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nevermind! I found it! I was editing files in the plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/ and bp-template-pack/templates directories

when i should have been in themes/themename/

@Boone Gorges I just tried the second option Day and Name then clicked save changes, then test my site http://www.showboyz.net/blog and I get the same results 404 error on BP links page not found

Okay! I took a tip from https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/can-i-run-non-bp-theme-on-tld-and-bp-theme-on-subdomain-all-on-same-wpmu-install

Check this, I’m NOT using Blog #1 as my main blog (long story).

I put this in my wp-config.php and it’s working!

/** Buddy Press **/

define( 'BP_ROOT_BLOG', 3 );

No, BuddyPress works with MU. I have it working fine on an MU site. WPMU 2.9.2 and BP 1.2.3.

I see there are a few other posts with similar issues

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/404-error-on-bp-links-1

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/404-error-on-buddypress-links

These are for IIS – I’m not on IIS, I’m on Apache

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/404-error-on-bp-links

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/buddypress-menus-give-404s

I’m going to scrub my DB and try again.

@gian-ava

1) You can’t just “switch” from version 0.1.7 to 0.1.9.2, because 0.1.9.2 doesn’t have an upgrade routine (because its a beta). If you install it on a server that already has a 0.1.7 install, all sorts of strange things will happen.

If you really, really want to upgrade to 0.1.9.2, you’ll have to delete all of your user’s uploaded images, delete all of 0.1.7’s database tables, then install 0.1.9.2; but for systems with existing users that have uploaded a lot of media, it’s probably just better to wait until we put out the next release version.

2) BP Album+ works just fine when you install WP in a subfolder. The reason it doesn’t work properly on *your* installation is because you’ve used some “hack” posted on the Internet to modify your installation to hide the subfolder from the URL displayed in the browser.

Guys, there is a lot of VERY BAD advice posted on the Internet about how you can cut and paste code into WordPress to do various things, and a lot of this advice is incomplete or wrong. The hack you’re using only handles *one* way plugins get the base URI, and as you install more plugins you will start to get all sorts of problems.

If you want to install WordPress in a subdirectory, the correct way to do it is to set it up as a virtual host in your apache config file, or using a redirect:

Redirect: (OK) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pC_HNbly6mI

Virtual host: (Best) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HW2xWJpjKQk

3) It’s relatively easy for us to make the URI’s to media items in BP Album+ configurable, no matter how somebody sets up a WP installation, if that’s what you guys want.

…but based on my research so far, we *cannot* fix the problem with images not showing up in the activity stream on WP installs that are a) in a subdirectory and b) not using a redirect or virtual host method of URL shortening, because of the way *BuddyPress* stores activity stream attachments.

How BP Album+ stores an image URI:

[$offset] + [ / album / 04 / kittens_15.jpg]

How the BuddyPress activity stream stores an image URI (last I checked…. I will research this more when I have time):

[ http://www.example.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/01/album/04/kittens_15.jpg ]

So when you use a hack to dynamically change your base URI, BP Album+ can handle it (because we dynamically generate the full URI), the BuddyPress activity stream cannot handle it (because it uses a static URI) and the activity stream post items break.

But the bottom line is, all of this is happening because you haven’t set up your WP installation properly and are using “hacks” off the Internet to mess with your site.

Set up your WP install properly, and you won’t have problems.

Thanks!

^F^

@nahummadrid

I see you wrote an article on your blog inspired by this topic:

http://nahummadrid.com/blog/buddypress/so-your-bp-site-is-up-now-what

Thanks for providing the link back to here.

@Dimensionmedia Nice and valuable list of tips, thanks.

I’m glad that my topic have generated such interesting discussions.

The community website I build up is for Cure fans (you know The Cure, right?), and since they all are already active on Facebook, MySpace and other existing (traditional) forums, it is quiet a bit of a challenge to bring them over to my site and actually use it.

The motivation that made me wanna do Cureuphoria (http://cureuphoria.com) is that I felt that althought many places already exist for Cure fans to interact, there isn’t a real Social Network with features “à la Facebook/MySpace” that is specifically built with that particular community in mind.

I feel that the major value of using BuddyPress, and the main difference with the above mentioned social networks is that you can offer basicly the same feautures, BUT in an environement created and adapted around a specific community, which is the strongest point to my opinion.

From look and feel, to functionalities, you can build something up that is indeed unique to a given community.

