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For those that want to use this solution with a theme like ‘default’ or ‘classic’, I think this is enough to get you going. For me, I find it a bit discontinuous to start from the buddypress theme home page and then bounce into the ‘classic’ theme of some individual user, and still think about it all as being the same site. I completely respect that that is a legitimate model & approach. It’s just not what I have in mind for my particular implementation.

Unfortunately, it’s not quite enough to just make the facebuddy theme default for all users. The ‘thing’ I want to ‘resolve’ is that for any user’s new blog, wordpress basically gives that user their own buddypress front page, that the user then needs to configure with their own widgets and stuff through the wordpress admin.

For my needs, I would like to make something that is more turnkey for new users, such that they only have to register & create the blog & start posting. I don’t want them to have to think about layout. I may offer them the option, but I want their blog home page to look polished off the bat. Furthermore, this ideal default setup would have a unified feel with the entire site so that as you went from user blog to user blog, a visitor feels like all the content look & feel is homogenous across all blogs in the wpressMU install.

Another way to put this idea is … when you go to the user’s specific blog page, there should more emphasis on the fact that it is a user of the main site discussing on some specific site topic, within the context of the site branding, etc …. rather than making the distinction that you are visiting someone else’s blog. Like a newspaper … only the by-line and the article content vary.

I have some ideas on ways I can approach this. If anyone else is interested in this, I’d be happy to share ideas and collaborate on knocking out a solution. Maybe someone has already solved this problem, but if they haven’t, I imagine it could be useful to a few other folks as well.

BuddyPress is just Awesome!

Trying to accomplish the same objective, I found this article: https://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/1463

After following the setup directions, when I created a new user, created a blog, created a post, and then went to view the post, it appeared in the expected theme. As the user, I *did not* need to go to set the theme myself.

Towards the end of the thread, there is the following

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As of 2.7 this information:

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Lines 311 and 312 of wp-admin/includes/schema.php in the populate_options function.

add_option(‘template’, ‘yourthemename’);

add_option(‘stylesheet’, ‘yourthemename’);

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This is a basic WordPress question and not a BuddyPress question.

Pages cannot have categories or tags. If you want or need these, then you’ll have to use WP posts instead.

Here’s a link to a WP codex article on pages that will help answer some of your questions.

Now, you could use BuddyPress groups along with Burt Adsit’s BP Content plugin to accomplish your goal.

In order to have the buddybar appear, you need to do what is called “deep integration” between the platforms. It means including WordPress and BuddyPress, inside your bbPress process.

See this post.

At that point, the wp_footer() will load the BuddyBar, but you will need to pull off some styling tweaks to make it all play nicely together.

I haven’t looked at this directly, but I suspect this is due to the nature of the AJAX that is making the new post versus it being created in the WordPress admin area. This means that either BuddyPress needs a plugin to hook into whatever P2 is doing, or vice versa.

We do not have anymore details than you have read. Perhaps Andy will shed some light after he has recuperated from WordCamp SF.

In addition to that news, there was mention that WP.com will offer BuddyPress as well. So, as far as what this means for BuddyPress, your guess is as good as mine. Will BuddyPress be included as a simple “switch” to turn on? How about bbPress?

When will all this happen? The writer of that post speculates around WPv2.9. Who knows. Since this is such a major shift, to me it seems more like a version 3.0 event. But, this is also pure speculation.

I’m also on BlueHost and installing manually is as easy as installing with simplescripts. That said, I needed to install and reinstall fifty-million (ok, maybe eight) times to get things working right with forum integration, etc. What worked was breaking it down slowly slowly slowly. First WPMU, then buddypress and finally using these instructions for integrating bbpress:

http://theeasybutton.com/blog/2009/04/30/integrating-buddypress-10-wpmu-and-bbpress/

The reason I had to reinstall so many times is I had trouble with the domains/subdirectories and finally had to change it out manually:

http://welcome.totheinter.net/2009/05/06/changing-wordpress-mu-from-subdomains-to-subdirectories/

It’s still buggy — I had some problems when I had to change out domains to get my site showing up in the right place — but I have hope it’s at least mostly working.

http://www.openadoptionsupport.com

Would it be possible to extend this plugin to work for the members and groups sections in BP?

Hey Erich,

i know a developer who is able to achieve this. They wrote me a private message on the german buddypress forum as a reply to my post:

http://forum.wordpress-deutschland.org/buddypress/48801-buddypress-international-benutzerdatenbank-teilen.html

Maybe we could work somehow together to get something suitable for both of us. If you are interested in the developer write me a PM and i sent you the details (you can write in german if you want).

You are using WordPress instead of WordPress MU. BuddyPress requires WordPress MU currently.

