BuddyPress.org

It looks like you are trying to install BuddyPress under single-user WordPress.

BP currently requires the multi-user version of WordPress. Read this and follow the link in point one: https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/installing-buddypress/

Some people have suggested installing WP Hashcash to block signups, though I haven’t tried it myself.

But you’re saying that someone signed up on your BP install with the Facebook Connect plugin?

So it sounds like a problem with the FB plugin… not sure though.

Sounds like DJPaul suspects the same thing!

Are you on a shared hosting plan?

I suggest that you contact your hosting company and ask for the assistance in figuring out what is going on.

Also, Automattic’s VIP hosting is provided to just a very few, select, large clients. It is not something you can simply decide to purchase.

So, my guess is that, yes, Automattic will offer BuddyPress installs to their very few VIP clients, but it will not be available to the vast majority of users.

http://en.wordpress.com/vip-hosting/

Just go to http://ww2.toksta.com and create an account and setup your chat the way you want it and click ‘Create Script’ and choose ‘WordPress’, upload it to the /wp-content/plugins dir and follow the readme file directions. It does work because I have it working on my site right now.

http://jjunltd.com

Is the eshop plugin a buddypress plugin really? If it is designed to work with WordPress, it does not hook into the menu functions etc that BuddyPress uses. Contact the author of that plugin and talk to him/her about it.

What do you mean by “menus and new tabs”? If you create a plugin, you can add custom menu items related to your plugin through various hooks (see the Skeleton Component for examples), but there are no built-in drag’n’drop functions for it.

Jeff,

Your analysis in the paragraph above outlines exactly what users can expect or aim to acheive with shared hosting. The fact that it can be installed and operated is one thing, providing a desirable user experience is another.

The restrictions on shared hosting though may allow for a WPMU installation but not provide enough flexibility for some BuddyPress plugins to work, but as you say too many variables to be discussed here.

If BuddyPress does end up supporting single-user wordpress I’m sure that the net will undoubtedly widen.

The showcase site Wannanetwork’s community is down, there’s a news posting saying that they “have pushed the limits of WordPress” and that they are experiencing server problems.

I’d like to have Maxaud’s feedback on BP after running what seems to be a pretty high traffic site for months.

As for the “Showcase”, it deserves a cleanup, many sites are down

hatiro-

The reason that the specific question of the OP is a WPMU issue is that he was asking whether a shared hosting account will be sufficient to run BP. Since BuddyPress is a WPMU plugin, what matters, then, is whether WPMU can successfully run on a shard hosting account.

I provided several links for him to begin his education.

In short, of course you can install WPMU + BP + bbP on many shared hosting accounts. But, whether that will provide a desirable user experience or support more than a few 10s to 100s of active users depends on too many variables to be discussed here. The underlying functionality of WPMU is paramount to the overall site functionality. If your site’s access to server resources is too limited, you will have issues quickly.

Perhaps once BuddyPress supports single-user WordPress, the options for hobbyists, as you call them, will be better.

Information on upgrading single-user WP to WPMU can be found on the WPMU forums.

As far as this question:

I have a good many members and would like to know how to add them as a community member or does this automatically do this on install?

BuddyPress does not do any importing of your existing members. There is a plugin that can help though: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/user-import-for-buddypress-all-fields/

I am not sure if that plugin is yet compatible with 1.0.3.

I think if you rename your /plugins and /mu-plugins (or whatever it’s called; the name escapes me) to something else, that’ll automatically deactivate them when WordPress tries to visit them. I think you have to visit your admin backend for this auto deactivation to happen.

OH! and when I went to check my error log to try and pin point the exact location of the error – all of my logs had been completely and totally WIPED. it showed zero errors. how weird is that?

Check you are looking at the correct file. Sometimes I chase errors then I realise I’m looking at an old log or the wrong file (doh!)

http://graduatebuddy.com/ uses WordPress MU 2.8.2, BuddyPress 1.0.3, bbPress 1.0

comment system needs to be improved, had to go to 9th page to post this comment, there should be a link somewhere of the top of first page, and the from should be at the bottom of every page intensedebate if could be made compatible would be a great plus

now the BuddyPress install:

http://graduatebuddy.com/

it uses a wordpress MU 2.8.2 , BuddyPress 1.0.3, bbPress 1.0

You need to ask that question on the Premium WPMU site. It is a 3rd-party project not supported by Automattic.

If you want a free multiple database engine, you can use HyperDB. This site runs on HyperDB. WordPress.com runs a highly-modified version of HyperDB.

Here are a series of articles written by Trent Adams, one of the BuddyPress moderators, that detail how to configure HyperDB:

http://trentadams.com/2009/04/18/hyperdb-explained-part-1/

http://trentadams.com/2009/05/08/hyperdb-explained-part-2/

I had a similar issue after upgrading to the latest stable version. Comment link worked in additional blogs not using bp-home theme, but didn’t work on main blog, simply clicked on comment link and got nothing.

Searched forums and this was the second post that was similar to my problem, but none of the solutions fixed it. After a bit of playing I noticed..

In the dashboard there is a check box on the right hand side of the main edit blog admin page in a box called Blog Themes next to: WordPress mu Homepage. After checking this [active] check box, comments worked and were visible after clicking in the main blog..

This may make sense to those suffering the same problem, sorry if its not that clear.

I have this one on my plugin list and I have it activated sitewide but when I go to the ‘Invite Friends’ page and check one of the services it comes up without a username/email or password box? I am using version 0.8 of this plugin and Buddypress 1.0.3 and WordPress MU 2.8.2