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Yes WPMU is now defunct; you have WP 3.0 so already have the capability of running it as a MS install, you just have to do a little manual configuration to enable it which is explained over on the WP Codex.
I think a sub domain is the easiest approach, hardest aspect is working existing theme into BP.
Don’t dismiss writing HTML / CSS completely especially from a hand coding point of view, I would say there are a few of us around that would probably express the sentiment that they hoped WP and other cms’s didn’t become the defacto standard for web sites, as much as I like WP
@whitbyglennk
Yes, the mu features are now ‘built in’ to WordPress – have a look on the WordPress Codex for WordPress Multisite (and ‘setting up a network’).
We have no problems running BuddyPress installed on a secondary blog on one of our current development projects
Thanks for your help. Pleased to know you remembered me, its a small world even on line. After a lot of hard work I eventually switched the sea angling site to wordpress along with a magazine theme from gabfire. whitbyseaanglers.co.uk/
Ive never looked back since. The ease of adding posts and displaying them on a homepage is amazing and saves one hell of a lot of time. Looking back to those days of trying to write html and css I wonder how I kept my sanity.
Anyway, thanks for your advice. I would tend to agree that a subdomain named community would be the way forward. Im quite looking forward to getting it running. I love tinkering with these things and it will make a good project for the coming winter months.
Just clarify, wordpress mu is now non existent ?
All the best – Glenn
@whitbyglennk Hi Glen,
As soon as I saw the name Whitby I thought “That rings a bell” and had to search back through the archives at CSSCreator, nice to see the domain flourishing although it was the ‘Sea Anglers’ site you were working on back then.
To clarify for the thread real-whitby is presently a WP site and quite an evolved and customised one.
As has been said you have all options available to you really as to which is the best one to take I’m not to sure, I think it’s fair to say the most work would be to activate BP on the primary root blog, creating a secondary blog would be an easier option but I’m tending to think that a physical subdomain i.e community.real-whitby the easier route along with user blogs as folders, community.real-whitby/glensblog.
I’m not entirely sure of the best approach, you’ll probably need to experiment on a localhost test install to get a feel for the amount of work required and how the various options work in practice.
Installation on a different site today – worked – but didn’t work.
SiteURL: http://www.technologyquestions.com
/news <— wordpress install here
WordPress 3.0.1
BuddyPress: Tried 1.2.5 and latest branch 1.2.6
Challenge #1
The activity stream does not load. In attempt to see if there were problems, a define in the bp-custom.php was created to rename the location. The stream still fails to load. The activity stream for a profile does work.
Stream location: http://www.technologyquestions.com/techstream <– fails and loads members directory
Personal stream: http://www.technologyquestions.com/members/lph/techstream/ <— works
Challenge #2
Group creation fails.
http://www.technologyquestions.com/teams/ <— teams loads but "create a group" fails
This is a Thesis child theme based on instructions: http://www.kristarella.com/2010/10/wordpress-child-themes-and-thesis/
Any thoughts on how to trouble shoot these two challenges?
Hi There, please see the above post. The root is real-whitby.co.uk. Instead of the forum thats already in place I want to have a community attached to that main site, with blogs, groups, and a forum. Any thoughts or pointers of the best way forward are greatly appreciated.
@whitbyglennk installing BP at the root is the ideal scenario. However, it can be installed in a secondary blog of installation as well. Rephrasing @LPH2005‘s question earlier, what do you have at the root of your public folder that you cannot install WP 3.0.1/BP at root?
Thanks for the info so far. I currently have a site about my home town. Its a news and topical debate site real-whitby.co.uk I would like to try create a community section of that site and felt the subdomain would be the best place ? But obviosuly im willing to listen to you guys if you think thats a bad move.
Personally not downloaded a zip as I use SVN to grab the branch, but if you don’t have a folder after unzipping called ‘buddypress’ then yes you’ll have to rename it, it’s one of those suck it and see questions reallly.
Yes, you can install WP 3.0.1 in physical subdomain and go multisite in subdirectory mode. See BuddyPress configurations available here:
https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/before-installing/#bp-config
WP 3.0.1 would be the best install with BuddyPress 1.2.6 (released this coming weekend).
