Is the eshop plugin a buddypress plugin really? If it is designed to work with WordPress, it does not hook into the menu functions etc that BuddyPress uses. Contact the author of that plugin and talk to him/her about it.
What do you mean by “menus and new tabs”? If you create a plugin, you can add custom menu items related to your plugin through various hooks (see the Skeleton Component for examples), but there are no built-in drag’n’drop functions for it.
Jeff,
Your analysis in the paragraph above outlines exactly what users can expect or aim to acheive with shared hosting. The fact that it can be installed and operated is one thing, providing a desirable user experience is another.
The restrictions on shared hosting though may allow for a WPMU installation but not provide enough flexibility for some BuddyPress plugins to work, but as you say too many variables to be discussed here.
If BuddyPress does end up supporting single-user wordpress I’m sure that the net will undoubtedly widen.
I’m running WordPress µ 2.8.2:
You are using WordPress MU 2.8.2.
I don’t know the version of BuddyPress but I downloaded the latest one (at this site)
The showcase site Wannanetwork’s community is down, there’s a news posting saying that they “have pushed the limits of WordPress” and that they are experiencing server problems.
I’d like to have Maxaud’s feedback on BP after running what seems to be a pretty high traffic site for months.
As for the “Showcase”, it deserves a cleanup, many sites are down
hatiro-
The reason that the specific question of the OP is a WPMU issue is that he was asking whether a shared hosting account will be sufficient to run BP. Since BuddyPress is a WPMU plugin, what matters, then, is whether WPMU can successfully run on a shard hosting account.
I provided several links for him to begin his education.
In short, of course you can install WPMU + BP + bbP on many shared hosting accounts. But, whether that will provide a desirable user experience or support more than a few 10s to 100s of active users depends on too many variables to be discussed here. The underlying functionality of WPMU is paramount to the overall site functionality. If your site’s access to server resources is too limited, you will have issues quickly.
Perhaps once BuddyPress supports single-user WordPress, the options for hobbyists, as you call them, will be better.
Thanks for responding DJPaul!
I guess the hook would be this:
user_register
Runs when a user’s profile is first created. Action function argument: user ID.
Or maybe this?
register_post
Runs before a new user registration request is processed.
I have a wish list of things I need to do with input from the registration form:
1. synchronize fullname with wp_usermeta firstname + last name
2. autogenerate username/blogurl from fullname
3. add new user to the ListMessenger mailing list
They all require taking input from the registration form, processing the input and then storing the results in specific database tables. I’m trying to puzzle together one or more plugins to do that.
Information on upgrading single-user WP to WPMU can be found on the WPMU forums.
As far as this question:
I have a good many members and would like to know how to add them as a community member or does this automatically do this on install?
BuddyPress does not do any importing of your existing members. There is a plugin that can help though: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/user-import-for-buddypress-all-fields/
I am not sure if that plugin is yet compatible with 1.0.3.
I think if you rename your /plugins and /mu-plugins (or whatever it’s called; the name escapes me) to something else, that’ll automatically deactivate them when WordPress tries to visit them. I think you have to visit your admin backend for this auto deactivation to happen.
OH! and when I went to check my error log to try and pin point the exact location of the error – all of my logs had been completely and totally WIPED. it showed zero errors. how weird is that?
Check you are looking at the correct file. Sometimes I chase errors then I realise I’m looking at an old log or the wrong file (doh!)
Hey James, thanks for the reply… I am pretty sure I could do it with a little help – it can’t be more complicated than forums platforms as you say… there is no ‘recipe’ out there yet so there is a chance to explore new territory 
I don’t really think it ‘competes’ – they are both GPL community platforms, ccHost being more niche for sure, but I think a social site with creative commons music functionality would be a killer direction for buddypress…
This seems to be a lifetime project for me (yesmate.com) – starting back in the days before wordpress, when open-source CMS were rare… I am in no hurry 
Perhaps it would be better to design some plug-ins for WP/BP that emulate what ccHost does (I know from trying to subscribe to an ‘editors picks’ feed on cMixter via my n95 that WP does RSS and pretty URLs better lol).
Peaces
Hi!
I’m Korea developer
developing in wpmu on multi-db conf.
has found the problem.
No signs in the blog multi-db conf.
(blog menu, random blog, my blog not found etc…)
Solution: “wp_blogs” the table “Buddy Press” DB in the directory has hard links to create the file.
