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Actually I disagree. I would suggest looking at Kaltura for video, and I think there is another media plugin that handles video and images although I haven’t experimented with either, I think that BP-albums is being updated to handle other types of media. If you can wait there is a very interesting plugin being developed as a Google Summer of Code project that will turn a WordPress / Buddypress install into an LMS, it has some interesting features and looks to be very extendable. I expect it will be like Buddypress itself and spawn a series of additional plugins that enhance its features. Have a look at it at:
http://sushkov.wordpress.com/

Existing LMS systems do have a lot of pluses, but many are either difficult to customize and quite rigid (Moodle comes to mind) or very difficult to install and configure (Sakai project for example). That said, it may be easier to get a quick system up and running and your intended audience should reflect your choice of system as well. I find that most systems are aimed at older students (high school or university and beyond) and so do not fit what I hope to do with a learning system.

Hope this helps a little. All the best.

Same situation here. When I tried to access the example.com/blogs I got redirected to the mainpage. I read here that the solution is to create a network then when I created one the blogs appeared but all members where member to the base installed blog which is your wordpress site prior to the installment of BP. If a solution could just be pass regarding this…someone????

@wandilly, Did you get your problem resolved yet? If not, I’d be glad to help do detective work on it. I’d need a login though, so if you feel comfortable giving me access, you’d want to share that by private email. You can contact me at marian@heartwoodwebdesign.com.

Marian

Is that ‘Line 4’ custom? I don’t see it in a functions file for a 1.2.5.2 I’ve just test upgraded.

Generally – and it’s not advise necessarily to follow – I have never had an issue with upgrading the WP portion of a site and don’t tend to bother deactivating any plugins; I do though take a backup, ALLWAYS, on production sites prior to proceeding.

If you didn’t disable BuddyPress (and all other plugins) before upgrading WordPress, this might be a weird artifact, though it should usually clear after a page refresh. So… have you disabled the Groups component?

Also have the same problem with my local installation.

1) Installed WordPress: Worked
2) Got Buddypress as a plugin.
3) Got a message, that the .htaccess could not be changed due to missing permissions, so changed the permissions, then no error message appears
4) Choosed the Buddypress default theme
5) Choosed the permalink options

= I also get tese 404 error messages (for example /wordpress/activity/)

Jet QuickPress is a plugin from Jettochkin based on my first plugin ‘BuddyPress Quickpress’.
One Quick Post is the ‘new version’ of BuddyPress Quickpress; the difference is that the plugin works for WordPress too (without BuddyPress), and has been improved.

As OQP (one quick post) is used to “power” my main plugin Your Classified Ads; you can be sure i will still update it .

“Q1: Should we use WordPress or WordPressMU with BuddyPress?”

WPMU is now rolled in to single WP and called a Network of multiple sites, sometimes called multisite. You only need to enable it if you want multiple blogs(sites).

“Q2: Since we plan to launch “multiple social network websites” using BuddyPress, which one is better for our situation and why?”

If you have one install with multiple blogs, right now you can only install one instance of BuddyPress. It will show up on all the member sites, but share all the userbase.

“Q3: Will all sites be linked together if we use WordPressMU with buddyPress?”

I think I just answered this. Yes.

“Q4: Will using WordPressMU makes it easy to manage all sites?”

It’s one codebase, so yes.

“Q5: Will using WordPressMU allow us to de-link individual sites later and transfer to other people on different hosts or will it be a problem if we use MU?”

THe individual sites you can just use the Export menu to get all the posts.

The buddypress parts can’t be exported that way.

“Q6: What else should we consider when making the decision between WordPress and WordPressMU to use with BuddyPress for multiple sites?”

If you need multiple sites or not and if you want the userbase separate, and how likely you’ll need the buddypress parts moved to a different site.

“Q7: Will it be better just to use WPMU or WP with BuddyPress only for “one” site per account?”

Again, it depends on what you ultimately want. The network of sites are individual on one codebase. Buddypress affects the whole network.

That’s a fairly low-level error with the database object not being available; that is, of course, WordPress territory. If you deactivate your “backup program”, is this fixed?

Because it is assumed that before one installs BuddyPress, one would already have a working knowledge of WordPress basics In any case, you can always add the “Meta Widget” to your sidebar and you have the link to admin. Or, if you might prefer a link to dashboard in bp admin bar – http://www.darcynorman.net/2009/11/13/modifying-the-buddypress-adminbar/

I have used the nginx settings described above but when I go to register an account it goes to the home page. To get to the register page i have to add index.php to get it to work. IE. http://url/index.php/register. http://url/register does not work. Is there something I am missing with nginx to get ride of the index.php. This also happens with the comments… but the comments at least show up.