[Cris McConkey]

I am new to buddypress and haven’t installed it as yet. Does the installation need to go in a separate sub-directory or sub-domain to preserve an existing wordpress site as it is? I have multi-site working in WP 3.0.1 on sub-directories. I figured I need to install Buddypress in its own sub-directory, but if I do, is there a way for super admin to add users from the main WP installation to the BP installation? A plug-in for this perhaps? Also, I’d like to be able to create categories of users on the main site, e.g. Video Producers, Audio Produces, Still Photographers, Organizations, so that I can send messages to one o more user goups. Is there a plugin for this?

Also, when users are already logged in to the main site on the site root and they click a link to the social networking site, e.g. http://www.siteroot/buddypress/ I want them to be already logged in upon entering.

[govpatel]

You install the buddypress plugin from with in wordpress admin as buddypress needs wordpress 3.0 to work and add other buddypress plugins the same way.