BuddyPress.org

Its in the WP repository now, the new version of the theme can be found here: https://themes.svn.wordpress.org/simple-wp-community-theme/

Unless someone can see a better way to optimize this file, this is my final online version:

`php_value memory_limit 256M

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^thechembook.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.thechembook.com/$1 [L,R=301]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^thechemistrybook.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.thechembook.com/$1 [L,R=301]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} http://www.thechemistrybook.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.thechembook.com/$1 [L,R=301]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} http://www.chemhints.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.thechembook.com/$1 [L,R=301]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^chemhints.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.thechembook.com/$1 [L,R=301]

php_value session.gc_probability 1
php_value session.gc_divisor 100
php_value session.gc_maxlifetime 3600
php_value session.save_path /path/to/sessions

# Protect the htaccess file

Order Allow,Deny
Deny from all

# Protect wpconfig.php

Order Allow,Deny
Deny from all

# Disable directory browsing
Options All -Indexes

# BEGIN COMPRESSION AND CACHING

# Enable compression
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css text/javascript application/x-javascript text/html text/plain text/xml image/x-icon

BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4.0[678] no-gzip
BrowserMatch bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html
BrowserMatch bMSI[E] !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html

# Make sure proxies deliver correct content
Header append Vary User-Agent env=!dont-vary
# Ensure proxies deliver compressed content correctly
Header append Vary Accept-Encoding

# No ETags, No Pragma
Header unset Pragma
Header unset ETag
# Default cache time to 1 year (31536000 sec)
Header set Cache-Control “max-age=31536000, public, must-revalidate”

# No ETags
FileETag none

# CACHE SETTINGS (mod_expires)

# Turn on Expires
ExpiresActive On
# set default to “access plus 1 year”
ExpiresDefault A31536000
# html – “modification plus 1 hour”
ExpiresByType text/html M3600
# css and JavaScript – “modification plus 6 weeks”
ExpiresByType text/css M3628800
ExpiresByType text/javascript M3628800
ExpiresByType application/x-javascript M3628800

# No cache for php-files

ExpiresActive Off

Header set Cache-Control “private, no-cache, no-store, proxy-revalidate, no-transform”

# END CACHING

# BEGIN WordPress

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index.php$ – [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

# END WordPress`

It looks like this plugin will do the trick:

http://brandonallen.org/wordpress/plugins/edit-author-slug/

sorry

1. Which version of WP/MU are you running?
wordpress 3.0.1

2. Did you install WP/MU as a directory or subdomain install?
3. If a directory install, is it in root or in a subdirectory?
the directory that I installed it in is: mysite.com/site/wordpress

4. Did you upgraded from a previous version of WP/MU? If so, from which version?
no, this is a clean install

5. Was WP/MU functioning properly before installing/upgrading BuddyPress (BP)? e.g. permalinks, creating a new post, commenting.
yes

6. Which version of BP are you running?
buddypress 1.2.5.2

7. Did you upgraded from a previous version of BP? If so, from which version?
no

8. Do you have any plugins other than BuddyPress installed and activated? If so, which ones?
Akismet, BuddyPress Moderation, and Register Plus. I tried deactivating them to no avail.

9. Are you using the standard BuddyPress themes or customized themes?
the standard bp theme with a different header image

10. Have you modified the core files in any way?
Yes. Before this I was getting an error because of mysql_get_server_info on wp-db.com, so I changed line 1589 (or somewhere around there from `return preg_replace( ‘/[^0-9.].*/’, ”, mysql_get_server_info( $this->dbh ));` to `return preg_replace( ‘/[^0-9.].*/’, ”, mysql_query(“select version() as $this->dbh”) );`, and that error stopped.

11. Do you have any custom functions in bp-custom.php?
no

12. If running bbPress, which version? Or did your BuddyPress install come with a copy of bbPress built-in?
it came with bbpress build in.

13. Please provide a list of any errors in your server’s log files.
couldn’t find those: I will keep on looking though.

14. Which company provides your hosting?
000webhost.com

15. Is your server running Windows, or if Linux; Apache, nginx or something else?
linux with apache 2.0

Thank you for your help.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/auto-join-groups/

This plugin does the trick. The only issue is that it hasn’t been updated to work with Buddypress so you need to manually change the ‘wpmu-admin’ references into ‘ms-admin’ by simply editing the script.