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@whitbyglennk At first glance, seems to me like an upload path problem when you haven’t configured WP/multisite correctly – https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/before-installing/#wp-configuration

Q1: Group Avatars – if you’re on multisite and BP is installed at root, group avatars go to wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/group-avatars
Q2: What folders and in which places? The avatars and group avatars folders are automatically generated. I would suggest checking your site’s .htaccess file since I have only seen this kind of problem if multisite is not configured correctly https://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network#Step_6:_Super_Admin_Settings

@whitbyglennk

There are very few premium themes built specifically for BuddyPress – although you can enhance existing WordPress themes. I’ve seen some great looking bespoke BuddyPress sites, but I haven’t seen a generic BuddyPress theme with a design and layout that blows you away.

The difference between BuddyPress and WordPress is the number of options available to you. BuddyPress allows you to build much more complex sites.

Out of the box, BuddyPress attempts to be a generic social network that is all things to all men. Of course, this is not what real world sites tend to need – you’ll find that most of the best commercial developments only use the portions of BuddyPress they need, and bend the core product considerably to meet real world needs.

Whilst it’s useful to have an all encompassing platform, it doesn’t make it particularly suited to premium theme designers – sure, you can make it look nice, but with so many options, and so much tailoring to deliver real world needs, themers face an uphill challenge to produce something that breaks away from the out of box generic set of functions.

A further problem is the make up of the code – BP embeds an awful lot of presentation decisions in the core of the product (activity stream contents, default menu structures) instead of in the templates (where you’d expect them to be). So, again, producing any significantly different can be a real chore.

We use the Secure Invites plugin for our community.

There’s just so many things wrong going on, have to go at it a step at a time. You need to give additional information like WP 3.0.1 is multisite or single? The home URL goes to UShareNH.com/1/ so you installed WP in /1/ subdirectory or is your BP installed in secondary blog? Also, almost all of the links in your home page goes to HTTP Error 403.18 page. It’s more likely your server configuration that’s throwing off the site – server can’t handle the load, crashing etc.Was WP functioning well before you installed BuddyPress? https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/before-installing/ Special check on your WordPress configuration. If not, then you have to resolve that at WordPress.org forums before installing BP.

the setting uses the wordpress function get_site_option/update_site_option – do all the other options reset to default as well?

@dlabbe – if you want to get an answer to your question, it would be better to post it separately and not hijack an unrelated thread

You should also not expect an answer within just 2 hours… This is a voluntary forum. Allow at least 24 hours before bumping your post

anyone? please help

By running Buddypress on what is now called wordpress Multisite will I be able to link all members together. Another words…I want to have a social community that is broken into states and was thinking of having a site for each state so groups and blogs would better organized and such. What I want is all members to still communicate across state lines (or site to site in this case). Is this possible with a multi site setup? Or my other option is that I use one site setup and find a way to catergories groups (into states in this case) Example…Users clicks on groups and shows a list of the states… that user then click on the state they want to enter and then it shows all relevant groups within that state. I looked for a plugin, but none that are working full strength at this time unless I am overlooking something. Anyone have any ideas on how to handle this? thanks for you help in advance.

@dorothysulzmann –

No short cuts on jQuery – but it’s quite straightforward to setup a simple script like you’ll need: their site is good and full of useful examples: http://jquery.com/

show() and hide() are basic jQuery – and there are plenty of animation options you can apply.

Also, take a look in the WordPress codex re: wp_enqueue_script – their recommended way of loading javascripts.

@whitbyglennk

Yes, the mu features are now ‘built in’ to WordPress – have a look on the WordPress Codex for WordPress Multisite (and ‘setting up a network’).

We have no problems running BuddyPress installed on a secondary blog on one of our current development projects

looks like something is up with the wordpress.org servers – takes a few refreshes to get the file to download

Then you have a WordPress / server config problem. You should fix this before installing BuddyPress.

You need to ask your server company and / or go onto the WordPress forums

WP 3.0.1 would be the best install with BuddyPress 1.2.6 (released this coming weekend).

But before walking through too much detail, is there a reason you want BuddyPress on a subdomain? Is WordPress installed on the main domain?

Now, it is possible to install BP and have members create blogs using subdomains .. but maybe you have a different purpose for putting the whole community on the subdomain .. which is also possible.

There are a growing number of great themes for BuddyPress:

http://premium.wpmudev.org/project/buddypress-magazine-theme

http://bp-tricks.com/

Also, you can take any WP theme and modify it to match the community by using the template pack.

Why do they find they can’t post anything?

You need to take a little more time to play and test your install, create a user ensure you have enabled create user blogs in the main options under super admin on the main blog then logged in as that new user create a new blog or register a new user and create a blog at same time., and re read my post above re upping the users capabilities/role, you don’t for a user blog.

I too have this same exact issue, and I have tried every template known to buddy press and word press, and even tried the wordpress 2010 with the buddy press template pack, without success.

I am very frustrated by this error

http://bpdevel.wordpress.com/2010/10/14/postponing-buddypress-1-2-6-until-this-w/

Not utterly sure why.

Ideally we need to be testing this proposed release candidate as much as possible I’ve run 1.2.6 or more accurately the 1.2 branch on local test installs for a while and it feels solid, if others wish to try on test installs and they can grab a zip from:

https://trac.buddypress.org/browser/branches/1.2

Yes, enabling zlib compression by placing code in the header.php of a child theme will improve performance.

`<?php
ini_set(’zlib.output_compression’, ‘On’);
ini_set(’zlib.output_compression_level’, ‘1?);
?>`

Source: WPMU.org

Additionally, you could enable W3-Total Cache as a plugin and gain other benefits, ie. CDN, Minify, database caching, object caching, browser caching, and user agent groups.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/w3-total-cache/

You cannot do both the plugin and the enabling of zlib compression in the header

Go back to a base WordPress install with the default 2010 theme. Then try to set custom permalinks to /%category%/%postname%/

Does that work? Can you go to categories and posts without problem?

If not, it is a problem with your server setup for WordPress and nothing to do with BuddyPress. You should fix that problem before attempting to use BuddyPress