Thank you Brian! 
So you solved the problem by reinstalling WordPress MU and Buddypress right? Did you reset the DB also?
Per Burt, tried reinstalling both WPMU and BP. No luck.
Everything is great, I activate BP, and then I don’t have access to my WP themes, anywhere.
I guess as Andy pointed out, its not a universal bug, and as a result have been trying to track down the filter that replaces the theme_root, at the very least to make an ugly hack to keep things running. Any suggestions in that dept.?
This hasn’t been reported by others. There have been a couple of ‘The bp themes are missing and it’s showing /themes in the bp backend instead of /bp-themes.’
Reinstall of wpmu/bp seems to solve the issue. Haven’t been able to track it down.
I just recovered from a bad spam incident on my buddypress site. A user (who looked legit) suddenly started private messaging the whole community with obviously spam material resulting in some very angry members 
I will go ahead and install Akismet and a captcha during registration H.owever, is it true that each user has to obtain their own key from wordpress.com and plug it into Akismet to get it to work? Is there an alternative that I can just activate for everyone? Or can I just provide all my members with my key to activate their akismet?
Also, what steps have other BP admin used to prevent the kind of spam that I mentioned above? I do not think Akismet & the captcha during registration would have helped in this situation.
Is there a plugin that flags users who message a lot of users in a short time? Something like that might help fight spammers.
Thanks.
I’ve closed the ticket for this, I’ve not heard of anyone with the same problem. If anyone else can confirm this problem on their setup I will take a look at it.
Hello, I need help, I have installed wordpress mu 2.7.1, buddypress.1.0.1 and bbpress-1.0-rc-3.
I have the “Attention Site Admin: Group forums require the correct setup and configuration of a bbPress installation” stupid famous msg. I have added all the plugins, edited config files of bbpress and wordpress to match auth keys (as explained), etc. added a new user in buddypress, change to “admin” state in bbpress, etc
I dont know what more to try, I read all posts, added small pieces of code to config files, deleted cookies, etc
I am lost, I spent 8 hours trying things and nothing. Same msg. I have one database for wordpress mu and other for bbpress…
Any idea of something I could test? or maybe something fails in my server?
I have done the XML-RPC test that Burt created and server said: “Hello from bbPress!” so it works… I am so tired (
Hello, I need help, I have installed wordpress mu 2.7.1, buddypress.1.0.1 and bbpress-1.0-rc-3.
I have the “Attention Site Admin: Group forums require the correct setup and configuration of a bbPress installation” stupid famous msg. I have added all the plugins, edited config files of bbpress and wordpress to match auth keys (as explained), etc. added a new user in buddypress, change to “admin” state in bbpress, etc
I dont know what more to try, I read all posts, added small pieces of code to config files, deleted cookies, etc
I am lost, I spent 8 hours trying things and nothing. Same msg. I have one database for wordpress mu and other for bbpress…
Any idea of something I could test? or maybe something fails in my server?
1. Which version of WPMU are you running?
2.7 official not svn
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?
WordPress MU 2.7.1
5. Was WPMU functioning properly before installing/upgrading BuddyPress?
yes, still is
6. Which version of BuddyPress (BP) are you running?
1.0.1
7. Did you upgraded from a previous version of BP? If so, from which version?
1.0 and prior to that RC2
8. Do you have any plugins other than BuddyPress installed and activated?
Bp-TOS (terms of service) which is the only possible interference
9. Are you using the standard BuddyPress themes or customized themes?
standard Bp-theme only css edited
10. If running bbPress, which version?
latest
11. Please provide a list of any errors in your server’s log files.
none
Problem is as stated in post above
Install it on domain.com, assuming you’re not currently using the domain for anythign else.
@juanllamosas
This thread is about Mike Pratt’s Featured Groups Widget. This allows site admins to select certain BP groups to feature. It has nothing to do with individual members.
It sounds like you are talking about my Featured Member(s) Widget. If you are, you set a featured member by their unique ID, not by their username. When editing the widget’s parameters, it states “Member ID(s)
” and “Separate member IDs by commas”.
A member ID is the unique number automatically assigned to each user by WPMU upon registration. You can find each member’s unique member ID (also called userid), by logging into WPMU and clicking on “Site Admin > Users”. Then, hover your cursor of a given member’s username and look at the link text. you’ll see this in the url “user_id=”. You can also obtain a user’s unique ID by looking at the “ID” field in the wp_users table in WPMU’s MySQL DB.
Thanks for the information guys, really appreciate it.
