Hello Andrea_r
I just installed BuddyPress v 1.0 2 days ago to a new WordPress MU install. Got it running fine except for the member blog theme thing where members have the default WordPress MU theme. I followed your instructions above and copied the bphome theme, changed the theme name, changed the style.css file header name from home to blogs and deleated the home.php file. I moved this new theme to /wp-content/themes folder and activated the theme. But when I go to a members dashboard and click on the theme to activate it, it comes up blank in the preview window.
Any ideas what went wrong?
Thanks Mark
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Since a few weeks my Buddypress installation got haunted since RC2 got installed. 404 links showed up for all bp slugs, including but not limited to the basics like members, groups, profile and all bp functions.
http://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=2314 Has more information about this topic.
Now, to get around this problem, I’ve tried to install a test version, which does work; but doesn’t work anymore as soon as I migrate the data.
Is there anyone who has any advice, tips or tools which would make the migration of such database (of atleast 10 blogs) easier? Since restoring the RC1 database seems to break the RC2 and v1.0 BuddyPress installation. phpmyadmin could be used for this, although I was searching for a more specific solution towards WordPress MU (if exists).
@Sgrunt: I’m not completely convinced my problem is an exclusive Buddypress problem either ; since I’ve tried to upgrade the site and no slugs worked anymore.
The basic WordPress MU blogs -DO- work perfect though, after database migration; Buddypress seems to be giving a lot more problems with all of them 404 errors..
With exception the normal WordPress MU functions which seem to continue working..
from the WP org codex:
Using Localizations
In order to localize your installation of wordpress, create a directory named languages inside of wp-includes, if it does not already exist. Then grab the appropriate localization files from the Subversion Repository as described above. The main .mo file for the language should go inside the languages directory. Set WPLANG inside of wp-config.php to your chosen language. For example, if you wanted to use french, you would have:
define (‘WPLANG’, ‘fr_FR’);
i’ve this configuration on my MU+BP and all works fine.
The WordPress MU language file should be in /wp-includes/languages/ and you can change the language in your admin section of your wpmu install.
The BuddyPress language file (buddypress-xx_XX.mo) should be in /wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bb-languages/ the xx_XX should be the same as on the file in /wp-includes/languages/ since BP gets the language setting from WPMU…
You don\’t have to edit anything in your wp-config.php file!
All of this is for WordPress MU 2.7.1 and BuddyPress 1.0. I don’t know how it is with older versions…
HTH
Regards,
RuneG
update: Tried too with BuddyPress v1.0 with the same results… 404 errors on the social slugs…
Anyone around knowing a good tool to export/import the database of WordPress MU/Buddypress so I’d not need to do all this manually? I know I’ll be making errors because there are minimally 10 blogs to move.
@Kogigr;
AFAIK, you have to use the same language in WPMU as in BuddyPress. BuddyPress gets the language setting from WPMU. There is some info about the greek WPMU translation here, but I don’t read greek, so it’s not necessarily the info you need 
But you’ve named the file(s) right, you only need the .mo file in your bp-languages folder.
So basically you need to use the same language in WPMU that you want to use in BP. So get the greek WPMU translation, upload it to you WPMU install, and change the language in you admin section…
HTH
Regards,
RuneG
Thanks for helping jeff.
Say I have a site containing some of the same sections as on this site and the standard buddypress theme:
Home | About | Blog | Members | Groups | Blogs | Profile (users profile)
The BP-home theme (regular wordpress theme) would that be controlling the ‘Home’, ‘About’ and ‘Blog’ sections?
While Bp-member theme would be controlling sections like ‘Members’, ‘Groups, ‘Blogs’ and the ‘Profile’ section for each user?
Or is it the bp-home theme that controls all the sections. Meaning ill just have to integrate buddypress tags/loops to the different pages that I create on my bp-home theme?
The span is used to inject the actual time-since, as this is not stored in the database. If you remove the span it’s going to break the output (which is why you won’t find it in any template files).
Is there another way you can do this? There is a filter on the output if you know how to use WordPress filters.
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My friend and I run a local community website for our city and would love to add BuddyPress functionality for our readers. The first snag we’ll come across is that we’re using WordPress 2.7 (not MU) so we’re left with two choices: 1) Switch to WPMU/BP or 2) Install WPMU/BP in a subdirectory.
My first question is this: Am I right about our two choices above?
My second question is: Does anyone have a suggestion as to which route we should take? My concerns with switching completely to WPMU are: We have over 1000 posts, a dozen authors, thousands of comments, a few dozen pages and some advertisers that are very used to things being the way they currently are in terms of our theme, layout, etc. I’m also slightly concerned about the many plugins we have and whether or not things would smoothly translate. Plus, it seems like a TON of work to switch to a brand new install since our site has been around a while and has a lot of content.
The only drawback we have with installing WPMU/BP in a subdirectory is that we’d lose the ability to pull in BP features onto the homepage of our current site such as recent blog activity, avatars, etc. Is that correct or is there some way for the two to communicate even if on separate installs? I don’t know a whole lot about database structure and whether or not two installs could share a database and/or effectively communicate with each other.
Thanks so very much in advance to anyone who can respond.
-Todd
No, wpmu is in english.. I renamed the files to buddypress-el_GR.po and buddypress-el_GR.mo but still no change. The country code and language code are correct, because I found them in wordpress documentation.
I still don’t know what’s wrong, though..
