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// July 20th, 2009 // No Comments » // Buddypress
Chris at The Easy Button has updated her guide to integrating the latest versions of WordPress MU, BuddyPress and bbPress.
With the recent changes and updates to all three components over the past few weeks, the older guide that was created a few months ago was a little bit out of date and no longer worked.
You can get the guide here. Thanks Chris!
// July 11th, 2009 // 3 Comments » // Buddypress, Wordpress
WordPress MU 2.8.1 was released the other day, however if you are running the latest version of BuddyPress you should hold off upgrading until we are given the green light from the guys at BuddyPress.
There does not seem to be any major issues currently known and the testing I have done with the two current versions doesn’t seem to break anything, but there are a few little things that will need to be looked at before BP 1.0.2 is WPMU 2.8.1 ready.
If you are running bbPress with deep intergration you will also need to change a few things in the config files in order to ensure it still works. Check out the forums for all the latest updates.
// May 21st, 2009 // No Comments » // General
Do you ever have so many tasks in your head that you never write down and end up forgetting all the important ones? That always happens to me. Most of my best ideas fill my head when I am not sitting in front of my laptop, and normally in a place where I don’t have a pen to write them down. They end up somewhere at the back of my brain, and then one day I find myself saying “oh I meant to do that”.
Lately I have been flat out working on Explore With Me and the more I get involved in the project the more ideas and tasks come flooding in. Ruth, my girlfriend, also has hundreds of things she wants me to do for the website but it has now gotten to the stage where I get her to e-mail them to me so I don’t forget.
Here is what is on the Explore With Me list:
I keep putting the above tasks off because something else always happens to come up that is more important, but now the site has secured a nice investment, I have to start pushing things along.
Yesterday I finally got BuddyPress, WPMU and bbPress working. I then even went one step further and integrated the bbPress theme with my WordPress theme. Best of all it is now all controlled by the one stylesheet and the header, sidebar and footer are shared.
I had been meaning to do that for a few weeks, and when I got around to it, it wasn’t as bad as I thought. It took me 2 hours and it was all done. Have a look here if you are interested, I might write a quick guide if anyone else wants to know how to do it.
What would you want in a travel website? Let me know and I’ll add it to my list!
// April 28th, 2009 // No Comments » // Buddypress, Wordpress
Last week I made another attempt at trying to make BuddyPress work with bbPress (WordPress forums) and after a late night I finally got it working. Due to the fast pace of the development of BuddyPress, as well as having to deal with a beta version of WordPress MU 2.7.1 and an alpha version of bbPress, most of the online tutorials were out of date which didn’t help the task of making all three applications work together.
I managed to get this working a few weeks earlier without any issues, but so much had changed within a sort period of time. Thanks to a few friends on Twitter I finally managed to make it work as it should.
Since then, Chris from “The Easy Button” has put together a fantastic online tutorial on intergrating WPMU, BP and bbPress. I ran through it in a matter of minutes, rather than hours and everything is very well documented and explained – and best of all it works!
If anyone is looking to setup forums with BuddyPress then this is THE guide for you!
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