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[Resolved] BuddyPress strategy for a newbie…


  • Dave953
    Member

    @dave953

    12 years ago

    Greetings to the BuddyPress community by this first time poster.

    Initially, I need one blog and the bbPress forums. BUT, my project’s longer term goal is to use the social tools made available by BuddyPress.

    With this above plan, should I wait to install BuddyPress until I actually need it? Or, would it be better to install BuddyPress at the beginning?

    Your feedback would be most appreciated…

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  • @mercime
    Keymaster

    @mercime

    12 years ago

    @dave953 I suggest that you set up a separate WP/BP test site using different DB on the same server where your current WP is installed. That way, you can test BP, different BP plugins and/or themes first before installing or introducing it to your users in your main site.


    Dave953
    Member

    @dave953

    12 years ago

    @mercime Thanks very much for the reply. I was concerned that adding BuddyPress, say 6-12 months after launching a WordPress/bbPress site, would be more technically challenging to ‘interface’ with the existing WP/bbPress setup, than starting out initially with a WordPress/BuddyPress configuration.

    From your reply, I’m inferring that it really doesn’t make any difference…BuddyPress will ‘play’ as nice coming onboard later to a WP/bbPress configuration, as it would have if the site was initially launched as WP/BP. Am I understanding you correctly?
    Thanks


    Hugo Ashmore
    Keymaster

    @hnla

    12 years ago

    No, I would follow mercime’s advise to set up a test install to trial aspects of BP with but also activate BP on main site but until ready keep the main components de-activated except profiles, friends, messaging and use the WP menu to build your main menu so that you can ensure ‘groups’, ‘forums’, and ‘activity stream’ pages aren’t listed, this way you can run with user account/profiles from the front end and slowly introduce the other BP components as and when required.


    Dave953
    Member

    @dave953

    12 years ago

    Thanks Hugo for clarifying the steps for integrating BP incrementally with WP/bbPress.

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