[@mercime Participant 15 years, 5 months ago]

Ah yes, this line in wp-config.php file to allow BP to function on all subsites
`define ( ‘BP_ENABLE_MULTIBLOG’, true );`

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 5 months ago]

Some thoughts:
– Have you checked Apache if “Allow Override All” is enabled ( not commented out)?
– Where is your WP installed – at domain root or in subdirectory? If in subdirectory, the subdirectory name should not named the same as that of BP components – Groups, Members, Activity, Forums. If name of subdirectory is same , you would have to “rename” matching BP component name to something else in your wp-config.php file e.g. `define ( ‘BP_GROUPS_SLUG’, ‘sections’ );` or if your subdirectory is named members, `define ( ‘BP_MEMBERS_SLUG’, ‘scouts’ );`

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 5 months ago]

You mean you want to delete the login link in BP Admin Bar?

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 5 months ago]

Reality is that you would have to be proactive in killing those spam robots and human spammers if you have open registration. Search through BP.org shows many threads which share tips in plugins to use to prevent this and not all are 100% perfect since these spammers are really gung-ho about overcoming such preventions. Having said that, check out this thread – https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/has-anyone-tried-this-spammer-blocking-plugin-with-buddypress/

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 5 months ago]

== however on the sub-domains it does not show up in the navigation menu or in the back-end. ==

That is default behavior, so you haven’t done anything wrong. What exactly do you want? To add a navigation menu of the main site to all subsites? Then you either have to add the source code of the main site’s navigation to your member theme/s or use switch_to_blog function which could be intensive if you have dozens of main navigation links, etc.

== Is it even possible to have one buddypress installation that shows up on all the sub-domains being created with Multi site ==

BP by default is activated in one site of one multisite installation and it aggregates information from main site and subsites (in your case in subdomains) to record the activities of members in said installation.

Now if you want to have multiple BP installs in one WPMS install, check this out – http://wpmututorials.com/news/new-features/multiple-buddypress-social-networks/

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 5 months ago]

== My blog’s sidebar displays at he bottom, but there’s nothing on the side for buddy press. ==

@lizdavalos it very well might that you haven’t made the necessary HTML revamping of the BP template files moved over to the folder of your active WP theme. i.e. you need to impose the HTML structure of your WP theme onto said BP template files – those wil get_header at top and get_footer at bottom.

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 5 months ago]

== There are two options there for ‘My Groups’ and ‘Invites’ ==

That’s from the BP Admin Bar. To create a group, go to http://yoursite.com/groups, then click on “Create a Group” link just beside the page title – Groups Directory. Or to go straight to creating a group, just type in http://yoursite.com/groups/create

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 5 months ago]

Check this out for some tips – http://buddydev.com/buddypress/creating-the-sitewide-globalunified-search-page-for-your-buddypress-theme/

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 5 months ago]

Change to bp-default theme and see if problem persists.

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 5 months ago]

Read through to the end of this thread, no guarantees though
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/creating-extending/forum/topic/auto-group-join-plugin-added/

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 5 months ago]

1. https://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network first with all plugins deactivated and using twentyten theme

2. Then allow Blog Creation in dashboard BuddyPress > General Settings

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 5 months ago]

Looks fine @jwokelly.

Bumping for testers wanted.

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 5 months ago]

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/bp-jobs-board/
http://jobs.wordpress.net/

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 5 months ago]

== I might provide an option to flip all sidebars horizontally. ==

I believe Your Highness would be greatly assisted by the looks of the footer widgets in BP 1.3 bp-default theme.
From the office of the Lord Chamberlain

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 5 months ago]

@LPH2005 did you have the chance to test the bbPress plugin with BP yet? I might be able check this out next weekend, time permitting

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 5 months ago]

Context of “switching sidebar”

– switching sidebar from right of content to left of content is easy via CSS as andrea_r pointed above

– switching sidebar to show different widgets/scripts in respective BP component pages can be implemented in simplest way by adding conditional statements with dynamic widget areas for each component all within sidebar.php. More sophisticated method of doing this can be in adding a special widget which will allow you to do all of the above.

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 5 months ago]

If you use Linux hosting, you won’t need to use index.php in the URL at all and that already solves possible major headaches in the long run

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 5 months ago]

@LPH2005 theme looks nice and clean.

WP themes will look similar at one point or another. I’ve seen freebies with similar design as well, though I suspect many/all of them would warrant a visit to the Theme Decoding Thread https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-requests-for-theme-decoding-in-here-1?replies=424

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 5 months ago]

@ppdesigns == pages I’ve created are mysite/wp/index.php/groups ==
BP devs are going to improve support for Windows – IIS servers since adding that index.php for almost pretty permalinks does throw up errors
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2299 . In the meantime, if you’re working on Windows XP/7 etc, install XAMPP. Or, if you’re on webhost, move to a Linux/Unix server for a more relaxing experience.

@davidbennett what @andrea_r said above. I recommend that you start a new topic of your own.

EDIT- took too long to answer, didn’t see all the conversation already going on

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 5 months ago]

First of all, do not use ALL CAPS to post your issue in this forum, it’s not kosher.

Second, what do you mean you “cannot get the links to work”? You have to be more specific than that – like link redirects to home page or to blank page, etc.

Third, pretty permalinks are required in BuddyPress installations. mod_rewrite must be enabled in your server.
Deactivate BuddyPress and any BP plugins you have installed, change to WP default theme – twentyten – and resolve permalink issues at WordPress forums before activating BuddyPress again.
https://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks
https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting
https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/before-installing/

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 5 months ago]

add code below to your wp-config.php file before the ‘no more edit’ comment

`define( ‘BP_ENABLE_USERNAME_COMPATIBILITY_MODE’, true );`

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 5 months ago]

== Can someone please give me a dullards guide on installing child themes. How I am doing it now because that’s what I’ve read, is to activate the child theme and not the parent theme. But it still ain’t happening.==

The question is whether you created a child theme of bp-default theme or of a WordPress theme.

– If you created a child theme of bp-default theme (https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/), upload the folder you created to server wp-content/themes/, then activate the child theme and you’re good to go and customize further.

– If you created a child theme of a regular WordPress theme, then you also need to install and activate the BP Template Pack plugin to make your child theme compatible with BuddyPress
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-template-pack/
https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/
https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/bp-template-pack-walkthrough-level-easy-2/

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 5 months ago]

https://codex.buddypress.org/extending-buddypress/customizing-labels-messages-and-urls/

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 5 months ago]

This is beta and with some requirements – http://wpmututorials.com/news/new-features/multiple-buddypress-social-networks/

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 5 months ago]

== I installed Template Pack and created Pages (ie: Activity, profile, etc) ==

Are you on BP trunk or BP 1.2.8? If you’re on BP 1.2.8, you do not “create” (Add New > Page – Activity – publish), you just add the links to your WP theme.

== I cannot get the pages to accept my widgets in sidebar ==

Delete the BP pages you created and let BP do its own thing with the BP template files transferred to your active WP theme during the compatibility process.

== This theme has been designed to be used with sidebars. ==

That warning is not caused by the integration process, that’s in the sidebar.php of your WP theme. Which one are you using?