Just noticed this too on one of my installs. Who is your web host? Are you by chance running BuddyPress in a subdirectory?
Looks like you’re not using any plugins at all? Were you at any point? Something that additionally re-writes URL’s like qTranslate or the like?
Correct me if I’m wrong, but you’re not getting a blank screen (white screen of death), you’re getting what looks like a totally empty blog page, with no widgets, no side bar, just a header and a footer.
Right?
Okay, to recap:
- You are running a new install of WPMU 2.7.1 with BuddyPress 1.0
- You’ve activated BuddyPress
- You have no other plugins installed and activated
- You are using the bphome and bpmember theme
- You do not have any errors AT ALL in your server’s log files
- You’ve installed WPMU as a subdirectory install
- But, you are not positive if WPMU was working before you installed and activated BP
Now, if I understand your issue correctly, when you visit your domain, you can see the home page without any issue. It works fine. But when you click on any link it brings up a blank page without a 404 message.
Or, is it that everything works fine. You can see the home theme and get to the member theme without any problem. You are only seeing this issue when you provide a bogus url. It is only then that you get the blank screen? So, you are wondering why it is not a 404 page.
Hi Jeff,
I tried putting bpmember but it would not load so I have deleted buddypress and will try again and use bpmember before using any other theme to see if this will work!
I will let you know how I get on!
Mal
I am wondering if there is some file for the Main Theme that comes bundled with BuddyPress
There are two default themes that come with BP–the bphome theme and the bpmember theme.
My standard caveat when creating custom themes from the default themes:
Make sure that you make a copy of both bphome theme and bpmember theme. Your customizations should be done in copies, not the original. That way, if you have issues with your custom themes (and we all do when working on customization), you can switch back to the standard BP themes to see how things should work.
Head Bar Going Across the Screen
With regards to your second issue, this thread may help
Jeff:
Yes, I believe that option is selected. It says “BuddyPress Default Member Theme”, whatever that is.
I believe that thread is more about the user getting 404 errors. My problem is that I’m not.
Pierce2-
You’re correct! My mistake.
Okay, do have the the bpmember theme selected in WPMU’s backend?
BuddyPress > General Settings > Select theme to use for BuddyPress generated pages
Jeff:
While I may be wrong, I believe that thread is more about the user getting 404 errors. My problem is that I’m not. 
On any URL you type (/buddypress/asdaosdasd), it just shows up a blank page saying nothing.
@Dabomb
Good luck with the customizations!
If this issue is resolved, as best it can be given the nature of your topic, please set the light to green above.
1. Photoshop File For Main Theme:
I am wondering if there is some file for the Main Theme that comes bundled with BuddyPress, as I am attempting to change the header logo without making a whole new one. The text that I am making in Photoshop comes out really “unsoft” so I just thought it would look better if I could modify the original theme… Or could someone tell me how to make the text softer as with the logo on the default theme?
2. Head Bar Going Across the Screen:
The one layout design decision that has been annoying me since I got BuddyPress was why the search bar and the user bar at the top (not the one that says BuddyPress, under that) didn’t stretch to fill the page. I have been attempting to edit some CSS to make this happen, but it just isn’t working. I have managed to tie the behavior to max-width, but can’t delete this variable without the WHOLE page filling up as the screen is resized.
Thanks for any help!
Jeff, yea I figured we would have to customize almost all of it, but we have been doing that with wordpress for about 6 months now on the many sites we have done. I talked to some folks about it at WordCamp San Fran this weekend. I figured I would as the pro’s in here just to be sure.
Jeff, are there some basic instructions that might outline what we need to use from the buddypress files in the wp files for the theme?
You can use any WordPress theme for the home theme.
But, to have success integrating it with BP, you’ll need to copy the functions.php in /bphome/ to your new home theme’s functions.php file. Also, there are certain code elements in the header.php file of the /bphome/ theme that you’ll need to add to your own home theme.
You may then also want to design a custom member theme that takes the look and feel of your home theme.
There is no option called “BuddyPress”, under “Site Admin” menu.
That is correct.
BuddyPress has its own menu grouping found at the very bottom of the menu group column. It is just below the Settings menu grouping.
Pierce2-
Thanks for the details.
