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Hi everyone I am a beginner at all this and I am having a little problems with the bp implementation with the bp -mystique theme and was wondering if someone could guide me towards the right direction. The wp portion of the site is looking good but as soon as i go to a bp part the header is not where it suppose to be there is a big space and the background image for the site is not there anymore.

It seems that the bp is not registering the modification I have made on the wordpress part.

the site im working on is icacsports.com

Any help would be most appreciated

cheers,

@thealchemist do bear in mind that Multisite is a WordPress feature (and therefore really a WP support issue rather than a BP one) even though we are happy to help where we can with non BP support issues

== Firstly, I can’t find the httpd.conf file they want me to edit. I do have the ability to add subdomains so I wonder if putting * in the cpanel field will suffice.==

Depending on your hosting plan, some webhosts do not allow users to have access to httpd.conf file. Note that the subdomains created by WordPress are “virtual” not “physical” or actual subdomains you would create in your cPanel. And yes, sometimes just adding `*` in field will suffice, sometimes not.

Have you tried to
– install WordPress and go straight to Step 3 and see if you can already set up subdomain structure – there will be feedback/notice in admin panel whether you can or cannot go subdomain
– Contact webhost if your hosting plan allows for WordPress Multisite in subdomain structure and point them to the WP Codex page re “Create A Network” to get a definitive answer. Some webhosts require server plan upgrade, some don’t.

There’s a plugin for that
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-real-names/

Interesting ! I am waiting for that too.I know a plugin seaweed.But it is not working with Multisite installation and not updated by the developers a while .

fjrichman… I agree this is a problem. It would be one thing if BuddyPress only added the padding when the site visitor was logged in, but it’s poor form to add 25px pixels padding to the body regardless. I understand that it would be a problem for WordPress developers who don’t call body_class(), but, by default, the BuddyPress default stylesheet (adminbar.css) should specify its padding on body.logged-in, not on the generic body tag. In any case, that’s the easiest solution I know of. Just modify adminbar.css (most likely at /wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/_inc/css/adminbar.css) on the first line to body.logged-in. If for some reason you have themes that don’t or can’t call body_class(), you can use the is_user_logged_in function to override the BuddyPress styling. Something like: `body#mypage { padding: 0px; } `. Hope that helps, two months later.
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Looking back at your question, I see that you were actually asking more generally to start about BuddyPress tweaking a design wether or not the user is logged in. Well, in that case it would be harder to have a one-size-fits-all solution. Sorry if I missed the thrust of your question, but this may be helpful to others.

Sure. There’s one featured WordPress.tv presentation from WordCamp Yokohama. It’s a Japanese site (with English translation), http://loftwork.com, which only used BuddyPress components like Blog Tracking, Activity Streams, Private Messaging and Extended Profiles. Didn’t use Friends, Groups and Forums.
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Rename the buddypress folder in wp-plugins via FTP or cPanel to deactivate BuddyPress.

The correct translation in WP lingo is “You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.” And while this was triggered by activating BuddyPress, it starts with your WordPress installation.

There are plenty of threads in WP.org forums and Google search with different solutions to get back your Admin/Super Admin privilege in the installation. Good luck.

no, I was referring to the fact that core wordpress only shows a user’s blog under “My sites” that they are admin on.

If you alreayd have users with blog, and then add buddypress, then yes – this has been a persistant issues. BP doesn’t automagically go find them all.

Are you on a Windows server?

Whenever you want to have multiple loops on a page, you’ll have to define your own WP_Query. Here’s a good tutorial: http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/04/13/define-your-own-wordpress-loop-using-wp_query/

It sounds like the key in your case will be ‘post_type=post’.