If you have a good opinion of others would appreciate if present.
Thank you!!!
Your answer was very helpful to me
http://graduatebuddy.com/ uses WordPress MU 2.8.2, BuddyPress 1.0.3, bbPress 1.0
comment system needs to be improved, had to go to 9th page to post this comment, there should be a link somewhere of the top of first page, and the from should be at the bottom of every page intensedebate if could be made compatible would be a great plus
now the BuddyPress install:
http://graduatebuddy.com/
it uses a wordpress MU 2.8.2 , BuddyPress 1.0.3, bbPress 1.0
add_submenu_page( 'bp-core.php', __( 'Classifieds Setup', 'classifieds' ), __( 'Classifieds Setup', 'classifieds' ), 2, "bp-classifieds", "bp_classifieds_siteadmin_screen" );
gives me the url
http://127.0.0.1/kine/wordpress-mu/wp-admin/bp-classifieds
bp-classifieds.php is my main file and is under /plugins…
You need to ask that question on the Premium WPMU site. It is a 3rd-party project not supported by Automattic.
If you want a free multiple database engine, you can use HyperDB. This site runs on HyperDB. WordPress.com runs a highly-modified version of HyperDB.
Here are a series of articles written by Trent Adams, one of the BuddyPress moderators, that detail how to configure HyperDB:
http://trentadams.com/2009/04/18/hyperdb-explained-part-1/
http://trentadams.com/2009/05/08/hyperdb-explained-part-2/
I had a similar issue after upgrading to the latest stable version. Comment link worked in additional blogs not using bp-home theme, but didn’t work on main blog, simply clicked on comment link and got nothing.
Searched forums and this was the second post that was similar to my problem, but none of the solutions fixed it. After a bit of playing I noticed..
In the dashboard there is a check box on the right hand side of the main edit blog admin page in a box called Blog Themes next to: WordPress mu Homepage. After checking this [active] check box, comments worked and were visible after clicking in the main blog..
This may make sense to those suffering the same problem, sorry if its not that clear.
WordPressMU on multi-DB do people use?
Not view blog in multi-DB conf.
I need solution. T_T;
HI!!
I’m from Korea. I can’t write english well…
Using WordPress mu in multi-DB configration.
Not avaliable other blogs, random bolg and blog menu….
I think… diffrence wp_blogs DB connection and buddypress DB connection…
plz tell us how to resolve……..ASAP
And active in “Integration with WordPress” encoding error that data in wordpress DB..
thx…
I have this one on my plugin list and I have it activated sitewide but when I go to the ‘Invite Friends’ page and check one of the services it comes up without a username/email or password box? I am using version 0.8 of this plugin and Buddypress 1.0.3 and WordPress MU 2.8.2
I have a chat script that I am trying to integrate with buddypress.
It asks me to put the following code into the header of each page, after it’s been edited..
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE=JavaScript>
var init_user = "";
/* it defines the user name to login, you can get the user name from session or cookie for example var init_user=<? php echo $_SESSION['username']; ?>; */
var init_password = "";
/* it defines the user password to login, you can get the password from session or cookie for example var init_ password =<? echo php $_SESSION[password]; ?>; if leave the init_password empty, it means login to the web messenger as a guest */
</SCRIPT>
What I can’t figure out is what to put into the
init_user =
init password =
I’m guessing that buddypress/wordpressmu has a function that would be used in place of
<? php echo $_SESSION['username']; ?>
the same goes for
<? echo php $_SESSION[password]; ?>
I have looked in the header code for the home theme, and it seems I needed to look in the userbar.php file which I did for the function or whatever it’s called to use there, but could not find it.
Could someone please assist me?
If it helps the installation instructions I am following are from
http://www.123flashchat.com/123webmessenger-quickstart.html
thank you
FYI “So, WPMU 2.8.2 with BuddyPress 1.0.3 on localhost on Windows using XAMPP 1.7.1 I have installed GD Star Rating 1.5.7, and activated it site wide. I created 5 test blogs. At this point I was able to test administration panels GDSR adds, thumbs and standard ratings in both posts and comments. I will get to multi sets in the next few days”
via
http://www.gdstarrating.com/2009/07/27/wordpressmu-buddypress/
Sorry, but I forgot to say that I use WordPress 2.8 and the newest version of BuddyPress
Thanks,
coldjippie
