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Use Firebug,find the ids of the navigation element(anchro’s id) and add css in your theme with the bullet image as background.This is how it is done for default items.You can do the same.

This site works a bit differently.

Buddypress Forums are created when you create a group. If you have an existing group, go to that group’s admin panel and enable its forum.

Assuming you are using the default theme or a child theme, you should also have a forum navigation item on the main menu.

BBPress plugins won’t work with the method of integration that BuddyPress uses. You will have to port the plugin to work with WPMU and BudyPress or find someone to do it for you.

The regular BBPress administration page isn’t accessible when used with the BuddyPress integration method. This also means that BBPress plugins won’t work.

I´ve got exactly the same problem. I´ve got a fresh install of WPMU 2.8.4a and BuddyPress 1.1.1, no separate bbPress as I thought BuddyPress would perform that install for me.

This is what I get:

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bbPress forum integration in BuddyPress has been set up correctly. If you are having problems you can re-install

NOTE: The forums directory will only work if your bbPress tables are in the same database as your WordPress tables. If you are not using an existing bbPress install you can ignore this message.

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When I try to post a new topic in any of the forums I get:

“There was an error when creating the topic”

So I guess bbPress isn´t installed after all?

Nice work!

@ John James Jacoby, the code you provided I put on bp-custom.php under /wp-content/plugins/ directory (not ‘wp-plugins’), and it seemed to work fine. However, when putting the code at wp-config.php, it doesn’t work.

Thanks for the suggestion, at least I don’t have to always edit the bp-core.php everytime I upgrade my buddypress installation.

We didn’t ignore your threads, they were caught in Akismet and marked as spam.

@anointed, can you try adding that line into “wp-plugins/bp-custom.php” ?

It should work in wp-config.php or any other file that loads before BuddyPress does. The goal obviously is not to modify a file that’s replaced by core updates, so wp-config.php or bp-custom.php is safer than bp-core.php.

The code…

/* Define on which blog ID BuddyPress should run */

if ( !defined( 'BP_ROOT_BLOG' ) )

define( 'BP_ROOT_BLOG', 1 );

Checks to see if BP_ROOT_BLOG was defined by any other file previous to BuddyPress loading, which is done inside the “plugins_loaded” hook which is in wp-settings.php, which is loaded after wp-config.php.

PM me again if your topics are marked as spam, and I can open them back up.

Or at least maybe in the next version, include this option in the BuddyPress General Settings.

I do understand your arguments, but i would also prefer it to be nested in “Settings”.

I spent some more time on the mockup and included the third column, just to see if it works.

http://img29.yfrog.com/img29/1253/settingsprivacymockup2.png

You need to deactivate all BuddyPress-dependent plugins before you deactivate BuddyPress itself.

Did you deactivate the bpPicture Album plugin before you deactivated BuddyPress? If not, then that is more than likely what caused your problem.

Figured it out. To manually do this you need to go into your database and put this in your wp_sitemeta table under the field active_sitewide_plugins:

a:2:{s:24:”buddypress/bp-loader.php”;i:1254779318;s:12:”bp-album.php”;i:1254851888;}

What a given user would need to place in that particular sitemeta table record depends on what plugins they had activated. This is what you needed to do. It will not necessarily be what others would need to do.

The best way to handle this issue is to temporarily move all your plugins out of /wp-content/plugins/ and then log back into WPMU’s backend as Site Admin. Refresh the page, logout, and then move the plugins back. Log back in and you should be good to go. Your plugins will be deactivated and ready to be reactivated.

@Jeff: It would be great if “Privacy” could be a menu point within “Settings” and not another main menu item. Otherwise the userbar is getting more and more cluttered. I know this is kind of difficult task, but maybe it is possible in some way. I did a concept about a possible solution -> http://img243.yfrog.com/img243/2700/settingsprivacymockup.png

Here ya go: https://buddypress.org/about/roadmap/

I tested my site with ie7 and ie8. I could not recreate the issue of the home page left column appearing below the middle and right column on my site (but I did observe this behavior with ie7 on buddypress.org). No other issue mentioned above was observed on my site (except for the one noted below). As I mentioned, I did see this behavior on a public computer/kiosk using IE (given my comments below, it seems more likely that it was ie7).

You can see (or at least I can) a similar issue regarding the left column loading below the right column when using IE7 at http://buddypress.org (this site). Visit the ‘About’ and ‘Demo’ links (not the actual demo site). There are only 2 columns but the left appears under the right column with ie7.

The one issue I was able to recreate on my site was the floating submenu when using the WordPress Default 1.6 Blog Theme. No problem with ie8 but with ie7 the buddybar submenus under ‘My Account’ or ‘My Blogs’ float to the right. I logged into http://testbp.org and created a blog with the default theme and found the same behavior when using ie7.

I don’t think my specific site offers any insight since the issues that can be recreated are evident on buddypress.org and testbp.org (when logged in and using the default blog theme). I find it curious that others aren’t reporting this behavior as it should be easy to replicate.

You’re welcome!

I’m setting this to resolved. If for some reason you’re still having issues, as the originator of this post, you can always set it back to “not resolved”.

If you haven’t already, copy bp-themes/bp-default and /bp-sn-parent to the normal WordPress theme directory (/wp-content/themes).

/wp-content/bp-themes/ is for a previous version of BP themes. Unless you know why you might still want to use it, make sure that /wp-content/bp-themes/ does not exist (i.e. delete the folder) else BP will get confused.

Activate the bp-default theme, put it on your main WPMU blog and it should work.

EDIT: Jeff won!

The default BP themes are initially located in the /bp-themes/ directory. Although you do not technically have to move them from that location before activating BuddyPress, you will not have access to them until you move the /bp-default/ and /bp-sn-parent/ folders into the /wp-content/themes/ directory.

Once those two theme folders are moved to the proper place, you then need to log into WPMU as Site Admin and do step 5 under “Installing BuddyPress” here:

Installation

Always read the readme.txt files that come with both WPMU and BuddyPress. All the basic information you need to successfully install them and get them working can be found there. More detailed information can be found on the BuddyPress Codex–like the link I provided above.