BuddyPress.org

There’s lots of different ways of doing this. You can create a plugin and then put your code in there. Call it from any wp page. You can also create a page template and put your code directly in the ‘search’ template. That’s probably what you are looking for.

Start here: https://codex.wordpress.org/Pages#Creating_Your_Own_Page_Templates

The general idea is that all pages are created with a specific template. You create your own, probably by copying an existing page template and modifying it, and then create a page called ‘Search’ that uses that template. You build whatever functionality you want into the template.

This WPMU changeset has broken things. Working on a fix.

https://trac.mu.wordpress.org/changeset/1620

@scotm I agreee 100%. Maybe this plugin could be adapted to BuddyPress: http://txfx.net/code/wordpress/gravatar-signup/

check out this plugin:

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

Why the need of a preview box if you have the What You See Is What You Get Editor in the same place as your visitors type in the comments?

This plugin turns the comment field from a primitive into a WYSIWYG editor, using the internal TinyMCE library bundled with WordPress 2.0 or up, without the need of another separate installation. Functions that only available to writers like adding images were removed and will not show up in the toolbar.

If you add to the mu-plugins and add this line to the end of the plugin file:

add_action(‘template_notices’, ‘mcecomment_init’);

This is only the concept, I have not tested it, and don’t have the time but wanted to point you in a direction.

Brad

http://gorgeosgamers.com/beta/

If it creates a user in WordPress then it will show up in BuddyPress. BuddyPress is using the wp_users table.

How would this work for BP? does it mean a user from FB can login and start using BP or what?

So if this sixjump works can it just enable it on wordpress and it should work for BP

http://www.sociable.es/facebook-connect/

Facebook Connect for WordPress

http://www.sociable.es/facebook-connect/

Best look in the WPMU forums for things (plugins) to help. Off the top of my head, some of the better ones are WP-Hashcash, Signup Question and Admin confirm new blogs. Hashcash is available at https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins and the others are at http://wpmudev.org/plugins/

Loads of good ideas though in the WPMU forums and that is the best place to start looking.

Trent

Defiantly,

I have already skinned up a members theme, home theme and a host of blog themes for my users.

Its not hard at all, infact just like normal wordpress themes so expect to see a load available soon.

One thing i wish was easier was controlling the page names / urls buddy press assigns as default.

I have manually changed all references but when i upgrade my changes will be reversed

Ok Great News, changed 4 lines of Code, and get ratings working at a simple level for users.

Foldio 2 – Portable Lightbox

I took the wp-postrating plugin, normally designed to allow vistors to rate posts, and feed in the custom id of the user id. I had to bypass the area where it try’s to validate the number as a post, but overall seems to work.

Now I can take the widget and modify that to show top users, instead of top posts.

Try it out here:

http://gorgeousgamers.com/beta/members/bradmkjr/

Let me know what you think,

Brad

http://gorgeousgamers.com/beta/

Can you clarify…does this plug-in work with BuddyPress/WPMU? The installation instructions seem to be for WordPress in general, not MU. And I saw in another forum that this plug-in breaks WPMU.

Can you verify that it works with BuddyPress? If so, can you provide installation instructions?

Thanks.

Here is the link to the plugin http://www.sociable.es/facebook-connect-wordpress-plugin-configuration/

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.