I have installed wordpressmu a few times now, as the first few times I thought I had installed it wrong.
This time after installing, I followed the directions, created a new blog, made a post, and a comment. Everything seemed to work perfectly.
Then I installed bussypress, and it’s all messed up.
problems.
1. When I click on a blog ‘shawn’s thoughts’ instead of going to shawn.mydomain.com the link stays right where it is. *(This did NOT happen prior to installing buddy press)
2. If I manually goto shawn.mydomain.com I get the following error:
To enable the blog directory you must drop the “plugin-template.php” file into your theme directory.
Can someone look at my demo site to see what is wrong?
I’m guessing it’s a simple fix somewhere
thanks
buddypress demo:
http://www.annointed.net/blogs/
Thanks. I think the previous template didn’t have that. I think im using 2.6.5 as i still have the message “WordPress 2.7 is available! A new version of WordPress MU will be available soon.”
If a user logs in via the mail link “http://paulka.runningfree.co.za/wp-login.php” there is no bbpress admin bar, is this correct?
How does one get to paulka.runningfree.co.za/wp-admin/ with out using the email link? As i understand the options pages from the bbpress bar only change the profile seen http://runningfree.co.za/members/name-of-member/….
I am a bit confused? I have these in my wp-config for mu.wordpress–do I use these:
define( ‘AUTH_SALT’, ‘gggggggggggggg’ );
define( ‘LOGGED_IN_SALT’, ‘ggggggggggggg’ );
define( ‘SECURE_AUTH_SALT’, ‘gggggggggggggggggggggg’ );
or the ones in:
domain.com/wp-admin/options.php
which one’s do I use? They are different from each other…
And then do I just update my phpadmin tables? Currently, I am using the 2nd option, but there is no connection. Thanks
I’m going to be focussed primarily on getting OAuth into WordPress for the next bit, so won’t have a lot of time to look into this myself. If you all find any problems in the plugin that need to be patched in order to work with BP, do let me know. Best bet would be to ping me directly (willnorris.com).
Will Buddypress work with the Multi-Site Manager Plugin:
http://wpmudev.org/project/Multi-Site-Manager
We use WordPress MU as base for our network of blogs as its much easier from an admin point of view than having many seperate wordpress installs.
Is it possible to use multiple domains with Buddy Press and limit the social interaction to each blog/domain?
burtadsit, but this feature needs to be looked at because we can use most of the wordpress plugins and its very handy for users!
I hope Andy could shed some light on this…
Guys,
I’ve got a solution!
go to:
http://www.callum-macdonald.com/code/wp-mail-smtp/
and download this plugin:
Download: Current Testing Version: 0.8.2, Released 14/Dec/2008
activate the plugin and call up the “Email” page on your dashboard
check: Send all WordPress emails via SMTP.
bluehost users enter:
“localhost”
465
check: Use SSL encryption.
check: Yes: Use SMTP authentication.
username: noreply@yourdomain.com [this is the important part…make sure to enter “noreply” and that you have an email setup up for this on your server]
password: the password you set up for noreply@yourdomain.com
you may be able to change other settings using those lines of the bp_core.php files but at least these emails will come from your domain now! YAY!
This topic might get more attention if you post it in the WPMU forums as it isn’t a buddypress related issue.
https://mu.wordpress.org/forum/
I love that idea! Thanks @danielfelice! I tweeted it and hope others might start using it as well since there is no repository yet. You can also encourage people to submit their themes to http://themes.wordpress.net as well for great access 
Trent
@gpo1 That’s what doesn’t work. The bp member theme isn’t a normal theme. That seems to be the problem. A normal theme does a bunch of *something* that the bp member theme doesn’t. The mu widget stuff is confused. Doesn’t know what blog id it’s on. Doesn’t like registering a sidebar in it. Dunno what it is, but it’s something.
I did what Burt suggested, commenting out those lines, and it helped slightly. The email now comes from the address I designated in the WPMU settings. However, the email says it is From: WordPress and not from my site.
