BuddyPress.org

Thank you for your reply. As I noted earlier, I’m already running a WordPress blog network with active members. Incidentally, the README.txt file for WordPress actually uses the directory /blogs as an example:

* If you want to have your WordPress MU installation in its own

subdirectory on your web site (e.g. http://example.com/blogs/),

rename the directory wordpressmu to the name you’d like the

subdirectory to have and move or upload it to your web server.

For example if you want the WordPress MU installation in a

subdirectory called “blog”, you should rename the directory called

“wordpressmu” to “blogs” and upload it to the root directory of your

web server.

I imagine this may be a problem for others who went in this direction. Are you saying that those of us in this situation are out of luck with BuddyPress unless we reinstall and try to import all of our users’ blogs into the new site?

Thanks again, I do appreciate your time on this.

get_bloginfo(‘wpurl’).”/wp-admin/profile.php

should be replaced with a call to: bp_core_get_userurl($bp->loggedin_user->id) which is the url to the currently logged in user. You’ll have to declare ‘global $bp;’ someplace before that in the code.

Sounds like a job for wpmu forums. It would really get more attention there from those people who have lots of wpmu experience: https://mu.wordpress.org/forums/

Is there any way to get the WordPress Plugin “advanced axcerpt” to work here?

Hi Kelly,

Each blog uses it’s own theme so you will need to write your own actions to do this similar to https://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic.php?id=8041 and http://premium.wpmudev.org/forums/topic.php?id=653 would be my guess.

there is a way to edit the users data, i have a plugin installed that allows you to go to users and then click a link and it logs you in as the selected user, obviously this means you can edit thier profile, the link only shows up for the site admin

the plugin is: user switching – https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/user-switching/

the only annoyance is that once you switch users it means you must login again to get back to admin or watever, i.e. it doesnt allow switching back and forth between accounts

it does help greatly though, hope this helps you

I’m using this one (found it on mu.wordpress.org/forums). I’m having problems creating new blogs, but I’m not sure if it’s nginx causing the problem (it works fine with wpmu):

server

{



listen			80;

server_name		DOMAIN.COM	*.DOMAIN.COM;



access_log 		/usr/local/nginx/logs/DOMAIN.COM.access.log;

error_log 		/usr/local/nginx/logs/DOMAIN.COM.error.log;



# rewrite rule for files



location	~*	^.+.(xml|jpg|jpeg|gif|png|ico|css|zip|tgz|gz|rar|bz2|doc|xls|exe|pdf|ppt|txt|tar|mid|midi|wav|bmp|rtf|js|swf)$

{

root		/home/web/DOMAIN.COM/www;

rewrite		^/files(/.*)$	/wp-content/blogs.php?file=$1	last;

expires		10d;

break;

}



# rewrite rule for sitemap under the lines that handles upload files



rewrite ^(.*/)?sitemap.xml wp-content/sitemap.php;



# rewrite errors



location	/

{

#auth_basic "Restricted";

#auth_basic_user_file  /etc/nginx/htpasswd;

root		/home/web/DOMAIN.COM/www;

index		index.php;

error_page	404	= /index.php?q=$uri;

}



#send php requests to fast cgi



location	~	.php$

{

fastcgi_pass		127.0.0.1:9000;

fastcgi_index		index.php;

fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME    /home/web/DOMAIN.COM/www$fastcgi_script_name;

include				/usr/local/nginx/conf/fastcgi_params;

}



}

if you add bp tables in the new db it’s not a problem

In theory the idea is to be able to export from MU and import to .org, but I’ve personally never had much success with the import/export proceedure.

You should think of a home theme as just a standard WordPress blog theme. It is no different other than a few new files to handle directories.

A member theme is a “BuddyPress” theme, and should probably be called that.

You should treat them as two entirely different themes, your WordPress theme should have the styles and images for just the WordPress parts and your BuddyPress theme should have the styles and images for just the BuddyPress parts.

You could of course still provide the two themes in one download package, but they should still work independently. It’s not a good idea at all to make the themes dependent on one another. Someone may want to use your member theme but keep their own blog theme.

I’ll be writing more docs on this soon.

Why does wordpress mu add “?ver=1.2.6” to jquery.js?

I’m getting a 404 when clicking the ajax widgets (with permalinks on) … could the ?ver= cause this?

WordPress has always allowed for multiple ways to access a specific post, even if your permalink structure is setup in a specific way.

Categories

http://www.thelifeofjohn.com/rants/

http://www.thelifeofjohn.com/category/rants/

Posts

http://www.thelifeofjohn.com/2009/03/the-web-world-has-gone-unordered-list-crazy/

http://www.thelifeofjohn.com/rants/the-web-world-has-gone-unordered-list-crazy/

More than one way to get to the same link, and both are valid, and both could lead Google down different paths to the same destination. Granted, this is on a non-MU install, but MU suffers the same fate, only with multiple blogs.

Without having /blog or /news or /something there, now you’re opening up the risk of having overlapping post/page slugs. If you write a blog entry named “members” what would you want to happen? Goto the blog post, or BuddyPress’s members page? Multiple that times 100 individual minds blogging outside of your control, and you see how that can be dangerous.

Trust me when I say that I understand what you’re saying, I do, and I can see how this could be something to consider when making the move to use MU and/or BuddyPress, but Google can recover quickly and so can your 5000 posts if they’re important and relevant.

Also, just for fun, lets goto…

http://delsolownersclub.com/blog/2009/02/09/del-sol-mugen-side-steps/

and then…

http://delsolownersclub.com/2009/02/09/del-sol-mugen-side-steps/

Looks like both take you where you need to be?

Not quite ready to mark this one green, but it looks like a correctly installed BuddyPress/MU won’t give you this problem…

I want this done,Kaltura to port over to BP : https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/all-in-one-video-pack/

Would be a good answer to server loads because users can upload videos to 3rd party host and not yours that would save you server performance and storage issues!

Does anyone know what would be the best way to get this level of integration of blogs and buddy press?

https://apeatling.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/blog.jpg

I found that screenshot here: http://apeatling.wordpress.com/2008/06/12/new-buddypress-theme/

Thanks,

Sebastian

+1 – Great read.

Often i have moments of reflection on just how incredible software is becoming these days.

I’m amazed at the collective effort that is put by people that usually just get involved because it makes them tick.

I’m sure most of them / us have families and do a lot of this in spare time. That is impressive.

The best software is always produced out of communities or dev teams that place their trust in a community to help out. Most of the time the people involved are the community which is great compared to what was happening 20 years ago.

Well, if I understand correctly it certainly seems possible, considering its pretty much the way that WordPress installation goes.

You install WordPress and are provided a login (“admin”) and a randomized password.

If you’re looking for code to try to tap into, or an example of how to go about it, that would be where I would look first?

The next step in your theory would be to consider how to handle spam registrations in the event that user never sees the pw and never logs in to your website. Maybe take a look at the Register Plus plugin for WordPress.org to get some ideas also?

Make sure you submit this to the WP plugin repo and tag it with “BuddyPress” in your readme file.

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

http://webomania.wordpress.com/2006/10/01/out-of-range-value-adjusted-for-column-error/ <- this is actually the solution right here. I dont know how it works, but it fixed my problem completely.

First, read this webpage:

https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API#Actions

That’ll explain the basics of hooks and filters. If you want to know which hooks are in BuddyPress, scan through the source code and look for do_action() functions as well as apply_filter() functions, those are your hooks, and you can “hook” into them using the functions add_action() and add_filter() respectively. I don’t think there’s too much documentation around for BuddyPress hooks, so it’s best to look into the file/function you want to extend and find your hooks.