I am running wordpress mu on a godaddy hosting, everything is fine! installed succesfull (before I used wordpress so I am new to mu).
The problem is I follow the instalation steps of installing the bp, but corect me if im wrong, I need to see the plugin in my Plugins option from the admin, right?
Well I cant see a damn thing there!
Another weird thing is that mu says to use wp-content/plugins and the bp says to use wp-content/mu-plugins.
I am so confused, anyway I tried to both method but I have nothing in my admin menu/plugins.
Can someone please explain to me to how to attach the bp to mu step by step?
I am downloading the core and then ? where should I put it so I can see it in the admin site menu ?
Please help, i’ve lost my whole night trying to fix it!
Regards,
Alex
The home theme is just a WordPress theme, (with a couple of new template files if you want to use the directories).
Member themes are used for all pages that are not blog related.
Try this. It hasn’t been updated in a while by the looks of things but I have it installed in /mu-plugins and it works well.
Hi ! I saw that there was a WordPress Facebook connect plugin.
But it creates a profil page wich is conflictual with Buddypress’s ones, and more over it is not usable with Buddy press. But wuth little work it coul de used (and usefull !) with buddypress :
the invite friends and connecting with facebook login are really great for a community.
Is there a way to implement Facebook connect with Buddypress ?
Will an official plugin will be released, or is someone planning to make a facebook connect plugin for buddy press ? If I knew how to code I would make it myself … 
Thanks for your answers 
yes,
http://testbp.org/news
that is the standard theme applied to the initial blog.
Be warned, you may have problems with some features. It is not recommended to be used on normal wordpress.
is there a BuddyPress WordPress theme?
I want a theme for my blog that will look similar to the social network.
I figured out the problem…I had to deactivate the all in one seo pack plugin. I am running wordpress MU 2.7 and the latest trunk of buddy press. Apparently something was conflicting with that plugin. Now everything shows fine! thank you for your help!
Sometimes when my test members login it goes to the traditional wordpress backend instead of the Buddypress members theme…how do I stop it from doing that? I want it to only go to the Buddypress members page/theme and not the traditional wordpress backend page. Can any one help? Thanks so much!
bbPress does this by default for mods and admins, so it should be that hard to duplicate. Not sure about plugin though. Have you looked through https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ ?
My 2 cents… Buddypress is built upon WordPress and WordPress MU. If I didn’t like the architecture of WordPress and had concerns with it’s performance to begin with, I probably wouldn’t spend to much time on Buddypress. On the flip side, if I was creating a social compliment to WordPress, I would keep the architecture similar as to take advantage of upgrades, the huge community and extending the system through plugins.
In creating systems in the past, I haven’t designed this way, but I completely understand why Buddypress has made this choice. And I’ll use it. 
There are many places that you can discuss this that I mentioned above including the wpmu, hackers, wordpress & other lists if you want to further discuss this.
WPMU forums as well as in the WPMU Advanced Forums as well as on the WPMUDEV Premium Forums
WordPress MU is configured well, just had to put these lines :
AddType x-mapp-php5 .php
AddHandler x-mapp-php5 .php
In the htaccess of the server, so that I don’t have any 500 errors in admin
I guess Buddypress is not pointing to the right thing when it wants to create the tables, but there are no errors displayed
If someone can be kind enough to send me the basic sql table that are put in our database right after the good install of buddypress, maybe I could go on testing other stuff…
Thanks burtadsit for the quick answer ^^
Hi, I’ve tried to install WordPress MU & Buddypress on a 1and1 server I got,
All is going well, but when I tried to create a group I discovered that the tables of BuddyPress were not created at all in my database
Anybody know a way to fix that ? Do I have to manually create those tables ? If yes what’s the beginning of the table name ? (like wp_bp_groups)
Looking at is_404() and it’s brethren. These things are part of the wp_query lib that:
* The query API attempts to get which part of WordPress to the user is on. It
* also provides functionality to getting URL query information.
When trapping an url and gen’ing a page based on that virt url we aren’t in wp any more. I see in bp_core_do_catch_uri() that first a check is made to see if this is a blog page. That doesn’t work. The workaround for not gen’ing 404s for directories is to create a wp page that is ignored. We get the title for the page and the directory itself and no 404.
Looking at bp_is_blog_page() I see that all it does is detect if this is a member page, news or a bp component page. Return true else false.
So bp_is_blog_page() returns true for virt urls.
