This may not have anything to do with your problem, but I’ve just discovered I can get this error if a plugin (any plugin) directory’s name has a dash (“-“) in it.
It’s not inherently dangerous that the database schema’s changed, no. BP used to have lots of tables like user_xx_activity, now they are combined into one (to give an example). Probably because you have >2k members, that’s why it’s taken so long to run.
Assuming you have followed instructions correctly and moved the two themes to their appropiate folders, you just need to enable and activate the bphome theme on the main blog, just as though you would for any other theme.
RC means release candidates and it’s a programming term for referring to specific pre-release versions of software. Buddypress has had 2 so far – RC1 and RC2.
On a similar vein, most programmers use something known as a revision control repository throughout development, primarily for easy access to previous versions (“commits” in this context) of software. One of the advantages of this is that it saves duplicating a folder on your computer each time you make progress. Each commit will have a version or release number. Imagine having 1303 folders on your hard drive with only slight differences between them.
As far as we are concerned here, RC1, RC2 and rXXXX (where X are numbers) refer to a particular snapshot or version. Now Buddypress has had it’s version 1.0 release, every live website ought to be running version 1.0.
Rules of thumb: any BP-specific plugins ought to run on v1.0. Any theme that says RC1, though, probably WON’T run on v1.0. There is probably a lot of tutorials etc that refer to a specific release number (like r1303 in your example). That’s just the nature of ongoing development – documentation is prone to getting out of date easily.
If you’re trying to follow some specific instructions and get stuck, just post here and we’ll help.
Burt’s just pointed out on IRC that the name (both in CSS and the name of the directory) should not have a dash (-) in it. That was a recent change in WPMU 2 .7.1 I believe
open up style.css, you need to modify the header (i.e. this section)
/*
Theme Name: BuddyPress Default Home Theme
Theme URI: http://buddypress.com/
Description: A widget framework theme for the home of a BuddyPress enabled installation. This theme is not required to use BuddyPress.
Version: 1.0
Author: Andy Peatling
Author URI: http://apeatling.wordpress.com
*/
