BuddyPress.org

Thanks for the post, John. As you point out, there are many ways to contribute to the WP community even if you lack made-programming skills.

Yes you can do that making a new plugin based on bbpress-live (the same andy has used for groups).

For the second question is always bbpress-live that help wordpress & bbpress to share data via xmlrpc

I would like to do this too.

What I did is make the buddypress home theme available to memberblogs. The only “catch” is that the member blog appears without any widgets set.

I am curious, if there is a way to “preset” the widgets on a userblog theme to a standard layout.

This image is perfect: https://apeatling.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/blog.jpg

If member blogs could look like that, then I can launch my community.

Best,

Dainis

http://wordpress-blog.nl

Has been updated to the ‘trunk 1281’ version of ‘FaceBuddy theme’ …

I am using WMPU2.7 Buddypress RC1 and bbPress 1.0-Alpha-6

Hopefully someone can help me out here, it’s been 10 days, I’ve searched, this forum, the WPMU forum and the bbPress forum, and I feel like I’m going round in circles!

bbPress and WPMU/ Buddypress work fine as ‘stand alone’ applications, the challenge I am having is integrating bbPress into Buddypress.

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I have gone through the whole of Trent’s great topic (https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=471) many times now, even removed bbPress and started all again.

What should on the face of it be a simple process, share users, share cookies, link via xmlrpc, seems incredibly complex, or else it’s the configuration of my hosting company that’s causing it!

I followed, Sam’s basic integration screencast (https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/basic-integration-screencast ), and all went smoothly, I can now logon and logoff from either WPMU or bbPress. I have also edited wp-config and bb-config as needed to use the same keys and to point to the same locations for the cookies.

However I can only access the admin/dashboard section in bbPress if I login in through bbPress, if I log in first via WPMU, the ‘admin’ link doesn’t work. I can access the dashboard of WPMU whichever way I log in.

In Sam’s screencast he talks about bbPress needing extra cookies and using bbpress-integration.1.0-alpha-4.1, I have tried with and without this plugin (which doesn’t appear to work when isntalled in mu-plugins/ ). I have also checked the cookies when logged in via bbPress and only see one extra cookie when actually in the dashboard / backoffice of bbPress.

Do I need this plugin?

Is this the way it should work, or should I be able to log in via WPMU and then go to bbPress and have access rights to the bbPress dashboard?

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I have enabled xmlrpc and pingbacks in bbPress.

I have two key users “admin”, the main one created during wpmu install, which is also keymaster for bbPress and another with keymaster rights to bbPress and administration rights WPMU, it works the same for both.

Re Trent’s post, I have the plugin in my-plugins/buddypress-enable.php though there is some discussion as to wether it should be in my-plugins or bb-plugins – some guidance here please?

Also in step 6) where Trent says “Go into your main blog dashboard as the “site-admin” and go to the groups admin page.” I presume that with my configuration it should now read “Site Admin / bbPress forums”, If I click on the groups link, it gives me my list of already established groups to configure / edit. is my presumption correct?

I have configured the full path (with the “/”) and user details for bbPress in the “bbPress forums” option.

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When I turn on Group Discussion, I don’t get a forum created in bbPress, nor can I post in ‘forum’ in the group in Buddypress, it comes up with “There was an error posting that topic.” not surprising really (no forum)

If I go to create a new group the box for “Enable discussion forum” is greyed out / missing replaced with a note that says” Attention Site Admin: Group forums require correct setup and configuration of a bbPress installation.”

Also from bbPress if I try to post I get “Warning: cannot yet handle MBCS in html_entity_decode()! in /home/sites/mydomain.com/public_html/forums/my-plugins/buddypress-enable.php on line 53 which I guess is because it’s not linked back. (I’m running MySQL/5.0.67 PHP/5.2.8 and PHP5/5.2.

Trent also suggested “check your bp_groups_groupmeta table” there was nothing in my data relating to forums.

I’ve tried it with and without the ” WordPress cookie integration speedup” and ” WordPress database integration speedup” in the bb-config.php file – it made no difference.

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I’ve tried almost all I can think of,

@Burtadsit would your xmlrpc-test-rig be worth exploring? Do you have a download link for it?

“http://ourcommoninterest.org/downloads/xmlrpc-test-rig.zip” looks like it’s not there at the moment.

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From here: http://umwblogs.org/wiki/index.php/Integrating_WPMu,_BuddyPress,_and_bbPress says:

You will need to install and activate the following plugins in your WPMu installation:

* bbPress Integration: “https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-integration/” This is essential, but keep in mind that this plugin is only useful if you are running bbPress version 1.0-alpha-4 or later.

* WPMU Enable bbPress Capabilities (0.1) “https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/wpmu-enable-bbpress-capabilities/” : Enables bbPress member capabilities when a user is created within WPMU. This allows immediate login as a ‘member’ after a user is created in WPMU.

Do I actually need either of these with my confguration?