There’s still a little confusion in my head, lol :p.
My blog is at domain.com.
So, should I install WordPress Mu at domain.com or something like mu.domain.com, and then control the blog at domain.com from under mu.domain.com, and install buddypress under mu.domain.com?
Is this how it’s supposed to be setup?
The approach to take in a plugin is to hook into the various WP and BP actions and then reward achievements as and when appropriate. You need to record in the database which achievements have been obtained. And write the administration and user interfaces for BuddyPress as a custom component.
I am myself working on an achievements plugin. I had hoped to release a test version today but I can’t promise that, it’s looking unlikely. But we shall see..
I believe the WP/WPMU merge isn’t being released until WP 3.0. So yes before Christmas sounds realistic.
Andy on WordCamp 2009 in Italy (Milan) says “before christmas”
If you are not in a hurry then I would recommend waiting for awhile. At some point, BuddyPress will be configured to function on single-user WordPress. I do not have a timeline for this as it has to do with merger of the WPMU codebase into WP.
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Just an update. Have played around with this a bit and sometimes the sitadmin dashboard Users section that allows you to select the preferred name to be displayed publicly works and sometimes it doesn’t.
I’m thinking that this may have something to do with the Buddypress General Settings: Disable Buddypress from WordPress syncing? This is a total mystery to me what that means or is supposed to do. Anyone?
Anyway, the fix that seems to work is a MySql query that anchors from the user id # and then you could structure it to replace the current data in the value field of the wp_bp_xprofile_data table with the data from the user_login field of the wp_users table.
I have no idea how to do create that query but I am sure it is pretty easy.
– Brian
roseeveltrp, you’re correct!
You need WordPress MU.
BuddyPress only works with MU at this moment in time.
Some day down the road BuddyPress will support regular WordPress, but not now.
Here’s a good guide for transitioning from WordPress standard to MU:
http://welcome.totheinter.net/2008/10/04/how-to-migrate-from-wordpress-to-wordpress-mu/
It helped me!
what version of jQuery we can expect to see in the next BuddyPress update?
Well, based on the new features of WP 2.8, which WPMU will merge into its codebase, I’m going to guess jQuery 1.3.2. Perhaps Andy has a different idea.
I have to do something similar. Not looking forward to it…
I’ve found this plugin:
User Import for BuddyPress (All Fields)
To export member data from another WordPress installation you could use this:
Users to CSV WordPress plugin
Haven’t gotten to testing this yet, so let me know if it works…
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+1
I’ve been running a ning network and wordpress blog in parallel. Slightly integrated by way off rss feeds, but nowhere near enough. Likely to jump onto buddypress at some point.
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Jeff,
Thank you for taking the time to try and help us! This may seem off topic but every person on this board should take a moment to say “Thank You!” to Burt and Jeff and Andy, and the countless others who work to help solve problems.
This is a shout out to each and all; could you check your db’s using phpadmin or whatever you use to examine your wordpress/buddypress database and tell me what ‘user_status’ setting you see for the admin, typically ID#1?
Thanks,
Brian
Look at line 1426 of that function:
add_action( 'init', 'bp_core_action_search_site', 5 );
In your bp-custom.php, you can stop that action by doing this:
remove_action( 'init', 'bp_core_action_search_site', 5 );
You’ll need to place that within a function.
See this for more info: https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/remove_action
Burt & Mike –
Thanks for the prompt reply. Tried upgrading both manually and with the built-in plugin install function. Also tried clearing out the BP tables from the database (the site has not launched yet) hoping that would kick things into shape.
2.7.1 was the first and only version of WPMU installed, upgraded BP from 1.0 to 1.0.1 and that’s when the themes died. Also, no hyphens in the themes’ directories.
Went through the code and was able to see what you were talking about in terms of setting the theme_root variable to /bp-themes/, but any idea why it would be doing so outside of member pages?
If the plugin is active, if I go to /wpmu-themes.php or /wpmu-blogs.php? in the WPMU backend, to activate themes all I see are the BP themes. Correct me if I’m wrong, but before it would also show me themes in the /themes/ directory as well. Is this an intended function? I’d prefer not to move my non BP themes into the bp-themes/ as disabling BP would then kill the site.
Any help you could provide would be greatly appreciated.
– Ben
(ben at gwstudentassociation dot com)
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Hello,
Thank you for your reply, themes are (depo-clean and TerraFirma ), one more question does using WordPress admin bar will cause conflict ?
Thank you
This is because BuddyPress currently runs only on WPMU, not the single-user version of WordPress
