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Would be nice if this was mentioned by the author somewhere before you go and download the plugin.

Hi welshpixie – is there a chance you’re using More Privacy Options for WP? You might want to see the following https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/more-privacy-options-private-blogs-and-activity-streams

I’ve been at this for 2+ years now, doing a social niche site. Started back in August of 2007. I had always wanted to create a niche community site, but didn’t know where to go. I found WPMU first and started my community on it. WPMU alone was a great platform. I plugged and patched and mangled together to the best of my ability a “community” site. When I look back on my beginnings and site launch, it wasn’t pretty, but mostly functional. I had friends, mail, blogs, blah blah blah… I had heard about buddypress when it barely had a site, but it was never really polished enough. I think it was recommended to me by andrea over in the WPMU forums. It wasn’t polished enough at the time in it’s infancy, so I looked at Elgg and just didn’t like it either. Even the install process was clunky so I stayed the course with WPMU. I remember the second time I came upon buddypress and was like WOW, this is everything I was looking for. I couldn’t wait until launch day of 1.0.

With as little coding skills as I have (you would laugh if you saw my component code), I have been able to manage and run a VPS with buddypress for almost a year now. I love how buddypress started, the members, and Andy (in a non gay way, lol). I’m trying to slowly build my community (around 140 active) and then really expand away from the default look of buddypress, which I actually happen to love.

So, is it a good enough for a professional grade community? I would say Y-E-S!

Take a look at how fast testbp.org is with 12,229 “active” members. A lot of activity on that site and it’s still cooking!

Delete BuddyPress from your plugins folder and visit the admin backend of your site and go to the plugins page. It should tidy itself up automatically.

I have similar porblem. I get extra multibyte cahracter in slugs of groups.

I amde new ticket for this issue.

https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/1224

Yeah I had to do that. But once done, a charm.

@Carloz :

Nice work !

Is there notifications and things like that introduced by BuddyPress ?

Would you share it?

Thanks

Did you have to patch MU 2.8.4a to get this plugin to work? I just get the following error:

I am trying to achieve the 3 layer approach suggested by outolumo, which looks ideal to me.

I just got a serious inheritance problem…!

Because I need to integrate BuddyPress in a section of a site and not having it run as a whole site, I am testing this set up:

1) The original “WP Theme” as a parent (with just the code in post #2 from Andy, in “header.php”)

2) The “bp-sn-parent” folder stripped out of reduntant files that are already in “WP theme”, keeping just BP folders and “optionsbar.php”, “plugin-template.php”, “userbar.php”, and “style.css”.

Made this theme a child of WP Theme, declaring “Template: wp-theme” in the stylesheet, right?

3) The “bb-default” theme for styling (skinning) and customization.

I’ve declared “Template: bp-sn-parent” so that “bb-default” is a child of “bp-sn-parent”, which is a child of “wp-theme”.

So:

1)”wp-theme” is the parent.

2) “bp-sn-parent” is the child of “wp-theme” (style.css declares: Template: wp-theme).

3) “bb-default” is the child of “bp-sn-parent” (style.css declares: Template: bp-sn-parent).

First problem:

The “bb-default” theme is not showing up in the backend under “Site Admin/Themes”, so I cannot make it available in “Apperance/Themes” to activate it.

If I put a blank “index.php” file in “bp-sn-parent”, than it does show up in the backend, so I can activate it. (Is that normal?)

So, before activating the “bb-default” theme (which should refer to “bp-sn-parent” which should refer to “wp-theme”), I’ve edited the “style.css” in the “bb-default” theme to import the styles from “wp-theme” (because it styles the whole site) with this rule:

@import url( ../wp-theme/style.css );

The result is a that the homepage (normal site) is blank, and the BuddyPress section is there, but messed up and not skinned with “bb-default” styles, and only some styles from “wp-theme” are applied (the footer image is there, but not the header image).

Now, if I go and I activate the “bp-sn-parent” theme, the homepage of the site shows up normally, and the BuddyPress section has some “bb-default” styles and got the header images from the “wp-theme” but not the footer image. And it’s preatty screwed up too.

So, as you see I am trying to achieve this 3 layers set up, but as I said, something with inheritance is totally messed up.

Does anybody have any insights on this. I am sure it could be useful for the whole community.

Thanks.

DJ Paul so what do I do if that is the case? I have the same error Fatal error: Call to undefined function get_blog_option() in /home/ilgdaily/public_html/ilgapplied/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-core.php on line 564

I really need to get this back up and running as it directs my business.

Thank you for your help.

These screen captures have been out for a bit.

To set the record straight this is completely doable for BP. Our custom theme is similar to this.

My team has seen what Anahita can do. It’s a good setup and code base.

The code is clear, theming is not that difficult.

Having said that we declined a partnership and instead put our contributions toward the Buddypress and automattic stack because of the community which exists today.

A community with plugins, themes, and developers that are never hard to reach.

Of course it would be nice if Matt would maybe lend some help to Andy (dedicated BP) because with any competing product comes comparisons and bigger wishlists.

Even though BP just came out with 1.1.1 it still feels like things are just starting to warm up. Anahita has a ways to go to get here.

(from my iPhone, sorry if this doesn’t make sense.)

https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/1219

Same problem here.

I Reinstalled WPMU 2.8.4a, (with subdirectories instead of subdomains) and BuddyPress from trunk, because I updated my localhost (WAMP 1.7>2.0).

My old .htaccess (which was working before)

If I use the .htaccess, the wordpress-mu directory under 127.0.0.1/kine disappears and I can’t access WPMU.

If I don’t use it, I can access WPMU & Buddypress, but I get a “404 Not Found” for every page other than home…

HEEEEEELP

Check out this: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/extending-wordpress-themes-post-experiences#post-24546

I took a hard look at Elgg for the site I’m setting up at the minute. I actually started the site with Elgg, but switched over to BP in the end. Elgg, as a standalone social network engine, might be the perfect choice for some people, but the learning curve is a lot steeper than with WP, especially if you already have some WP experience.

And the fact that WP and WPMU are gonna be merged means that WP as a whole is gonna be a lot stronger. And you just need to look at how many users/blogs WP.com can handle, so with the correct server setup your BP site has no limits scaling wise.

Looks like your question should go under wpmu forum than here.

Are you trying to change buddypress component permalinks?

I’d say that the most important factor for me is that Andy P is an employee at Automattic. That means BP has got support from Automattic and the blessings needed to have a safe relationship between WP and BP. WP is extremely strong and BP should stand nicely in that giants shoulders.

That’s one of the things that made my decision.

You’re probably not the only one. I’ve had another problem with wp-signup though and my question would be:

Is there a way to have all links pointing to wp-signup (e.g. from wp-login), point to /register instead? There should only be oone possible sign up page!

This should be fixed now. You have to install this new version.

== Changelog ==

= 2.0.6 =

– (13 Oct 2009) – Fixed array_merge error on WPMU, Buddypress.

– Added Czech (cs_CZ) – Translated by [Radovan](http://algymsa.cz)

Hi

Please don’t make the assumption that us moderators have done something like this. 2levelsabove still appears to be an open account. Moderators on this forum – with the possible exception of apeatling – can’t actually ban or close user accounts. We can only edit and move posts and lock/sticky threads.

That thread has been closed which means no-one can reply to it, as per the same as all the other threads of that nature. Is that what you mean by silent ignore?

If your posts aren’t appearing, try this: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/help-i-cant-post-readme