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@johnjamesjacoby said “In theory, to create a post from within the Group forum, you should not need cookie integration, because the XMLRPC request happens very ajax-like behind the scenes and does not require for you as a specific user to be logged into both platforms.”

So any help would be much appreciated, Thanks.

Also try using the object caching support:

Improving Performance

WordPress MU itself is not designed to run on a shared server, so you should really avoid that if you can.

Anybody looking into this adapting to BP?

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/nextgen-gallery/

Thanks for posting that. Since I’m not much of a coder, when I make suggestions on the trac report I tend to think I’m just being annoying. Nice to know that much of the time it’s actually helpful.

Just a quick look at your site. I guess it\’s slower than other bp sites I\’ve seen. Speed depends on a lot of factors. The plugins you are using can slow you down if they do a lot of db queries. The host you use is also a major determining factor as well as the type of hosting. DV is usually faster than shared hosting.

bp takes advantage of the standard wp object cache now. I’ve heard of significant performance improvements. Use the latest trunk to take advantage of this. See below on how to turn it on.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/WP_Cache

Hi, Im trying to conect my WPmu + BuddyPress with bbpress.

First I install the forum in a diferent database, then usign the settings I try to conect with wordpress but it show me this:

bbPress database error: [Unknown character set: ‘urf8’]

SET NAMES ‘urf8’

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/thbru/public_html/airmylove.com/forum/bbpress/bb-includes/db-mysql.php:130) in /home/thbru/public_html/airmylove.com/forum/bbpress/bb-includes/pluggable.php on line 192

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/thbru/public_html/airmylove.com/forum/bbpress/bb-includes/db-mysql.php:130) in /home/thbru/public_html/airmylove.com/forum/bbpress/bb-includes/pluggable.php on line 232

And I don´t have any clue!, some had the same issue ?

Thanx for this forum!

@Halfpint, try integrate this for buddypress ?

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/nextgen-gallery/

How do you make it ,so that users sign-in from the home theme than wordpress login backend?

The WordPress theme controls the home page and all blog pages, the BuddyPress theme controls everything else.

<?php

/*

Plugin name:Limit Blogs per User

Plugin Author:Brajesh K. Singh

Plugin URI:http://www.thinkinginwordpress.com/2009/03/limit-number-of-blogs-per-user-for-wordpress-mu-and-buddypress-websiteblog-network/

Author URI:http://ThinkingInWordpress.com

Version:1.0

*/

add_filter(\”wpmu_active_signup\”,\”tiw_check_current_users_blog\”); //send fake/true enable or disabled request

add_action(\”wpmu_options\”,\”tiw_display_options_form\”); //show the form to allow how many number of blogs per user

add_action(\”update_wpmu_options\”,\”tiw_save_num_allowed_blogs\”);//action to save number of allowed blogs per user

/****Check ,whether blog registration is allowed,and how many blogs per logged in user is allowed */

function tiw_check_current_users_blog($active_signup)

{

if( !is_user_logged_in() )

return $active_signup;//if the user is not logged in,do not change the site policies

//otherwise…

global $current_user;

$blogs=get_blogs_of_user($current_user->ID);//get all blogs of user

$number_of_blogs_per_user=tiw_num_allowed_blogs();//find

//if number of allowed blog is greater than 0 and current user owns less number of blogs */

if($number_of_blogs_per_user>0&&count($blogs)<$number_of_blogs_per_user)

return $active_signup;

else

return \”none\”;

}

/****How many blogs are allowed per user *************/

function tiw_num_allowed_blogs()

{

$num_allowed_blog=get_site_option(\”tiw_allowed_blogs_per_user\”);//find how many blogs are allowed

if(!isset($num_allowed_blog))

$num_allowed_blog=0;

return $num_allowed_blog;//return the number of allowed blogs

}

/*****Show the Number of Blogs to restrict per user at the bottom of Site options ****/

function tiw_display_options_form()

{

?>

<h3><?php _e(\’Limit Blog Registrations Per User\’) ?></h3>

<table>

<tbody>

<tr valign=\”top\”>

<th scope=\”row\”>Number of blogs allowed per User</th>

<td>

<input type=\”text\” name=\”num_allowed_blogs\” value=\”<?php echo tiw_num_allowed_blogs()?>\” />

<p>If the Value is Zero, It indicates any number of blog is allowed</p>

</td>

</tr>

</tbody>

</table>

<?php

}

/**************Save the Number of blogs per user when the form is updated **************/

function tiw_save_num_allowed_blogs()

{

$allowed_number_of_blogs=intval($_POST[\”num_allowed_blogs\”]);//how many blogs the user has set

//save to the database

update_site_option(\”tiw_allowed_blogs_per_user\”,$allowed_number_of_blogs);//now update

}

?>

You can set the number of blog you would like to allow.. its not mine, just wanna share it..

– Aron

EDIT: to set the number of blogs, proceed to Site Admin/Options/ then look below..

