One more question; how do I import their passwords without exposing them? 
A french traduction is avaible on buddypress-fr.net
Great tips Andy, even though I’m currently developing my beta buddypress site on a free web space, cuz the provider where I’m gonna publish it don’t allow betas for security issues, these are great tips for my planned VPS. Lot of time saved!
Being a nub at anything PHP, is there an example of this somewhere?
Kel
I’m doing the same thing… sort of
planning to use Noah’s Classifieds (opensource php)
and integrate with WPMU + buddypress
logged in user can then view/post ads
@Manoj: I think your plugin imports existing wordpress users. In my case, the existing database is not wordpress.
I’ll post them in good time, they’re a bit down on the list right now.
Andy, any update on the sharing the new member theme hints or tips?
http://www.gosmelltheflowers.com
I have managed to customize the theme, moved the columns according to my design and even modified few things..
Do let me know the feedback.
Regards,
Deep
np Phil. I’m building up a little database of these kind of things and stuffing them into my new dev group here: https://buddypress.org/groups/code-snippets-solution-library
Soon as Andy gets the group forums up and running.
You can make use of widgets available in BuddyPress and WordPress.
You can see from the group page source that it’s not picking up any of the structure.css files, whereas member profile pages are. I’ve poked around in the files and can’t understand why this might be.
The only stylesheet being used is buddypress-member/style.css
It’s not related to the buddypress-home as I’ve replaced that with the older RC-1 download and the problem exists.
It’s not related to the bp-groups.* files as I’ve replaced those with the older RC-1 download and the problem exists.
I’ve removed all other files from mu-plugins but that doesn’t fix it.
Looking at the page in Firebug, http://learninglab.lincoln.ac.uk/testbp/wp-content/bp-themes/buddypress-member/css/loader.php is being found but doesn’t seem to be loading anything.
Not sure what to try next…!
I just say: WOW! Really nice! I am almost depressed that our site doesn’t look as great as this after all that work… (I thought ours is much nicer than the default buddypress-theme, but this one is another league!).
PS: As far as I got, there are some nice little changes (without plugins I guess) like friends & groups small and clean on the left, etc etc). Cool stuff. Please share, how it’s done
Hi,
We had same problem when we moved our installation to WordPress MU + BuddyPress
So, I have developed a plugin for importing members to WordPress MU + BuddyPress installation.
It might be useful for you as well, please check it in https://buddypress.org/extend/plugins/
Every time I update, I rm -rf all BuddyPress folders and cp -R the new ones from my svn directory.
Have just done it again and the page has the same problem.
The only pages affected are Group pages.
got bbpress working but their is no option in bpress to use 4) Edit “settings” to enable xmlrpc and pingbacks (both) this just does not exits in bbpress
this part makes no sense either: groups page just lists all the buddypress groups. I do not understand why or where you would put this url.
6) Go into your main blog dashboard as the “site-admin” and go to the groups admin page. Put in the URL of your forum like http://yoursite.com/forums/ and make sure you have the ending slash on that one.
In the MU admin there is no groups forum link. I have the bp-forums folder in mu-plugins.
The read me file is lacking what and where to put files.
link to screenshot of bbpress settings page there is no options for xlmrpc
http://img.skitch.com/20090324-q12i8q4dk997cnfjh2d1sdc2jr.jpg
Thanks for your responses folks. Allow me to explain my query a bit in more depth –
Existing Site:
Exists since last 4-5 years; created by an amature web designer using php-mysql. The fella is refusing to cooperate and all I have is access to .sql dumps of individual tables of the existing database.
The current website only provides simple functionality to accept data from users through a form [typical form consisting of First Name, Last Name, Year of Graduation, Branch, Phone Number, Email ID, Current Employer, Profession etc.).
What I have done so far:
Created a WPMU powered site on my computer using XAMPP installation. Before I take it to the Internet, I’ll have to present a demo to my college. For that, I need to import the data of existing users from existing database to WPMU database.
To keep the things simple, I have replicated the input fields of existing website into my WPMU site.
Problem:
I want to have all the old information imported to my new WPMU database so that the old users do not have to re-register on the new website.
What I’m thinking:
If I can import the .sql dumps from existing database tables (I have individual table backups!) to WPMU tables.
What do you think? Is there a better way to solve the problem? Please suggest.
PS: I love WPMU & Buddypress. Awesome creation, guys!
This the ticket you are talking about? https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/608
Did you apply the patch that was included and try again?
Yeh, it’s rocking out, nice work.
BTW, you missed out out installing wordpress mu video on the https://codex.buddypress.org/page – it’s been watched a few thousand times and we’re getting plenty of positive feedback so I hope its useful.
Well I downloaded this version three days ago!
Has it changed since then?
https://buddypress.org/download/
is the site you want move WPMU ?
If yes, do you want install bp or move to a new site ( new domain name i mean ) ?
If moving to a new domain, backup your DB & restore it to the new server, after that, go to wp_sites, wp_1_option and replace the old site domain with the new one
Here are some directions for backing up and restoring your wordpress db.
https://codex.wordpress.org/Backing_Up_Your_Database
I used it to convert my beta site to RC1. Pretty straight forward.
It does indeed look fantastic (and with the horizontal nav, very similar to the theme I have been working on! lol)… good to know I’m heading in a good direction (and to get a sense of just how good it can look!).
Keep up the great work Andy.
yes it does… the new site looks much better and navigates much better. nice work
Make sure you hit shift+refresh to clear out the old CSS otherwise you will get design weirdness.
Duh. Thanks — I should be punished for that one; I am always telling my clients and coworkers to do that when they report CSS issues. 
