wow that’s really nice thanks! However, my problem is that I don’t see the “blogs” option in the menu, like the one they have here: https://s.w.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-quickpress/screenshot-1.jpg?r=234544
Yep, you’ve got it exactly right – in /wp-admin/post-new.php.
If you want to let your users post from within the front-end, take a look at https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-quickpress/. It hasn’t been updated in a long while so if it doesn’t work, hopefully someone else is aware of an alternate.
Thanks but I’ve gone through the whole thread already and even a few others and none of them fix the issue. I don’t think my case has been described there (i don’t think). The ‘Upload Image’ from the profile-change avatar page just goes dead – nowhere. It doesn’t even try to upload the image I point it to, no matter the size – there’s nothing in the expected folder locations and the perms have even been set to 777. I don’t get a bp or wp error page either. It’s just ‘page not found’ which is frustrating. I’m not a coder so I can’t tell how the calling function for that button operates. I’ve futzed around with the upload paths coded in bp-core-avatars (full url, trailing slash, etc.) and in the site settings in wordpress. I’ve tried nearly all of the mentioned ‘fixes’ in the post above but to no avail.
Yes, I meant what techguy said. 
If the original OP{ was using extra plugins for BuddyPress that gathered and used information across the site/network/whatever, then *those* items may not work properly if he downgrades to single WP.
Because you know someone’s gonna have a BP install with every extra BP plugin out there installed, will downgrade from MU to WP, then come back here screaming that stuff broke. 
I could also point to another thread where a user is wonder where the “recent siteiwde posts” widget is, but he’s running single WP not MU, so that’s why it doesn’t show up.
(tangent: some mu functions did get renamed in 3.0 but the current functions still exist. They are listed as deprecated though, so at some point plugins authors will need to catch up.
There’s also the fuzzy meaning of the word “features”. ;P )
And yes, waiting until 3.0 will make downgrading SO much easier…
There is some difference between WP 3.0 MultiSite and WPMU 2.9.2, but I don’t think any features are missing. I know some functions have been renamed (wpms versus wpmu) but for the most part, I thought @andrea_r meant what @techguy said.
@techguy – I’m aware of that. But andrea_r noted something different about some WPMU features (I’m guessing deprecated functions, unless I’m misinterpreting something).
r-a-y,
WP 3.0 will have all the same sitewide features as MU. That is if in WP 3.0 you click the option to allow multiple blogs on the same install. However if you don’t turn that on, then WP 3.0 will act like a single install of WP. I think that’s what Andrea_r meant.
If you’re on WPMU and want to move to the standard WP, you should wait for WP 3.0 to make that transition. With the merging of the code bases, it should be easier.
I kind of figured there was slim chance that I was the only person to ever encounter this and wonder about it… in fact I should have looked on trac first before I posted, because I just discovered xprofile_sync_wp_profile() and ticket #2315. I’m going to have to look closer at it when I get time because this seems to be exactly what I’m referring to.
1 Upload bp-member-filter.php to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
2 Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
3 Add a form to your members/index.php or some other file (See: http://pastebin.com/bw0suXwe )
4 Smile
@andrea_r – can you elaborate on the sitewide features that WP 3.0 won’t have?
This is a longstanding issue with WP/WPMU/BP. I’m not sure why in 3.0 the existing profile page wasn’t discontinued in favour of something that doesn’t require access to admin and that would be trumped if a BP install was present.
“or will my site loose any features?”
If you have any extra plugins that pull in sitewide features from across blogs, you might.
In WordPress 3.0 which will be released soon you can have blogs for users as well when using the multi-site options.
Buddypress works fine with WP 2.9.2. I am using both.
I am not sure I understand your problem.
Are you saying that you can’t sign in to the site?
Can’t register?
How about posting a link to your site.
I don’t like the WP register/login screen so I use a login with Ajax plugin.
The only difference between WPMU and WPSA is that WPMU offers blogs to your users.
If you are on wordpress, yourposts/pages will have pretty permalinks, like yoursite.com/category/post-title-name instead of yoursite.com/?p=12433 etc.
It is better for you as will give you better SEO and for BP It is required.
Just change the permalinks from numeric to something else.
And as far as I remember, all your posts (previous link) will also function without any issue.
how can i achieve the functionality like firstly with WordPress, user should be redirected to his/her profile after logging in. It is WORDPRESS, not WORDPRESS MU.
Secondly, after logging in whenever user clicks on HOME link, he should be redirected to his / her profile….
Was your WordPress fully working before installing BuddyPress? e.g. posting a new blog post, adding a commenting, etc?
have you got firebug? the way i had to try to solve the issue was painful, making one change at a time, but if you inspect the area around where the alt text is appearing you can see the paths where stuff is referring to.
for you i’m pretty sure that it is just a matter to change the path to the correct location. i.e. with MU is wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files, for the standalone it should be under miscellaneous settings and i had the full path to the upload folder (people normally keep it outside the WP installation) and the full url is blank for me.
i had to change the htaccess file because the rewrite gave me issues with the slash ‘/’. if i had it at the start it would duplicate it (i.e. mysite.com//wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files) and if i left it out it would modify the path completely (i.e mysite.com/blogs.dir/1/files). it seems that the upload worked in the second instance, but then the reference to the files is not displaying, whilst the first is breaking the upload as well.
hope this helps you, there is another thread discussing similar issues (https://buddypress.org/community/groups/miscellaneous/forum/topic/buddypress-and-wordpress-30/#post-48806)
@gian-ava, if you’re on a cheap shared-host then there’s a possibility that could slow your website down, a lot. With a sudden rise in users and activity on a shared-host your site is bound to take a lot of strain, because of the limited resources that is dedicated to your site from your hosting company.
There is always a possibility of your site being hacked. I’m not too sure how likely this is otherwise it would be a widespread issue across buddypress.org.
For the unusual characters, I would set the encoding of your WordPress to Unicode(UTF8),
1. Make sure you are logged in as admin
2. In the admin dashboard, go to Settings > Reading
3. In the text box next to “Encoding for pages and feeds” insert “UTF-8” without the exclamation marks.
Hi, I’m new here. Any updates on this? How do I put this on the default template? I’ve tried using the codes above on the index but it won’t show up. Thanks
I’m running WordPress 2.9.2 and BuddyPress 1.2.2.1 by the way.
@bplove
Basically, use version 0.1.7 from the WordPress plugin repo. It works properly, is reasonably reliable, and it will update properly at the next release.
Do not use the 0.1.8 beta, because it doesn’t use the new file storage scheme and we’re not writing an updater for 0.1.8 because you’re not supposed to be using it on an actual site.
We should have another official release out in a week or two that adds everything you see in the 0.1.8 beta and a much more.
Thanks!
^F^
WP does generate a virtual robots.txt file, but I’m not sure if you can count BP in the mix as I’m not quite sure if BP does anything to it.
Try using this plugin to manage WP’s virtual robots.txt:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/pc-robotstxt/
