Possible? Yes. After all, everythings possible.
Try this.
define ( 'BP_ENABLE_MULTIBLOG', true );
I haven’t tried this myself, and not sure what it exactly does, but the codex says that this allows buddypress to function on multiple blogs of a WPMU installation.
@anointed, not in the way I think you want it to work, no… With different users on different sites/blogs having their own BP userbase.
You still could bend the groups functionality around this though, it would just take some creative theme work.
@Xevo — Yes that was the first important step in trying to accomplish what I am after. I have inserted that function, and indeed it did what it says it does. However, I’m after something that requires a lot more to it. (separating members and activity on a per blog basis) To the best of my knowledge that has not yet been implemented, which is why I was asking if it’s made it into the bp core yet. Thanks for the heads up though.
@JJJ Thnx for the answer. You are correct, I want each bp ‘blog’ to have their ‘own’ members userbase. (think ning again).
Ultimately what would be perfect in my scenario, would be some type of identifier for the user that sets a blog or blogs they belong to. Then we could filter the users and their activity on a per blog basis.
That would also allow me to do like ning, where you can have separate communities, yet all communities technically belong to the same overall group for the ‘master’ blog site, where I could show all activity from all members across all blogs.
Where it would be even cooler is if I could ‘tag’ the users as well. Then I could create even further ‘sub cultures’ where I could have one blog showing all the ‘sub-blog’ members that are catholic etc.. So if I had 10 separate ‘catholic’ church blogs, each blog would have their own bp area, yet I could also build another ‘catholic’ blog that shows all activity from all the catholic blogs… lol that sounded so much simpler in my mind than reading this lol
I do have the ‘blog type’ plugin installed. That way when a person creates a new blog they have to assign themselves to a group. I can then ‘aggregate’ all the content from those blogs who belong to that group into a central sub-blog.
Well thanks again. I’ll keep checking back from time to time to see if this ever becomes a possibility. I SOOO want to use bp that it’s driving me nuts having this great toy available that I can’t play with yet…..
Does anyone know where I should go to make a suggestion for wordpress-mu itself that may possibly be read by the devs?
I really think the only thing holding me back from doing this project is a core change in wp, to allow assigning a user to a particular blog or blogs. With 3.0 being the ‘final’ wp-mu merge, it would seem to be a great time to add this functionality. I just don’t know where to post the suggestions.
Where the actual work happens, in trac. Yesterday, merge work started, so I’m not sure where to put a suggestion like this right now.
If you stick it in https://trac.mu.wordpress.org/report I know it will get read by Donncha.
Also, user management is changing, so you may want to play around with wpmu 2.9.1 rc-1 a bit before filing any tickets.
@anointed, if you wanted to just make it so you’re grabbing the user list of a blog instead of the members list, that’s very possible to do. But you will still probably want your root blog to be the center of all members.
Like andrea_r said, I imagine that MU is in a feature freeze at the moment until 3.0. All the devs are going to have their hands full rearranging the code to make it fit into normal WordPress so it’s a smooth transition for everyone.
@Andrea –thanks for the link and information. I will install the rc this week and play around a bit before posting the questions. I’m just hoping that Donccha is familiar enough with bp to understand my question in how it regards to wpmu.
@JJJ I did not realize there were 2 separate lists already, user list – member list. That just may be the answer I was looking for. Do you happen to know if there is any documentation on how to filter for just the user list on a given blog for output display?
Yes I had always planned on keeping the ‘root’ blog as the master bp site.
@anointed
Check out “/wp-admin/users.php” and snag the code from there. It should give you more than enough examples on ways to filter the users on that specific site. I think it should include pagination, user type, etc…
The key for you will be making sure that the right members are subscribers of the correct site. If you have multiple domains or multiple registration pages (for each site) that should be pretty straight forward.
