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First of all, we have very little information with which to provide you assistance. What version of WPMU are you running? What version of BuddyPress?

Please reference this thread an answer the questions.

Finally, the message:

“Are you sure you want to do this?”

often indicates a nonce security failure message. It can happen if you have not updated the BP themes or are using a custom theme (i.e. any theme other than the ones that come with BuddyPress). Try switching to the default BP themes and see if the issue goes away. If it does, then you know it has something to do with the theme you’re using.

The reason you have not found much on this on these forums, is because this questions are in WPMU’s domain. Have a search on their forums as these components aren’t provided or controlled by BuddyPress.

Okay, we have a couple pieces of information, but need more. Please answer the questions here.

you have to:

remove bp-themes dir in /wp-content/

you have to copy bp-home & bp-sn-framework in /themes/

activate bp-home

And you will have the new theme.

If you want integrate your theme with bp,

add in the header of your css

/*

[…]

Template: bp-sn-framework

*/

deactivate and reactivate your own theme.

Nicola

@Peterverkooijen

I have no problem with you posting in the BP forums. If I did, I would say so and/or ignore your posts. In fact, I often answer your questions or at least point you in the proper direction. I did the former above.

I also appreciate the fact that you are diligently working on learning PHP and the inner workings of WPMU and BP. It is a long road to slog.

In suggesting that a Google search would have answered your question–and more than likely much more quickly than waiting for someone to respond on this forum–I was simply making a point that since all of us moderators volunteer our time, and a lot of it at that, it helps everyone if a member first searches out a particular issue. That means if it is specific to BP, they search the BP forums first, and then Google second. If it is more of a general programming issue (or as you say above, a “basic issue”), then they search Google first then the WPMU or BP forums second. If they find nothing, then posting is recommended.

I assume that you do use Google. We all do. But, I was trying to give you a friendly reminder by first answering your question, second suggesting that issues outside of the scope of WPMU or BP can often be quickly answered via Googling, and third provide a link to the answer in such a way that reinforces that point to anyone who reads this thread.

I can’t tell you how many times a day I answer a question on these forums whose answer could have been found by searching the forums or google. I don’t mind helping out, but my time is limited and it gets old.

Just to be clear to everyone, none of the moderators on these forums are employees of Automattic. We do not get paid for the copious amounts of time we volunteer.

(I believe what I’m about to write is relatable to the topic at hand; if not, feel free to close the thread!)

I’m just starting to grasp the whole concept of multi-sites.

From what I’ve read, it’s exactly what I want to do.

But I need some clarification.

Here’s my setup, I have WPMU+BuddyPress installed in the root:

hxxp://www.example.com (blog_id #1 should be shown here, including all its posts, categories and pages)

I want all subsequent blogs to be created from

hxxp://blogs.example.com

So that new blogs will have a subdirectory under that subdomain.

eg. hxxp://blogs.example.com/newuserblog/

Single sign-on should work across the root and subdomain.

From those that have responded to me on the WPMU forums, this should be possible with the multi-site plugin.

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Now for the BuddyPress questions!

Okay, so let’s say I login to BuddyPress (which is installed in the root instance of MU) and I want to create a new blog from “My Account > Create a blog”, would BuddyPress be creating this new blog under the new Site instance (eg. the subdomain Site – blogs.example.com? This is what I would want to do. I’m guessing this would require some core hacking.

Also, if I go to hxxp://www.example.com/blogs, would this show blogs from the blogs.example.com subdomain?

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Thanks for reading! Hope to hear some feedback!

Well, on the 16th post Andy says

If the plugin continues to improve and sticks to the standards then I’d like to allow Manoj to continue building it as the official component. We’ll see how it pans out over the next little while.

What happens if he doesn’t and the plugin isn’t up to Andy’s standards?

Yeah, I know Andy also said we didn’t have to worry about the pictures already in the albums but how will it work? How much work will it take to switch to core photo album component from the Manoj’s plugin in case Andy decides against using it?

I am not asking those questions to get the answer here. I’m just trying to say I am hesitant to using Manoj’s plugin until we know a little bit more about the future of the core photo album component.

And trust me I desperately need a photo album for my website. It’s really hard to resist using Manoj’s plugin especially after reading so many good reviews. I just hate to take a road without knowing where it’s going to take me. Yep, I got burnt in the past.

@morgenvrij

We need more detailed information about your setup. Please start a new thread by posting your issue and including answers to these questions.

@andrlind

Seeing how you have not received a response from mattyabsley, I suggest starting a new thread and answering these questions.

Two questions:

1. Does this issue go away if you switch to the default themes that come with BuddyPress?
2. Are there any errors showing up in your log files?

Refer to this: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/questions-about-groups#post-14157

tell me if it works ;x

You can use any WordPress theme for the home/blog theme, yes. You’d only need a customised or Buddypress-specific theme for the member pages.

“themes” is a themes folder for WordPress(MU); whereas “bp-themes” is a themes folder specific to BuddyPress components.

To be more specific, “themes” styles the blogs; “bp-themes” styles the member profiles and groups.

ReadWritePoem’s blog posts is from the main, primary blog… it’s a simple template loop from WordPress… nothing elaborate there. In fact, looking into it further, they do not have member blogs! So if you’re familiar with regular WordPress, you’ll know how they placed the blog posts on the front page.

Maybe the current discussion isn’t out of date, but the discussion and assumption that Nicola is developing this is.

I can’t speak for DJPaul, but in the general clean-up that I do, I try to keep the conversations as focused on what is currently relevant as possible, to avoid confusion for newcomers and to let any old-schoolers know questions are being addressed.

Does that make sense? I’m sure Paul will chime in and slap me with a trout if I’m wrong.

I’ve renamed this thread jorrie so the title covers both questions which might make it easier for people to find in future.