I’m having the same error. I can attest to the fact that none of these are because of 3rd party. I have a brand new Buddypress, fully update WordPress Mu, and Bbpress installed at the /forum directory. It will not let me switch from a different BPtheme other than the Network Parent Theme, which is one of the two themes bundled with Buddypress. The error comes regardless of which WP theme I am using – I am getting the exact same result. By commenting out lines 428-456 in the bx-profile-deprecated.php file, I can get a working sign in form, but users have to put in their own profile information later. Has there been any to get a permanent fix here?
BuddyPress doesn’t support WordPress. Make sure you have WPMU installed.
http://mu.wordpress.org
Ah, here I am 
I have (finally) upgraded to BuddyPress 1.1 on my test site (just the forums working in one click is just worth every minute of it!!). I have set aside (branched) the old version of bp-events (0.6) for people still running bp 1.0.3 (for whatever reason), and from now on, the trunk version on my site (and WordPress plugins) will solely work on BP 1.1 and beyond. Marius has put in a *ton* of work rewriting most of the code to keep up with the major changes to BP from 1.0.3 to 1.1. For the next little while, I will mirror the changes made to the trunk listed on this thread to the one on my site until we merge the two and go forward on one version (when I have figured out how to do this…)
I am currently reworking the calendar view to have *lots* of AJAX “refreshments”…
Does this also work for child themes? I get at example.com/about
This is an example of a WordPress page, you could edit this to put information about yourself or your site so readers know where you are coming from. You can create as many pages like this one or sub-pages as you like and manage all of your content inside of WordPress.
How do I only remove the admin bar from the wordpress admin area? Want to keep it everywhere else. I know Andy added the admin bar to the admin area some time back, but I haven’t found anything to remove it only from the admin section?
@John James Jacoby, awesome–thanks for the quick response! It’s this kind of thing that makes me love the WordPress/MU community.
At the moment, it’s probably not as easy as we all wish it was. 
It’s best to start with WPMU if you can…
If you have an existing site with plugins installed, it won’t be an easy transfer. If it’s just a normal WP install with no plugins, you can export your blog, install WPMU, and import the blog as your primary blog into the new site.
no previous installs of BP. i’m not sure if it’s WP or WPMU. i’ve never seen a comparison, so assumed they were the same — sorry maybe i just have WP.
“Thank you for creating with WordPress. | Documentation | Feedback Version 2.8.4”
what’s the difference? i believe from the docs on this, i need WPMU.
would an upgrade from WP to WPMU be easy?
Did you have BuddyPress 1.1 installed previously? Are you using WPMU or WP?
I’ll admin to not knowing how phpinfo should look if not using apache, so we might need additional help here.
hostexcellence ; windows server ; php 5.2.9
http://rebelsforchrist.org/ztest.php for phpinfo() output.
Who is your web host? Chances are this is a PHP version or a memory issue.
If this can help, on a fresh bp 1.1 install i get these errors when trying to activate the plugin :
Warning: Call-time pass-by-reference has been deprecated; If you would like to pass it by reference, modify the declaration of do_action(). If you would like to enable call-time pass-by-reference, you can set allow_call_time_pass_reference to true in your INI file in C:wampwwwwordpress-muwp-contentpluginsbp-eventbp-events.php on line 2186
Warning: Call-time pass-by-reference has been deprecated; If you would like to pass it by reference, modify the declaration of do_action(). If you would like to enable call-time pass-by-reference, you can set allow_call_time_pass_reference to true in your INI file in C:wampwwwwordpress-muwp-contentpluginsbp-eventbp-events.php on line 2215
Warning: Call-time pass-by-reference has been deprecated; If you would like to pass it by reference, modify the declaration of do_action(). If you would like to enable call-time pass-by-reference, you can set allow_call_time_pass_reference to true in your INI file in C:wampwwwwordpress-muwp-contentpluginsbp-eventbp-events.php on line 2265
Warning: Call-time pass-by-reference has been deprecated; If you would like to pass it by reference, modify the declaration of do_action(). If you would like to enable call-time pass-by-reference, you can set allow_call_time_pass_reference to true in your INI file in C:wampwwwwordpress-muwp-contentpluginsbp-eventbp-events.php on line 2265
Warning: require(C:wampwwwwordpress-mu/wp-content/plugins/bp-events/bp-events-cssjs.php) [function.require]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in C:wampwwwwordpress-muwp-contentpluginsbp-eventbp-events.php on line 2764
Fatal error: require() [function.require]: Failed opening required ‘C:wampwwwwordpress-mu/wp-content/plugins/bp-events/bp-events-cssjs.php’ (include_path=’.;C:php5pear’) in C:wampwwwwordpress-muwp-contentpluginsbp-eventbp-events.php on line 2764
If you moved the installation this is going to cause problems, you will need to change a number of things in the database. This is no doubt the cause of your issues.