Look here too

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/limit-blogs-per-user

Really worth reading!

even though i didn’t finish it…

The latest is always available at: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-community-blogs/

It’s a premium plugin and works fine: http://premium.wpmudev.org/project/set-password-on-wordpress-mu-blog-creation

Not sure if it will help anyone but I’ll post it anyway.

I really wanted to launch my BP site with facebook integration AND Invite facebook Friends as well. And given that Andy said he will probably not be working on the BP Facebook Connect pluggin, well.. I made a rough workaround that did the job.

Hope it helps.

Requirements:

– You need to have BP-Facebook Connect installed.

– You need to have Exec-PHP plugin installed.

– You need to have Exclude Pages plugin installed (optional)

Step 1:

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First, I made a new file called invitefriends.php. I put it the root directory of BP.. but you can place it anywhere you want and take care of the paths. This is the code (not sure if it will get throught the parsing functions of this forum… my apologies in advance if it doesn’t):

<?php

$root = dirname(__FILE__); // repeat dirname( as many times as folders levels you save this file… For instance: if you save it in wp-content, it should be dirname(dirname(__FILE__));

if (file_exists($root.’/wp-load.php’)) {

// WP 2.6

require_once($root.’/wp-load.php’);

} else {

// Before 2.6

require_once($root.’/wp-config.php’);

}

if (function_exists(‘fbc_facebook_client’)) {

// if the current user is a facebook user, show his/her friends…

$fbuid = fbc_facebook_client()->get_loggedin_user();

if ($fbuid) { ?>

<fb:serverfbml style=”width: 100%;”>

<script type=”text/fbml”>

<fb:fbml>

<fb:request-form

action=”<?php echo get_option(‘siteurl’); ?>”

method=”GET”

invite=”true”

type=”<?php echo get_option(‘blogname’); ?>”

content=”<?php echo get_option(‘blogname’).” : “.get_option(‘blogdescription’); ?>

<fb:req-choice url='<?php echo get_option(‘siteurl’); ?>’

label='<?php _e(‘Become a member!’, ‘mt_trans_domain’) ?>’ />”>

<fb:multi-friend-selector

showborder=”false”

actiontext=”<?php _e(‘Select the friends you want to invite.’, ‘mt_trans_domain’) ?>”>

</fb:request-form>

</fb:fbml>

</script>

</fb:serverfbml>

<?php } else {

// If s/he is not a facebook user, tell him/her s/he has to be one in order to invite friends.

echo __( ‘Tienes que haber ingresado como un usuario Facebook para poder invitar amigos.’, ‘mt_trans_domain’ );

$user = wp_get_current_user();

if (!$user->ID) {

// if s/he is not a facebook neighter a site member yet… show the Facebook login button.

echo ‘

<fb:login-button size=”large” background=”dark” length=”long”></fb:login-button>’;

}

}

}

?>

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Step 2:

– Create a new page, named it whatever you want (I name it Invite Facebook Friends, in spanish).

– Exclude this page from the front-page (using the Exclude-Page plugin)

The code of my page looks like this:

<?php

if (function_exists(‘fbc_facebook_client’)) {

// if the current user is a facebook user, load invitefriends.php into an IFRAME.

$fbuid = fbc_facebook_client()->get_loggedin_user();

if ($fbuid) { ?>

<iframe width=”100%” height=”700″ frameborder=”no” src=”invitefriends.php”></iframe>

<?php } else {

// If s/he is not a facebook user, tell s/him he has to be in order to invite friends.

echo ‘<p>Tienes que haber ingresado como un usuario Facebook para poder invitar amigos.’;

$user = wp_get_current_user();

if (!$user->ID) {

// If s/he is not a facebook nor a member… show her/him the facebook button.

echo ‘

<fb:login-button size=”large” background=”dark” length=”long”></fb:login-button>’;

}

echo ‘</p>’;

}

}

?>

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As you can it is a extermelly rough approach… but I’m not a WordPress developer nor a WPMU one… nor a BP one… I’m not familiar with the plugin framework of WordPress so I tried to do my best.

I hope it helps.

Found on wpmudev.

http://premium.wpmudev.org/project/set-password-on-wordpress-mu-blog-creation

Hi All,

I was successful in the installation of Facebook plugin, BP-FBConnect with Buddypress installation at http://www.mekudos.com

The following was required for my installation:

1) WordPress MU version 2.7.1

2) Buddypress Trunk 1281 (does not work with RC-1)

3) BP-fbconnect.zip Plugin and activate Facebook Developer API key.

Download:

1) WordPress MU version 2.7.1: https://trac.mu.wordpress.org/browser/branches/2.7

2) Buddypress Trunk 1281: https://svn.buddypress.org/trunk/

3) BP-FBConnect Plugin: http://testbp.org/plugins/bp-fbconnect.zip

Hope this helps for those looking for Facebook Integration.

Brian Katz

http://www.mekudos.com