BuddyPress.org

No courseware. The site was launched March 2009 on WordPress MU/BuddyPress. Slight modifications based on snippets/plugins posted by Burt Adsit, Paul G., Boone G., JJJ and Andy.

The content is mostly pre-recorded video and audio – not a formal educational program with assignments etc. So the setup is pretty straightforward and most of the customization is just theming. Main site has different content for logged out and logged in users. “Classrooms” are private sub-domain blogs (soon-to-be sub-domain sites) with a classroom theme. The main site and classroom sites are both using custom child themes powered by the BuddyPress default theme.

I’m in the process of upgrading the site so I’ll be around here more often if you have questions.

Well, there’s the elastic theme, and there’s P2 both of which have front end editing. there’s other front end editing plugins which work after the entry is posted.

Given the admin bar is going in wp 3.1, things are moving in that direction anyway. A bunch of developers are working independently on things like this.

This isn’t currently possible without some programming work. ie; there’s no settings in the backend to fiddle.

Buddypress manages everything centrally.

Wordpress manages *users* globally on the network.

“However members should not be allowed to create sub blogs themselves from their own site “

You can’t do this anyway.

Blogs: You have to enable multisite in your WP install first before you can let journalists create their own blogs. Read how to https://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network

Template Pack: Here’s a BP Template Pack walkthrough which could shed some light on how to add styles – https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/bp-template-pack-walkthrough-level-easy-2/
Basically, you copy some styling from bp-default theme and tweak it to taste.

I absolutely agree! I really think the lack of a front end post method is still a disadvantage of buddypress vs other social media creation tools. I´ll definitelly check more of your plugin! One question about it, is it able to use a wysiwyg editor? it would be really good to be able to have the same functionality as we have in the backend (such as using tinyMCE) to include pictures in the post without the need for shortcodes, as most users should not be expected to learn this method, and most members of my sites are used to visual and more accessible image posting methods in their post on other social sites. I will head on now to theidea topic and check it out! keep this plugin going! how can we help?

Regardless of how you are using multisite, if you enable BuddyPress on one of those sites, it will be active across the entire network*. There is no segration of content.

*It is possible to force it to run only on one site, but you can still only run one BuddyPress site per WordPress installation (at the moment).

It’s an out of memory error message. Have a look at https://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php#Increasing_memory_allocated_to_PHP

@techguy trying to figure out if I fall into the “many other people” category..

I have one install of WordPress MU with 3 blogs, one for each of my 3 domains (domain1.com, domain2.com, domain3.com). Username and passwords are shared across all 3 domains.

I want to add Buddypress. How would that work? A single Buddypress site (ie. a shared list of all groups) or would the domains be segmented somehow (ie. domain1.com would only see groups for domain1.com?) I don’t see any options to control the behavior.

Did you create a network? Or is this a single WordPress install?

you have to enable multisite to have extra blogs.

Yep.

Buddypress does not make the blogs, though. WordPress does with multisite enabled. Buddypress just does the user profiles.

Does not look like you’re using a BuddyPress compatible theme. The default TwentyTen theme is not BP compatible, out of the box.

Try making the your current, activated theme compatible with BuddyPress by using the BuddyPress Template Pack plugin:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-template-pack/

Or, create a child theme for BuddyPress:
https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/

Either way, your theme must be BP compatible in order to utilize the BP features.

Good luck!

I’ve experienced a bit of success with AVH First Defense Against Spam:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/avh-first-defense-against-spam/

Checks the user’s IP against StopForumSpam and Project Honeypot (with an API key) before parsing the entire page.
This won’t stop human spammers but every little bit helps.

We installed the WP Super Captcha plugin on 3 different WP/BP high traffic sites and it cut the spam sign ups down by 80% immediately. Not a beautiful solution, by any means – but it does work somewhat. 80% is better than nothing.

Can be configured to show the captcha on the sign up page and login page – whichever you prefer, or both. Compliant for WordPress (with or without Multisite enabled) and BuddyPress configurations.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/super-capcha/

Good luck!

Have you under BuddyPress > general settings – under your admin panel for WordPress turns on and configured your forum?

Check out the following network plugin:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wpmu-new-blog-defaults/

It doesn’t add a field on the registration page, but it gives the super admin the option of adding users to specific blogs in the admin area.

Whilst I’m not familiar with the plugin I have another suggestion that you use built in featured images that comes with WordPress. Forgive me if you have other reasons for using that plugin but maybe this will work for you.

You can add post thumbnails using featured posts like this for instance in functions.php (adjust size according to what you want):

`if ( function_exists( ‘add_theme_support’ ) ) {
add_theme_support( ‘post-thumbnails’ );
set_post_thumbnail_size( 210,160, true );
}`

Then in the code:

` `

There are many ways to skin the thumbnail cat though this link may help:

https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/the_post_thumbnail

Hi! I’m having same issue. No avatars on blogs.

On main buddypress blog, avatars works great and their url’s are like this:
http://example.com/wp-content/uploads/avatars/1/aab71f7a93155ef3cabb5d9660686005-bpthumb.jpg

On the other blogs, avatars aren’t displaying. Their url’s are like this:
http://example.com/files/avatars/1/aab71f7a93155ef3cabb5d9660686005-bpthumb.jpg

My installation info:
WP: 3.0.3 (updated from a WP3.0)
BP: 1.2.6
Multisite & subdomains.

My .htaccess:
`# BEGIN WordPress
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index.php$ – [L]

# uploaded files
RewriteRule ^files/(.+) wp-includes/ms-files.php?file=$1 [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^ – [L]
RewriteRule . index.php [L]
# END WordPress`

Is it fixed for next release of buddypress? or is there a patch that I could apply?

Thanks at all