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I’ve been testing the beta and I must say it’s great. The installation of the forum is just amazing. One click and it was done and working like a charm – WOW.

Everything works fine except one tiny little problem which I don’t think is a bug. I am just wondering if anybody else had the same problem.

All the main buttons (blog, members, groups, forums and blogs) take me to a 404 page “Page Not Found”. Everything else works fine. I can go to profiles, groups, group forum etc. without a problem. The links on the buttons look fine, just what I would expect them to be.

My setup:

fresh install of WPMU 2.8.4a

fresh install of bp 1.1 beta

fresh install of bbpress 1.0.2

using out of the box bp theme

It’s running on my local machine with xampp. Htaccess file is in place and url rewriting is working fine. Themes (bp-default and bp-sn-parent are in the themes directory and only the bp-default is activated.

Any ideas???

Thanks

P.S. Thank you everyone who contributed to 1.1beta release. You did an awesome job.

With 1.1, how do I change the H1 text to an img? I want to add my logo to the default theme – I guess via the custom.css file?

@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.

Aye, depends on what shape bag you’re looking to use:)

Or with BuddyPress1.1, inherit them from a parent theme, and CSS your way out of that bag.

With BuddyPress1.1, you can also recreate a custom registration page to include only the fields you specifically want them to have on sign-up, put it in your child theme, and let it do the dirty work.

Create a child theme, you have a lot more control and your theme will update when the parent updates. Ignore the skeleton theme it no longer takes advantage of the new things in 1.1

Your other option is to duplicate bp-sn-parent, but this should only be done if you are changing most of the template files and your design cannot be achieved by CSS changes alone.

If you are getting DB errors you must clear these up before reporting anything else.

@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?

Yes. But any wordpress theme used on a buddypress site will have to include extra files that come with the BP theme. I.e copy them.

Maybe an idea here; in the Theme Options, it says this :

The template files are located in /themes/bp-sn-parent/groups. The stylesheet files are located in /themes/bp-default.

@John James Jacoby – is it ready what you described here 3 months ago?

I am searching for solution to make buddypress multilingual, but only in interface: theme and admin area should has multi language texts. ost dont have to be translated.

Just something like is at wordpress.com: user register and choose language. Then he see all interface in local language, write in any language he want.

Hi !

Seems to have good new functionnalities !

I have one problem though :

I use a fresh install (WPMU 2.8.4 + BuddyPress 1.1 Beta); no plugins;

I moved /bp-default and /bp-sn-parent to /themes;

and I get

Not Found

The requested URL …./wordpress-mu/blog was not found on this server.

Then I did copy my old .htaccess file to the fresh WPMU installation; and now I have

Page Not Found

The page you were looking for was not found.

What is the problem ?

For Buddypress 1.1 will there be a skeleton parent theme, or am I stuck with using the default parent theme and modifying that, then I might as well just create a child theme?

I have downloaded the bleeding edge 1.1 from trac and updated mysite. I am busy with a custom theme for my site and I would like to start with a skeleton theme. However I don’t mind hacking the default one if thats best. I am a bit new to developing WPMU themes although I have done themes for Joomla and hacked a couple of normal WP themes.

Yes

In one word: no.

In BP 1.1, themes will work more like regular wordpress themes. I suggest you wait until then or develop your custom theme from a development version.

1. Which version of WPMU are you running?

.wpmu 2.8.4

2. Did you install WPMU as a directory or subdomain install?

installed as directory

3. If a directory install, is it in root or in a subdirectory?

its a root directory

4. Did you upgraded from a previous version of WPMU? If so, from which version?

fresh installation from scratch

5. Was WPMU functioning properly before installing/upgrading BuddyPress?

yes it is

6. Which version of BuddyPress (BP) are you running?

version 1.0.3

7. Did you upgraded from a previous version of BP? If so, from which version?

its a fresh installation

8. Do you have any plugins other than BuddyPress installed and activated?

members only plugin

9. Are you using the standard BuddyPress themes or customized themes?

its the standard theme

10. Have you modified the core files in any way?

have never touched the core files

11. Do you have any custom functions in bp-custom.php?

nope

12. If running bbPress, which version?

hvnt install bbpress

13. Please provide a list of any errors in your server’s log files.

there isnt any

No, not for now. FTP client the way to go. v1.1. soon.

if you wait until v1.1 comes out you will be able to edit it in the same folder.