Comments on: Wordpress MU – BuddyPress

By: Dave Smith

Dave Smith — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 05:06:13 +0000

Salehbrent,

I’m not sure where you are located, but hosting is not expensive here. I is one of the cheapest things for an online presence available.

Dave

By: Salehdbrent Sgdashhousedotcom

Salehdbrent Sgdashhousedotcom — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 07:13:14 +0000

unfortunately, the cost of hosting is very expensive to build any idea? Thanks sir!
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By: Trace

Trace — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:16:16 +0000

That may be a situation where BP works, I would take a look at the demo to see if it offers what you’re looking for: http://testbp.org/
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By: Dave Smith

Dave Smith — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:04:04 +0000

Trace,

That’s great, I stopped looking into Buddy Press when MU turned into such a debacle. It will be interesting to see how MU and regular WP integrating evolves.

Now I’m interested again in Buddy Press. Here is what I’m looking for and you tell me if BP is the answer. I have a few non-profit organizations that want to have a membership section where everyone can have a bio and communicate with each other. Where committees can set up planning sessions where only the committee members have access.

I know kind of sounds like G Wave, but that’s not really true either.

Is BP something that would meet this need on a standard WP install.

Dave

By: Trace

Trace — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:57:27 +0000

Dave: Buddypress now works on single WP installs!
Tony: Dave is right, you would only need MU if you wanted each agent to have their own discreet blog / website…. if you simply want them to be able to write on a single existing website / blog, normal WP can handle that.
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By: Dave Smith

Dave Smith — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 13:58:57 +0000

Tony,

Buddy press works on MU only. But if you are saying you have one blog but many authors contributing to that blog, you can do that with a regular wordpress install. You don’t need MU or buddy press. Add each of your agents who will blog as an “Author” and they can have their own login and write as much as they want. Buddy press is more for a community forum within the brokerage than it is for authoring posts. (I know Buddy Press is much more than that)

Dave

By: Tony Green, Realtor

Tony Green, Realtor — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 04:23:55 +0000

Now that you’ve dumped MU, what about Buddy Press? I want to have multi-user capability on our blog so all agents at our brokerage can post articles there. Would BP for this application be very difficult?
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By: Dave Smith

Dave Smith — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:34:10 +0000

Trace,

I knew there was something else I was going to add to that comment. MU integration is right around the corner. How that will all work will be interesting.

That is one thing about WP I like, most things tend to get easier with every release. Integration of MU so it will work on a standard hosting install will be HUGE as you say.

Dave

By: Trace

Trace — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:28:14 +0000

Hey guys, MU can be hard at times but if you have more than 6 or so blogs, it is a HUGE time saver. That being said, it\’s a non issue, WordPress 3.0 is rolling MU / Multi-site capability into the core and there will be no more MU. There are some sites running on trunk right now that have converted from MU….. so it only gets easier from 3.0 out!!!

Dave, something else we talked a little bit about in your comments a ways out that is coming in 3.0 is integrated Menu integration…. which is HUGE! At least for me.
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By: Dave Smith

Dave Smith — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:22:46 +0000

LOL,

Well, let me update you on WP MU. I deleted the entire site. Took it down totally. You are absolutely right, there was/is no easy staright foward way to setup WPMU.

Here is one big issue with WPMU. Since it is multi user it is designed so users can setup their own account on their own. I never wanted that capability. For me it is just something to try and see if it would work for a clients future need. I could have played with it a little longer and tried to set them up manually, but didn’t really have time or any domains I wanted to play with to try it.

I also had a site I wanted to setup on my Bluehost in a directory. But with MU in the root, I couldn’t get a stand alone install to go. It might be the htaccess on the root or something else, I don’t know. But after a lot of frustrating hours of messing with MU I desided it was time to FU MU and get back to Wordpress as I know it. I can install a typical WP setup in less than 10 minutes. So why bother with MU.

And the argument that you don’t have to waste time updating all those blogs when a new version comes out simply doesn’t hold water. It takes the push of a button to auto upgrade. That’s about 1 second of time. Compared to the hours I spent just trying to get MU installed and configured. And the expense of hosting for MU as it is needed to be setup properly far exceeds the monthly cost of hosting a typical WP install.

So my advice. Setup WP for your blog and forget MU. And if that seems daunting, let me know. I setup blogs daily.

Dave