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Yeah, I used this tutorial instead: http://theeasybutton.com/blog/2009/07/17/integrating-buddypress-wordpress-mu-and-bbpress/

Bear in mind that I am not very skilled at BP/WPMU/bbP, so my answer to your previous question could be wrong !

You really need to understand buddypress…and maybe bit about WordPress. Everything is explained in readme.txt

1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, or whatever, BuddyPress stays in plugins directory as it’s a plugin for wpmu.

Using an existing WordPress theme will require work on your part. WordPress themes are designed for blogs, not for all the extra features that BuddyPress offers. You will be able to integrate the header and footer and overall look and feel, but specific features will still need CSS styles.

You can do whatever you want if you can code a plugin for your needs. I hear it shouldn’t be hard for wordpress plugin developers to make one for buddypress as they’re the same.

It’s fairly simple. If you don’t like an aspect of the default theme, edit it. The new theme architecture in BP 1.1 makes this easier than ever. I suspect over the remainder of the year we’ll see more BP themes being released.

If aren’t familar with how WordPress themes work, there are lots of documentation online and there are always people you can hire to create one for you.

All of this has been discussed on this site many times before.

To add further credence to the healthy, continued existence of WordPress Mu and the strength and solidity of BuddyPress, 8 months ago I went through the same investigation, searching out the strongest, best supported, most flexible open-source based platform with which to build out a very large social network. I decided that WPMU + BuddyPress was the solution for me.

Since that time, I’ve fully immersed myself in both platforms, even becoming a moderator on theses forums (as you can see). Over that 8 month period, WPMU and BP have become even stronger, have improved in numerous ways. They are both at the stage where I am now very confident in their foundation. My project is now a go and I am currently feverishly working on building my platform. I hope to be rolling out a beta of my “professional grade community” by the first of the new year.

So do not worry about the future of WPMU or BuddyPress. The future is strong, bright, and healthy.

Don’t believe the hyperbole around “WordPress MU being discontinued”. It is simply merging with WordPress and all the features will be provided under that version. The misinformation on the internet about this is ridiculous.

BuddyPress does not yet have image galleries, this will come in the next version. Mark Jaquith developed GigaOm, so perhaps you can ping him to find out more.

I also just noticed that buddypress profiles don’t import from wordpress profiles or vice versa. It takes enough tooth pulling to get people to complete one profile. Adding those fields to sign up would be good because required fields would also have some anti-spam benefits.

Okay, a few questions to start:

• From your description, it is not clear how you’ve attempted to debug your setup. When trying to figure out an issue with BuddyPress, it is best to distill your environment down to the lowest common denominator. This means switching to the default BP theme and deactivating all plugins except BP. It is not clear if you did this completely or just partially. In other words, you need to fully test your BP install without any 3rd-party addons. If it works in that state, then you can safely assume it is an issue with a custom theme, another plugin, or both. So, did you reset BP to its lowest common denominator?
• What errors are you seeing in your server’s log files?
• Could you please provide details about this setup:
  

  I have Buddypress installed in a subfolder with another wordpress installation in the root…

DO NOT use installers other than default wpmu plugin installer. Install buddypress from wordpress plugin installer, or set it up manually with FTP/SSH.

And make sure to activate the theme before you select themes. Which is explained in wpmu documents.

My approach is kind of weird.

First:

I needed a custom BP framework. So I started looking at the old Skeleton Theme. The first thing I noticed is that I didn’t want a fixed layout BP theme, so I removed all sidebars in each template file and wrapped the content inside a function.

This means that every template file of my BP theme was something like this:

<?php

/* my license ... GPL2 of course  */



function this_file_content() {

?>

just the content of the page, without sidebars

<?php

}



my_layout_generator( 'this_file_content' );

The magic is in my_layout_generator, which defines the html layout of each page. This includes sidebars and other stuff. The sidebars are fully widgetized, and I have custom widgets like “BP Options Bar” and “BP User Bar”, etc. Their content is also managed through actions.

my_layout_generator can mimic any WordPress theme, you just have to write the “skeleton layout” of your target theme.

Second:

This BP framework must be integrated with the WP theme. I setup the framework as child-theme and the original WP theme as parent theme.

Considering this, my_layout_generator has the following body (simplified from the original):

function my_layout_generator( $content_func = '' ) {

get_header();



?>

<div id="container">

<?php

if ( !empty( $content_func ) && is_callable( $content_func ) )

call_user_func( $content_func );

?>

</div>

<div id="sidebars">

<?php // your sidebars code ?>

</div>

<?php



get_footer();

}

This uses the original theme headers and footers. I just need to provide the correct markup in the content!

There are other things to care about, like page title. Probably the header of the original theme uses wp_title instead of the BP title. Luckily, wp_title can be filtered! This is actual code from my framework:

add_filter( 'wp_title', 'gs_wp_title' );

// we need to put the current page title on the wp_title filter, so thesis will catch it

function gs_wp_title($title, $sep = '', $seplocation = '') {

if ( bp_is_blog_page() )

return $title;



global $bp;



if ( !empty( $bp->displayed_user->fullname ) ) {

$title = strip_tags( $bp->displayed_user->fullname . ' — ' . ucwords( $bp->current_component ) . ' — ' . $bp->bp_options_nav[$bp->current_component][$bp->current_action]['name'] );

} else if ( $bp->is_single_item ) {

$title = ucwords( $bp->current_component ) . ' — ' . $bp->bp_options_title;

} else if ( $bp->is_directory ) {

if ( !$bp->current_component )

$title = sprintf( __( '%s Directory', 'buddypress' ), ucwords( BP_MEMBERS_SLUG ) );

else

$title = sprintf( __( '%s Directory', 'buddypress' ), ucwords( $bp->current_component ) );

}



return $title;

}

Now we have an integrated BP theme framework Mine is integrated with Thesis, I think other themes will be much easier to integrate because you can directly copy their layouts from their template files.

I don’t understand the problem here.

@wordpressfan: your bug is related to the achievements plugin by the look of that error, not BuddyPress itself.