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Currently there is no “Default Blog Widgets” plugin, but I’ve thought long and hard about making one.

Currently hard coding the sidebars is our only option to do this. It isn’t difficult, but it does involve some knowledge of HTML and WordPress/BuddyPress functions.

There are however tons of articles in the WordPress codex on how to do this, as well as write ups from random WordPress enthusiasts all over the web that explain very well how to do this.

The way I did it, was to copy the buddypress-home theme files into a new directory called buddypress-user. Edit the style.css file and rename the second theme to whatever you’d like. Delete home.php. Delete the sidebar code in functions.php. Go into sidebar.php and delete the widget function call. Still in sidebar.php, start editing and inserting your HTML and php functions.

Haha I used one of my three wishes to make it work, so I’ve got two left. Burt is my genie.

First things first. You need to use WPMU 2.7, BuddyPress RC1, and bbPress 1.0alpha6. Any other combination will result in a giant stress headache on your behalf for at least a few days.

To address part 1: When you say that you haven’t gotten the forums to work flawlessly, are you speaking of integration, or alone? Obviously the first thing we need to have is a fully functioning bbPress installation before we can attempt to integrate them together.

To address part 2: That is bizarre. When you say closed, do you mean the topic is marked as closed, or that when you submit the post that it just refreshes the page immediately back to the main front page?

The BuddyPress forums are currently running the most stable version of bbPress in the 0.9 branch. The alpha’s have gone through some growing pains in the past few months, mostly due to pressure to make integration work with the rapidly changing WordPress.org updates. bbPress and BuddyPress are both going to get some major super mega awesome momentum this year however, so the next few weeks are going to be pretty fun.

‘Trunk’ means the latest development build in the SVN repository, which you can access and ‘check out’ here:

https://svn.buddypress.org/trunk

More information about using SVN here: https://codex.wordpress.org/SVN

Really looking forward to this! +1

Hi Everyone

I am familiar with WordPress Mu however new to Buddypress and one of my clients wanted a ning.com type site however using ning, you do not own the system and there are many limitations.

So I dived into buddypress in the last week and on my 4th install sorted out all the requirements to get a nice smooth WP Mu + Buddpress + bbpress system integrated.

The system is still in development as the social networking aspect is only one part of this sport coaches membership site. I am still trying to get YM Membership plugin to work on it as it needs to be a paid membership site.

Here is the site: http://networkofcoaches.com/noc

I learned several important lessons:

1. If an existing wordpress install is present 1 level down such as in the root folder then WP Mu will not install until you temp disable wp-config.php and wp-blog-headers.php in that existing installation

2. When installed WP Mu in a sub folder as I have it ./noc you cannot use the sub-domain installation and must install WP Mu using the sub folder option. If your WP Mu is in the root of your domain then you can use sub domains.

3. WP Mu and Buddypress are relatively simple however integrating bbpress is a mission. I used these resources and it works now perfectly: http://umwblogs.org/wiki/index.php/Integrating_WPMu%2C_BuddyPress%2C_and_bbPress

and

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/basic-integration-screencast

4. Now going to use bp-test to add extra top level menu options

My wishlist:

1. A themes upgrader system to modify WP themes for buddypress

2. Top level menu built in editor

3. Paid membership script integration and/or JV Manager2 (Fantasos) integration

4. Video integration especially All-In-One-Video

5. RSS and Twitter feeds

6. Easier homepage and widget editing (so far I can only add widget to the left column, even if I add one to one of the other columns, the system then adds it to the left column?

7. When a user request is received, unless you are already logged in you get a forbidden page, this should rather go to a login page and then process the friend request. My very 1st test user was very concerned over this forbidden page

Overall, I am very impressed. It is a little technical but once you have one successful install it is much easier.

I have a large free WP Mu system that I will be adding WP Premium plugins to and will market with Buddypress and bbpress installed. Keep an eye on http://besteportal.com

In fact I will have Buddypress integrated in a week and feel free to grab an account, in fact you will be helping me test the load on the system if you signup and play around as there are only 4000 blogs currently. I will be adding many additional functions to this site and it will effectively be a wordpress.com type offering however with Buddypress social networking and a few of my tricks.

A question I have is if I use the WP Premium multi db plugin which can split the WP Mu database into as many databases as you want to vastly improve efficiency and performance, then how will Buddpress+bbpress respond as it shares the same database. Perhaps I should have used a seperate database for bbpress?

Keep up the great work BuddPress!

Best Regards

Mark

dw, anything is certainly possible!

Right now, there is no built in “rank” structure, but it wouldn’t be too hard to build one. As it stands right now, the permissions plugin for BuddyPress is going to get a brief make over to accommodate some changes to WordPress MU. Once we have a look at how that is going to work, the best way to make user ranks without worrying about backwards compatibility will probably be fairly obvious.

@Fishbow181, I like your idea,but please can you adapt Amazon s3 or Cloud Front,so that users can store their images/video in one amazon s3 account?

FYI

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=1533#post-7696

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

Any help is welcomed.

wp-recapcha won’t have any idea how to hook into the BuddyPress registration page, you’ll have to tell it how.

I haven’t used this plugin myself, but I’m sure that it only hooks into a normal WordPress registration page, and not the new BuddyPress one.

Well, I hate to resort to a hack, but I did get integration going.

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/share-solution-for-bbpress-10-alpha-6-wordpress-mu-27-cookie-integration

simply defining BB_HASH as an emtpy string.

