BuddyPress.org

I tried this script http://www.dagondesign.com/articles/import-users-plugin-for-wordpress/all-comments/ and it works great, but only creates WP users – I would like to know how to mod this easily to create BP users also. I just need pointers and I will get to work.

Thanks

I’m not sure what you mean. It’s possible for users to choose traditional WordPress themes for their blogs, while using BuddyPress themes for the BuddyPress-related stuff. I struggled with this too, but if you read the instructions for the individual theme downloads, it makes more sense. The instructions for the package download don’t exactly make it clear.

So, I’ve got a BuddyPress home theme with its own name, a BuddyPress member theme (which is required), and then a traditional WP theme I’ve set to “default” (by changing its directory name to “default”), which is the default things for user blogs. And I will also have a selection of traditional themes that users can switch their blogs to.

Good luck!

Mark

There isn’t any configuration option to do what you want. You’ll have to customize wpmu or use a plugin if such a thing exists. Try searching the wpmu forums https://mu.wordpress.org/forums/ or over at

[SNIP] cancel all that.

As I was getting the url for wpmudev.org and their plugins area the front page has this:

http://wpmudev.org/project/default-user-role

This seems to set the default user role for new blog owners. Go figure.

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Even better:

http://code.andrewhamilton.net/wordpress/plugins/members-only/

https://trac.buddypress.org/browser/trunk/buddypress-theme/member-themes/member-themes-readme.txt

I don’t believe their is such a thing as “buddypress forums”, I believe buddypress requires bbpress for it’s forum capabilities.

WordPress MU will scale without question beyond the needs of any individual providing enough server backend power.

BBpress as a stand alone should be able to scale large enough for most people. Due to a the different nature of forum database structure, it isn’t as easy to breakup among many servers as a the mu blogs are. An active forum can easily have 100k’s of posts, and I’m not aware of a way to archive older posts into backup tables. BBpress uses 1 table for all posts, it would be possible (there might even already be a plugin to do this) to move each forum to a seperate table, and therefor possibly a separate server.

My concern would be for the XML-RPC mechanism used to talk to the forums. This was designed, with good caching, but on a very large buddypress install with 100’s of active groups and 10000’s of members I wonder how much overhead the xml-rpc adds compared to a straight database lookup. It does allow for the bbpress to be moved to a secondary server, which is good, and is safe as it stores a bbpress creditials and not database creditals if the admin account happened to get compromised. The nice part is, the it was written with the bbpress_live class, which could be replaced with any other class. So someone could, if so desired actually rewrite the class to talk to a vbulletin forum or other solution. It could even do direct database lookups and inserts if desired. I’m sure we will see this in the near future, as some large vbulletin sites may want to add the social abilities of buddypress, and maintain their forums, as buddypress groups.

I have only used BBpress inside of Buddypress, so I haven’t yet had to deal with scaling issues, as I beleive mine has about 45 posts total.

Any Thoughts?

Brad

http://gorgeousgamers.com/beta/

The home theme is just a WordPress theme, (with a couple of new template files if you want to use the directories).

Member themes are used for all pages that are not blog related.

Try this. It hasn’t been updated in a while by the looks of things but I have it installed in /mu-plugins and it works well.

yes,

http://testbp.org/news

that is the standard theme applied to the initial blog.

Be warned, you may have problems with some features. It is not recommended to be used on normal wordpress.

bbPress does this by default for mods and admins, so it should be that hard to duplicate. Not sure about plugin though. Have you looked through https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ ?

My 2 cents… Buddypress is built upon WordPress and WordPress MU. If I didn’t like the architecture of WordPress and had concerns with it’s performance to begin with, I probably wouldn’t spend to much time on Buddypress. On the flip side, if I was creating a social compliment to WordPress, I would keep the architecture similar as to take advantage of upgrades, the huge community and extending the system through plugins.

In creating systems in the past, I haven’t designed this way, but I completely understand why Buddypress has made this choice. And I’ll use it.

There are many places that you can discuss this that I mentioned above including the wpmu, hackers, wordpress & other lists if you want to further discuss this.

WPMU forums as well as in the WPMU Advanced Forums as well as on the WPMUDEV Premium Forums

Looking at is_404() and it’s brethren. These things are part of the wp_query lib that:

* The query API attempts to get which part of WordPress to the user is on. It

* also provides functionality to getting URL query information.

When trapping an url and gen’ing a page based on that virt url we aren’t in wp any more. I see in bp_core_do_catch_uri() that first a check is made to see if this is a blog page. That doesn’t work. The workaround for not gen’ing 404s for directories is to create a wp page that is ignored. We get the title for the page and the directory itself and no 404.

Looking at bp_is_blog_page() I see that all it does is detect if this is a member page, news or a bp component page. Return true else false.

So bp_is_blog_page() returns true for virt urls.

Thanks! I am not as advanced as SVN yet. I tend to beta my install and try to keep it up and running, it is a rodeo, but with my pay-grade of bagel it is all I can afford. So if I download the working version and ftp it to my server it should update the database when I get into the back-end for the first time? So I don’t have to run the update.php like in wordpress? That is good. Now, on a live install I know it is not a good idea to do this, but I am hoping the updates will stabilize my install. I am having conflicts with bp and wpmu and every other day something with apache or the conflict is taking my site down. http://www.theodoremedia.com So with no real formal training but self taught persistence, we are getting grizzly with this great product. Loving it, just have not tamed the bull yet.

thanks for help! I can’t wait until wpmu 2.7 is here, any dates yet for a release?

Chad

I have been having problems with my MU installation. I finally found a step-by-step ebook that explains the changes that have to be made to DNS and more. Here’s a link:

Installing WordPressMu – The E-Book

Very clear and easy to understand. Hope it helps.

Kelly

So It finish by working very well . In fact there is a problem where your WordPress MU/Buddypress is in a sub folder of your httpdoc. I think googlemap plugin don’t find the path for some javascript. When I put the cms on a direct folder all is working fine. Thanks bergsten for this amazing module .

A “mobile” Plugin will be nice: WordPress-App with full access til buddypress and a plugin, som du kan bruk til mobile oppdatering av Blog/Gallery. WordPress has a Mobblog-Function, not WPMU, but i think “mobile devices are the future”.

I am experiencing the same error. I have WordPress MU 2.6.5 installed and the BuddyPress Combo package, downloaded on the 5th of January 2009. There are no custom themes, just the default Wordrpess MU and BuddyPress theme.

What can be the problem?

David, have you seen this?: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/01/09/tweetbacks-plugin-for-wordpress/

and this: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/01/08/twitter-avatars-in-comments-wordpress-plugin/

It can, but the amount of spam accounts will increase dramatically. The reason for sending the account password via e-mail is to prevent spammers from simply entering a known username and password and creating 1000’s of spam blog posts on wordpress mu.

I have a similar situation, where I have a current site with 15k users, username and passwords. What I used is this plugin. It works well on wordpress and buddypress.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/external-database-authentication/

When a user logins, it checks my “other” database for the username, and validates the password against it. This means they don’t need to do the e-maiil thing, as their e-mail was already validated on the old site. It then creates the user in wordpress and the user doesn’t notice anything.

How you could do this for your friends, just make a table of all the friends, and set the same password for everyone initially, and ask them to change it. I only suggest this for very small beta sites with friends you trust, like less then 10 people.

Brad

http://gorgeousgamers.com/beta