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
If you moved the installation this is going to cause problems, you will need to change a number of things in the database. This is no doubt the cause of your issues.
Some of these results may help:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rls=en&q=moving+wordpress+mu+directory&aq=f&oq=&aqi=
I moved the installation so that it no longer has WordPress installed at the root, http://projects.gregeland.com/badmintonlife/ and it STILL shows a blank profile at http://projects.gregeland.com/badmintonlife/members
Is there ANYTHING in the database that could cause this problem?? This is really starting to baffle me.
I know that email notifications for forums is coming up in a future version of BP, but it’s important enough to my BP community that I wrote a plugin to make it work now. Here it is: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/group-forum-subscription-for-buddypress/ (more info here http://teleogistic.net/2009/09/new-buddypress-bbpress-plugin-group-forum-subscription/).
Probably won’t work with 1.1 (we won’t be upgrading for a little while and we needed this functionality now, which is why I developed in 1.0.x) but I’ll be fixing that soon. Hope it’s useful to someone out there.
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Hey guys, I’m new to WordPress and of course Buddy Press. I recently installed buddypress 1.1. The issue I”m having is the layout of the first screen a user comes to when they log in.(I’m using the default buddypress theme) When a user logs in to their blog, it gives them their home screen, asking them to add widgets to the different sections. How can I (if possible) have the widgets of my choice installed for all users, so that they don’t have to choose any. I checked all of the WPMU settings and Buddypress settings with no luck. Any help would get appreciated. Thanks
I think the comparison, in that case, would be wordpress vs. drupal, and then drupal social vs. buddypress…
Just released my first major plugin: BuddyPress External Group Blogs
“Give group creators and administrators on your BuddyPress install the ability to attach external blog RSS feeds to groups.
Blog posts will appear newest first, regardless of the blog in an easy to use browser with AJAX pagination.
New posts on external blogs will be displayed on the group and new posts will appear on the group and site wide activity stream.
Built using the new group extension API in BuddyPress 1.1″
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/external-group-blogs/
You can probably imagine it’s a rather large and complicated plugin, but when it’s ready for beta it will make it into the WordPress plugin repository for download and feedback.
I’ve added a new plugin at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/auto-join-groups/
Automatically join a member to a group based on a profile field. For example, say you have a profile field where the person selects his state from a drop down list. If he selects, New York, he’ll be automatically added to the group New York. Or, if you have a profile field for “Favorite Animal” and the member selects “Dog”, you could automatically have him become a member of the group “Dog’s Rule” and “Best Dog Food”.
Comments and suggestions are welcome!
I’ve posted a new plugin at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypressbbpress-email-notification/
“Extend the features of a BuddyPress and bbPress installation. When a new topic is created in a BuddyPress Group, all members of the group will receive an email notification about the new topic. When new replies are added to the topic, anyone who has posted in that topic will receive an email to notify them about the new post.”
I appreciate comments, suggestions, etc!
Thanks, guys! You are very helpful. May I still drill a bit deeper?
@Mike Pratt:
the WPMU folks have been on fire lately, not sure what slow dev universe you speak of
I was under the impression that a significant fraction of all commits from the sole committer are simply merges from wp.org’s trunk or tiny bug fixes. Care to share any pointers to other signs of activity, perhaps a road map of sorts?
Of course, if you don’t want to do any work under the hood…
Oh, I’m not that naive but rather looking for war stories from real life BP admins to help me gauge the resource requirements. Setting up a test site for a fistful of dummy users did not really help in this guesstimation.
Also, consider that because BuddyPress uses WordPressMU which is compatible with most of the normal WordPress plugins out there, you have an existing free library of pretailored website features and upgrades that jump-start your development time.
On a large scale, using plugins like HyperDB and donncha’s cache plugin can help manage server load… Consider that wordpress.com uses a codebase very similar to WPMU to manage millions of users and blogs and activity, and it’s easy to see that WordPress is capable of handling a ton of pages and data… BuddyPress also now powers the http://profiles.wordpress.org pages too, so you can see how it handles tens of thousands of users there as well.