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nevermind, what i was trying to do isn’t going to work anyway

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deactivated it, then reactivated and now everything is playing nicely together… go figure

Thanks so much for your help everyone!!!!!

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That was the culprit! So sad though because it works so well to organize things. I wonder if I activate it again after adding all the groups if everything will still work. Happy and bummed at the same time!

Thank you Mercime! I was about to delete my whole site and start over!!!!

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Problem is visible here: http://www.globalmeditationgroup[dot]com/groups/

Platform 1.1.3 theme
Wordpress 3.1
Buddypress… whatever the newest version is, I installed it through wordpress… so I can’t imagine it would be in the wrong place.

I haven’t done anything with multisite.

Plugins:
oh boy… here we go

add new default avatar
askimet
all in one seo pack
autochimp
ban hammer
bbpress integration
bp group hierarchy
bp xtra signup
buddypress
buddypress humanity
comments cleaner
dropdown menu widget
feedburner feedsmith
forum post notification
google analytics for wordpress
google xml sitemaps with multisite support
gravatar signup encouragement
login logger
use google libraries
user spam remover
visitor maps and who’s online
wordpress importer
wp hide dashboard
wp mail from

Not sure what happened… any ideas would be most welcome! Thank you

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I found a plugin that can back up the buddypress files, but it backs it up to an sql file with the wordpress files included… can i import that into an existing installation without screwing up everything or is there a way to just bring over the forum/group data?

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ooh! awesome, sounds just like what I need to do! thanks so much!!!!!

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hmmmm… that just might work

now i just have to figure out how to create a “blog” tab in the profile to give it a home and get it to run though there. thanks!

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Has anyone figured this one out? I tried putting the code into custom.php and functions.php… but nothing happened. I second the idea above to merge all the personal, friends, groups and mentions into one as well… people are so used to the way fb works, it would be nice to do that for them

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I have groups set up, but I had some people ask for their own “blog” though, which I’m a bit reluctant to do because of spam / server space issues. I thought if it was just a glorified activity stream thing it might be easier to keep under control.

Gravity forms sound interesting… have to look that up, although I don’t think it is what they are asking for… they want their own “home” on the site so to speak.

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problem solved… the www was missing from the addresses of the custom entries. Doh!

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It works if I type the address into the address bar, but not from the menu??? why???

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nevermind that… worked a minute ago, now doesn’t work again. confused.

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seems to be ok, i guess there is a difference between groups/ and groups without the slash at the end… go figure, lol! now i just gotta update the menu

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found one, bp-xtra-signup, i was just looking with the wrong keywords

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Worked perfectly – have it all in a word doc now! THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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thanks guys! i’ve already installed buddypress and bbpress is running through it. i tried to install bbpress by itself using the old sql database first…. and something about it wasnt working, so that is how i ended up over at buddypress which i like better anyway honestly. i’m a bit of a newbie, so i’m afraid if i try option b i might mess something up and make my site implode

going to try using the phpmyadmin as suggested above and even if it takes awhile i don’t mind, i just have some things in those posts that weren’t copied anywhere else before my old host disappeared.

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ok, i’ve figured out the dropdown menu, but the data import from the sql file is still a problem.

not interested in worrying about members at this point, but the topics from the forum i’d like to be able to extract and import… even if i just have to get it to some file that i can copy and paste one by one. any help would be appreciated.

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figured it out, just wasn’t where i thought it would be.