BuddyPress, as it stands will work perfect for a single domain setup, like 99% of the typical audience will predictably use it for, and for wp.com if bits and pieces of it are used for that purpose.
@anointed, this isn’t a “flaw” in the software so much as it is BP floating on top of MU’s infrastructure. With any of the multi-site plugins, when I look at my site-wide users, I still see ALL users registered from ALL domains/blogs/etc… When I look at a particular blogs users, then of course all that exists there are the users of that blog. Because a “site” is just another “blog” the terms here mean the same thing. 1 central user base, and all users rotate around them.
There might be a few hacks and methods to counter this behavior, but they involve checking user-meta for a list of blogs that user “belongs” to above and beyond roles and caps, or adding additional tables to route users around… It just is a strange setup and something that needs to be built custom for that particular need.
Think of how all the *press.org sites work. One central user base, yet you can login to all of bbpress.org, wordpress.org/com, buddypress.org, and all of their respective tracs and blogs, etc… That’s the same thing that BuddyPress does. The MU multi-site plugin does something a little extra, that none of the other platforms really do, and that’s allow multiple domains to use the same installation… bbPress has the power to do something similar, but no one has really explored how to do it yet, but even in that case you’re probably still sharing user tables and just mapping roles and caps again…
Am I making sense yet? haha
I gave up stumbling in darkness and had to remake the blogs in order that they are seen and recognised by Buddypress. A process not helped by WordPress not exporting all information in its admin Export feature.
Serious omission in the code here folks …
The only way to fix it is to delete the older blogs and remake them manually.
Of course, for some crappy reason, WordPress does not actually export a complete archive when you use the admin ‘Export’ function.
This means the fixing a lot of details manually, e.g. Links/blogroll are not archived and all image addresses need to be corrected individually.
The new version is now available at https://wordpress.org/extend/themes/buddymatic.
Also, if you have a minute, can you give it a rating. Someone gave it a rating of 1.
Blogs can have their own users in MU; they always can. The line gets blurry when you start talking about “sites” though, because a “site” is just another blog where users have roles and caps… The WordPress dashboard doesn’t really make this a clear thing visually, but at the end of the day you still only have 1 users table, regardless of how many sites or blogs you setup and how many users have what roles/caps on which blogs/sites.
Dizzy yet?
I’d recommend SB and MB for Single blog and Multi blog. Like Andrea said, it has always kind of been irksome that it was called WordPress Multi User when it really allowed multiple blogs.
I know that it already been brought up in many different forums about this. I read some comments which it confused me a bit. I guess this place is a best place to get the straight answer. WordPress.com is planning to move forward on MU platform however it ll be merging the code with WPMU/WP to be able to run Buddypress. There are different comments made it clear that we still have WPMU for self-hosted platform not merging with WP.
Andy commented on this issue that it will be merged but does that applies on self hosted installation or it will be a single codebase for self hosted platform, right? Time is approaching for v3.0 by 2010 if v2.9 is going to be released soon. Injersey.com created a large project under WPMU platform and many others so I should go ahead to switch over to WPMU/BP right now or still better off to WAIT but WHEN? That’s my dilemma to wait or not.
Hello people,
I am using WordPress MU 2.8.5.2. and buddypress 1.1.1 and faced this problem about new member registration. They are able to register but not able to activate their account. Please advice what could be done.
Sorry if this a repeat of question, but after searching 10 pages. I got a little lost.
Thanks
actually you have two situations here:
1- add plugins to your Buddypress front-end
2- add plugins for your members blogs
if you need plugins for your front-end, check that they are compatible with buddypress but also read the HowTo, because some of them need to be activated sitewide, some not.
if you need plugins for your members blogs, you have to check if these plugins are compatible with WordPress…
notes: do not install plugins that are morethan 300 days old, for safety and compatibility. what works with WPMU will work within Buddypress as well.
and btw, yes, it’s a use it breake it situation in the WordPress community, because not all plugins are coded by pros, and they are not tested before added to the repository. for each plugins you have rating and comments, so read them.
@Bowe
I’m talking about that list of bp only plugins. But in fact currently it lists all the wordpress plugins with “buddypress” tag, no matter if the plugin is really for buddypress or not (like Mingle for example).
