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Hi Tutsie,

This type of change would typically be done with a plugin. Keep in mind that this isn’t a BuddyPress customization as much as it is a WordPress MU one.

I did a quick Google search for “change wordpress admin profile link” and found a few places you could start.

In this WordPress forum topic is some code that would change the behavior of the profile link (albeit for a different reason); this method of changing the admin behavior isn’t recommended, however, since it requires hacking a core file. A plugin would be much better since it doesn’t require changing the core file (and having to stress about updating your WordPress MU code later).

Depending on how much you want to work on this, you could download these two plugins: WP Hide Dashboard and Admin Menu Management, open them up in a text editor, and look at how they change the menus in the WordPress admin area.

Plugins do two things: (1) they provide a new functionality and (2) they hijack the normal WordPress behavior and perform the functionality described in the plugin instead.

Hope that helps…

“It is coming”

GREAT!

If you just downloaded it from bp.org then it’s RC1. If you are not using svn then you can by getting a client app like TortiseSVN for Windows. http://tortoisesvn.net/

The url to get the latest source is: https://svn.buddypress.org/trunk

Running the trunk version of bp requires you to be running wpmu 2.7.1 which is only available by svn at: http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress-mu/branches/2.7

There have been changes in the member theme directory and bp’s move from the /mu-plugins dir to the /plugins dir in wpmu.

Not a stupid question at all.

btw, when I enabled openid plugin from wordpress.org, the version 3.2.2 (the latest you can get from wporg), all active accounts of my install got locked out. Of course RPX was already inactive…

FYI.

You can use Twitter Tools to creat tweets of your new blog post, and it also allows you to tweet from wordpress.

What exactly do you want to be tweeted (tweet? tweeted?)?

hi Mypop,

Do you add this line into your bbPress bb-config.php to enable user switching ? $bb->bb_xmlrpc_allow_user_switching = true;

i followed those advices below to install my forum. I hope it can help you

here is a video :

http://wordpress.tv/2009/01/23/integrating-a-bbpress-forum-with-your-self-installed-wordpress/

and there some good tips :

http://trentadams.com/2009/04/01/buddypress-forums-tutorial/

I notice that the twitter plugin makes some conflits with the bb_press install. I deleted it.

You could try using https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/remove-buddypress-admin-bar/ and then create a little plugin that copies the parts of the bar you want and hooks into wp_head.

(Heads up: check the source of the remove-buddypress-admin-bar plugin: there is a parameter you may need to set based on what version of BP you’re running.)

@Gpo1

We have two social network sites (one with a semantic web component) that we\’ll be hosting on slicehost. We plan to utilize Amazon\’s S3 for storage of all user uploaded media content.

As the sites grow, we may also use Amazon\’s CloudFront for a more robust content delivery network. I do not see us using Amazon\’s EC2. Slicehost combined with S3 will give us more than enough control over our costs, bandwidth utilization, and server load.

For one of these sites, we are also experimenting with HyperDB, the replacement database class to the standard WPDB.

would the fix be to change the ‘budypress’ to ‘wordpress’

Gpo1-

You may want to also contact Joe Tan ( http://tantannoodles.com/ ). He is the one who made the Amazon S3 WordPress plugin I linked to in your other thread on this topic.

He already knows the technology and may be able to more easily adapt and expand his S3 plugin.

I am using aMember with buddypress and muWordpress. They sell the muWordpress plugin that is needed to work with aMember. It works the way it was made, which is for subdirectories. It does not work with subdomains. So, I set it to only create a user account and then go in manually to create the blog. Not the best ideal, but it works.

Should be simple as this:

svn co http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress-mu/branches/2.7 ./wpmu

cd wpmu/wp-content/plugins

svn co https://svn.buddypress.org/trunk ./buddypress

svn co [my-plugin-repo-url] [my-plugin-dir]

Then when you want to update WPMU just svn up in /wpmu/ and when you want to update BuddyPress just svn up in /plugins/buddypress/

Hi Burt,

your plugin works excellently… thanks.

