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It’s not impossible, paisano! (sorry I’m in a Super Mario Bros phase – circa Lou Albano)

Check out this blog post by Adam:

http://welcome.totheinter.net/2009/05/06/changing-wordpress-mu-from-subdomains-to-subdirectories/

Hope that helps!

Here’s a really helpful guide to translating using poedit: http://urbangiraffe.com/articles/translating-wordpress-themes-and-plugins/

It isn’t that the directory needs to physically exist, because just like WordPress, all permalinks are virtual pointers to PHP interpreted code.

When you’re talking about notifications, are you talking about the emails you receive? Or are you talking about the actual Notifications screen in BuddyPress?

If you’re talking about the later, then it means your plugins_template.php file is missing from the root of your parent theme. BuddyPress still uses that file as a generic pointer for the settings pages to use, since they do not have their own specific template files at this point in time.

this is a bit off-topic, but would any of you mind taping NYC WordCamp for wordpress.tv pls? would love to hear what’s to come in the future… and feel free to include the b-roll (ie. drinking debauchery)

In other words, as jjj is saying, search the forum for threads on “deep integration”.

https://buddypress.org/forums/search.php?q=deep+integration

I’m not sure if this is still accurate, but you can also give this a try:

http://theeasybutton.com/blog/2009/07/17/integrating-buddypress-wordpress-mu-and-bbpress/

hey

Just to keep you posted.I am working on this for a new theme of mine,But for me,I have been doing it on and off and I hope to complete it in next 2 weeks.Then I will release the enhanced here.If someone can do it before ,then that will be great.

btw what you people think,A separate breadcrumb plugin for buddypress which shows the “home” for the profile page and say edit profile page as “Home”->Edit profile will be better or just extending the wordpress plugin ,which shows Home(for the main site)

@gaz: Yes, with the default theme you get a main navigation bar that focuses on BuddyPress features (Members, Groups, Forums). So in that sense, BuddyPress “takes over”. But there’s also the “Blog” link which links to your WPMU main blog. WPMU is nothing more than Posts and Pages. So it’s all still there.

But yes, the main navigation is BuddyPress-focused when using the default theme. However, that is easily changed. Simply create a child theme with a custom header.php file. Your navigation could then be… Blog, About, Products, Contact, Customer Care… whatever you wish. Perhaps those BuddyPress links (Members, Groups, Forums) would be either in a separate navigation bar (like the bottom bar on Facebook) or maybe subsections of a “Community” menu. Or what have you. It’s all very do-able.

Unfortunately… you are also correct that there are very few custom themes right now. And no purpose-specific themes. BuddyPress is too new. So your choices are to either a) roll up your sleeves and be prepared to do a ton of learning and research or b) hire someone.

And Site Architecture is critical of course. It seems like you have a good idea of what you want to do but you’ve started out by taking a default BuddyPress install and working backwards from there. A good sanity check (if you haven’t already done so) is to sit down and sketch out exactly what you want… what sections… what navigation bars… what functionality… etc. Draw it all out (again, if you haven’t already). Then work from there.

I think you’ve made the right choice. It’ll just require some work. WordPress and BuddyPress are so much more flexible and better supported than the other open source alternatives. It’s worth the effort.

All I can share from personal experience is this: It’s real easy to get lost in all the gloss. About two years ago when I was hunting down low-cost, self-hosted, white label social networking software, I narrowed it down to two choices, Elgg and Dolphin. What I loved about Dolphin was how intuitive and pretty the whole backend was — you could easy drag/drop/rearrange different menu items and easily swap out your pages/columns/widgets. You could even change the sizes of certain page elements with just a few mouse clicks. It was almost like a Square Spaces for social networks. But then came more research. And upon that research, I found that Dolphin has some of the ugliest code ever written. On top of breaking tons of add-ons during upgrades, there also wasn’t (and probably still isn’t) an active support group available — more like a commune of helpless, p/o’ed customers who were all experiencing the same bugs. That’s not to say that it’s useless. I’m sure it works fine for a good handful of users who dumped a lot of money into development. But it became apparent that I needed to look into Elgg instead.

