Ok I’m totally new to BP and WP, and I’m frustrated. I am a traditional forum kind of guy, I have setup several phpbb, smf, joomla, etc sites and or forums. I think in typical outline structure. But so far finding answers here at Buddypress is an exercise in frustration.

!st question: This is from support at TMDhosting, who are installing BP & WPmu for me,
quote:Would you please let us know if you wish to have the new blogs for your WordPress MU as :
* Sub-domains or * Sub-folders

I tried to find an answer in documentation http://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/setting-up-a-new-installation/
NOT…
How about searching via google using site filter…. NOT
How about using search in the right column next to documentation categories on the link above, NOT…. tried the word “domain”, and got blank page, tried the word “folder” and also a blank page.
How about looking in the support groups, I chose the Install Buddypress support group, nope nothing there.
Ok surely if I search entire site using the search box. Result is multiple pages of results but so far after 5 pages I can’t find this topic.

Enough on how to install BP…. lets move on to Getting Started?
What is the first thing I should do after BP is installed? How the hell do I know, the documentation link has nothing,
The Support FAQ has nothing?

What is really frustrating is there are hundreds of BP sites installed and operating, so people have figured this stuff out, and I can’t.

It seems a little logical organization is called for…….
First item, “how to get help when you need it”?

[@intimez Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

@yocalif

For buddypress, you can start with the readme.txt in the downloaded file
For WPMU, you can start with this: https://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WPMU

[@yocalif Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

Thanks for the input, “intimez”. I didn’t d/L either BP or WPMU, I signed up for TMDhosting and they installed it no extra charge… So will download and check out the recommendations…

[@lph2005 Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

This is the bookmark on my browser:

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/

as well as

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/creating-extending/forum/