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Glad to hear you resolved everything. I too had no problem adding the BuddyPress features to another theme.

You may need to install WPMU and BuddyPress in the root, not in a directory.

@gpo1 using a custom theme works just fine now. Your bp admin bar shows up even using that alternate theme. Give it a try.

scotm, I like your site are you using the modify buddypress home theme ?

Because I want to use a custom theme,but I want the login task bar & sign-up features on the custome theme.

So, How can I do this on a custom theme?

In terms of privacy of seeing profiles, this is coming in a later version by default, but for now, you can do what I proposed at the following:

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=160

It just makes the entire buddypress-member theme from being no viewable by anyone but logged in members. The buddypress-home theme still is available for signups though.

Trent

I just deleted the subdomains that were created with the old system. Then I just put the following in my wp-config.php for WPMU:

define( 'NOBLOGREDIRECT', 'http://mydomain.com' );

That of course needs to be changed to your domain. What that does is take any random requests (in this case old reference requests) and sends them back to my main domain page. This also makes it so you don’t get the fancy signup page for random domains you are trying to register through the address and have to do it through your wp-signup.php page.

Since most registration works better for me through the main buddypress theme signup page, this change didn’t bother me at all. Plus it stopped all the requests giving errors or “signup pages” that came from the old URL’s.

Something to think about…

Trent

Hi again.

First, one important thing. In the first post I said that the left sidebar does not show anything at all. That is wrong. It shows “Who’s Online,” even if I have just 1 or 30 different widgets enabled in the administration-area.

When I remove the “Recent Blog Posts” widget from the center sidebar, then everything apperas as it should in the left sidebar.

I am using the latest versjon of WPMU, witch would be 2.6.3, and I am using the latest versjon of trunk.

The only changes I made to the theme, was chaning the site logo, witch originally say Buddypress.

I did install Buddypress a couple of days after WPMU was installed, but I can’t seem to understand that that would have anything to do with this Widget.

The problem occurs only when I am using the “Recent Blog Posts” widget in the center sidebar. You can see it all live on this test-site.:

http://nettby.us

If anyone har the opportunity to check if this is happening in your Buddypress-installation as well, that would be great.

The sitewide activity, members, and groups are all widgets which would simply needed to be added to your sidebar. Other than that its as simple as installing BuddyPress and your main site will be maintained while the profiles will assume the new theme.

If you’d like to see a more custom example, check out MMAFrenzy.com where I integrated the profiles into my own design but for basic functionality and maintaining your own theme its just a basic install.

Hope that helps, feel free to ask any questions so I can hopefully clear them up for you.

Haven’t run into this but are you using the latest trunk, what version of WPMU are you using, did you make any changes to the theme? Again, I haven’t encountered this but the more details you can provide the easier it’ll be to find a solution.

Thanks for the tip!

Yesterday I reinstalled for what I had hoped was to be the last time (at least for a little while) worpressmu and buddypress using the subdirectory rather than subdomain option for new blogs. My plan was to simply create a news blog, since that works (as noted by chriscarter) — it isn’t as elegant because you can’t use the buddypress home theme (unless you want whole new buddypress blog with its own useres, etc.). Nevertheless, it works.

I just checked with bluehost, and they told me that I cannot use the subdomain option on bluehost. Maybe that simply means I need to modify the database DNS wildcard, but for the moment I am sticking with subdirectories for blogs and a new news blog — and hoping I can find a way to fiddle with the appropriate php code in buddypress wpmu.

Please feel free to check out the site, just realize its very alpha and could be much beta ; ) — http://whiteblackthepenguin.net/

@wardeh, I’m sorry, confirm? I’m running the latest from svn (r547 till I update this eve). I’m thinkin’ that the people in this thread are having probs ’cause of wpmu configs that bp just don’t like. I’m not a wpmu or linux guru and I try to stick to what works well for others. I’d rather spend my time making themes do what I want them to do and building a site. Got enough problems in that area.

Sorry, not getting where buddyPress is installed and how you have wpmu configured. There are some options for installing wpmu first of all. It can be installed in the document root or in a subdir. Originally wpmu had to be installed in the doc root for bp to work. I heard a rumor that bp now works with wpmu installed in a subdir of the apache root. True? I don’t know. That’s the first option.

Second option is you can run wpmu with subdomains or subdirectories. You can have your URIs look like whatablog.mysite.org or mysite.org/whatablog.

@CriticalTodd it looks like you installed bp in a subdir off the doc root called ../bp is that correct? bp is installed in the wpmu /wp-content/mu-plugins dir. I’m kinda confused.

Here’s my setup that works:

1) wpmu is installed using subdomains not subdirectories in the apache document root

/var/www/mydedicatedvirtualsite.org/httpdocs/(allsortsofwpmudirsandfiles)

mysite.org launches wpmu

2) buddyPress is installed in the /wp-content/mu-plugins directory

/var/www/mydedicatedvirualsite.org/httpdocs/wp-content/mu-plugins/(lotsofbuddypress)

3) buddyPress themes get put in /wp-content/themes

/var/www/mydedicatedvirualsite.org/httpdocs/wp-content/themes/buddypress-home

/var/www/mydedicatedvirualsite.org/httpdocs/wp-content/themes/buddypress-member

However you have wpmu configured when it comes to subdomains or subdirs for creating member blogs, bp goes in ../wp-content/mu-plugins and ../wp-content/themes

How do you have your site configured?

There isn’t any need to change the permalink structure of your blog. BP hijacks lots of URIs so that no .htaccess regex magic is needed to run BP. Normally the URI mysite.org/ gets index.php and your recent blog posts. That’s what most themes do. BP home theme ain’t a normal theme. BP home theme serves as the home/root of a community of blogs in wpmu. I’m still gonna want to post to the home blog for homey, groupy type stuff. Maybe I wanna make those things sticky for awhile. Whatever.

BP does some magic URI hijacking to avoid .htaccess mods. Correct me if I’m wrong Andy but if I remember correctly, browsing the code, I saw BP doing some registering of URIs such as ‘/news’ that gets caught by some code in bp-catchuri.php. BP looks at the URI first and if it’s something it wants to pay attention to then it snags it. Otherwise it just passes it on to wpmu.

‘/news’ is one of them there things. I have the root blog running just stock out of the wpmu box and it works as I intend it to and BP seems happy also. It’s confusing I know. Maybe Andy can gen a list of all hijacked URI patterns to clarify things?

Jeez. I hope *I’m* understanding this correctly.

To accomplish that, yu have to change the style sheet from the “buddypress” theme CSS (style.css), of course if you are using it for the home theme.

And remember that when you access to a member option, the theme used is the “buddypress-member” look 4 the style.css on the folder and make the changes too, i did so to have a correspondence between site colors.

I play with the tarski theme and the way Ben does it is to use the wp filter mechanism. He builds up the stylesheets and javascript libs that are used and then calls apply_filters to trigger them. This allows for backend admin selection of any custom css files. (Anything in a specific dir gets backend admin selection). If I want to create a custom style sheet I create it and plunk it into the ../styles dir.

His entire header.php really doesn’t have any html in it at all. Just a function call. It’s a pain to try and track down one little thing in his theme but it makes it flexible.

You people are talking about the ‘News’ on the bp home page? That just shows the root blog’s posts. It’s the same as running any theme. Normal themes just show the most recent posts. X number of them. The ‘News’ link does the same.

Yes, you need to post to the root blog if you want anything to show up there. No permalink changes should be needed.