I need help on this issue,
<div class=’widgetcase’>
<?php if ( !function_exists(‘dynamic_sidebar’)
|| !dynamic_sidebar() ) : ?>
<?php endif; ?>
</div>
It works for normal wp..
I might be missing something?
@slaFFik I would check that you saved the right information in your WPMU admin for the forum user and that you have pingbacks and xmlrpc checkboxes on in bbPress. As well, you can’t have .htaccess blocking of your forums or it will not work. You can’t use the original force login plugin for bbPress (not mine) or it will not work.
You also have to make sure that you disable the forum for a group and then enable it after each and every change you make to try and get this working. If you enable it and then change more things it will not work. So basically, if it isn’t working, check over and change things to make sure it has the ability to work and then disable/enable the forum for a group. If you enable it and it isn’t working and then you change a setting so that it would work, but don’t disable forum posting and then re-enable, it still won’t work.
Hopefully that isn’t too confusing, but as long as all the settings are there and your WPMU install has access to the bbPress xmlrpc.php file, it should work. There is no doubt that Andy will eventually be doing more for the forums side of things, but it might be a couple of months.
Wish I had a magic wand to get everyone’s forums working, but really it boils down to triple checking all the settings and keep disabling/enabling forums for a group until it works.
As for the WPMU 2.7 download (before it is released), go to the bottom of the following page for the link to the zip.
https://trac.mu.wordpress.org/browser/trunk
Trent
Thanks Brad,
I is still not clear in my mind the difference for buddypress in group forum and site wide forum configuration
Should i still do these steps?
1) you have bbpress installed and a new user created on the “bbPress” side which you granted “administrator” rights by the keymaster
2) you copy the “buddypress-enable.php” plugin out of the bp-forums folders and copy it into your /my-plugins/ folder (create if it doesn’t exist) so it is /my-plugins/buddypress-enable.php
3) Enable the plugin through your bbPress administration side for plugins
4) Edit “settings” to enable xmlrpc and pingbacks (both)
5) edit your bb-config.php and just before the closing php call at the bottom of the page put:
$bb->bb_xmlrpc_allow_user_switching = true;
Do you still do these steps? Or skip these steps and just installed the bbpress and do common wordpress integration like cookie and user integration?
Thank you
I know it’s probably not going to be cheap, but I am willing to pay for a wordpressmu to vbulletin bridge if anyone here has the ability to write such code.
I am currently using the non-mu bridge for vbulletin and it works perfectly for me. The author said the bridge would not work for mu, and will not port it over. Frankly, I have not dug through mu enough to have a clue as to why it won’t work with the bridge. But I guess there is something majorly different between mu/non-mu setups.
I’m guessing anyone good enough to write buddypress would probably have no problem writing a vbulletin bridge. I realize it’s gonna be time consuming and will probably cost me hundreds, which for a complete solution I am more than willing to pay.
thanks
shawn
webmaster @ anointed.net
Ok, I have used wordpress, not mu, for some time now and I’m very used to it.
I thought I had installed mu correctly along with buddypress today. However when I go to a site that I create after the original, it’s not right. I get a copy of the original site, instead of the posts I made in the new site.
Life is just to short to mess with this.
Are any of the ‘trusted’ moderators here willing to install mu with buddypress for me?
I am of course willing to pay for it.
I have my own dedicated server colo so I have complete access. I’m guessing that nothing more than ftp access would be needed, as the same server runs wordpress-non-mu perfectly.
anyhow here’s to hoping someone here needs some quick work.
