[@andrea_r Participant 17 years, 7 months ago]

It’s quite likely it just has issues with WPMU, not buddypress. Some plugins do not work well with it. I’d test it on a vaniall install of WPMU first.

[@andrea_r Participant 17 years, 8 months ago]

I am not 100% sure that the download offers the home theme – yet.

Go to the Site Admin menu, pick Themes and make sure the BP theme is the only one enabled. Then users can’t change themes.

Any plugin you put in the mu-plugins folder does NOT show up on the Plugins menu. That is for plugins that are in the plugins folder. So no, you won’t see any BP related plugins there to to turn them off and on, because in the mu-plugins folder, plugins are always ON.

If you really want to understand how WPMU works, to take full advantge of what it can do and get a feel for what you’re in for, check out http://wpmututorials.com , or sign up at wordpress.com to check out the user’s perspective & compare it to testbp.org.

[@andrea_r Participant 17 years, 8 months ago]

I think it would be a huge security hole to allow members to upload zips.

That being said, there’s an option under Site Admin -> Options for allowed file types. It’s part of WPMU already.

[@andrea_r Participant 17 years, 8 months ago]

Did you remove BP? Becasue there’s no BP features there at all. Also the subdomain lookup was painfully slow, even in comparison to the rest of the site.

[@andrea_r Participant 17 years, 8 months ago]

“Lets say I couldn’t create accounts with MU, what would you recommend then?”

Then I’d recommend you go back over the readme file included with MU. If you set up a subdomain account, it’s likely you forgot to do the wildcards.

[@andrea_r Participant 17 years, 8 months ago]

“I was hoping for a main page similar to wordpress.com and then have the social features presented to each person who signs up.”

The BP theme is for each person who signs up. To have all the nifty front page features means you’ll have to wait for Andy to make one, or cobble together on your own.

Hint: it will be a different theme than the BP *user* theme.

[@andrea_r Participant 17 years, 8 months ago]

Could you create accounts in MU before you added Buddypress?

[@andrea_r Participant 17 years, 8 months ago]

make sure you’re using WordPressMU.

[@andrea_r Participant 17 years, 8 months ago]

those are command-line statements done via terminal mode.

[@andrea_r Participant 17 years, 8 months ago]

Yep. Should work. Not retroactively, but on all news ones created after that.

Ron and I were also thinking on the public side, you could do a check at the top of the theme profile page for is_logged_in, than if not, display something else.

[@andrea_r Participant 17 years, 8 months ago]

Ah! Good check there Trent.

[@andrea_r Participant 17 years, 8 months ago]

The only other option currently available is a plugin that makes the blog itself private. No idea how it acts with BP.

http://wpmudev.org/project/More-Privacy-Options

[@andrea_r Participant 17 years, 8 months ago]

Only as much as your server can handle.

(No, there’s no limit.)

[@andrea_r Participant 17 years, 8 months ago]

“Nope not really as in – There’s no way around it?”

That’s what I meant.

[@andrea_r Participant 17 years, 8 months ago]

Nope not really. Also make sure you have mod_rewrite, and allow File Override All in apache’s config so it will actually read the htaccess file (double check that it has one).

[@andrea_r Participant 17 years, 8 months ago]

Doh, yeah I found that. Thanks.

[@andrea_r Participant 17 years, 8 months ago]

There’s a privacy plugin available for WPMU, but it works on the blog part only and I’m not sure how well it would work with Buddypress.

http://wpmudev.org/project/More-Privacy-Options

[@andrea_r Participant 17 years, 8 months ago]

There’s already a function to grab the site name & url – should be easy enough to add in there. File a trac ticket with a diff?

[@andrea_r Participant 17 years, 8 months ago]

File them in trac.

https://trac.buddypress.org/newticket

(Oh hey, I just noticed the links at the bottom of the page…)

[@andrea_r Participant 17 years, 9 months ago]

Yep, there is.

http://premium.wpmudev.org/project/multi-db

First you want to spread out into multiple databases, which you can have on the same server or a different one.

You’d have to have literally hundreds of thousands of users before you go looking for more server space.

Start small, plan for upgrades.

[@andrea_r Participant 17 years, 9 months ago]

Woot! There’s my nose!

Looks good Andy.

For video support, MU strips out any script, like those in embed codes, so you need to add some generic video plugin to allow them.

[@andrea_r Participant 17 years, 9 months ago]

Some stuff already available by using WPMU plugins:

– sitewide feed

– recent posts across the system

– latest blogs or members

– member list

all over at http://wpmudev.org/plugins.php

Remember, Buddypress is a plugin for MU – mind you, a really extensive plugin. Other sitewide features can be added the same way they get added in WPMU, it’s just a matter of figuring out if what the end result you want is pulling directly from a BP function or a regular MU function.

[@andrea_r Participant 17 years, 9 months ago]

Whoa, I must have missed the forum announcement, awesome.