BuddyPress.org

I’m having the same issue… latest ‘mainstream’ versions of everything. I haven’t created a child theme – just trying out the BuddyPress Default to see if it will server my purposes. My header was configured in Photoshop to be exactly the 1250×133 pixels. In Chrome, I’m seeing what looks like the start of a vertical tiling of the header…[Read more]

Have a look here: http://commonsinabox.org/

That site does a good job of explaining what their plug-in does. However, your summary is pretty much what I did. I would note that the sites created could use P2 or pretty much any theme you want as you have per-site control of themes, plug-ins etc. To a casual user, the subsites just look like…[Read more]

I wish I could show you the site, but it’s behind security for internal use only!

I too had trouble getting my head around the problem. What I really wanted was a blog that everyone could use in all workgroups, but filter by workgroup. And based on credentials, some users would never see some groups postings. However, I don’t think WordPress…[Read more]

@tsinclair1982 beyond the typical titling and header adjustments, there doesn’t seem to be much control over things like the number of columns, header images etc.

It took me a while to get my head around how to get the multiple blogs going. I don’t think the model I described in my first post is fully possible… however, using Multi-site and…[Read more]

I went to Commons in a Box, which is a giant plug-in for WordPress that includes BuddyPress (and many other plug-ins) and allows me to create a multi-site installation with a blog/site for each workgroup I wanted to integrate. Now that the new release of BuddyPress seems to work with most themes that weren’t designed to be specifically…[Read more]