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I don’t think a Twitter-like functionality will be added to the BP core but this can be done now with around 10 minutes of work.

All you’d need to do is create a blog such as whereareyou.domain.com. Then add all existing users as authors and auto-add new users as authors to the blog (see this post for details on doing this, it only takes a minute). Finally install and tweak the prologue theme to suit your site. The updates users post to the blog will automatically show up on their profile like other blog posts.

This is a really basic implementation of a “Twitter-like” functionality, but with a little tweaking this setup works really well.

Hi Andy,

I tried updating the home and member themes…but dont see any success. I’m getting the following error when I select the buddypress theme from the ‘design’ console:

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Fatal error: Call to undefined function bp_search_form_action() in /home/thekartn/public_html/chennairunnersorg/site/wp-content/themes/buddypress-home/header.php on line 33

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I’m using WordPress v2.6.5 and the latest version of Buddypress (downloaded from the website on 1st Jan ’09). Is there a compatibility issue? Thanks in advance for the help!

Karthik

Just as a follow up to this, here is the relvant urls:

http://willnorris.com/2008/10/wordpress-openid-v3

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

According to Will, it’s already working in WPMU so we’ll have to look and how to make this work in BP. I’ve got a client interested in this, so hopefully I might report back in the near future.

I have done exactly what you are talking about at http://buglenotes.com. I set default role to Author, turned off new blog creation, and then modified menus as nec to remove personal blog options (so as not to confuse). I also renamed the News menu item to Blog. Now everyone contributes posts to a “central” blog. So far so good. Of course, this could all backfire after launch

It works for the main blog too, thought the search function isn’t all that useful given there would only be a single blog but all the other functions work with the main blog.

All you’d need to do to get this setup is to change the default role for the main blog from subscriber to contributor and disable blog registration. Also, you may want to hack at the code to remove things such as the blog directory, the list of user blogs, etc. but this is optional.

usually I search the whole wordpress directory for the string do_action or apply_filters, then look for the best place to hook my functions to.

I wanted to give an update here as I am continually impressed with this shopping cart (http://shopplugin.net/). I would recommend it to anyone needing a solution. (Im not the only one singing its praises: http://lbnuke.com/2008/12/30/wordpress-ecommerce-plugins-shopp-vs-wp-ecommerce/ )

Anyways, its now publicly available as a 1.0 release for $55 standalone, plus $25 for gateways ($300 for developer license – he doesn’t specify where wpmu falls on this)

So, with the latest 1.0 release, the developer behind shopp fixed the global database issue I had previously mentioned. I can now install it in a wordpressmu environment (with buddypress installed, too) and get it running on 2 different blogs, each with their own products/carts! It requires further testing to declare it production ready, but I could not find anything wrong with it from an hour of testing. The only issue I found was doing the automated upgrades causing an error in wpmu – so if/when upgrading the plugin, be sure to do it manually instead of through the automated process (but Im sure that will get fixed in future releases as well)

like this?: http://premium.wpmudev.org/project/sitemaps-and-seo-wordpress-mu-style

what is your site burtadsit?

I’m using wordpress-mu-2.6.5 and bp combo beta. No other plug-ins, etc.

Is this creating the problem: “DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8” ??

From the Apache error log, this is the same syntax error I saw earlier when BP was trying to create tables (see earlier posts):

[suexec 11180] Chdir to /kunden/homepages/14/d123456789/htdocs/exploreouroceans

[suexec 11180] Executing PHP4 /usr/lib/cgi-bin/php4 /kunden/homepages/14/d123456789/htdocs/exploreouroceans/index.php

WordPress database error You have an error in your SQL syntax. Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ‘DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8’ at line 14 for query CREATE TABLE wp_user_3_activity (

id int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY,

item_id int(11) NOT NULL,

secondary_item_id int(11),

user_id int(11) NOT NULL,

component_name varchar(75) NOT NULL,

component_action varchar(75) NOT NULL,

date_recorded datetime NOT NULL,

is_private tinyint(1) NOT NULL,

KEY item_id (item_id),

KEY user_id (user_id),

KEY is_private (is_private),

KEY component_name (component_name)

) DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8; made by dbdelta

I’ll look into this, I’ve actually not tried it. Having a widget sidebar for all member themes would be very handy though.

I played with the widgets in the member theme for a couple of hours. I couldn’t get it to work. The problem seems to stem from the fact that the member theme code can’t register a sidebar or then call it again.

I tried registering a sidebar in my theme. Shows up fine. I can add widgets all day long. However when you call dynamic_sidebar(), dynamic_sidebar doesn’t think there are any sidebars to give to the call. The var $wp_registered_sidebars is empty and it just returns.

I didn’t have a chance to track down $wp_registered_sidebars and find out why it’s confused. The sidebars are associated with a particular blog id. So I tried just using switch_to_blog(1) before dynamic_sidebar() and that didn’t work. Evidently that isn’t enough to populate the $wp_registered_sidebars var during the call.