But before walking through too much detail, is there a reason you want BuddyPress on a subdomain? Is WordPress installed on the main domain?
Now, it is possible to install BP and have members create blogs using subdomains .. but maybe you have a different purpose for putting the whole community on the subdomain .. which is also possible.
There are a growing number of great themes for BuddyPress:
http://premium.wpmudev.org/project/buddypress-magazine-theme
http://bp-tricks.com/
Also, you can take any WP theme and modify it to match the community by using the template pack.
I have a few questions that seem not to fit any particular category. If the site mods move the post would they please leave me a forwarder so I knbow where to look on my return.
I am keen to use buddy press in a subdomain of an existing site. I would like to create an online community using buddypress. I would like to allow users to set up their own blogs as well as well as use the functions of buddy press. Do I need to install wordpress MU in the subdomain first or is wordpress mu now redundant ?
Also can anyone recommend a good magazine / cms theme for use with buddy press, or a theme that showcases a lot of content on the home/landing page.
Many thanks for your time and patience with me.
@boonebgorges Can you point me to the dev plan for buddypress – where it is planning on going for the next few versions kind of thing, I remember seeing that around at some point.
Gratitude Boone! (Or for that matter anyone else who can answer my questions..
Hi there I’m not currently a buddypress user and need to ask a few questions about available functionality before jumping in. I work in web support for an academic department and one of the projects we are involved in deals with a large email list which we were considering changing over to a private community format. the current administrator of the list collects statistics on list members as the board of the research project find it useful. So anyway on to the actual questions.
Is it easy to add custom fields (tickboxes) to the signup form and automatically add new members to specific groups according to the boxes they tick?
Is there any statistic reporting that would allow an admin to see how many members of each group we have, how many members in each country, how many members from each university, etc?
The academic in charge requires this functionality or using buddypress is a no go and well have to go the joomla, drupal or aMember route. Id prefer to use buddypress if possible as I’m a bit of a wordpress evangelist in the university and would like to get a great example of an academic community in buddypress out there for my peers to see.
Sorry for wittering on so much, Cheers
@pcwriter –
Is this in a child theme from bp-default?
Have you checked the file path is correct to your custom.css file? Do an inspect element in your browser and check the path bloginfo is generating – is it the one you expect?
Also, not sure what you mean by it “it defaults to bp-default/_inc/css/default” … is this a child theme, or have you just tried modifying style.css in the bp-default theme itself?
If you have made a child theme, and followed the standard bp css structure – then style.css will include the default.css in your child theme’s _inc/css folder – not to the default.css in the bp-default theme.
If you clarify these questions, it might help explain which css files are actually being used.
two things first please,
One: topic titles need to be descriptive of the issue, not a genaralised plea for help, we know you want help otherwise you likely wouldn’t have posted
Two: Please refrain from writing in caps, writing in capitals in lists and forums means that you are shouting, we would rather you didn’t shout at us.
Some useful reading on how to do things the right way on forums:
http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
As for turning that code into a widget have you considered approaching the plugin author? perhaps a small donation might help things along? After plugins are not really free, that’s a popular misconception they are very costly in development and testing terms.
I’m having this issue as well. I am using WPMU and I have selected “user accounts may be registered” in the Super Admin > Options > Allow users to register section. Still no go. I’ve tried all of the options that allow users to register but stil nothing. The register link just goes back to the main blog.
Any suggestions?
My answers to the questions:
1. Which version of WP/MU are you running? WP 3.01
2. Did you install WP/MU as a directory or subdomain install? subdomain (http://yourwebsite.com/blog)
3. If a directory install, is it in root or in a subdirectory? root
4. Did you upgraded from a previous version of WP/MU? No, it’s a new install. Was previously a single WP and I used the “Enable Multi-Site” plugin.