On a related note…

if the user attempts to login with an incorrect username / password, they are thrown to the WP login screen.

Is there a straightforward way to keep them on my BuddyPress login screen?

Cheers,

Roger

ok i got it. where did you get your WPMU 2.7.1?

you should pick the one that is under tags in mu.wordpress.org trac.

EDIT: get the latest trac here…

http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress-mu/branches/2.7/

Didn’t mean to hijack the thread, but I think my question is somewhat related to this specific thread. Thanks…

When wordpress mu 2.7.1 comes out as stable on wordpress.org, will buddypress RC2 or later will have proper upgrade procedures for us who do not use subversion stuffs?

Or upgrading buddypress is easy as delete the old plugins from mu-plugin or plugins directory (for RC2), and replace it with RC2 plugins (pick and choose components)?

I have never try upgrade Buddypress yet in fear of breaking stuffs. Any help would be great.

Socialpreneur-

I saw your screenshots in trac. Please tell me if I understand what you’re trying to do.

Based on those screenshots, it appears you are trying to crop an avatar and make it a non-square size. Is that true?

If so, avatars (as used in the WordPress world and many other places) have a square dimension. That is why the extra black bar got added to your crop. The Image processing code for changing your avatar is set to output a square-dimensioned image.

Gpo1-

I, too, have been investigating Amazon EC2. I will be using Amazon’s S3 for a site, but have not yet determined if I want to also take advantage of Amazon’s Compute Cloud services. Either way, here are a few links that might point you in the right direction:

1. This guy is already doing what you want to do. He runs his WordPress-based site on EC2 using S3. He talks about the process in this article. Perhaps you could contact him for more details if needed.

This Web Site is Now Hosted on Amazon EC2 & S3

2. Information on using Amazon’s S3 with WordPress Mu:

– http://tantannoodles.com/toolkit/wordpress-s3/

– https://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic.php?id=6351

– http://www.ringofblogs.com/2008/04/12/off-loading-wpmu-theme-files-to-amazon-s3/

Good luck! Let us know if you get this working.

Yes sorry i missed the first post instructions….

I will follow the instructions once i have 2.7.1 implimented this…

svn co http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress-mu/branches/2.7

BUT HOW… do i impliment this svn on top of my current stable wpmu 2.7 from zip…

what i mean is how do i sortof upgrade my current “current stable wpmu 2.7 from zip” to this the wpmu branch 2.7.1 from snv …current stable wpmu 2.7 from zipsvn co http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress-mu/branches/2.7

does that make sense?

Ok so i just uploaded my svn and it has messed up a few things like the admin bar is displaying funny on the bottom and my profile nav buttons and options nave buttons are now displaying funny..

Currently i am runing bp 1309 and a stable zip uploaded wpmu 2.7

My site Spots kenya is part of a final year degree project and so its quite important that when i reach the handin (May 15) it is fairly stable.

The question I have are these..

1) Should i revert back to a svn previous to 1303 and just work with that or…

2) Should i start from scratch quite literally… I have no users at the moment so my database can be scrapped.

3) if i start from scratch i assume that i…. c o svn.automattic.com/wordpress-mu/trunk/ into what a) my root OR b) a folder eg wpmu then transfer the files to spotskenya base or root. c)

4) once i have wpmu running perfectly i can then

a) co svn.buddypress.org/trunk/ to say /wp-content/buddy press

b) use symbolic links to /wp-content/plugins —- guide here ( https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/installing-through-svn/) which needs to be updated to plugin btw.

c) or just transfer (which will not update latest svn changes.

5) Re upload my bp-spotskenya-theme to /wp-content/bp-themes/ (WHAT CHANGES NEED TO BE MADE THE THEM ?)

Anything that i ahve missed?? Please say…

Sorry if this is all really basic but i am learning as i go but really do need to get it right as its quite a chunk of my degree..

thanks so much..

http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress-mu/branches/2.7/