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This is not only resurrecting a 4 month old thread – of which you yourself have found several duplicates – this is more a WPMU question that BP. Use https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/modified-mail-message-registration for discussion on this area, i’m closing this thread.

I’ve never heard of Flutter. But the link you provided to the Flutter plugin on the WP plugin repo appears to be for the single-user verison of WordPress and not for WPMU. That could be the issue.

Also, if you visit the homepage for the company that created Flutter, there is a link at the bottom to an alpha version for Mu.

I’m changing this to “not a support question” as you are having issues caused by a 3rd-party plugin (and one that is not supposed to work with WPMU at that) and it has nothing to do with BuddyPress not functioning properly. I’m also moving this to the “Third Party Components & Plugins” forum and out of the “How-To and Troubleshooting” forum.

There is a quickfix for this:

open /wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-core/bp-core-widgets.php and change the line 88.

from this:

<?php if ( bp_has_site_members( 'type=newest&max=' . $instance['max_members'] ) ) : ?>

to this:

<?php if ( bp_has_site_members( 'type=newest&max=' . $instance['max_members'] . '&per_page=' . $instance['max_members'] ) ) : ?>

I hope this helps.

r-a-y

The OP was talking about the multi-site plugin found on wpmudev.org. I just looked on wpmututorials and, although I found a page that talked about a multi-site plugin, it was not clear who coded it. The page was about an e-book package for purchase that comes with both the multi-site plugin and Advanced Domain Mapper. Again, I’m not sure if that refers to Donncha’s plugin on something Ron did.

If either or both of these are separate plugins, perhaps it would make sense to rename them as there is too much confusion with the very similar names.

Perhaps Ron and or Andre can clear this up!

The appearance of various tags like p and /p on your forum posts used to indicate a problem with your xmllib library on your server. Read this post for information on the bug and how to fix it.

However, I believe the buddypress-enable.php plugin in earlier versions of BP ( 1.0 and 1.0.1 ), was meant to fix that issue. But, for other reasons, this helper plugin is still required to make bbPress function properly in 1.0.3. So, make sure that you overwrite the existing version of the buddypress-enable.php file with the one that comes with 1.0.3 (found in /buddypress/bp-forums/bbpress-plugins/).

Also, make sure you read and follow the instructions in the installation-readme.txt file found in /bp-forums/.

With regard to XMLRPC, going forward, the communication between bbPress and BP v1.1+ will no longer depend on XMLRPC.

I got a reply from Ron over at WPMUTutorials.com.

If you’re interested in our discussion, head on over to:

http://wpmututorials.com/how-to/blog-categories/

A summary of what Ron wrote:

1- BP is enabled on a WPMU site basis so when running multiple site, BP can be enabled on one site and not another.

2- The same applies to site options/settings like registration.

3- BP does not filter a user’s blog list on the member profile by WPMU site. So, if you had 5 sites and a user had a blog in 4 of them then all 4 blogs would be listed.

One way you could accomplish the multisite setup where BP is on the main site and blogs on the additional sites is

Enable BP only on the main site.

On the main site set registration to users only.

On the additional sites set registration to only users can create blogs.

Create an info page on the main site that provides links to each of the other sites’ signup page.

This is a little bit involved and I’m a little pressed for time; I would at some point like to tackle this… but then I’d have to worry about redirecting /copying over blogs and permalinks on the existing WPMU setup… (sigh).

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@Jeff and Jason – Thanks for the info.

Donncha’s Domain Mapping plugin wouldn’t work in my situation because I’ve setup WPMU with subdirectories and not subdomains.

Re: the Multi-site plugin on WPMUDev. That one is different than the one that Ron has developed. So I’m not sure if XMLRPC will work with Ron’s version… a good question to ask him!

What is now the recommended approach for editing the activation/signup emails?

Other threads about this:

Modified mail message registration

Use full name in confirmation emails

control of new user activation email

Some more tid-bits,

Doncha isn’t really liking the Multi-site plugin as it has a few issues and not actively maintained. Also, the multi-site doesn’t handle xmlrpc. Right there that kills it for buddypress.

We may not see this patch included even though it has a milestone, and those reasons are that the Domain Mapper already has it’s teeth into wp-config. So there is intent right there.

Having said this, I have buddypress working with my wpmu setup. At least it looks like it’s working! LOL! Haa! ::[ok back to work]::

First, before doing anything, always read the readme.txt file that comes with the install package–this includes the WPMU and the BuddyPress packages. It has important information–especially about what you need to do with the theme files.

Since BuddyPress resides in its own directory, I would suggest deleting the old install. You should not have any issues if you do this. Why? Because any of the plugins, themes, or custom code that you may be using should exist outside of the BuddyPress directory. Before deleting the BP directory, you need to make sure that you deactivate it in WPMU’s backend.

Furthermore, just in case, it is always prudent to have recent backups of your custom themes and your plugins before deleting anything. You want to be absolutely sure that if you accidentally delete the wrong files or directories, that it will not be a big issue since you can simply copy them back. I also suggest that you have a recent copy of your wp-config.php file and even the .htaccess file (assuming that you have plugins installed that may have altered the default congifg).

