I am afraid I cannot confirm this – every time I create a new subsite, I need to restore all setting from scratch. This includes theme settings (new sites start off with a nag screen that they need a static page to be set up, site logo is missing, etc.) and Buddypress setting as well.
In a way it is even logical, because the new subsite has its own pages, so unless Buddypress creates them itself, I don’t see how or why the installation could recycle the pages from the parent site.
The problem is that I am launching a network where users can create their own subsites. I anticipate that the fact that each site is initially “broken” and needs to be fixed will create a constant stream of support requests that will make things fairly inconvenient to handle.
I don’t exactly know what the “slight changes” in existent WP installs are that would cause issues if Buddypress created the registration and activation pages automatically – but I am wondering how hard it would be to detect the environment, and default to creating those pages automatically for fresh installs only. Hell, even a “use at your own risk” config switch that would change the behavior for people like me would easily do the trick.
Being a webmaster myself, I have always looked at the time something takes AND the number of people affected. So yes, it’s only a minute, but if it affects 10,000 people and you can get rid of the minute, you still have 10,000 minutes saved for the better things in life. 😉
You guys are hijacking my thread. My question was to learn why Buddypress behaves like this by design. Now you are swamping my thread with your personal malfunction issues. Is it really too much asked for nowadays to show a bit of netiquette and open your own threads for those?
