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gpo1, nope. I’ve got too much on my plate right now. I’m not going to be able to do much else except get a site launched by the 1/1/09 deadline.

I talked to Andy about enabling bp to use standard wp widgets in the member theme. Got a couple of ideas but no time at the moment to play with them. The problem is that mu deals with *one* theme per blog. The members theme is sort of this invisible theme that lurks in the background. mu doesn’t even know about it. Only bp knows about it. It *is* bp.

The way I understand that widgets work is:

Register a ‘sidebar’ in mu with a name. 1,2,3 or ‘BP Member Profile’, ‘BP Member Blogs’. The sidebar gets registered to a specific blog id.

register_sidebar(array('name'=>'Main Sidebar',

'before_title' => "<h3 class='widgettitle'>",

'after_title' => "</h3>n",

));

In theme code call mu’s sidebar launcher fn.

<?php if (!function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar('Main Sidebar') ) : // begin primary sidebar widgets ?>

I just had some questions that I didn’t have time to investigate. When can I call call register_sidebar()? Any time I want, anywhere I want? I see it done in theme functions.php.

When I access any bp member theme functions do they execute in the blog id 1 environment? I think so.

If I register some bp member theme sidebars in bp code will it show up in the mu backend? I think so.

Seems like only the site admin who owns blog id 1 will be able to add widgets to the member theme. Well that’s a *good* thing. This is a feature.

Lots of questions and unknowns right now and not much time to explore answers. Have at it! Have fun.

Have you taken a look at this? https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/lifestream/

It will post stream info in the users blog, if you tinker with it you should be able to get it running in the users profile.

I took apart simplepie and I have news feeds running in the users profile.

Have you enabled wildcard subdomains such as in this post (linked to from bp docs)

http://www.blogopreneur.com/2006/11/06/installing-wordpress-mu-on-a-cpanelwhm-server/

In mu-plugins, these are plugins that help your WPMU site administration/installation. You won’t find them in the Plugins list. Most likely they’ll have areas in Site Admin.

The wp-content/plugins are for use by the blogs on your network. Here’s where you’d put wp-stats, akismet, and most of the plugins from https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins.

Here’s how I think of it: if it helps me run WPMU, it goes in mu-plugins. If it helps me or a member blog, it goes in wp-content/plugins.

Everything in wp-content/plugins shows up in Plugins for activation/deactivation.

Howdy, the area I think you are talking about is the default form when you view a member’s profile right? ‘me’ > profile > public. The template that generates that screen is in /member-themes/buddypress-member/profile/index.php

You’ll see the calls to generate all the sections on that page. One of them is the wire. Line 47:

<?php bp_wire_get_post_list( bp_current_user_id()… and so on …

You were gonna make a copy of the theme, make whatever changes you need to run a custom bp member theme and edit that one right? I think it’s in the bp rules and code of conduct. I’ll have to check.

depends on where do you want put your widgets

I use media temple, cheapest VPS. Never had a problem regarding getting WordPress MU or BuddyPress to work with them. Hope that helps.

It should work adding for example <?php wp_tag_cloud(”); ?>, bp is always wordpress, don’t forget !

With regard to the title: “Feature that MUST be included in next version for me..”

I’m in need of event listing. And if we look at how Facebook manage their event list, I think a pseudo-blog would also be a good base to build on. A “blog” that is open to any member to post and comment. The blog post is the event description. The blog custom field can hold specific informations: venue, RSVP, speaker, etc. The category system, tagging, etc. All is perfect, I think. Then we exclude/hide it someway so it’s not considered someone’s blog–to differentiate it with the real blogs.

Anyway, we’re all used to develop WordPress into anything we need aren’t we? 😆

@nicolagreco I think it looks like the same with the earlier version facebook status (without the status comment system)

In the previous revisions, buddypress hold each profile page as blogs. It’s not blog, it’s profile page but use the database structure like a blog. I came here in the end part of that stage of BP. I’m not sure the whole structure behind it.

You are running on windows right? Just a guess. Before installing bp you need to get mu running properly. It’s a pain on windows. What package are you using? WAMP?

To get your subdomains to work you have to edit the ‘hosts’ file in windows for *each* blog you want to have running on your windows box. The hosts file is in:

Windows 95/98/Me c:windowshosts

Windows NT/2000/XP Pro c:winntsystem32driversetchosts

Windows XP and Vista c:windowssystem32driversetchosts

Once you find it you have to create a line for each blog so:

127.0.0.1 ourcommoninterest.dev

127.0.0.1 adminstoy.ourcommoninterest.dev

That’s a sample from my laptop which I use to play with new things in mu, buddypress and bbpress. This is only the beginning of your problems on windows. I know I went thru *all* of them.

However, for now, you should replace the domain name with your chosen domain name. Replace the subdomain name with any blog subdomain name you’ve chosen. ‘trial’ in your case.

Try reading up on what it takes to install mu. Then what it takes to install mu on windows. Google finds lots of things related to mu. Here’s a start:

https://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic.php?id=4624

You also need to follow the directions in the mu readme.txt file as it relates to apache.

This seems pretty easy.

https://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic.php?id=5930

Very good interview. Nice to throw out questions in the chatroom.

Thanks Andy. I tuned in at the tail end of things when they were putting chairs on tables and sweeping the floor.

I hope people can understand what I say.

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i think that you’ve to ask in wordpress-mu forum, not here..

You might want to check this out:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpresscom-video-server/

@gpo1 when you type “Users will be able to upload videos or ‘link’ videos from youtube and similar websites” do you mean embed the videos?

Currently I embed videos in my WordPress sites w/ Vodpod. It works with almost any video hosting site but it’s not the best solution. Have yet to test it on buddypress.

I was part of an online community called the ORG that had a very slick solution. All media was entered into one media entry box. Just by adding the URL to the flickr photo or YouTube video the site took care of seeking out the proper embed code and placed it in the photos gallery or video gallery. No idea how “Support and Comfort” did it but it sure was handy.