BuddyPress.org

You can install BuddyPress on main site or secondary blog https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/install-buddypress-on-a-secondary-blog/ but the groups created follow the URL structure from where you set it up.

You can however allow a blog per group in subdomain structure, https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-groupblog/ but I haven’t tested it lately.

make sure you allow registration in the wordPress settings in the admin area.

I think lselwd is getting confused at some of my replies where I stated setting up multisite gives you your own *version* of wordpress.com. It works like that, but it not it.

Backup first before attempting changes – and no guarantees it will be easy
BuddyPress 1.2.8 only contains a few changes all…

== required wordpress.com account for this to WordPress.org? ==

No, WP.com account is not required to install WordPress. You should know this as I’ve seen some of your posts at WP.org

=== multi-users functionality of WordPress 3.1 is similar to multi-blogs(multi-sites)? ===

Not exactly. A single WP site can have multiple users. When you https://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network, you can create many sites with one WP installation. [edit] And each site in the network can have a single user or multiple users, it all depends on the set up.

For more information, post in Multisite forum at WP.org – https://wordpress.org/support/topic/welcome-to-the-multisite-forum?replies=2

Good luck.

Mail problem – Members of the BP community who use Bluehost have resolved this using
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/mail-from/
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-mail-smtp/

I’m not a rewrite expert or anything, but here’s the HTTP headers associated with the problem. I’ve replaced my domain with blah.com.

A couple strange things that I see but can’t really explain. When requesting /forums, it looks like a 302 redirect is returned to the homepage (so maybe this is a rewrite issue). Going to “members,” which does work, returns the expected 200 code.

Also, notice the really weird request to /contact/ after all of this is done. Is that normal? It’s just a random page on my site. It had previously been a different page which I tried deleting, so it was replaced by /contact.

Hope this is useful to someone.

`http://blah.com/forums

GET /forums HTTP/1.1
Host: blah.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.14) Gecko/20110218 Firefox/3.6.14
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 115
Connection: keep-alive
Cookie: __utma=67904087.2104826472.1298240908.1299086709.1299438067.4; __utmz=67904087.1299039613.2.2.utmcsr=blah.com|utmccn=(referral)|utmcmd=referral|utmcct=/wp-admin/; _jsuid=1445640004349204205; km_ai=xZrz-rlq1-TnxIBS08C09MbmgAM; km_uq=; km_lv=x; wp-settings-time-6=1299517360; wp-settings-6=m6%3Do%26m11%3Dc%26m10%3Do%26m7%3Dc%26m1%3Do%26m5%3Do%26m2%3Dc%26hidetb%3D1%26editor%3Dtinymce%26m8%3Dc%26m9%3Dc; bp-activity-oldestpage=1; wordpress_test_cookie=WP+Cookie+check; wordpress_logged_in_541ce9876c2efbba8d8e77491d2f2b82=mrwweb%7C1299690125%7C336801dfabc56c0d1140b4bafdd989aa
If-Modified-Since: Mon, 07 Mar 2011 17:07:50 GMT

HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Server: nginx/0.7.65
Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2011 17:08:59 GMT
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Connection: keep-alive
Keep-Alive: timeout=10
X-Pingback: http://blah.com/xmlrpc.php
Expires: Wed, 11 Jan 1984 05:00:00 GMT
Last-Modified: Mon, 07 Mar 2011 17:08:59 GMT
Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate, max-age=0
Pragma: no-cache
X-Powered-By: W3 Total Cache/0.9.1.3
Set-Cookie: bp-message=deleted; expires=Sun, 07-Mar-2010 17:08:58 GMT; path=/
Set-Cookie: bp-message-type=deleted; expires=Sun, 07-Mar-2010 17:08:58 GMT; path=/
Location: http://blah.com
Vary: User-Agent,Accept-Encoding
Content-Encoding: gzip
Content-Length: 20
X-Type: default

GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: blah.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.14) Gecko/20110218 Firefox/3.6.14
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 115
Connection: keep-alive
Cookie: __utma=67904087.2104826472.1298240908.1299086709.1299438067.4; __utmz=67904087.1299039613.2.2.utmcsr=blah.com|utmccn=(referral)|utmcmd=referral|utmcct=/wp-admin/; _jsuid=1445640004349204205; km_ai=xZrz-rlq1-TnxIBS08C09MbmgAM; km_uq=; km_lv=x; wp-settings-time-6=1299517360; wp-settings-6=m6%3Do%26m11%3Dc%26m10%3Do%26m7%3Dc%26m1%3Do%26m5%3Do%26m2%3Dc%26hidetb%3D1%26editor%3Dtinymce%26m8%3Dc%26m9%3Dc; bp-activity-oldestpage=1; wordpress_test_cookie=WP+Cookie+check; wordpress_logged_in_541ce9876c2efbba8d8e77491d2f2b82=mrwweb%7C1299690125%7C336801dfabc56c0d1140b4bafdd989aa
If-Modified-Since: Mon, 07 Mar 2011 17:08:42 GMT

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: nginx/0.7.65
Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2011 17:08:59 GMT
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Connection: keep-alive
Keep-Alive: timeout=10
X-Pingback: http://blah.com/xmlrpc.php
Expires: Wed, 11 Jan 1984 05:00:00 GMT
Last-Modified: Mon, 07 Mar 2011 17:08:59 GMT
Pragma: no-cache
X-Powered-By: W3 Total Cache/0.9.1.3
Set-Cookie: bp-message=deleted; expires=Sun, 07-Mar-2010 17:08:58 GMT; path=/
Set-Cookie: bp-message-type=deleted; expires=Sun, 07-Mar-2010 17:08:58 GMT; path=/
Vary: User-Agent,Accept-Encoding
X-Cacheable: NO:Passed
Cache-Control: max-age=0, must-revalidate
X-Varnish: 1456974085
Age: 0
Via: 1.1 varnish
X-Cache: PASS
X-Type: varnish-short
Content-Encoding: gzip

