@forestwander-
Your issue is not the same as the OP. I’ve replied to your issue on your other cross post.
I also have tried activating 1.1 and am getting the same type error.
However, I am in fact using WPMU.
After several tries, sometimes I get 500 internal server error.
Installing from the plugins in the admin console simply won’t work.
I am using 1and1.
I cannot activate please help
Is there any plan to include mobile friendly theme(s)? A theme that should co-exist with bp-default… There’re few mobile friendly themes for wordpress, but I doubt they work for buddypress.
If /wp-content/bpthemes/ exist, BP will try to use pre-version 1.1 themes.
If that folder doesn’t exist, it will load from /wp-content/themes/ as like normal WordPress. This is explained perfectly well in the upgrade documentation and throughout this forum.
Of course there’s a BuddyPress “API”. How do you think we write plugins and themes that rely on BuddyPress? If you are specifically talking about stuff like how WordPress can use XML-RPC for remote blog posts, then, no, there’s nothing like that at the moment. You could use the AJAX functions for quite a lot of stuff, however.
I would imagine this is a very low priority feature suggestion and such a thing would more likely be driven by someone writing some kind of external app.
You are not following the upgrade instructions properly. There’s a document linked on the news post on the front of this site to an in-depth article, but:
1) Deactivate all of your plugins, but not BuddyPress (yet).
2) Remove any plugins out of your mu-plugins folder.
3) Change your theme back to the standard WordPress theme.
4) (Now) deactivate the BuddyPress plugin.
5) Delete BuddyPress off your server and the /wp-content/bp-themes/ directory.
6) Upload 1.1 and move the new themes into /wp-content/themes/.
7) Reactivate the BuddyPress plugin. Reactivate the BuddyPress theme.
Reactivate any other plugins you took out in step 1.
WPSC has a “don’t cache for logged in users” setting, which you might want to use given the nature of a BP site.
I’ve seen various people also recommending WP Object Caching, which can reduce the load on the DB server and might be worth looking into *if* your performance bottleneck is the DB… if it isn’t, then it could make matters worse. Use the page generation time and (to a lesser extent) the number of queries information that the default templates show in an HTML comment at the bottom of most templates to test your options both with and without whatever caching you put in.
Useful links: Overview of WP Object Cache from 2006 for an intro, various flavours of Object Cache (APC, eAccelerator, filesystem) (if you dig around you’ll also find one which works with memcached).
I am using this plugin to extend user profile:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/extended-user-profile/
It works great. My question is will future releases of BP cause any issues? If this is not the correct plugin can you suggest a one blessed by BP.
I’m having the same error. I can attest to the fact that none of these are because of 3rd party. I have a brand new Buddypress, fully update WordPress Mu, and Bbpress installed at the /forum directory. It will not let me switch from a different BPtheme other than the Network Parent Theme, which is one of the two themes bundled with Buddypress. The error comes regardless of which WP theme I am using – I am getting the exact same result. By commenting out lines 428-456 in the bx-profile-deprecated.php file, I can get a working sign in form, but users have to put in their own profile information later. Has there been any to get a permanent fix here?
BuddyPress doesn’t support WordPress. Make sure you have WPMU installed.
http://mu.wordpress.org
Ok so I solved some of the problems I had by deactivating BP, deleting it, and manually deleting any tables prefaced with wp_bb or wp_bp.
I installed it from the plugin browser in WPMU 2.8.4 and followed these instructions in the plugin browser screen:
Installation
BuddyPress requires WordPress MU, it will not work on a single install of WordPress (yet).
— Plugins: —
1.
Upload everything into the “/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/” directory of your installation.
2.
Activate BuddyPress in the “Plugins” admin panel using the “Activate Site Wide” or “Activate” link (both work).
— Themes: —
1. Move “/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-sn-parent” and “/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default” to “/wp-content/themes/”
You must then login as an admin and head to the “Site Admin > Themes” directory and activate the default BuddyPress theme (bp-default).
Next, you will want to head to the “Appearance” menu and activate the BuddyPress default theme for the root blog of your WordPress MU installation.
