1. yes, It works same as on wordpress.com, she can always start a new blog(if you have not put any restrictions.
2. Yes, they can move, they same way, you move from wordpress.com to selfhosted. Export the posts and move.
Hi,
I have installed the latest version of buddypress version 1.2 beta and im using this on wordpress 2.9.1. I would like to know how i integrate bbpress v3.1 with wordpress/buddypress. I’ve read many articles on this but all see to take about WordPress MU which i’m not using.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thankyou.
Murphy
bbPress is only up to 1.0.2 so I have no idea what you’re talking about. It’s probably best to make a new thread.
@do77 , David’s method will save a lot when you will upgrade.
Now for your questions
1.No, You do not need to copy any file(because you want the same layout, so child theme inherits it from parent).
2. Create style.css, and put there the content as David has pointed(do not miss the parent tag and theme name in comments, wordpress uses this to recognize the theme)
3.yes, then you can use firebug to override it as you have already given an example
4.You may not need to do that, because you are not using any other files than css.
5, yes, but please read about wordpress child theme, that will help you in long run.
@dpee
Is this a new Installation of mu, I mean, Mu is installed on your root domain http://mysportspress.com
or http://mysportspress.com/wordpress-mu/
If Mu is not on root domain, you may not use subdomain style blogs, In that case You will have to go for category style sub blogs.
If Mu is on root domain, follow what @Obuisson1976 has mentioned, or just create a wild card subdomain, (i.e. *) in your cpanel->subdomains.
That should make it work.
Hi,
I have installed the latest version of buddypress version 1.2 beta and im using this on wordpress 2.9.1. I would like to know how i integrate bbpress v3.1 with wordpress/buddypress. I’ve read many articles on this but all see to take about WordPress MU which i’m not using.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thankyou.
Murphy
Hi all,
I have installed wordpress mu and buddy and need russian lang support. Installed lang on mu and it picks it up fine, but the buddypress for some reason does not.
I have followed this thread, but it did not fix it.
http://buddypress.org/forums/topic/language-translation-problems
in my MU I have lang file ru_RU.mo & ru_RU.po
in my Buddy – /wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-languages/buddypress-ru_Ru.mo & .po
Any ideas?
Dmitri
I’m getting a 404 error on what is supposed to be my homepage under BP, but I don’t get that error using Hybrid as a theme. Hybrid correctly points to localhost/wp where buddypress points to localhost/wp/core where the 404 is popping up.
I have WP 2.9.1 installed at localhost/wp. I’ve moved things around a bit so the wp folder contains:
- wp-config.php
- .htaccess
- /core
- /wp-content
/core contains a svn:externals of WP 2.9.1. I use .htaccess to redirect requests to my separate wp-content where I’ve put BP and all my themes and plugins. Got the idea from http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress_With_Clean_Subversion_Repositories.
This setup help me keep things managed with SVN, but many plugins don’t work outofthebox with this setup.
What can I do?
Hi, I Can’t Really Figure Out Whats Going On, Im running buddypress 1.13 with wordpress mu 2.9.1and the BP default theme. Everything is working fine including forums, although my activity feed is hours behind, but thats an issue for later. Simply right now I can’t figure out how to get any blogs working other then my admin, I have created plenty and had users create a bunch to but to no avail. Im sure this has happened to a bunch so I hope I can get some help. Thanks so much.
http://mysportspress.com/wordpress-mu/
This issue was resolved by ensuring that my WPMU wp-config and bbPress bb-config settings matched those described here:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/login-integration-issues-bbpress-and-wordpress-mu#post-62274
this is a plugin issue and you might consider asking for help from the plugin author and/or following this thread.
installed BuddyPress Backwards Compatibilty – groups still dont display
http://hire.archiseek.com/groups/test-group
WordPress MU 2.9.1.1
Current version of buddypress
Until bbPress is a core WordPress plugin, BuddyPress hijacks your forums and takes over the controls.
@katemgilbert
Are you using WordPress MU or normal WordPress?
If you are using MU, follow what DJPaul recomments; create a new MU blog (assuming you’ve selected subdirectory installation); then change the root blog to whatever that blog_id is. That will tell BuddyPress which blog will be the root of all of its features like profiles, directories etc…
If you are using single WordPress, that’s a little different. You could make traditional WordPress page templates for each BuddyPress page that you need, and copy the BP code into your custom WP template. That would allow you to mish-mash the page locations freely.
I found the answer. It’s not Buddypress, it’s WordPress MU. See: https://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/15324 . Apparently, wp-activate.php doesn’t load the Buddypress login including the hooks. Weird thing it doesn’t happen to everyone..
