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I just upgraded WPMU 2.7 R1627 to the final version of WPMU 2.7 running the latest BuddyPress trunk without any issues.

Hey, Im also new here, as seems to be the usual. lol

Im just getting my site up and out of the water. Im working on getting a front theme setup, and Its proving to be a bit of a bastard. Im having alignment troubles, and formatting issues with the widgets in firefox.

Check it out at : http://www.vdubbing.com

thanks!

http://www.teknikjb.net – an alumni page for my school..

This forum, the BP trac, WPMU and bbPress forums are having “caching” issues it seems as things are slow to show up at times when people post. Strange…I reported it the powers that be…

In terms of answering, your answer was more detail anyways!

Trent

Sorry, Trent, I wasn’t trying to add to your answer, as your answer wasn’t there when I started my post. I think we were both answering at the same time…I wasn’t trying to step on your toes.

Your users’ blogs will get whatever template you have set as “default”, which is probably the BuddyPress Home Theme. So do this:

1) Rename the BuddyPress Home Theme something other than “default”.

2) In the dashboard for your main blog (admin), assign the BuddyPress theme to your blog. That’s what users will see when they visit your site, as your “blog” is the site.

3) Choose the theme you want your users to have as their default blog theme.

4) Name your chosen default blog theme “default”.

If you need additional info, let me know.

Mark

Just the member pages, groups, etc should get the buddypress theme. The actual blogs themselves will use whatever the “default” theme is setup for the WPMU installation that you have put buddypress on.

Trent

I would go with WPMU 2.7 and buddypress beta 2 (which should be out really soon). If buddypress beta 2 isn’t released, I would come back and ask which version is the most stable out of trunk for your release. WPMU 2.7 is “so much different” than 2.6.5, so it would be nice to get users on it right out of the box instead of changing right away. There are loads of improvements since BP beta 1, but you have to get a development snapshot that works

Long story short, I doubt beta 2 of buddypress will be that long since the tickets are dwindling down….

Trent

WPMU 2.7 was released about 4 hours ago. The latest beta release of buddypress does work on WPMU 2.7, but there are loads of changes since then. The second beta should be making it out here pretty soon, or you can head to https://trac.mu.wordpress.org/browser/trunk and grab the latest development version by getting the zip at the bottom of that page.

Trent

I am sure dsader can fix it without much effort. I opted generally to go with the plugin I have referenced before called “Members Only” on my smallest install which is just for family. Reason I went with this plugin over dsaders was both the RSS feeds as well as the ability to have the blogs you want still being “public” in their settings, but still members only.

What that means is the main WPMU blog can be private and only accessible to logged in members. If blog 1 is public, it shows in the main sitewide feeds. If blog 2 is private to members only, I can still set it as “public access” in the privacy options, but the “members only” plugin will not allow viewing without logging in, but the blog posts will still show in the main WPMU blog widgets.

Not the best solution for larger sites, but I am assuming that when Andy has a chance to implement the privacy options into buddypress, this will be a moot issue at some point.

Just some additional thoughts.

Trent

I’ve just posted this to the WPMU forums, but it’s just as relevant here: Regarding dsader’s more privacy options plugin…

“I’m testing this plugin on a WPMU 2.7 and BuddyPress (both from SVN) installation. It can turn BuddyPress into a private social network quite simply by making the main/first blog private. However, there’s one issue I can see:

the ../activity/feed RSS feed is private when the ‘main’ blog is private.

But, member’s activity feeds i.e. ../members/josswinn/activity/feed remains public.

Any way to fix this? I appreciate that the plugin wasn’t written to support BuddyPress, but it’s so close to working well on BuddyPress that it would be good to look at this and provide a way to create truely close BuddyPress networks.

Thanks!”

I’ve since found that this is happening to me on a site installed in a sub-dir but not on an install using wildcard DNS/sub-domain. Can anyone verify this?

I can’t see why not in the future. Once things are more stable, I am sure that someone will try (if not Andy) to port this, but that won’t be for awhile.

http://uesi.in/

It’s not htaccess. I just did a clean install of the latest wpmu trunk and the latest buddypress trunk (941). I received the same error you are seeing. I delete buddypress, installed trunk 913 (downloaded on Jan 23) and the error went away. I don’t know why but it’s something in the latest trunk.

From the readme.txt in /buddypress-themes:

2. Move the /member-themes/ directory into /wp-content/member-themes/

I was referring to the current development version at:

https://trac.buddypress.org/browser/trunk *Zip at bottom*

I would make a backup of everything before trying it as the standard disclosure! There are loads running that version now (included me) and it is working fine.

Trent

There is nothing built in yet to the buddypress suite of plugins. You would have to search for options on WPMU itself. There are a variety of ways. Off top of my head:

1) Have members email the site-admin about registration and then have the site-admin manually create their account (whole time with all registrations off)

2) Use a plugin like “Signup Question” and then make the question and the answer something that you only give out to members you want to join. Almost like “invitation” so to speak.

3) There are plugins that exist for the admin to “approve new blogs”, but don’t know of any that deal with user accounts themselves, but that might work.

4) Create a page that users can use to signup by giving all the required information to the site-admin and then manually create them (so they don’t have to email you).

In terms of WPMU, there really is a “hole” in the invitation or restricting registration. It would be nice if something was created for sure, but as far as I can tell, options really are limited on solutions already created.

Trent

Does WordPress MU work without BuddyPress installed? If not, then you need to fix that first.

Search or look at the sticky posts before you post:

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=962

Andy has intentions of making the privacy components at some point. Right now, there is no privacy without plugins. I have a little plugin created already that makes it so member pages cannot be seen without being logged in, but it only covers member profiles and not groups yet. If you are interested, it is over at http://buddypressdev.org as well as in the ‘Plugins and Extending’ forum here at these forums.

trent

Hi folks !

The WPMU pot file exist !

You can found it here:

http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress-i18n/pot/mu/trunk/wordpress.pot

The file contains all the lines for wp, but also for wpmu.

I translated it in french for 2.7 beta without problems; Just take care off many plural forms who need to be translated too…

I’m looking for a bbPress translation who works. Actually, the forums are only half translated. If somebody has a solution ?