— Upgrading from an earlier version: —
1.
Backup!
2.
Overwrite the /plugins/buddypress/ directory with the latest version.
3.
If you are using the default theme, move the themes in “wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/” to “wp-content/themes” and overwrite any existing themes.
4.
VERY IMPORTANT: If you are no longer using the old two-theme system from BuddyPress 1.0, please make sure to delete your /wp-content/bp-themes/ folder to activate the new one-theme setup.
— Forums Support —
To enable forums please log in and head to “BuddyPress > Forums Setup” in the admin area.
Installation worked great in that everything shows up where it needs to, I’m not getting error messages or 404s.
However!
I tried to test it out by editing my profile and creating a group.
No Base fields show up, under “Edit Profile” and Profile Field Setup in WPMU control panel shows nada. When I try to create a group I get “There was an error saving group details, please try again.”
I took a look at phpmyadmin, it created wp_bb tables but no wp_bp tables. So basically it installed. Sort of?
Help?
I think the new parent / child theme idea is fantastic, however I have a question about this.
I am testing the BP 1.1 with WPMU 2.8.4 and have things set up and running. I created a new user, and created a new blog with that user. The site is using the subfolder structure.
My question is this… how do I exclude Child Themes from the user’s available themes?
Normally, I go to the SiteAdmin section and enable themes to be used throughout the site (i.e. WordPress Default, WordPress Classic, etc) and I see the button to enable the Parent theme (which it says NOT to do,and I have NOT done.) Yet, when I log in as my second user (not Site Admin) and choose a theme for that blog, I can access the child theme (BP 1.1 Default), which I do not want available for my users. Why? Because they have access to all the site wide widgets that I don’t really want them to have. They can basically re-create the front page I have for the main site.
While I am ok with a similar theme for them, items like the Welcome widget really don’t belong to the sub-user Admins. So how do we disable child themes, since they do not show up in the available themes in the Site Admin master list?
Thanks
Ed
Installed 1.1 BP over 1.1 rc and followed all instructions. 2 problems.
1–The profile field setup was made and new users on fresh computers were not asked to “sign up”
2–Forums setup
from the dashboard I receive this message:
Forums Setup
bbPress forum integration in BuddyPress has been set up correctly……
But when I hit the Forums button on the home page I get this message (same as 1.1rc):
$bb->custom_user_table = “wp_users”; $bb->custom_user_meta_table = “wp_usermeta”; $bb->uri = “http://net4us.us/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums/bbpress/”; $bb->name = ” Forums”; $bb->wordpress_mu_primary_blog_id = 1; define(‘BB_AUTH_SALT’, “982f93132e170a0a9d214e41336f56f1e6e399f705c8be7c5d96b411d040b4c4”); define(‘BB_LOGGED_IN_SALT’, “93b707990b272c6c02a866b3b67106d16ab91fb5c6ee1d5c984a524f791f7af1”); define(‘BB_SECURE_AUTH_SALT’, “dcac4305f1581dbd1f27313c4d629ec2fac65749ecf57895230316b7efead55c”); define(‘WP_AUTH_COOKIE_VERSION’, 2); ?>
Warning: mysql_get_server_info(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL-Link resource in /home/lewbell/public_html/wp-includes/wp-db.php on line 1202
Ah, here I am 
I have (finally) upgraded to BuddyPress 1.1 on my test site (just the forums working in one click is just worth every minute of it!!). I have set aside (branched) the old version of bp-events (0.6) for people still running bp 1.0.3 (for whatever reason), and from now on, the trunk version on my site (and WordPress plugins) will solely work on BP 1.1 and beyond. Marius has put in a *ton* of work rewriting most of the code to keep up with the major changes to BP from 1.0.3 to 1.1. For the next little while, I will mirror the changes made to the trunk listed on this thread to the one on my site until we merge the two and go forward on one version (when I have figured out how to do this…)
I am currently reworking the calendar view to have *lots* of AJAX “refreshments”…
Does this also work for child themes? I get at example.com/about
This is an example of a WordPress page, you could edit this to put information about yourself or your site so readers know where you are coming from. You can create as many pages like this one or sub-pages as you like and manage all of your content inside of WordPress.
