[@mercime Participant 16 years, 6 months ago]

Thank you for the update Andy. The new activity streams are rocking

In the meantime, I’m going to play with new Gallery3 beta3 which has a group feature as well.

Thanks again.

[@mercime Participant 16 years, 6 months ago]

Sure. http://example.com/wpmufolder/username/ is OK. In the end, it all depends on how you want to use that WPMU install

[@mercime Participant 16 years, 6 months ago]

Though I’m all for BuddyPress, IMO I think it’s cool that there’s a developer who took the time to create a social networking tool for single WP, even knowing that BuddyPress will be available for single WP with the coming merge. There’s room for the Mingle plugin in the large WP community base.

I’ve tested it on one of my single WP installs, it’s working great and theming was a no brainer It has its limitations (compared to BP) and not perfected at this time, but for those who just want the basic features, its the best SN for single WP users. As for using “BuddyPress” tag to promote the plugin, I say it’s all good marketing since it is ala-buddypress the easy way.

Having said that, we don’t know how long the Mingle developer will continue supporting the plugin. But then, same goes for other plugins in the WP repository, someone could also take up on developing the plugin after original developer drops it. Or, someone could create another plugin like Mingle and BuddyPress … GPL and all

[@mercime Participant 16 years, 6 months ago]

I agree with you Erich73 and so does stwc in his post here where JJJ recommended:

“Take the files from bp-sn-parent/groups/single/forums/ and copy/paste them into the same location in your child theme, then season to taste.”

[@mercime Participant 16 years, 6 months ago]

Hi Andrea_r, waiting for videos to your session/s at http://wordpress.tv/event/wordcamp-new-york/

I tested your theme in a site under development.

WPMU 2.8.5.2 + BP 1.1.2 + bbpress installed via BP one click

Main site with MU Sitewide Tags Pages

BuddyPress main site in blog-ID-2 at http://members.example.org/

Thank you for the clean theme. Without looking at code, i.e., checking it out like a newbie who activated the theme, following are some quick notes:

1. wp-admin-bar – Text (e.g. Org Members) of link to BuddyPress site ( http://members.example.com) shows up in backend (dashboard etc) but does not show up in front end. The link block is there and clickable to main BP site, but the text does not show up. Still, the wp-admin-bar shows correct links to main BP site, etc. throughout the site including sub-blogs.

2. Footer widgets only showing up in only in blog areas – is this the intention?

3. h1 – cannot find it anywhere in the theme. Need at least one h1 per Post or Page

4. Main Nav – link to Forums was not generated to show BP main site nor other subblogs nor main site, while link to a newly activated “Events” plugin page was generated to show in the main nav across all sites. (the link to Forum shows up in this install when I use child theme)

5. Main Nav – like the official bp-child theme, activating the theme in sub-blog for groups or individual members does not show correct links to main BP site features like member/group/blog directory. In order for one theme to be used throughout the site, conditional statement will be needed to show correct links to main BP site conjoined with respective blog’s navigation links.

Quick scan in main BP site (blog_id_2) to see how theme works in different sections

6. Members Section

– directory page – 2 columns – ok

– My own admin individual profile page – skeleton set up with 2 columns where in left column is avatar, options bar and user bar boxes. But there is a large space on the right side as if missing a 3rd column. Checked links in options bar resulted in two columns with links except the ff which has a missing left column – Edit Profile page, Change Avatar page

– If I click on another member’s individual profile page – left column as two user bar boxes unlike the link to my profile which has the options bar and user bar. In addition, when I also am missing the left column with options/users boxes in Blogs link page, Friends link page, Groups link pages plus the Events link page is incorrect and goes to front page of site

7. Groups Section

– directory page – 2 columns – ok

– Group individual page – skeleton set up with 2 columns – but there is a large space on the right side as if missing a 3rd column plus the page is missing all sub-navigations for Creating a Group, Creating forums etc

That’s it for now. As mentioned above, didn’t look at codes “behind the scenes” at this point, only the functionality if newbie user activated it.

Good luck

[@mercime Participant 16 years, 6 months ago]

Instead of touching WPMU core file, create and upload the code of plugin to mu-plugin. See this thread – https://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/14647

This one’s working in my 2.8.5.2 installs and set up for Site Admins only for site security

[@mercime Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

The code must be dropped at or near the top of your wp-config file.

Yes! That worked. Thank you Scotm.

I had searched the forum re how to defining which blog ID BP was going to run in, couldn’t find it so I posted question in https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/run-buddypress-from-sub-blog-or-blog-id-2

KeyMaster or Moderator – please change the topic Run-buddypress-from …. to “resolved” or delete it entirely. I had started that thread using dropdown “not resolved” and after posting, I couldn’t add tags. Nor, after finding the solution in this thread, could I change the status to “solved” or post and refer solution to this thread.

Thank you.