Thanks! I am not as advanced as SVN yet. I tend to beta my install and try to keep it up and running, it is a rodeo, but with my pay-grade of bagel it is all I can afford. So if I download the working version and ftp it to my server it should update the database when I get into the back-end for the first time? So I don’t have to run the update.php like in wordpress? That is good. Now, on a live install I know it is not a good idea to do this, but I am hoping the updates will stabilize my install. I am having conflicts with bp and wpmu and every other day something with apache or the conflict is taking my site down. http://www.theodoremedia.com So with no real formal training but self taught persistence, we are getting grizzly with this great product. Loving it, just have not tamed the bull yet.
thanks for help! I can’t wait until wpmu 2.7 is here, any dates yet for a release?
Chad
I have been having problems with my MU installation. I finally found a step-by-step ebook that explains the changes that have to be made to DNS and more. Here’s a link:
Installing WordPressMu – The E-Book
Very clear and easy to understand. Hope it helps.
Kelly
So It finish by working very well . In fact there is a problem where your WordPress MU/Buddypress is in a sub folder of your httpdoc. I think googlemap plugin don’t find the path for some javascript. When I put the cms on a direct folder all is working fine. Thanks bergsten for this amazing module .
A “mobile” Plugin will be nice: WordPress-App with full access til buddypress and a plugin, som du kan bruk til mobile oppdatering av Blog/Gallery. WordPress has a Mobblog-Function, not WPMU, but i think “mobile devices are the future”.
I am experiencing the same error. I have WordPress MU 2.6.5 installed and the BuddyPress Combo package, downloaded on the 5th of January 2009. There are no custom themes, just the default Wordrpess MU and BuddyPress theme.
What can be the problem?
WPMU 2.7 is available at mu.wordpress.org trunk (not offically released yet)
The BuddyPress.org site states that BuddyPress is being developed on the latest Trunk version of WPMU so I assumed that this stuff should show on the settings page.
I know a lot of people here are working off the 2.7 version. (look at testbp.org)
Is anyone showing these options on 2.7?
It can, but the amount of spam accounts will increase dramatically. The reason for sending the account password via e-mail is to prevent spammers from simply entering a known username and password and creating 1000’s of spam blog posts on wordpress mu.
I have a similar situation, where I have a current site with 15k users, username and passwords. What I used is this plugin. It works well on wordpress and buddypress.
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/external-database-authentication/
When a user logins, it checks my “other” database for the username, and validates the password against it. This means they don’t need to do the e-maiil thing, as their e-mail was already validated on the old site. It then creates the user in wordpress and the user doesn’t notice anything.
How you could do this for your friends, just make a table of all the friends, and set the same password for everyone initially, and ask them to change it. I only suggest this for very small beta sites with friends you trust, like less then 10 people.
Brad
http://gorgeousgamers.com/beta
Hopefully this will make sense
I have 4 directories, which I download the svn update to, and then copy them over to the live site:
/bbpresssvn
/buddypresssvn
/wordpresssvn
/privatedevsvn
By logging into the command line, I can do this
svn up
inside each of those 4 folders and it will update them to the newest trunk release. Then I run this command (or similar for buddypress)
cp -R * ../beta
and copy the files to the dev server. So far this has worked really well.
The private dev svn is where I upload my own plugins and themes I’m doing development on. This method is extremely fast as I never have to ftp any files between the internet, my laptop and back up to the web server. It does require command line access and knowledge of svn.
Hope this helps,
Brad
http://gorgerousgamers.com/beta
that worked, once again you are the man. thanks.
I think the thread you closed ended up being related to WP, not specifically BP, but the people on here are more responsive thann the wordpress.org board. It looks like my background is making that line….not sure how to tweak the .css to make it work right.
Apart from the BP-profile integration, each user can easily add a Google Map on their blogs using the tags in http://www.ezbizniz.com/wordpress-plugins/google-maps
I’ve also added the possibility to get markers from an XML-feed. If you, in the WP Google Maps settings, click on the “See example…”-link you see the URL to an XML-feed that will return markers for 20 of the users withint the viewport of the current map. You can use this to display a map on your front page displaying where the different members on your site lives.
In the “Marker XML Feed Fields” input field you can specify the names of the different fields of the markers returned by the XML-feed.
In the “Marker XML Feed HTML Pattern” you can set how the information will be presented when someone clicks on a marker.
I will write a more detailed description on how things work on http://www.ezbizniz.com/wordpress-plugins/google-maps when I get the time to do so.
