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No problems here. PollDaddy works fine with BuddyPress just as it does with regular WordPress blogs based on my own experience.

Install it through the plugin manager, activate and add short-code to widget/post.

What Modemlooper said. It works just as it would with a regular WordPress blog without interacting with BuddyPress in terms of the poll results and functionality.

Here’s the details for the free PollDaddy account:

Free
$0 forever
100 Survey Responses per Month
10 Questions per Survey
Polldaddy Link in Content
Basic Poll & Survey Reports
1 User Accounts

A BuddyPress specific poll plugin would be just dandy though.

I’m currently looking for something to handle polls myself. For PollDaddy I simply installed it as a regular plugin, pasted the short-code into a sidebar widget and it works as expected. What it does isn’t changed by BuddPress in any way from what I can tell.

As for Intense Debate, it wouldn’t let me register with my WordPress account so not sure

Have you definitely gone to the ‘Forums Setup’ link and activated/installed bbpress integration, not so much the component setup link/page.

Oh wow… your site looks amazing. Did you get a custom template done for BuddyPress? If so, what company designed that for you? I just love everything you have done. Are you using WPMU?

I am having this exact same problem on a brand new WP/BP site.

Specs

1. Which version of WPMU are you running?
I am using regular WP 3.0
2. Did you install WPMU as a directory or subdomain install?
Root directory
3. If a directory install, is it in root or in a subdirectory?
Root
4. Did you upgraded from a previous version of WPMU? If so, from which version?
Was a previous version install via Fantastico on cPanel, upgraded to 3.0 before BuddyPress was installed
5. Was WPMU functioning properly before installing/upgrading BuddyPress?
Not sure
6. Which version of BuddyPress (BP) are you running?
Version 1.2.5.2
7. Did you upgraded from a previous version of BP? If so, from which version?
No
8. Do you have any plugins other than BuddyPress installed and activated?
Yes:
Welcome Pack Version 2.1
Twitter Goodies Version 3.9.0
Tweetstream Version 1.4
oEmbed for BuddyPress Version 0.52
Invite Anyone Version 0.6.4
Import from Ning Version 1.1
Facestream Version 1.1
Contact Form 7 Version 2.2.1
BuddyPress Usernames Only Version 0.58
BuddyPress Profile Privacy Version 0.2
BuddyPress Private Messages for Followers Only Version 1.0
BuddyPress Like Version 0.0.7
BuddyPress Group Tags Version 1.2.2
BuddyPress Group Email Subscription Version 2.5
BuddyPress Forum Topic Mover Version 1.0.0
BuddyPress Follow Version 1.0
BuddyPress Album+ Version 0.1.7
BP Profile Search Version 1.0
BP Group Management Version 0.4
BP-NotificationWidget Version 1.4
9. Are you using the standard BuddyPress themes or customized themes?
Standard BP Theme BuddyPress Default 1.2.5.2
10. Have you modified the core files in any way?
No
11. Do you have any custom functions in bp-custom.php?
I do not think so.
12. If running bbPress, which version? Or did your BuddyPress install come with a copy of bbPress built-in?
I ran the bbPress installer that came with BuddyPress
13. Please provide a list of any errors in your server’s log files.
[Thu Jul 08 01:43:12 2010] [error] [client 99.232.211.136] PHP Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/wwwnatf/public_html/site/wp-admin/includes/misc.php:133) in /home/wwwnatf/public_html/site/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 890, referer: http://natfriends.com/site/wp-admin/options-general.php
[Thu Jul 08 01:43:12 2010] [error] [client 99.232.211.136] PHP Warning: is_writable() [function.is-writable]: open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/) is not within the allowed path(s): (/home/wwwnatf:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php:/tmp) in /home/wwwnatf/public_html/site/wp-admin/includes/misc.php on line 133, referer: http://natfriends.com/site/wp-admin/options-general.php
[Wed Jul 07 23:53:55 2010] [error] [client 99.232.211.136] PHP Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/wwwnatf/public_html/site/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-shout-box-chat/chat.php on line 38, referer: http://natfriends.com/site/
[Wed Jul 07 23:53:55 2010] [error] [client 99.232.211.136] PHP Warning: file_put_contents(history/20100707) [function.file-put-contents]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/wwwnatf/public_html/site/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-shout-box-chat/chat.php on line 23, referer: http://natfriends.com/site/
[Wed Jul 07 23:53:52 2010] [error] [client 99.232.211.136] PHP Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/wwwnatf/public_html/site/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-shout-box-chat/chat.php on line 38, referer: http://natfriends.com/site/
[Wed Jul 07 23:53:52 2010] [error] [client 99.232.211.136] PHP Warning: file_put_contents(history/20100707) [function.file-put-contents]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/wwwnatf/public_html/site/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-shout-box-chat/chat.php on line 23, referer: http://natfriends.com/site/
[Wed Jul 07 23:47:55 2010] [error] [client 99.232.211.136] PHP Warning: chmod() [function.chmod]: Operation not permitted in /home/wwwnatf/public_html/site/wp-content/plugins/phpfreechat/src/pfctools.php on line 180, referer: http://natfriends.com/site/
[Wed Jul 07 23:47:55 2010] [error] [client 99.232.211.136] PHP Warning: copy(/home/wwwnatf/public_html/site/wp-content/plugins/phpfreechat/src/../data/public/themes/zilveer/smileys/emoticon_unhappy.png) [function.copy]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/wwwnatf/public_html/site/wp-content/plugins/phpfreechat/src/pfctools.php on line 179, referer: http://natfriends.com/site/
[Wed Jul 07 23:47:55 2010] [error] [client 99.232.211.136] PHP Warning: chmod() [function.chmod]: Operation not permitted in /home/wwwnatf/public_html/site/wp-content/plugins/phpfreechat/src/pfctools.php on line 180, referer: http://natfriends.com/site/
[Wed Jul 07 23:47:55 2010] [error] [client 99.232.211.136] PHP Warning: copy(/home/wwwnatf/public_html/site/wp-content/plugins/phpfreechat/src/../data/public/themes/zilveer/smileys/eusa_whistle.gif) [function.copy]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/wwwnatf/public_html/site/wp-content/plugins/phpfreechat/src/pfctools.php on line 179, referer: http://natfriends.com/site/
I moved files in site to root…..
Hosting company:
Total Choice Hosting

