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“low development activity on WP MU in general” – the WPMU folks have been on fire lately, not sure what slow dev universe you speak of. I second Jeff’s comments.

As for some of the features you speak of, a simple cruise through Andy’s http://testbp.org would answer those questions. Compared to the mind-numbing admin work required for Drupal and Joomla, BP is a joy. Of course, if you don’t want to do any work under the hood, go with Ning and have your entire experience dictated to you.

I thought someone else reported this problem, and you were also reporting your problem there. I’m not sure if another of this is needed. But when you post questions, you SHOULD always include your server setup, like buddypress version, wpmu version, plugins in use.

Please search the forums before asking questions, you’d have found your answer. I suggest you read https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/buddypress-privacy-component-an-update#post-23764.

Okay, a few questions to start:

• From your description, it is not clear how you’ve attempted to debug your setup. When trying to figure out an issue with BuddyPress, it is best to distill your environment down to the lowest common denominator. This means switching to the default BP theme and deactivating all plugins except BP. It is not clear if you did this completely or just partially. In other words, you need to fully test your BP install without any 3rd-party addons. If it works in that state, then you can safely assume it is an issue with a custom theme, another plugin, or both. So, did you reset BP to its lowest common denominator?
• What errors are you seeing in your server’s log files?
• Could you please provide details about this setup:
  

  I have Buddypress installed in a subfolder with another wordpress installation in the root…

We have a domain policy. If you follow it then I’m happy to link and reference your site from buddypress.org, if not, then I can’t.

buddypress-es.com exists also. These are basically just people willing to contribute and translate the BuddyPress core for people with native languages other than English.

It’s really a fine line to try and walk, but unless the site is dedicated to only furthering the BuddyPress platform, it’s best not to use it in the domain name.

Even the BuddyPress test site is testbp.com and doesn’t use BuddyPress in the name.

Example: If you made a website, even not for profit, and it had Sony in the name, and you didn’t have written permission from Sony, it wouldn’t be long before you’d get a letter in the mail from their lawyers asking to change it.

You should use the search-function in the forum before asking… We already solved this issue here: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/two-questions-about-the-login-process#post-8380

That should work for you

Okay, let’s go back to the basics. Just so that we have all the initial information required, please answer these questions.

Thanks. Excuse the non-coder questions, but should bp_profile_group_tabs() ?> be added (it’s not in bp-sn-parent) and in which profile php file?

I notice bp_profile_group_tabs() is in profiles/edit.php. This chunk of code caught my eye as being perfect for the main profile page (as opposed to the edit screen):

<?php get_header() ?>

<div class=”content-header”>

<ul class=”content-header-nav”>

<?php bp_profile_group_tabs(); ?>

</div>

Could that be added to the main profile php file?

@Burkie: snaps is an interesting forum. I’m building something similar for journalists. A couple questions:

1. How did you display profile field groups beyond “base” ? I never see those displayed, except when logged-in as admin or by the profile-owner.

2. What do you use to create a portfolio link to photos? I have a number of photographers and offering a portfolio would be a popular feature.

@Ezd

We do not have enough information to provide assistance.

Please answer these questions.

@ John

I know Burt hasn’t updated the group blogs plugin in a while…

I believe that jeff is talking about this plugin and not Burt’s Community Blogs plugin.

Thanks for the outline. I’ve been able to successfully create a group with a forum attached.

I appreciate all of the help I’ve received as a BuddyPress newbie. I want to “give back” by creating some docs that clearly outline the steps needed. Perhaps that will reduce the avalanche of questions on oft-answered subjects.

@jtle918,

1. White screens should show up in your server logs; check the offending process and adjust to taste.

2. Facebook Connect Plugin will probably need some adjusting for BuddyPress1.1. I know other people have experienced some lag, memory, and slowness issues using it.

3. Yay integration!

4. I know Burt hasn’t updated the group blogs plugin in a while, but your best bet to set default themes and settings would be to check out the WPMU new blog defaults plugin. You should be able to adapt that to set the blog theme on creation.

@wordpressfan

You have several threads with various issues floating around the forums so I cannot possibly remember all the answers that you’ve already provided to our questions.