thanks
shawn
webmaster@anointed.net
change_newblog_defaults will remove the default urls from the users blog and instead add a link back to the users BP profile
Save the code below to mu-plugins/change_newblog_defaults.php
<?php
require_once( 'bp-core.php' );
function change_newblog_defaults( $blog_id, $user_id )
{
global $current_site;
switch_to_blog($blog_id);
//--change default blogroll
wp_delete_link(1); //delete WordPress.com blogroll link
wp_delete_link(2); //delete WordPress.org blogroll link
//add a link to the users profile page
wp_insert_link(array('link_name' => __('My Profile', 'buddypress'), 'link_url' => bp_core_get_user_domain($user_id)));
//uncomment the line below if you want a link back to your main site
/*wp_insert_link(array('link_name' => $current_site->domain, 'link_url' => 'http://' . $current_site->domain . $current_site->path));*/
//--end
restore_current_blog();
}
add_action( 'wpmu_new_blog', 'change_newblog_defaults', 10, 2 );
?>
edit: the code above is a modified version of http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic.php?id=9369#post-56231
thanks slaFFik, but i searched through trac.mu.wordpress.org for quite a while and still came up short. is there not a zip download offered somewhere?
this is the error and whats going on:
ok, on my actual public profile page when I click on “Flickr” I see this error:
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/realfamc/public_html/wp-content/mu-plugins/bpdev-flickr.php on line 333
Additionally, in the wp-admin I see the BPDEV Plugins menu option, when I click on it the “Thank you for using WordPress” box that is supposed to be at the bottom it now inthe center of the page and blocking some of the text. when I select all and copy/paste the text beneath that can not be sen reads:
Warning: ./cache/969ebb6942853d6ce3e721b0da764898.spc is not writeable in /home/realfamc/public_html/wp-content/mu-plugins/bpdev-simplepie/simplepie.inc on line 1773
Thanks wp-admin/options.php sorted it.
trac.mu.wordpress.org – here you can find 2,7
Trent, nothing helped.
I installed or did:
1) WPMU (r1585);
2) bbPress Alpha 4;
3) integrate them properly;
4) edit bb-config.php and config.php;
5) install BuddyPress;
6) install bp-forum-enabled.php;
7) create a new admin user in bbPress;
write his login/pass to option page in WPMU;
9) create group in BP;
10) nothing changed.
What happened? Why can’t I launch forum?
my website is: http://www.realfam.com
I installed Version 0.92 of Flickr plugin…..
ok, on my actual public profile page when I click on “Flickr” I see this error:
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/realfamc/public_html/wp-content/mu-plugins/bpdev-flickr.php on line 333
Additionally, in the wp-admin I see the BPDEV Plugins menu option, when I click on it the “Thank you for using WordPress” box that is supposed to be at the bottom it now inthe center of the page and blocking some of the text. when I select all and copy/paste the text beneath that can not be sen reads:
Warning: ./cache/969ebb6942853d6ce3e721b0da764898.spc is not writeable in /home/realfamc/public_html/wp-content/mu-plugins/bpdev-simplepie/simplepie.inc on line 1773
any ideas?
Try changing default role here (domain.com/wp-admin/wpmu-blogs.php?action=editblog&id=1) and here (domain.com/wp-admin/options.php) to “contributor” then do a test registration to see if the new user is a contributor or subscriber.
If that doesn’t work in wp-includeswpmu-functions.php change this:
add_user_to_blog(‘1’, $user_id, ‘subscriber’);
to this:
add_user_to_blog(‘1’, $user_id, ‘author’);
That should take care of all future signups, however existing users will be unchanged. If you don’t have too many users yet you can simply manually change them to authors, however, if you have a lot of signups check out this thread for a way to mass add users as authors.
without running the risk of sounding ignorant, where can i get a copy of 2.7 so that i too can attempt this install of bbpress? from the mu.wordpress site only 2.6.5 is available and i’ve googled the 2.7 but im not finding anythign anywhere. where are you guys getting your 2.7 copies? thanks
Many thanks for your replies. I’ve progressed a bit now with the site.
@gogoplata “All you’d need to do to get this setup is to change the default role for the main blog from subscriber to contributor” – I know this is possible on classic WordPress though strangely I cannot find this option in either: /wp-admin/wpmu-users.php or /wp-admin/users.php ~ any ideas?
Thanks.