I did notice them my cookie names did not seem to follow the naming convention that the Reverend was mentioning on his site.

Anyway, now I can move on to the fun stuff….

I think this is an essential request! Instead of adding tons of new features the focus should be on the basic features again; to build a tool that connects people and allows communitation! Everyone who wants to use Buddypress for an international purpose needs multi-language support for the frontend. It would be great to have language filters for the contents like on wordpress.com or facebook.com. If the user prefers swedish instead of english for instance he should only get blog posts/groups and forums in his choosen language. This is definitely one point that should be considered in future development.

Whats your thoughts about this?

Haha Thanks! Happy to help!

I’ve also noticed that WordPress can be particular about the jquery version it’s using also. I’ve tried upgrading to the newer versions just to be on top of things, and it usually breaks something.

If this is in regards to making a new blog post, than unfortunately that falls more into being a WordPress MU support question than one we can accurately diagnose here.

However, I can tell you from experience that I’ve never experienced any issues saving even extremely huge content and HTML element heavy blog posts.

(I’m going to change this to “not a support question” since it’s a little out of our scope, so that no one else sees this as a BP issue.)

Looks like you’re going to need to use sub directories instead of subdomains. Don’t worry, as they work identically, but instead of blog.yourdomain.com, you’ll have yourdomain.com/blog

(This is also more of a WordPress MU support question, but because others may benefit from this too, lets discuss…)

Stop me if you’ve heard this, but it should be a semi-easy fix.

in wp-config.php, change…

define('VHOST', 'yes');

to

define('VHOST', 'no');

and make sure…

$base = '/';

Then, you’ll want to dive into either phpMyAdmin, or each of your blogs admin panels and edit them individually, just making sure that the paths to each of the blogs are correct.

My brief experience with the Facebook Connect plugin for WordPress was that the necessary edits took away from the pluggable nature of WordPress plugins, and the file includes made the site feel pretty sluggish.

Fix those issues and it could be a super popular plugin.

Now correct me if I’m wrong, but doesn’t this allow Facebook users that have not registered through your website to still login to your site as if they were verified users? I think when they do that, they are assigned a pseudo-name in the wp_users table, which then only allows them to sign in using FBConnect and nothing else, correct?

Call me a disbeliever, but while I can see the value in this, I also see how once it’s installed and relied upon, that you’re very much stuck with that method for those individuals.

What do you do when 4 years from now, no one uses Facebook anymore? (Friendster anyone?) If your site takes off, and those users have previously only used their Facebook id to login to your site, now they need to create a new duplicate profile without it.

Maybe I’m being selfish here, but I like my users to register with me, and keep their files and data within my sites.

I’ve just started with BuddyPress at:

http://wordpress-blog.nl/

It’s all in the Dutch language

Here some info on the Facebook connect,maybe if it works with wordpress Mu then it could work for BP.

What do you think?

https://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic.php?id=10351

You can use any page template as a home page. In the admin of mu just have the front page as a static page choose the page, it could be called home, and then select the page template you want. I think page templates are the most under utilized feature of wordpress. You can make it anything you want.

If you do not know how to create custom page templates the search on wordpress. many tuts.

if (the group is XBOX) add_action(‘wp_print_styles’, ‘your style hook’)

i made a good set of functions in bpdev theme to add stylesheet with condition, look here:

http://trac.bp-dev.org/plugins/browser/trunk/bpdev-theme/bpdev-theme-extra.php

look line 9:

function bpdev_theme_register_style( $slug, $name, $callback, $default = 'off', $admin_show = 'on', $condition = true, $priority = 1 ) {

it means that with this function you will be able to add styles in wordpress/buddypress integrating them in the bpdev admin interface to activate or deactivate them,

in your example you need a plugin like that called for example my-styles-bpdev.php

<?php

/*

Author: Nicola Greco

Author URI: http://nicolagreco.com

*/



require_once( 'bp-core.php' );

require_once( 'bpdev-core.php' );



function bpdev_search_css() {



global $group_obj;



bpdev_theme_register_style(

'my-styles', // your style slug name

'XBOX Styles', // your style name

'xbox_styles_function', // callback

'on', // status "on" on default

'off', // off will not display it in admin interface

$group_obj->id = 1; // the group ID

);



}



function xbox_styles_function() { // example of css content

?>

#header {

background: #FFF;

}

<?php

}



add_action( 'bpdev_theme_extra_setup_globals', 'bpdev_search_css' ); // it will add the style



?>

I ran across something similar.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/art-direction/

Allows ‘per blog post’ custom css. Cool.

In the case of bp the css gets queued up on a very selective basis. This is from bp-groups-cssjs.php in /mu-plugins/bp-groups:

function groups_add_structure_css() {

/* Enqueue the structure CSS file to give basic positional formatting for components */

wp_enqueue_style( ‘bp-groups-structure’, site_url( MUPLUGINDIR . ‘/bp-groups/css/structure.css’ ) );

}

add_action( ‘bp_styles’, ‘groups_add_structure_css’ );

We got actions too. Hook ‘bp_styles’ and define an override for the defaults. You might have a problem getting it in the sequence properly.

function my_custom_group_css(){

// check if the file exists and if it does queue it up

‘group-custom-‘ . $bp->groups->slug . ‘.css’

}

add_action(‘bp_styles’, ‘my_custom_group_css’, 99);

Ok I have tried how to:

In this link readme standard: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/about/readme.txt