@jimsnaps “So is there no way to use buddypress, block out what’s not needed, and add an article mod? “
I answered based on your requirements, and you mentioned forums were optional 
No intention to limit you at all, just keeping it simple and clear. Of course you could install BuddyPress, and activate only the component/s you need at this time.
If you want the Forums component, know that you need to activate Groups component as well because the BP forums component is attached to groups. And members automatically join a group by default when they post to the group’s forum unless that group is private and no-one can post to that group’s forum unless invited to join the group. I also suggest reading through this general reference
https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/configure-buddypress-components/
Of course with BP activated, there’s the One Quick Post plugin which will allow your members to post articles from the frontend. However, you will need to code using BP blog loop to generated the list of posts that each member has posted in your blog to show up in individual member’s profile page.
If you do not want to go through all that, install external bbPress forum and integrate it with your WordPress installation. When you’re ready to use BuddyPress components, BP can integrate existing external group forum to its fold – again, with the caveat that forum will be then be attached to groups.
It sounds like you didn’t run the bbPress setup installer, or that something went wrong during that setup process.
Go to Dashboard > BuddyPress > Forum Setup, and click Setup a new bbPress installation. Re-install if it asks you to.
If it still doesn’t work, check to make sure there’s a bb-config.php file in the root of your WordPress installation, and that the credentials in that file are correct.
Okay, thanks for the response. But let me rephrase, as your recommendation at the surface almost seems to limiting.
I would like to have the options, as things grow, to use other parts of the system. Also, I would not want to use some third party forum when I can use bbpress.org.
So is there no way to use buddypress, block out what’s not needed, and add an article mod? Trim it down to just the profile system to start and an article posting function?
Ok I was looking in my Dashboard under my Automatic WordPress Backup and I have about 12 different back ups, all the way till the end of july.
But if I use one of these backups, do I lose all of the work I’ve done since then?
And what happens to the members that have signed up since then? Will I lose them?
i’m doing the same thing. I’m pretty sure it will work. I’ve seen a thread o ver on wishlist that says it will.
haven’t done it yet though, so it’s not a for sure yet
Janrain released it’s lasted version for wordpress 3 .
From it’s news letter :
“New WordPress Plugin
The first version of the new Janrain Engage plugin for WordPress is now available. This version offers several new features including WordPress 3 compatibility and an enhanced UI.”
But I like Gigya SSO rather than Janrain SSO.
“I want to have many users, major emphasis on articles and basically block out all the rest.”
Single install of WP 3.0.1 and you[ don’t even need BuddyPress. You can even use the Mingle Forums plugin which doesn’t require the Mingle plugin or SimplePress Forum plugin. As for central profile area, you can create WP author template plus a WP page template coded to taste for list of authors and you’re done.
Okay, jetzt weiß ich… dass ich nichts über wordpress+buddypress weiß. ^^ Good work!
I have just installed buddypress and it is not working properly, what am I doning wrong. For instance, there are no pages for posting updates like this, creating groups and forums post. What am I supposed to be doing. I installed on top of WordPress 2010 theme and used the compatibility pack… What am I missing. When user log on it does not show the My Account/ Notification menu at all, it still showing the login in /sign up menu strip on top of the page. What am doing wrong. Please help
I host on RackSpace (Cloud Sites) this normally isn’t a problem ever. Do what Paul Gibbs suggests above and then increase the memory allocated for PHP by editing the wp-config.php: https://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php#Increasing_memory_allocated_to_PHP
What’s probably happened is that the site out-of-memory’d during the initial installation, so you may need to clean your database and re-install BuddyPress.
I would check all settings in the BP admin section, possibly deactivate/reactivate BP.
Are you running anything other than a bog standard install?
Check the DB do these tables exist?
It turns out that it was running 32M or memory, so I created a .htaccess that increased that to 64M
Now the WP works, but the database is generating errors that the table it is looking for doesnt exist.
Here is the error from the log. Note, I am hosting this in Rackspace Cloud (CloudSites):
[22-Sep-2010 09:15:23] WordPress database error Table ***********.wp_bp_xprofile_groups’ doesn’t exist for query SELECT id FROM wp_bp_xprofile_groups WHERE id = 1 made by require_once, require, do_action, call_user_func_array, xprofile_add_admin_menu, xprofile_install
[22-Sep-2010 09:15:23] WordPress database error Table ***********.wp_bp_xprofile_fields’ doesn’t exist for query SELECT id FROM wp_bp_xprofile_fields WHERE id = 1 made by require_once, require, do_action, call_user_func_array, xprofile_add_admin_menu, xprofile_install
Note, I replaced my DB name with ***********
You will need to supply more information than you have, i.e versions installed, although I asume they are latest stable releases of both.
