[@mercime Participant 15 years, 10 months ago]

=== gonna take a semi-genius and the patience of a saint to get rolling. holy cow.===

You don’t need to be a semi-genius, but patience of saint would be applicable

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 10 months ago]

Sure. There’s one featured WordPress.tv presentation from WordCamp Yokohama. It’s a Japanese site (with English translation), http://loftwork.com, which only used BuddyPress components like Blog Tracking, Activity Streams, Private Messaging and Extended Profiles. Didn’t use Friends, Groups and Forums.
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[@mercime Participant 15 years, 10 months ago]

Rename the buddypress folder in wp-plugins via FTP or cPanel to deactivate BuddyPress.

The correct translation in WP lingo is “You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.” And while this was triggered by activating BuddyPress, it starts with your WordPress installation.

There are plenty of threads in WP.org forums and Google search with different solutions to get back your Admin/Super Admin privilege in the installation. Good luck.

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 10 months ago]

@gunju2221 3 stars for the BP Ajax-Chat Plugin which is different from the BP Chat plugin. It can get confusing with the similar names

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 10 months ago]

Yeah, I saw that WP.org thread and Andrea_r gave answer there and Ipstenu as well
@wp_y2m5tr take time to read the link given you in that thread

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 10 months ago]

Try out the free BP Chat plugin from @sbrajesh http://buddydev.com/plugins/bp-chat/

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 10 months ago]

You might want to try out (ala Facebook chat) BP-Chat on beta by @sbrajesh http://buddydev.com/plugins/bp-chat/

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 10 months ago]

Saw your post in WP.org forums https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-rows-in-mysql-tables?replies=4

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 10 months ago]

The best solution is to re-do the whole installation manually, as Andrea_r mentioned. If you’re getting into BuddyPress where you would have to add some configurations manually in htaccess/wp-config.php etc., then manual WP install and making it multisite would be good knowledge to have and good practice to boot.
https://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 10 months ago]

If you created a parent theme and your subsites have child themes based on parent theme, add this to parent theme’s functions.php file
`<?php
/* force max-width for images and embeds */
$GLOBALS = $content_width = 600;
?>`
change 600 to whatever image size you want. This will override whatever number you set in individual sites’ Media settings for “Large”

As for implementation for all different themes within your installation, you could create a new file `my-maxwidth.php`, paste the code given above there and upload to mu-plugins folder. Make sure that the width you add there is good for all the themes you have allowed for use of members in Super Admin > Themes.

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 10 months ago]

@Tekuan What techguy said.
Which BP Chat plugin caused that problem?

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 10 months ago]

@bcade someone posted the same thing about “Enable Multisite Plugin” in WordPress.org forums, see if solution provided there will work for you.
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-enable-multi-site-enable-mult-site-only-partially-worked?replies=3

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 10 months ago]

https://codex.buddypress.org/extending-buddypress/changing-internal-configuration-settings/
Set which blog ID BuddyPress will run on – in your wp-config.php file add this

`define ( ‘BP_ROOT_BLOG’, $blog_id );`

where $blog_id is replaced with Site Admin’s blog ID #

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 10 months ago]

@aphrodite @DJPaul theasybutton.com had a great tutorial (July 2009 – 42 steps in my notes) integrating bbPress 1.0.2, WPMU 2.8.4a, BuddyPress 1.0.3 which worked perfectly in old testbed but the link goes to 404 page now. I wouldn’t know if the integration would have held up with the code changes in current BP and WP versions.

There’s an older tutorial http://umwblogs.org/wiki/index.php/Integrating_WPMu,_BuddyPress,_and_bbPress which I never tried before but might help you.

As it is, you might want to wait till bbPress-the-plugin version rolls out after bbPress 1.0.3 is released – https://trac.bbpress.org/roadmap.

There’s a premium BuddyPress Global Forums plugin which I am using right now. You have a sitewide forum which integrates with BP’s group forum component or not depending on preference.

Good luck.

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 10 months ago]

Bluehost problem https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/faqs/specific-faqs/

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 10 months ago]

1. Go to Google.com
2. Search for “tinychat wordpress”
3. Click on link “WordPress > Tinychat < WordPress plugins"

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 10 months ago]

I forgot to add — add this to your child theme’s functions.php (if you don’t have one, create one)
`<?php
define( ‘HEADER_IMAGE_HEIGHT’, 200 );
?>`
adjust to taste

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 10 months ago]

@jeffcgreiner I see your BP adminbar at the top of your pages – FF, Safari, Chrome. I see it styled but placed below your footer in IE6

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 10 months ago]

I don’t believe Giving WordPress its own directory works with BuddyPress showing up in the root when your WP is actually in the directory. Much like WP Multisite won’t work when you give WP its own directory. Calling on devs @DJPaul @boonebgorges @johnjamesjacoby. Is this a warning we should also add in Codex?

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 10 months ago]

Create a child theme of bp-default theme.
Re: background color = You need to override default style by changing the background color and image from
`body {
background: #eaeaea url( ../images/background.gif ) top left repeat-x;
…
}`
to something like the following which you should add in child theme’s style.css
`body {
background: #fffff none;
}`
which you adjust to taste.

Re: header size change height set in default theme by adding this to your child theme’s style.css
#header{
height: 200px;
}
adjust to taste.

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 10 months ago]

Blogs: You have to enable multisite in your WP install first before you can let journalists create their own blogs. Read how to https://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network

Template Pack: Here’s a BP Template Pack walkthrough which could shed some light on how to add styles – https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/bp-template-pack-walkthrough-level-easy-2/
Basically, you copy some styling from bp-default theme and tweak it to taste.

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 10 months ago]

What karmatosed said. For #1 with Template Pack, make sure you have “ before ending “ tag in `footer.php`

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 10 months ago]

@andrea_r I recall a thread about this some time ago and the **hint** guru **cough**
With the major changes between BP 1.2+ and BP 1.3 bleeding I see right now, could be some devs are waiting till after BP 1.3 stable to make “some time to work on it”

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 10 months ago]

@karmatosed tested that plugin and it’s not up to date

@avahaf This is an alternative way of having a group blog without requiring a new physical blog

Blog Categories For Groups

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 10 months ago]

== hmmm I paid for this and get charged monthly somebody please give us the fix. ==
@dougison WP and BP are free downloads, perhaps you mean you’re paying for your hosting?

In any case, did you use the auto-install of BP? Then try to upload BuddyPress plugin again via FTP or cPanel. After activating BuddyPress, you should see the bp-default theme when you go to dashboard > Appearance > Themes.