5. Was WP/MU functioning properly before installing/upgrading BuddyPress (BP)? e.g. permalinks, creating a new post, commenting. Yes
6. Which version of BP are you running? 1.2.5.2
7. Did you upgraded from a previous version of BP? If so, from which version? No, it’s also a brand new install.
8. Do you have any plugins other than BuddyPress installed and activated? If so, which ones? Yes, Akismet; BuddyPress template pack; Embedded Video; Enable Multi-Site; Exec-PHP; FeedBurner FeedSmith; FeedSnap; Full Text Feed; If You Liked That; In Series; MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer; Sociable; Wp.com Stats; WP-Page Navi; and WP-Project;
9. Are you using the standard BuddyPress themes or customized themes? I am using the Twenty Ten Theme through the BuddyPress Template Pack plugin that allows you to use any theme with BP.
10. Have you modified the core files in any way? No
11. Do you have any custom functions in bp-custom.php? No
12. If running bbPress, which version? Or did your BuddyPress install come with a copy of bbPress built-in? Not running
13. Please provide a list of any errors in your server’s log files. Nobody can register. The registration link just goes back to the main blog.
14. Which company provides your hosting? Bluehost
15. Is your server running Windows, or if Linux; Apache, nginx or something else? Linux and Apache
Here’s the Info you need:
Thank you Paul for responding but answer the questions in detail here:
1. Which version of WP/MU are you running? Answer: WP 3.01
2. Did you install WP/MU as a directory or subdomain install? Answer: Using it on my main domain
3. If a directory install, is it in root or in a subdirectory?
4. Did you upgraded from a previous version of WP/MU? If so, from which version? Answer: when it says upgrade I click that. So I guess it supdated.
5. Was WP/MU functioning properly before installing/upgrading BuddyPress (BP)? e.g. permalinks, creating a new post, commenting. Answer: Yes
6. Which version of BP are you running? Answer: It says..Buddy press 1.2.5.2
7. Did you upgraded from a previous version of BP? If so, from which version? Answer: Every time it says update I always click that…So maybe..??
8. Do you have any plugins other than BuddyPress installed and activated? If so, which ones? Answer: Buddy press 1.2.5.2, Live journey importer, akismet, fast secure contact form 0.2, OPML Importer 0.2, Post video player slideshow and photo gallery 1.79, Rss Importer, simple social sharing widgets and incons 0.2, Word Press Importer version 0.2 and WP Touch 1.9.19.1
9. Are you using the standard BuddyPress themes or customized themes? Answer: Standard
10. Have you modified the core files in any way? Answer: I don’t think so…Didn’t touch anything…Just beginning to do this…
11. Do you have any custom functions in bp-custom.php? Answer: I don’t think so
12. If running bbPress, which version? Or did your BuddyPress install come with a copy of bbPress built-in? Answer: Using Hostmonster.com is my web host part of their menu control panel comes with concrete5 and under concrete5 I installed buddy press…Then that’s all I did
13. Please provide a list of any errors in your server’s log files. Answer: The only problem I’m having is nobody can “create an account” or cannot register…And of course no email was sent for verification and account is obviously not created..
14. Which company provides your hosting? Hostmonster.com
15. Is your server running Windows, or if Linux; Apache, nginx or something else? My server is running? I’m using century link previously Sprint…Mozilla fox and Explorer…Windows XP
So I guess I answered all the questions…That’s all I did…And can’t create an account…I did it to test the application…Now go to my website hostpugs.com create an account and see what’s going on…my email: whiteflower12004@yahoo.com….Thank you!
@lph2005
Thanks for All the suggestions Cube Points seems to have all I need for now but I have a couple of questions about it, if anyone knows how to solve it:
Anyway here is a couple of questions:
1. Is there anyway to add a text popup or something that says “Congratulations you just earned x points!” (like Yahoo Answers)
2. I want to format ever users profile page like this: http://avatarthelastairbenderonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Profile.jpg As you can see I’m probably going to need a list of Template Tags, Like the points which should be like you mentioned, and I’ll also need to find the code to display their rank and possibly rank image.
3. This might be off topic, but how would I detect whether or not the user is a moderator on any forum on the profile page so I can display an image identifying them as a moderator?
