[@andrea_r Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

A totally blank page means there’s an error in your syntax somewhere.

Find the error logs on your server. They should have a line in there saying exactly what the error was.

[@andrea_r Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

Maybe over here (where I skim), but not in the MU forums. Good to know tho.

[@andrea_r Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

Oh THANK YOU for figuring this out, finally. Was driving me nuts, but I hadn;t had a chance to try out that host and couldn’t reproduce it.

Now I know where to point people.

[@andrea_r Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

IME, using wp-super-cache, it creates flat html files on the server. if those are deleted, they get regenerated again. When you remove cache files, performance takes an initial hit until the cache is built up again.

But even outside that – the number of posts & users make it a big job.

[@andrea_r Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

You shoudl back it all up, yes. But you don’t necessarily need to ftp it down to your computer. I normally make a copy of the folder right on the server.

If you are double-sure you have cache files, you can clean them out. What are you using the cache? Because wp-super-cache has a cleanout button back there on the admin screen.

It’s not unusually large, no, dpeending on how may users and/or visitors you have. Lots of users, lots of hits, means lots of cache files & loads of upload files if they like to post pics to their blogs like you’re Flickr. (Hi mom!)

Yes, you’ll want to backup the db as well. Optimize those tables, and if you’re really feeling frisky, clean out the spam.

Remember that with the BP upgrade, the theme changes location. The MU part should be smoother.

Pick a time when your site traffic is low, like the weekend.

[@andrea_r Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

Get the new blog defaults plugin here:

http://wpmudev.org/project/New-Blog-Defaults

It adds a new menu so you can set up all kinds of options for new blogs. The default theme drop-down is at the bottom.

[@andrea_r Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

The blogs are controlled by MU though – not buddypress.

Turn off buddypress. If the blogs still don’t work, then it’s not BP. It has been an issue with WPMU before.

[@andrea_r Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

We’d be up for some guest posts for sure. I can’t say I hadn’t thought of a bptutorials site.

[@andrea_r Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

We modded D’Arcy Norman’s solution above so it would work on BuddyPress. At least it did a while back. Someone wanna give this a whirl again?

Spam blogs and Buddypress

# BEGIN ANTISPAMBLOG REGISTRATION

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} POST

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} .yourbpsignupslug*

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !.*yourhomedomain.* [OR]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^$

RewriteRule (.*) http://die-spammers.com/ [R=301,L]

# END ANTISPAMBLOG REGISTRATION

[@andrea_r Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

Friggin’ IE….

Ron or I don’t have IE, so if someone manages to fix it before we get to it, GREAT! You have our undying love.

[@andrea_r Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

You may need to do some extra styling on the child theme to get them to look right with the buddypress elements. But the buddymatic framwork has most of the work done for you.

Not sure about the php errors – depends on what they are. Ron’s been testing the Early Morning child theme as well.

[@andrea_r Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

Thanks – you can pretty much edit the style.css on this theme directly if you like. I had done borders and a bg color on the chunk footer, but decided to take it out.

[@andrea_r Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

Did you see nothing as in a blank screen? Or nothing as in no BP stuff?

It should look like this site: http://mamacommune.net/

Argh, I also forgot the directory searches.

[@andrea_r Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

Good catch on point #1.

And thanks.

Edit: now I know what I was thinking there… it’s gotta work on regular WP/MU sites too, so the BP function alone won’t cut it. I’ll figure it out tho. The point of that menu item is for people who want the main blog shuffled off the front page and/or users in a subfolder install of MU where the /blog/ is in the permalink anyway.

[@andrea_r Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

“I tried that and ended up with new blogs that are blank pages …. “

Right, because new blogs expect to find a them in the folder called /default/. Which someone told you to delete.

Best fix: get the New Blog Defaults plugin. Set the default theme to your custom one.

http://wpmudev.org/project/New-Blog-Defaults

[@andrea_r Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

Count me in the DJPaul fan club.

[@andrea_r Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

http://buddydress.com

http://3oneseven.com/wpmu-buddypress-themes/

https://buddypress.org/extend/themes

The ones at the 3oneseven site work and work well.

[@andrea_r Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

Yeah Lisa I wanted to see your session too. And I think it would be hard to make users pick.

But! Overall, I see fun times ahead.

[@andrea_r Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

The (tentative) schedule’s up too:

http://2009.newyork.wordcamp.org/program/saturday-schedule/

Can’t wait to see you all in person. Hey Andy, I didn’t get my hug last time…

[@andrea_r Participant 16 years, 8 months ago]

I think you’re missed.

[@andrea_r Participant 16 years, 8 months ago]

And they were all in Quebec together last week. Then being in the same place doesn’t necessarily mean anything. MU wasn’t D’s primary job, he has plenty else to do both now and after it merges.

(not that I’m trying to speak for anyone, just pointing out a few things before speculation gets too wild)

[@andrea_r Participant 16 years, 8 months ago]

there are a couple of different plugins available to search across blogs in a WPMU install already. If there’s a hook in the search bar to add this option this would be better.

Not all setups will have blogs available to members.

[@andrea_r Participant 16 years, 9 months ago]

The files under blog.dir are files uploaded my members – like within blog posts and via the media uploader.

If you visited each blog’s backend, and go to the media manager, you can delete the files from within WPMU.

[@andrea_r Participant 16 years, 9 months ago]

On my own site, I see the My Blog menu, and it drops down with a link to my main blog. If I hover ove rit, the menu flyout happens and I get backend links.

Meanwhile, you can always go to yoursite.com/wp-admin by typing it in, if indeed you have an issue to fix. At least you can still get in the backend.

[@andrea_r Participant 16 years, 9 months ago]

You could try and install eaccelerator on the server.

Or, switch to a NginX server if you have the tech skills.