Permalinks were set to a custom setting, so I switched to default and now everything is working just fine. Thanks for your help! 
I’ve been using regular WordPress for a while, but MU and Buddypress have me kind of flummoxed.
btw,try to re save the permalink ,and It will be hopefully solved.
try this
Dashboard->settings->permalink
and just click save.
Go and check,this should solve your problem.In WordPress Mu 2.8.x I have seen this as a common issue and after re saving the permalink ,the problem went away most of the times.
Yes, you are right.You need to create a custom component.
here is a great way to start.
Download the skeleton component from here and have a look, you will see ,how can you do it.
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-skeleton-component/
Thanks Jeff, that was a great link.. I solved my problem, I wish I could say what I did for the ones that will have this problem in the future, but there is no single solution. Mine worked with changing wp_blogs main blog URL, re-activating the theme from admin, and rest of the links didn’t work so i did a .htaccess redirect for them…
i wish wordpress would come up with a move script like they have install… it’s very tiresome to debug everything..
cheers.
Ok, we moved it out of wordpress onto a sub domain(e.g. home.mysite.com). This seems to work for right now. Some other coding is required. We just need to figure out how to add the admin bar. The page is a php page with all the html in that file and some php functions. So, there isn’t a header file or a footer file. The article for adding the bar to external applications won’t work for this. At least I can’t get it to work. Thanks for any help.
I changed the mail address from noreplay to a real one.
That fixed the spam problem for me.
See this plugin:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/mail-from/
So you’re saying you want to use the BuddyBar outside of WordPress?
If so, this article helped me:
http://dev.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2009/10/12/displaying-the-buddypress-admin-bar-in-other-applications/
I used this on a Moodle install and it worked.
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Is your homepage powered by WordPress? If so, the answer will be much easier.
Let us know what your setup is.
Standard bbpress installations have their own admin panel. Since bbpress is actually a totally seperate software it just has a nice extra that it can intergrate with wordpress. So if you installed it manually and did not use the already made bbpress in buddypress, then you can make and administrate your bbpress from its admin panel. If you used the bbpress in buddypress then you won’t have a handy admin panel.
For example this one,
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/mingle/
By reading the description, it has nothing to do with buddypress.
What do you think?
Can you control which plugins to appear on this site, under plugins?
I dug through the folder structures to find that the old Plugins folder in wp-content was /plugins/ while the 2.8.6 folder is /mu-plugins/
The plugins folder should always be /plugins/.
/mu-plugins/ are for plugins you want to run sitewide; these plugins are automatically activated; you generally never put regular WP plugins in there!
I suggest starting your install over:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WPMU
If you’re upgrading, restore your backup DB and your previous MU files and read this:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_WPMU
If you’d like to associate a blog with a group, you could use Marius Ooms’ BP Groupblog plugin:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-groupblog/
Most likely the group filter will pick up the blog as a group.
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There’s also Andy’s External Feeds plugin:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/external-group-blogs/
Which you can use to grab an RSS feed and it will populate the group activity and site-wide activity streams.
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About the other questions, I don’t have time to delve into it!
Maybe a mod or someone else can help you.
I have seen people saying that there is a solution to this problem. (On the main wordpress site AND this forum)
Let me put it this way. I WILL paypal you $20 if you can give me a solution that allows my users to log in to their blogs and post and edit them. Right now when they try it re-directs them to the login screen over and over. At FIRST I thought it must be an issue with no www. being added to the URLs, so I added them through admin and now it just gives a “you don’t have permission to view this blog” error. So, I am going to post my URL here, and a username and password for a regular user. You can go to the site and create a blog and see what happens. If you can tell me how to fix it, the $20 is yours. I would offer more, but it is all I have.
http://www.circleliving.com
user: preachur
password: o^5ecPUyeLD6
Okay… I solved it… turns out it was something the Events Calendar plugin was doing that was causing the White Screen on any forum page.
Hi,
In wordpress, a user does not need to sign up in order to leave a comment on a post. With Buddypress, the user does need to sign up. Is there a way to not require a person to sign up just to leave a comment on a post? People who wants to leave a comment on a post does not necessariy need be a member of buddypress.
Any advise?