BuddyPress.org

To continue on the thought that VirtualityReiki started this thread with.. I too would like to give users the ability to have a blog, but I think it’s way overkill to give each user a fully fledged WP site, as if I was running my own wordpress.com.

I think multi-site is more suited for sites that actually want to do what wordpress.com does – give people an actual stand-alone blog website. For community sites that use WP not as a blogging platform but as a CMS, a simpler blog system where a blog is an embedded part of the site just like groups or forums will be more suited and more engaging, because everything is kept on the main site where we want to keep our users.

Multi-site seems to me to be a lot of hassle. Just the fact that it creates several database tables for EACH BLOG is to me just madness.

So does anyone know if there is a simpler blog plugin out there that will create user blogs on a non multi-site setup by just using a custom post type?

By walkthrough, you mean this one? https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/bp-template-pack-walkthrough-level-easy-2/

The last time I checked out an On Demand theme was almost a year ago, but I remember it has a page.php file where you can see the HTML structure you should impose over the BP template files transferred when you went through the compatibility process with BP Template Pack.

== i’ve done so many posts and image uploads, its going to be a nightmare to re do it, ==

If you don’t need to install BuddyPress and make sure it works for all WP and BP upgrades including BP plugins, then you can stay in that setup.

If you do want BP in your setup, backup database and server files and save to hard drive then reverse the process you went through “giving WP it’s own directory”, you can then reinstall WP at domain root.

And the code is giving me an error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘}’ in xxx/public_html/wp-content/plugins/bp-custom.php on line 9

Make sure it has been wrapped around “ at the beginning and the end.

But I want it to display their usernames instead of their RealNames.

Use this plugin: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-usernames-only/

If you are going to use an external forum software, then you can just go to dashboard > BuddyPress > Component Set up > Groups – Disabled. Note that if you go this route, you would have to create a plugin to integrate your forum software with BuddyPress.

If you want to use the internal bbPress forum which you install via BuddyPress > Forums Setup , then you have to keep the groups enabled because the default forums are connected to groups. https://codex.buddypress.org/buddypress-site-administration/buddypress-forum/ In this scenario, you could rename and use Groups as the Main Forum sections like https://wordpress.org/support/ and adjust navigation in BP Admin Bar, Main Navigation and Item Navigation accordingly.

Here is a good answer by Frederick Townes the developer of the W3TC plugin:

http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/blog/2010/09/02/optimize-your-wordpress-site-with-w3-total-cache/

== Now buddypress won’t work, its driving me insane ==

The last time I tested https://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory a year ago and installed BP, it just didn’t work. Since you just created your site, why not start from scratch and install WordPress in domain root?

the register link works but the link to log in doesn’t it just keeps giving a 404 page not found error

https://codex.buddypress.org/extending-buddypress/customizing-labels-messages-and-urls/

@wuphilly Some ways to get a BP-compatible theme

1. Create a child theme of bp-default theme – then style it to taste
https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/

2. Make your WordPress theme compatible with BuddyPress via BP Template Pack
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-template-pack/
More info
https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/
https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/bp-template-pack-walkthrough-level-easy-2/

3. Some BP compatible themes/child themes
https://buddypress.org/extend/themes/

4. Search online for BuddyPress premium themes

Greg, I am using W3TC for object caching (xcache opcode) and browser caching. Along with that I am using MAXCDN as the CDN (was prior using Amazon S3). MAXCDN is set now to cache almost all of my graphics, css, and javascripts -including plugins and child-themes. One of the two sites I was referring to is a straight WordPress site: http://mustech.net and the other is a BUDDYPRESS, non-multi-site (single site), site (htttp://musicpln.org – registration only).

I’ve set up a different pullzone for each of the sites using maxcdn.

Check out https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-docs/

You should do some research. Maybe I missed it but I don’t see any links for pre-sales support at http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/webhosting/ esp. mod_rewrite? PHP 5+? GD library bundled with PHP? at least 32MB memory? etc.

There are many issues with WordPress alone on Yahoo! hosting, adding a poweful plugin like BuddyPress …
https://wordpress.org/tags/yahoo
http://webhostinggeeks.com/user-reviews/index2.php?item_id=2

Make sure the “Anyone Can Register” is enabled under the wordpress general settings

Ok, I see the screenshot now. And yes, you have links to the Pages (text so small I can’t read them all) at the footer of your theme.

In actual site (home page) looking at page source, I see the empty div
`

`
wp_nav_menu is being called but not rendered. This is because the function is not supported in your theme.

Open up functions.php file of your theme https://themes.svn.wordpress.org/bp-columns/1.2/functions.php
and add the following line just above closing `?>`

`add_action( ‘init’, ‘register_goldbrick_menus’ );

function register_goldbrick_menus() {
register_nav_menus(
array(
‘footer-menu’ => __( ‘Footer Menu’ )
)
);
}`
Then save and upload.

Open up your footer.php and replace:

`<?php wp_nav_menu(
array(
‘theme_location’ => ”,
‘menu’ => ”,
‘container’ => ”,
‘container_class’ => ”,
‘container_id’ => ”,
‘menu_class’ => ”,
‘menu_id’ => ”
)
); ?>`

with

` ‘footer-menu’ ) ); ?>`

Then save and upload.

In dashboard Appearance > Menus. Choose Footer Menu and add the links.

== I have an old plugin that someone developped for my project ==

Your post title says BP 1.0.3 plugin. So that “old plugin” you’re referring is BuddyPress 1.0.3, right? Or is the “old plugin” a BP-compatible plugin which needs updating to be compatible with BuddyPress 1.2.8 / WordPress 3.1?

If you need to hire somebody, post here: https://buddypress.org/community/groups/bp-jobs-board/

If you want to explore upgrading the installation yourself:
– backup database and server files
– deactivate all plugins and change theme to default theme
– version upgrades of BP/WPMU and later BP WPMS
– download BP versions from here: https://trac.buddypress.org/browser/tags
– download WordPress WPMU/WP from here: https://wordpress.org/download/release-archive/
(MU versions in last table of webpage)

Better yet, if that install has not been used at all, drop tables and delete .htaccess and wp-config (after DB backup of course), and start from scratch – WP 3.1 and BP 1.2.8

Continued from https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pages-not-showing-on-buddypress-system?replies=4

@jamieh05atgmail.com and @goldbrick

== show up in the footer area of the site when i am logged in as admin, ==

Still not clear. If you’ve added template codes to “call” Pages in specific areas of the site, then you should see the Pages whether you’re admin or not, unless you’ve added a conditional statement `if (is_super_admin)` in front of the code … did you?

It would help if you posted a link to a screenshot of what you see as Super Admin or Site Admin along with site URL or another screenshot of what’s happened next. What theme are you using?

@goldbrick said in my profile update

Hi Mercime

Thanks
Jay