BuddyPress.org

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

Hopefully this will make sense

I have 4 directories, which I download the svn update to, and then copy them over to the live site:

/bbpresssvn

/buddypresssvn

/wordpresssvn

/privatedevsvn

By logging into the command line, I can do this

svn up

inside each of those 4 folders and it will update them to the newest trunk release. Then I run this command (or similar for buddypress)

cp -R * ../beta

and copy the files to the dev server. So far this has worked really well.

The private dev svn is where I upload my own plugins and themes I’m doing development on. This method is extremely fast as I never have to ftp any files between the internet, my laptop and back up to the web server. It does require command line access and knowledge of svn.

Hope this helps,

Brad

http://gorgerousgamers.com/beta

Apart from the BP-profile integration, each user can easily add a Google Map on their blogs using the tags in http://www.ezbizniz.com/wordpress-plugins/google-maps

I’ve also added the possibility to get markers from an XML-feed. If you, in the WP Google Maps settings, click on the “See example…”-link you see the URL to an XML-feed that will return markers for 20 of the users withint the viewport of the current map. You can use this to display a map on your front page displaying where the different members on your site lives.

In the “Marker XML Feed Fields” input field you can specify the names of the different fields of the markers returned by the XML-feed.

In the “Marker XML Feed HTML Pattern” you can set how the information will be presented when someone clicks on a marker.

I will write a more detailed description on how things work on http://www.ezbizniz.com/wordpress-plugins/google-maps when I get the time to do so.

I have an early beta version of a Google Maps plugin that works with WordPress, WPMU & BuddyPress.

Go to http://www.ezbizniz.com/wordpress-plugins/google-maps and click on the “WP Google Maps – 2.0b1” link to download.

Put the wp-google-maps folder in mu-plugins, copy the bp-google-maps.php file to mu-plugins, go to wp-admin/admin.php?page=wp-google-maps/wp-google-maps.php and enter your Google Maps API key for your site.

If the db needs upgrading it will auto do so when you visit the admin backend of wpmu. I don’t know how other keep up to date but I have a local copy of the SVN image of bp, mu and bbpress. I also have a test server running locally and I update that manually from my SVN working copy of all three. I used to just work off the SVN image as my dev server but that got confusing for SVN and me.

When I’m ready I update the live server. I’m in the process of creating a dev server on the same box as the live server. I did run across this little thing and thought I might try it out: http://dentedreality.com.au/2008/12/managing-wordpress-with-subversion/

There is this also: http://code.google.com/p/wordpress-geo-mashup/

All good points.

Remember, WordPress.com runs WordPress MU and has over 5 million blogs.

What’s nice with WP/WPMU is that you don’t need to include the most popular javascript libraries with your plugin, they are already installed (scroll down a bit and you see the list: https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_enqueue_script ), and using wp_enqueue_script you avoid conflicts.

E.g.: BPDEV-FLICKR should/could do (not tested):

function init_scripts() {

global $bp;

wp_enqueue_script('prototype');

wp_enqueue_script('scriptaculous-builder');

wp_enqueue_script('scriptaculous-effects');

wp_enqueue_script('bpdev-lightbox', bloginfo('wpurl').$bp['flickr']['lightbox'] . 'js/lightbox.js' , array( 'prototype','scriptaculous-builder','scriptaculous-effects' ) );

}

add_action('init','init_scripts');

Everything works perfectly but the Logout option. I can create blogs and all that.

I installed WordPressMU on a subdirectory.

Now I’m getting more errors for some reason maybe you might know what’s this:

Warning: ksort() expects parameter 1 to be array, null given in /blog/wp-content/mu-plugins/bp-core.php on line 1072

Warning: array_merge() [function.array-merge]: Argument #1 is not an array in /blog/wp-content/mu-plugins/bp-core.php on line 1075

# My Account

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /blog/wp-content/mu-plugins/bp-core/bp-core-adminbar.php on line 58

* Log Out

I mention it before, and Nicola will (I hope) use it in the next version, scripts and styles should be added using https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_enqueue_script and https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_enqueue_style

Home theme, where the root of my blog is located, in fact the admin bar(drop down list [log out]) is also affected.

I got this result for both the log out links for the home theme and the admin bar:

You don’t have permission to access /blog/wp-login.php on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

I attempted to replace the code for the admin bar and got the same result as how mdsports had. It didn’t redirect to my home blog page.

I downloaded the latest WordPressMU and BuddyPress(I used the beta link that was given)

Here’s the admin bar code which I identified:

// **** “Log In” and “Sign Up” links (Visible when not logged in) ********

function bp_adminbar_login_menu() {

if ( !is_user_logged_in() ) {

echo ‘<li class=”bp-login no-arrow”>‘ . __( ‘Log In’, ‘buddypress’ ) . ‘‘;

// Show “Sign Up” link if registrations are allowed

if ( get_site_option( ‘registration’ ) != ‘none’ ) {

echo ‘<li class=”bp-signup no-arrow”>‘ . __( ‘Sign Up’, ‘buddypress’ ) . ‘‘;

The Home theme header logout link(the one to the right) is also similar but I have no idea how PHP really works and I spent a few hours figuring out what the problem was but I’m interested to learn how these stuff works and I hope you guys can enlighten me.

Here is the problem, when I look a the HTMl source rendered to the browser I see the path

<link rel=”stylesheet” href=”/wp-content/mu-plugins/bpdev-flickr/css/style.css” type=”text/css” media=”screen” />

<link rel=”stylesheet” href=”/wp-content/mu-plugins/bpdev-youtube/css/style.css” type=”text/css” media=”screen” />

whereas the rest of the buddypress and wordpress links have the whole domain associated with them not just the /wp-content… they have http://domain.com/wp-content

So, the function <script type=”text/javascript” src=”<?php echo $bp; ?>js/lightbox.js”></script>

needs to really get the WP domain prepended?

These are great issues to bring up on the buddypress mailing list and I encourage you to do it. I do not develop WPMU or Buddypress and these are just my opinions. This is just background information as well. WPMU is known to be extremely server intensive as is.

Right now, most scaling solutions have been implemented for WPMU and the database structure that is already developed and in place. Mainly, blog sites like wordpress.com and edublogs.org. They have implemented multi-database solutions where the request gets analyzed for the blog hash and directed to the proper database and the connection only occurs to the database that houses that data. Databases can reside on any server in any location.

Images are also housed in directories created through the blog hash as well. This also allows you to have multiple image directories in multiple locations if you wanted. Some even offload some of their images to 3rd party services like S3.

At present time, AFAIK, there is no solution for spreading around the buddypress data. It hasn’t been addressed yet.

I am not going to argue and say this is the most ideal circumstance or setup. There are plenty of discussions on scaling both in the WPMU forums as well as in the WPMU Advanced Forums as well as on the WPMUDEV Premium Forums. Not to mention the WP Hackers list is also a great resource from the real developers and hackers of WP in general.

Buddypress, like WPMU, are open-source communities and all input is not only welcomed, it is encouraged! Feel free to add anything that you feel would be better. I am sure Andy is welcome to hearing all feedback if you know a better way to do something.

My previous comment on this topic was purely my opinion on how the current setup could be scaled based on my experience with already ongoing projects. Right or wrong, it is just my opinion.