Comments on: Creating a Blog Topics Directory in WPMU 2.8 + BuddyPress 1.1

By: Bowe Frankema

Bowe Frankema — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 19:04:53 +0000

Hi,

Great article! I would like to repost this blogpost on my BuddyPress tutorial site, because I think it’s a very useful tutorial. Could you please let me know if you agree with this (it’ll be a guest post from you of course!)

Greetings,
Bowe

By: r-a-y

r-a-y — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 21:34:13 +0000

Still trying to grasp my head around the whole “topics” thing.

So during the blog registration process, the user gets to select a few “topics” that the admin sets up.

In your example, you made the following “topics”:
-Courses
-Workshops
-Projects
-Organizations
-Personal

Basically, it’s another way of categorizing your blogs on WPMU, correct?

I’ll have to play with this later… some screenies of the admin area and blog registration page would have been nice.

By: Justin Hons

Justin Hons — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:00:10 +0000

I just WANT to know…

By: Justin Hons

Justin Hons — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:53:10 +0000

I just to know if the accompanying graphic is an EB original. If so, dude, you have arrived. Genius.

By: jamesdcalder

jamesdcalder — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:48:01 +0000

Hey man,

Jim Groom just published another piece on WPMU. http://bavatuesdays.com/faq-for-universities-interested-in-wpmu/ Since you’re not on g chat today, I’ll leave the address here. Check it out!

By: Andrea_R

Andrea_R — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:20:13 +0000

Yep, she;s pretty good about updating. As far as I know, she did not develop this for use on buddyPress – just WPMU. I’ve used it plenty of times with no issues.

(and in the mu-plugins folder, not the plugins folder)

By: E. Bell

E. Bell — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:02:30 +0000

Hi Adam, thanks for the comment. To answer your questions…

1. For the time being, I just linked it in the sidebar here: http://clevelandhistory.org/blogs (it goes to http://clevelandhistory.org/topics/)

2. No, I have not alerted Deanna. I figured BuddyPress 1.1 just came out so it might take some time for an update (if indeed BP changes are to blame). You are correct though that contacting her would be a good idea. I literally just discovered and implemented the plugin (and then wrote the post) yesterday so I hadn’t even considered it. Good lookin’ out.

By: Adam W. Warner

Adam W. Warner — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:46:42 +0000

Great write up and tip, but I have a couple questions.

1. Following your link above, I don’t see a “Browse Blogs by Topic” area. Have you turned off this functionality?

2. Have you alerted Deanna Schneider of the issue with her plugin and BuddyPress? I’ve had an opportunity to communicate with her a few times regrading her plugins and she’s usually quick to correct any issues.

p.s. I found your post via a Google Alert for “wpmu”.