Thanks for the extra education Jeff! I had no idea akismet would bozo – I’ll need to check my buddypress and bbpress sites for that to see if anyone has been perhaps – I had no idea.
Please note that I was not singling anyone out, I was just frustrated by some short answers on posts that I was looking for the same answer as some other noob.
I have been scouring the forums trying to figure everything mu related out for years, since pre-version1.3 – and still get confused. I also think that technically any BP question is an MU question since you need the MU to run BP – LOL
Thanks for listening, and perhaps with so much crossover between the two, a little sidebar search that shows MU forums posts when we search the BP forums would enlighten some of us as to answers found elsewhere.
I am anxious to see if the new bp 1.1.1 has features built in to adapt the signup email that is sent to new users, and redirects them to a more social page rather then the WP dashboard, or maybe that is still an MU setting and I need to fiddle over on that side of this. I wonder if the redirect stuff that was written here a while back is no longer needed to get that function. I am afraid to upgrade my BP site, as I can’t find instructions for moving the origial BP that was setup in “mu-plugins”.
I totally understand the mod thing, I mod a couple other sites myself, and I try to answer questions I find in WP and MU forums if I know the answer, and post details as much as possible. Thanks for your help, and everyone else that contributes to this project! I couldn’t do 1% of what everyone it doing here!
As far as being “bozoed” by someone, that someone would be the Akismet algorithm. No person does the bozoing. I have been bozoed twice myself on these forums in the past by Akismet.
If you think you may have been bozoed, just send a friendly message to a moderator. They will look into it.
“that’s a wpmu question” – are not very helpful either. In the times it takes to write some crap like that, you could post a link to the wpmu thread about the issue.
I sometimes do just that. But, there are exceptions.
If it is a question that has been asked too many times here and a little searching would show that to be the case, I will kindly remind them to search first and then I redirect them to the proper place. If it is a question that will require more time to do the research for them than it does to write the response, I will also kindly redirect them to the proper place.
And you are correct. None of the moderators get paid. We all volunteer our time and independently decide how best to serve the overall community. Part of the duties of all moderators is to educate new users on how best to get results and on proper forum procedure and etiquette. Pointing people to the proper place to ask questions falls under education.
I get the same message. I have created the API Key and Secret key but still not working properly. I get the same page not found error. I don’t think this is working properly for 1.1. But with that said it is working on the BP demo…
With regards to the API, have you seen the API setup page? Holy crap, it’s got all kinds of questions for the API and I don’t have a clue what what 90% of them are.
Everybody is busy trying to live life and make a living. The folks at VOCE that made Tastykitchen indicated they would provide more information to the community.
Nick Gernert on July 31st, 2009 at 6:13 am
We’ll be doing some follow-up posts here with more details around how we’re accomplishing some of these things on this and other sites, so stay tuned.
Nothing yet that I could find, but hey business first.
What most sites could use is a “librarian.” Someone to take the common questions, forum posts and turn them into a functionality knowledge-base. I don’t expect that here soon, so my forum-searching skills will have to suffice.
I’m hardheaded and trial and error is how I learned everything so far anyway. What I am looking for is some road markers, not detailed directions. Once I get started, I’ll post what I’m planning and let the community shoot holes in it so I can learn. Heck, I’ve gotta get WPMU running on my home box first.
Justin Tadlock of Theme Hybrid fame did say that Tastykitchen could be accomplished using Hybrid as the WP-part of the parent theme. My plan is to do that and add the appropriate templates from the BP parent. I’ll build the child from there modifying the CSS and functions.php provided by BP and Hybrid. That ought to create a functioning site. Then I can work on the plugins needed for my project. Since I’m doing a single-blog, directory-structure install of WPMU, I’m hoping to get over that hurdle quickly. Hopefully, before I launch, the merge of WPMU and WP.org will be complete and I can complete that “upgrade” and test it before going live.
socialpreneur – This is a forum for asking questions related to Buddypress and this is related to Buddypress. If you don’t know the answer can you please not respond with those types of responses. A bunch of us are all new to this and not sure and it’s a bit frustrating when someone like you post replies like that. Buddypress and MU work hand in hand and therefore people need to know and that is why they are here. We are asking questions because other people are using Buddypress and they might have the answer or a fix for what we are asking. So, that is why it is the right place to ask the question.
DJPaul, thank you for posting the link to the post on the “BuddyPress” site.
What happens in FireFox?
If it is the same behavior, then please answer these questions to allow us to help you better.
I was also “banned”/ got a closed account some time ago. I was new. I created a new account and then kept asking questions that were relevant to me. They’re doing a very good job at the moment even if there are times we’re I’d like more answers/help. It’s for free…
Lisa – I’m going to upgrade my AvenueK9 theme to be compatible with BP 1.1.1 … it works fine right now, but there are a few style issues I’m going to iron out. The documentation is also a bit scanty, so I’ll be more descriptive in the next release to address some of the common questions I’ve been getting for this 
But this is not the right place to ask wpmu questions.
1. You should not post wpmu questions to a forum dedicated to buddypress.
2. You should read wordpress documents, as this is a very basic question.
3. Google it.
Thanks Tore. You really helped.
Just like you, I searched all over the BP Forum for my questions but found no answer for all of them.
