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I was wondering if you were using single-user WordPress.

I’m assuming that was just the regular wordpress install and not wordpress MU. Could that be the issue I’m having? If so, what do I do to rectify it?

BuddyPress currently works only with WordPress Mu. How do you rectify it? You install WPMU. Here are some more details on how to do that.

Once WPMU is proeprly installed and working, you install BuddyPress.

And what did people on wpmu forum say about this?

I’m almost positive this is a bug in FF3.5 and it’s understanding of shorthad “font” declarations.

This is fixed in the latest default themes in 1.0.2.

This is what you need to do:

Find the “html {” declaration in the CSS files, and look for the “font:” part. Delete it and replace it with this:

font-size: 11px;

font-family: "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;

Then find the “body {” declaration, and replace the “font” part with:

font-size: 12px;

Do the same in both your WordPress and BuddyPress theme.

Or you could use a widget plugin like Widget Logic to control where and when a widget should show up in your sidebar.

Me too looking for same plugin if that would be available it would be great because of this facility i have turned to elgg from buddy press.

But i want to use buddypress from bottom of my heart as die hard fan of wordpress.

Please guys do something about it.

Sam.

if you just want to hide the widget from non logged in users, just wrap a div around it in home.php. Register the widget area in functions.php in your template …you might want to start here. – https://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Widgets_Api

Best way to do this would be to integrate the P2 theme into your user blogs.

Ahh yes! Totally forgot about the P2 theme, John!

https://wordpress.org/extend/themes/p2

I forget if P2 puts a character limit on post entries like Twitter.

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Also I did some digging just now and the WPMU plugin that John and I are talking about is the “Menus” plugin by dsader:

http://wpmudev.org/project/Menus

This is a WPMU issue and not a BuddyPress-related one.

There are some great WPMU plugins by dsader that limit the WordPress backend:

http://wpmudev.org/user/56/

I suggest checking those out.

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Just read over your post again and you say you want to eliminate the entire backend? Off the top of my head, I don’t know if that’s possible.

I don’t think anyone has attempted this in BuddyPress yet, but I could be wrong.

Since you are talking specifically about altering how WPMU deals with blogs, I’d suggest posting this question on the WPMU forums so that their gurus can answer. Whereas you might receive an answer on the BuddyPress forums, the WPMU forums is the more appropriate place for such questions.

I advise that you first do a through search of the Mu forums before posting.

https://mu.wordpress.org/forums/

Ok, I tried installing and reinstalling and I can’t get or find anywhere: Site Admin > Options > Allow new registrations

Any other ideas?

This is a brand new install not adding to an existing wordpress account.

I suppose an “internal blog” for buddypress plugin

similar to wire, with simple post and comment

and not a “redirect” on complete wordpress blog

is right?

@el_terko:

Sorry for not being clear!

What I mean by “deep integration” is calling WordPress into bbPress. You can do this by doing what Necati above you said. Then you can just follow the steps I have listed above.

@Necati:

Thanks for posting that for everyone! My instructions weren’t the clearest!

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[EDIT]

I decided to post the full code again for clarity’s sake.

On line 2 in bb-config.php (located in your bbPress forum install), add this:

require_once($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/wp-blog-header.php');

Now, add this to your bbPress theme’s functions.php (if you do not have a functions.php file in your bbPress theme folder, create one!)

function recreate_bb_admin_bar() {

echo '<div id="wp-admin-bar">';

bp_adminbar_logo();

echo '<ul class="main-nav">';

bp_adminbar_login_menu();

bp_adminbar_account_menu();

bp_adminbar_blogs_menu();

bp_adminbar_notifications_menu();

bp_adminbar_authors_menu();

bp_adminbar_random_menu();

echo '</ul></div>';

}

add_action('bb_foot', 'recreate_bb_admin_bar');

add_action('bb_admin_footer', 'recreate_bb_admin_bar');

add_action( 'bb_head', 'bp_core_admin_bar_css', 1 );

add_action( 'bb_admin_head', 'bp_core_admin_bar_css', 1 );

I also made one last change to the function because it wasn’t XHTML validating before! See if you can spot the change

I’ve had no issues with the current trunk version of bbPress. bbPress has been so furiously updated the past few days/weeks, it’s hard to use a RC version because Sam updates the trunk minutes/hours after releasing it once someone finds a bug. Also with WordPress 2.8+ happening, and with cookies changing each time something new comes, bbPress integration has been a constant challenge for not just users, but developers also.

Things should start slowing down soon, but man is all this activity exciting!

Fact is, that BuddyPress can still only build off of the weaknesses of WordPress itself. What you’re trying to do can really only be worked around with smoke and mirrors, because WordPress itself doesn’t really care what your real name is; the fields exist simply to add depth to a username.

Short of developing your own MU/BP plugin to shift the emphasis, you’re out of luck. Usernames are 100% necessary, because it’s how you login and out of the site, along with your password. Usernames cannot include characters other than alpha-numeric, so you can’t use an email address either. This means they MUST create a username. You could make a plugin or modify your registration to force the creation of a username based on two fields (first name + last name) but that means you’ll need to tell the user what your website made their login name to be, instead of letting them make their own.

There really are only a hand-full of sites that don’t use some kind of username as a login, and in my opinion it makes more sense because not everyone uses the same email address for life, and what happens if I registered with my work email address and get laid off, and I need to login but forgot my password? Now my new password goes to an email address I have no access to. In this case, username makes the most sense, and is almost fail safe unless you’re REALLY having a bad day and forgot your username too.

What about people like me, that like to use their middle names? I get no respect I tell ya!

Seems really odd that your WPMU + BuddyPress installation somehow takes up over 30MB of memory.

You could try upping the available memory to say, 40MB or so, and see if that helps? Do a search here (or Google) for php.ini and hopefully that should help you on your way. There are a few things you can put there to help increase the available memory for your hosting package.

Basically you just make a file called php.ini and put it either in your WordPress root directory, or your wp-admin directory. I’m not sure it really makes a big difference, but I suppose it also depends where the errors are coming from mostly too.