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ooops

False alarm on my blank page sarga.

It was NOT connected to the bp-components; it was the super cache plugin since i moved directories.

The plugin uses a fixed path!

I only found that out by going through the code echoing a timestamp and exiting code block by block. Finally followed the culprit code to an advanced-cache include in wp-settings.

Oh well!

Looking forward to bp v1 with its auto upgrade.

http://ampedstatus.com/

You’re in luck I just had to do this myself, and here is how I did it.

I created a new php file that I wanted to use for the page and added this to the top of the file:

<?php

/*

Template Name: MY_TEMPLATE_NAME

*/

?>

you can make, MY_TEMPLATE_NAME, whatever, but be careful there are some reserved template names.

Save this file in the root directory of your home theme (i.e. wp-content/themes/buddypress-home) now under your admin blog write a new page (NOT POST), make the title relevant to what you want, but don’t put anything in the actual page.

Scroll down to the “Page Template” menu and when expanded you should see a drop down box with the “MY_TEMPLATE_NAME” as an option. choose that and now just copy down your permalink, and that is the direct link to your newly created page. SIMPLE! I also added in my side_bar to the page I created so that the navigation menu stayed put as I move through all of my pages.

This is only if you install the BuddyPress home theme. It should not do this if you just use your existing theme.

Free licensing is kind of crucial I’d say. Why not use GPL, like BuddyPress does?

You simply can’t do it, but the old posts should still direct you to their new locations.

Well, I suppose you could change the /blog to / but I’d hate to see what kind of havoc that could cause.

Proceed at your own risk...

Site Admin->Blogs->Edit your main blog



Change "Path" to "/" and "Permalink Structure" to remove "/blog" and see what happens.

My guess is dogs and cats, living together, mass hysteria. :X

Not yet. The reason 1.0 is slightly delayed is so that WPMU can be installed to allow for always-on plugins like BuddyPress to be part of the automatic updater going forward.

For now it’s a manual process, but it won’t always be that way.

Wow that’s neat.

Any demos? I couldn’t find one after 2 seconds so I got lazy and figured I’d ask.

Hi all,

Are these instructions still applicable to the latest SVN version of BP.

I downloaded the latest trunk last night and replaced the mu-plugins with the SVN one. I left the themes as they were as the theme works with RC1 components.

However, after replacing all the components with the latest SVN copies i got a blank screen.

A PHP error probably, i shall turn on logging when i get back and have another look.

Just wondered if there was a new way to upgrade now?

Yes you may.

Yes there can, through a plugin.

The answer has been here waiting for you.

More specifically, here.

WordPress has always allowed for multiple ways to access a specific post, even if your permalink structure is setup in a specific way.

Categories

http://www.thelifeofjohn.com/rants/

http://www.thelifeofjohn.com/category/rants/

Posts

http://www.thelifeofjohn.com/2009/03/the-web-world-has-gone-unordered-list-crazy/

http://www.thelifeofjohn.com/rants/the-web-world-has-gone-unordered-list-crazy/

More than one way to get to the same link, and both are valid, and both could lead Google down different paths to the same destination. Granted, this is on a non-MU install, but MU suffers the same fate, only with multiple blogs.

Without having /blog or /news or /something there, now you’re opening up the risk of having overlapping post/page slugs. If you write a blog entry named “members” what would you want to happen? Goto the blog post, or BuddyPress’s members page? Multiple that times 100 individual minds blogging outside of your control, and you see how that can be dangerous.

Trust me when I say that I understand what you’re saying, I do, and I can see how this could be something to consider when making the move to use MU and/or BuddyPress, but Google can recover quickly and so can your 5000 posts if they’re important and relevant.

Also, just for fun, lets goto…

http://delsolownersclub.com/blog/2009/02/09/del-sol-mugen-side-steps/

and then…

http://delsolownersclub.com/2009/02/09/del-sol-mugen-side-steps/

Looks like both take you where you need to be?

Not quite ready to mark this one green, but it looks like a correctly installed BuddyPress/MU won’t give you this problem…

Your posts should still be at http://mydomain.com/whatever/post. The url http://mydomain.com uses the home.php template in bp. That overrides index.php that is used if home.php doesn’t exist. If home.php exists in the theme directory the only way to run index.php is to trap something like ‘blog’ and then load that index.php template.

This is normal behavior for any wp theme that uses home.php. bp doesn’t change the permalink structure of your blog.

You can not use home.php if you like by deleting it from the theme directory or renaming it to something like home.php.off

That will get you index.php being used.

I don’t think there is a way around this.

Are you sure? try to remove blog to the url and refresh the page

Never had this problem.. I’ve bp in bp-dev.org and i don’t user /blog

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