[@mercime Participant 15 years, 7 months ago]

What do you think?

Create a network and go learn as much as you can before you open up a service for free and for pay where users will expect no downtime and top-notch support, among many other demands – reasonable or not Good luck.

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 7 months ago]

@tertutten, glad it worked out for you

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 7 months ago]

Post content of your htaccess file here

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 7 months ago]

Copy activity/index.php from bp-default to your child theme, and delete lines 12 – 14
https://trac.buddypress.org/browser/tags/1.2.8/bp-themes/bp-default/activity/index.php#L12

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 7 months ago]

One that works for me – audio, video and images – is BP Gallery plugin (premium $30)

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 7 months ago]

BuddyPress > General Settings “Disable activity stream commenting on blog and forum posts?:”

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 7 months ago]

What’s in your .htaccess file?

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 7 months ago]

=== How easy is it to set up a system similar to EduBlog ===

You can, but it’s not easy. Dedicated servers, multiple databases, a team of experts – coders, programmers, tech support personnel. etc. etc. etc. It’s akin to WordPress.com http://edublogs.org/why-edublogs/

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 7 months ago]

There’s the external bbPress integration with BuddyPress which is the tougher route and then there’s the internal bbPress integration with BuddyPress that’s built-in and tied in groups. The last time I ever did the external bbPress integration was in BP 1.1.2 and it took around 45 steps over a few hours because of some hiccups in integration along the way. Since then, it’s been internal bbPress integration all the way
https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/configure-buddypress-components/#forums-setup
https://codex.buddypress.org/buddypress-site-administration/buddypress-forum/

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 7 months ago]

Deactivate BuddyPress and BP plugins. You have to resolve your multisite installation before installing/activating BuddyPress. https://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite

Post what’s in your htaccess file here or at the other forum.

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 7 months ago]

@jepucel cool

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 7 months ago]

Disclaimer: I don’t have copy of your premium theme so there might be other factors which will affect structure.

In any case, to start off, open up the activity/index.php file you downloaded along with 13 other files in 6 different BP template pack folders and make following changes:

At top of file, replace
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with

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Then at the bottom of that file, replace

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with

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You do this with the rest of the 13 BP template pack files then upload revisions to server.

After this, you would need to adjust styling. Download Firebug add-on for Mozilla Firefox to help you out.

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 7 months ago]

@allivant I see you installed BP template pack. You will need to make adjustments to the HTML structure of the template pack files transferred over to your WP theme folder during the process. You need to download those folders and files to your computer, revise per your WP theme structure and upload revisions to theme folder in server.
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, 7 months ago]

@sharanchahal re #1 Portugese – you should check the forum topics you started.
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/installing-buddypress/forum/topic/install-multisite/#post-92065

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 7 months ago]

Good, it should The exclamation mark before is_user_logged_in means “not” Ergo, it’s means the paragraph is seen if user is NOT logged in.

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 7 months ago]

Something like this –

`

Sorry, your are not currently logged in. You may do so here ..

`

then add styling in stylesheet e.g.

`p.not-logged-in {
color: #000066;
font-weight: bold;
}`

Adjust to taste.

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 7 months ago]

Sure. BuddyPress activated on 2 separate WP installations with 2 separate databases is cool. You can only be limited by your server/hosting plan – bandwith, memory, etc.

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 7 months ago]

Good call. Looking forward to your successful report here

Might I add that if you’re planning to allow your users to create blogs, go multisite (create a network) first before installing BuddyPress.

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 7 months ago]

=== but other than my main blog, brand new install? ===

It all depends on a variety of factors which include what your realistic expectations about adding BuddyPress are. I don’t know what your current site/blog is all about so only you can determine if social networking will enhance your current site’s branding or if it would be better if the social networking feature was a separate entity/site altogether.

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 7 months ago]

=== … relocating my .htaccess file to various locations throughout the /var/www/html hierarchy … I thought the BuddyPress installation instructions were pretty straightforward, but it seems to actually work in a whole different way from what is documented. ===

BuddyPress installation is pretty straightforward when server configuration is stable and meets standard requirements https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/before-installing/
which includes WordPress install already working with pretty permalinks at the very least https://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks#Using_.22Pretty.22_permalinks You should read this as it addresses the .htaccess file which is at the crux of the matter

The .htaccess file for your WordPress installation should be where WP is installed.
If WP in root, http://yoursite.com/ then .htaccess should be at http://yoursite.com/.htaccess.
if WP in subdirectory, then .htaccess should be at http://yoursite.com/subdirectory/.htaccess.

Strongly recommend you restart from scratch by deactivating BuddyPress and BP plugins, change theme to default twentyten theme, deleting .htaccess file wherever you placed it and dropping tables in DB. Reinstall WordPress and resolve pretty permalinks issues at https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting before installing BuddyPress.

Good luck.

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 7 months ago]

Go multisite (create a network) and install BuddyPress if you want to allow your users to create a blog/site of their own in your installation. Otherwise, do not create a network, stay single WP installation.

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 7 months ago]

bp-default is running XHTML 1.0 Transitional and therein lies the big difference.

I’ve got my custom bp-default child theme (BP 1.2. passing validation, no errors. In addition, http://testbp.org, BuddyPress’ demo site using bp-default theme (BP 1.3 trunk) has only 2 errors on Activity Stream because of html5 element “role” which is not recognized in validator
http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%2Ftestbp.org%2Factivity%2F

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 7 months ago]

@bhain3s BP 1.2.8?

@junvette issues reported re 1 and 1 hosting
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/installing-buddypress/forum/topic/error-500-internal-server-error-an-internal-server-error-has-occured-please/#post-23821

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 7 months ago]

=== just want to find a good theme that i wont have to edit soo much. ===

Check out http://www.arrastheme.com/forums/ for tips on how to make theme compatible with BuddyPress. Changes mainly on HTML and style.css. It’s not soooo much

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 7 months ago]

Yes,