[Jeff Sayre]

The theme used on this site will not be made available. This question is asked about once a week. Here was the first thread that posed that question. See Andy’s response.

You can design your own theme to accomplish a similar effect–use Firefox with Firebug and see how Andy styled the theme.

[nicolagreco]

are you sure you installed latest bbpress ?

[plrk]

I’ve updated the Codex page to point to the readme.txt in the 1.0.3 tag. Let’s all help each other remember to update the link with future versions…

[plrk]

They work for me.

[altaran]

@JJJ: I see your point. Thinking of it now, it makes sense. BP isn’t meant to be a finished product design wise like Jomsocial, it’s supposed to be themed like K2.

@ David: In my opinion users above 35 who are used to forums and are already unsure what such social networks are for need the simplest navigation possible. As you said, I think that drop-down with fly-outs (when they work properly, as for example on linux.com) give you a sense of how the site is organised, and that’s precisely why I find it would be particularly useful in this case. Especially if the BP community is part of a lager site with front page news, directories, etc, and that there is a higher navigation level.

If I use BP for my site, I will definitely seek to simplify it’s navigation to the bare minimum, and try to figure out how to intelligently combine the utility of BP and a forum, which in my view is the other big issue.

[John James Jacoby]

All of the *Press forums use Akismet. When you have as much activity as these collective forums get, you’ll have the occasional false positive from time to time. The algorithm that Akismet uses is always being adjusted to accommodate for this, but thankfully as we unmark posts that were incorrectly marked as spam, it learns as it goes and usually doesn’t happen again for that user.

[zkwc]

ah, but the rss feeds don’t work here.

“Safari could not update this feed because the source file is no longer available.”

[Greg]

Does anyone know how much (server) memory is used by a single user visiting an integrated bbPress+BuddyPress installation (assuming standard installs and themes)? This could be a big impact on the ability of the system to scale to many users and lots of traffic.

I remember _ck_ (moderator on the bbPress forum) saying that it would be about 1MB, but that was before BackPress integrated a lot of the overlapping functionality.

How would one measure something like this?

[r-a-y]

Hey John,

Regarding the spam comment, do you know if these forums are using the bbPress Akismet plugin?

[chrisknade]

Yep that worked, thanks for that and your patience with the caching issue with regards to the the forum updating.

[Marcus (aka @msykes)]

Oops… trunk of course! it’s been a long day… got it working the old fashioned way

The other point I was making though is that this is linked off the main installation instructions:

https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/installing-buddypress/.

The reason I probably didn’t even look at the URL is because of that. I’m sure lots of people will do the same, and if they are new to buddypress they won’t be aware of the usual way of installing it and either post questions here or maybe even give up!

[Paul Wong-Gibbs]

I don’t think this is easy and it would require serious work and hacking. I can’t even think of a way of doing this off the top of my head.

Maybe instead you could use a Group for each subdomain that you were going to use, and use the “group blog” plugin (search forums).

[Paul Wong-Gibbs]

On a side note, is there any chance of the bp.org theme appearing as an option?

Nope. Search the forums if you want a bit more story on why; this question is asked at least once a week!

[Paul Wong-Gibbs]

And before you ask, no, it is not recommended to use the trunk version of BuddyPress on a public website.

[Mariusooms]

As you can tell by your url given, you are looking at the trunk version of the installation-readme.text.

A lot has changed in regards to how the forum is implemented and more changes are coming. Currently the trunk version of the forum integration is for groups only.

So no, this does not apply to 1.0.3

[Jeff Sayre]

We have no idea what the issue is now so we cannot provide help. Please provide details.

Read this for more information on asking for support.

[necati]

Here is my first Buddypress-run site: ecofuture.

Runs on MU 2.8.2, BuddyPress 1.0.2, bbPress 1.0.

I was afraid of upgrading to 1.0.3 after reading through the forums and after finally getting the three-way integration to work.

Buddypress pages are worked up fromt he skeleton theme. Homepage blog is based on the Thematic Theme. I got the two to closely resemble each other.

[Jeff Sayre]

I downloaded the zip file in March 2009. It’s 1.0 by the look of it.

Actually, you are using a pre-release version of 1.0. In fact, you are using the first release candidate (RC1). Before version 1.0 was officially released, there was even an RC2. So, you are five versions behind. There have been significant changes in the BP codebase since then.

As DJPaul states, do a backup of your Database (DB). Your MySQL DB files are stored in a different place than where you have WPMU and BuddyPress installed.

Also as Paul states, you will need to switch from /mu-plugins/ to /plugins. This is not an option.

Here are some detailed instructions. I would read these just so you know how things have changed since RC1.

https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/installing-buddypress/upgrading-from-rc-1/

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/how-to-upgrade-from-rc2-to-10

https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/upgrading-from-10x/

[José M. Villar]

A custom loop is the most direct way, instead of a widget

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/custom-loops-for-forum-topics#post-17240

[David Lewis]

Okay… so what might be some example of server recommendations for different installations? For instance… I have a dedicated server but it’s not exactly high-powered. The specs are:

– 3.06 Ghz Celeron

– 80GB HDD

– 512 MB RAM

– 1000 GB Traffic

– 10Mbps uplink

Nothing fancy! But I’m only serving half a dozen small blog sites now with very low traffic. Mostly just small personal sites. It’s awesome for that and being dedicated allows me total control and I don’t have to worry about my ‘neighbours’ getting my IP blacklisted… etc.

