[@mercime Participant 16 years, 5 months ago]

Have you created a Group in your install? Forum topics are associated with Groups. If the issue is other than that, it would help if you shared what WPMU and BP versions you are using.

[@mercime Participant 16 years, 5 months ago]

You go to the dashboard of the blog where you installed BP then Appearance > Themes – choose the theme you want.

[@mercime Participant 16 years, 5 months ago]

You cannot use the admin panel of bbPress if you use the one/two click BuddyPress installation. If you want a bbPress admin panel and want to install bbPress plugins, you need to install bbPress externally, then use the WordPress integration plugin, then you go to BuddyPress Forum component and click on “I want to use exisiting bbPress forum”

[@mercime Participant 16 years, 5 months ago]

Hey boonika, just sharing what I discovered when I tested BP in blog_id_2. I am using WPMU as CMS for the project and wanted all Pages in blog_id_1 and subblogs have switch_to_blog in main navigation to get main nav of blog_id_1. There might be a work-around, but I just took the path of least resistance and with URL I want, install BP in blog_id_1

[@mercime Participant 16 years, 5 months ago]

“BuddyPress on a sub-blog not the root blog”

Curious and a bit off-topic, sorry boonika: Back in BP 1.1, when I tested and run BP on blog_id_2 e,g, http://members.mysite.com/ – when a member created a blog, the URL would come up like e.g. http://username.members.mysite.com/ instead of the URL I want i.e. http://username.mysite.com/ so it turned me off and made me restart development with BP in blog_id_1 to present … Doesn’t this hold true anymore in BP 1.2?

Thanks

[@mercime Participant 16 years, 5 months ago]

I’ve activated and deactivated BP in WPMU admin and had no problems with it. As stripedsquirrel listed above, to rephrase – “It’s very important to first deactivate any plugins that require BuddyPress to run before deactivating BuddyPress plugin. Otherwise, yeah, you will get white screen in frontend and backend.

As for upgrading, not to encourage any bad practices but just to share that I am in project development mode right now and I’ve upgrading both WPMU/BP from trunks almost every other day this December without deactivating any plugins and did not get white screen – except the upgrade to WPMU 2.9 beta 2 trunk when it added a commentmeta table for each blog in WPMU install and run mysite.com/wp-admin/upgrade.php . Solution: Running mysite.com/wp-admin/wpmu-upgrade-site.php gave me back my frontend and backend.

[@mercime Participant 16 years, 5 months ago]

Sounds cool to me. Hopefully it will work with Jeff’s Privacy Control Plugin as well.

[@mercime Participant 16 years, 5 months ago]

My bad. Nix the above re feedback on the 1.2 trunk bp-default theme. It was the egghead attempting to create a child theme while still full of eggnog :-9 Placed one question mark too many in some conditional tags – really thought there were only one apiece. Happy New Year!

[@mercime Participant 16 years, 5 months ago]

WPMU 2.9 trunk-r2041 and BP 1.2 trunk-r2207

– BP on blog_ID_1 and WPMU used as CMS

Feedback: Child theme of 1.2 trunk bp-default theme

Getting white screen in front end (all sections) when creating a new Child theme based on new bp-default theme.

– If I add customized header.php and footer.php (with only additional divs), I get white screen,

– If I do not upload header.php and footer.php but add customized home.php, I get white screen.

– Note: the only way I got the child theme recognized was by copying code of activity/index.php over home.php in bp-default theme folder, but like mentioned above, other customizations except the sidebar.php, white screened on me. Too much eggnog last night?

Feedback: Child theme of 1.2 trunk bp-sn-parent theme

– custom Child themes of old bp-sn-parent theme transition well to new bp-sn-parents theme generally except Forums pages – only one group shown and nothing else

[@mercime Participant 16 years, 5 months ago]

@Matt. WPMU 2.9 not BP, will add new table, commentmeta, to database for EACH blog in WPMU install. So if you’re using trac for BP, might I suggest, you also test WPMU 2.9 trac now in mirror install if possible, before many blogs have been installed in your current set up. Less hiccups with fewer number of blogs.

My 2 cents

[@mercime Participant 16 years, 5 months ago]

You’re right, I caught that after my post here. The main blog was in maintenance mode and set up for registered users only That is a nifty widget, thanks again for sharing.

[@mercime Participant 16 years, 5 months ago]

So the gist isn’t making other plugins using deprecated code functional in BP 1.2 and/or not rendering white screens? Probably was wishful thinking on my part

[@mercime Participant 16 years, 5 months ago]

Checked this out in install with WPMU 2.9beta trunk and BP 1.2 trunk. Great idea for letting us add the CSS ourselves. Very cool.

One thing, it’s not pulling the posts from blog_id_1

[@mercime Participant 16 years, 5 months ago]

There may be hope yet. Not to put any pressure on Andy – his response in testbp.org forum re white screens rendered by plugins using deprecated code, “I’ll be supplying a backwards compatibility plugin” Reference

[@mercime Participant 16 years, 5 months ago]

Worked for me too in 1.1.3 but now renders blank screen frontend and backend with BP latest trunk and WPMU 2.9.beta2.

[@mercime Participant 16 years, 5 months ago]

Posted this solution in testbp.org forum – http://testbp.org/groups/buddypress-1-2-bug-reports/

[@mercime Participant 16 years, 5 months ago]

Bravo 1stAngel! Thank you for sharing. Took loads off “worry” time. Should submit this to Andy. Your solution worked perfectly in dev install with BP latest trunk and WPMU 2.9beta latest trunk as well.

Thanks again

[@mercime Participant 16 years, 5 months ago]

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[@mercime Participant 16 years, 6 months ago]

“The new bp-default theme will actually be a parent theme.”

Just downloaded trunk-r2184. I was wondering about that when I opened the folder. Thank you Andy for this impressive work as always.

[@mercime Participant 16 years, 6 months ago]

Opened up the same message myself a few minutes ago. Thanks.

[@mercime Participant 16 years, 6 months ago]

@foodin65 – You could make your main site’s theme into a BP child theme to make it easier to get the functionalities you want in your site and make it future-proof. Given that Andy has coded the BP Parent Theme with dynamic and multiple body classes as well as other styling hooks within the body content, you could target certain sections of the site with different layouts, it makes a lot of sense.

With child themes, updating BuddyPress is almost seamless. You would only need to add or update some selectors and/or declarations in style.css instead of having to find out almost each and every new BP feature and updating them in your WP-turned-BP theme files plus style.css.

[@mercime Participant 16 years, 6 months ago]

“why not also give a user his own forum” – let’s imagine how many tables are going to be created in DB per blog and per forum but then, there’s the multi-DB plugin.

btw, speaking of bbpress, Matt is calling for more people to help out

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/help-out-with-bbpress

[@mercime Participant 16 years, 6 months ago]

Hi Jeff, ready to test the Privacy Component as well

[@mercime Participant 16 years, 6 months ago]

The bp-default theme is a “child theme” of bp-sn-parent theme, and you copy the bp-default theme and rename the theme folder to e.g. mythemename to make a child theme of your own. It’s not easy. If you have strong CSS foundation and Firebug, this process will take a few hours to tweak if you already have a design in mind.

https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/ Plus google “create wordpress child themes” or check out ” free BuddyPress child themes”

Btw, you can download latest BP 1.1.3 already

[@mercime Participant 16 years, 6 months ago]

Yup. Per buddydress.com notes the theme was good to BP 1.0 only. Change back to bp-default theme to get home page back to normal.