Since this is a fresh install, I would also suggest starting over with a new DB. If you already have data that you wish to keep in the DB–because you’ve been running WPMU for awhile in a production environment–then your only option is to manually delete the BP tables in the DB before reinstalling BP.

Also, since you are having specific issues with the activity tables, you will need to follow my advice in this post to get the activity tables to reinstall.

As always, before doing anything that affects the DB, please back it up. This also includes backing up your DB before each and every upgrade.

FYI:

https://codex.wordpress.org/Backing_Up_Your_Database

https://codex.wordpress.org/Restoring_Your_Database_From_Backup

This question is asked several times a month. It is a custom theme made by Andy. It will not be made available.

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/the-theme-for-this-site

MU’ing WP

hope this will help

I have a wishlist member plugin license that I am planning on using on a wpmu site. When I contacted wishlist asking if that plugin was compatible, they had told me that it wasn’t tested but they thought it would work just fine.

I can give you more concrete feedback in a week or so.

Other than this, unless you are interested in restricting BP-specific pages to different membership levels, you are really looking for a wpmu solution. This wpmu-dev plugin claims to do that.

http://premium.wpmudev.org/project/supporter.

David is correct. The album component is not mentioned on the current BP roadmap.

David was part of an interesting discussion we had about the album component in another thread the other day. For those of you who are interested, here is my response about the lack of an album component mention in the roadmap.

Are you asking if an albums component comes as part of BP’s core in v1.1? If so, the answer is no. Here is more information on that issue.

I would contact _ck_, the author of that plugin and ask if BuddyPress support will be added. You can post a suggest here.

That is very strange indeed. I would suggest deactivating BuddyPress and installing manually.

Which version of WPMU did you install? Was it an upgrade from a previous version? If so, which version? Have you tried disabling all your plugins to see if the error goes away?

This error has to do with a WPMU function not functioning properly. More than likely it is not a BuddyPress error. You need to deactivate all plugins, including BP, and switch to a default WP theme (one that comes with WPMU) and see if the problem goes away.

If so, then it most likely has something to do with one of your plugins. The next step would then be to switch back to the theme you were using. Does the problem return? If not, reactivate BuddyPress. Does it return? If not, reactivate another plugin…

You keep reactivating one plugin at a time, each time checking to see if the error has returned. If it has, then there is probably an issue with that plugin. Make sure that you are using the most recent version of that plugin and the it is compatible with the version of WPMU you’re currently running. If it is, then contact the plugin developer and share the issue with them.

As JasonG states, WPMU is really setup to work with a single domain. However, as he also points out, Donncha has an early-stage plugin that allows the mapping of a domain to a specific blog on a Mu install. It is called the WordPress MU Domain Mapping plugin.

Concerning getting the multi-site plugin to work with BuddyPress, there is a ticket in Trac that addresses a potential way to allow it to work with BP.

I think I’m getting names mixed up, but Doncha did write the domain mapper.

Just re-read, Domain mapper is what you want.

However buddypress is sitewide as is bbpress.

I am working on a domain mapper compat bbpress seperation.

Keeping bp unified is still recommended.

I think for many cases the core is still setup for single domain. Not really 100%.

Even the last bit of code I pushed Doncha gave me three test cases he wanted, tld root, subdomain, and subfolder. No combination. So just on that point it’s not an intended usage.

You may be better off with Doncha’s domain mapper. It will require a patch if your using bbpress. I’ll have upload that to him. Otherwise this allows more segregation yet the backends are tied (an using the same bb and bp press apps)

Hope I understood the question!!

(I believe what I’m about to write is relatable to the topic at hand; if not, feel free to close the thread!)

I’m just starting to grasp the whole concept of multi-sites.

From what I’ve read, it’s exactly what I want to do.

But I need some clarification.

Here’s my setup, I have WPMU+BuddyPress installed in the root:

hxxp://www.example.com (blog_id #1 should be shown here, including all its posts, categories and pages)

I want all subsequent blogs to be created from

hxxp://blogs.example.com

So that new blogs will have a subdirectory under that subdomain.

eg. hxxp://blogs.example.com/newuserblog/

Single sign-on should work across the root and subdomain.

From those that have responded to me on the WPMU forums, this should be possible with the multi-site plugin.

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Now for the BuddyPress questions!

Okay, so let’s say I login to BuddyPress (which is installed in the root instance of MU) and I want to create a new blog from “My Account > Create a blog”, would BuddyPress be creating this new blog under the new Site instance (eg. the subdomain Site – blogs.example.com? This is what I would want to do. I’m guessing this would require some core hacking.

Also, if I go to hxxp://www.example.com/blogs, would this show blogs from the blogs.example.com subdomain?

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Thanks for reading! Hope to hear some feedback!

The fact that, as you say, “everything works lovely” when you switch to the bp-default theme, indicates that BuddyPress is functioning properly. So, you have an issue with your custom theme.

Any WP theme will work as a BP home theme as long as some additional files are included. With v1.1 of BP, basically the version you downloaded from trunk, BP switches to a parent/child theme architecture. So, you need to make sure the custom theme you are using can function as a parent theme.

Look at the various files in the BP parent theme — bp-sn-framework. My guess is that your custom theme is missing many of those files.

More information of the new parent/child theme architecture: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/details-about-the-new-theme-architecture