WPMU or BuddyPress or Both?

  • Resolved Robert

    (@robg48)


    11 years, 5 months ago

    Hello,
    I have a community of 2500 users that, until recently, was running on Joomla with Jomsocial. This allowed all the usual – groups, video posts, pic uploads, friends, in-site messaging, and most importantly each user could create their own blog.

    Now I’ve moved my users and some posts over to WordPress and I installed Buddypress – but Buddypress doesn’t recognize the users as members…in other words, you click on members and there’s only the Super user.

    The WPMU codex says that one of the “user benefits” of MU is that users are part of a community. Does that mean if I’m running MU I don’t need BP for groups, activity stream, etc? Will MU recognize all my users?

    Is running MU with BP installed the only way I can have a community that allows each member to have their own blog? And does anyone know why BP doesn’t recognize my WP users as members? That seems like it would be a no-brainer…yet there doesn’t seem to be anyway to convert the users to members.

    Thanks for any help!
    Rob

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  • Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    Were the users there BEFORE you installed BuddyPress?

    Thread Starter Robert

    (@robg48)

    Hello Mika,

    Yes, they were. I had used a plugin called AMU (I think) to import the users into WordPress, then I installed BuddyPress.

    I posted the question in the BuddyPress forums and everyone said there’s no way to do it without purchasing something…which seems very strange…;)

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    Yeah, you asked the question in a strange way, whcih is why I asked my question.

    So.

    I don’t think this is a Multisite question YET since you can’t even get BuddyPress working. And no, they’re not exactly interchanagable.

    Multisite – multiple separate blogs

    BuddyPress – Run your own Facebook with Groups and forums.

    Thread Starter Robert

    (@robg48)

    Hi Mika,

    Yeah, I was confusing myself writing it actually!

    So, what I wanted was my “facebook” with the ability for each member to have their own blog.

    And I found a BuddyPress plugin that actually does it – buddy blog – it works just fine for what I wanted.

    Thank you again for your help!
    Rob

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