So, when I install Buddypress; does it take over the whole MU blog system, or is just confined to one of the MU blogs?
Because I have several WordPress MU blogs, but I only want one of them to be forums.
Is that possible? Or do I need to make a whole separate MU setup for that to happen?
You state in the thread that you link to above:
I had originally installed my wordpressmu under /wordpress-mu/ but then moved it to the root later.
By making that simple directory switch, you’ve basically changed your site URL structure and messed up the DB.
Read this entire WordPress Codex article, paying specific attention to the “Changing the URL directly in the database” section.
Always backup your DB before making any changes–installing new plugins, upgrading, altering code in files, altering data directly in the MySQL tables, etcetera. You never know when some seemingly trivial change might mess up your entire install.
thanks..so if I’m using, say, carrington-blog for my wordpress home theme, then it would go in the carrington-blog directory? If so, I just tried that and it always results in a page not found. Am I doing something wrong? Note, I have the code in the functions.php file (which is in the carrington-blog folder) and the file it points to in that folder as well – as per your instructions…thanks
Installed buddypress 1.0.3 on wordpress mu 2.8.4 running on a windows 2003 server with IIS 6 and php 5.2.9.9
WordPress mu is running smoothly, except for the buddypress.
I get following javascript error:
Bericht: Object doesn’t support this property or method
Regel: 2
Teken: 2
Code: 0
URI: http://domain.com/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-core/js/widget-members.js?ver=2.8.4
Do I have to install some jquery thing before using buddypress?
Any ideas?
I’ve got BuddyPress installed on my local mamp installation and have got a problem with white screens.
Whenever I try to
-Save Changes in the group settings
-Post a message on a group wire
-Send a message
-Post a new topic on the group forum
I get a blank page. Often the settings are saved and I need to reload to get to the screen I need to see.
Sometimes I get this “Are you sure you want to do this?” from the WordPress backend after reloading.
I’d be very happy for any hints in the right direction as I think it also prevents me from have the group forum working although I have followed these instructions very carefully:
http://umwblogs.org/wiki/index.php/Integrating_WPMu%2C_BuddyPress%2C_and_bbPress#Integrating_BuddyPress_Group_forums_with_bbPress
And the whole rest of the deep integration works perfectly.
From the topic you referenced, it sounds like you moved the location of your WordPress files.
It seems harmless enough, but it can cause a whole world of hurt (like you’re finding out now.)
Sadly there isn’t a magic reset button to make everything go back into alignment, so chances are that to get things up and running you’re going to be debugging and manually editing some database entries.
If keeping your existing data is important, and you’re in over your head, then it’s time to hire a professional to snoop around and see what they can salvage.
@allenweiss, both of the files need to go in your active WordPress HOME theme, not your bpmember theme.
It definitely gives a nice little added polish to the widgets.
If you’re familiar with Trac, SVN, and the WordPress Coding Standards, you could give a go at creating a patch to have stuff like this implemented into the core for you, to your credit of course.
If you’re not familiar with the above but would still like to see these changes make it into the core, send me a PM and I’ll put together a patch for you using your plugin.
I take it you’d like to have a better integration between the bphome and the bpmember themes right?
All of this is going to be included in the September 1.1 update as Andy is implementing WordPress’ child theme possibilities.
Hello! I think I may need to re-install my wordpress-mu and buddypress because my wp-signup.php link doesn’t work -it’s on a strange redirect. (The issue located here: http://buddypress.org/forums/topic/new-registrations-not-working?replies=4#post-23161 )
What are the steps for re-installing my wordpress-mu and buddypress, which is all integrated with bbpress as well? Can I do it easily and retain the integration and information I’ve already put in there?
This is something that I just did on our site and I thought that others might find it useful.
In standard WordPress / WPMU the comment notification email that is sent to a post author has the commentors name in the from name field of the mail. This is convenient, because you can easily see who’s making comments in your email inbox (e.g. on your phone).
Buddypress adds a filter that removes this name and replaces it with <site name> for all outgoing mail (from wp_mail()). You can see this filter, ‘bp_core_email_from_name_filter’, in ‘bp_core.php’.
I replaced that filter with a custom version that only sets the from name to <site name> if the from field is empty, or if it is “WordPress”. It appears to work fine.
Here is the code. If anyone sees any potential side effects, I’d love to know about it.
/* replace bp_core filter that sets all from fields to [site name] */
function replace_email_from_name_filter() {
remove_filter( 'wp_mail_from_name', 'bp_core_email_from_name_filter' );
add_filter( 'wp_mail_from_name', '_core_email_from_name_filter' );
}
add_action( 'init', 'replace_email_from_name_filter' );
function _core_email_from_name_filter( $from_name = '' ) {
if ( $from_name == '' ) {
$from_name = get_blog_option( 1, 'blogname' );
} else if ( $from_name == 'Wordpress' ) {
$from_name = get_blog_option( 1, 'blogname' );
}
return $from_name;
}
I put this code in ‘bp-custom.php’, which in turn goes in ‘wp-content/plugins’.
@dwpers – Actually I want it the other way around. I don’t want my users blogs integrated into the bp site, but want bp integrated into my user blogs. While it sounds like a ‘trivial’ difference it is not.
I’m trying to figure out how to give each blog owner their own buddypress sub-community. With the new theme system for bp coming out, it should be much easier to integrate bp into my current website themes. Then I would like to only display members/groups/forums/etc that ‘belong’ to that particular blog.
Think of it from ‘how would wordpress.com integrate buddypress?’
