Smueller – actually the readme is outdated, so it’s not entirely clear. I’m updating them now.
Hopefully yes. I will spend some time adding tags in there once I get some time to do that. The codex is user contributed, so if you feel like adding tags to the codex that you use, then please do.
It does seems fine now after reinstalling with the latest trunk
ok – I’m a moron – I figured it out – what I did was renamed(despite the big, bold warning in the theme install.txt) the buddypress-home folder to ‘home’ rather than leaving it as buddypress-home and completely removing the home directory. Now all looks good and I can start to ‘play’. Thanks to all that responded and I promise to read the instructions more carefully before future posts.
ok – I have the ‘BuddyPress Home Theme 0.1’ activated and I’ve added all of the available widgets to ‘Sidebar 1′(which is the only option available in the dropdown and I also do not see any plugins available but I believe that is by design as, per a prior post, all plugins are automatically on and won’t show under plugins and all I’m still seeing on the home page is the standard bp header, the bp logo and a ‘This is a WordPress MU + BuddyPress powered site’ at at the top and a ‘This is just a placeholder theme, eventually you will be able to make this an aggregation of site content, or a site blog’ message in the footer. Is there a newer version or am I still missing something? Again, any help would be appreciated – I really want to be able to fully eval this app but it’s starting to get a bit frustrating.
are all the sections on the bp theme home page (recent blogs, who’s online?, etc…) only allowed to be added in as widgets or can you implement them by using template tags?
I still have problems I re-downloaded 431 and installed everything; buddypress new themes and muplugins. However when I look at the avatar I upload I get the following:
http://famous.tm/wp-content/blogs.dir/382/files//2008/10/famous-square3-avatar1.jpg
files//2008 The only reason I said a directory issue is cause the // between files and 2008 looks peculiar.
And I still have the same problem with trying to sign up as member lengsh has confirmed.
Do you have an idea of what it could be?
C’mon Andy, I was just about to overtake myspace… 
haha!
Do you already have all the widgets added to the columns that you want? The theme won’t add recent blogs, newest online, ect. Those are all widgets that need to be added. I believe it is currently suggested that you use all of them to maximize compatibility.
yea, I am having this problem too. Getting the homepage nothing like testbp but a Profile page on the machine I installed
Hi apeatling !
I installed buddypress on a test server 2 days ago. How to upgrade ? I just have to upload the code plugin ?
And another question. I just give it a try on my install, and after creating the admin, i wanted to test with a normal account. The registration was ok, the only problem was that i had to create the homebase for this user to. The problem you mentioned on your post is this one ?
If not, is there a way to automaticaly make it ?
Thanks for your help !
And all my congratulations for such a project 
I was just updating the site, should be fixed now.
Check the head of the outputed page and see if your style sheet is before the buddypress one. If it is, the buddypress one will override yours. If yours comes after it will override the buddypress one.
Thanks for the response. I do see that there is a ‘home’ theme and I have now changed to that theme but, beyond the buddypress look in the header, it looks nothing like the testbp home page – i.e. no recent blogs, who’s online, newest members, groups – widgets(hopefully that is the correct term). Sorry if I sound so ignorant on this – I assume I’m just missing something pretty obvious so any – patient – help would be appreciated.
I am not 100% sure that the download offers the home theme – yet.
Go to the Site Admin menu, pick Themes and make sure the BP theme is the only one enabled. Then users can’t change themes.
Any plugin you put in the mu-plugins folder does NOT show up on the Plugins menu. That is for plugins that are in the plugins folder. So no, you won’t see any BP related plugins there to to turn them off and on, because in the mu-plugins folder, plugins are always ON.
If you really want to understand how WPMU works, to take full advantge of what it can do and get a feel for what you’re in for, check out http://wpmututorials.com , or sign up at wordpress.com to check out the user’s perspective & compare it to testbp.org.
nevermind, I found the Template Tags section in the codex but it’s empty. Is this going to be complete once the first version is launched?
Andy has tossed around a few ideas about having the solution you are looking at as an option. There is a thread in these forums that is pretty recent.
I get how the buddpress homepage is coming along with groups, recent posts, etc… It’s very nice! Do you know when approximatley you’ll have a search? In addition, do you happen to know what the intentions are for virally spreading a buddypress websites existence?
Take yammer.com for instance; supposedly they had something like 60,000 sign-ups in a couple of weeks??? I have a site thats up and some people join every once in a while, however it seems like something is missing. Some sort of linkage, maybe a giant flaw in my business model?
Do you think a twitter type plugin will help? Or do you have something in mind that you are working on, or some type of advise? Much appreciated for your time…
Plus, I would like to take the time to formally thank you, all contributors and automattic for creating what I believe will help my website tremendously. Thanks again for your time.
I have my site set to a regular home page, however I set my profile page under http://mysite.com/members
I do not want to use my homepage as the (buddypress homepage) member page, I want to use the member page, however, it is set as a buddypress profile page. I want that page to be the buddypress home page. However, there is not an option to change it under the profile admin somehow the design function is disabled. What are my solutions??? Thanks
anyone? this is very important
Thats fantastic news! I’ve really “REALLY” been wanting to use BuddyPress on the MU project I’m building but really “REALLY” been put off by the multiple sub-domain issue. I’ll be looking forward to seeing this in action!
Can’t wait to hear more on this, would love to add BuddyPress to regular WordPress as well.
I knew I wasn’t going crazy
Thanks Andy! We’ll be looking at the forum and other BP parts later. By then you may have released the first stable version… but good to know that the integration with BBPress is taking shape.