Something that a rather impersonal environement such as Facebook, is not able to offer.

For example, I used custom profile fields to build a Cure-oriented member profiles, because it is about The Cure, right?

You can check an example here: http://cureuphoria.com/gian, which is my profile, but you can go and see others too.

Also, because I believe the register page is a key page of the site, I designed a very simple, basic form with a prominent call to action button, and argued some benefits about registering and using the site, that would accompany the registration form.

And, because during the intial lunch phase you don’t see many members profile avatars active, I decides to design a visual graphic with different avatars in order to give the potential subscriber a feeling of community. To do so, I asked permissions to Facebook users (within the Cure fans community) to use their avatars, and they all agreed. That gave me already the possibility to communicate the existence of the new site to some.

By the way, this is the register page: http://cureuphoria.com/register

At the moment I did get quiet a few registrations in a week time period, but unfortunately, users don’t turn out to be as active as I expect them to be. So, beside the first point of bringing people in and register, the following point would be, how to make them use the website and be active? Maybe it takes time to achive that.

Maybe their passivity is due to the fact of being troubled by the slight diffrences with (again) Facebook, or other traditional forums structure.

I mean, the majority of other Cure forums out are built with calssical bulletin board systems, such as phpBB or vBulletin and are (sorry, but I need to say it) quiet ugly. Still they are widely populated with topics.

My users, I feel, are probably troubled by the Groups/Forums relation. Some posted on the Group homepage activity, thinking that it was answearing to a topic in the forum for that Group.

I mean, I do think that the Group/Forum as a value and I totally understand the principle behind it. But do my users?

In order to push them to post Topics that are not necessarily associated with a Group, I did create a Group called Open Topics, that would act as a general topic forum.

And, I wrote a sticky topic on “How to use Cureuphoria”, which you can find here, even if not finished yet at the moment of this writing: http://cureuphoria.com/groups/cureuphoria-feedback/forum/topic/how-to-use-cureuphoria-read-this/

I would like to have them create their own groups, write topics, invite their friends over and all that, instead of coming to the site, putting up a video form YouTube, add a friend and then leave to just check if something more exciting is happening after a day, and since it’s not the case, leave again.

Anyway, I don’t think there is a magic formula to make your BuddyPress site have the success you expect, but it is probably a lot of little things that need to be manged toghether, from design, to functionalities, to constant marketing (social public relationship). Or… something I am just missing.

I want to thank all of you who contributed to the topic. Keep it going: advices, ideas and thoughts about this are never enough.

@guigoz,

It should be under “General Seo / Main Blog / MAIN BLOG START or MAIN BLOG HOME.

It depends on the Page you selected as Home Page.

If your start page is the activity front page so you need to use MAIN BLOG HOME.

I will change the names and label it more clear in the next version.

@Modemlooper

%%forumtopictitle%% still does not work right…. I was to much in a hurry last week.

I will look into the forum tags more proper on Monday.

@Erich73

Hi Erich, you do not need to be afraid of anything.

There is no BLACKSEO in Seo for buddypress.

The only thing, the plugin does, is to offer the possibility to enter Title Description and Keywords for every specific part of your site.

This means the Buddypress pages, the main blog posts, pages and the mu blogs with posts, pages and so on.

There is no way to enter this important informations in a Buddypress environment. Thats the reason of the plugin. It does not deal with some illegal seo tricks.

Just what Google expect you to do.

I wrote a article on my blog, exactly about the need of seo in Buddypress

http://sven-lehnert.de/en/2010/01/02/seo-and-link-marketing-in-buddypress/

@Travel-Junkie

If you have a small blog, and your members are more or less fans of your blog or in a way followers, I think you are right.

But if you have a commercial site it looks different.

For example a social network about a town, with the artist of the town and the events of the town should be seo.

Every Member is a different artist, and goggle should know what kind of artist.

Also the events of the city, I like to find, and so they need seo.

Another example: I’m just developing a site for a political party. Thy want to have a social network to make communal politic.

For this they use Groups and GroupWiki.

Also every politician will have its own profile and blog. Of curse the politician profiles and all the rest need seo.

Otherwise thy would do their politics undercover.

I could give you aplenty of examples for what kind of community seo in buddypress is needed.

@Modemlooper

One of the main reasons I even want to use this is to stop BP from adding Title | Component | Title. Most RT an share buttons pull this title and it’s not very user friendly.

This is 100 % seo!