You don’t have to convince me why it makes sense to use email address instead of username. This post was the start of a long a painful process for me. Trust me, that plugin does what you need and then all you need to do is restructure the form and pick a fix for the user URL etc.
I successfully installed BuddyPress 1.1.3 and WordPress MU 2.9.1, but when I posted a new topic in a group, it went to a blank page and did not redirect back to the forum. When I went back, the topic was posted but something must have been wrong.
Also, the forums page of my website is somehow cut off and it does not display the whole page. I checked my files and I believe I have everything. Is there a problem with the bbPress component?
My website url is http://thevaultonline.megabyet.net
Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.
I’m using the plugin that is found by “adding new plugins” in wordpress.
Thanks a lot Mike!
That works perfectly, although it doesn’t allow complete customisation of specific titles, it allows you to change it so that your pages have the title
I found :
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/seo-title-tag/
once I knew, from your reply, what to search for, however it looks like this is only a wordpress feature because it didn’t work for me.
I’ll dig in the code of the “All in One SEO Pack” and see if I can specify exactly where the page titles are defined.
However, it’s doing exactly what I want right now.
Thanks a lot!
Hi,
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
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Hey Folks,
I’m setting up a site with WordPress MU and BuddyPress but I’m looking to set up member subscriptions, with an initial free month – then allowing users to purchase a months/3months/annually/whatever subscriptions.
Have been looking at WP-Member (wp-member.com) that looks really good, just wondered if anyone had experience of using the plugin with BuddyPress – I want to make sure it’ll do the job before I go ahead and buy it.
Also, if there were any cheaper options (free?) that anyone might suggest from experience? Would be much appreciated
features don’t need to be as rich as WP Member, as long as I can hook it into a payment system such as paypal and have the option to introduce a free months trial, I’m happy
the cheaper the better!
Thanks in advance guys,
AJ
The plugin page says:
Compatible up to: WordPress MU 2.8.6 / BuddyPress 1.1.2
So it doesn’t work with 1.1.3? Or 1.2? Or WPMU 2.9.1?
Will the plugin be updated or was it more a one-time demo project?
Guten Tag Thomas,
Thanks for the really thorough description of the project, and great to see you (alongside our Hello Eco Living site) in WPMU.org’s list:
10 of the Latest and Greatest Inspirational BuddyPress sites
@Xevo: your hint on login is handy to know!
Cheers,
Roger
the All in One SEO (https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/all-in-one-seo-pack/) plugin allows for quite a bit of naming convention changes to your titles. It’s a good place to start.
I have the same problem here. after the deep dive installation the Forum part of buddypress stoped to work. Any idea why?
I followed this tutorial for the deep integration
http://theeasybutton.com/blog/2009/07/17/integrating-buddypress-wordpress-mu-and-bbpress/
Thanks for any help!
@vincole I am also a BuddyPress convert too but I also was WordPress fan back before version 2. BuddyPress has come a very LONG way in a very short period of time. Because of the extensible nature of WordPress no two install need be the same. It’s an awesome piece of code!
Now in 100% honesty THE ONLY comparable software out there is SocialEngine. It’s funny though because they are in the midst of a big rev too, and I know that they are really looking at BuddyPress and looking at ways to out run and gun it. I would say if you are looking for an alternative to BuddyPress that is really the only good option.
I too have abandoned Joomla for the warmth that is WordPress. Joomla is ALL OVER the place, and we payed for the Joomsocial plugin..
Problems:
WordPress load order makes it difficult to know if your plugin is loaded before or after BuddyPress.
If your plugin loads before BuddyPress it’s possible your plugin will call BuddyPress functions that aren’t yet loaded.
If your plugin loads after BuddyPress, you cannot attach it to any BuddyPress action to load it because they have all already fired.
Solution:
http://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/make-your-plugin-buddypress-aware-v1-2/
BuddyPress introduces an action after all BuddyPress core code is loaded called ‘bp_init’
By checking for the existence of BuddyPress, and attaching your plugin to bp_init if BuddyPress isn’t already loaded, you can ensure that your plugins code is only loaded if BuddyPress is, and is loaded after all BuddyPress functions are available.
There are multiple ways this can be done but this is the simplest of the methods.
I’m trying to make reCaptcha (http://recaptcha.net/plugins/wordpress/) appear in the register page of buddypress, currently it doesn’t appear on either /register or /wp-signup.php and Im stuck. It only appears in the comment section of the main blog.
If it’s not possible to get reCaptcah workign is there an alternative way to prevent spam uers from signing up on wordpress mu?
Here’s a WPMU / BuddyPress / bbPress integration tutorial:
http://theeasybutton.com/blog/2009/07/17/integrating-buddypress-wordpress-mu-and-bbpress/
I’ve used this a few times myself.
Do you have the turbo plugin installed on your wordpress-mu?
Sounds like it’s caching if you have to repeat.
how can i add a icon to a menu in sidebar?
i´ve installed the actual wordpress mu and buddypress.
i´ve added the plugin “bpdev-youtube” and it doesn´t show the little icon in the sidebar.
how can i add it manual?
Our Buddy Press was down for a couple of months. The blogs that were created during this period are not showing in the blogs list link on the home page. How do I associate the wordpress blog with a members buddy press profile?
There is a multilingual plugin for BP available which does this:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-multilingual/
I don’t know if it’s compatible with the BP 1.1 or the upcoming 1.2. I need this as well so we should look into it then 
Also take a look at this ticket I made today: https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/1593
If the “supergroup” feature would be implemented it would mean that you could make different “homes” for different countries/regions and still have a central homepage where all sitewide content is shown.
Hello,
I’m merging BuddyPress 1.1.3 into an existing wordpress theme on a WPMU 2.8.6 install.
I’m working off a child of my premium theme (Newsport from WooThemes). I copied all of the folders from bp-sn-partent intpo the child them folder, plus the adminbar, userbar and plugin-template php files.
I’ve got thing mostly working well inside the them on the main blog (www.threesheetsnw.com), including the adminbar. However, the admin bar doesn’t display properly on secondary blogs (ie http://www.threesheetsnw.com/lateentry) or in the dashboard on the mainblog.
An admin bar is loaded on the sites, but doesn’t pull the css. Also the admin bar doesn’t show me as logged in on the secondary blogs (even when I’m logged in as admin).
I’ve tried adding the adminbar file to the other themes on those blogs, no luck.
Any ideas on what is wrong and how to fix this?
Is merging the buddypress functions into a child theme part of the problem?
Many thanks for your help.
Marty
WordPress stores posts in database tables of the form wp_x_posts, where x is the blog id. Comments are in wp_x_comments. Time created should be the last column.
Have you looked at the timezone settings for the two blogs that are causing the problems? WordPress > Dashboard > General.
Anyone that can make an ordinairy wordpress template, can make a bbpress template, their theming is almost the same.
Hey MrMaz,
Sorry to hear about the drive 
I am failrly new to bp and your plugin looks to be a winner. I am however encountering a few issues – mainly with the display of the links.
The site can be seen – http://6×9.co.za/
Specifically – the voting options don’t appear to show or work.
On the Admin options under Edit Details –
Edit Avatar Options
Edit Advanced Settings
Do nothing for me 
Currently running on WordPress MU 2.8.6 and the latest BP release.
ANyways keep up the excellent work. This looks to be an awesome plugin.
Thanks for the info.
Maybe I should just stick with bbpress.
An unrelated question: If I want to make my blog and bbpress install look the same, how could I do that? Is there someone I can hire? I don’t know where to find someone who can do that.