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@corin-rules BuddyPress 1.2.x requires at least “Requires at least: WordPress 2.9.1” (regular or normal). This may or may not have anything to do with your problem, though you will find other problems running it on 2.8.

It’s already here. BP1.2 runs on WP standard.

I am having the same issue. Both on the front end and in the admin area. Any of these links simply take me to the homepage of the blog.

1. WordPress MU 2.8.6
2. subdomain install
3. installed in a sub directory
4. a fresh install
5. wordpress MU is functioning as normal before and after buddypress install
6. Buddypress Version 1.2.1
7. Did not upgrade buddypress
8. No other plugins installed
9. Using Buddymatic theme with a custom child theme, (though switching back to buddymatic default, coffe with friends or kubrick hasthe same issues)
10. No modification of core files
11. No custom functions in bp-custom.php
12. Not running bbPress (yet, one thing at a time
13. I have no server error logs afaik, but i do get this error when activating the plugin*
14. The blog is currently hosted inhouse on a development server, I could request permission to reveal more details about this if requiered

* –

Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare bp_loaded() (previously declared in /home/astateofwriting/wordpress-mu/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-loader.php:54) in /home/astateofwriting/wordpress-mu/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-loader.php on line 55

BuddyPress -> Component Setup–>Let users create, join and participate in groups would seem to be for disabling Groups entirely, so that’s not it.

Not sure what I had in mind, there. I wonder if you can hook Buddypress permissions into Justin Tadlock’s excellent Members plugin (http://justintadlock.com/archives/2009/09/17/members-wordpress-plugin)

Basically I’d just disallow Subscribers (if that’s your default role) from creating groups, but I’d have to go digging to figure out how to do that….

I haven’t actually tried!

check out my interview here: http://wpmu.org/wordpress-as-a-learning-management-system-move-over-blackboard/

lmk if you have questions

@thecorkboard

Set this in wp-config.php:

define('WP_MEMORY_LIMIT', '80M');

Read more here:

https://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php#Increasing_memory_allocated_to_PHP

You can actually do just about anything in WordPress if you really know your stuff… so for me it comes down to usability. Joomla and Drupal both tend to be very complicated for the average (or even ‘expert’) user. For usability, no one comes close to WordPress… in my opinion.

Pages are for static content like “contact us”. They are organized and retrieved by a fixed hierarchy and cannot be tagged or categorized.

Posts are for topical content like news articles. They can be organized and retrieved in and a multitude of ways… by tag, category, date, month, etc. You can even setup a custom taxonomy to add custom metadata to posts… like for instance… if it were a movie site… cast, release date, genre, etc. By default… with most themes… the homepage will simply spit out a stream of your most recent posts. But again, you can customize things in a million different ways if you know your stuff.

“In WP v3.0, WordPress MU will be merged with the single WP installation and there will be a migration path.”

Unless you are merging together more than one standalone WP install into one multisite network, in 3.0 there will be no need to migrate anything to turn on multiple blogs (ie; multiple sites).

If anyone stumbles on this thread, there is another thread where I have replied at length about this: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/activating-existing-users

The best solution at this time is something like Group Activity Notifications https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-group-activity-stream-subscription/. It does a bit more than what you’re asking for, and by default it has everyone subscribed to everything, but it does allow the user pretty fine-grained control over notifications.

We’re working to make the plugin more customizable, so that the site admin could choose to turn notifications off by default. Then it would work just like the way you describe.

it looks something like this on WordPress (not MU) install running BP 1.2.1-

http://domainnname.com/activate?key=f0cae3781ec82827

@Scotm that codex page no longer gives details on tweaking the files, it just points to the plugin.

@maxell – when you set up the plugin it had instructions on page 3. You have to take the extra folders & files that are added to your theme, and make the divs & html match up to your original wp theme.

Supposedly even the New York Times is on WordPress, although they hide it well. Not sure if they still are.