Now… let’s say I launch a public BuddyPress site with 250 registered users, pretty low traffic from non-registered users, the bpPicture plugin, chat plugin, bbPress and NO personal blogs allowed (just the main blog). Is it gonna go boom? This client can probably afford to pay more for hosting if needed.

I have another potential BP project which would probably also be a low traffic site… but where the client wants users to be able to create blogs. It will be a true community site. It could have… let’s say 20-30 blogs. It would also have forums, photos and chat. This client is a friend. It’s a simple pro bono thing with no custom theming or coding. Problem is, she has no money for more ‘iron’. Not a cent.

I know this is all very hypothetical and hard to judge… but even a rough idea of server recommendations for a few different scenarios would be extremely helpful.

[zkwc]

All this stuff that was going wrong after the 1.0.3 auto install:

The bad stuff:

4. The admin bar is missing when you click on someone’s profile and if you click to view a group. The admin bar is active everywhere else, including the backend of blogs.

5. Profile Wires and Forum Wires aren’t working anymore.

No buddypress plugins are active. Haven’t set any of them up yet. Just checking out the install. Not sure why wires aren’t working. hmm.

WPMU 2.8.2 + buddypress 1.0.3 + bbPress

On the wires of the profiles the Avatar is put in replace of the wire with an error message:

Warning: require_once(/home/mysites_org/htdocs/wp-content/bp-themes/bpmember/activity/activity-list.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/mysites_org/htdocs/wp-includes/theme.php on line 843

On the wires of the “groups” a huge avatar is plucked out of nowhere and I’m getting this message:

Warning: require_once(/home/mysites_org/htdocs/wp-content/bp-themes/bpmember/activity/activity-list.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/mysites_org/htdocs/wp-includes/theme.php on line 843

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This was all fixed by uploading my backup from 1.0.2 of the wp-content – bp-themes – bpmember

There were some files missing from the 1.0.3 auto install that was causing the wires not to work, and the admin bar not to show up in places.

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PROBLEM SOLVED!

Thanks to everyone for their very helpful tips!

[KevinHeath]

I downloaded the zip file in March 2009. It’s 1.0 by the look of it.

Version number:

BuddyPress Version Numbers

Core: 1.0-RC1 / Activity: 1.0-RC1 / Blogs: 1.0-RC1 / Friends: 1.0-RC1 / Groups: 1.0-RC1 / Messages: 1.0-RC1 / Wire: 1.0-RC1 / Profile: 1.0-RC1 / Forums: 1.0-RC1 /

Readme was in the zip and can be found here:

http://coastalnet.co.uk/wp-content/mu-plugins/INSTALL-README.txt

What should my plan be to get the install running as currently intended? I’m a novice with database driven sites and PHP.

[zkwc]

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare bp_activity_install() (previously declared in /home/mysites_org/htdocs/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-activity.php:27) in /home/mysites_org/htdocs/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-activity.php on line 101

Fatal Error after activating new install of Buddypress 1.0.3

The good stuff:

1. It sees all of the profiles.

2. It sees all of the friends.

3. It’s showing all the blogs recent activity.

The bad stuff:

4. The admin bar is missing when you click on someone’s profile and if you click to view a group. The admin bar is active everywhere else, including the backend of blogs.

5. Profile Wires and Forum Wires aren’t working anymore.

No buddypress plugins are active. Haven’t set any of them up yet. Just checking out the install. Not sure why wires aren’t working. hmm.

WPMU 2.8.2 + buddypress 1.0.3 + bbPress

On the wires of the profiles the Avatar is put in replace of the wire with an error message:

Warning: require_once(/home/mysites_org/htdocs/wp-content/bp-themes/bpmember/activity/activity-list.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/mysites_org/htdocs/wp-includes/theme.php on line 843

On the wires of the “groups” a huge avatar is plucked out of nowhere and I’m getting this message:

Warning: require_once(/home/mysites_org/htdocs/wp-content/bp-themes/bpmember/activity/activity-list.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/mysites_org/htdocs/wp-includes/theme.php on line 843

[r-a-y]

If you want to hide the core xprofile “name” field, you’ll have to edit the /profile/profile-loop.php file in order to do this.

One way to do this is mentioned here:

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/faq-how-to-code-snippets-and-solutions#post-13243

This will hide your entire “Base” xprofile group though.

But that’s one way around it!

[José M. Villar]

@graduatebuddy if you press the “freshness” link which shows at the forums section it will take you directly to the last post (yours).

If you are at the beginning of this thread or at any page, just go to the top part where it shows how many msgs and voices and next to it shows the links to the latest reply and who made it (yours in my case)