Hey:
I just began work on a WordPress Mu/Buddypress site. This came as a suggestion from a friend when I asked how to combine a Ning site and a WordPress site on same subjects. Right now, I’m trying to get everything working yet have several questions.
1) New users cannot register. It says /register does not exist…the option for new user registration is enabled.
2) How can I make all the site, including the Buddypress aspect to use same theme?
3) Is there a way to create events on Buddypress?
Well this is what I get in the list:
WordPress Classic (1.5)
WordPress mu Default (1.6)
WordPress mu Homepage (1.6)
Are you sure that you’re looking in the proper spot? The theme list you provided is what you see when you go to “Site admin > Themes”. These are the themes from which you can choose your home theme.
To choose your member theme, you need to go to the BuddyPress menu grouping all the way down at the bottom of the menu column. So, as Burt indicated, you would go to “BuddyPress > General Settings > Select theme to use for BuddyPress generated pages”.
You choose the member theme from the combo box. With a default BP install you should only see two theme choices: BuddyPress Default Member Theme (1.0.1)–this is the one you want–and, Skeleton BuddyPress Member Theme (1.2).
Are you saying that instead of those two themes showing up in the “BuddyPress > General Settings” menu area that you have the home themes you’ve listed above?
I moved bp-themes into /wp-content/ as directed but still got the error message.
Under the “Select theme to use for BuddyPress generated pages:” in general settings the option for using the ‘bpmember’ theme was not appearing. I could only select the default wordpress mu themes. I selected the ‘Default’ theme and then renamed the ‘bpmember’ folder to ‘default’ to get this working.
Eg:
..wp-content/bp-themes/bpmember/
Renamed it to this folder:
..wp-content/bp-themes/default/
This is probably a silly question but i want to check before getting started on plugins with my buddypress
Can I use any wordpress plugin or can I only use plugins made especially for BP (or maybe only plugins for WPMU)?
thanks!
@Jeff, you’re not getting the point. It’s not about custom BP slugs.
This permalink (or post slug) problem is something I hate about WordPress not being friendly to international users. Unlike wikipedia or amazon, WordPress seems to have a character limitation when used other than English, like Hindi or Asian characters.
So to answer your question @slicktig1, the only possible solution at this moment is to edit each by each through phpmyadmin. However with some hacks you should be able to edit category slugs if you search wpmu forum.
On group slugs, this is bp function, so not sure if the same wpmu hack applies or not. But at least there should be an alternative method to use postid than postname. (This is something we have to ask core developers).
Well this is what I get in the list:
WordPress Classic (1.5)
WordPress mu Default (1.6)
WordPress mu Homepage (1.6)
Because I looked there.
The latest version (v1.2.1) of the Skeleton Component for BuddyPress plugin developers can now be found on the WordPress plugin repository.
The latest version (v1.2.1) of the Skeleton Component for BuddyPress plugin developers can now be found on the WordPress plugin repository
Okay, several more questions?
Did you manually install BuddyPress or use WPMU’s plugin browser to install BP?
Did you restart the web server after making changes to the rewrite rules in the configuration file?
In your OP, you state that you have moved the bphome theme into /wp-content/themes/. Did you also move bpmember into /wp-content/bp-themes/?
Also, look near the bottom of this installing WPMU codex article for suggestions on Lighty rewrite rules: https://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WPMU
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Do you have two different accounts on bp.org? 
As far as the redirect loop question, it could be caused by many things. So, a few questions:
- Did you install WPMU as a directory or subdomain install?
- If a directory install, is it in root or in a subdirectory?
- You were having install issues beforehand. When you finally got this to work, could there have been old, incomplete install data leftover in your DB? Or, did you install into a fresh, new DB?
- What errors are you seeing in your server’s log files?
I did a quick Google and here are two links that explain a couple of possible causes:
https://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/9252/page/2
http://bradleyland.net/2009/04/wordpress-mu-redirect-loop-during-install/
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http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/sabre/
What should I do to appear in the registration test mathematically? Of course, using the basic skin BuddyPress.