I have edited a couple themes and added widget support, I did not try with the member-theme, but it should behave just like any other theme in which you define sidebars. However, I don’t know if each user will be able to add his own widgets to it. It seems as though you are able to add a widget to the theme, but it should be the same for all users.

The thing is that the member theme is not treated like any other theme on the WP-Backend, but rather it is a different kind of setup, like a standalone. Am I right on this?

The long term solution would be to have them add a filter, so you can replace the standard function with your own.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API#Filters

Their may already by a filter in place you can use, which would either modify the output of a function, or replace it’s output all together.

The other option is to just write your own widgets, You can see what I did, it is a basic copy of the default members widget with a little customization for my needs:

http://gorgeousgamers.com/beta/

By writing my own widget, I can bypass those functions and just make my own, for example, I may only want to show popular members which don’t have gravatar avatars, would be very easy with my own sql calls.

Let me know if this makes sense,

Brad

Have a look at optimal title, I think it does a similar thing to all in one seo, but maybe more compatible for buddypress? I know the older versions of optimal title doesn’t use a title hook, they have you edit the php in the template, this maybe a better solution, as it won’t be called in buddypress templates, only wordpress template pages?

Also you may want to check out:

http://premium.wpmudev.org/project/sitemaps-and-seo-wordpress-mu-style

They have a wordpress mu version combining seo and sitemaps.

Brad

http://gorgeousgamers.com/beta/

Next time contact me on BPDEV

You’ve to do another bbpress installation (change directory name sure! like http://buddypressdev.org /bp-groups/ for integrated bp-groups and /forums/ for the main forums).

Intregrate this one with wordpress and you’ve done

Nicola

Here’s another snippet. This is the first error log entry that appears after invoking BP:

[suexec 11345] kundenfile = 1, mustkundenfile = 1, file = /kunden/homepages/14/d123456789/htdocs/exploreouroceans/index.php, cgifeature = 350

[suexec 11345] Chdir to /kunden/homepages/14/d123456789/htdocs/exploreouroceans

[suexec 11345] Executing PHP5 /usr/lib/cgi-bin/php5 /kunden/homepages/14/d123456789/htdocs/exploreouroceans/index.php

WordPress database error Table ‘db270846977.wp_bp_xprofile_data’ doesn’t exist for query SELECT d.value, f.name FROM wp_bp_xprofile_data d, wp_bp_xprofile_fields f WHERE d.field_id = f.id AND d.user_id = 0 AND f.parent_id = 0 AND f.name = ‘Full Name’ made by get_value_byfieldname

WordPress database error Table ‘db270846977.wp_bp_xprofile_data’ doesn’t exist for query SELECT d.value, f.name FROM wp_bp_xprofile_data d, wp_bp_xprofile_fields f WHERE d.field_id = f.id AND d.user_id = 0 AND f.parent_id = 0 AND f.name = ‘Full Name’ made by get_value_byfieldname

WordPress database error Table ‘db270846977.wp_bp_messages_recipients’ doesn’t exist for query SELECT unread_count FROM wp_bp_messages_recipients WHERE user_id = 0 AND is_deleted = 0 made by get_inbox_count

WordPress database error Table ‘db270846977.wp_bp_messages_recipients’ doesn’t exist for query SELECT unread_count FROM wp_bp_messages_recipients WHERE user_id = 0 AND is_deleted = 0 made by get_inbox_count

WordPress database error Table ‘db270846977.wp_bp_groups’ doesn’t exist for query SELECT id FROM wp_bp_groups WHERE slug = ‘public’ made by group_exists

WordPress database error Table ‘db270846977.wp_bp_groups_groupmeta’ doesn’t exist for query SELECT gm.group_id FROM wp_bp_groups_groupmeta gm, wp_bp_groups g WHERE g.id = gm.group_id AND g.status != ‘hidden’ AND gm.meta_key = ‘total_member_count’ ORDER BY CONVERT(gm.meta_value, SIGNED) DESC made by get_popular

[Sat Dec 27 13:46:21 2008] [warn] (2)No such file or directory: mod_mime: analyze_ct: cannot get media type from ‘x-mapp-php5’

[Sat Dec 27 13:46:21 2008] [warn] mod_mime: analyze_ct: cannot get media type from ‘x-mapp-php5’

[suexec 11347] started: /usr/lib/apache-ssl/suexec dummywwwexecuser ftpusers php5exe

[suexec 11347] REDIRECT_STATUS: 200

[suexec 11347] doing chroot

Can you tell I’m desperate?

excellent work danf & burtadsit! And thank you burtadsit for backing up danf … so much to learn so little time. That’s what makes forums incredibly helpful.

So the conflict was with the wordpress google calendar plug-in that was loading an older jquery file. I removed that reference and all is working beautifully.

Thank you all for your guidance!