I figured out that if you set the time settings in Settings / General and you have another language installed, it is getting resetted. When its default its fine by me, as soon as I adjust WPLANG into nl_NL the notice is back again.
edit: I uploaded the dutch pack to wordpress MU and got all fixed, only the Members widget (New tab) is showing [Adjust Time Zone]
Thank you for quick reply!
I’ll be waiting Hope it will be soon.
No, not yet. Future versions you would be able to, but I’m not aware of any timescale for this yet.
I have a site on WordPress and forum on bbPress. Can I add a “community features” to it with BuddyPress without installing WordPress MU?
Possible user error.
@Arturo – check this from the readme. You might have missed it to.
To install in WordPress MU (Forced Activation/Site-Wide):
1. Upload the wp-recaptcha folder to the /wp-content/mu-plugins directory
1. **Move** the wp-recaptcha.php file out of the wp-recaptcha folder so that it is in /wp-content/mu-plugins
1. Now you should have /wp-content/mu-plugins/wp-recaptcha.php and /wp-content/mu-plugins/wp-recaptcha/
1. Go to the administrator menu and then go to **Site Admin > reCAPTCHA**
1. Get the reCAPTCHA keys [here](http://recaptcha.net/api/getkey?domain=www.blaenkdenum.com&app=wordpress \”reCAPTCHA API keys\”) and/or the MailHide keys [here](http://mailhide.recaptcha.net/apikey \”MailHide keys\”)
Your not trying this with WordPress are you? (as opposed to WordPress MU)
You are trying to use BuddyPress with WordPress. BuddyPress needs WordPress MU which you can get from https://mu.wordpress.org/download/. In future versions, BuddyPress will work with regular WordPress but at the moment it doesn’t.
And before you ask ‘how long’, I suspect it will be quite a while before BuddyPress supports WordPress.
Liagk-
The primary resource for learning about translating WordPress files is here: https://codex.wordpress.org/Translating_WordPress
Also, some helpful forum threads:
https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=171
https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=1877
Finally, when you’ve completed your translation, it would nice if you would add and link in the codex: https://codex.buddypress.org/translations/
Is the height parameter a must, or can you leave it like (800, )?
No. You cannot leave the parameter blank. You could pass a variable into the space if you wanted, but it must have something.
When I tried to remove one WPMU folder I got the error message
“500 Can’t Remove Directory. Permission denied”.
A few questions:
- Have you checked the files / folder permission on your WPMU install? You should be able to delete everything that you personally upload to your public_html. Although, with shard hosting, there could be issues with apache owning certain files and folders.
- Are you using an automatic WordPress Mu install option from your hosting company? I’m not sure if any hosting companies offer that option for WPMU, but it’s worth asking.
The answer I got was WPMU does something at the Apache level and that I can’t do much about it unless mine is a dedicated hosting service.
- Have you contacted tech support for your hosting service provider and asked for their help? This WPMU forum post may prove useful in talking with tech support: https://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic.php?id=3173&replies=3#post-19388
- Have you considered changing hosting companies or upgrading to a more robust hosting plan? A VPS perhaps?
WPMU really does not do too well on a cheap hosting plan. Here is sage advice from andrea_r, a WPMU guru: http://wpmututorials.com/news/choosing-a-host/
I have a new installation now.
I think the width problem is to be fixed elsewhere.
Please consider these:
As far as figuring out what’s going on with your CSS, this is where the Firebug tool comes in very handy! It takes awhile to learn how to use it. But once you do, you can determine where a given div or class is pulling its instructions from and then temporarily override those selector parameters within Firebug and see how that affects the overall layout. It is a very powerful and useful tool!
Concerning CSS issues with IE6: my personal opinion is to not worry about supporting that browser anymore. It is just a big pain and too much work for too little return–less than 20% usage ( http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp ). Again, that is just my opinion.
Check out http://code.google.com/p/wordpress-geo-mashup/ , think about some donations and let Dylan know that u are also interested in a WPMU/Buddypress version of GeoMashup!
Here he is writing that he managed to get a first basic geoMashup Version working with WPMU/Buddypress:
http://code.google.com/p/wordpress-geo-mashup/issues/detail?id=19&colspec=Stars%20ID%20Type%20Status%20Modified%20Summary#c10
Importing blogs (your second bullet point) is part of WPMU and nothing to do with Buddypress. You can do this by visiting /wp-admin/import.php on your site as an admin user.
The first bullet point is something that at least person is working on, but I don’t expect to see anything released for a long time yet.
I will eat my hat if their isn’t an existing RSS widget for WordPress. Have a look through https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/.
Maythil-
You’re welcome–although I don’t know how helpful I’ve been.
With FTP, you should be able to go into your web root and do pretty much anything you want–that is assuming your hosting firm gives you FTP access privileges.
ie6 only displays 800px screens. is there a way to trick firefox or chrome into behaving like that?
Well, it seems that you are trying to do just that via the CSS. I’m not sure what the issue is though?
I suppose you could use JavaScript to force a resize of the browser window but this would only work for users you have javascript enable (most do) and have not set the Firefox Option that prevents a script from moving or resizing a window. Look here: http://schleichermann.wordpress.com/2009/02/04/javascript-resize-window/
Another great FireFox Add-on is the Web Developer Tools. It may help you gain more insight into what is going on!
Hi there,
when following the upgrading instructions I forgot to activate the new plugins after uploading them manually. Instead I continued with all the theme changes right away [edit: on the ftp-server].
After all, I can not log into my MU installation at all – there is just a blank screen. I tried to bring the old files back in place – without success.
Is there any way that I do not have to re-install all of WordPress MU in order to get back my admin panel??? *argh*
