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i am also a newbie but if i am not mistaken the theme you have selected is not buddypress compatible(only wordpress)- and you may encounter even more difficulties later is it possible to change theme?

@designac @synaptic
Just wondering if you could supply some feedback. You may want to download and install it again from the same link. I made some minor changes but it really doesn’t add anything more then what I had but they are using me as a test monkey I suppose with the wp plugin review panel. It works great on 4 different installations I have and I would appreciate your feedback. Keep in mind I intentionally did not block wordpress pages, just the BP ones, but you also have the option to unblock activity for instance. I may however make some changes depending on the feedback given.
Thanks!

@nanaimomen The problem is more like the theme is using a proprietary templating system. BuddyPress works in nearly all WordPress themes. Regular WP tags like the_title() and the_content() should be in the theme’s page.php file for the BP Theme Compatibility magic to work, i.e., you no longer need to revise 16 template files manually like before.

To resolve your issue, open up your theme’s page.php file and Save As > buddypress.php and ask the theme author to replace theme’s corresponding tags with the_title() and the_content(). Upload that updated buddypress.php file into your theme’s folder in server and you should be good to go.

all content and users are mirrored/shared across the networks/sites

@mike245 Strange. Only users not the content should be shared across the network for that plugin as far as I know. Have only used the other BP Multinetwork plugin, so don’t quite know why that’s happening in your installation. Recommend that you post at plugin’s support forums https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/bp-multi-network

It all depends on how the plugin functions. if you have WP options saved and then use bp_include to load plugin your settings won’t load fast enough for BuddyPress to use options.

bp_include is used for code that accesses BuddyPress code. So you know that BuddyPress is loaded before you execute code. It should not be used to detect if BuddyPress is active.

you can use https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/is_plugin_active

or check if ( class_exists( ‘BuddyPress’ ) )

@mgrmn There should be a “Create a Group” button beside the page title in the Groups Directory page. https://codex.buddypress.org/user/buddypress-components-and-features/groups/#groups-directory

If the “Create a Group” button doesn’t show up in your theme, that’s because the_title tag of page template is not within the WordPress loop. To resolve this issue, you can create your own link to the Create Groups page, just append /create to the URL of your groups directory page
e.g.
groups page -> http://example.com/groups
groups create page -> http://example.com/groups/create

Alternatively, if you prefer, you can instead add the patch to include the groups/create link in BP MyAccount section of the WP Toolbar https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1838 – coming out in BP 1.8

Not sure, but I believe you need to add get_currentuserinfo(); for the part getting user info.

Try something like this to debug and see if you get any reponse at all.

function debug_userinfo() {
	global $current_user;
      	get_currentuserinfo();
	echo 'Username: ' . $current_user->user_login . "\n";
      	echo 'User email: ' . $current_user->user_email . "\n";
      	echo 'User first name: ' . $current_user->user_firstname . "\n";
      	echo 'User last name: ' . $current_user->user_lastname . "\n";
      	echo 'User display name: ' . $current_user->display_name . "\n";
      	echo 'User ID: ' . $current_user->ID . "\n";
}

See wp codex https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_currentuserinfo

@mike245 by default, there’s only one instance of BuddyPress per WordPress (single or multisite) installation. What you want – multiple BuddyPress installations in one Multisite install – is not possible without a BP multinetwork plugin. There are two plugins available and of those two, since you want a shared userbase, you would need https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-multi-network/

yeah the hostile trick is a good way to “trick” your computer thinking a domain exists somewhere its doesn’t thus allowing you to not need to change the domain in the first place. that being said as Hugo mentions the codex pages tend to try to address the entire learning curve of any particular process meaning that they are giving you a bunch of options on that page you don’t need to be able to follow the entire thing to employ one of the listed techniques.

Another thing you may want to consider (depending on the amount of content your site will have prior to going public) is to simply build out on a dummy domain then reconstruct on a fresh install as soon as you are able to grab the domain. Regular wordpress content can even be exported from the construction site and then imported into the new site. Unfortunately no such process exists for buddypress data (groups, non post creating users and activity) but generally speaking those things shouldn’t take all that long to recreate unless your community section is going to be gigantic.

Shuklaamar- Be aware that if you edit core files as that web page suggests, you’ll have to make that same edit every time you update WordPress.

Honestly, my experience with WordPress on IIS hasn’t been that great. The rewrite/redirects are one thing, but the FastCGI implementation is not very robust, which can cause grief.

Polly- Your problem doesn’t appear to be related to the original question. I think you’re right that the problem is the theme, so contacting the theme author would be a good start.

-David