When you create a new blog and use the default buddypress theme, it seems to attempt to create a new widgetized homepage…not a “blog”. I’ve run into this problem myself. The only “blog” using the default blog with the blog child theme out of the box is whateveryourdomainnameis.com/blog. I too would like to just use the “blog” child theme for the default theme whenever a new blog is created. I believe there has to be a simple way to accomplish this.
It was the memory limit. I set it to 96M, reinstalled buddypress and it now works fine. Thanks Burt. Will this also improve performance overall? Another thing…if I get mad traffic as I build my community will I need to continue to up this memory value? For the buddypress.org community or the upcoming wordpress.org migration to buddypress, will this be a huge number? Or is this just a memory value for the installation of plugins?
I have a similar problem. I am using linux/apache/MySQL(5) on “The Rackspace Cloud” (formerly Mosso) as my host. I upgraded to WPMU 2.8 last week and when I reactivated buddypress, my admin went completely out (White Screen of Death is the new term I believe).
The only remedy was to delete the entire /wp-content/plugins/buddypress/ folder and then I can use the admin again. I removed almost all of my plugins (fbconnect, twitter to wire, & some other blog related plugins) and tried installing buddypress again…same thing.
The funny thing is, that even after this mess, BuddyPress does still work when activated, I just can’t get to the admin anymore.
Any help would be appreciated. Just to be clear, all was well before I updated to 2.8.1
