http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic.php?id=10902
Here’s a thread that I started over at mu.wordpress.org. I’m bringing it over here as I think the problem may have to do with BuddyPress.
In summary:
I’ve just upgraded to 2.7 with the latest BP Combo and can no longer find a place to add users when logged in as a regular user. I can’t even find a place to activate registration so that they can sign up for individual blogs themselves.
I found these directions under Site Admin->Option:
“Allow blog administrators to add new users to their blog via the Users->Add New page.”
This seems like it is the answer, except I see no “Add New.”
If I go to /wp-admin/user-new.php I do see the Add User page. In other words, that sidebar link is gone, but the functionality is still there.
Here’s a copy of my sidebar with the missing page link.
http://media.bssd.org/media/temporary/wmpu_sidebar.png
Note that the Users button at the top takes you to /wp-admin/wpmu-users.php , which is part of SiteAdmin. This link allows me to add users to WPMU, but normal users won’t be able to add users to their individual blogs.
What’s needed:
1. We need access to /wp-admin/user-new.php in the side panel so users can add users to their blogs.
2. We need a way for people to register themselves on each others blogs.
From the readme.txt in /buddypress-themes:
2. Move the /member-themes/ directory into /wp-content/member-themes/
Why it’s taken me so long to stumble on to BuddyPress I don’t know but the work you have done is great!
Looking forward to having a scour through the codebase and seeing what i can do with it all 
Many thanks for the hard work, i hope to return the favour in the future!
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
Trent
That is Buddypress Home theme (modified)…but even so, the drop down menu, verification and about me box is missing on my page. Hmmmmm….
I see the trac here: https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/330
But what good does it do? I still have this problem. Users are complaining and some of them are leaving.
Isn’t there really a fix for this?
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
Hi,
I’m preparing a Hungarian translation for my BuddyPress/WordPressMu site, but when I upload the .mo and .po files all but one of my Home page widgets disappear. I got an error message when recompiling from the source files saying the v escape could not be used in internationalization and replaced the v with n .
The affected widgets are:
Welcome
Recent Posts
Who’s online
Members
Groups
Any help will be appreciated,
Michael
should I have the theme installed somewhere else?
What about adding a Video/Mp3 upload and Album for users? Such as a little “youtube” plugin. Is there any possibility to add this to buddypress.. Could be realized like the photo albums but with music and videos..
What do you think about that?
Cheers
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 ?
My request is to make configurable the visibility of buddypress profiles for logged in users only.
I think this would be better for a community that shares their interests internally but whose personal info may not be suitable to be visible for unregistered, not logged-in users.
That would be a grat addition.
Unregistered and users that are not logged in would see the main site and the personal individual blogs, but not any of the personal profiles, to do so, they should log in or register.
This is a known and reported problem: https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/330
Did you previously have group forums installed and operating correctly?
See: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=471
This one is strange.
I create a group in buddypress, that part works.
then I go to the ‘groups’ page, and it’s not there.
So I check the admin, and sure enough it is there.
Seems to me that the groups were showing a max of 4, and every time I add a new group, a group currently in the list disappears. (I am not talking about the sidebar, but the groups page itself)
anyone run into this but me?
Okay, I’m not sure what the problem is but here is how I fixed it.
First I totally wiped out all buddypress and WPMU files from the site. I then downloaded the SVN from this URL: http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress-mu/trunk. This gives you the WPMU 2.7 version which is still beta at this time but seems to work fine. After setting up WPMU and setting it up so that blogs come under a subdomain (ex. yourblog.yoursite.com) I updated my svn version of buddypress (https://svn.buddypress.org/trunk) and uploaded to the site and installed it. Everything is now working.
I have no idea why it wasn’t working before. I had tried to rewrite some of the code but to no avail. ANywho … doing it this way will get your site working. Also I think it may be important to use subdomains for the blogs. Not sure if that is true but I believe it may be.
@gpo1
Due to all communication of buddypress and bbpress being done over xmlrpc, the normal plugins most likely won’t work. I have been looking at ones like a view counter and they require massive modification of buddypress. Because of caching, the forums are not always pulled from bbpress. So it would produce falsely low view count.
Also, group forums, are just a single forum in bbpress, this changes the administration and moderation of the forums and topics. If someone is a moderator on bbpress, they can moderate the whole site I believe, with buddypress a moderator is only a moderator of that group forum.
Hope this helps,
Brad
Pretty simple really:
1) Make a backup of your DB just in case you change your mind.
2) Remove anything that has prefix of bp in your /mu-plugins/ folder
3) Delete the folder /wp-content/member-themes/
4) Delete the folder /wp-content/themes/buddypress-home/
5) Delete any tables in your DB that start with the prefix bp
6) Delete the tables that are in format of wp_user_X_activity ….. Not wp_users, just those specific to BP
7) Change your main WPMU blog to use a different theme
Be prepared for hits to non-existent information if you have been hit by search engines
Really, it is just reversing what you did in the installation process. Making backups before and after are really important as you don’t want to make a mistake. It is also good practice to tell your members that you are doing it since they might have issue with the changes, or at least need to be notified.
Hope that helps.
Trent
I DID it but still have stuff in my DB and the template in wp_content/themes. Now everytime i add a new blog it shows a blank page because no template is choosen. When i switch de BP Template off in the admin the other Templates disapear too!
You just remove the components that live in /mu-plugins.
Hey, hope you guys can help, i searched the whole site but can’t find the answer.
How can i deinstall Buddypress from my WordPress MU? After trying it i got some mysthic errors and i want to be sure that i deinstalled everything.
Thank you!
Hi All,
I know that WPMU is very scalable (as evidenced by WordPress.com). Is BuddyPress equally scalable? What if I do create the next Facebook? How will I expand the infrastructure, and will I run into any brick walls?
Thanks,
Mark
