BuddyPress.org

Hi Paul,

Thank you for your response.

I am running WordPress 3.3.1 and Buddypress 1.5.3.1

Thank you for any insight you can offer!

Hi Paul —
Thank you very much for the rapid reply. Yes — I would like to be able to have social networking type of on functionality on multiple WordPress sites in an MS environment.

I’m trying to create a kind of social networking environment to teach small private classes (in photography) in a single install of BD on a single WP site, I couldn’t find a way to provide students taking a particular class access to a private set of POSTS in a single install of WP, hence the leap into Multisite. Posts provide a much richer way for students and teachers to share rich media than spaces like Forums.

It sounds like I can’t get ‘multiple blogs’ in BP and can’t get ‘multiple’ social networking tools — beyond Forums — in a multi-site install — RIGHT?

I do NOT one to re-locate a single buddypress install, which is what I believed you referenced above in the post about secondary blogs.

Hope this is clear —

Please give me your best advise.

THANKS!

I looked at trying to accomplish my goal in a single site and

With very little php knowledge, i copy and pasted the wp-signup.php code (from the main wordpress folder) and replaced the bp-default themes register.php with the code.

It looks like its worked because the forms etc sit nicely on the page and actually stay in the theme.

But when clicking on the register or w.e button, it gets an error which is caused by the validation method…

Not sure if im going about this the right way?

I would just love to redirect the page to the normal wp-register lol.

No. I installed the same theme and plugins on another domain and it works there… I already manually reinstalled buddypress and bbpress. And I pressed the reinstall wordpress button on the dashboard updates…. This is beyond my knowledge.

I tried to start from scratch with wordpress and then buddypress. I guess the solution is easy. but I am stuck…. so a little hel! Also Brayjason – it is nice to know that I am not alone. so thanks for your input

purplecobras.net
the excite plan.
i don’t know what shared/vps/cloud means.
both wordpress and buddypress are the newest version.
no plugins.
twenty eleven.

nope, i installed wordpress by uploading the files via FTP.

Maybe I do it all wrong, but I’ve found that on WP when I have an issue with a plugin, I end up going to the plugin page (e.g. https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress/) hoping to find answers in FAQ, notes etc. If I don’t find answers there, I click on “Forum Posts” link on the page, which takes me to posts tagged for that plugin e.g. https://wordpress.org/tags/buddypress and then if I click Add New, I find that the plugin tag is already added (and plugin name automatically appears in topic title too..except in case of bbpress and buddypress).

Because WordPress.org forums works like this for plugins, and because Buddypress is a WP plugin, I think that a more vibrant discussion at https://wordpress.org/tags/buddypress might even encourage more WordPress users to use BuddyPress. (more posts, frequent posts, fresh posts are usually, correctly or incorrectly, perceived as good support).

Add to this the fact that the forums on buddypress.org plain suck! They suck!

Don’t get me wrong here. People are fantastic and I’ve experienced volunteers jump to help out…and that’s brilliant.

But from the perspective of usability, Buddypress.org forums suck, probably because Buddypress forums suck…I don’t know for sure…I’ve been exploring and reading for weeks and haven’t yet installed Buddypress myself….but I did read in Buddypress website somewhere that Buddypress includes a watered-down forum…

Anyway, the point of this long winded post is that it surely would be nice to have a single place for support, that WP.org forums are a better candidate for such a single place, and that the team should consider merging the support…

This is resolved for me now, please close.

My wp-config.php file is noted below. I’ve installed Buddypress in the main “Network Admin” site…and set it to ‘Network Activate’. HERE is what I’ve defined in the WP-CONFIG.PHP file:

define(‘WP_DEBUG’, false);
define ( ‘BP_ENABLE_MULTIBLOG’, true );
define( ‘MULTISITE’, true );
define( ‘SUBDOMAIN_INSTALL’, false );
$base = ‘/’;
define( ‘DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE’, ‘www.networkit.com’ );
define( ‘PATH_CURRENT_SITE’, ‘/’ );
define( ‘SITE_ID_CURRENT_SITE’, 1 );
define( ‘BLOG_ID_CURRENT_SITE’, 1 );
/* That’s all, stop editing! Happy blogging. */

/** Absolute path to the WordPress directory. */
if ( !defined(‘ABSPATH’) )
define(‘ABSPATH’, dirname(__FILE__) . ‘/’);

/** Sets up WordPress vars and included files. */
require_once(ABSPATH . ‘wp-settings.php’);

You see any problems here? Much thanks for your time @hnla

Hmmm Now I have installet det buddypresse plugin at my nettwork admin at my multisite.
Before I do anything else:
I got this message:
https://skitch.com/baiaz/g3hww/plugins-network-admin-wordpress
What does it mean and what do I have to do next?

I have made a site in my wordpress multisite where I want to have the buddypress installed.
Should I go to my new site and sett the buddypress as the theme?