Dennyhalim-

I just took a quick visit to the Hoard Hunter plugin page. This is what is says about:

Hoard Hunter is an online treasure map game designed and developed for people who would like an easy (and fun) method of fund raising online. The system comprises of a custom plugin and integrated theme. The Hoard Hunter site is powered by WordPress MU (though the system will also run on standard WordPress) and uses a number of WordPress plugins to provide additional functionality.

My First thought is that I would not even attempt to use this with BuddyPress. This looks like a complicated plugin that relies on many other plugins and its own custom theme to do some complex stuff. It is ripe with problems waiting to happen.

Also, it is not clear if this plugin suite, as it really should be considered, works with WPMU 2.7.1. You need to contact the developer and ask. There does not seem to be an activity on that plugin’s thread for almost 6 months and the images do not load on the website. This is never a good sign.

As is stated above, Hoard Hunter is a “system [comprised] of a custom plugin and integrated theme” and it relies on “a number of WordPress plugins to provide additional functionality”. You are dealing with a potentially large mess here in figuring out what is going on.

As John and I both suggested, you need to deactivate the Hoard Hunter plugin and all other plugins that Hoard Hunter is using. Furthermore, you need to switch back to the default BuddyPress themes. In other words, to troubleshoot this issue, you need to strip down your install to the lowest common denominator and see if the problem goes away.

So, just using the BuddyPress plugins and no other WPMU plugins, and just using the standard, default BP themes, does the problem go away. If so, you then start working your way backwards, adding a plugin at a time until either everything works or you find the problem.

It could also be an issue with Hoard Hunter’s “integrated theme”.

I hope this is just a development install and not an ongoing WPMU community to which your trying to add BP. If it is an ongoing community, perhaps you should stick with what you have and forget using BP.

If you wish to continue troubleshooting, and you have important data to protect, please make sure you know what you are doing, that you are comfortable with troubleshooting this issue. You’ll need to make backups of your database, your themes, upload directories, plugins–in other words everything. Why? Because there are no guarantees.

if you’re only getting a 404 on subdomains.. your issue is with the WPMU install… most likely having your DNS settings to allow a wildcard subdomain.. try here.

https://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/5142?replies=54

im completely confused here, bbpress is a separate thing we need to add/install to buddypress?

sorry im new to all this and have successfully installed wordpressmu and buddypress, but i thought the bbpress already was included in the buddypress download since it gave me options to enable it….please help? thanks

Okay, a couple of thoughts:

1. Off the top of my head I’d say the quickest way to offer some solution is by creating a new extended field and letting your members paste their blog URLs in that field. Call the field My Other Blogs.

This would not bring in any of your members’ blog posts though. It would simply provide a standard place to put an external link to their blog(s). You could tell them how to make the urls look a little prettier by using an href tag.

<a href="http://myotherblogurl/">Hey, look at my cool blog!</a>

2. You could use the FeedwordPress plugin to allow your members a way to aggregate their external blog posts. I’ve never used this and I have no idea how it will play with BuddyPress.

3. You could suggest, possibly offering as a premium service, that they move their other WordPress-based blogs to your site. You would then use Donncha’s Domain Mapping Plugin to faciliate that move while allowing your members to keep their original domains. I’ve never done this, so there may be a lot more to it than meets the eye.

In essence, you would have your existing internal Mu blogs co-existing with all the newly imported and mapped blogs. I’m not sure what conflicts this could cause with WPMU or BuddyPress.

Having problems with the featured groups widget ever since I upgraded from RC-1 to BP 1.0, when I click on a featured group it takes me to the list of groups ([my-domain]/wordpress-mu/groups) rather than to the group itself, any idea what could be causing this to happen? Cheers

Where can you find the names of the widgets you want listed for users by default so you can add them to the user layout?

Also is there a way of forcing all new users to have the same buddypress theme? EG: Shout? It seems really weird tome that the default mode of operation is that each new users account gets set to the wordpress default rather than the site default.

Could I just overwrite the wordpress default blog theme directory with the contents of the shout buddypress theme?

Thanks in advance,

There is also Sam’s bbPress Live widget which you could use: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-live/

Hmmm. Well maybe that wouldn’t work. That widget is what bp uses to communicate with bbpress for group forums. Interesting.

Might be worth reading this post… there are several suggestions from customization to removal and even making it into an aggregator…

https://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/1780?replies=26

we get it dude.

Hi, I firstly wanted to make such a integration, but then i found wordpress wiki plugin and it, both with role menagement plugin, makes possible to set some category as wiki-category, editable to all registered users, and to show revision list after article. What can give me mediawiki to install it?

I would create a custom page template

https://codex.wordpress.org/Pages#Examples_of_Pages_and_Templates

the page slug would be “login”

then the url would be http://www.yoursite.com/login

because it’s a custom page template AND in your themes directory, it’s “in the loop”

that should work for you