See also:

Top 10 WordPress Theme for Newspaper Sites

Newspapers and WordPress: A match made in heaven?

Read: https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/ and be prepared to tweak your template files to enable your sidebar and fix CSS issues.

they provide you with an RSS feed for your posts and comments on any syndicated content (my feed)… just like wordpress ~ so if you want to pull a feed, just use any common feed parsing plugin to pull your RSS into your Buddypress install. I like to use feedwordpress. Or if you don’t want to duplicate the feed as posts, you can use the built in SimplePie functions in wordpress to display your RSS feed as a widget, like the widget here that pulls in rss from another site.

@stwc Lunatic

My favourite url shortener name so far I think is ‘Beam.to’

We push blog posts out to twitter via Hootsuite, which has its own url shortening ow.ly (see what they did there?) So if you’re looking to do that kind of thing, a separate twitter / sn client might be the way to go.

If you want to push members blog posts out to twitter, then any compatible WP plugin should work, you would just need to install a sitewide WordPress > Twitter feed plugin so that members can use it on their own blogs too.

We use shortening services because it’s the nature of the beast but apart from the worries @stwc mentions above, as a few people point out, the danger of course is that if that url shortening service should cease to be so will all your links! Just a thought…

@pigi85 –> https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-member-filter/installation/

Make sure you remember step #5

Actually thanks for the post. This is a something I have been doing (trying to do) since wpmu 1.0. I use WPMU / Buddypress with young (elementary school students 6-12 years old) so simplicity is a must. The New Blog Options plugin (if it works as it says it will) would make make perfect customization possible. Here are a list of WPMU plugins that I use or have used that might help. I am in the process of retrying everything to achieve exactly what you are trying to do. Let everyone on the forums know how your testing goes. Hope this isn’t too long. I added links to save time since there are sometimes plugins with similar names).

New Blog Options – this one is fairly new (still beta), and I haven’t tried it extensively yet, but it will allow you to clone on blog setup with it’s plugin options etc. to all new blogs.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/default-blog-options/

Limit Blogs per User – if you don’t want them making more than one blog (set to 2, one is the main buddypress blog and 2 is their own blog)

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/limit-blogs-per-user/

WPMU New Blog Defaults – this will allow you to restrict menus, change default links, etc under the Options in the Site Admin menu

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wpmu-new-blog-defaults/

Members – this one takes over where the old Role-manager plugin left off. Haven’t had time to check it out yet, but if you could use this with New Blog Options it would allow you to very finally tune what your users could do and see.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/members/

Adminimize – again I haven’t played with this for a while, but if you could use it with New Blog Options, then you could simplify the look of the menus for your users too.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/adminimize/

Default User Role – will set the user role when a new blog is created

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wpmu-default-user-role/

Plugin Manager – does what it says, allows you to manage which plugins users can set, which ones are automatically turned on, and which regular users cannot see

http://wpmudev.org/project/wpmu-plugin-manager

download link is: http://wpmudev.org/download/946613807_mp-plugin-manager.php

Of course with young people you might want to consider a privacy plugin like:

More Privacy Options – this doesn’t work with the feed on Buddypress, but if you search the forums it can be made to work or you can use the following plugin for feed privacy (Buddypress privacy should be coming soon)

http://wpmudev.org/project/More-Privacy-Options/

download link is: http://wpmudev.org/download/999830698_ds_private_blog.php

BP MPO Activity Filter – This plugin, BP MPO Activity Filter, does just what the name suggests: it filters BuddyPress activity feeds. Used with More Privacy Options.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-mpo-activity-filter/

Check out /plugins/buddypress/bp-core/bp-core-templatetags.php

Specifically:

bp_get_member_permalink()

[EDIT]

You’re looking for user_login for the “membername” part.

Look at:

https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_userdata

https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_currentuserinfo

You probably need to enable registration on your WordPress site.

I haven’t read the latest replies but I saw this today and thought I should offer it up as a possible solution.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/quick-post-widget/screenshots/