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Deactivate all plugins and change to WP default theme.
Follow steps https://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network
If you hit any snag during your multisite setup, please find resolution at https://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite before installing BuddyPress.

@greenmeanie WordPress works with any theme if you use the Template Pack.

And Mingle is dreadfully incomparable to BP.

WP wins in almost every category: http://deviousmedia.com/infographics/devious_cms.png

I’m not sure what plugin you used, or how it cost you $20.

The problem with code edits is that they’ll be overwritten when you update.

I use Theme My Login. It doesn’t cost a penny, and also makes your login/register pages look like your site instead of the generic WordPress login page. And you can control activation, etc.

There is also a premium plugin (you can sign-up for Buddydev.com for $30 and get access to lots of great Buddypress plugins and themes)

BuddyPress Auto Activate Auto Login

” ( preferably not a plugin, Is there some code edits can achieve this)?”

It’s basically the same thing.
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-disable-activation/

And your emails not getting sent out in time is a server setting.

Drupal does have comparable social networking tools and is worth considering. It is more of a “proper CMS”, but also considerably more difficult to configure properly.

I’d recommend against Joomla if for no other reason than they don’t have an upgrade path. They have fewer extensions available, and more of their extensions cost money. I also wasn’t a big fan of the social network tools available.

In the end, I went with WordPress because I love how easy it is to update, and how easy it us to update all my plugins. I looked at Mingle, WP-Symposium and Buddypress. Of the three, Buddypress had the most features and plugins, and seemed to have the most developer support.

I think it is the best tool out there for building a social network personally, but your mileage may vary.

I have a similar problem , I can’t install the latest trunk , I have (with simple scripts) on my bluehost installed new fresh 3.2.1. wordpress installation , I downloaded latest BP 4921 trunk , unzipped , archived and succesfully installed and when I try to activate I get this:
Warning: require(/home2/………../public_html/………../wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-core/bp-core-wpabstraction.php) [function.require]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home2/………./public_html/…………./wp-content/plugins/1.5-beta-1/bp-loader.php on line 68
What should be wrong ?

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# BEGIN WordPress

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index.php$ – [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

# END WordPress
`
works for me with permalinks set as Day and name
Try resaving your permalinks?

http://wpmu.org/how-to-make-your-wordpress-theme-compatible-with-buddypress/

The file may not exist for you yet. You can set PHP options per folder with a php.ini file. If you put it in the root of your WordPress install, it will also change all the subfolders as well.

You can create a text file named php.ini and just put in it:

allow_call_time_pass_reference=true

And then upload that to the root of your WordPress install, and try install Buddypress again. Here is some documentation on php.ini files:

http://php.net/manual/en/configuration.file.php

If you want a template php.ini file with all the possible changes/settings you can make, you can find one here:

http://svn.php.net/viewvc/php/php-src/trunk/php.ini-production?view=co

@wordpresshacker If you succeed and when you are done can you pls.publish here your working code- plugin? I would love to have those extra fields there too.

You can download trunk here:

https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk

There isa plugin BP group extras that ads more fields to groups set up

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-groups-extras/

What version of WordPress are you running, and which version of Buddypress are you uploading?

Timthumb would be theme side not plugin side. The fix is fairly easy to any theme that does have it however most won’t and use featured images / built in WordPress functions that do similar things.

Also, if anyone wants to to do some solid reading on custom post types:

Custom post types in WordPress

“i set the permalink to custom “/” “

You filled n the wrong values. Basically what you put there will never work. On any theme.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Permalinks

I have the same problem. as NrFive and Iwikia. I wonder if they solved the problem.

Thanks.

== i have the problem with the non-buddypress theme ==
If you want to use your WP theme with BP, you need to install the BP Template Pack plugin and go through the compatibility process.
https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/
https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/bp-template-pack-walkthrough-level-easy-2/

If you want it considered to be part of the BuddyPress core then filing an enhancement ticket is usually the best route.

https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/

If you have a patch for it smiley faces of happiness all around as that really rocks.

As a work around you probably want to look at some of the user limiting plugins / membership / privacy.

https://buddypress.org/extend/plugins/?search=permissions

I’ll work on providing a document with best practices for creating them. See https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3422 for further discussion of the page creation problem.