See this codex article https://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/query_posts for info on what arguments you can feed to WP_Query (they are the same as query_posts() )

Yeah, I saw that WP.org thread and Andrea_r gave answer there and Ipstenu as well
@wp_y2m5tr take time to read the link given you in that thread

Saw your post in WP.org forums https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-rows-in-mysql-tables?replies=4

The best solution is to re-do the whole installation manually, as Andrea_r mentioned. If you’re getting into BuddyPress where you would have to add some configurations manually in htaccess/wp-config.php etc., then manual WP install and making it multisite would be good knowledge to have and good practice to boot.
https://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network

“I recently used the plugin Enable Multi-Site to configure WordPress Multi-Site for my Buddypress install. “

Seriously – this is not recommended. I always recommend people set it up manually. the plugin only does 2 or 3 things for you – not the whole business and it doesn’t do any server checks that need a human eye.

‘If I try to navigate back to the main URL, I get nothing but a blank screen. Strange….”

No, not strange – it’s a common error called a white screen of death. It means you have some php messed up somewhere.

Can you get in to admin? Go in there, disable plugins. 90% chance something in there does not work with multisite.

well eevryone is i just posted as well…and im using all the latest updates both wordpress and BP

@bcade someone posted the same thing about “Enable Multisite Plugin” in WordPress.org forums, see if solution provided there will work for you.
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-enable-multi-site-enable-mult-site-only-partially-worked?replies=3

The GPL only applies to *distribution*. If your client plans on packaging up the website somehow… then worry about it.

“Does that mean that all of the code for this project would have to be GPL licensed and made available for free because we use BuddyPress for social networking? “

no, it does not. only if you actually *release * it. Just having it as part of your website is not releasing your code.

think of it this way – Buddypress is a plugin for WordPress. Anyone who build a site on WordPress itself is also not required to release their code.

(and I will note that GPL doesn’t mean it has to be free either. There’s plenty of for-sale GPL plugins and themes.)

If you want to use a WP network install, you need to install WP in the root and not a subdirectory:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory

Read the red notice.

@jwack

hi, I had similar issues… even after removing the blog signup at registration, spammers would sign up, activate their accounts, and then create a new splog. to help cut down, I tried these steps:

– changed my registration slug in bp-custom.php:
define ( ‘BP_REGISTER_SLUG’, ‘join’ );

– also added a redirect of wp-signup.php inside bp-custom.php:
function register_redirect() {
if (strpos($_SERVER, ‘wp-signup.php’) !== false ) {
$url = ‘http://www.mysite.com/join’;
wp_redirect($url);
exit;
}
}
add_action(‘init’, ‘register’);

those two helped but didn’t completely remove the issue, this plugin really nailed it for us though:

– installed this plugin: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/invitation-code-checker/ (since we have a local comm site, we just used a zip code as the invite code)
Not sure how your site is set up but perhaps you can find a way to use it too, may even allow you to re-enable blog sign up at registration. It says Tested up to: WordPress MU 2.8.4 but I have WP 3.0.3 with network enabled and BP 1.2.6 and still seems to be working just fine.

Most of these suggestions were pulled from helpful posts on BP, hopefully they help you out a bit

Paul, I would like to know how to force my WordPress installation to run BuddyPress on only the Super Admin site, and not the member blogs. Could you guide me through the process. Thanks.

I have updated the BuddyPress Auto Group Join plugin to work with WordPress 3.0. I haven’t looked at r-a-y’s Welcome Pack, but I’m sure it does a wonderful job too!

Just to give a quick summary:

– current standalone bbPress plugins are possible to use with BuddyPress, but they need to be ported over to WordPress/BuddyPress. Check out Rich’s BP Forum Extras plugin, which combines a few of them:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-group-forum-extras/

– forum editor tutorial:
http://etivite.com/groups/buddypress/forum/topic/quick-tip-adding-markitup-to-group-forum-textareas/

or:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-tinymce/

– lastly, like Paul mentioned, bbPress is getting a major rewrite from an external script to a WordPress plugin. This will directly impact BuddyPress in version 1.3/1.4. Don’t worry too much about it now. Just use the BuddyPress’ forum setup as-is. Everything will sort itself out!