As you’ve surmised, if you want to share files or use an image gallery, you’re going to have to find a 3rd-party plugin that provides those features. As to how well they will work with WPMU and BuddyPress, you’ll have to try to find out.
Yes, a plugin installed to /mu-plugins/ will automatically be used on every blog, and one installed to /plugins/ will be available to every blog to use.
What tends to break BuddyPress? Er. Let’s find out! 
no, there are some changes in themes structure, and so this will not solve problems with members and groups directory pages.
i’m looking for an emergency solution: keep only the images and css folder and the footer files both of facebuddy home and member, and upgrade all the other files with the latest trunk. I’m trying and i’ll let you know if it works completely
Thanks DJ Paul.
Now, if I would like users to be able to share PDF files, images, videos, etc., how would I do that?
For some reason, I am not sure if I’m “really” using WordPress, and I don’t know what the “admin” can do, and what sub-blog owners can and can’t do.
Basically, can I tell them, if you want to share images, documents, etc., just create a blog for yourself and start uploading? So, I think there is something called next gen image gallery, or I can surf around on the buddy press forum and find plugins that do a good job with file sharing/viewing?
If a plugin is available in the “main” blog, and it works there, does that mean that the same plugin is available for all of the blogs?
What kind of user functionality tends to break BuddyPress? What do I need to avoid, so that I have the easiest time with support?
Best,
Dainis
Thanks for this helpful post, I was able to customize the graphics! I had to take the admin_bar_logo.gif background image and center it over admin_bar_logo.gif, because the transparency wasn’t working well in my Photoshop Save for web. So, my logo is not transparent, but it fits with the menu bar background.
Best,
Dainis
@DJPaul: I tried that. I created one profile and exported the database using phpMyadmin. But the excel sheet looks too confusing. I’ll try this once more time though.
@Burtadsit: Yes, that’s most confusing.
Let’s say, I’ve created following fields in buddypress:
Name:
Email:
Phone
Job:
Occupation:
My old database too; has all this data. How do I go about importing? Is there any better way than excel import?
thx for the support… i stay tuned on BD !
Edit : it doesn’t work.. must i modify bp-themes,home-theme or twice ?
i\\\’m looking at the latest trunk, and there is some issue. I correctly see themes but there are issues with the main links: Groups and Members pages that was previously ruled from the home theme, now seem ruled from the bp-theme. I\\\’ll try to understand what happens, but i think that it will be a problem to release new themes until the stable BP version, because users cannot modify their themes to suit every new trunk version.
updated: as first you can change the <body> in your header.php file in the theme, with: <body<?php if ( bp_is_directory() ) : ?> class=\”directory\”<?php endif; ?>>. this solves the header link problems.
in the “home theme” too there are link changes: for example <?php if ( bp_is_page( MEMBERS_SLUG ) ) {?> becomes <?php if ( bp_is_page( BP_MEMBERS_SLUG ) ) {?> and so on.
i’ve just installed the latest trunk, and the facebuddy (member) theme works perfectly. Are u sure to have activated the member theme from here: site admin > buddypress >facebuddy?
Hi Burt,
I’ve been using firebug for a while and i’m ok (kinda) with css, firebug seems to represent the css well but not 100% perfectly. The problem seems to be with the li tags on that particular div, anything I do either throws the padding out for the widget header or seems to have no affect at all 
Cheers for the tips tho – i’ll give the site-wide.css thing a try shortly and will let u know how I get on with it.
Thanks for taking the time to answer this so thorougly. BTW my daughter is nearly 2 and started talking back to me well before I embarked on this buddypress project lol 
Thanks once again,
Phil
Hi All,
I was successful in the installation of Facebook plugin, BP-FBConnect with Buddypress installation at http://www.mekudos.com
The following was required for my installation:
1) WordPress MU version 2.7.1
2) Buddypress Trunk 1281 (does not work with RC-1)
3) BP-fbconnect.zip Plugin and activate Facebook Developer API key.
Download:
1) WordPress MU version 2.7.1: https://trac.mu.wordpress.org/browser/branches/2.7
2) Buddypress Trunk 1281: https://svn.buddypress.org/trunk/
3) BP-FBConnect Plugin: http://testbp.org/plugins/bp-fbconnect.zip
Hope this helps for those looking for Facebook Integration.
Brian Katz
http://www.mekudos.com
Hi Smdnizam,
BuddyPress is built on WordPress MU which in turn is built on WordPress. The root cause of this bug is in WordPress. Until WordPress and WordPress MU apply a fix, it won’t appear fixed in BuddyPress.
