You can’t have a network on a network created site. It gets complicated.
You could however have seperate installs on the same domain and take it from there.
subdomain-one.site.com
subdomain-two.site.com
You would then upload and install WordPress in both these location and install / activate network / BuddyPress as you require.
public-html/suddomain-one/
public-html/subdomain-two/
https://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network That’s all you need.
ok thanks I just found this one but will this work with BP?
https://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network
Can I create a network on an existing site which is using bp ?
WP 3.x baby.
WordPress.org
wp-config.php
define(‘WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE’, true);
Login
Tools -> Network
Follow the steps.
Install BuddyPress.
Ready to rumble.
Have done some further digging and keep hitting the 404 issue.
The same issue is effected when adding a user as a friend, joining a group and favoriting.
Have created a quick and dirty button generator function that can be used throughout this WordPress theme.
However with the dead landing page these will never work. Are there any other approaches considered a best practice?
No reason to bump anything here at all. The forums don’t move fast enough and all of the core devs and moderators do a great job at keeping their eyes on things.
@MaTaX91 as @dcavins said, the buddybar is being depreciated (when BP 1.6 comes out) so, you should use the toolbar.
The toolbar is alot easier to modify too 
Here’s the codex – https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_node
You’d b better off disabling the buddybar and customizing the wordpress bar. There’s lots on the web about that, and the buddy bar is slated to go away, I believe.
Add this line to wp-config.php to re-enable the WP bar:
`define ( ‘BP_USE_WP_ADMIN_BAR’, true );`
For a workaround, to stop BP from purging WP Super Cache, add the following in your theme’s functions.php:
`remove_action( ‘wp_login’, ‘bp_core_clear_cache’ );`
SKParticipant
I know BuddyPress is designed to to extendable. So is WordPress. But this is core functionality. Just as WP has hierarchical pages in core, BP should have hierarchical groups in core.
I’ve created a ticket for core developers’ consideration: https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3961
P.S. As for propagation, the plugin author says it’s a very popular request, but he won’t do it http://www.generalthreat.com/2011/12/extending-groups-hierarchy-join-upstream/
P.P.S. I don’t know how well this plugin is working. Has conflicts with Registration Groups, and potentially others
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-buddypress-registration-groups-does-this-work-with-bp-group-hierarchy
SKParticipant
I’m confused now.
I’ve previously been advised here by @mercime to bump my posts if they aren’t responded to within 24 hours…
Just the blogs on the homepage or the users’ blog posts?
To show the blogs on the homepage you can go into settings/reading in your wordpress admin (https://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_a_Static_Front_Page) and then chose the blogs page (the one you chose in buddypress settings/pages) to show as your front page.
Bumping this thread isn’t helping to look at your ticket any faster.
I think I saw a newish plugin that does this; have you searched on WordPress.org?
Let em clarify again in case my posts didn’t make sense. Sorry I was in a hurry.
When I post a new blog post in the wordpress dashboard, It usually gets posted to the main activity wall. This part works fine but what gets posted doesn’t. I tested it out and it seems if there are comments inside the posts like `` this well show up as “comments” on the activity wall. On the actual post on the wordpress part it does not show up. Like I mentioned previously. this worked fine on 1.2.9 but now on the 1.5.3.1 version this part seems to be not working properly. , Any ideas anyone? I tried the bp-default theme and still same thing. I didn’t think this would be a theme thing. more of a core part, but I like to test before posting here..
Sometimes emails end up filed as spam or junk….
Some web-hosting providers might need you to install a wordpress plugin such as https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/mail-from/ and/or https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-mail-smtp/
wp-mail-smtp also has a useful debug feature and more settings…
Have you enabled user registration in WordPress?
Users cannot edit their usernames in frontend user profiles nor in backend user profiles at all. If you mean display names, you can install https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-usernames-only/ so that even if they change display names, what will appear in the front end would be their usernames. Read the Installation instructions and FAQ.
@mercime a bridge? You make it sound so scary, it’s not like trying to integrate bbpress 1.0 with wordpress… THAT was a bridge (with a scary troll underneath for an added bonus). 
I prefer to call them ‘connectors’ as in “a plugin that connects one plugin to another”… man i have ALOT of thoes
@mangolife – It’s extremely easy to connect a well-written wordpress plugin to buddypress profiles (even easier if they are using wordpress features, such as post types)
The difficult part was adding entries from the plugins to the activity streams, but i believe that is being addressed for a future release.
Buddypress Codex Entry: https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/functions/core/bp_core_new_nav_item/
You should also read through the WordPress Codex entry on Administration Menus as they are very similar – https://codex.wordpress.org/Adding_Administration_Menus (and will help alot when you get to ‘screen_functions’ in the above buddypress codex entry.)
