I’ve already edited a bunch of tables in the database and manually searched an replaced any trace of the old URL. I’m just wondering if the reinstall would kill my bbpress and buddypress integration. They work perfectly now and users can register through bbpress and have a buddypress profile. I just wanted the wp-signup.php or wp-register.php to work. Either is fine with me!
First of all, we have very little information with which to provide you assistance. What version of WPMU are you running? What version of BuddyPress?
Please reference this thread an answer the questions.
Finally, the message:
“Are you sure you want to do this?”
often indicates a nonce security failure message. It can happen if you have not updated the BP themes or are using a custom theme (i.e. any theme other than the ones that come with BuddyPress). Try switching to the default BP themes and see if the issue goes away. If it does, then you know it has something to do with the theme you’re using.
thanks..so if I’m using, say, carrington-blog for my wordpress home theme, then it would go in the carrington-blog directory? If so, I just tried that and it always results in a page not found. Am I doing something wrong? Note, I have the code in the functions.php file (which is in the carrington-blog folder) and the file it points to in that folder as well – as per your instructions…thanks
If I understand correctly, Jedbarish is asking if he starts his site off with User blogs turned off, and 50 people register, and he wants to turn blogs on, can he go back and retroactively give those users blogs.
@Jedbarish, if my assumption is correct, then the flat answer is “no, WPMU/BuddyPress can’t do this for you.” However, a WPMU plugin could be made to do this (most likely by counting the number of blogs a user already belongs to,) but the problem is that you won’t know what they would want the name of their blogs to be so you can’t create it accurately. You could guess at their username.domain.com, but it means more manual labor to change it if they don’t like it.
Yes, it will still be possible to do this, but it will take a little smoke and mirrors until forums aren’t only for groups in BuddyPress. Forums don’t care who made them, but BuddyPress still needs a mechanism to gather and present the information outside of a group setting.
If it doesn’t make the 1.1 release I’m hoping to find the spare time to offer a “forum directory” plugin at the 1.1 launch, probably similar to the members and groups directories.
@allenweiss, both of the files need to go in your active WordPress HOME theme, not your bpmember theme.
Bpisimone, I think what you meant was discussed in another topic, I was writing about editing images from 3 different directories to adjust my design, which can become a bit annoying when upgrading.
In this topic it’s about making the forums look the same like the rest of the site, including buddybar (this one is already working on the bbpress default theme), header, navigataion and footer. Or did I get something wrong? 
pxlgirl.
I take it you’d like to have a better integration between the bphome and the bpmember themes right?
All of this is going to be included in the September 1.1 update as Andy is implementing WordPress’ child theme possibilities.
It must be possible somehow, b/c these forums here are integrated the same way. It is still stand-alone, but looking the same like the rest of this site. Please guys, tell us your secret. 
The equivalent to wp-config is bb-config in your bbpress/ folder. I do have a path to my wp-blog-header.php, but that was for put the buddybar on top of the forums. I also have experimented with ThemePress, a theme that’s supposed to load your header and footer, but it all looks messy and won’t show the buddybar, or the link to the forums in my nav.
Any other ideas would be welcome.
pxlgirl.
Hi cozzie. I’m not sure whether you’re still interested in a solution to this, but I just wrote a plugin that lets you select what you want the Groups and Members widgets’ default views to be. You can get it here http://dev.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2009/09/07/new-buddypress-plugin-enhanced-buddypress-widgets/
Hi Modemlooper – not sure whether you’re still interested in this, but I was looking to make a similar change (I wanted recently active members to show by default). I wrote a plugin to make it happen: http://dev.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2009/09/07/new-buddypress-plugin-enhanced-buddypress-widgets/. Hope it helps.
That particular screenshot is *old*, and I’ve never seen a build with that in. Further blog integration is on the roadmap for future relases of BP.
I forgot one more patch, and thats for BuddyPress.
I haven’t submitted it yet (i’m beat…)
When you have applied everything I’ve submitted above, you need to be in an HTTPS session to edit/submit anything.
For instance, after logging in and going to your activity list you will see the login form again. This is because the cookies set are secure cookies. If you were to go in your browser and change the scheme to https, you will see that buddypress will mark you as logged in and you can change whatever settings you need. This is what I was trying to achieve, complete HTTPS sessions for when it is flagged.
And also, thanks to R-A-Y for #979.
I think after 979 + this new patch, SSL will be complete for buddypress (famous last words)!
I have a feeling though a backpress update may be in order though..(me ranting)
I’m with you anointed. It doesn’t seem the developers thought of this, but it sure would be useful.
I’ve tried this, but can’t seem to get it to work. I put the function, defined above, in the functions.php page in the BP theme directory I’m using (which is the default bpmember) and put the help.php page (that’s what my page is called) into the same folder (is this correct). I think my problem is that I’m not sure when people say “home theme’s functions.php file” if they mean the bpmember folder (since that is my home theme) and if the “home theme directory” is again the bpmember folder (again, since that’s my home theme). Am I just getting this all confused?
thanks
Ok, I sort of “solved” the problem by editing the message in /buddypress/bp-core/bp-core-signup.php. I wrote that registrations are disabled and added a link to the application form. It’s quick and dirty, but works for now
pxlgirl.
So as the screenshots on the BP homepage show, will it be possible for every member to have their blog integrated into the main site? I don’t like how when they register a blog it kicks them to what looks like Kubrick or w/e the default MU theme is.
I don’t want members to even have the ability to pick another theme, just have it created within the BP home theme/blog.
Bp is not made to work like that. Sounds like you’ll need to fork some bp functions, but also write a completely new plugin from scratch.
Gotcha, it’s a little confusing what you were trying to say earlier… 
It sounds like you’re going to need to write a script that will install mu/bp on the fly for everything member in their own section. I don’t think the way they are coded now you will be able to achieve what you are wanting.
@dwpers – Actually I want it the other way around. I don’t want my users blogs integrated into the bp site, but want bp integrated into my user blogs. While it sounds like a ‘trivial’ difference it is not.
I’m trying to figure out how to give each blog owner their own buddypress sub-community. With the new theme system for bp coming out, it should be much easier to integrate bp into my current website themes. Then I would like to only display members/groups/forums/etc that ‘belong’ to that particular blog.
Think of it from ‘how would wordpress.com integrate buddypress?’
If they simply just had a ‘huge’ community that everyone was a member of, kind of how ning did it on their ‘home’ site, then no one would ever really be interested. I’m more suspecting that buddypress would become a plugin that each blog would activate on their own to build their own ‘sub-community’. Though I am pretty sure that wordpress.com would follow the ning example and automatically have all members of all blogs become part of a larger community behind the scenes. Whether they know it or not.
Am I off base here?
If you’re asking if anyone’s released any child themes then no, I’m not aware of any yet.
If you’re asking for BuddyPress installs running the new parent/child theme system, look at this site and testbp.org.
These were also uploaded in bphome/bpmember before, but were not generated. Therefore, I had to overwrite the following images in /buddypress/bp-core/images:
view_button_side
remove_friend_button
add_friend_button
admin_bar_logo
There was another file called something like info_icon… I had to edit this in some other core folder but I don’t remember which one.
pxlgirl.
I’m not sure how I would go about re-installing because I have my bbpress installation already integrated as well as buddypress operating with a couple users. Anyone know how to retain this data and reinstall?
Hey Erich,
It’s fixed in the upcoming BP 1.1, but in the meantime, you can apply the fix mentioned here:
https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/816
