[Ron Rennick]

Will your mention of @wpmuguru send them a notification?

Yes it does

The meta key is sitewide_tags_blog and it contains an array. However if you want to disable SWT on a single blog / site I have a post here: http://wpmututorials.com/plugins/turn-off-sitewide-tags-on-special-blogs/

[Ron Rennick]

An example of the network wide menu plugin is http://www.umw.edu.

Per http://ten-321.com/blog/portfolio/university-of-mary-washington/, the UMW website is a WP multi-network install consisting of 213 WP sites. If you visit any of the sites in that install you see the same primary navigation menu (the first menu item is About UMW).

[Ron Rennick]

An example of the network wide menu plugin is http://www.umw.edu.

Per http://ten-321.com/blog/portfolio/university-of-mary-washington/, the UMW website is a WP multi-network install consisting of 213 WP sites. If you visit any of the sites in that install you see the same primary navigation menu (the first menu item is About UMW).

[Ron Rennick]

As long as you make a complete backup of the user, usermeta & BP tables and restore those to your single site you should be ok. (Export & import the blog content, of course).

You will need to update the wp_x_* user meta keys to be wp_* in the usermeta table.

[Ron Rennick]

You could strip it down to just groups that the person is an admin of with

`if( !bp_group_is_admin() ) { continue; }`

However, that wouldn’t adjust your counts/pagination.

[Ron Rennick]

I have both a dev and live BP site running with BP_ENABLE_MULTIBLOG and the BP social network works fine on all sites/blogs. So, if it’s not working for you on the sub sites (with or without the patch), then you have another issue somewhere (conflicting plugin, etc.).

Assuming the patch is added to BP, I will be writing a simple plugin that will segregate BP by WP network.

[Ron Rennick]

Did you define BP_ENABLE_MULTIBLOG in your wp-config.php?

If you want to run BP on all of the sites/blogs in your network, that’s done with the constant above. That isn’t what my patch was for. Secondly, my patch only provides hooks for a plugin to implement social network segregation. With just my patch applied BP should continue to work the way it did without the patch.

[Ron Rennick]

Folks,

The issue here with 3.0 is that if an existing WP 2.9.2 install with uploaded media upgrades to 3.0 and enables the network the blog option for the upload_path can’t be changed to the blogs.dir folder because the existing media becomes inaccessible.

For now, if you are looking to go to multiple blogs after install, then you should install MU 2.9.2 and upgrade that to 3.0 instead of installing WP 2..9.2.

[Ron Rennick]

@Mariusooms – I removed the tag before 1.2 came out because it wasn’t compatible with 1.2 (at that time). I thought I had added it back before building the zip.

“Now that Themeshaper and Thematic are part of the WordPress core effort” – Not sure what you have heard, but neither Themeshaper not Thematic are part of WordPress core.

Buddymatic 1.2 uses the template pack that @apeatling developed for WP themes. I’ll check that and see if there have been updates.

[Ron Rennick]

“why would it be preferable to keep the navigation bars separate by default”

To maintain computability with child themes. There are many ways to generate navigation menus in WP. If I attach the BP navigation to a specific method then child themes that use a different method won’t have the BP navigation.

[Ron Rennick]

@zoltok – I think what I’ll do for using a single navbar is create a second child theme that’s set up that way.

@sandeepdude – thanks for reporting the CSS issues

[Ron Rennick]

I uploaded a new version with those 2 items fixed: http://freebpthemes.com/themes/buddymatic/

[Ron Rennick]

@sandeepdude – I noticed that today. I’ll see if I can fix that tonight.

@zoltok – do you have the adminbar disabled in your install?

[Ron Rennick]

Which version of BP are you running? Same for WP/WPMU?

[Ron Rennick]

Added notes:

This version of Buddymatic has two template files: Blog Page & Activity Page. You can create pages using either template.

If you want to have Activity on the homepage, go to Settings -> Reading and choose the activity page you created for your front page.

[Ron Rennick]

The WordPress theme system loads all template files from either STYLESHEETPATH or TEMPLATEPATH locations.

[Ron Rennick]

Actually, the BP registration process does use registration/register.php in the theme folder. Can you check and see if that file is there.

[Ron Rennick]

Buddymatic doesn’t do any handling of the contents of the admin bar. Sounds like one of your upgrades didn’t complete successfully.

Try reinstalling BP first, then MU.

[Ron Rennick]

I uploaded hybrid buddy before Justin released 0.7. My next version (other than bug fixes to the current one) of hybrid buddy will be for BP 1.2 and will have the 2.9 changes from hybrid.

[Ron Rennick]

Another possibility is a large table in the database that is having frequent data insertions/changes/deletions.

[Ron Rennick]

If you want to show the avatar on each post then you would get the avatar for $post->post_author. It would probably be a very minor tweak to the theme.

[Ron Rennick]

I haven’t thought through how practical or difficult it would be to support the existing component structure. But, what if there was a base component class that all components extended (the way widgets extend the base widget).

In the child class you would need a registration process providing the component identifiers & possibly the URI to catch, activity logging, settings maintenance handler, a display handler, etc.

The end result would be that BuddyPress would become an activity based framework that the features plugged into.

[Ron Rennick]

@Andy – A DB suggestion:

Make a register component api so that all components that are going to record in the SWA have to register. The registration process should occur at plugin activation and the component name strings are stored in a component table.

Once that is in place then you can eliminate the varchar component fields and replace with an int(11). This would reduce space in the table and improve lookup speed significantly when filtering.

[Ron Rennick]

There are more free buddypress themes at http://freebpthemes.com.

The list at https://buddypress.org/extend/themes/ should have more on it in the next couple weeks. Once updated that list will include https://wordpress.org/extend/themes/tags/buddypress.

[Ron Rennick]

If you deactivate buddypress, do your permalinks work?