COOKIE_VERSION', 1 ); // Because it is wordpress mu v2.7.1

/**#@-*/

h) Make sure that you in your new bbpress v1.0 on your website, that you login with the keymaster account that you created, as the bbpress keymaster has the access to the bbpres plugins sections. In the settings section, check the wordpress integration settings. Make sure all the keys are correct, next you will want to click on the box at the bottom that reads :

Show advanced database settings

If your bbPress and WordPress site do not share the same database, then you will need to add advanced settings.

Make sure you input your wordpress mu 2.7.1 sql database configuration settings into those fields. Otherwise, all of this will be for nothing and it would integrate and the users wont show up correctly. BTW, user database host is typically ‘localhost’.

Now click Save changes at the bottom of that page.

i) Back at the wordpress mu portion of your site, you will want to login back in with your admin account. Then go to your buddypress settings and click on forums Setup. You will want your bbpress username and passwords field to match your wordpress admin account only in this section. I couldn’t get the keymaster account to work with this part.

j) Now go to the groups section of the buddy press, you should see the “Group Forums discussion enable” box now there.

k) Lastly, don’t forget to check your wp-config.php settings, to make sure that the keys are properly set up there too.

For example:

* @since 2.6.0

*/

define('AUTH_KEY', '###################################');

define('SECURE_AUTH_KEY', '######################################');

define('LOGGED_IN_KEY', '#######################################');

define('NONCE_KEY', '##########################################');

define('AUTH_SALT', '##########################################');

define('LOGGED_IN_SALT', '############################################');

define('SECURE_AUTH_SALT', '#######################################');

define( 'COOKIE_DOMAIN', '.yourwebsiteurl.com' );

define( 'SITECOOKIEPATH', '/' );

define( 'COOKIEPATH', '/' );

define( 'COOKIEHASH', '##############################' );

/**#@-*/

Hope that helps.

Welcome Pack v1.22 just pushed to the WordPress plugin svn. Expect to see it up in an hour or so. #buddypress

libationblog, basically BuddyPress/WPMU will meet all of your needs and wants, but you might have to hold its hand and then twist its arm to get it to listen.

When you consider that WordPress alone can do just about all of the things you mention with the help of independent plugins, adding BuddyPress on top of it alleviates all of the user profile woes that WordPress alone can’t do. But if you plan on using BuddyPress, then you need to step up to WPMU, which sounds like you might not really need, but have to have to use BP.

The nice thing about WPMU is that you don’t need to let people have their own blogs, so it will work exactly the same as a single user WordPress installation does, but with BuddyPress on top of it.

I say give it a go, and give yourself a few solid days to get used to how BP works, and you will probably be pretty happy with what you end up with.

I was wondering if you were using single-user WordPress.

I’m assuming that was just the regular wordpress install and not wordpress MU. Could that be the issue I’m having? If so, what do I do to rectify it?

BuddyPress currently works only with WordPress Mu. How do you rectify it? You install WPMU. Here are some more details on how to do that.

Once WPMU is proeprly installed and working, you install BuddyPress.

And what did people on wpmu forum say about this?

I’m almost positive this is a bug in FF3.5 and it’s understanding of shorthad “font” declarations.

This is fixed in the latest default themes in 1.0.2.

This is what you need to do:

Find the “html {” declaration in the CSS files, and look for the “font:” part. Delete it and replace it with this:

font-size: 11px;

font-family: "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;

Then find the “body {” declaration, and replace the “font” part with:

font-size: 12px;

Do the same in both your WordPress and BuddyPress theme.

Or you could use a widget plugin like Widget Logic to control where and when a widget should show up in your sidebar.

Me too looking for same plugin if that would be available it would be great because of this facility i have turned to elgg from buddy press.

But i want to use buddypress from bottom of my heart as die hard fan of wordpress.

Please guys do something about it.

Sam.

if you just want to hide the widget from non logged in users, just wrap a div around it in home.php. Register the widget area in functions.php in your template …you might want to start here. – https://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Widgets_Api

Best way to do this would be to integrate the P2 theme into your user blogs.

Ahh yes! Totally forgot about the P2 theme, John!

https://wordpress.org/extend/themes/p2

I forget if P2 puts a character limit on post entries like Twitter.

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Also I did some digging just now and the WPMU plugin that John and I are talking about is the “Menus” plugin by dsader:

http://wpmudev.org/project/Menus

This is a WPMU issue and not a BuddyPress-related one.

There are some great WPMU plugins by dsader that limit the WordPress backend:

http://wpmudev.org/user/56/

I suggest checking those out.

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[EDIT]

Just read over your post again and you say you want to eliminate the entire backend? Off the top of my head, I don’t know if that’s possible.

I don’t think anyone has attempted this in BuddyPress yet, but I could be wrong.

Since you are talking specifically about altering how WPMU deals with blogs, I’d suggest posting this question on the WPMU forums so that their gurus can answer. Whereas you might receive an answer on the BuddyPress forums, the WPMU forums is the more appropriate place for such questions.

I advise that you first do a through search of the Mu forums before posting.

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