[buddypress-dev] Buddy Press Has to Run on MU?

[Chris Taylor - stillbreathing.co.uk]

Hi Matt,

Actually, I'm not sure you're right. While most of the BP features can
be used between multiple users irrespective of whether they have blogs
or not (i.e. multiple users in a normal WP installation) they'd only
make sense if the users have a separate public profiles.

Here's an example using the friends feature. In an MU install we'd
have user1.domain.com and user2.domain.com, and we'd be able to tell
they were friends as it would say so on their profiles. In a normal WP
install there would just be one address for the blog, so nowhere to
say multiple people are friends. That could be done within the admin
area, but to me that misses the point somewhat.

Plus the features as they stand need the site admin section to be
configured (although that could be changed, of course).

Of course there could be certain features of BP that could be used in
a standalone version of Wordpress, but that would need a little more
thought.

Chris

On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 11:43 PM, Matt Mullenweg <m at mullenweg.com> wrote:
> Chris Taylor - stillbreathing.co.uk wrote:
>
> > No, BuddyPress is intended to be a set of plugins for Wordpress MU. In
> > the future there *may* be some features of BuddyPress that can tie in
> > with a standalone Wordpress installation, but that's a long way off
> > yet.
> >
>
>  Actually there's no reason most of the plugins shouldn't work in regular
> WP.
>
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>  Matt Mullenweg
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