Ok, @mercime you are right I do not need my users to create blogs on my site. Originally all I wanted to do was get the installation wizard to run on my sub-domain. I only installed BP on the primary domain because of a bug in the BP software that would not allow the installation wizard to run on the sub-domain. Now the installation wizard appears on the primary domain (but still not on the sub). The instructions you gave me to get the installation wizard to show up on the sub-domain seemed to only apply if I was running multisite. Is there anything else I can do short of creating multisite to just get the wizard to work on the sub-domain. Thank you very much for your patience with me…
Ok, thanks again @mercime. The only consideration that I have is the fact that I want to get BP working on my sub-domain. If I can do that using 2 instances then I will leave everything alone. It just seemed as though you were saying that I had to enable multisite in order to make that possible. So if what I think you’re saying is correct I do not need to uninstall WP on the subdomain to create a multisite network, I just need to deactivate my plugins and then follow the instructions found here: https://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network (?)
@mercime thank you very much for your help. I was actually running WP in two instances but it sounds like I will need to create a multisite network if I want to get this thing to work properly. I found the instructions for setting up multisite but I have a question about how to proceed. Since I already have WP installed on my sub-domain do I need to uninstall it on the sub-domain first? If so does that just mean that I will delete the folder that was created with the name of the sub-domain in the public_html folder?
Ok, so I am getting the installation wizard on the dashboard for the main site but not the sub-domain. Which means that I can only see the ‘BuddyPress setup’ link underneath the ‘home’ and ‘updates’ links (which is what happens when the installation wizard prompt becomes available) on the primary site and not the sub-domain. If I can just get that to show up on the sub-domain I should be fine. Problem now is that only the sub-domain is using a BP compatible theme. Will it be possible to have an incompatible theme on the main site and a compatible one on the sub-domain which is where I want the functionality in the first place?