If you’re using /installed WP 3.0 that now combines single site and mutli site (blogs) in the one package however you do have to perform some manual file adjustments to enable multisite functionality in the backend from where you then follow the instructions to complete installation.

You can follow this guide to setting up multi sites:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network

As for BP forums have you enabled them in the backend? if you look in the dashboard at the BP section menu links you will see a link to ‘Forums Setup’.

Profiles is perhaps more a question of personal taste? I personally wouldn’t say that the profile of the default theme is particularly unintuitive, but that isn’t to say there isn’t room for improvement; obviously one can re-configure it somewhat if one uses a child theme and copies the files over to work on; also thre are a few newish plugins to add things like ‘User Stats’ and or ‘Follwers/Follwing’

There appears to be a missing edit_post_link() call in the post template (/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/single.php).

Thanks for the heads up! Creating a bug report for this.

If you’re on BlueHost, there have been issues with the email being sent.

You can try the proposed solution listed here.

I really just want a forum with categories. It seems that in the native BP settings you have to create a Group first, which then gets its own forum? Is this correct?

Yes, you have to create a group first. Think of Facebook’s fan page / group discussions page. That’s what it is modeled after (I believe!).

If you want a forum with categories, I would suggest installing a WordPress forum plugin like Simple:Press or Mingle Forum.

If you’re comfortable working with another forum script, you can try installing the standalone version of bbPress and integrating WordPress and bbPress together. I list this as another option.

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Or, how do I get something similar to what BuddyPress.org has? I notice that at the bottom of the forum topic listing, it says: “You will auto join this group when you start a new topic.” How did u get that functionality?

The auto-joining is default with BuddyPress. When you’re logged in and you are on a forum post that you are not a group member of, that message will be displayed. Visit the test install of BP – http://testbp.org – for an example.

You can use Paul’s donate link for his Welcome Pack plugin:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/welcome-pack/donate/

There is a learning curve. I recommend you start reading up and getting involved in BuddyPress and WordPress forums. Remember Google/search is your friend.

References:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page
https://codex.buddypress.org/home/

WordPress TV how-to’s
WordPress – http://wordpress.tv/2009/01/05/the-wordpresscom-dashboard-introduction/
BuddyPress – http://wordpress.tv/2010/01/23/boone-gorges-buddypress-boston10/

BP-Default does work with WP 3.0; what exactly are you referring to, custom menu support? The theme will not see any significant changes until BuddyPress 1.3, which won’t be out for a while yet. The theme lives in /plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/.

@xrun, so this issue is resolved for you?

Help?!?!?! I am having the same problem except once a new user the hits “Submit Query” (which why does it say that anyway rather than register?) it just comes back to the same page with no error message. I am running WPMU 3.0BP 1.2.5.2. Everything was working fine. I’m not sure if it was the upgrade or a plug-in I installed, or some stupid error I made. I note that the last person who registered was 5 days ago. I am very new at the program and do not know yet how to code (but trying to learn!) I’ve dug all over, but can’t seem to figure it out. I am presenting the site at a conference for a school project, and now it suddenly stopped working! I am a broke grad student, but if someone can help me out, I can throw a few bucks their way if they can help me get it fixed before Saturday! The site is http://www.impacollective.org . I can be reached to chat or email at digitaldance007 @yahoo.com . PLEASE HELP!!!!

I was having this same issue, and this awesome guy linked to a plugin for me. Check out my original post with his link in it: https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/how-can-i-better-filter-spam-users-on-my-buddypress-site/

The nice thing about the plugin is that is also lets you ask users if they want to join your MailChimp email newsletter list when they sign up.

I am so looking forward to not having to deal with hundreds of spam users now!