Bergsten
how do we use your plugin for the new buddypress things that are now in plugins/buddypress/ not mu-plugins ??
because i notice that the bp-core.php that it calls is no longer in mu plugins and that is giving me a php error.. ???
If you can please let me know.. i would love to use it??
i suggest linux vps or linux dedicated server not hostings, Debian if possible,
if configured as it has to be, it’s the best way,
all housing companies are good (assuming that the hardware is good) to run bp 
@Erichamby-
I hope that TMD works well for you!
Incidentally, I noticed that their BuddyPress tutorial is out of date. They have not been keeping up with the changes in theme directories. Also, they state that:
As an addon to the official WordPress MU, BuddyPress is fully compatible with all the plugins and themes of WordPress and does not limit its functionality in any way
This is not true. There are several incorrect statements there. For instance, there are a number of steps that must be taken if you are using a custom WordPress theme with BuddyPress. I hope they’re good at tech support!
Well i was using 1and1 and wanted to see what i could find that was best for BP. So what i did was sign up for a (mt) GS account and a TMD basic reseller account. After about 2 weeks of playing with them both i closed the (mt) account. TMD really offers more for the price and they will install buddypress for you just by requesting it. Usually withen 15 min.
http://crowzero.com
Dont get me wrong they do have a few problems. Thats to be expected with a fairly new hosting company. For $29 a month i get a reseller account with great options. They use cPanel which i prefer Plesk but cPanel is ok.
(mt) is a great company with a great name. However i got the feeling the time i was with them they are more of a hype company has you seem to pay for the name and no the options. Their admin panel is a work of art though.
Yea i played around with it and got my users from my regular wordpress install into mu/bp and although it showed the users in admin the buddypress never showed them.
yeah, it’s bug https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/691 if anyone has anything to contribute
This could mean several things. You have an existing WP site and want to get those users into WPMU.
Or you have an existing WPMU site, but when you go the ‘members’ list pages on BuddyPress, most of them don’t appear.
I can’t help you with the first one as I don’t know and that question is more appropiate to the WPMU forums (not BuddyPress’). If it’s the second, the users won’t show up until they’ve logged in and done something. There was a script or so around the forums to get this done automatically, but I don’t know where I saw it. Hopefully someone will post.
Is there a way to import users to buddypress from a wordpress install?
So the problem is in your custom theme then? It’s a tricky nuggest but read through https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=2298.
That is not a BuddyPress problem. I suggest you search WordPress’ forums.
@Dbascent94: I’ve got the same problem, no preview is given just “activate”.
Although the themes -are- activated, because I see the standard buddypress theme is activated.
If I could only get rid of all those 404 errors on the normal buddypress functions ..
I deleted everything related to BuddyPress (plugins/themes) and reinstalled from the “add plugin” admin.
A few things I have noticed. When activating the BuddyPress home theme, no preview is given when after selecting the theme and before clicking the “activate theme” button.
Also, nothing is being written to the sitewide activity table from the groups plugin.
This thing is not buddypress, so it should be posted on wpmu forum. n/w, I see everything properly on 2.7.1 and rc2.
Control themes here: ursite/wp-admin/wpmu-themes.php
bp-themes/buddypress-member/css/directories.css Look for #letter-list
On the previous BuddyPress and WordPress 2.7 in the Admin backend there was a place where you could see all of the member blogs and I don\’t see anything for member blogs anymore. SO does Admin have to go into each blog from the front end if they need to help a member?
Also there was a way to set what templates were available to the different members and you had to activate templates. Is this gone? If so how do you limit the templates to the members??
This was all in the Options menu which is gone now.
Thanks!!
I was running WordPress MU 2.7 before and have been manually upgrading ..
bp-themes contains the original buddypress RC2 theme.
I’m using the BuddyPress theme (WPMU 2.7.1, BP 1.0)
I have been scouring the CSS files for hours trying to figure out how to change the colors of the letter tiles (e.g., “A”, “B”, “C”, etc.) in in the blogs and members directory.
