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How do you make the custom child themes, from http://themeshaper.com/thematic/ work? WordPress MU can’t seem to see them, when I upload them.

(I’m going to try to be helpful rather than just telling you to go elsewhere. I want Buddypress to grow, and users helping users ought be part of that. I’d also like the forum here to be a useful resource. So many threads at mu.wordpress.org are just cries for help with zero replies. That sucks.)

wordpressfan, I’d probably approach this using Roles. I’ve never done it, but you could set the Dashboard user default role in Site Options to ‘Inactive’. That would allow you to monitor signups, and approve as necessary, I’d imagine. As long as users know that there is a process in place where they have to wait for approval. There are plugins out there that allow you to create custom roles, too, but I’ve never used them.

In terms of the registration emails sent to you as admin, this is also a WMPU thing, not on the Buddypress end. I’m sure I’ve seen plugins that allow you to edit these, but I can’t find them for the life of me. If you’re comfortable with hacking the WPMU core (and rehacking after updates), you can find the place these emails are generated in

function newblog_notify_siteadmin

in wmpu-functions.php in /wpmu-includes

off the root of your WMPU install.

I seem to recall using this with success on an old pre-1.1 install to make that happen : https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/cosmic-bp-user-signup-password/

Not upgrading wordpress to its latest version is a security risk. You’ve been warned.

I think you can upgrade, but beware that this is frowned upon as the offical documentation states that you need WPMU 2.8+ or higher.

The other thing to keep in mind is that your BP widgets will not work due to the new widget system in WP 2.8+.

What are the plugins that are keeping you from upgrading?

Did you activate BuddyPress? Then did you face any errors?

Well, look at it this way. WordPress doesn’t have a feature like that, so why should BP? There are themes out there that let you do that and that’s fine. That’s the way it should be with BP as well. In time there’ll be a lot more themes and maybe some of them will implement uploading a logo image, but it should not be in core.

That is bad new Grossbouff.. I feel bad for you, that you’ve put so much work in something only to find out, the WP team has been working on a solution already.. BUT;

It seems you’ve almost finished your plugin, and I think it would be a mistake to not release it.. There are many BP powered sites out there, which are running custom code and have a big userbase.. this means they will be hesitant to upgrade BuddyPress or WordPress as fast as the hobbyists do (no offense ).. So they might really like a custom made plugin, which stays away from their core setup… I think there would be quite a few people really happy with your plugin as is, and you can continue developing a new plugin on the side…

Anyways good luck!

Hi Andrea_r, waiting for videos to your session/s at http://wordpress.tv/event/wordcamp-new-york/

I tested your theme in a site under development.

WPMU 2.8.5.2 + BP 1.1.2 + bbpress installed via BP one click

Main site with MU Sitewide Tags Pages

BuddyPress main site in blog-ID-2 at http://members.example.org/

Thank you for the clean theme. Without looking at code, i.e., checking it out like a newbie who activated the theme, following are some quick notes:

1. wp-admin-bar – Text (e.g. Org Members) of link to BuddyPress site ( http://members.example.com) shows up in backend (dashboard etc) but does not show up in front end. The link block is there and clickable to main BP site, but the text does not show up. Still, the wp-admin-bar shows correct links to main BP site, etc. throughout the site including sub-blogs.

2. Footer widgets only showing up in only in blog areas – is this the intention?

3. h1 – cannot find it anywhere in the theme. Need at least one h1 per Post or Page

4. Main Nav – link to Forums was not generated to show BP main site nor other subblogs nor main site, while link to a newly activated “Events” plugin page was generated to show in the main nav across all sites. (the link to Forum shows up in this install when I use child theme)

5. Main Nav – like the official bp-child theme, activating the theme in sub-blog for groups or individual members does not show correct links to main BP site features like member/group/blog directory. In order for one theme to be used throughout the site, conditional statement will be needed to show correct links to main BP site conjoined with respective blog’s navigation links.