Thanks for your advice though..
BTW, Do you run a WPMU+BP site? If yes, can you provide the link to your site so that I can check it out as an example?
Hi again!
Read this:
“I’ve used a WordPress theme for my blog with the default BuddyPress member themeâ€
Over at:
https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/upgrading-a-buddypress-1-0-theme-for-buddypress-1-1/
You’ll have to edit things and if you’re not comfortable with that you’ll probably need more help than you can get here. 
I don’t know your level of knowledge. Search around the forums and read up on the topics you need. I haven’t had answers to all my questions here in the BP-forums. You’ll have to search for some of them on your own.
hey, sorry guys – i’ve been swamped with my wedding and other personal stuff, so big apologies to these unanswered questions and a big ‘thank you’ to DJPaul who stepped in.
so for all of you who want to have the organized, aligned, 3-column homepage a la BP 1.0 style, all you have to do is delete the “layout” folder from the AvenueK9 theme folder (it’s located in avenuek9 >> _inc >> css). it’ll take care of all the widget and alignment issues that have been mentioned here and elsewhere.
also, the slim container issue can be fixed real easily by adding this line “padding: 20px;” to your #container. it’ll be flush with the nav bar and the footer.
if any of you want to have an image logo rather than the h1 text, go ahead and change “display: block;” to “display: none;” in the “#header h1#logo a” element. then, drop in your image tag and play around with “padding-top:” values for “#header”
i’m still running BP 1.0 on my http://members.avenuek9.com, since i haven’t had any time for the upgrade yet, but once life settles down a bit, you can be sure to hear about further improvements to this theme!
also, i’m much faster at responding to messages, so if it’s urgent, you can try that instead.
In the same vein, it might be a good idea to create a theme designers forum, if for no reason other than to hold all of the theme-related questions. Putting more emphasis on buddypress theme development might also spur release of new 1.1 designs.
No, it is not redundant? It is just an unrelated site. It is Nicola’s personal site. The content is different. You are free to sign up at bp-dev.org if you need to ask support questions about any of the plugins hosted there.
great idea !
everybody know something about design and usability – collaboratively we will be more efficient and have a better output than everybody is cooking his own soup.
No need to bother Andy & Team with Theme-questions….. they should clearly focus on code-hacking 
@Colorful tones
You seem to be having a few issues getting BP installed and working properly. Please start a new thread so we can better help you. When doing so, answer these questions in the first post of that new thread.
With regards to this issue:
Has anybody else noticed that this site Buddypress.org is not working too? When I log in and go to any of the links in the top admin bar they all re-direct me to the front page.
Although you do not technically have a space in your username, you have a dash, this thread may provide some insight. Did you sign up using a space between “Colorful” and “tones”?
https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/when-logged-in-to-buddypressorg-some-links-do-not-work#post-13743
Thanks DJ
Reinstalled bbpress once again and it seems to respond now.
Still can’t get the Profile Field questions to show up for new users.
I think I’m missing something small.
Privacy component is planned for 1.2. It’s better to ask questions on the privacy component topic than here.
If you think it’s wpmu problem, then this isn’t the place to ask questions…
I did answer the questions, i event posted the details in the previous post.
MU 2.5.4
BP 1.1
I do not know what else to do,
Buddpress 1.0 works fine with no issues, have the issue with buddpress 1.1
I am willing to provide FTP access so you can see that some else needs to be done because it can not be done with the steps provided by you or in the readme file.
why do i feel like i am the only having this issue , yet if i look around there are others who are facing difficulties installing BP 1.1
I woudl like to see you do this and make it work as you noted without having to do any additional steps, do not be suprise if you reach the same results i did with a working homepage and broken inner pages.
@alexduvot
Let’s please keep this discussion to the public forums and not in private messaging. You will get better results with multiple people looking at this thread.
Okay, one more time, please answer these questions.
Thanks for this Simon. I have 2 questions though:
1. Do I just have to add this code at https://trac.buddypress.org/attachment/ticket/1150/hook-to-stop-group-creation.diff in the bp-groups.php or do I have to edit the whole file? If I have to edit it, in what particular part of the file should I put the code?
2. The code in https://trac.buddypress.org/attachment/ticket/1150/restrict-group-creation.php will be used as a plugin right? and I will upload it in the plugins folder and activate it?
Thanks in advance for your response!
That function is provided by wpmu, not buddypress. Please post your questions on wpmu forum.
@bobblegom I am BP all the way but shouldn’t you compare Google Trends on “drupal” vs “buddypress” not “drupal social” ?
@candydate I just see the release of 2.7, 2.8 all the way to 2.8.4, all of @donncha’s hard work and the aforementioned community buzz and conclude that the wp community is not moving slowly.
I run a BP community of USMA alumni and not only is it stable but they generally love it. I am more of a hack than true coder and I have had no issues. It is def a serious professional grade tool. The ease of customization alone (I have many friends who run Drupal sites and it’s always fun to hear them defend the arcane way Drupal does things.
WP and BP have a lot of growth ahead and they are by no means perfect but the openness and willingness to change and grow is evident (just see any IRC chat with all the developers)
Happy to answer more specific questions on resource requirements and what you were not able to learn from your dummy site.
