BuddyPress.org

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

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');