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So far in my experience:

1. creating groups and appearing in the Forums, works.

2. I’m able to get the templates integrated to a point, avatars and PMs I’m working on now.

3. Avatars aren’t talking to each other. (there are three different locations to pick which avatar, they need to fix that)

Admin section -> Buddypress -> Component Setup -> Disabled ( Groups Let users create, join and participate in groups.)

Once version 1.1 of BuddyPress is released, the Skeleton Theme that is currently bundled with BuddyPress (up to version 1.0.3) will be discontinued. Instead, BuddyPress will adopt the parent/child theme architecture that WP 2.7 made possible.

Learn more about parent/child themes in WordPress.

It’s a bug. It might be https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/909.

BuddyPress currently only runs on WPMU.

As far as your question:

…is there a way to convert my wordpress right now on my site to WordPress MU?

There are many resources on the WPMU site and threads in their forums that will help you in this regard.

When you run on the bleeding edge, you have to accept the changes!

The BP themes that WPMU DEV currently provide are are not designed with the parent/child architecture in mind. You need to talk with them to get support.

Details About the New Theme Architecture

With BuddyPress version 1.1–which will be officially released in the next several weeks–there will no longer be bhome and bpmember themes. Instead, BuddyPress will adopt the parent/child theme architecture that WP 2.7 makes possible.

Backwards compatibility will remain for a while for those that want/need to use the old theming architecture. To use the old theme architecture, you need to keep the /bp-themes/ directory. Place your old member themes in there. BuddyPress should override the new theme architecture in favor of the old one if you have a /bp-themes/ directory. However, please note that support for the old theme architecture will eventually be phased out. You will eventually need to update your themes to a parent/child architecture.

Learn more about parent/child themes in WordPress.

did you recently deactivate buddypress?

Two questions:

1. Does this issue go away if you switch to the default themes that come with BuddyPress?
2. Are there any errors showing up in your log files?

That is more than likely a bug. Could you please post a new ticket in BuddyPress trac. You use the same login credentials for trac as you do for this site.

As r-a-y points put, Mark Jaquith, one of the few lead developers for WordPress, was hired to build a highly-customized version of WPMU + BuddyPress for Gigaom. Mark of course is intimately aware of the intricacies of the WP codebase and I’m sure had an easier time customizing the project than would the vast majority of coders.

But, the Gigaom site does demonstrate what is possible with WPMU + BP if you are willing to become well-versed in the codebase or have deep-enough pockets to hire out professional talent.

Rogercoathup, if I can figure out this plugin, autogenerating a username from fullname is probably a small step that can be included in the same plugin. The big question is how to take fullname from the registration input (field_1) to do stuff with in a function. I think I’m getting closer, after about four months…

Will get back to that later in the coming week.

r-a-y, I doubt GigaOm would be eager to share their trade secrets. I’m also a bit of a potential competitor to them. Shh…

@Peter + Roger,

You might want to pick Mark’s brain as to how he created the registration system and removed the username:

http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/2009/05/28/gigaom-pro-launches-on-wordpress-and-buddypress/

Hi Roger,

Try this:

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/default-to-just-a-username#post-14828

Requires hacking a core file and a little bit of CSS to hide the “Create A Blog” block.

If there’s a better method, let us know!

I used Burt Adsit’s BPGroups plugin to achieve this a few months ago. It helped to pull all user data over and transfer the XProfile data into a deeply integrated bbPress installation.

In future versions of BuddyPress this will be much, much easier.

Refer to this: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/questions-about-groups#post-14157

tell me if it works ;x

Once v1.1 comes out in the next couple of weeks, this issue should be moot. There will no longer be bhome and bpmember themes. Instead, BuddyPress will adopt the parent/child theme architecture that WP 2.7 makes possible.

Backwards compatibility will remain for a while for those that want/need to use the old theming architecture. But it will eventually be phased out.

Learn more about parent/child themes in WordPress.

bp_the_topic_poster_avatar() pulls the avatar of the people who post in a particular forum thread. It does not pull the overall group avatar.

Do all your users have unique avatars?

Are you on a dev site?

Log into WPMU’s backend as Site Admin and navigate to “BuddyPress > General Settings > Default User Avatar” and see if you have selected the Mystery Man avatar. If so, change it to something else and save your settings.