[@mercime Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

“I want to have many users, major emphasis on articles and basically block out all the rest.”
Single install of WP 3.0.1 and you[ don’t even need BuddyPress. You can even use the Mingle Forums plugin which doesn’t require the Mingle plugin or SimplePress Forum plugin. As for central profile area, you can create WP author template plus a WP page template coded to taste for list of authors and you’re done.

[@mercime Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

@imjscn what BP/WP versions are you using? What are the labels/fields for the 2 profile fields which are exhibiting meaningless letters?

[@mercime Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

@jimboba

Re: “incurred hnla’s dismissal?”
Do not take things personally. @hnla has assisted hundreds of users in this forum and some questions were out of this world compared to your questions.

Re: “Page Not Found” errors
– Change Settings > Permalinks to other than default.
– Activate bp-default theme to check links to BP components. When that works, insatll/create child theme of bp-default theme OR use the BP Template Pack if you want to use WP theme.

[@mercime Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

http://translate.google.com/#zh-CN

[@mercime Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

@Tolden Do post in the plugin’s forums
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/buddypress-private-community/forum/

[@mercime Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

They got it wrong. It should be the other way around – Who needs Jomsocial if you can get BuddyPress?

[@mercime Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

@ewebber glad you fixed it and seconding what DJPaul said, thank you for letting us know.

[@mercime Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

+1

[@mercime Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

Deactivate BuddyPress and BP Plugins, set Appearance to a regular WP theme.
Then go back and activate BuddyPress only, set Appearance to BP-compatible theme and go to frontend.

[@mercime Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

@mdehart85 With WP 3.0.1 you can go mulisite in subdirectory mode then, as @pcwriter mentioned above, install BP in secondary blog. You can have different themes on each site.

If for your own reasons you still want the separate WP blogs using same database – read this. Make sure that both WP installs are working before installing BP in the 2nd WP install.

[@mercime Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

@latenitebooks plugin delayed because of another plugin.
There are non-plugin solutions which would involve manually adding javascript on relevant pages and code within respective forms. Also, If I’m not mistaken, the plugin I mentioned would be good for child themes of bp-default theme but would require some addition of template tags for non-bp-default themes.

[@mercime Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

BuddyPress can only be installed in one site of your WP multisite. There’s no BPMU or BPMS at this time.

[@mercime Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

The plugin does not resolve the issue. It was my bad, as @hnla mentioned BP has checks to prevent duplicate usernames. The thing is, if the issue was brought about by what I mentioned above, then members should be taught to use @mentions with usernames instead of first names. Perhaps a plugin which shows a popup of “Franks” for member to choose from should be available to prevent breach of privacy.

[@mercime Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

Bless my soul next thing you know some Hot Patootie will be closing this thread

@fsdasdfasdff no offense meant let us know if the case of the duplicate Frank was caused by the error in @mentions. Cheers.

[@mercime Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

BuddyPress works in single site mode. The only time you want multisite or network is if you want to allow your members to create blogs.

If that’s the case, deactivate BuddyPress. Then follow steps to create a network here – https://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network. Then double-check your WordPress is working as it should before installing BuddyPress – https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/before-installing/

[@mercime Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

True @hnla, there shouldn’t be a duplicate username in the first place.
It could be that a member named “Frank Furter” whose username may be something else like frankfurter messaged Anne who mistakenly replied to @frank instead of @frankfurter

[@mercime Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

@m4cgyver post in the plugin’s forums https://buddypress.org/community/groups/bp-album/forum/

[@mercime Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

Do you mean you cannot edit the WordPress theme from theme editor? Or that you revised your WP theme’s index.php, uploaded it to server and revisions do not show?

[@mercime Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

https://codex.buddypress.org/buddypress-site-administration/using-an-existing-bbpress-installation/

[@mercime Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

Build Child theme of bp-default then copy header.php from bp-default theme into your child theme. Delete lines 51-55.

[@mercime Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/install-buddypress-on-a-secondary-blog/

[@mercime Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

This plugin at bottom of post would help you – Creating a Buddypress/Wordpress Username availability checker for your site

[@mercime Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

You have more than one problem in your install unlike the singular issues posted above. Before blaming everything on BuddyPress, make sure you’ve got your WordPress working https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/before-installing/. Where are you hosted? Single site or Multisite? BP/WP versions used?

[@mercime Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

There are Blogs, Forums, Members, and Groups Directories. What kind of directory are you looking for specifically?

[@mercime Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

@airrykah deactivate BuddyPress. It depends on your WordPress installation. Check if your install is sending out activation emails to those registering. Find resolution for your email problem at WordPress.org forums before activating BuddyPress.

If your WP activation email is working, deactivate any BP registration plugins and see if regular registration works.

Edit – there’s also a workaround, see if this works for you – https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/faqs/specific-faqs/#register