Hi Mike,
Thanks for the reply. I will check out your comparison.
I have quite a bit experience with Links.com using WordPress, and there is no question that spam is going to become a major problem unless I clamp down early on. The current plugins are inadequate for a social networking site on my domain. The last thing I want is to appear on some blacklist list. It has already happened once and it was a huge effort clearing thing up.
Thanks again for your response.
Rich
here’s another link that might help you out with the basics…
YUI Library Examples: Grids CSS: Standard Nesting Grid (1/2 – 1/2)
http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/examples/grids/grids-g.html
more templates here…
http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/examples/grids/
and this link should explain the WP coding end a bit 
https://codex.wordpress.org/Stepping_Into_Templates
Oaky, bigfunblogs PMed me these answers:
1. Which version of WPMU are you running?
WordPress MU 2.7.1.
2. Did you install WPMU as a directory or subdomain install?
Directory
3. If a directory install, is it in root or in a subdirectory?
Root
4. Did you upgraded from a previous version of WPMU? If so, from which version?
No
5. Was WPMU functioning properly before installing/upgrading BuddyPress?
Yes
6. Which version of BuddyPress (BP) are you running?
BuddyPress 1.0.1
7. Did you upgraded from a previous version of BP? If so, from which version?
No
8. Do you have any plugins other than BuddyPress installed and activated?
No
9. Are you using the standard BuddyPress themes or customized themes?
Yes
10. If running bbPress, which version?
No
11. Please provide a list of any errors in your server’s log files.
No have any error
Thanks alot
I PMed back stating:
I would reinstall both theme directories. It looks like there is something missing.
So, copy over a new copy of bphome into /wp-content/themes/
Then copy over a new copy of bpmember into /wp-content/bp-themes/
He PMed back this to which I said let’s continue this is the forum:
I reinstall but it's not working
i have this problem with all BuddyPress themes
facebuddy
shouty
solitude-theme
bpskeletonmember
the home page it's good
@jacoby – I experienced similar cookie issues with brain broken and the trunk – got it working by deleting cookiepath and hash and deleting existing cookies- https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/cookie-integration-problem-wp28-bb-10-rc-2 but since this is about lighttpd I’m sure that hempworth’s problem is the lack of mod_rewrite and this may help – https://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/1961
I was able to navigate to /register and the rest of the BuddyPress links just fine. Looks like you got this figured out?
I have an empty Forums page created on my blog yet it still doesn’t let me through. Again, I’m no expert. I’ll keep surfing the FAQs.
I’ve just reinstalled Mu 2.7.1 and Buddypress 1.01 again and this time I can select the bpmember theme from within Mu Admin under Buddypress settings. However, I cannot post from any buddypress field. Every buddypress post action seems to be undefined as wp_explain_nonce is being called.
I can still perform any post action with WordPress Mu.
Regarding installing bbPress, you will probably need to create a page in your primary blog with the slug of “forums” before WordPress will allow access to it.
If you’re new to BuddyPress then chances are you haven’t been down this road before, but I’d advise you to check out some of the stickies and FAQ’s here and spend some time getting educated on all the subtle nuances.
This question has been answered quite a few times, so I’ll give you a hint and if you still can’t figure it out, come back and we’ll see what we can do.
HINT: Check the functions.php included in wp-content/themes/bphome/ and compare it to the functions.php in the theme you're trying to use.
Sorry for the continuous posts. I just tried to add the bbpress into the site. I unzipped it on the server, renamed folder to /forums and when I type it in, it says site doesn’t exist…something that didn’t occur before WordPress Mu/Buddypress.
By the way, my site is:
http://tinyurl.com/fnnation
The Register function does not work with the theme I am trying to incorporate which is Old School, which uses Hybrid. It does work with Elegant Grunge.
Well this is what I get in the list:
WordPress Classic (1.5)
WordPress mu Default (1.6)
WordPress mu Homepage (1.6)
Are you sure that you’re looking in the proper spot? The theme list you provided is what you see when you go to “Site admin > Themes”. These are the themes from which you can choose your home theme.
To choose your member theme, you need to go to the BuddyPress menu grouping all the way down at the bottom of the menu column. So, as Burt indicated, you would go to “BuddyPress > General Settings > Select theme to use for BuddyPress generated pages”.
