A tech at BlueHost says that Simplescripts doesn’t download MU with Buddypress and that it needs to be installed separately. But at the bottom of the page on my dashboard it says: Thank You for Creating with WordPress MU. So I’m stymied. I know nothing about coding. I used Simplescrips because BlueHost originally said it’s all-inclusive.
@jimi ~ http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/trunk/
you won’t have multiple/duplicate userdata in the db, buddypress will plugin just fine and you’ll be able to enable it on a per site basis for multi-site.
i’d imagine that simplescripts is using WordPress MU version 2.9 so you need to navigate here yoursite.com/wp-admin/wpmu-options.php and you’ll see the option under Allow new registrations.
Two things
1) If they have released this as a plugin, it will work on any WordPress site. I do not have to remind you that BP runs on WP.
2) Do not put Andy’s name or anyone else’s in the subject of a forum post. If you really must have his attention, sed a message to him and see if you get a reply. We will be locking or deleting any such threads in future.
Same trouble when i want to create a topic: “Fatal error: Cannot redeclare checked() in /home/vhosts/siteurl/wp-admin/includes/template.php on line 380”
WordPress-MU 2.9.1.1 + BuddyPress 1.1.3 (new installation)
Install WP/MU as a directory.
Directory install, is it in root.
BuddyPress install come with a copy of bbPress built-in
Active plugins: “rus-to-lat”
Using the standard BuddyPress theme.
I didn’t modify the core files.
I think this is a wordpress bug. What versions of BP and WP are you using?
thekmen and I have done this with Hybrid as the parent theme and our own child theme built on a Hybrid Child theme and Buddypress. Have a look at http://themehybrid.com/community/topic/hybrid-and-buddypress for the functions that need to move over at least for Hybrid. It was actually quite easy. My post at http://themehybrid.com/community/topic/hybrid-and-buddypress#post-2506 is as close to a step by step as I’ve seen. However, there are still more CSS tweaks needed after following those steps.
Woops, wasn’t reading correctly. Well work the other way around then. 
Add the files that your theme doesn’t have and start using bp functions.
@ Mike Pratt
Screenshots here : http://dev.benoitgreant.be/2010/02/03/buddypress-classifieds/
@mercime :
But there is still a nag
Ok, it’s fixed. Weird
Fixed double-nesting
– This is fixed now
If you want special tags[…] – so I wrote some tags like : new, used, giveaway, red, blue, black
Those are tags you have to create in your data-blog and then put their “ids” in (eg:7,4)
Checked option for Auto-suggest Tags
Oops I forgot this option, but it’s not active yet.
there is no Site Admin or Admin Role there, so do I assume that Keymaster ala forums is for Site Admin, correct?
The roles are retrieven from your blog. I don’t understand your question very well but you should find the usual wordpress roules there
Thanks for testing and review !
Email login plugin. Lose the username field by making it type=”hidden” on register.php and autogenerating a username value using a trick like this one.
Just so it’s clear why I am trying to do this.
I host a small amt of client sites on my server. In the past I used to use wordpress non-mu for each site. Frankly I got really tired of having to update 30-40 separate wordpress installs everytime there was a new vs of wp or plugins that were used. That is where wpmu really saved me time, one install one update for all clients.
I know that I can simply create multiple wpmu/bp installs and give each client their own install, but then I’m in the same boat as before I started using mu.
Having buddypress the way it is now, there is no way I can see to give each blog that wants their ‘own’ buddypress an install without having to install multiple copies of mu again.
Having grown accustomed to only having to maintain one codebase has really spoiled me, and I’m willing to do just about anything not to have to go back to the old way of sep installs.
That’s the exact opposite of what he needs though.
http://www.bp-tricks.com/design/member-blog-themes-to-match-your-buddypress-theme/
This is pretty old, since 1.2 doesn’t have wire anymore, but it’s almost the same.
It’s actually quite easy with BuddyPress 1.2, just requires cutting some stuff from the default BuddyPress child template functions, adding them to your own theme functions & some CSS edits.
I will be happy to post a howto once BuddyPress 1.2 comes out of beta if it helps.
@Bowe: ohh I didn’t realize that you were really aiming for an accordion. Awesome! I just got to the point where I was digging around and came across the Tabbed Widgets plugin, and I was wondering if it would be a better solution to create a plugin with the 4 or 5 BP widgets that I could plunk (technical term) into the Tabbed Widget corresponding areas.
Perhaps I’ll just wait for your tutorial? hmmm…
No WordPress MU? Those better be really good reasons! Be careful about hacking together your own network of blogs when WordPress can already do it for you. Did you know that WordPress is merging with MU for version 3.0?
I’m also available to test so let me know when beta is out. I’m testing MediaWiki WPMU SSO plugin and also found this https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wiki-append/. Having a group wiki is something I was looking at and I’m glad to see this one. My initial idea was to create a NameSpace in MediaWiki for each group. Of course there is user permissions issue.
what you refer to would be a WordPressMU install, which is a multi-users/blogs version of wordpress…
… but relationships to users need to be maintained, in a ddition to Groups and possibly even events. Then each image must maintain an associated comment/activity stream set of functionality. Finally, in order to be truly useful in a social media context, the ability to “tag” a user in an image will be very important.
That’s all metadata with image files, it has nothing to do with uploading photos, generating thumbnails, etc. I’m not saying writing a plugin to make those connections is easy, but it would be easier than writing an entire gallery/photo app from scratch.
I’ve tested several gallery scripts. I needed something that could handle upload of raw photos. NextGen came close, but still had some problems. If Buddypress tries to build an entire app into the core, it’s never going to be as solid as NextGen or Zenphoto or other established gallery apps.
Obviously Nextgen and Zenphoto are for single user galleries. That doesn’t make them any less suitable as starting points for a BP plugin. There has been some discussion about Nextgen on the WPMU forums.
This photoblog plugin claims to support WPMU. Not sure what it does. Haven’t tested it.
Andy,
Are you referring to the actual file path? That is a non issue as most WP plugins for cloud/split level management work great with BP.
The issue is where in the database, and HOW in the database it is being stored.
If your saying I can MOVE the location from the #1 blog with a filter I havent found please let me know.
Also if I can choose which fields it uses to store them would be usefull, I have looked in WP upload and your avatar script and it seems hard coded into the users blog directory, which in all BP users case is blog #1 first.
Take a look at this.
I really don’t recommend building in a php framework into a existing cms, it could cause a lot of issues.
1. A buddypress theme isn’t so different from a standard wordpress theme, it just has a few extras.
2. Not sure what you mean by this, you have to install bp on wpmu, you can’t install them seperately. Bp is a plugin for wpmu.
3. Once installed bp correctly on wpmu or just wp, you get profiles, activities, groups etc.
Do you really understand what wpmu is? Basically its standard wordpress, but allows you or your users to make multiple blogs on one wordpress install. Buddypress allows you to turn your main blog into a social community, by adding profile and frieding options and the earlier named options.
@osasko, do you use the email login plugin? You can’t get rid of the username entirely, because WordPress is built around it, but you can autogenerate a username and hide the input field on register.php by adding type=”hidden”. It’s an ugly hack…
So I was having the problem with this on the single blog version of wordpress but not the multi user version on the same server. Then on the same server I created a brand new install of wordpress and buddypress and got it working there. I eventually found that the upload path that worked had /var/www/vhosts/url/httpdocs/wp-content/uploads but the one that did not work had just wp-content/uploads. once i changed this everything worked.
