BuddyPress.org

Andy’s mentioned that he will release some of his tricks eventually, but for now his main focus is readying BP for the 1.0 release.

You can piece a lot of this theme apart by staring at the CSS for a while. (It’s mostly just a lot of background images.)

If I was going to use WordPress and bbPress as past examples, no, and don’t bet that it will be anytime soon.

Someone may make a replica, but usually the *Press public themes aren’t available for public use.

The only potential draw back with that method Erwin, is that it adds the link at the end of the assembled navigation instead of giving you total control over it.

Something to think about, is that BuddyPress really does allow for per-theme blog setups.

The difference between:

http://delsolownersclub.com/

and

http://delsolownersclub.com/news/

and

http://delsolownersclub.com/mafdark/

Are all just smoke and mirrors with different themes.

You could really make any ‘blog’ of your website do whatever you want it to do, just like how the BuddyPress Codex is really just another blog.

Morpheus: “Do you think that’s air you’re breathing now?”

This is how I did it.

I modified header.php in the buddypress theme AND the member theme.

There is probably a better way since the forums location is included as part of the integration, however it works, and you can use this principle to include a hard coded link to anywhere.

Find the bit of code that starts <div id="header">

The first bit is the routine to run the blogs page, the second opens up bbPress in a seperate tab.

`<?php if ( function_exists( ‘bp_blogs_install’ ) ) { ?>

<li<?php if ( bp_is_page( BP_BLOGS_SLUG ) ) {?> class=”selected”<?php } ?>><a href=”<?php echo get_option(‘home’) ?>/<?php echo BP_BLOGS_SLUG ?>” title=”<?php _e( ‘Blogs’, ‘buddypress’ ) ?>”><?php _e( ‘Blogs’, ‘buddypress’ ) ?></a></li>

<?php } ?>

<li><a href=”http://www.mypartyonparty.biz/forums&#8221; target=”_blank” title=”<?php _e( ‘Support’, ‘buddypress’ ) ?>”><?php _e( ‘Support’, ‘buddypress’ ) ?></a></li>

<?php do_action( ‘bp_nav_items’ ); ?>`

What I’d like to do is present the forums in the same way that is done on here (BuddyPress.org, ) that just needs a bit of thinking about…

Hope that helps

Well, it seems like you have an issue, alright. Let’s go down the list once again:

1. You’re working with a current trunk of both WPMU 2.7.1_beta1 (current: r1725) and BuddyPress 1.0_RC2 (current: r1324)
2. You’re using an old copy of wp-config.php which you updated as appropriate. In other words, you did not use the wp-config-sample.php that came with WPMU 2.7.1.
3. You did a clean install of WPMU 2.7.1_beta1 by deleting everything, except your updated version of wp-config.php, and then uploaded the unzipped Mu files
4. You then launched WPMU’s admin screen. That worked with out any problems.
5. You then went to Site Admin > Upgrade and finished the upgrade
6. You logged out of WPMU
7. Next, you installed BuddyPress by:

• moving the contents of the unzipped BuddyPress 1.0_RC2 (r1324) to the WPMU plugins directory into a subdirectory called /buddypress/
• moving the /bp-themes/ directory out of the /buddypress/ directory
• placing the various themes in their proper locations

8. You then logged back into WPMU and got a blank screen

A few follow up questions:

9. You’ve enabled error reporting as detailed above by John and Burt and after step 8 above, there are absolutely no errors being reported of any kind.

A few thoughts:

• Since this seems to be a test install and you do not have any content that needs saving, I would delete everything once again.
• This also means deleting your MySQL table that you’ve been using for this attempt and starting with a brand new database.
• I would then download the latest trunks of both WPMU and BuddyPress once again–>get rid of the old ones first.
• I would then use the wp-config-sample.php file that comes with the latest WPMU trunk and configure as necessary
• IMPORTANT: I believe when I downloaded the WPMU trunk (r1722) and looked at the wp-config-sample.php file, it had a trailing space after the closing php tag. You need to delete this!
• Now, go through steps 1 through 7 again and let’s hope when you get to step 8 it works!

As i didnt like the orange colors in BuddyPress, i did a slightly little make over …

http://wordpress-blog.nl

And yes .. I did integrate bbPress in the current theme with a few minor steps

Not necessary to open a second topic.

You can add your link to this post if you’d like.

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=185

We appreciate your contributions, but you’re going against the grain here.

I am also interested in this question.

Thankfully for us both, this isn’t a debate.

For various reasons related to our WordPress trademark, we ask if you’re going to start a site about WordPress or related to it that you not use “WordPress” in the domain name. Try using “wp” instead, or another variation. We’re not lawyers, but very good ones tell us we have to do this to preserve our trademark. Also many users have told us they find it confusing.

If you already have a domain with “WordPress” in it, redirecting it to the “wp” equivalent is fine, just as long as the main one users see and you promote doesn’t contain “WordPress.”

“WordPress” in sub-domains is fine, like wordpress.example.com, we’re just concerned about top-level domains.

We’ve told this to anyone who has ever asked us, we just wanted to make it public so more people could be aware of this policy.

I applaud your efforts, and hope your intention is at least to make the theme available publically.

I’m keeping this topic open for now, but it’s on my watch list because it’s already breaking some rules. If it gets too rowdy in here I’m locking it up.

May want to read this…

Domain Policy

Same goes with WordPress as well.

In response, good job modifying the theme colors. In my opinion the forums could still use some work (margins on the sides need 20px), and the missing BuddyBar at the top urks me.

Also, and this may be a repeat suggestion, but when upgrading, you’re going to want to BACKUP and DELETE the old files, all of them EXCEPT your wp-config.php file. That file you do NOT delete and keep where it belongs.

1. Upload WPMU, visit wp-admin, and make sure it’s running the way it should be.

2. Upload BuddyPress per the install instructions, visit wp-admin, make sure it’s running the way it should be.

3. Reinstall plugins and custom themes.

The reason for the delete is because of all the file locations and names that have changed around since RC1. If you have copies of old files lying around, say in mu-plugins, etc… That will gum things up too.

We’re working in the dark here Michael. What is your installation config like? subdomain or subdirectory? Windows, Mac or Linux? Shared or dedicated hosting?

You have the latest mu 2.7.1 branch and the latest bp trunk installed correctly

You have deleted bp completely from /mu-plugins and installed it in /plugins/buddypress

You have your member theme in /wp-content/bp-themes

You have activated sitewide the buddypress plugin

Your wpmu install works perfectly. You can create new blogs and post to them.

You do not have *any* other plugins running at all.

After all the above is ‘yes’ you get a white screen when visting any url in bp or wpmu? You have to be getting errors. Make sure that your php.ini file is configured to report errors and you are looking where it’s reporting.

Is this the same host as the bp install that is working?

Are you using a custom theme?

If this occurs with the standard theme, then the error is probably because you have installed the BP themes incorrectly.

I came here because I want such a theme but a stable core, or a one click mu/bbpress/bp install is my first choice. Go for it!

I’am currently working on a matching bbPress theme for BuddyPress … But, it only fit my (tweaked) theme for BuddyPress

The forum is up and running, but the theme is still in development

The color scheme i use can be seen over here:

http://wordpress-blog.nl