How do I only remove the admin bar from the wordpress admin area? Want to keep it everywhere else. I know Andy added the admin bar to the admin area some time back, but I haven’t found anything to remove it only from the admin section?
@John James Jacoby, awesome–thanks for the quick response! It’s this kind of thing that makes me love the WordPress/MU community.
At the moment, it’s probably not as easy as we all wish it was. 
It’s best to start with WPMU if you can…
If you have an existing site with plugins installed, it won’t be an easy transfer. If it’s just a normal WP install with no plugins, you can export your blog, install WPMU, and import the blog as your primary blog into the new site.
no previous installs of BP. i’m not sure if it’s WP or WPMU. i’ve never seen a comparison, so assumed they were the same — sorry maybe i just have WP.
“Thank you for creating with WordPress. | Documentation | Feedback Version 2.8.4”
what’s the difference? i believe from the docs on this, i need WPMU.
would an upgrade from WP to WPMU be easy?
Did you have BuddyPress 1.1 installed previously? Are you using WPMU or WP?
I’ll admin to not knowing how phpinfo should look if not using apache, so we might need additional help here.
hostexcellence ; windows server ; php 5.2.9
http://rebelsforchrist.org/ztest.php for phpinfo() output.
Who is your web host? Chances are this is a PHP version or a memory issue.
i’ve put buddypress in the plugins folder. inside buddypress folder is bp-activity folder etc.
when i click activate in plugins, it loads http://rebelsforchrist.org/wordpress/wp-admin/plugins.php?activate=true&plugin_status=all&paged=1 and doesn’t show anything (blank white page).
then plugins and every blog page shows nothing (blank white page). the only way i thought to restore was ftp’d and changed the directory from buddypress to buddypress1 and blog would work again as well as plugins page. i changed it back to buddypress. i don’t know why it won’t activate. that’s the first step from the readme after copying the files to the plugin directory i thought.
thanks in advance for help!
If this can help, on a fresh bp 1.1 install i get these errors when trying to activate the plugin :
Warning: Call-time pass-by-reference has been deprecated; If you would like to pass it by reference, modify the declaration of do_action(). If you would like to enable call-time pass-by-reference, you can set allow_call_time_pass_reference to true in your INI file in C:wampwwwwordpress-muwp-contentpluginsbp-eventbp-events.php on line 2186
Warning: Call-time pass-by-reference has been deprecated; If you would like to pass it by reference, modify the declaration of do_action(). If you would like to enable call-time pass-by-reference, you can set allow_call_time_pass_reference to true in your INI file in C:wampwwwwordpress-muwp-contentpluginsbp-eventbp-events.php on line 2215
Warning: Call-time pass-by-reference has been deprecated; If you would like to pass it by reference, modify the declaration of do_action(). If you would like to enable call-time pass-by-reference, you can set allow_call_time_pass_reference to true in your INI file in C:wampwwwwordpress-muwp-contentpluginsbp-eventbp-events.php on line 2265
Warning: Call-time pass-by-reference has been deprecated; If you would like to pass it by reference, modify the declaration of do_action(). If you would like to enable call-time pass-by-reference, you can set allow_call_time_pass_reference to true in your INI file in C:wampwwwwordpress-muwp-contentpluginsbp-eventbp-events.php on line 2265
Warning: require(C:wampwwwwordpress-mu/wp-content/plugins/bp-events/bp-events-cssjs.php) [function.require]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in C:wampwwwwordpress-muwp-contentpluginsbp-eventbp-events.php on line 2764
Fatal error: require() [function.require]: Failed opening required ‘C:wampwwwwordpress-mu/wp-content/plugins/bp-events/bp-events-cssjs.php’ (include_path=’.;C:php5pear’) in C:wampwwwwordpress-muwp-contentpluginsbp-eventbp-events.php on line 2764