Hi Burtadsit,
I don’t get your point.
the “Site Wide Activity” is managed by buddypress and the records are stored thru bp code. as up to my knowledge. if this is the case then how can the problem be originated from bp?
your explanation could help me in understanding the problem more and could help me in working out for the solution.
Regards
Nizam
I was editing a wrong file.
Hi Sgrunt Thanks for your reply. I had already changed the folders before I installed facebuddy but the members theme still would not work for some reason.
Regards
It makes sense to me to give sub-blog owners a few templates, or just one. Really, I feel like too many templates will confuse the community, creating a lack of cohesiveness. Maybe I can have a few color schemes of the same template. Can my users upload templates? Should they be able to?
No, only you can. You’ll need to upload them to /wp-content/themes/.
I would like all activity to be presented on the main blog page. Basically, if anyone creates a sub-blog post, I would like that to be presented on the main page. Is that what the “all activity” widget does?
Yes.
I set things so that “blog owners” or “sub-blog owners” can’t install plugins, and I would like a nice, safe set of plugins and widgets that they can use without causing any damage. What about that WP plugin installer feature? Will someone gain access to it and break things?
You (as the admin) can upload plugins and widgets either via FTP (or similar) or via the Browser/Installer feature. You can also make plugins run on every site by putting them into the /wp-content/mu-plugins/ folder. The end user can activate or deactivate the plugins, but with the default user permissions, they don’t have access to the Browser/Installer page (I have just tested this).
I was installing by following the instructions here https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/installing-buddypres-from-combo/ exactly.
I really don’t know how it happened, but I forgot to create a new database, and I started the sequence from the beginning, and it worked (over an existing DB).
Hi Halfpint i’ve replied to your mail: the latest trunk of BP requires a change in the folder name, you can follow instructions in the sticky post of Andy Peatling.
I’ll wait the release of the first official version of BP for renaming theme folders in my themes, in order to be sure that they will be stable.
I understand custom.css is buggy as previously pointed out, but I’m having a problem with site-wide.css.
I’ve changed the logo via site-wide.css, and on member profile page it shows correctly. But on top page (home), still the “social networking” logo is displayed.
?Participant
I’ve been through the problem of having to configure each new blog in wpmu, and I found this plugin to be a bit helpful.
Interesting ideas. I haven’t thought about the possible educational uses BuddyPress may have and now you mention it, sounds good!
Thanks for sharing your thoughts
Thanks for your reply…Ya for first one after searching forum I have already by using donncha’s sidewide tags..
But FOr the second one..I think you didnt get my point… By using term “member blogs page” I am trying to From buddy press member profile page if you go to Member Profile-> Blogs-> Member’s Recent Posts…. There is no Page Navigation for Buddypress Default Theme… Sorry For my weak english that I could not make you understand in the first time..More over I am very new to wordpress and Buddypress… Please help how I can bring pagination on that page…thanks in advance… for better understanding I am talking about the page
http://mysite.com/members/member_name/blogs/recent-posts
http://www.cssbasics.com/chapter_7_css_margins.html
http://www.cssbasics.com/chapter_8_css_padding.html
Margin or padding the left edge of the containing div for whatever widget you are interested in is the way to go probably. First install firebug to figure out what to alter and what the current settings are: http://getfirebug.com/
That will tell you what you need to change and even allow you to interactively change css to try before you buy. You need to override the css in your theme\\\’s site-wide.css file. Create one in your theme\\\’s /theme/css directory. Create the \\\’css\\\’ directory if it doesn\\\’t exist.
Example: move the site wide activity widget 3px to the right in the bp home theme if it\\\’s activated in the left-column.
1) Create: /wp-content/themes/buddypress-home/css/site-wide.css
2) Firebug says that the containing div is: \\\’buddypress-activity\\\’ and has the classes: \\\’widget\\\’ and \\\’bp_activity_widget_sitewide_activity\\\’
3) In site-wide.css we override the default setting for class bp_activity_widget_sitewide_activity which is specific to this widget and firebug tells me that nothing is modifying this class yet. So we do:
.bp_activity_widget_sitewide_activity{
margin-left: 3px;
}
I should stick to programming. I really suck at css so that may cause your server to have a meltdown and your children to talk back to you.
Hi Im still getting the same problem as mentioned above and I downloaded the zip about 1 hour ago. The home theme works fine but the members theme does not work I also have the latest trunk and BP.
