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Thanks Jeff.

Going to “BuddyPress > General Settings”, re-selecting the member theme, and then hitting save worked!

Really appreciate your help.

Amyuk and Dworldon-

A few initial questions:

1. Are you logging into WPMU\’s backend as the site administrator, and not just as a user with administrator privileges?
2. Did you go to \”BuddyPress > General Settings\”, re-select the member theme, and then hit save? Do this even if the theme is already selected.
3. Are there any errors in your log files? If so, what are they?

Jeff, I tried installing Nicola’s plugins on a clean BP installation but some of them seem to break my plugins page and then make the database dirty

I would contact Nicola via his bp-dev.org site and discuss this issue with him. I know that he has recently upgraded many of his plugins. Your feedback will help him make his plugins even better!

Too slow Camopants!

That’s Nanopants, not Camopants.

Inside joke. Nothing to see here people. Move along.

Kunal17-

Remember, BuddyPress is just a WPMU plugin. Granted, a big, fancy, and powerful WPMU plugin!

The best practice is to contact each plugin developer and ask if there are any issues using their plugin with BuddyPress. Also, if their plugin has not yet been updated to work with WPMU 2.7.1, then you will want to request that it be updated as soon as possible. Using plugins that are not yet supported on, or will not be updated to, the current version of WPMU is not advisable.

Arghagain-

Adding to what jjj and TheEasyButton are saying, if you are still having issues then it is important to start from scratch. You must get WPMU functioning properly before installing BuddyPress. Then make sure BuddyPress is functioning properly before installing and integrating bbPress.

From what you are saying, it is not clear if you are upgrading WPMU from 2.6 or 2.7? Did you already have a working copy of WPMU installed? If so, what version?

If you are upgrading from 2.7 to 2.7.1 following these upgrading instructions, then make sure you finish the upgrading process by logging into WPMU’s backend as site admin and going to “Site Admin -> Upgrade”. Also, make sure you use the wp-config-sample.php file that comes with WPMU 2.7.1 and modify that version as needed. Do not use an older version of the wp-config.php file.

If you do not have an active site with real members and you are only in testing mode, then you can safely delete everything and perform a clean install. This means that you do not have any data in the MySQL DB that is worth saving.

If that is the case,save to a separate file any custom themes you may have created or installed. Also, save any 3rd-party plugins you may have installed for WPMU. Then, start from scratch. Delete everything including your MySQL DB. Once you have reinstalled WPMU succesfully, you can copy back your custom themes and 3rd-party plugins into their proper locations.

Finally, if you are still using BP RC2, it is time to switch to BuddyPress 1.0, the public release version of BP.

Thanks for the response.

I bought the themes from StudioPress and see they have made a Grunge Buddypress theme for another client. I will try and contract them to do the same for myself.

Unfortunately since we will be using a purchased theme, I would not be able to make it open to everyone, however I will ask StudioPress to consider adding it to their product list for sale.

I will also look at the coding myself as I am generally good with be able to follow systems that are well documented. If this is the case I will look into creating themes using free/gpl wordpress themes. What my clients have been after is more of a wordpress modular feel than buddypress.

I am also looking into integrating phpMotion and will report back to this forum as my clients all want locally hosted/owned video/images site wide and on user profiles.

Regards

Mark

This plugin is not working with BuddyPress 1.0. It’s not activating, because of:

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare events_install() (previously declared in /hsphere/local/home/slaffik/demo.cosydale.com/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-events.php:39) in /hsphere/local/home/slaffik/demo.cosydale.com/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-events.php on line 177

Oh did I do smth wrong?

Here’s definition.

http://wpmu.org/the-wordpress-mu-guide/site-options/standard-site-options/

wpmu doesn’t have the option you are looking for. But you can use 2nd option with a plugin to moderate new blogs. To find out more, visit wpmu forums and wpmudev.

This has nothing to do with BuddyPress.

Aaargh. This is nothing to do with buddyPress. The installation instructions say to check you have a fully working install of WPMU before installing buddypress. Obviously you didn’t.

Therefore a more appropiate place is the WPMU forum or website for this question. However: you need wildcard domains like you’ve said. Your webserver also needs to be configured to support such a thing. In Apache httpd, this is called a “virtualhost.”. Talk to your host.

kunal17, did you contact the support of both hostgator and godaddy? If you go to wpmu forum you’ll find detailed answers and information as buddypress is just a plugin running on wpmu.