So, more questions/suggestions:

• Do you have any plugins other than BP installed? If so, deactivate them and see what happens. Make sure that you are using the default theme and that you have reselected it.
• Are there any errors in your server’s log files? I mean ANY. Do not try to decide which errors are relevant to this issue. We will decided.
• I believe that you are running BP trunk. So this is a test site as you should not be running the bleeding-edge version on a production site. Do a clean install and see if the problem persists. This means deleting everything–all BP, WPMU, and DB files. You need to start from scratch. Don’t install any plugins other than BP, only use the default theme. What happens when you do that?

Good questions, DJPaul. These are things I’m wondering about myself!

About private/hidden forums, will topics made in these forums show up on the main BP forums page for group members who are a part of those forums?

Also about bbPress plugins, would it be possible to somehow take advantage of bbPress’ existing plugins and use them in the BP forums environment?

Or would we need to port some of these plugins over by adding the appropriate filters/actions that BP forums uses?

Another side note from Andy’s last paragraph, these BuddyPress extensions could come in just about any form; additional theme files to be added as a “plus pack” (remember those?!) or a plugin to override and replace existing files as a child theme, or included in the next version of the theme itself.

Also, if you’re paying attention the directory of the included parent theme is “bp-sn-parent.” It stands for “BuddyPress Social Network Parent” which insinuates that theme authors are encouraged to create their own parent themes for something other than social networking, and opens the door for other parent theme sets to be included in the core if they’re rad enough.

Say someone makes a sweet micro-blogging theme ala Twitter, that gives us “bp-mb-parent” to let you switch between totally different setups. Or say someone switches the emphasis away from blogs and users and shifts it to the discussion or support forums; that gives us “bp-df-parent” and “bp-sf-parent”

Andy’s right too. The majority of people so far interested in BuddyPress have been people that are also first being introduced to WPMU and starting a social network. Very few support questions come through asking how to port this existing theme to fit BuddyPress. The ones that do are typically answered by the theme author or the person is so devoted to making it work, that they convert the theme themselves.

I’m really not sure how much harder it is for existing themes to use BuddyPress; it’s just different, but in a better way in my opinion.

@crocgo

As I said above, we do not have the information necessary to help you. Please answer the questions DJPaul linked to.

@crocgo or joanleesuee or ??

Please visit the link in DJPaul’s post above and answer the questions. We want to provide assistance but you are not giving us the necessary information with which to do so.

A few questions:

• Was BP 1.0.3 running on WPMU 2.8.4a, or did you first upgrade to WPMU 2.8.4a before installing trunk? If so, from which version of WPMU did you upgrade?
• Are you using a custom theme? If so, what happens when you switch to the default parent/child theme?
• Do you have any plugins other the BP activated? If so, what happens when you deactivate them all except BP?
• Do you have a bp-custom.php file in use? If so, what happens when you temporarily remove that file?
• What errors are you seeing in your server’s log files?

I’m testing r1865, and it conflicts with /wp-admin/ pages causing options to go blank or only displays footer.

Questions/suggestions:

• So, you are having display issues with one (or all) of the admin pages in WPMU’s backend?
• What version of WPMU are you running? You need to be running WPMU 2.8.4a.
• How did you upgrade BuddyPress? Since you are running trunk, I assume that you manually installed it. Or, did you do an SVN up?
• If you manually reinstalled trunk, meaning you grabbed the zipped version, did you first deactivate BuddyPress before reinstalling? Did you delete the BuddyPress directory and do a clean install?
• Have you tried disabling all your active plugins and seeing if the page displays as it should?
• If the above solves the issue, then reactivate BuddyPress and see if the issue returns. If it does not, then it has nothing to do with BuddyPress and is more than likely a conflict with one of your other plugins. Make sure all your plugins are updated to run WPMU 2.8.4a.

Hello

We aren’t going to admin your site. I’ve edited your post and removed the admin username and password; that was a very, very silly thing to do and I suggest you immediately go in and change the password.

Please help us help you by answering these questions.

I’m one of those guys trying to get security working smoothly across the *Press stack

Jason has really been on top with getting the *Press entities fully SSL-compatible; I’ve been privately bugging Jason with SSL questions and he’s been great with responding to everything.

Thanks for all the advice and feedback, Jason (so far)!