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’.
I’ve seen that this:
bp-example-admin.php:
add_action( 'admin_menu', 'bp_example_add_admin_menu' );
This add_action is right after the definition of the same bp_example_add_admin_menu function.
From my understanding, once the require at the bp-example page is called, the add_action executes the function, am I right ? if so this doesn’t work, however, if I call bp_example_add_admin_menu right after the require it works fine loading the menu option right under the BuddyPress pane.
This is the propper behaviour ?
… by the way, the skeleton/example admin options should appear under the WPMU > BuddyPress pane, right ?
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.
Thanks for responding DJPaul!
I guess the hook would be this:
user_register
Runs when a user’s profile is first created. Action function argument: user ID.
Or maybe this?
register_post
Runs before a new user registration request is processed.
I have a wish list of things I need to do with input from the registration form:
1. synchronize fullname with wp_usermeta firstname + last name
2. autogenerate username/blogurl from fullname
3. add new user to the ListMessenger mailing list
They all require taking input from the registration form, processing the input and then storing the results in specific database tables. I’m trying to puzzle together one or more plugins to do that.
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.
Ok… I reverted the chaos, still some words aren’t translated in the template.
You can see here the words that don’t appear to be translated although they are: http://blogi.ee/groups
For example: Groups Listing, Members, etc
And the BP language file here: http://blogi.ee/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-languages/buddypress-et_ET.mo
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.
Thank you for your answer.
Yes I put it in header.php
But this is MY link:
<li> <a href="http://***.com/register/" title="register">register</a></li>
And this is the ORIGINAL link THEME:
<li<?php if ( bp_is_page( BP_GROUPS_SLUG ) ) {?> class="selected"<?php } ?>><a href="<?php echo get_option('home') ?>/<?php echo BP_GROUPS_SLUG ?>" title="<?php _e( 'Groups', 'buddypress' ) ?>"><?php _e( 'Groups', 'buddypress' ) ?></a></li>
In the last one, we have CSS if the page GROUPS is activ
For MY link I have no CSS. And if I put it, it’s always activ
You understand what I mean?
Thank you to devote time to me
Put back all the plug-ins specifically for WPMU and everything is still running.
Haven’t attempted buddypress yet though, nor any of the plugins that run with buddypress.
WOOOO!!!!
When I renamed the plugin folders my blog came back! but no buddypress. 
OK – now to try and figure out why the heck buddypress 1.0.3 isn’t loving me.
AND! this is totally wonkers. It says I’m using WPMU 2.8.2 although I’ve NEVER updated to 2.8.2 from 2.8.1… I’ve only ever used 2.8.1. So what’s that all about?
One issue solved – now for the other stuff…
Thanks for the beautiful help and info!!! I think I might be making headway… I will inform you all of all the Play-by-play incase anyone else is reading this with the same bizarre problem.
John – thanks for the reply!! 
I’ll check with my host about the memory… that’s something new to me… hmm.
All the files are in the correct locations, triple and quadruple checked. Buddypress 1.0.2 was working fine, it’s the upgrade to 1.0.3 that caused this. It was never activated, got a fatal error on activation so I clicked deactivate and then POOF. It said that it could not activate the plug-in when i clicked activate. But, white screen of death before I could try to delete it or do anything. It really didn’t like that update.
I have a few plug-ins running, but without the admin back end working, I can’t deactivate them. Can I place them in a separate folder temporarily without causing even more havoc? i.e. welcome pack, monty spam, wp ban, limited log in attempts, askimet, etc.
Just really want to get my blogs back in action. Don’t want people hating on me for losing all their data… although data is all still there, it’s just invisible. bizarre indeed!
Thanks so much for responding. really appreciate it.
Hey James, thanks for the reply… I am pretty sure I could do it with a little help – it can’t be more complicated than forums platforms as you say… there is no ‘recipe’ out there yet so there is a chance to explore new territory 
I don’t really think it ‘competes’ – they are both GPL community platforms, ccHost being more niche for sure, but I think a social site with creative commons music functionality would be a killer direction for buddypress…
This seems to be a lifetime project for me (yesmate.com) – starting back in the days before wordpress, when open-source CMS were rare… I am in no hurry
Perhaps it would be better to design some plug-ins for WP/BP that emulate what ccHost does (I know from trying to subscribe to an ‘editors picks’ feed on cMixter via my n95 that WP does RSS and pretty URLs better lol).
Peaces
Ok, I’ve looked the tutorial of Andy with the install of BuddyPress on a Mac and I updated my folder structur. The bp-themes are now wp-content folder and I don’t get a error message anymore. But If I click on the “member” link in the home theme I don’t get a list of members like in the installation of Andy. And if I click on my name in the upper right corner I see this with my default theme of the root blog:
Error 404 – Not Found
What I have to do?
Thanks
coldjippie
Jeff,
I don’t agree that this is just a WPMU question. Getting bbpress and buddypress to ‘talk’ to one another to use the groups plugin is an issue for shared hosting, which may not be resolved in the WPMU forums. A few hosts have been mentioned on this site but it would still be good for this issue to be aired with those not using dedicated servers.
Perhaps, in terms of scalability it is different but for those starting out how far shared hosting will take you before shelling out for better hosting is valid.
Buddypress will be picked up and used by a lot of ‘hobbyists’ (I use the term in quotes not to offend) and shared experiences in this forum is surely what it’s all about.
As for me, I’ll be starting out using shared hosting, but am still at the testing on home server stage so not yet positive enough to say how it will pan out.
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Hello!
I’ve installed the default themes and moved the bp-themes folder into the wp-content/themes folder (the default home theme is only in wp-content/themes). In the Backend of Buddypress I get this:
You do not have any BuddyPress themes installed.
Please move the default BuddyPress themes to their correct location (move /www/htdocs/********/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/ to /www/htdocs/********/wp-content/bp-themes/) and reload this page. You can download more themes here.
But I’ve already done this, what do I wrong?
Thanks
coldjippie
That is pretty bizarre.
White screen errors can mean lots of things unfortunately. If it’s BuddyPress being active that’s causing it, it might be an out of memory or php/mysql version error?
Can you verify that you have all of the files in the correct locations? Were you ever able to get BuddyPress to activate successfully at all? Do you have any other plugins running that maybe are conflicting?
You could use BuddyPress’ x-profile fields to create a required, custom radio button for gender.
The hard part will be hacking the activity feed to show the pronoun differential.
You’d have to create your own function similar to Buddypress’ bp_your_or_their() function.
Then apply that function as a filter on bp_activity_content_filter.