4. I also want to display the users stats in the Forum Posts, and on the sidebar in their User Control Panel (A Custom area I made once a user logs in:) see here for an example of how I am trying to get the forum topic to look: http://avatarthelastairbenderonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Forum-Topic.jpg
Has anyone tried that kind of thing.
Any suggestions or tips would be appreciated.
yeah, your lengthly response the other day was a little over my head. It’s the standard buddypress default style. My problem is with knowing specifically where to make the change. Where specifically. In the CSS file? In the Header File? If in the CSS (as I assume) where do you see width:90%? And what min/max widths should I delete?
Sorry for the questions…Thanks for the answers
@Travel-Junkie, looks like a great plugin.
I have some question:
I need the possibility to attach an event with a group.
If the group is a private hidden group, the events attached to this group should be visible only to the group members.
Does the group events work also with hidden groups? and will the hidden event be visible for group members in the event calender view?
Also I need the possibility, to restrict an event to n attenders. So if for example max attenders == 3, after the 3 attender, the registration need to be closed.
I would be grateful if you could answer me my questions thanks ;-Sven
Excellent… I was just looking at this as an alternative to the CD Bubble Plugin. (Which I like, but hasn’t been updated in a while)… I will try this… and might post some questions as we go along…
Hi guys,
I would like to let everyone know that the demo is now available here: http://bp-tricks.com/demo/
If you have any pre-sale questions you can ask them here: http://bp-tricks.com/themes/pre-sales-questions/forum/,
It’s what they call a soft launch, the actual Tips and Tricks community is launching as soon as possible You can start submitting your Tricks if you want on http://bp-tricks.com/submit-a-trick.
That’s it for now
Hello Roger, at the company where I work are asking me to do a development similar to your questions …. and you develop something?, suddenly you develop a plugin?
Thank you very much!!!
Thank you Paul for responding but answer the questions in detail here:
1. Which version of WP/MU are you running? Answer: WP 3.01
2. Did you install WP/MU as a directory or subdomain install? Answer: Using it on my main domain
3. If a directory install, is it in root or in a subdirectory?
4. Did you upgraded from a previous version of WP/MU? If so, from which version? Answer: when it says upgrade I click that. So I guess it supdated.
5. Was WP/MU functioning properly before installing/upgrading BuddyPress (BP)? e.g. permalinks, creating a new post, commenting. Answer: Yes
6. Which version of BP are you running? Answer: It says..Buddy press 1.2.5.2
7. Did you upgraded from a previous version of BP? If so, from which version? Answer: Every time it says update I always click that…So maybe..??
8. Do you have any plugins other than BuddyPress installed and activated? If so, which ones? Answer: Buddy press 1.2.5.2, Live journey importer, akismet, fast secure contact form 0.2, OPML Importer 0.2, Post video player slideshow and photo gallery 1.79, Rss Importer, simple social sharing widgets and incons 0.2, Word Press Importer version 0.2 and WP Touch 1.9.19.1
9. Are you using the standard BuddyPress themes or customized themes? Answer: Standard
10. Have you modified the core files in any way? Answer: I don’t think so…Didn’t touch anything…Just beginning to do this…
11. Do you have any custom functions in bp-custom.php? Answer: I don’t think so
12. If running bbPress, which version? Or did your BuddyPress install come with a copy of bbPress built-in? Answer: Using Hostmonster.com is my web host part of their menu control panel comes with concrete5 and under concrete5 I installed buddy press…Then that’s all I did
13. Please provide a list of any errors in your server’s log files. Answer: The only problem I’m having is nobody can “create an account” or cannot register…And of course no email was sent for verification and account is obviously not created..
14. Which company provides your hosting? Hostmonster.com
15. Is your server running Windows, or if Linux; Apache, nginx or something else? My server is running? I’m using century link previously Sprint…Mozilla fox and Explorer…Windows XP
So I guess I answered all the questions…That’s all I did…And can’t create an account…I did it to test the application…Now go to my website hostpugs.com create an account and see what’s going on…my email: whiteflower12004@yahoo.com….Thank you!
