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We don’t have sufficient information to provide any assistance. Please answer these questions:

1. Which version of WPMU are you running?
2. Did you upgraded from a previous version of WPMU, and if so, from which version and how?
3. Did you have WPMU functioning properly before installing and upgrading BuddyPress?
4. Which version of BuddyPress are you running?
5. Did you log in as site admin in WPMU’s backend and activate BuddyPress?
6. Do you have any plugins other than BuddyPress installed and activated?
7. Are you using the standard BuddyPress themes or custom themes?
8. Are there are errors in your server’s log files, and if so, what are they?

Okay, before we can assist further, we need more information. Please answer these questions:

1. You’re positive that you’re running WordPress Mu and not single-version WP?
2. Assuming the answer to number 1 is yes, then did you upgraded from a previous version of WPMU, and if so, from which version and how?
3. Did you have WPMU functioning properly before installing and upgrading BuddyPress?
4. Which version of BuddyPress are you running?
5. Did you log in as site admin in WPMU’s backend and activate BuddyPress?
6. Do you have any plugins other than BuddyPress installed and activated?
7. Are you using the standard BuddyPress themes or custom themes?
8. Are there are errors in your server’s log files, and if so, what are they?

Please search forum before asking questions; it’s in the FAQ sticky – https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=2190

“How to hide selected profile fields”

I just came across the customizing labels tutorial and have some questions (newbie alert!). 1) How do I run the command to make the mo file? Currently I access the server through FileZilla.

2) Is the bp-custom.php file something that I download or create?

3) The walkthrough says ‘This example uses mysite as the sample language definition; you’ll need to replace it with your own custom definition.’ What would be my custom definition? I am running BP 1.0 with default everything (hardly any changes yet). Do I need to worry about this or just use ‘mysite’?

I basically want to change the main blog ‘blog’ to news including the slugs and maybe the ‘blogs’ to ‘member blogs’

Thanks!

Thanks.

Evvscuba-

We have no idea what setup you’re running? Which version of WPMU, of BuddyPress? How did you install them? Did you upgrade WPMU? If so, from which version and how?

Also, please first visit and read the link I provided in the second post. If the suggestions there do not solve your problem, then answer my additional questions in the fourth post.

Okay, I’ve reread this thread for the second time. You state that:

The problem must be with the data; since a fresh install works perfectly and after the data gets imported, I get the nasty 404 bug.

Andy’s answer is:

This is normal with WPMU, you are not going to be able to transfer over blog tables as there are all sorts of URL settings in the DB.

I have a few questions based on this interchange:

1. Which version of MySQL are you (is your host) running?
2. Have you tried repairing the DB tables before reimport?
3. Are you moving your data between different domains?

Since WPMU 2.7.1 + BuddyPress 1.0 + standard themes work fine with a new, empty MySQL DB, the issue is, as you state, with the data. Either you have data corruption, indices that need reindexing, or hardcoded links within the tables that are causing the 404s.

If the domain mapping is not identical to the hardcoded links in your WPMU tables, you will have issues.

So, here’s what I’d suggest:

1. Backup your data again
2. Then, repair/reindex
3. Then, if your domain mapping is not identical, follow these instructions keeping in mind that these articles are for WP and not WPMU. You’ll have to adjust accordingly:

   • https://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL
   • https://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress

feature requests thread => https://buddypress.org/forums/forum.php?id=5

post requests there

1.) adding someone as a moderator is the same as admin pretty much

3.) BP is not currently setup to do this, one way to accomplish this though, instead of doing <?PHP if is admin?> to create groups, do <?PHP if user is level X ?> then you can manually select users and make them authors or contributors… then they would have the power to create groups. this would also give them power to create blog posts on the main blog, so you may not want them to have that power.

hopefully in the future, BP will have more control over giving users authority levels and what not…

4.) bp is not setup to do this either yet. you would need to modify the core to allow that content to be displayed to non-members

everything you want IS possible, but would require some modifications to the core of buddypress. and this is not suggested

1.) yes, the group admin can add other admin/moderator and ban users

2.) they need to join your group, then under group memebrs you can add them as an admin/moderator

3.) this is possible yes, I accomplished this by adding <?PHP if is admin ?> into the bp-core to hide the create group button from non-admins (your community will want the ability to add groups though)

4.) you can create “private groups” that are visible to everyone, but you can only join if you’re accepted…

why don’t you create a couple different types of groups, then you’ll see all the features/abilities they have

Alunsina-

Okay, a few questions then:

1. Do you have any plugins other than BuddyPress installed? If so, have you tried deactivating them?
2. Which version of PHP are you running?
3. Which version of the GD module?
4. Are there any errors in your error log? If so, what are they?

