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I´ve got exactly the same problem. I´ve got a fresh install of WPMU 2.8.4a and BuddyPress 1.1.1, no separate bbPress as I thought BuddyPress would perform that install for me.

This is what I get:

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bbPress forum integration in BuddyPress has been set up correctly. If you are having problems you can re-install

NOTE: The forums directory will only work if your bbPress tables are in the same database as your WordPress tables. If you are not using an existing bbPress install you can ignore this message.

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When I try to post a new topic in any of the forums I get:

“There was an error when creating the topic”

So I guess bbPress isn´t installed after all?

By skeleton theme, do you guys mean bp-sn-parent?

I tested my site with ie7 and ie8. I could not recreate the issue of the home page left column appearing below the middle and right column on my site (but I did observe this behavior with ie7 on buddypress.org). No other issue mentioned above was observed on my site (except for the one noted below). As I mentioned, I did see this behavior on a public computer/kiosk using IE (given my comments below, it seems more likely that it was ie7).

You can see (or at least I can) a similar issue regarding the left column loading below the right column when using IE7 at http://buddypress.org (this site). Visit the ‘About’ and ‘Demo’ links (not the actual demo site). There are only 2 columns but the left appears under the right column with ie7.

The one issue I was able to recreate on my site was the floating submenu when using the WordPress Default 1.6 Blog Theme. No problem with ie8 but with ie7 the buddybar submenus under ‘My Account’ or ‘My Blogs’ float to the right. I logged into http://testbp.org and created a blog with the default theme and found the same behavior when using ie7.

I don’t think my specific site offers any insight since the issues that can be recreated are evident on buddypress.org and testbp.org (when logged in and using the default blog theme). I find it curious that others aren’t reporting this behavior as it should be easy to replicate.

If you haven’t already, copy bp-themes/bp-default and /bp-sn-parent to the normal WordPress theme directory (/wp-content/themes).

/wp-content/bp-themes/ is for a previous version of BP themes. Unless you know why you might still want to use it, make sure that /wp-content/bp-themes/ does not exist (i.e. delete the folder) else BP will get confused.

Activate the bp-default theme, put it on your main WPMU blog and it should work.

EDIT: Jeff won!

I’m afraid if the developer of that plugin is not responding to your questions, then that may very well indicate that they have stopped supporting the plugin. You should post (if you have not already) on the WPMU forums and see if anyone has information.

Perhaps someone there may know of an alternative or will adopt the plugin and bring it up to code. Make sure you mention that you want to use this plugin in BuddyPress.

For Ousep’s post:

Do I really have to use the bp-sn-whatever template to be able to use any of buddypress's functionality?

No. Just like WordPress has its famouse “Loop”, BuddyPress implements its own Loops for all of the core components and features. See https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/custom-buddypress-loops/.

There is a range of different theme information on the Codex, but you are able to copy all of the templates from the BuddyPress parent theme into any WordPress theme and it will work. You will need to add custom CSS to style those elements, obviously.

I’m not sure how Facebook connect works… but allowing sign up or not is simply another configuration setting. I think it’s under the WPMU settings menu.

I saw my site on a kiosk with IE8 today. The home page looked as you described. I didn’t know if was a result of IE8 or the resolution of the monitor.

I also saw that buddybar menus on the bp home page did not appear ‘in front’ of the upper left members, groups, blogs search box and picklist. I didn’t look at all my blog themes but I did notice that WordPress Default 1.6 Theme by Michael Heilemann breaks with BP. The sub menus under “My Blogs”, > Dashboard- New Post- etc, are all disconnected from the menu. They float over to the right. I’ll check it with testbp.org. Is any one else seeing this IE8 buddybar menu behavior on the bp home and default blog theme?

wpmu 2.8.4, bp 1.1.1

It appears to be build around BP1.0. To bad, though, I think most folks would benefit from BP1.1 as WordPress users are used to quick updates, so I’m not sure how much attention the plugin will receive. Hopefully it won’t be to long for a BP1.1 and higher version.

Looks like a good start though on the demo.

Using BuddyPress will ensure constant, future-proof development. I think using it instead of a random authors plugin is probably the best thing to do.

You’re still going to need to adapt to WordPress being a slave to BuddyPress for all of the ways that BP hooks into and filters things like themes.

BP assumes that you’re going to use most of its components, and if you turn them off it’s kind of up to you as the site author/admin to adjust accordingly.

This script is most likely out of date with WPMU. Post a comment to the developer of the script in the link in the OP.

Also, a kind reminder about the Domain Policy.

wolfapache9516, I will like to know how you resolve this. I see that your buddypress theme is fine now.

just buy a bag of buns

there are quite a few wordpress plugins for extending user profiles…

i once used cimy extra user fields for a project, and it worked fine for my purposes. it looks like there are a bunch of options nowadays.

this sounds great.

unfortunately i must be doing something stupid.

i renamed the .txt to .php and dropped it in my wp-admin dir (though i also tried the blog root). nothing seems to be happening. anything else i’m supposed to do?

i thought perhaps i needed to specify which hooks to listen to, but can’t find where i’d do that within the script.

any chance that it broke with BP 1.1.1 ?

bug bug bug ?

themes not working for other registered users as wordpress mu do no user theme no name on and url on page its look like work well with only one admin user and his group but if some one want to make own them and blogs and even like this http://mahi.buddyin.com no other than home page and plugin only working !!! what if any one want to open website like me for everyone who want to register his own blogin and grouping page

Thanks you very much David !

I have just changed the settings and it works fine !

@Erich73: Um… just change your WordPress discussion settings in the dashboard.

so how to adjust the settings in a way that “unregistered users” and “not-logged-in users” are not able to post a comment to my main-blog at all ? Only registered and logged-in-users are able to comment ?

Do I need to install a plug-in for this simple feature ?

thanks !

This might help you further.

http://wpmututorials.com/how-to/stopping-spam-comments-sitewide/

And why take the social out of a social community plugin..?

Oh, I failed to mention Will Norris, who already wrote an OpenID plugin for WordPress, which works pretty good, but seems to be missing a few key features.

There’s some talk of integrating OpenID into the core of WP, but there’s also disagreement on this. With BuddyPress putting it on the iteration roadmap, this may change people’s minds in the long run as they realize how Identity *IS* the platform (the core) of the Internet.

I won’t be using all the components, but I expect my design to be complex like Gigaom and Tastykitchen. I actually found BP looking for a suitable extended profile plugin to no avail. Alkivia is close, but some features have been “under development” for quite awhile in WordPress time.

I will have a single blog setup so no extra blogs and I’m trying to keep the use of “wires” to a minimum as it can get out of hand quickly.