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I found that there were a few spots that I needed to change mem limit to import but ok. I used this tutorial to import my install. you have to remember that you’re not importing into Buddypress, you’re importing into wordpress or wordpress MU. Buddypress is just a plugin, not a platform. It ADDS the social features to your wordpress installation.

http://welcome.totheinter.net/2008/10/04/how-to-migrate-from-wordpress-to-wordpress-mu/

an alternative method if you can’t increase your php memory limit is to grab this plugin and then import/export in chunks by date range.

Sorry. I’m frustrated beyond belief at the moment. Deadline tomorrow. Broken site.

Question

Does the change mentioned in this thread remove support from the WordPress template hierarchy for using BOTH a home.php (standard template that’s part of the WordPress hierarchy) and an index.php file? Because I require both.

I need to reopen this thread to ask the group what I need to do when the Buddypress Import feature experiences a php memory failure halfway through the import.

I was just importing the xml file and got to around 90 posts (I have over 500), then it crapped out.

I updated the php.ini file in wp-admin for 128M, but I don’t think changing it to that high a setting on 1and1 helps at all. They state they have a max of 40, but I think they just put that out there and you can actually go over the limit, but I’m not sure.

I know how to dump my mysql file from my WordPress database on my host. I’m just not sure what would happen if I imported the database from a general WordPress install to the database for a BuddyPress install.

Here’s what I’m seeing after trying it twice. I see that it see the posts I’ve already added.

88 Importing attachment http://netmix.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2006/01/jam_markspoon1.jpg... (30 kB)

89 Post Jam & Spoon's Mark Spoon Passes On already exists.

90 Post Larry Heard's "Can You Feel It" vs. Martin Luther King's "I Have A Dream" Speech already exists.



Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 33554432) (tried to allocate 524297 bytes) in /homepages/7/d106361195/htdocs/netmix_home/wpmu/wp-admin/import/wordpress.php on line 143

Anyone suggest and links that can help?

You installed bbPress in your WordPress plugins directory which shouldn’t be done.

Either let BuddyPress install bbPress for you or install bbPress in it’s own directory.

Ok, this is a serious problem. I’m experiencing essentially the same thing. We’re running BP 1.1.3 and just upgraded form WPMU 2.8.6 to 2.9.1 . But as soon as I finished upgrading the entire site (including all the blogs), I went to the front page and everything is shown exactly 6 hours older than it really is.

See here: http://jibenow.com/

I’ve done some digging around and this is what I’ve found so far: https://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/16374

I’ll be giving it a shot and see if I can make a simple hack like they mentioned.

These aren’t BuddyPress questions. Look on the WordPress and WordPress MU websites and forums.

1) BuddyPress 1.2 will be compatible with WordPress and WordPress MU. It will be out soon.

2) Don’t resurrect 9 month old threads

@diesellaws: Are you running WordPress 2.9? The bp-default theme will only be picked up in 2.9+, I’ve just tested and it worked fine for me.

Mostly what I mean by not copying over the stylesheet is that you should just override the bits you need to change (colors in your case)…

So in bp-default’s css you might have:

body {

background: #fff;

color: #000;

padding: 25px;

margin: 0;

}

Instead of copying that entire declaration, all you need to do in your child theme is:

body {

background: #000;

color: #fff;

}

That way you are not duplicating anything, and only overriding and changing what you need.

Looks great! Happy to see people starting to build child themes.

A couple of things I noticed – you probably didn’t need to copy all of the default theme css into your theme. This will be loaded when you call the @import() call to the default theme CSS. At the moment you are basically loading the CSS twice. You actually only need to override the bits you need. By doing that you will gain CSS updates from the default theme when it updates. So if anything new was added to the default in the future, you would inherit the new styles.

Also, in your instructions you mentioned you needed to move the default theme to the themes folder. You definitely shouldn’t do this, WordPress will automatically detect it is in the BuddyPress folder. If you move the default then you will never get any updates when BuddyPress updates – it sort of defeats the purpose.

Could you add this to the WP theme repository? That will allow you to keep track of stats, let people download from within their BP installation, and allow you to provide automatic updates to your theme.

Nice work!

This is a wpmu problem who happened also with the first 2.8.x version if i remember well…

so put it in the wpmu trac

https://trac.mu.wordpress.org/

Guess it depends on a couple things:

– what you want on the front page (activity stream vs posts)

– if there’s any javascript/ajax conflicts between bp & p2.

man I wish I had time to play.