If they simply just had a ‘huge’ community that everyone was a member of, kind of how ning did it on their ‘home’ site, then no one would ever really be interested. I’m more suspecting that buddypress would become a plugin that each blog would activate on their own to build their own ‘sub-community’. Though I am pretty sure that wordpress.com would follow the ning example and automatically have all members of all blogs become part of a larger community behind the scenes. Whether they know it or not.
Am I off base here?
BP 1.0.3: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bpgroups
Future versions: forum integration method has changed totally, I’m not sure and I haven’t tested if the above is still necessary.
Hi all
I’m experiencing the same two issues ( alphabetical list does not list any users, and the message ‘No members found. Members must fill in at least …..’)
The member search facility on the Members page also does not work for me.
Using WordPress MU 2.8.4 + BP 1.0.3. Clean install, have never re-installed or deleted anything off the site yet.
One thing that ‘may’ make a difference is that I’m running Normal WordPress as my main, publicly viewable site, and the WordPress MU in a subfolder off the root. The database table names are different though, so I doubt there’s a conflict. For the standard WordPress install I used ‘wp2_’ as the table prefix.
Some of you may have seen I’ve been trying to get security working smoothly across the stack.
(I hate security programming btw but it has to get done.)
These patches should help ease some MU <-> BBpress frustrations.
I know for a lot of you this has been a problem and this is important as all of you guys are most likely running MU and BBpress for BP forum functionality.
::Your the best::
BuddyPress has by far the best team of Devs, Mods, and Contributors of any of the apps in the Automattic stack. Maybe because it’s the nature of the app? I can hardly get a hold of any of the leads from Mu or BB.
::The horses mouth::
One Spanking good piece of info not in the trac notes: The patches also allows silo’d proper ssl flagged loggins per MU site with bbpress. It plays nice with multi-site.
::Requirement::
You need to make this change to the bbpress integration plugin:
function bbpress_integration_set_bb_cookies( $uri, $expire = false, $expiration = '', $user_id = '' )
{
if ( !$uri_parsed = @parse_url( $uri ) ) {
return false;
}
$secure = false; //Default no auth
if ( force_ssl_login() || force_ssl_admin() )
{
$secure = true; //Will create secure flagged cookies
}
::The Patches::
http://trac.mu.wordpress.org/ticket/1107
http://trac.bbpress.org/ticket/1136
http://trac.bbpress.org/ticket/1190
::If it don’t work::
Don’t blame me! 
::If It does::
Be Happy!
Thanks a lot ‘r-a-y’ Works like a CHARM !!
BuddyPress 1.0.3+ requires WordPress MU 2.8+
Hello everyone,
Today, I installed buddypress and I tried to create a group with a discussion forum. When I tried to do that, buddypress told me that I needed to install bbpress with a link. That link lead towards /wp-admin/admin.php?page=buddypress/bp-forums.php.
I’ve chosen the option to do a new installation as I didn’t had it installed, and it told me to create bb-config.php with the following code:
$bb->custom_user_table = “wp_users”;
$bb->custom_user_meta_table = “wp_usermeta”;
$bb->uri = “http://blogconnect.org/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums/bbpress/”;
$bb->name = ” Forums”;
$bb->wordpress_mu_primary_blog_id = 1;
define(‘BB_AUTH_SALT’, “6d5a3b103819f484c203070c2a7ca070fb047017744fe516325b6b9eb31813c1”);
define(‘BB_LOGGED_IN_SALT’, “923e1501ee58eaa231c781a75037e463b8e54e168c254b620b3f7e015b93ea3b”);
define(‘BB_SECURE_AUTH_SALT’, “9053bce011ae7c74bbc27a733e9daae06c9246d4e611dc8415aea71fb705aa70”);
define(‘WP_AUTH_COOKIE_VERSION’, 2);
?>
and place it into the root folder.
I did so and went back, and saw that I could enable discussion forum for the group according to buddypress.
http://files.uploadffs.com/7/21317a50/before.jpg
and when I press the save changes button:
http://files.uploadffs.com/7/169171c1/after.jpg
Please help me solving this matter, as I really want the discussion forum option to work.
Regards,
Martijn Kouwenhoven
Thanks a lot for helping me out!
Until you posted this thread was 8 months old. You can localise BuddyPress in the same standard way which you do WordPress. I am aware someone has a new plugin in the works which, despite me not fully understanding what it does, sounds like it will be useful to run multilanguage BP sites.
In the interim, however, I’m closing this thread. If you want to continue to discuss any specifics please find a more recent thread or start a new one.
I don’t think anyone has tried anything like BP-Mu, and I am very doubtful that the internals would support such a thing without serious hacking.
BuddyPress *does* use the existing WordPress user tables/routines, etc. I have no idea what you mean by “separate user system.” You can just remove the BuddyPress /register files and use the WPMU user registration.
There’s no guarantee BP 1.1 will be released next week. Soon, but I’d advise not getting your hopes up.
As far as I’m aware, there’s no issues with running BP on a blog ID other than 1. If you want to be certain, download the current trunk copy and test it out; it’s not too late for bug fixes to go in.
If their content is from another WordPress blog, then it is possible.
You’ll want to look up WordPress to WPMU guides.
Here’s one that I’ve used in the past:
http://welcome.totheinter.net/2008/10/04/how-to-migrate-from-wordpress-to-wordpress-mu/
I have installed a buddypress and my site is now ready.
Its a photography site & new member who want to join are interested in migrating their entire content ( hundreds of photographs ) to buddypress member blog.
I have read a few topics about migrating users.
But i would like to know about member blog…
Looks like there is a WordPress URL hack going around:
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/307660
Otto over at the WP forums suggests to upgrade as soon as possible, but I haven’t seen any reports on the WPMU forums yet.