Now, Elgg does everything it says right out of the box 100% and we had instant love affair — http://www.michaelkuhlmann.com/category/elgg-vs-buddypress/. The whole installation took me about 10 minutes and there wasn’t a single problem… until I tried to re-design it. It was virtually impossible creating an entirely different layout. In fact, I have yet to see an Elgg-powered site that looks completely custom-made like the BuddyPress-powered VW TDI Truth & Dare site. Again, I’m sure Elgg fulfills the needs of many of its users – and probably a lot more so than Dolphin – but when it came to theming the software, it just fell a bit short. Although I could see how it could seem *ahead of the game* with its ease of use and drag’n’drop capabilities, it really isn’t compared to BP.

So BP came right along just as I finished *theming* — I should actually just say “colorizing” – my Elgg installation. Immediately, I dumped Elgg and switched to BP. I had seen what Andy did with ChickSpeak several months before the BP/Automattic venture was announced, so it looked quite promising. Then, the first release came out. First, I had trouble installing WPMU. Next, I had trouble installing BP. Following that, I couldn’t figure out how to get forums up and running. I sounded just like Mythailife – frustrated to the core. But I also remembered what an amazing difference a few months of development did to WordPress going from version 2.3 to 2.7, so I decided to stick around.

Up until now, I can easily say that BP has made strides in development. Out of the dozens of forums that I’ve visited, BP has *consistently* given the most support to its users in a timely fashion – FOR FREE. I have to stress the complimentary tech support part, because a lot of people tend to demand an answer to every single question immediately after they’ve posted their question, which is ridiculous. And if that speaks to you, here’s what you are getting – again – FOR FREE:

– A social networking system built on top of one of the best open source publishing systems, which means you’re also inheriting tons of great functionalities like WordTube/MapPress/eCommerce/Facebook Connect

– Loads of documentation including WordPress for Dummies and the upcoming book BuddyPress for Dummies (books are not free, of course, but they do count towards documentation)

– Support forums, development roadmaps and overall project transparency

– Ability to customize/theme BP exactly the way you want it to appear

– Dozens of available plugins

– Did I mention that this is built on WordPress?

If you don’t have the luxury of time to wait for support-related questions or still feel like this project is lagging AND you have deep pockets, there’s always Crowdfusion and Anahita. Otherwise, don’t get lost in the gloss, because BuddyPress is the next-best-thing to come out of the Automattic vault.

Does this work?

http://buildinternet.com/2009/02/how-to-change-the-default-gravatar-in-wordpress/

Also… with regards to highlighting your tabs… those links should all be getting classes assigned via WordPress which you can then hook into to style (i.e… something like .current_page)

“Tell them to learn English? I doubt that Gravatar is gonna translate it’s site just because some people don’t wanna learn English..”

That makes no sense whatsoever.. The guy is asking a normal question about making his site more user friendly for people who speak a different native language, it has nothing to do with his users… why do you think that multilangual plugins are so widely used for wordpress.. you could have just answered the question without the unneeded remarks about his users and “foreign” users in general..

Before a WordPress user account is activated, it is stored in the wp_signups table; there’s a meta field storing various things. Have you checked if its that one?

I ran into this exact same error:

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare bp_activity_install() (previously declared in …/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-activity.php:19) in …/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-activity.php on line 52

If you have a failed upgrade, I recommend reverting to a “clean” backup of your files and database from before you upgraded Buddypress or attempted reactivation.

Here’s what I did to successfully upgrade from BP 1.0.3 to 1.1.2:

1. Switch to a non-BP theme, i.e. WordPress mu Homepage 1.6

2. Deactivate ALL plugins (you’d probably be okay by deactivating only BP-dependent plugins but I did this just to be safe)

3. Delete Buddypress plugin files (/wp-content/plugins/buddypress) via wp-admin or FTP, either is fine

4. Download the Buddypress 1.1.2 zip and upload the new files to your plugins folder

5. Activate Buddypress plugin in wp-admin

I can’t comment on what changes you have done to your install or what plugins you’re running but I had similar problems with the upgrade and the steps above allowed me to successfully upgrade BP.