WillPCG-

Okay,a few more questions, just to be thorough:

1. Which version of PHP are you running?
2. Have you made any changes to the .htaccess file?
3. Did you even copy over the .htaccess file from the new WPMU package to your WPMU root?
4. Questions about upgrading WPMU:

   • Where you running WPMU 2.7.1-beta1 before upgrading?
   • If so, how did you upgrade to the public version of WPMU 2.7.1?
   • Did you add the one additional define line to WPMU’s wp-config.php file? If not, compare the 2.7.1 config file to your old one. This line is new:

     define('SITE_ID_CURRENT_SITE', 1);

   • To complete your WPMU upgrade, did you go to “Site Admin > Upgrade” and finished the process?

5. Are you running any plugins other than BuddyPress? If so, have you tried deactivating them?

1) posting this in another thread is not going to get anyone to answer your questions any sooner: in fact, the opposite is more likely.

2) some web developers, myself included, consider IE6 an unsupported browser due to its poor standards support. Consider upgrading to IE7 or 8, if you don’t want to switch to firefox.

3) IF this is a problem with the default themes, then once you resolve the issue please consider creating a patch and submitting it on trac.

Amyuk and Dworldon-

A few initial questions:

1. Are you logging into WPMU\’s backend as the site administrator, and not just as a user with administrator privileges?
2. Did you go to \”BuddyPress > General Settings\”, re-select the member theme, and then hit save? Do this even if the theme is already selected.
3. Are there any errors in your log files? If so, what are they?

You’ve posted this on another thread as well. wpmu forum is where you should ask these kind of questions.

WillPCG-

Okay a few additional questions:

1. Are you logging into WPMU’s backend as the site administrator, and not just as a user with administrator privileges?
2. You’ve mentioned 404 erros in your other thread. Are there any errors in your log files? If so, what are they?
3. Did you go to “BuddyPress > General Settings”, re-select the member theme, and then hit save? Do this even if the theme is already selected.

No questions will be answered without bp and wpmu versions being mentioned.

A few questions:

1. Are you using the public release of BuddyPress–version 1.0?
2. Are you using a custom theme?
3. Did you read the section entitled “Upgrading the Theme files” in this BuddyPress Codex link?

good job

To clarify for future questions around this area: did you have GD disabled, then you enabled it, and then you also had to re-upload the pics?

Or did you just re-upload the pics without making *any* changes?

Is the height parameter a must, or can you leave it like (800, )?

No. You cannot leave the parameter blank. You could pass a variable into the space if you wanted, but it must have something.

When I tried to remove one WPMU folder I got the error message

“500 Can’t Remove Directory. Permission denied”.

A few questions:

1. Have you checked the files / folder permission on your WPMU install? You should be able to delete everything that you personally upload to your public_html. Although, with shard hosting, there could be issues with apache owning certain files and folders.
2. Are you using an automatic WordPress Mu install option from your hosting company? I’m not sure if any hosting companies offer that option for WPMU, but it’s worth asking.

The answer I got was WPMU does something at the Apache level and that I can’t do much about it unless mine is a dedicated hosting service.

1. Have you contacted tech support for your hosting service provider and asked for their help? This WPMU forum post may prove useful in talking with tech support: https://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic.php?id=3173&replies=3#post-19388
2. Have you considered changing hosting companies or upgrading to a more robust hosting plan? A VPS perhaps?

WPMU really does not do too well on a cheap hosting plan. Here is sage advice from andrea_r, a WPMU guru: http://wpmututorials.com/news/choosing-a-host/

I have a new installation now.

I think the width problem is to be fixed elsewhere.

Please consider these:

As far as figuring out what’s going on with your CSS, this is where the Firebug tool comes in very handy! It takes awhile to learn how to use it. But once you do, you can determine where a given div or class is pulling its instructions from and then temporarily override those selector parameters within Firebug and see how that affects the overall layout. It is a very powerful and useful tool!

Concerning CSS issues with IE6: my personal opinion is to not worry about supporting that browser anymore. It is just a big pain and too much work for too little return–less than 20% usage ( http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp ). Again, that is just my opinion.