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If you want to hide the core xprofile “name” field, you’ll have to edit the /profile/profile-loop.php file in order to do this.

One way to do this is mentioned here:

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/faq-how-to-code-snippets-and-solutions#post-13243

This will hide your entire “Base” xprofile group though.

But that’s one way around it!

Is the eshop plugin a buddypress plugin really? If it is designed to work with WordPress, it does not hook into the menu functions etc that BuddyPress uses. Contact the author of that plugin and talk to him/her about it.

What do you mean by “menus and new tabs”? If you create a plugin, you can add custom menu items related to your plugin through various hooks (see the Skeleton Component for examples), but there are no built-in drag’n’drop functions for it.

Which readme.txt file are you referring to?

The one that comes with BuddyPress states this in the “Installation” section:

--- Plugins: ---



1. Upload everything into the "/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/" directory of

your installation.

2. Activate BuddyPress in the "Plugins" admin panel using the "Activate Site Wide"

or "Activate" link (both work).

Jeff,

Your analysis in the paragraph above outlines exactly what users can expect or aim to acheive with shared hosting. The fact that it can be installed and operated is one thing, providing a desirable user experience is another.

The restrictions on shared hosting though may allow for a WPMU installation but not provide enough flexibility for some BuddyPress plugins to work, but as you say too many variables to be discussed here.

If BuddyPress does end up supporting single-user wordpress I’m sure that the net will undoubtedly widen.

In the first picture you linked to, it shows that you have “BuddyPress Default Member Theme (1.0.1)” installed. This is an older theme that is not compatible with version 1.0.2 or 1.0.3.

You must install the theme files that come with the version of BuddyPress that you are using.

Read the “Installation” section of the readme.txt file that comes with BuddyPress.

Which version of WPMU are you running?

Which version of BuddyPress?

The showcase site Wannanetwork’s community is down, there’s a news posting saying that they “have pushed the limits of WordPress” and that they are experiencing server problems.

I’d like to have Maxaud’s feedback on BP after running what seems to be a pretty high traffic site for months.

As for the “Showcase”, it deserves a cleanup, many sites are down

Log into WPMU as the Site Administrator.

Go to “BuddyPress > General Settings > Select theme to use for BuddyPress generated pages”. Select the default BP member theme.

Then hit the “Save Settings” button.

It depends on what your plugin does, but in general, I would assume that BuddyPress plugins that have options a site admin can set would be listed as a submenu under the BuddyPress menu grouping.

In add_submenu_page( ), just make sure to set the first parameter to ‘bp-core.php’ if you want it to appear under the “BuddyPress” menu grouping. If you want the menu to instead appear under the “Site Admin” menu grouping, you would then set the first parameter to ‘wpmu-admin.php’.

require ( WP_PLUGIN_DIR . '/bp-example/bp-example-admin.php' );

Checking WP_PLUGIN_DIR returns a full path that looks like it’s the key of all the problem. If I use just

require ( 'bp-example/bp-example-admin.php' );

the require looks to work

Make sure your component is in /wp-content/plugins/ and not /plugins/buddypress/. If you do that, then using WP_PLUGIN_DIR will lead to the correct pathing.

@graduatebuddy if you press the “freshness” link which shows at the forums section it will take you directly to the last post (yours).

If you are at the beginning of this thread or at any page, just go to the top part where it shows how many msgs and voices and next to it shows the links to the latest reply and who made it (yours in my case)

Well Oliver, you´d better setup a reminder because it is pretty likely there won´t be any updates of FB-connect PI unless some other developer continues with it.

Any himself (who originally adapted it) made very clear that it is not one of his priorities, and we must respect that as he is the only person 100% devoted to Buddypress.

Sounds like possibly this is related to BP plugin…. I would try installing buddypress with NO BP related plugins and then install them one by one to troubleshoot….. if you find one that causes white screen, then delete it via ftp and you should be able to undo white screen… let us know if you come up with anything……

hatiro-

The reason that the specific question of the OP is a WPMU issue is that he was asking whether a shared hosting account will be sufficient to run BP. Since BuddyPress is a WPMU plugin, what matters, then, is whether WPMU can successfully run on a shard hosting account.

I provided several links for him to begin his education.

In short, of course you can install WPMU + BP + bbP on many shared hosting accounts. But, whether that will provide a desirable user experience or support more than a few 10s to 100s of active users depends on too many variables to be discussed here. The underlying functionality of WPMU is paramount to the overall site functionality. If your site’s access to server resources is too limited, you will have issues quickly.

Perhaps once BuddyPress supports single-user WordPress, the options for hobbyists, as you call them, will be better.

Information on upgrading single-user WP to WPMU can be found on the WPMU forums.

As far as this question:

I have a good many members and would like to know how to add them as a community member or does this automatically do this on install?

BuddyPress does not do any importing of your existing members. There is a plugin that can help though: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/user-import-for-buddypress-all-fields/

I am not sure if that plugin is yet compatible with 1.0.3.

Have you installed BuddyPress in the “plugins” folder or the “mu-plugins” folder?

It may be so that the translation functions for these strings are missing in your releases. You should update to WPMU 2.8.1 (or 2.8.2) and BP 1.0.3 anyways.

WPMU translation files should reside in:

wp-content/languages/

and BP translation files should reside in:

wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-languages/

If you’d like more help, please provide a link to the language files you are using, and where and what strings are not translated.