This is not a common error; WP and BP normally install just fine, 500 is a server error and can be caused by a mis-configured .htaccess rule or lack of PHP script memory and many other factors.
Can you initially confirm how much memory is allocated to PHP script limit it may need to be increased, also what version of PHP you have installed on the server.
Does WP run ok? Don’t activate BP just ensure that WP is installed correctly, that permalinks work as expected.
If you can’t access dashboard rename BP plugin to force a deactivation of it and that should return access to wp-admin
@jimboba My apologies, no you didn’t incur my wrath and weren’t dismissed, sometimes it’s easy to lose track of threads
Using the @mention system does help to ensure we see things flagged to our username.
At times it does become very difficult to help further, especially remotely where we can only ask questions and are divorced from the actual events, normally I have access to all the files such as access/error logs, DB etc so I can effectively troubleshoot issues.
Something else to check might be the settings for wordpress url and site url ; wordpress url should reflect the url path to your sub folder installation?
@DJPaul Thanks for your response. I am not a programmer so
Folks at WPMU Dev suggested trying this pluggin by JohnJamesJacoby to see if it works:
WP Multi Network
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-multi-network/
Adds a Network Management UI for super admins in a WordPress Multisite environment.
Turn your multi-site installation of WordPress into many multi-site networks, all surrounding one central user base.
WP Multi Network allows cape wearing super admins to create new network collections of sites, allowing for infinitely extensible site, network, and domain arrangements.
@johnjamesjacoby Please advise if I can use this pluggin for my purpose as I explained in the original post above.
Thanks you very much.
@Tolden and @stephenefromfrance
Your functions.php file should contain the folowing:
`<?php
//Deals with uppercase username signup problems…maybe
function my_sanitize_user( $username, $raw_username, $strict ) {
$username = $raw_username;
$username = wp_strip_all_tags( $username );
$username = remove_accents( $username );
// Kill octets
$username = preg_replace( ‘|%([a-fA-F0-9][a-fA-F0-9])|’, ”, $username );
$username = preg_replace( ‘/&.+?;/’, ”, $username ); // Kill entities
// If strict, reduce to ASCII for max portability.
if ( $strict )
$username = preg_replace( ‘|[^a-z0-9 _.-@]|i’, ”, $username );
// Consolidate contiguous whitespace
$username = preg_replace( ‘|s+|’, ‘ ‘, $username );
return $username;
}
add_filter( ‘sanitize_user’, ‘my_sanitize_user’, 100, 3 );
?>`
At least that’s what mine has and it works fine.
I’m also using this plugin to notify users if this would be a problem for them also: http://buddydev.com/buddypress/creating-a-buddypress-wordpress-username-availability-checker-for-your-site/ Although, I think I modified the script so it would only warn for certain use cases. I also did just realize that it doesn’t work for IE. Haven’t had a chance to see why yet. So, it’s good that I have both.
It’s up to individual plugin authors to include such a button, since WordPress itself isn’t really aware of the extra databases being created. I agree that it’s good practice for a plugin to include a button like this. But since BP doesn’t have one, it’s pretty simple to just drop the tables in question when you’re done using the plugin.
Wouldn’t it be better if the option of deleting the corresponding plugin database tables were build in within the wordpress administration. Drupal handles uninstalling plugins this way which is very handy.
Hey, I’ve just installed BuddyPress and BuddyPress Template Pack on the “Imbalance” theme http://wpshower.com/free-wordpress-themes/imbalance-free-wordpress-theme/ It said the install was successful whilst I was setting it up but still displays “BuddyPress is ready. You’ll need to activate a BuddyPress compatible theme to take advantage of all of the features. We’ve bundled a default theme, but you can always install some other compatible themes or upgrade your existing WordPress theme.”
The main issue is that after I’ve installed the template package no options are appearing to create a forum or group, the only options coming up in the Buddypress dropdown in the dashboard are; General Settings, Component Setup, Forums Setup, Profile Field Setup and I can’t do anything with any of them except Profile Field. I’m thinking it might be because I don’t know if my ” bbPress tables are in the same database as my WordPress tables”, I don’t seem to be able to work it out.
Really really need help with this, hope someone can!
Thanks
