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Erich73;

well honestly, I have then no idea why you use BP if you are using is only as Discussion-Forum with Groups.

I see BP as a plugin for WPMU and nothing else. If I want only a social platform, without the extensive WP blogs, then I would never go for BP. There are many other great softwares out there. (not that BP is bad ) For me blogs are the central point and the backbone of the system. Therefore I don’t understand the meaning of two backends.

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Wow, what a response, even if not everybody got my point.

For me personally, I would like to use only the dashboard and have BP plugins forms be located there and not having a special interface for the information. I have nothing against the dashboard backend and people get into it very fast.

In that case everything would be in the same place, now it is divided. Even if BP is a plugin, there is no reason to have two “backends” for users, like it is now.

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Quick posting from the front end is on the Roadmap.

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That is for me totally not interesting, since this means splitting the input forms even more form the “two backends”.

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anointed:

I think there are many that has the same consensus as you.

MattKern:

Depends on many things; the amount of blogs, server performance and traffic. That is probably hard to say.

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WPMU

To translate the WPMU, which I think you want to do, do this:

1. Download the POT file for regular WordPress, current version. WPMU have a lot of strings that are the same. You save a lot of work.

2. Download PoEdit, http://www.poedit.net , install it

3. Download current WPMU

4. Open the POT file for the regular WP

5. Change the path in PoEdit to the path where you have your sorce files to WPMU

6. Run “Update from source” in the PoEdit. That will create you a POT file for WPMU, but will also keep a lot of phrases translated, so you save work.

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BuddyPress

Same software can be used to extract and create POT file.

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That is quite interesting, Trent. So you have to wait until 2.8, but the question is, if it will then be possible to add BuddyPress and split the databases afterwards, when the DB gets really big?

(To be honest, the multi-db plugin is the only interesting for me at wpmudev premium, and until they don’t support buddypress I will probably not become a paying member.)

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Great explanation Trent. For me it seems like BuddyPress without a multi-db is like shooting yourself in the leg; nothing good will come out of it, if the site will grow big in a short time. Multi-db is of my opinion a must, but is seems like we will be waiting for it quite long time