You can also widgetize other areas quite easily and drop BuddyPress widgets in there as you please. You can widgetize a custom page template if you want to. It’s really quite flexible. I wrote a tutorial on how to change different areas of your template files to be able to include widgets: http://wpmu.org/how-to-widgetize-a-page-post-header-or-any-other-template-in-wordpress/ That might help you.
Yeah, turned out the error was actually one of my WordPress plugins. It was Viva Carousel.
I had to turn BuddyPress off because that’s one of my most essential plugins that I need running. I’m gonna look into it on the Viva forums and see if anyone knows the problem.
Hmm. So like the helloecoliving.com site, you can set up wpmu and load buddypress on a subblog like community? I thought that bp had to reside on the root install. I apologize if I sound like an idiot for not realizing that, but is that the case? This might be the answer to my problem where I can have a standard wordpress site/theme for the root, but a bp enabled theme for the community blog.
Yes, it runs a database upgrade when you update the plugin, it has always done this since 0.1. If you didn’t back up then you’ll need to fix the problems you are having with trunk.
Try installing this plugin:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-backwards-compatibility
This is literally becoming a night mare!
I updated to the trunk release to fix my activity time stamp issue but it turns out I have many more issues upgrading then actually staying with the original version.
I reverted back and now my Site Wide Activity Feed won’t show anything.
When I go to the feed page it says Page not found
Any suggestions on how to get this working again?
Error Logs
[26-Jan-2010 03:05:16] WordPress database error Table ‘bloggingwire.wp_bp_activity_user_activity_cached’ doesn’t exist for query SELECT COUNT(id) FROM wp_bp_activity_user_activity_cached WHERE hide_sitewide = 0 ORDER BY date_recorded DESC LIMIT 50 made by require, require_once, do_action, call_user_func_array, bp_core_do_catch_uri, load_template, require_once, get_footer, locate_template, load_template, require_once, include, bp_has_activities, BP_Activity_Template->bp_activity_template, bp_activity_get_sitewide_activity, BP_Activity_Activity->get_sitewide_activity
Installed WordPress MU and buddypress this morning. All seems to work fine except for the groups….
users can add groups, but cannot view them – if you go here, you can view the groups, but clicking on them gets an error, as does trying to access them from the admin panel.
http://hire.archiseek.com/
Version 1.1 actually eliminated the BuddyPress and WordPress themes. You needed one of each, now it is all in the WordPress theme. This isn’t new to 1.2; 1.2 just comes with a new theme (and the 1.1 theme has been renamed to bp-classic).
As per your last question, if you are on WPMU, you could create a blog and have BuddyPress run on that blog. Your main “site” would run on the main blog.
Old wpmu versions are all here:
https://trac.mu.wordpress.org/browser/tags
If you first installed 2.9.x the version number is registered in the db
so “it’s normal”… but read this before procrastinating to much:
https://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/15410
PJParticipant
In the earlier version, I could have regular WP themes (that I payed quite a bit for) be the primary front of my site, and as users wished, jump into the buddypress theme/section by clicking a link in the BP menubar. This new version seems to eliminate the option of having a wordpress theme and a buddypress theme.
In 1.2, the options seem to be:
1. Continue with the old version so I can use the premium themes the company has spent a lot on so users could have a rich media experience and access the buddypress (with an independent theme) as they wished, or
2. Use this new version where the bp theme and WP theme are seemingly merged. I’m not sure if it’s wpmu or the BP redesign, but it severely limits the amount of flexibility my site has.
Is there a way to have my premium wordpress theme be the theme and have the buddypress plugin have its own component and part of the site? Thank you.
@pjnu – “to have the social network be secondary to their wordpress blog, what options are available”
You would need to create a child theme for 1.2 bp default theme. Copy the header.php from 1.2 bp-default theme into your child theme. Tweak navigation accordingly or create primary and secondary navigation to taste.
“I feel like this new version is somewhat limiting in terms of customization. “
My opinion is that it can be challenging but the sky’s the limit 
I hope someone here already have a solution to this:
I am running wordpress MU with buddypress on top.
I have added the bp-events plugin.
Currently the search bar will only search members and groups and I would like for it to search through events too.
When I choose members in the dropdown list with the string x I see the following URL being called: http://mydomain.com/wpmu/members/?s=x
When I choose groups in the dropdown list with the string y I see the following URL being called: http://mydomain.com/wpmu/groups/?s=y
I have edited the file that builds the dropdown list and now it also contains the Events option but when I choose that option for some reason the URL being caled when I search for event z is: http://mydomain.com/wpmu/members/?s=z
I am not sure what I am doing wrong but it seems after my debugging that a parameter called _wp_http_referer is not getting the right value when the Events option is selected. instead of being wpmu/events/?s=z it is changing to wpmu/members/?s=z and this is what causing the URL to be wrong.
It would be great if someone can point me to a solution or to what I am doing wrong.
Thanks,
Shai
