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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

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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

David Lewis,

Give the BuddyBar for bbPress plugin a try.

There’s a plugin like this to populate WPMU content, but not one for BuddyPress yet.

Keep your eyes on the “WPMU Demo Data Creator” and see if the author updates his plugin to include BuddyPress.

There’s lots of ways to build bridges between platforms, but no one usually does it until they need to do it themselves.

I’ve never seen ccHost until now, and as powerful as it looks, it really looks like a competing project compared to what WordPress/bbPress/BuddyPress already attempts to do, with the help of plugins of course.

People have built integrated logins for phpBB and vBulletin, so I imagine someone could do this for you too.

Create a page in your MU root blog called “forum” and leave it empty. Right now when the WordPress .htaccess file see’s a redirect to domain.com/forum/ it denies it saying the page doesn’t exist. Creating the page on your MU root blog will satisfy the .htaccess file, and still route to your bbPress installation.

Tricky eh?

Have you created a page in your root MU blog called “forum” by chance? Also, it kind of sucks but because bbPress pretty permalinks use “forum” to tell the URL that you’re clicking a forum, having your URL be domain.com/forum/forum/name-of-forum is the reason why most people install bbPress in “/forums/” or something else like “/support/” or “/discussion/”

What I’m saying is that it might just be that bbPress or WordPress are getting tripped up on what the redirect is, and maybe conflicting somehow?

Burt Adsit made a plugin called bpGroups that was able to consolidate the essential user data, but with recent changes to XMLRPC, BP, and bbPress, my guess is that plugin no longer works as expected.

To be honest, WordPress has never really been “light” if you know what I mean, at least not like bbPress is. If you’re using the BuddyPress Group Forums, then you probably have a lot of userdata already available from previous queries in the loop. If you’re using bbPress only and trying to get specific userdata or xprofile data, that’s going to usually require some expensive queries to pull off; I would look at how bbPress already does it with userdata per post, and see how it’s able to to do it. Chances are it’s already been called or that the userdata has already been grabbed previously. If you don’t use an IDE like netbeans to trace variable values, then try a print_r or var_dump of the user variable in the loop, and see what it gives you.

It would be best for wordpress mu if it was installed in the document root. As in not the /blogs/ but directly.

You can use the same admin account. BTW: I have mastered Deep Integration to the point of making the forum fit into ANY WordPress Theme! Take a look at http://wpmu.zyrot.com/forums/ for a demo. And no, I’m not using Iframes, it’s all themed!