BuddyPress Bar on external pages

[Ipstenu]

I love my BP install. It does exactly what I want. But I also have a gallery install (ZenPhoto) and a MediaWiki install that I need to keep as is for a variety of reasons. I wanted to make the site look even more seamless. I've matched up themes pretty closely, but now I want to add in the BuddyBar across the top.

I found these directions: http://teleogistic.net/2009/10/displ...-applications/

They don't seem to work for me. Anyone have any other resources or ideas? Or should I just laugh at myself for trying to introduce too much overhead to my server?

[Ipstenu]

Once I pulled the subdomains to subfolders it all worked. Funny that, eh?

Also Google does weird things with this stuff.

[andrea_r]

Yeah, and it changes fast. :)

[Ryan]

Also Google does weird things with this stuff.

Was it just switching from sub-domain to sub-folder that caused Google to re-index differently?

Last I head was Matt Cutt's reporting that Google would shortly be changing their indexing to treat sub-domains and sub-folders as virtually the same thing. That was about a year ago I think so I'd be interested to hear if you have experienced otherwise.

[Ipstenu]

Oh, not that kind of google weirdness. Though yeah, moving from a subdomain to a subfolder has caused google to recache EVERYTHING on my domain. (I moved from blog. to /blog last year on another site to the same effect). Google treats subfolders with the same weight as subdomains, and it's like changing your permalinks. There's no Google Loss of Status. Though I'd had to work pretty hard to screw mine up right now for this site! The only google ranking/search oddities is that it's a 'new' URL so it shows up as 'new' hits on a Google Blog Search.

My woe was Google Ads. I have Google Ads in the footer of my WP side of things, and this 'hack' pulls the footer from my theme to my wiki and my gallery.

The main problem was every time I went to the page, it would load, then it would pull up the header, and then it would redirect to a plain white page. Other people said that was caused by Google Analytics in the footer, but even after pulling that out, it turned out to be Google's ADS!

As soon as I made sure the page (bpnavmenu) had all widgets tuned off, it worked. Thankfully, Justin's a hero about that (I use his Hybrid News theme) and it was a quick functions.php fix to say 'If the page is this page, hide ALL widgets!). Then I had to adjust the footer on my 'satellite' apps so I didn't have double footers. Also pretty easy. And now it's just ... done.

[andrea_r]

Last I head was Matt Cutt's reporting that Google would shortly be changing their indexing to treat sub-domains and sub-folders as virtually the same thing. That was about a year ago I think so I'd be interested to hear if you have experienced otherwise.

I've experienced the same as above, BUT the issue getting lost is if you have subdomains, then google will show multiple listings. If you have subfolders, Google has one listing with multiple results.

I'm thinking of a client who had an SEO consultant tell him subfolders were "better". What the client actually wanted to happen was multiple result show up. The same consulant gave him advice to keywrod-stuff his permalinks too.

/tangent

[Ipstenu]

Multiple listings being 'site 1, site 2, site 3' and multiple results being 'Site - sub page, sub page', right?

I'm inclined to prefer the latter.

[andrea_r]

Yep, you got it.

If you're inclined to play with the system a little more, you'd go for the former.

[Ipstenu]

I'll have to look at it some more :)