Carefully read this thread and see if that solves your problem. Post back in this thread either way.
buddypress theme as the main theme from buddydress (shout) but still I canot get the directory blogs to show the list when I click on the blogs
Does it work when using the default member theme, bpmember?
How hard would it be to take a wordpress theme we have purchased and tweaked and turn it into a buddypress theme? We have been working with wordpress for a while, and run several sites on our own server, so we are some what familiar with wordpress, but this is our first adventure with buddypress.
WordPress MU : 2.7.1
BuddyPress : 1.0
I want to know how can I change member themes.
There is no option called “BuddyPress”, under “Site Admin” menu.
Hi,
I have had probs with this on one site and still trying to sort it out so I thought I would set up a new site and install wpmu then buddypress and use a buddypress theme as the main theme from buddydress (shout) but still I canot get the directory blogs to show the list when I click on the blogs it shows the page but says “soory that page was not found”
http://bigbrotherxclusive.co.uk/blogs
Any Idea’s
Regards
Mal
But to get the forums to look as though they’re part of your BuddyPress, do you need to do something with the forums theme locally?
If I put a link into the navigation bar at the moment, it takes me to the bbPress installation which looks completely different to the BuddyPress installation.
This site (buddypress.org, I mean) seems either to have integrated the call to the forums or made the forums look like the BuddyPress theme.
Anyone able to give me some pointers?!
Thanks in advance for any clues…
Hey Jeff:
Sorry I didn’t post that originally, didn’t exactly see the thread…
1. Which version of WPMU you are running
2.7.1
2. Whether you’ve installed WPMU in a subdirectory or as a subdomian
Subdirectory
3. Whether you upgraded from a previous version of WPMU. If so, from which version.
Nope, new install.
4. Whether WPMU was functioning properly before installing/upgrading BuddyPress
I suppose
5. Which version of BuddyPress you are running
Latest (1.0)
6. Whether you have any plugins other than BuddyPress installed and activated
Nope
7. Whether you are using the standard BuddyPress themes or customized themes
Standard
8. If running bbPress, which version
Not using it (tried it, too hard to install).
9. A list of any errors in your server’s log files
N/A
Whatever theme you want to be the default for your blogs needs to be put in the ‘default’ folder in the wp-content > themes.
If you want to use the buddypress home theme for the blogs copy it (with your customizations) into the default folder. The folder needs to stay named Default. When WPMU/BP creates a blog, it will use whatever the Default theme is.
All the best to you!
I just thought, in case anyone was wondering…
I started a server from scratch (Ubuntu Hardy, Apache 2, PHP 5 MySQL 5) and installed a fresh WPMU 2.7.1 with a brand new bare database, only using the default theme w/out any plugins (w/out buddypress too)…and was STILL able to reproduce the internal redirect.
I then thought to see if other MU installs would react the same way…
so I tested these (plus about 30 others, not all Buddypress sites, some just MU installs)
http://bp-dev.org/wp-cotent/plugins/bp-core/images/mystery-man.jpg
and…
http://www.flokka.com/wp-cotent/plugins/bp-core/images/mystery-man.jpg
(I misspelled “wp-cotent” and the error came)
It happened on MOST WPMU installs (buddypress.org and WordPress.com returned 404 errors)
I realize this is a WordPress Mu issue, so I reported on their forums
https://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/12676
But if anyone has an idea as to make these errors a 404 like buddypress and wordpress.com do, Please Help.
@Peterpan77 – please do not shout. No-one replied to your last post a week ago, and shouting won’t have convinced anyone otherwise.
If you do not have exactly the same problems that Sugarmindy has, please start a new topic.
@Sugarmindy – most of this thread consists of posts you have made. Personally I find it very hard to collect and compile all of your info in my head. Can I suggest we start over? Please reply here providing the info we have asked for at https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=2674 and summarise your problems again, like you did in the first post (if they are still relevant). Thanks
this is not a completely a buddypress support question…. but please bare with me
more wordpress / wpmu, but I’ve looked for help in the wordpress/wpmu irc chat rooms and there’s not much help there…
wordpress media uploads a thumb, medium, large and full size image…. the full size image seems worthless, and kills the users allowed blog space.
is there a way to destroy the full size?
would that break things that depend on the full size image?
if the full size image is “not found” will it just use the large image?
any advice is appreciated
@ M:
when will the plugin become available to download ?