You choose the member theme from the combo box. With a default BP install you should only see two theme choices: BuddyPress Default Member Theme (1.0.1)–this is the one you want–and, Skeleton BuddyPress Member Theme (1.2).
Are you saying that instead of those two themes showing up in the “BuddyPress > General Settings” menu area that you have the home themes you’ve listed above?
I moved bp-themes into /wp-content/ as directed but still got the error message.
Under the “Select theme to use for BuddyPress generated pages:” in general settings the option for using the ‘bpmember’ theme was not appearing. I could only select the default wordpress mu themes. I selected the ‘Default’ theme and then renamed the ‘bpmember’ folder to ‘default’ to get this working.
Eg:
..wp-content/bp-themes/bpmember/
Renamed it to this folder:
..wp-content/bp-themes/default/
@Jeff, you’re not getting the point. It’s not about custom BP slugs.
This permalink (or post slug) problem is something I hate about WordPress not being friendly to international users. Unlike wikipedia or amazon, WordPress seems to have a character limitation when used other than English, like Hindi or Asian characters.
So to answer your question @slicktig1, the only possible solution at this moment is to edit each by each through phpmyadmin. However with some hacks you should be able to edit category slugs if you search wpmu forum.
On group slugs, this is bp function, so not sure if the same wpmu hack applies or not. But at least there should be an alternative method to use postid than postname. (This is something we have to ask core developers).
Well this is what I get in the list:
WordPress Classic (1.5)
WordPress mu Default (1.6)
WordPress mu Homepage (1.6)
Because I looked there.
The latest version (v1.2.1) of the Skeleton Component for BuddyPress plugin developers can now be found on the WordPress plugin repository
Okay, several more questions?
Did you manually install BuddyPress or use WPMU’s plugin browser to install BP?
Did you restart the web server after making changes to the rewrite rules in the configuration file?
In your OP, you state that you have moved the bphome theme into /wp-content/themes/. Did you also move bpmember into /wp-content/bp-themes/?
Also, look near the bottom of this installing WPMU codex article for suggestions on Lighty rewrite rules: https://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WPMU
21cdb-
Do you have two different accounts on bp.org?
As far as the redirect loop question, it could be caused by many things. So, a few questions:
- Did you install WPMU as a directory or subdomain install?
- If a directory install, is it in root or in a subdirectory?
- You were having install issues beforehand. When you finally got this to work, could there have been old, incomplete install data leftover in your DB? Or, did you install into a fresh, new DB?
- What errors are you seeing in your server’s log files?
I did a quick Google and here are two links that explain a couple of possible causes:
https://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/9252/page/2
http://bradleyland.net/2009/04/wordpress-mu-redirect-loop-during-install/
johnetec-
I’m really not too sure what options you have at this time. But, I would strongly suggest that you contact each of the plugin developers and let them know of the issues you’ve had with uploading and cropping avatars in BuddyPress.
WordPress 2.8 will be using an updated version of jQuery. This may very well cause issues with plugins using older jQuery based scripts. Also, BuddyPress could be using a newer jQuery codebase than the plugins that you’ve mentioned. So, this issue will continue until the plugins are updated to a jQuery codebase that is compatible with BuddyPress.
Burt, I am fairly certain that bbPress allows for functions.php the exact same way that WordPress does. Including it in the header shouldn’t be necessary. Unless this changed recently and I wasn’t paying attention?
I wasn’t really thinking of tables. More like .htaccess. I don’t see any bp related issues. You might be better off asking for help at https://mu.wordpress.org/forums/
there are four original wordpress blogs in a folder off the root..(/maria/ being one of them, the others are linked in the blogroll section of her blog) then i have wpmu installed in the /profiles/ directory and that’s where buddypress is installed too
doesn’t seem like they should interfere or anything, they’re using different databases and different prefixes for the table fields.
The way it works on my other wordpress sites is that the password protected posts still appear on the site and in the heirachy of posts but when you click it it asks for a password before you see the rest of the information.
Ive done this with my buddypress site and password protected posts dont appear, not even in the members members blog page?
Apologies John.
I did sort it out…because the title was 2+2= the slug ended up being 22 which i think wordpress thought was a date/time etc because i did another few test blogs afterward and they all worked fine