Some of these results may help:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rls=en&q=moving+wordpress+mu+directory&aq=f&oq=&aqi=
I moved the installation so that it no longer has WordPress installed at the root, http://projects.gregeland.com/badmintonlife/ and it STILL shows a blank profile at http://projects.gregeland.com/badmintonlife/members
Is there ANYTHING in the database that could cause this problem?? This is really starting to baffle me.
I think the comparison, in that case, would be wordpress vs. drupal, and then drupal social vs. buddypress…
You can probably imagine it’s a rather large and complicated plugin, but when it’s ready for beta it will make it into the WordPress plugin repository for download and feedback.
Thanks, guys! You are very helpful. May I still drill a bit deeper?
@Mike Pratt:
the WPMU folks have been on fire lately, not sure what slow dev universe you speak of
I was under the impression that a significant fraction of all commits from the sole committer are simply merges from wp.org’s trunk or tiny bug fixes. Care to share any pointers to other signs of activity, perhaps a road map of sorts?
Of course, if you don’t want to do any work under the hood…
Oh, I’m not that naive but rather looking for war stories from real life BP admins to help me gauge the resource requirements. Setting up a test site for a fistful of dummy users did not really help in this guesstimation.
Also, consider that because BuddyPress uses WordPressMU which is compatible with most of the normal WordPress plugins out there, you have an existing free library of pretailored website features and upgrades that jump-start your development time.
On a large scale, using plugins like HyperDB and donncha’s cache plugin can help manage server load… Consider that wordpress.com uses a codebase very similar to WPMU to manage millions of users and blogs and activity, and it’s easy to see that WordPress is capable of handling a ton of pages and data… BuddyPress also now powers the http://profiles.wordpress.org pages too, so you can see how it handles tens of thousands of users there as well.
Yeah, I used this tutorial instead: http://theeasybutton.com/blog/2009/07/17/integrating-buddypress-wordpress-mu-and-bbpress/
Bear in mind that I am not very skilled at BP/WPMU/bbP, so my answer to your previous question could be wrong !
Oh I see, is this the old way? http://umwblogs.org/wiki/index.php/Integrating_WPMu%2C_BuddyPress%2C_and_bbPress I’m not sure because I just installed them both today and set up integration during the bbPress install. So right now I’ve just been controlling the integration through bbPress -> Settings -> WordPress Integration.
Just did a plug in install from the latest.zip file I got here. Received a wordpress error: The plugin does not have a valid header. Is there anyone willing to help here?
I’m looking at the readme files included in latest.zip and there is nothing about that anywhere. If I understood how this was extending wordpress I wouldn’t have come here. The step by step links from the download pages go to a page not found. So how am I supposed to find this information for a product I think my client should use if I can get it to work?
You really need to understand buddypress…and maybe bit about WordPress. Everything is explained in readme.txt
1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, or whatever, BuddyPress stays in plugins directory as it’s a plugin for wpmu.
Using an existing WordPress theme will require work on your part. WordPress themes are designed for blogs, not for all the extra features that BuddyPress offers. You will be able to integrate the header and footer and overall look and feel, but specific features will still need CSS styles.