GET /contact/ HTTP/1.1
Host: blah.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.14) Gecko/20110218 Firefox/3.6.14
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 115
Connection: keep-alive
Referer: http://blah.com/
X-Moz: prefetch
Cookie: __utma=67904087.2104826472.1298240908.1299086709.1299438067.4; __utmz=67904087.1299039613.2.2.utmcsr=blah.com|utmccn=(referral)|utmcmd=referral|utmcct=/wp-admin/; _jsuid=1445640004349204205; km_ai=xZrz-rlq1-TnxIBS08C09MbmgAM; km_uq=; km_lv=x; wp-settings-time-6=1299517360; wp-settings-6=m6%3Do%26m11%3Dc%26m10%3Do%26m7%3Dc%26m1%3Do%26m5%3Do%26m2%3Dc%26hidetb%3D1%26editor%3Dtinymce%26m8%3Dc%26m9%3Dc; bp-activity-oldestpage=1; wordpress_test_cookie=WP+Cookie+check; wordpress_logged_in_541ce9876c2efbba8d8e77491d2f2b82=mrwweb%7C1299690125%7C336801dfabc56c0d1140b4bafdd989aa

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: nginx/0.7.65
Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2011 17:09:00 GMT
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Connection: keep-alive
Keep-Alive: timeout=10
X-Pingback: http://blah.com/xmlrpc.php
Expires: Wed, 11 Jan 1984 05:00:00 GMT
Last-Modified: Mon, 07 Mar 2011 17:09:00 GMT
Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate, max-age=0
Pragma: no-cache
X-Powered-By: W3 Total Cache/0.9.1.3
Set-Cookie: bp-message=deleted; expires=Sun, 07-Mar-2010 17:08:59 GMT; path=/
Set-Cookie: bp-message-type=deleted; expires=Sun, 07-Mar-2010 17:08:59 GMT; path=/
Vary: User-Agent,Accept-Encoding
Content-Encoding: gzip
Content-Length: 3081
X-Type: default`

Those plugins need to be updated for changes for WordPress 3.1. Contact the developers.

P.s. Achievements is my plugin and I’m aware

BuddyPress uses WordPress’ email routines. There is no special handling. You are probably running into issues with your host throttling the increased number of emails that BP sends. I’d suggest you contact your host and ask them.

===== TO SUPPORT WP 3 MENUS FOR BP 1.2.8 =====

1. Create a child theme of bp-default https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/

2. Create a functions.php file in your child theme and add this:

`<?php

/* https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_theme_support#Navigation_Menus */

add_action( ‘init’, ‘register_my_menus’ );

function register_my_menus() {
register_nav_menus(
array(
‘primary-menu’ => __( ‘Primary Menu’ )
)
);
}

/* Removes ul class from wp_nav_menu */

function remove_ul ( $menu ){
return preg_replace( array( ‘#^

]*>#’, ‘#

$#’ ), ”, $menu );
}
add_filter( ‘wp_nav_menu’, ‘remove_ul’ );

?>`

3. Copy over header.php from bp-default theme and paste into child theme folder.

4. Replace line “ or the whole navigation block with code below:

`
false, ‘menu_class’ => ‘menu’, ‘theme_location’ => ‘primary-menu’, ‘fallback_cb’ => ‘display_home’ ) ); ?>

`

Adjust according to taste

@B1gft — This link might help to create a multi installation wordpress with a single login:
http://techblog.touchbasic.com/html/single-unified-login-for-multiple-wordpress-2-8-installs-in-subdirectories-using-cookies/

But I’m not sure that there is hosting that does not support WordPress multisite. Even free hosting I have ever tried allow WordPress multisite. But it can not use subdomains, because it does not provide wildcard subdomains features.

It sounds as if you are running two separate WordPress installs. If you are, get rid of one of them and use multisite. There are ways to share the users table between installs (like on here), but I would suggest multisite is easier to achieve.

Buddypress doesn’t connect to the database, WordPress does.
BP is a plugin and will use the same db as WP, but if WP can’t connect, BP won’t work either.

@i_banks

In your wp-config.php file (root of your site), you’ll see the following lines:

`// ** MySQL settings – You can get this info from your web host ** //
/** The name of the database for WordPress */
define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘your-db-name-here’);

/** MySQL database username */
define(‘DB_USER’, ‘your-db-username-here’);

/** MySQL database password */
define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘your-db-password-here’);`

Insert your connection info in the appropriate places, save and reupload.

global $blog_id;
echo $blog_id;

Or
In WordPress 3.1, your $blog_id can be found by navigating to the “Network Admin > Sites” page and hovering over the blog in question. You should see a link that resembles this:

http://example.com/wp-admin/network/site-info.php?id=1

Your $blog_id, in this instance, would be 1.

For WordPress 3.0, the $blog_id can be found in the “ID” column of the “Super Admin > Blogs” page.

Hello. See *Info Before Activation* at the bottom of readme.txt included in plugin folder which is not seen in WP repo pages https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/bp-group-frontpage/trunk/readme.txt
I personally haven’t used the plugin since it requires BP Album plugin.

It wasn’t automatically listed in BuddyPress.org plugin directory because plugin dev forgot to “tag” it BuddyPress in plugin file