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How to Have Buddypress for One Blog Only, Not Entire WPMU


  • chargertech
    Participant

    @chargertech

    15 years, 2 months ago

    I teach digital arts classes at the high school level. I have a a Web server with WPMU installed. I use it to host the department page, a couple teacher pages, the school newspaper, and most importantly my class Web site. The idea of Buddypress sounds awesome for my class. I’d love to have the collaborative nature.

    Here is the problem. When I activated Buddypress for my class site/blog, the activity stream and what not displayed stuff for every blog that was part of the WPMU install. I don’t want that, I want just stuff for the one blog (my class site).

    My class page is at: http://chargertech.edisonchargers.com/maclab/. As you can see it is essentially the text book for the class with tutorials, resources, etc. Also, as the year progresses students will have their own Web/portfolio sites. BP sounds great for this, but I only want the students see stuff through BP that is on /maclab not /thebolt or /photo (other blogs/sites that are part of the WPMU install). Any ideas?

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  • Paul Wong-Gibbs
    Keymaster

    @djpaul

    15 years, 2 months ago

    I’m sure you’ve posted this or a very similar post before. Why the second post?


    r-a-y
    Keymaster

    @r-a-y

    15 years, 2 months ago

    Hey chargertech,

    I’m guessing BuddyPress wouldn’t work for a sub-blog on WPMU, which is what I’m guessing you want it for.

    You could try defining the BP_ROOT_BLOG in /plugins/buddypress/bp-core.php to the blog ID in question, that could work… although I’m not entirely sure.

    You could also try Alkivia as an alternative – https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/alkivia/


    chargertech
    Participant

    @chargertech

    15 years, 2 months ago

    Yes I did under the installation forum, I thought I’d check to see if the troubleshooting forum had a solution since it appears to be more active. In addition, it was suggested to perhaps try two WPMU installations, I asked if two could be installed on the same server, but had no reply.


    Jason Giedymin
    Participant

    @jason_jm

    15 years, 2 months ago

    You can have two installs running. Of course, they have to be put into two different locals, used with a different database owner, etc…

    The biggest problem you would run into would be if your server can handle the ram requirements.

    I would not try this and expect performance ‘good enough’ unless I was on a dedicated hosting.

    On a grid like ours, SOMETIMES we have to do a full on separate install. In these cases we also worry about our entire caching structure which bloats up considerably. A mitigation for this would be using S3 for storage, and we are moving our entire grid to the clouds. Our grid has been processor focused than storage (we started out as a high computational structure). Sorry for the off-topic.


    Jason Giedymin
    Participant

    @jason_jm

    15 years, 2 months ago

    I have to say that using the multi-site plugin (paid vesion) + some creative rewrites can help achive 90% of what you want.


    chargertech
    Participant

    @chargertech

    15 years, 2 months ago

    I was hoping it was something somewhat easy. I totally think my students would love having their own social network. High school students are familiar with it as part of their daily routine. Unfortunately, I have to host other sites besides my class site. If I could get just to work for http://chargertech.edisonchargers.com/maclab/ and not the other sub-domains, I would be one happy camper.

    As for the server. It is a quad-core Xeon Xserve with 4 GB RAM. It is pretty nice for hosting a few class sites, plenty of power.


    chargertech
    Participant

    @chargertech

    15 years, 2 months ago

    Does anybody know if this is something being considered for future releases? It seems like an option that would be commonly implemented as the user base expands. Having some blogs not part of the BP “universe” isn’t an outlandish idea.

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