Perhaps you need to visit wpmu and read some documents there, to understand more about what wpmu does and buddypress does. That should give you clear definitions and directions when you face troubles in the future.

Has anyone tried installing buddypress and setting up wildcard subdomains using hostgator but having godaddy as the DNS provider?

How would this be done? Im pretty new at this. Have no idea what apache is

Hi, Magi,

I have reached the stage where I get the message “Doofus, you need more than one slide to have a slideshow”. This is after uploading 2 or 3 images to the image folder concerned. What’s next? Pls advise.

Did you read this document?

https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/using-the-buddypress-themes/

Hi,

I am also relatively new to WPMU/Buddypress/bbPress collection but have been doing a fare bit of playing around and testing of late.

The following plugins have worked fine for me during testing. Note that I have installed “Plugin Commander” and activated each plugin through the PC interface…

– All in one SEO

– Ozh Admin Dropdown menu

Note that the testing was done on all the latest versions of each component.

R

I agree with JJJ – If removing those lines fixes it, leave it as is. But if you\’re still unhappy with the way something is working, you could try my integration tutorial.

I\’m assuming there\’s nothing important in your bbPress database yet since you said you wiped it all out and tried again. If this assumption is correct, start with a clean install of bbPress by deleting the forums/bb-config.php file. Also, drop the tables in your database that start with bb_

You can find the tutorial at http://theeasybutton.com/blog/2009/04/30/integrating-buddypress-10-wpmu-and-bbpress/

It was written for BuddyPress 1.0 but works exactly the same for RC2.

Good luck and if you fix it, please remember to let us know so we\’re not still trying to find a better answer for you.

WordPress and bbPress use several cookies to ensure your identity across all directories and areas that are important to the applications. When those cookies are out of alignment, things start working strangely like you describe.

The best thing is to check the cookies that your site is dropping, review the information inside them (typically with Firefox) and see if there are any places that are obviously incorrect or pointing to the wrong locations. Then, you use those global variables to adjust the settings back into place.

This is one of those bugs that’s difficult to diagnose, difficult to direct you to a fix, and hard to explain where to even start.

It’s also PIVOTAL that all of your separate applications (WPMU, BP, bbP) are all correctly installed/upgraded to begin with. If you’ve never gotten to a point where they were playing nice together in the first place, it will be extremely hard to figure out what’s wrong.

The documentation/codex area provides a ton of documentation that can help you with all of these things, but there is no magic button you can press to make this happen.

There are dozens of functions and loops that need to be installed and addressed on several files and themes to make all of BuddyPress work the way it does. All we can do is document them for you, and let you give it a try yourself. It’s up to the growing audience of BP developers to start creating themes for 1.0, and that will eventually happen, I guarantee it.

If you’re in over your head and desperate for a theme asap, it may be time to hire someone to help you out. If you’re not looking for custom functionality and simply want a revamped BP theme, I might suggest joining the WordPress developers mailing lists and asking some WP professionals for assistance. Otherwise right now we’re pretty lenient about users asking for specific requests here (meaning we will lock the topic but we won’t delete it or spam it.)

http://wtf-ever.net — a blog network for my friends and I. I just put up the site yesterday, and I’m still working on a better, more customized layout. It’s wonky, but it’s a work in progress.

Hi

I have bought some great premium wordpress themes and I want to upgrade one to use for Buddypress 1.0 post RC2 release. I can use the skeleton for the members profile.

What I need are the hooks to turn a wordpress theme into a Buddypress theme.

I think this was available for RC1 but with the changes to RC2+ we will need the updated hooks.

I have searched for this but can’t seem to find it.

Any suggestions.

Regards

Mark

Kunal17–

You also have to change the CSS file (base.css) so that it \\\”knows\\\” how large your logo is … I changed mine to be slightly taller than the stock logo for BuddyPress. Here is the code and what I did … this is just below the comment for HEADER:

#header {

padding: 25px 20px;

}

#header h1 a {

text-indent: -999em;

background: url(../images/logo.gif) top left no-repeat;

overflow: hidden;

width: 214px;

height: 55px;

display: block;

float: left;

Try that and see if it works. Good luck!