Quick scan in main BP site (blog_id_2) to see how theme works in different sections

6. Members Section

– directory page – 2 columns – ok

– My own admin individual profile page – skeleton set up with 2 columns where in left column is avatar, options bar and user bar boxes. But there is a large space on the right side as if missing a 3rd column. Checked links in options bar resulted in two columns with links except the ff which has a missing left column – Edit Profile page, Change Avatar page

– If I click on another member’s individual profile page – left column as two user bar boxes unlike the link to my profile which has the options bar and user bar. In addition, when I also am missing the left column with options/users boxes in Blogs link page, Friends link page, Groups link pages plus the Events link page is incorrect and goes to front page of site

7. Groups Section

– directory page – 2 columns – ok

– Group individual page – skeleton set up with 2 columns – but there is a large space on the right side as if missing a 3rd column plus the page is missing all sub-navigations for Creating a Group, Creating forums etc

That’s it for now. As mentioned above, didn’t look at codes “behind the scenes” at this point, only the functionality if newbie user activated it.

Good luck

I installed WPMU and buddypress and all work great but blogs subdomains dont work – blank page

My Apache error:

[Tue Nov 17 21:21:52 2009] [error] [client 83.16.234.122] WordPress database error Table ‘aa11935_pozy.wp_bp_xprofile_data’ doesn’t exist for query SELECT * FROM wp_bp_xprofile_data WHERE field_id = 1 AND user_id = 1 made by require_once, require_once, require_once, require_once, do_action, call_user_func_array, bp_core_setup_globals, bp_core_get_user_displayname, xprofile_get_field_data, BP_XProfile_ProfileData->get_value_byid, referer: http://trzebiatow.eu/wp-admin/plugins.php

[Tue Nov 17 21:21:52 2009] [error] [client 83.16.234.122] WordPress database error Table ‘aa11935_pozy.wp_bp_xprofile_fields’ doesn’t exist for query SELECT id FROM wp_bp_xprofile_fields WHERE id = 1 made by require_once, require_once, require_once, require_once, do_action, call_user_func_array, bp_core_setup_globals, bp_core_get_user_displayname, xprofile_set_field_data, BP_XProfile_ProfileData->save, BP_XProfile_ProfileData->is_valid_field, referer: http://trzebiatow.eu/wp-admin/plugins.php

[Tue Nov 17 21:21:52 2009] [error] [client 83.16.234.122] WordPress database error Table ‘aa11935_pozy.wp_bp_groups’ doesn’t exist for query SELECT id FROM wp_bp_groups WHERE slug = ‘plugins.php’ made by require_once, require_once, require_once, require_once, do_action, call_user_func_array, groups_setup_nav, BP_Groups_Group->group_exists, referer: http://trzebiatow.eu/wp-admin/plugins.php

can you help me? whats wrong… install was OK

Have you read this WP Codex article?

https://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL

same problem here,

I installed it clean and like the readme.txt describes.

After installing wordpress mu, it all works fine.

When activating buddypress it goes blank, i tried to load the main site and it was blank.

After deleting the cookies i can view all the pages, but when i try to login it goes blank.

so i think it’s a problem with the cookie handling/creating.

if others could test this too we maybe could isolate the problem

thanks

@duna1921

Okay, just to make sure, you are running WordPress Mu and not single-version WP, correct?

Since above you indicate that this is a clean install, I would suggest starting over from scratch once more. This means deleting the MySQL DB ( I assume that there is no data worth saving since you said that this is the first time you had installed WPMU). Next, reinstall WPMU and fully test it before installing BuddyPress. Once you’ve determined WPMU is functioning properly, then install and activate BP. Choose the default BP theme. Do not install any other plugins until you have verified that BP is functioning properly.

To make sure that you install both WPMU and BP properly, read the readme.txt files that come with each application.

Instead of touching WPMU core file, create and upload the code of plugin to mu-plugin. See this thread – https://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/14647

This one’s working in my 2.8.5.2 installs and set up for Site Admins only for site security