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@famous there’s no reason to hold off with a BP project or rush the developers because of the theme. Use BP Template Pack to make your WP theme compatible with BP for 1.6+ version. then when BP 1.7 rolls out, you can choose to deactivate the BP template pack plugin and remove the 6 folders and you’re set

We have template-packed more than 100 WP themes so far. Your theme might be one of those listed at https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/#template-packed-wordpress-themes

@3ruce the plugin dev removed it from the WP Repo. He still has it at http://ezwebdesign.wordpress.com/portfolio/ though I’m not sure if it stil works.

Any ideas where this plugin has gone? I can’t download it from https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-friendpress/ which is where google suggest’s it should live?

Google
– http://thethefly.com/1082/blog/wordpress-how-to/adding-an-icon-to-a-menu-item-with-wordpress/
– http://mike-thomson.com/blog/?p=290
– http://wpcodesnippets.info/blog/lets-put-icons-in-our-menus.html
and you could find some more using keywords “wordpress menu add icons”

@mercime

Thank you for posting the links…..good helpful info for me to learn and understand what are all the differences. I will get the networks+ plugin.

After reading thru all info, this is what I plan to use for our network of BP networks:

* X2 theme from themekraft
* https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-multi-network/
* http://wpebooks.com/networks/

I plan to host the sites on WPEngine using their ‘professional plan’ that allows multisite hosting with up to 10 WP installs. Hopefully that should be good to start up because there won’t be much traffic in the first few months.

Thank you again!

@bilalturkmen This forum is for BuddyPress-related issues. Please post at the WordPress Forums -> https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting and do include more information about your install like : WP version? When did you see the message? Did you install/delete and plugin/theme just before this happened? That will help the volunteers there help you.

@monkfish13 I suggest that you deactivate BuddyPress before creating a network. If you encounter any multisite issues, please post at https://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite

Make sure your multisite is working as expected before activating BP.

Please do not bump your post here, considering it’s less than a day since you first posted.

1. https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-groupblog/ – need to create a network/go multisite
OR
2. http://buddydev.com/plugins/blog-categories-for-groups/

== I would like to activate the personal blogs for users on my site. ==

You need to Create a Network first (go multisite) https://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network
BP_ENABLE_MULTIBLOG is a different animal entirely https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/bp_enable_multiblog/

This is a known issue. Check out https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4571

The name of the menu is ‘my-account-buddypress’. This is a buddypress menu and therefore you cannot find it in the wordpress adminbar.php file. It is added when you installed buddypress. You can remove it by adding the following to your theme’s functions.php file:

function remove_bp_adminbar() {
global $wp_admin_bar;
$wp_admin_bar->remove_menu(‘my-account-buddypress’);
}
add_action( ‘wp_before_admin_bar_render’, ‘remove_bp_adminbar’ );

If someone knows the names of the submenus in this buddypress menu I would like to know them so that I can remove the redundant ones (media, forms, friends etc).

Well, I did mention in my previous post that https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-multi-network/ had shared users. I have not used that plugin before so I recommend that you read
– http://wpmututorials.com/news/new-features/multiple-buddypress-social-networks/ and
– https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-multi-network/installation/

You’ve created one network when you went multisite. With the plugin above, there’s one instance of BuddyPress per network. Therefore, if you want more BP instances, you have to create a commensurate number of networks with WP Multi Network or Networks+. At this point, I would venture that you should have a dedicated server to service all networks with respective BuddyPress instances.

This is way more advanced and complicated than Brajesh’s plugin where you only need one network (multisite) install and each subsite has a separate BP instance. Therefore I would suggest that you get the premium Networks+ to avail of experienced support which I think you’d need.

@mercime

I was thinking exactly the opposite. Thanks for clarifying the differences between both the plugins.
I want to have different domains with different sites/groups/activities/forums etc but I want to share the users among all the different networks i.e. once a user signs up, then he/she should be able to login and use any of the BP network site in the entire network.

So I basically need https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-multi-network/

I just checked the plugin page and it says: Segregate your BP networks in a multi-network WP install.

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Requires BuddyPress 1.5 or greater.

This plugin segregates BuddyPress social networks in a multi network WordPress install so that each WP network has a different social network. The user base is still shared across the WP install.

Multiple WP networks can be created with either:

WP Multi Network
Networks+

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Q: Does this mean I need to install “WP Multi Network” along with “BP-Multi-Network” plugin?
If yes, which one first and which one 2nd to install?