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First change your home theme to a standard WordPress default theme, disable all other plugins, then try and delete.

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The upgrade process will remove a few BuddyPress tables that are not needed anymore in RC2. Don’t worry, though. All the important data is safe. So, as long as you have a recent backup of your DB, you’ll be fine.

As far as shutting down your site during the upgrade, I usually make a post the day before stating that I’ll be performing upgrades. Since it is should take no more than 10 minutes, usually it is not an issue.

But part of the upgrade process has been to delete everything except your wp-config file, various files in /wp-content/ (and of course your database), if someone attempts to go to the site during the upgrade, there may be no files to serve. So, with more established sites, I’ll stick an index.html file in root so that it will be served if someone comes while I’m upgrading. In that file, I have the logo and a “be back soon” or something like that message. This is overkill for most sites though.

Finally, you could look at the Lock Outplugin. I’ve never used it and I do not know if it works with WPMU 2.7+.

Good luck!

BuddyPress RC2 will consolidate your activity streams and merge the tables. It will also go through and add any additional settings that are missing and set them as default if for some reason they do not already exist.

As long as you have not hacked the core of your install, upgrading from RC1 to RC2 should not harm any of your existing data.

There is a built in maintenance mode when using the automatic update feature of WordPress, but for something manual (such as RC1 to RC2), I might recommend something like…

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/maintenance-mode/

i think the problem your having is the fact that p2 is not a “buddypress theme”

like in the main theme how it has a large widget area and 2 small ones, and also has a BLOG tab where the main blog is

the problem your having with p2 (and any other standard wordpress theme) is the BLOG tab is displayed on the main page rather than a large widget sidebar, as the recent blog posts thing is actually a widget, if you put this widget in your p2 sidebar you will see a direct comparison between the 2

currently you cant have a p2 “theme” that aggregates ALL blog posts like the buddypress widget does,

all the users will be posting to the main blog if you want them to use p2, and if you do then the current skin should be fine? it was designed to show comments

im sure you could add some nice jscript to add collapsing comments? this would probably bring better functionallity to your site if you didnt want the comments taking up the whole page?

there is a plugin to disable the dashboard but then obviously they cant edit the blog?

i think what your looking for is just plain wordpress (not mu / multi user) and buddypress which is upcoming, theres a thread about it in the forum if your interested, it would definately be worth a read and then base your decision on that

Anyway, updating to wpmu 2.7.1 first is ever better

RC2 this evening? sweetness!

I think i will have a fresh installation of the pair

Hmm files have been both added and removed. Whilst you could just upload/overwrite, that wouldn’t remove the files that have been removed. You’d have to check very very carefully.

Ergo I suggest you delete all your existing files but keep the database. Upload the new files, then visit the admin pages and it should update the database.

It would be great to have an option for setting events permalink structures. WordPress can’t afford to display non English permalinks (slugs) that are long unlike Amazon. So for example, I need to use event ID rather than event titles.

Hi, Paul, would there be a patch to upgrade to BP RC2,

or would it require a straight fresh install?

Wait for BP RC2 to come out this evening. Then do that

How could I go about adding the bp admin bar to the top of my wordpress back end admin pages?

There are some plugins that exist to mimic this functionality, but no, nothing exactly like what you describe yet.

The problem is translating post content, like categories, post titles, and body copy. There would need to be multiple versions of each item with the same slug, which isn’t currently possible with WordPress at the core.