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@philsquires read through this template pack tutorial for some tips
https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/bp-template-pack-walkthrough-level-easy-2/

== i would like to use phpbb with the buddypress messaging system/activity/members and avatars. ==

Then you would have to hire a programmer to create a plugin which extends wp-united to integrate with BuddyPress or to create one yourself.

Deactivate BuddyPress and BP plugins and change to default twentyten. Permalinks should be resolved before installing BP.

Have you searched online for ISAPI rewrite and WordPress? This looks like the ticket http://www.helicontech.com/cms_articles/wordpress.htm or you could post in their forums.

WP Codex has some info for IIS servers https://codex.wordpress.org/User:ringmaster/IIS#Configuring_Permalinks

@VirtualityReiki Great. Glad it’w working out for you now.

I have been struggling with this same problem for about half a day now and finally found this topic. I do have a concern with hard-coding a blog id. I took the following approach (similar to graf1771’s but more generic):

As already mentioned, line 21 ff. in /wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-core.php states:

`/* Define on which blog ID BuddyPress should run */
if ( !defined( ‘BP_ROOT_BLOG’ ) )
define( ‘BP_ROOT_BLOG’, 1 );`

instead of changing the “1” to my default blog id, I changed the “1” to “get_current_blog_id()” resulting in:

`/* Define on which blog ID BuddyPress should run */
if ( !defined( ‘BP_ROOT_BLOG’ ) )
define( ‘BP_ROOT_BLOG’, get_current_blog_id() );`

Problem solved!

Since I am new to BP (been playing with it for about 2 days now), I am concerned that this approach may have negative side affects on other BP functionality. Anyone have any thoughts on this?

== when i click on a group it redirects to the groups directory ==

Confirmed. My initial suspect is the BP Group Hierarchy plugin. Deactivate that and see if you can edit groups. If that doesn’t work, then deactivate all BP plugins except BuddyPress and see if you can now edit groups.

@tmcandle

You can check out my themes at http://BuddyLite.com.
Lots of customization options in both free and premium versions: widgetized front page, footer, header and lots more…

“Still wonder about splog signups, do I need to do anything?”

You could try this plugin:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/moderate-new-blogs/
Supposed to be compatible up to WP3.0.5 but you can give it a shot.

— everything REALLY looks bad —
As mentioned above, BP themes used in BP 1.1.2 are no longer compatible with current BP version. When you activated bp-default theme, it should look something like http://testbp.org/ and that looks good and clean.

— Er. I would certainly have stepped it through into 1.2 first, then the latest version —
@DJPaul, very true. I would have recommended point by point upgrade of BP and WP if it was not “after about a year on mothballs” per @tmcandle ** blush **

I created a a post, i’m wondering if we are experiencing the same problem

@pjries Okay actually I’m confused by the bit you said was important. When you wrote
`CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS tablename_bb_forums`

did you mean I should insert the wp_???_ bit ? Or whatever the prefix used in other tables?
I think that’s what you meant, so would the command look like this?
`CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `wp_i28ycb_bb_forums` (
`forum_id` int(10) NOT NULL auto_increment,
`forum_name` varchar(150) NOT NULL default ”,
`forum_slug` varchar(255) NOT NULL default ”,
`forum_desc` text NOT NULL,
`forum_parent` int(10) NOT NULL default 0,
`forum_order` int(10) NOT NULL default 0,
`topics` bigint(20) NOT NULL default 0,
`posts` bigint(20) NOT NULL default 0,
PRIMARY KEY (`forum_id`),
KEY `forum_slug` (`forum_slug`)
);
`

Update your permalink settings and user pretty urls. No need to mess with .htaccess. Just use a custom structure like:

/%category%/%postname%/

And press save.. done

@djpaul : is this instead of W3? or as well as?