Yours,
Marcin
PS Sorry but I do dont know English, I use translator.
johnetec-
I’m really not too sure what options you have at this time. But, I would strongly suggest that you contact each of the plugin developers and let them know of the issues you’ve had with uploading and cropping avatars in BuddyPress.
WordPress 2.8 will be using an updated version of jQuery. This may very well cause issues with plugins using older jQuery based scripts. Also, BuddyPress could be using a newer jQuery codebase than the plugins that you’ve mentioned. So, this issue will continue until the plugins are updated to a jQuery codebase that is compatible with BuddyPress.
Burt, I am fairly certain that bbPress allows for functions.php the exact same way that WordPress does. Including it in the header shouldn’t be necessary. Unless this changed recently and I wasn’t paying attention?
I wasn’t really thinking of tables. More like .htaccess. I don’t see any bp related issues. You might be better off asking for help at https://mu.wordpress.org/forums/
there are four original wordpress blogs in a folder off the root..(/maria/ being one of them, the others are linked in the blogroll section of her blog) then i have wpmu installed in the /profiles/ directory and that’s where buddypress is installed too
doesn’t seem like they should interfere or anything, they’re using different databases and different prefixes for the table fields.
The way it works on my other wordpress sites is that the password protected posts still appear on the site and in the heirachy of posts but when you click it it asks for a password before you see the rest of the information.
Ive done this with my buddypress site and password protected posts dont appear, not even in the members members blog page?
Apologies John.
I did sort it out…because the title was 2+2= the slug ended up being 22 which i think wordpress thought was a date/time etc because i did another few test blogs afterward and they all worked fine
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Hi,
Where is the core? It is mentioned everywhere in this forum and I can’t find it for the life of me. As a result, I am stuck, unable to follow the wonderful suggestions here.
I am using WordPress MU 2.7.1 and Buddypress 1.0.1
Thanks,
Brian
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Hey:
I have read and reread this forum post to discern how to find and edit the nav bar names.
I am using WordPress MU 2.7.1
Buddypress 1.0.1
Facebuddy theme
Burt says: “- header.php in both the home and member theme dirs bp_nav_items() > bp-core-templatetags.php function bp_nav_items() ” but when I look in my files in the control panel, I can’t find it anyhwere.
I know this is super easy but I think I am missing a very basic file breadcrumb trail.
wp-content -> themes -> facebuddy-home-theme -> ?
I have looked in file after file for Burt’s mention of bp-core-templatetags and there is no bp-core that I can see anywhere or any kind of templatetag. What am I missing?
Thanks,
Brian
Yeah JJJ – can’t wait!
All this hassle has made me realise that if I want the benefits of WordPress MU then I need to switch the ‘sliding’ components that were working on the old, standalone wordpress blogs to something that keeps up (well nearly at least!) with WPMU and it’s jQuery updates
Looks like you’ve got the blog on lock down for right now, so I can’t really help with your issue. My guess is that somehow the activity feed didn’t strip out the chars or give a good slug, so WordPress is going crazy with it, but I’d like to see it in action to make sure.
What DJPaul said, is true.
2.8+ versions of WordPress/WordPressMU do NOT need to use the cookie variable above.
Awesome. No sweat. Sometimes the WordPress back-end can be a little confusing at first.
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HI –
I seem to encounter this issue quite frequently with plugin installation.
I am using Buddypress 1.0.1
With WordPress MU 2.7.1
Theme: Facebuddy 1.0
Error:
Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 7680 bytes) in /home/xxxx/public_html/XXXXXX/wp-includes/kses.php(408) : runtime-created function on line 1
Result: plugin admin page view is completely removed and replaced with the fatal error message. Sometimes if I go to the Dashboard page, the left column (of the right section) is completely displaced and gone as well.
Fix: delete the plugins from the control panel.
Had this issue with Nicola’s Extra group plugin
Had this issue with Nicola’s Widgets plugin
Had this issue with bpcontents10a21
Currently installed and working fine widgets:
bpdevcore
bpdev flickr
bpdev tinymce
remove buddypress admin bar
TwitterToWire
Anyone else encounter this? Got any ideas?
Thanks,
Brian
