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Today i ugraded WPMU to 2.7.1 and BP to RC 2. Good work!

Maybe some newest language files will be for this version?

Jfcarter-

The upgrade process will remove a few BuddyPress tables that are not needed anymore in RC2. Don’t worry, though. All the important data is safe. So, as long as you have a recent backup of your DB, you’ll be fine.

As far as shutting down your site during the upgrade, I usually make a post the day before stating that I’ll be performing upgrades. Since it is should take no more than 10 minutes, usually it is not an issue.

But part of the upgrade process has been to delete everything except your wp-config file, various files in /wp-content/ (and of course your database), if someone attempts to go to the site during the upgrade, there may be no files to serve. So, with more established sites, I’ll stick an index.html file in root so that it will be served if someone comes while I’m upgrading. In that file, I have the logo and a “be back soon” or something like that message. This is overkill for most sites though.

Finally, you could look at the Lock Outplugin. I’ve never used it and I do not know if it works with WPMU 2.7+.

Good luck!

BuddyPress RC2 will consolidate your activity streams and merge the tables. It will also go through and add any additional settings that are missing and set them as default if for some reason they do not already exist.

As long as you have not hacked the core of your install, upgrading from RC1 to RC2 should not harm any of your existing data.

There is a built in maintenance mode when using the automatic update feature of WordPress, but for something manual (such as RC1 to RC2), I might recommend something like…

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/maintenance-mode/

Congratulations, Andy! This is another important milestone for BuddyPress!

Thank you for your hard work, determination, and dedication in making the BuddyPress platform a wonderful tool for creating cutting-edge, vibrant social networks. I look forward to seeing where this goes!

For those of you tuning into us via SVN:

BuddyPress RC2 = BuddyPress Revision 1406

Anything +1406 can be referred to as “trunk” again.

Check these topics for some important reading on upgrading your existing BuddyPress installs.

BuddyPress Directory Changes and New File Locations

Reminder to move your old install, and what error you’ll receive if you don’t

i think the problem your having is the fact that p2 is not a “buddypress theme”

like in the main theme how it has a large widget area and 2 small ones, and also has a BLOG tab where the main blog is

the problem your having with p2 (and any other standard wordpress theme) is the BLOG tab is displayed on the main page rather than a large widget sidebar, as the recent blog posts thing is actually a widget, if you put this widget in your p2 sidebar you will see a direct comparison between the 2

currently you cant have a p2 “theme” that aggregates ALL blog posts like the buddypress widget does,

all the users will be posting to the main blog if you want them to use p2, and if you do then the current skin should be fine? it was designed to show comments

im sure you could add some nice jscript to add collapsing comments? this would probably bring better functionallity to your site if you didnt want the comments taking up the whole page?

there is a plugin to disable the dashboard but then obviously they cant edit the blog?

i think what your looking for is just plain wordpress (not mu / multi user) and buddypress which is upcoming, theres a thread about it in the forum if your interested, it would definately be worth a read and then base your decision on that

i kinda know how to do this, i am planning on switching the members profiles to http://username.hyrxx.com and the blogs to http://username.hyrxx.com/blogs /comments /photos etc

so it brings more of a focus onto the profile than the blog

because buddypress is about the profiles right?

ill let you know how i get on

And… if you make these changes to the BP core files, don’t forget to save them when updating BP.

Oh, and BTW, upgrading to the paid godaddy hosting will most likely fix the ad code injection issue you’re having; but I would concur with the negative comments about godaddy — paid or not — as a host for a buddypress project. You’ll keep running into problems trying to do more advanced stuff on their servers. That’s just not the market that they’re serving.

I haven’t tested this, but you should probably be able to edit

/wp-content/themes/buddypress-home/style.css

delete the @import directive that is there and instead add:

@import url(css/base.css);

@import url(css/custom.css);

This might hose some of the functionality added by loader.php, but should be the easiest place to make the change.

@Chris-

Still thinking here, but a few more questions:

Are you using the new wp-config.php file that comes with WPMU 2.7.1? Or, did you use and older version?

If so, there is an additional define line added to WMPU’s config file:

define('SITE_ID_CURRENT_SITE', 1);

Also, before installing BuddyPress, but after upgrading WPMU to 2.7.1, did you got to Site Admin > Upgrade in site admin and finish the upgrade?

Just installed trunk 1401 and the problem persists. I feel like the answer is either right under my nose or far beyond anything I would understand. Either way, I’m clueless.

Again, for the record:

BP 1.0 RC 2, trunk 1401

WPMU 2.7.1

Standard BP member theme at /wp-content/bp-themes/buddypress-member/

Standard BP home theme at /wp-content/themes/buddypress-home

.htaccess is in the root

No errors in log.

When going to the URL /members, /groups, /blogs, I get the message:

You do not have any BuddyPress themes installed.

Please move “/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/” to “/wp-content/bp-themes/” and refresh this page. You can download more themes here.

If it matters, I’m running WPMU in the subdirectory, not subdomain, way.

I think that’s all the information I know.

Hi!

I translated BuddyPress in my own Ukrainian language

The post on my blog: http://arys-my.name/?p=445

The files: http://arys-my.name/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/buddypress-uk-lang-rc1.zip

JJJ-

The party was great! But, it ended last night.

Make sure you have a .htaccess file in the root of your install.

Make sure which ever theme you’re using as your home theme has the functions.php from the buddypress-home theme. It’s responsible for doing some funky routing of some pages.

I’m going to check the trunk out now on a fresh install and see if I can duplicate anything.

I missed this party somehow, but wanted to offer my support.

Wherever this party moves to, I’m there.

Pugins page says I am running BuddyPress 1.0-RC2. /plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/ no longer exists and /bp-themes/buddypress-member/ is confirmed.

An edit to my initial message: I’m running trunk 1387, not 1381.

Thanks Jeff but none of that seemed to help. No error messages in the log, no other plugins running, everything is where it should be. I didn’t say before but everything was running fine when I was on an older trunk and WPMU 2.7. It was after the upgrade when the problem started. I’m running everything stock and am still getting this message:

You do not have any BuddyPress themes installed.

Please move “/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/” to “/wp-content/bp-themes/” and refresh this page. You can download more themes here.

Use the latest trunk, I believe this was a bug I fixed.

I thought about the actual utility of pasting it there. One thing it does is get me thinking about the difference between programming for wpmu and wp.

I can’t understand what you are saying. I believe p2 uses posts for each update even thought they look like comments so I think this is working correctly.

dashboard? wp and wpmu has the same dashboard design…

If u want social networking funtion within the dashboard, there’re wpmu plugins to enable friends and messages rather than using buddypress.