BuddyPress

“Ok im using buddy press to start a social network, only thing im confused about is photos, videos, and forums and blogs for my members. What i want to know is this already in buddypress or do i have to add plugins, for each or one plugin that adds all these features to my site. Im looking for the best plugins for these features for my members. Im mirgrating from ning so im use to their simplicty with these features.

Buddypress includes forums and blogs. But you have to run multisite for blogs.

There are plugins for video, photos, etc.

Ok but whats the best for photos and videos, for my members i need plugins thats gonna let members
have photos videos etc. The buddypress forum seems to bee gearded towards gruop forum not members, and how do i delete the basic blog that is part of word press and just use blog in buddy press, and as far as i can see i dont see any blog in buddypress. and you say multi sites for blogs i dont understand.

Im using custom community theme, i dont want a blog network i want a social network so buddy press needs to rethink their set up on social net not blogs.

Different people will prefer different plugins, but I recommend this for photos and videos:

http://buddydev.com/plugins/bp-gallery/

Also check out BP Media (aka BP Album). It is super advanced, and has all that stuff.

@pryse Multi-user blogs aren’t activated unless you active them. Either way, BP is still an awesome social networking script capable of much more then merely “social networking”.

So how do i activate multiple blogs?

Deactivate all plugins and change to WP default theme.
Follow steps http://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network
If you hit any snag during your multisite setup, please find resolution at http://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite before installing BuddyPress.

Just to be perfectly clear, having multiple blogs is a feature built in to WordPress itself, not BuddyPress. BP just shows them if they are there.

Ok so how do i enable blogs for my member, ok for example on ning you just drag and drop your features
where you want them, how do i do that with wp and buddypress/ i tried multi site but didnt work right.
buddpress is supposed to be the plugin that ads social network to your wordpress but when i ad the plugin
only thing it does is give metheme but the default theme doesnt have blogs forum etc like who ever did the pacakeing for buddypress should realy rethink the concept of social network. they need to add
photos, blog, forum, videos etc to the theme. Like i said im useing wp and bp to start a social network
not a personal blog, more like Ning where my members can post blogs, forums, videos, photos etc.
I hope some one with intell on this setup can give me better way to do this asfor the buddy press themes
noneof them have blogs or forums in the theme. I more geared towards adding these features manually than plugins, like how dow i add blog feature for my members videos photos forums etc? that multisite thing
after i installed it took away the ability to even add plugins or update my theame and i had to rebuild my whole site because people cant answer simple question on this forum as how to add features for users
Please some one who understands what imean please let me know if theres a theme with allthis included…

Ok so how do i enable blogs for my member, ok for example on ning you just drag and drop your features
where you want them, how do i do that with wp and buddypress/ i tried multi site but didnt work right.
buddpress is supposed to be the plugin that ads social network to your wordpress but when i ad the plugin
only thing it does is give metheme but the default theme doesnt have blogs forum etc like who ever did the pacakeing for buddypress should realy rethink the concept of social network. they need to add
photos, blog, forum, videos etc to the theme. Like i said im useing wp and bp to start a social network like Ning
not a personal blog, where my members can post blogs, forums, videos, photos etc.
I hope some one with intell on this setup can give me better way to do this asfor the buddy press themes
noneof them have blogs or forums in the theme. I more geared towards adding these features manually than plugins, like how dow i add blog feature for my members videos photos forums etc? that multisite thing
after i installed it took away the ability to even add plugins or update my theame and i had to rebuild my whole site because people cant answer simple question on this forum as how to add features for users
Please some one who understands what imean please let me know if theres a theme with allthis included…

Ok so how do i enable blogs for my member, ok for example on ning you just drag and drop your features
where you want them, how do i do that with wp and buddypress/ i tried multi site but didnt work right.
buddpress is supposed to be the plugin that ads social network to your wordpress but when i ad the plugin
only thing it does is give metheme but the default theme doesnt have blogs forum etc like who ever did the pacakeing for buddypress should realy rethink the concept of social network. they need to add
photos, blog, forum, videos etc to the theme. Like i said im useing wp and bp to start a social network like Ning
not a personal blog, where my members can post blogs, forums, videos, photos etc.
I hope some one with intell on this setup can give me better way to do this asfor the buddy press themes
noneof them have blogs or forums in the theme. I more geared towards adding these features manually than plugins, like how dow i add blog feature for my members videos, photos, forums etc? that multisite thing
after i installed it took away the ability to even add plugins or update my theame and i had to rebuild my whole site because people cant answer simple question on this forum as how to add features for users
Please some one who understands what imean please let me know if theres a theme with allthis included…

” that multisite thing
after i installed it took away the ability to even add plugins or update my theame ”
No, it didn’t. It moved them to network admin. Multisite is what you need for extra blogs – this works even without buddypress.

Buddypress does not just add a theme – it does add the functionality that you;re looking for. please reads the docs.

The forums have to be enabled in the backend.

We are answering your questions – don;t post multiple time,s ,read the directions, ask when you do not understand instead of undoing things we told you that you need.

Multiple post of the same thing Buddypress.org did that not me and when i go to delete it goes to a page that says cant find page, like i said who ever is packaging or updating the actual site needs to fix bugs in Buddypress.org and the plugin for wordpress, you guys have been very helpful thanks…

“, does Buddypress.org use multisites for its blogs and forums.”

YES. it uses multisite for individual blogs for each user. Full blogs like wordpress.com has.

“When i installed buddypress
and added the forums it says group forums???”

Ye,s the forums are attached to groups. that’s how it works here too.