Can’t find them. Anyone have any ideas?
Tried to update via SiteAdmin Upgdare> Automatically Upgrade.
Since then rm-rf bp-* from mu-plugins, deleting old themes member and home from themes/ folder.
Unzipped all from bp-rc2 in to plugins/buddypress/ folder without bp-themes/.
Moved bp-themes/ from zip to wp-content/
now is:
# ls wp-content/bp-themes /
buddypress-member readme.txt
Moved bp-themes/buddypress-home / to wp-content/themes/buddypress-home /
now is:
# ls wp-content/themes /
buddypress-home classic default home
# grep SITE_ID_CURRENT_SITE wp-config.php
define ( \’SITE_ID_CURRENT_SITE\’, 1);
Uncommented and active.
Try deleting all plugins from the mu-plugins and plugins directory
Leaving only the plugins/buddypress
No result.
I decided to keep the logo. Never mind.
Maybe I should just grovel for a bit… I assumed my component would work the same as yours. I thought I would have to enable it under the BuddyPress Component Setup, and it would then be activated sitewide. I also hadn’t changed the default text “My BuddyPress Component 1.0 This BuddyPress component is the greatest thing since sliced bread”. I didn’t recognize my own component I activated it sitewide (under plugins instead of buddypress componenets) and it seems to be functioning the same way as RC1. My apologies!
I just reinstalled BuddyPress and switched everything to the BuddyPress supplied themes. I am seeing the group wire posts in the groups but anything posted to the groups is still not showing up in the Site Wide Activity widget.
I have deactivated all plugins minus BuddyPress.
Michael,
Where did you go wrong on your first attempt at upgrading? Maybe I made a similar mistake?
1. Which versions of WPMU and BuddyPress are you running? WMU 2.7.1 – The latest BP, just downloaded it yesterday.
2. You say that you were \”beginning to alter the colors\”. I assume you\’re using the default BuddyPress themes and you only worked with the CSS files. Is that true? Or, did you make changes to some of the php files as well? I added some copywrite info to the footer.php – but other then that I only touched the css of the default template.
3. Are you running this on localhost or a remote site? Remote site, IPower.com.
Does that help? Thanks a bunch.
In the file: /mu-plugins/bp-blogs/bp-blogs-classes.php
Change wb.public =1 to wb.public = -1
Change b.public =1 to b.public = -1
This allows me to show the blogs in profile pages and the blogs directory since they are all private on our site. We have a walled garden for K-12 education. But my question is this: How do I make it so that whether the blog is private or public it shows up on the BP site.
Can I just delete the code that is checking to see if the blogs are public or private? What should I do? Thanks! Please be specific as to what code changes I might need to make.
Chris
PS. What is happening is that the site is setup to have everything private, but we now have some blogs that are public. Once I make the blog public it disappears from the profile as well as other places. I guess I don’t care whether the blog is public or private, I want it to show up and be accessed by BuddyPress.
I’m also having a problem with my themes, but for me it the home theme, the member theme works fine. I have upgraded to RC-2, following all the instructions, but when I try to activate the theme, I get a blank page in the preview. Any thoughts?
Note: In the “themes” it indicates that the theme is “BuddyPress Home Theme 1.0-RC1,” but i copied it from the RC-2 installation. I also manually downloaded RC-2 and replaced the home theme again, but the same result.
Were you running WPMU 2.7.1-beta1 before upgrading to the public version of 2.7.1?
If so, did you try using the auto update feature? If you did, it will not work since the version is already 2.7.1.
Instead, you have to do it the old fashion way: delete what is not needed, upload new files, then log in as site admin and got to Site Admin > Upgrade and finish the upgrade. Then, install BuddyPress, activate, and do the various theme directory changes.
Also, are you using a brand new wp-config.php file–the one that comes with WPMU 2.7.1? Or, did you use an older version?
If so, there is an additional define line added to WMPU’s config file as of 2.7.1:
define(\'SITE_ID_CURRENT_SITE\', 1);
