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Hi, I’m a newbie too, looking to do the same thing as well. Hopefully it will be simple

@techguy Thank you.

@jennybeaumont this is something you should post over at https://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite where I recall seeing a solution to this. Very helpful and knowledgeable Mods will point you in the right direction.

Why not? It fixes a server configuration problem in many cases, which is probably what your problem is.

@Hysteriux Sorry if my comment assumed you weren’t familiar with open source projects. I apologize that it came across that way. My point was just to highlight that the shortcomings of the website, descriptions, possibilities, examples, etc are due to BuddyPress being open source that a lot of the descriptions of what it can do are done by volunteers (as you know). BuddyPress currently has a great group of programmers actively working on it, but doesn’t have nearly as many other people working on the “marketing” and “communication” side of it like many of the other large open source projects you mentioned have. This is still a major need in my opinion for the BuddyPress project.

Plus, as you mention, BuddyPress isn’t like many of the other open source projects where it was purpose built for something specific (blogging, forums, etc) or at least that’s not how it’s evolved. So, it’s quite a challenge to describe what BuddyPress can do since it’s being used in so many different ways. I think the Showcase page was/is an attempt at trying to feature the ways BuddyPress can be used: https://buddypress.org/showcase/

Outside of the showcase, I’m not sure anyone’s come up with a better way to show the various permutations that are possible with BuddyPress and how it’s being used or no one’s had the time to implement a new way to communicate it. I think the best way is to try it out and play with it to see.

“I’m just kindly asking for examples of constructive, every-day use of it. What the devs actually intended BP’s role to be and function to fill. “

Since you asked so kindly, here’s my take on a few ways that BuddyPress is being used (in no particular order):
-Group Centric – Communities organized around a BuddyPress group and interaction in the group while leveraging other things like profiles, messaging, etc lightly.
-Forum Centric – Communities organized around Forum discussions while leveraging other things like profiles, messaging, etc lightly.
-Blog Centric – Adding community features around a blog or network of blogs.
-Profile Centric – The profile is the centerpiece of the community and you create interactions between profiles.
-Wiki (plugin) centric – Some take a BuddyPress plugin and make that the core of their website (like the wiki plugin) and then lightly use the other things like profiles, messaging, etc lightly.

I’m sure there are more creative ways it’s being used. I hope this helps you better understand different ways to use BuddyPress. Another place to see some real world examples is: http://www.bpinspire.com/

Sometimes, enabling the plugin email from, solve the problem, but I don’t like this option.

@Hysteriux Great comment…I believe you’ve expressed the feelings of many.

I’m also new to BP, and i also experienced it as a chaotic useless mess. But now, i get the logic. BP is not a ready to use tool. It depends on what you need for your site. It has some possibilities that “may” be handy for your site. If you install all of it’s components without really thinking before…it will overwhelm you. Install it, try things out, one at the time. Think how it can improve your site ‘or not’. Maybe you’re better of with a standard forum.

thanks @boonebgorges for the mention

I’m not sure this is a bp-moderation problem, from the traces I see bpmod is calling bp_forums_get_topic_posts that load bbpress that tries to alter the db causing the error (the altered tables are not bpmod tables either), bpmod could just be the first to call something forum related and makes bp load bb.

@unwiredtech you could try disabling bpmod and see if the forums work correctly without errors, but I feel its more likely that something is wrong with bb db upgrading, maybe some corruption or wrong db version stored in the options.
Anyway if you narrow down the problem to bp-moderation please write to the plugin forum https://buddypress.org/community/groups/bp-moderation/forum/ or mention me, I’m not usually around here but I follow the plugin activities via rss.

@ClubUgly change to bp-default theme. As Site/Super admin, on the front end you’ll already see the “Delete” button on the right of “Comment” and “Favorite” buttons right after each post in Activity Stream for current BP version.

Not clear whether you couldn’t access wp-admin right after you installed BuddyPress or not. If so, if you can’t access wp-admin, deactivate BuddyPress via FTP/cpanel/etc. and rename the buddypress folder in wp-content/plugins/ to something like buddypress-xx

As for GoDaddy hosting, I have read many heartaches of people trying to install BuddyPress and/or go Multisite there with shared hosting or better.

@lndlyb4

Please post help requests for BP-Album in our forum. We don’t see them when you post them out here.

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/bp-album/forum/

^F^

Make sure you followed instructions here https://codex.buddypress.org/buddypress-site-administration/deleting-buddypress/

Before installing BuddyPress, make sure that your pretty permalinks are working in your WordPress installation and that you can access your .htaccess file. Otherwise, please resolve these issues at WP forums first – https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting

I did the same thing… Did you find a fix for this?

@techguy

The mere fact that my post came across as so inexperienced to you is by itself a quite astonishing example of how confusing BP can be. I’ve been working with open-source software since i was 13 years old, since before i knew what it meant. phpBB, SMF, Joomla, Drupal etc are all open-source too. The android OS is. They make sense because their developers created them to fill an actual role. They have an actual use by default and as it happens also are easily expandable. Are you saying that these products make less sense than their closed-source counterparts? Saying that BP isn’t supposed to make sense until its users change it into their own isn’t quite the kind of argument i was expecting from an internet entrepreneur. BP would make just as little sense to me if it was closed.

My main point was not at all to imply that BP is missing something, albeit the topic starter Neonocon seemingly was aiming at the lack of a manual for it. I’m just kindly asking for examples of constructive, every-day use of it. What the devs actually intended BP’s role to be and function to fill. That’s not an unfair question, is it? Again, i don’t mean to insult. I’m asking because i’m genuinely curious about a piece of software that, although its host-program (WP) makes fine sense albeit its open-source status, is as mysterious as it is alluring.