Yes, any theme you use with BuddyPress will need a plugin-sidebar.php and plugin-template.php file. It’s used to add dynamic functionality and new pages to the theme without having to drop in new template files. The settings menu and pages are examples of this.
I take a look at why it is requiring a home.php, this shouldn’t be happening.
The post you were referring to is: http://chriscarter.testbp.org/2008/11/07/mu-works-but-bp-isnt/
Create an account on codex.buddypress.org then hit “EDIT PAGE” on the right. You will need to go to “Pages > Add New” on the left menu. Enter a page for your language and select “page parent” on the right menu as “Translations”.
I already done chinese translation. How to edit the https://codex.buddypress.org/translations/ page to add the link?
After listening to Andy’s advise I think I found the problem.
I got rid of all my files except for my tables, and reinstalled a fresh WPMU and buddypress. By accident I didn’t upload the htaccess file–the thing is I realized when the htaccess file is not uploaded the avatars work. However, all pictures on the website do not work.
If I delete line 6 below, then the avatars appear to work. However, if deleted then all pics on the site don’t work. I hope this provides some insight into the problem.
1 RewriteEngine On
2 RewriteBase /
3 #uploaded files
4 RewriteRule ^(.*/)?files/$ index.php [L]
5 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !.*wp-content/plugins.*
6 RewriteRule ^(.*/)?files/(.*) wp-content/blogs.php?file=$2 [L]
7 # add a trailing slash to /wp-admin
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^.*/wp-admin$
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ /$1/ [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule . – [L]
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(wp-.*) $2 [L]
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(.*.php)$ $2 [L]
RewriteRule . index.php [L]
<IfModule mod_security.c>
<Files async-upload.php>
SecFilterEngine Off
SecFilterScanPOST Off
</Files>
</IfModule>
Your best option by far is to use SVN. If you’re not using SVN then running the trunk is going to be a nightmare.
If you can check out a copy using SVN then you can simply do a “svn up” on the BuddyPress files and they will update.
So where exactly are you now in the whole situation? Are groups working? If you upgraded from an earlier revision, make sure you log in as admin and visit wp-admin to upgrade the DB tables.
Users wont show in BuddyPress until they have at least *some* profile information (unless you dont have bp-xprofile installed). Usually this means a first and last name.
Only your own blogs show in my blogs, so if becky creates a blog, thats not going to show in your “my blogs” menu. Unless I am misunderstanding something. 
On another note if I try to access mysite.org/members I get a little notification screen that tells me I need to put plugin-template.php and plugin-sidebar.php into my theme dir. I found these in the buddypress-home dir. Putting these in the appropriate theme folder gets rid of the error msg but doesn’t get me anything.
All I get is a wp page with the permalink mysite.org/membership
Once again, changing my permalink from mysite.org/membership to ‘registering-and-membership’ solves the prob. Now I get the member directory wonderfully sandwiched between my theme header and footer. However, it still says 404 in the FF tab and no actual members are listed. I get the abc’s, search box and a h2 Members title header. Nothing else. I’m gonna turn on the bp home theme and see what havoc I can cause with that.
Is this a blown regex in wpmu .htaccess rewrite rules or bp hijacking behavior? I haven’t modded the .htaccess rewrite rules at all. It’s exactly what wpmu installs.
Glad you showed up so early?
Please use the latest trunk version of BuddyPress.
First of all you’ll want to get set up with an installation of WPMU and make sure that is running correctly.
It’s probably a good idea to head over to the WPMU forums where there are a lot of expect WPMU users (https://mu.wordpress.org/forums). They will be able to help you get started with MU.
Once you have that up and running, come back here and we can guide you through installing BuddyPress on top.
I just downloaded a fresh copy of WPMU 2.6.3, the latest BuddyPress trunk and did a fresh subdirectory installation. It all worked fine, no missing function errors.
Are you absolutely sure you have all the latest files and everything installed correctly via the readme? This includes the latest themes – you MUST update the themes too.
I can tell that i have followed the instructions a 100 % .
Are you sure there are no errors in the latest trunk version?
I’ll download it and reinstall it. Lets see if that solves it ?
mu-plugins is the correct location.
The information you have provided in your posts don’t have enough information in them to tell what is wrong. That’s why we have asked various questions.
The short version would be that most likely you have not followed the install directions correctly. For example, the expected callback error means that a function call is being made to a function that hasn’t been defined. 99.9% of the time with a plugin that means one or more files are in the wrong place.
mu-plugins@ ron
is that causing the problems?
Thanks. I did post on the creator’s site as well. I’m sure it will probably take some tweaking for buddypress.
http://www.mcas.in: Did you put the files in the plugins directory or the mu-plugins directory?
Yes, BuddyPress is all plugins, you can start your WPMU installation then try it out later.
It’s quite likely it just has issues with WPMU, not buddypress. Some plugins do not work well with it. I’d test it on a vaniall install of WPMU first.
TO resolve this all you should have to do is create a copy of your index.php file, rename it home.php, and upload it to your theme folder and it should work.
I had the same issue when upgrading last night. I think BuddyPress requires there to be a home.php file and once you do what I outlined above everything should be normal.
Hi just one question:
BuddyPress is a PLUGIN not a standalone application, is it?!
That means I can set up a WordPress-Blog and LATER add the BuddyPress-Function?!
Just asking because I have an idea for a great blog, and I am thinking about wether to wait for the official BuddyPress release or to already start my blog, and later add buddypress.
yes @ apeatling . Some problem with the trunk version ?
Hi sfinder,
I was just looking into this myself and came up with a quick hack.
Go to:
bp-blogs-widgets.php
line: 50
Change:
<div class="item-content"><?php echo bp_create_excerpt($post->post_content) ?></div>
To:
<div class="item-content"><?php echo $post->post_content ?></div>
This will will show the full post with images, but will not limit the amount of text. You might want to create a function similar to bp_create_excerpt() if you want to limit the amount of text.
Hope this helps.
P.S. I’m new to buddypress and wpmu, so this solution may not be perfect.
I’m sure people will be writing plugins to extend the default Buddypress functionality once it’s released. I think Andy is making sure that it will be easy to write new plugins. It will be just a matter of time…
Andy posted here asking for help with fixing the IE6/7 problems with the Buddypress themes.
