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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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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?

Hey steverio,

BP 1.0.2 is what you need:

https://trac.buddypress.org/changeset/1629/tags/1.0.2?old_path=%2F&format=zip

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.

I got the same error after trying to automatically upgrade from BuddyPress 1.0.1 to 1.0.3 through the plugin page.

It looks like I was still only running WP MU 2.7.1

Wouldn’t it be smart (in the automatic BuddyPress upgrade) to check to see if the WP MU version is compatible with the version of BuddyPress that is about to be installed before the automatic process is started? Just an idea

http://graduatebuddy.com/ uses WordPress MU 2.8.2, BuddyPress 1.0.3, bbPress 1.0

comment system needs to be improved, had to go to 9th page to post this comment, there should be a link somewhere of the top of first page, and the from should be at the bottom of every page intensedebate if could be made compatible would be a great plus

now the BuddyPress install:

http://graduatebuddy.com/

it uses a wordpress MU 2.8.2 , BuddyPress 1.0.3, bbPress 1.0

Same error too. I re-enable it manually, going to the wp-content/plugins/buddypress/pb-forums.php and set 1 on the second line. Now it´s running.

My problem now is to make the option “forum” appears on the main menu.

The skeleton component is not a plugin. It is a template of files from which you can create your own, custom plugin.

So, you do need to not only have PHP-coding skills, but also a sufficient understanding of the inner workings of BuddyPress.

Hi!

I also have the same problem as him. I just upgraded my installation to wpmu 2.8 and buddypress 1.03 and when I go to myurl.com/members I dont see the lsit of members. When I click on it when not logged in, I get a blank profile page, that says “not recently active”. By the way I installed the default buddypress member theme and this still happens.

So what have we done wrong??

I really hope someone here could help us.

Thanks

The Skeleton Component is just that–a generic, bare-bones plugin template that you can use to create your own, custom BuddyPress plugin.

But the only things that this plugin do is to put in profil EXAMPLE..

Did you read the in-line documentation? At the top of bp-example.php it reads:

--- SKELETON COMPONENT V1.2.2 ---



Contributors: apeatling, jeffsayre



This is a bare-bones component that should provide a good starting block to

building your own custom BuddyPress component.



It includes some of the functions that will make it easy to get your component

registering activity stream items, posting notifications, setting up widgets, adding

AJAX functionality and also structuring your component in a standardized way.



It is by no means the letter of the law. You can go about writing your component in

any style you like, that's one of the best (and worst!) features of a PHP based platform.



I would recommend reading some of the comments littered throughout, as they will

provide insight into how things tick within BuddyPress.



You should replace all references to the word 'example' with something more suitable

for your component.



IMPORTANT: DO NOT configure your component so that it has to run in the

/plugins/buddypress/ directory. If you do this, whenever the user auto-upgrades

BuddyPress - your custom component will be deleted automatically. Design

your component to run in the /wp-content/plugins/ directory

I know it’s a tad tricky to answer but there must be a rule of thumb somewhere?

There is no rule of thumb that I know of. There are too many variables to say with certainty that a WPMU + BP install needs “X MB” of DB space. It depends on the number of users, the activity level of each user, the overall site activity, whether you give them each a blog (or more), and what plugins you have installed and activated.

But, I suspect that having a DB size limit of 150 MB is a stretch just on a low-trafficked WPMU site. Add in BuddyPress and 100 active users, and you’ll quickly shoot through that limit.

As an example, on one of my WPMU + BP test platforms, I have 5 users and only two MU blogs with very few test blog posts. Since it is a test install only used by myself, it has very little activity thus very little data written to the DB.

The DB size of that simple setup is 1.8 MB. Imagine an active site with many blogs and 100 users. Your host’s DB limit of 150 MB would be quickly reached.

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/the-theme-for-this-site#post-13460

You need to ask that question on the Premium WPMU site. It is a 3rd-party project not supported by Automattic.

If you want a free multiple database engine, you can use HyperDB. This site runs on HyperDB. WordPress.com runs a highly-modified version of HyperDB.

Here are a series of articles written by Trent Adams, one of the BuddyPress moderators, that detail how to configure HyperDB:

http://trentadams.com/2009/04/18/hyperdb-explained-part-1/

http://trentadams.com/2009/05/08/hyperdb-explained-part-2/