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

[Joseph Scott]

On Apr 14, 2008, at 1:50 PM, Chris Taylor - stillbreathing.co.uk wrote:

> 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.


I'm interested in seeing BuddyPress features work (at least on some  
level) with non-MU WordPress blogs.  Mostly because I don't think the  
intercommunication features should be limited to BuddyPress  
internally, I'd love to see it talk with other social containers (for  
lack of a better term).  So my plain WordPress blog should (in my  
version of the future) should be able to talk to other WordPress  
blogs, LinkedIn, Facebook, WordPress-MU+BuddyPress, etc.

To sum up, I shouldn't have to install WPMU in order to get those  
features.

Now that said, perhaps BuddyPress isn't the best place to be  
developing these features.  Perhaps a BuddyPress Jr. plugin for non- 
MU blogs.

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Joseph Scott
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