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The one thing that is truly network-wide about BuddyPress is that posts from every blog on the network will get tracked in the activity stream by default. If you turn off blog tracking (Dashboard > BuddyPress > Component Setup) then it’ll be functionally equivalent to having BP installed on a single blog. If you want to exclude single blogs, you could write a little plugin that unhooks the bp_blogs activity actions, and activate it on the blogs that you don’t want tracked.

If you install BP it will install on the main blog. It will not install on other blogs in a MU installation. You can only have it installed on one blog at a time. BuddyPress is very much tied to a theme. So if your main site doesn’t have a BP enabled theme then you really don’t even see it as you need special template files to output BP content

@poodyglitz first thing I’d do is to isolate what could be causing erratic behavior. Deactivate all plugins except BP and change theme to bp-default. Then check if you can now add links and forum posts. If that’s cool, then proceed to activate your theme, then plugins one by one while adding links and forum posts between each activation.

@modemlooper

Ya beat me to it!

It only works on one blog on a multisite installation. The login data is WP user data so that works across all blogs but the actual BP theme/ site attaches to the first blog. If you want to have is separated, like on a url community.url.com then you need to change some settings. https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/install-buddypress-on-a-secondary-blog/

@faceteletv

You’ll need to increase the filesize upload limits. See this post for some helpful tips:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/installing-buddypress/forum/topic/installing-buddypress-1-2-6-to-wordpress-3-0-1/

@v_andreev

Like @modemlooper said, xprofile fields are added through your WordPress backend admin area (MUCH easier than trying to hack your way through register.php).

Go to “Buddypress” > “Profile Field Setup” and add your registration fields there. Any fields you add in the first (“Base”) group will appear on your registration page.

@27Surf

Your frustration is understandable, especially since Modularity Lite is not a Buddypress-ready theme.
Have you tried contacting the theme author for help?
Have you been using the Buddypress Template Pack to modify your theme’s templates for Buddypress?

You can also try other, easier to modify themes that are Buddypress-ready.
I’ve put one together called BuddyLite that has a few one-click options like one or two sidebars, a full-page template (no sidebars), and more. http://buddylite.com/buddylite-basic/
There’s also a premium version – BuddyBuilder – with over 100 options so you can customize the heck out of it! http://buddylite.com/buddybuilder/

I am having trouble getting Facebook to accept a buddy press page – of any sort but the biggest issue is the profile page.
the symptoms are:
facebook reads the url and does nto record the title
but the page does have a title

if you do have a page that does work I would love to see it and examine
the code differences as it may help me discover the issue
gus @proshotphoto.com

It’s a bug. See if you can go to wordpress.org login and change name to not have a space.

No ; if you need to deactivate by re-naming and have ftp access do it that way, as long as the plugin is renamed and nothing else running then you ought to be back in business with WP – I’d be surprised if BP was running or needed renaming but for the sake of it rename it ‘buddypress-deactivated’ then you ought to be able to log in to the dashboard, but do ensure WP is running correctly before returning buddypress to it’s correct name so that it may be activated on the plugins page.

Six posts back??!!

I’m not really sure what you are having a problem with here, but please re-read that post I wrote earlier.

If Buddypress is deactivated and no other themes are installed & running then WP should fall back to using twentyten default theme.

Already explained that! in the crudest base sense you can rename a plugin to force deactivate it. No plugin would have made any changes to another plugins core files, thus buddypress files would have been fine unless you had modified any.

Deactivate “Suffusion BuddyPress Pack” plugin if you haven’t yet.
Also, why did you have to “re-install” the bp-default folder into bp-themes folder, or do you mean you re-uploaded bp-default theme to wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/ ?

If you can’t get to the dashboard – rename the buddypress plugin navigate to the dashboard /wp-admin/ – login – go to themes ensure that a /the WP default theme is selected check the site and confirm before doing anything that WP is running correctly (check things such as permalinks are functioning correctly) if all is good rename BP to correct name navigate to plugins – activate BP and select the bp-default theme check once more that the site now running BP is looking correct.

I am not going to use that plugin, I have markitup now running on the textareas through my database, with no plugin through a clean install following this guide: http://etivite.com/groups/buddypress/forum/topic/quick-tip-adding-markitup-to-group-forum-textareas/#topic

That plugin has corrupt jquery problems.

You will have to branch the facebook login with buddypress first, you can do this through a plugin.

Than you would take do action hook from the plugin and place it in the admin bar, 2 choices of doing so, in bp-core, or bp-custom

@thetoolman

1) s2member. You’ll likely need to download the zip and upload to your site via ftp ‘cuz it’s a huge plugin.
http://www.primothemes.com/post/product/s2member-membership-plugin-with-paypal/
2) Buddypress includes a private messaging system (kinda like internal email) but there are a few chat plugins available too. See this post:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/miscellaneous/forum/topic/chat-rooms-chat-scripts-any-recommendations/

Hope this helps!