UBD Block Ad Plugin works just fine, if you want to put ads in your theme. Its a free plugin from unique blog designs
Most such wordpress plugins work with wpmu. The best thing is to build a test site, install each plugin that you are interested, and test it.
wpmudev.org has a paid plugin to enable users to upload blog avatars. But not sure if it also works for BuddyPress…
Just an update, Matt Kern just made a post on the BP forums about his manually-approve signup plugin for WPMU:
http://mattkern.com/wpmu-manually-approve-new-members-on-local-install/
Hey wordpressfan, understand that BuddyPress runs on top of WordPress MU so any spam issues are still, at its core, a WPMU issue.
The WPMU readme.txt has some info on how to counter spammers:
https://trac.mu.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/README.txt (read line 165 and on)
For the Darcy Norman link, use WPMUTutorials’ variation for BuddyPress:
http://wpmututorials.com/how-to/spam-blogs-and-buddypress/
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Also, for your suggestion on moderating signups, WPMUTutorials also has an article on that:
http://wpmututorials.com/hacks/how-to-moderate-signups/
Read the last comment in that post for info on modifying the article’s instructions for BuddyPress.
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You might also want to check out SI Captcha:
https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/si-captcha-for-wpmu-and-buddypress
The beta version has support for BP as well.
Hope that helps in some way!
CSS alone won’t kill anything but padding and margins.
When in doubt, if you can’t retrace your own steps, you can always reinstall and start over.
Ok, very good. It would be great when your plugin will be one part of v1.2 – much better than an standalone plugin. The privacy part is an >very< important feature, at the moment my biggest bp handicap 
okay first.. I think some of us missed this…
“6. Which version of BuddyPress (BP) are you running?
version 1.0.3″
I set permission on bp-theme 755 and everything under it. Nothing.
I deleted the folder and uploaded bbmembers again. Nothing
Uploaded a new member theme and activated it. Nothing
I deleted buddypress and deactivated all plugins (welcome pack & achivements). Nothing.
I uploaded everything back and nothing.
All the settings are fine. it’s not pulling the css file.
@madloki
Although privacy features are on the BuddyPress Roadmap for v1.2, there is no guarantee that my privacy component will become the official BP privacy component. Andy has yet to see or test it.
I have been working on a few other projects recently, but will be polishing up my privacy component this weekend. I do plan on releasing the plugin as a beta once it has been properly alpha tested. I assume at this stage, I will be releasing an alpha version in the next 2 weeks–after v1.1 comes out and Andy has had a chance to see the component.
Hi JJJ,
are you still working on this ?
Where to find “BuddyPress/WordPress theme repo” ?
Thanks a lot !
Any suggestions which plugin works best with wpmu?
the Forums are getting perfectly cool !
Just missing a “threaded” style.
https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/1077
@Jeff: will Andy include this in v1.2? I will start my page in october, will you release your plugin this month, or should i wait for bp1.2?
Cheers for checking it out. I apologise for my bad description. I am new to Buddypress, and just testing it out at the moment. I just assumed that this was how it worked, much like sub-pages in vanilla wordpress.
Learning is half the fun. I’m looking forward to new buddypress child themes appearing.
Great. It is a simultaneous hacking and learning process for buddypress themes.
You could add them via the wordpress admin, but you’ll still need to go back and edit their xprofile display name for them to be “visible” inside BuddyPress.
Activities are created by plugins that add those activities to 1 large table in the database that can be sorted in many ways; user, activity type, etc…
What you would need to do is create a little mini plugin to hook into the bbPress posting actions, and have that generate an activity that you will also need to create.
It’s easier than it sounds. Check out buddypress/bp-activity/bp-activity-classes.php and… function bp_activity_add( $args = '' ) {in buddypress/bp-activity.php for some direction. 
Yes it’s possible but it will take some integrating with existing WordPress plugins to make it so. Best place to start with BP specific code is the codex; http://codex.buddypress.org
I’m trying to add a little to it everyday if I find the time, so it should keep getting more and more documented with code snippits and examples.
Ok i now have WPMU 2.8.4a + Buddypress 1.1 Beta on lighttpd running.
Profile fields can be saved but accepting group membership or friend requests always leads to a site: “Are you sure you want to do this? Please try again”
So it is the same problem as with 2.8.3 + bp1.0.3 on lighttpd server.
Must be an url-rewriting issue!?
The generated acceptance url looks like this “http://domain.com/members/admin/friends/requests/accept/1?_wpnonce=94e23dc003”
Please let’s find some lighttpd/lighty rewrite rules that work with wpmu+buddypress perfectly…
With these rules everything works fine instead of the problem i mentioned above:
server.error-handler-404 = “/index.php”
url.rewrite-once = (
“^/(.*/)?files/$” => “/index.php”,
“^/(.*/)?files/(.*)” => “/wp-content/blogs.php?file=$2”,
“^(/wp-admin/.*)” => “$1”,
“^/([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(wp-.*)” => “/$2”,
“^/([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(.*\.php)$” => “/$2”,
)
Which rules do you use with Bp (if you have lighttpd) ?
As long as your theme calls the standard WordPress hooks – like BuddyPress’ does – any add plugin that works on WPMU should work.
Hey Grosbouff,
It’s better to post development enhancements in the trac to avoid getting lost in the shuffle.
Add your suggestion as an enhancement in the BuddyPress trac.
Login with the same username/password you use here on BuddyPress.org.
I’m going to be running Buddypress in a subdirectory with subdirs off that for user blogs (if I enable them — still haven’t decided) and I have a couple of other standalone WP installs in other subdirs of the site (off the root) for different parts of the overall site functionality (with a static index page in the root). I’d also love to be able to have the Buddybar show up for registered users in the other WP installs, so any ideas would be a great help.
I’m looking to replicate the profile pages either here or WordPress.org.
