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I just don’t think anybody really knows. What version bp, wpmu, bbpress? That’s got to be somewhere around bbpress rc2 though. Not sure when bbpress went with the permalinks options. I can’t help you at the moment. I wiped my dev server’s bbpress, upgraded to bbpress rc2 and can’t get group forums to work at all. I can’t get that to work or wp/bbpress cookie integration. It’s the usual issue with conflicting, incorrect or just plain missing docs on how to make it happen properly.

We have wordpress config settings, bbpress config settings, bp config settings. After careful and lengthy research, I’ve determined that it all is somehow related to this:

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/forces/imgfor/fforcon.gif

I guess I get to wait until Automattic decides that integration of their three products is actually important. This is a back burner issue with my dev server. I just don’t have the time to track down the problem at the moment.

Well, that is partially true. bp hijacks the theme root and alters it to point to /bp-themes when it detects an url that belongs to the member theme. Those urls are things that are of the form mysite.org/members, mysite.org/groups …

By default it only does this for the root blog of the installation. Blog id 1.

You upgraded from what ver of bp and what ver of wpmu? wpmu now will not allow theme directory names that have a dash in them. So the non-2.7.1 theme /themes/my-theme doesn’t work anymore. It has to be /themes/mytheme

Same goes for the themes that live in /bp-themes. Did you upgrade your bp member theme and the bp home theme also?

You didn’t leave a link to your site or specify what versions of bp and wpmu you used to be running so I’m just shooting in the dark here.

That’s odd. Have you tried upgrading manually?

is there a back up / restore procedure documented?

Do you mean for bbPress? Since bbPress uses MySQL as the DB backend, as do the other *presses, I would look at the WP codex: https://codex.wordpress.org/Restoring_Your_Database_From_Backup

You’ll have to modify the group theme templates to display your ‘group blog’ link someplace and then you can use (blatant self-serving recommendation) https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-community-blogs/ to allow automatic registered user status for all members of a group on a specific blog.

You can create another user and make them a site admin in: Site Admin > Options > Administration Settings (Site Admins)

That lists all the users who are desginated ‘site admins’. This might help: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/184012

Perhaps your earlier trial at this didn’t work because your new username wasn’t on the list? If you are going to do the db route again add the new username first.

oh you guys, please use Google Analytics!! i’ve seen some really inflated numbers with statcounter… probably because you can log in as the admin and actually *define* the “number of page views” you want to start out with (seriously, what’s that about??)! GA is much more accurate and granular. And it’s free, too. AND there are a handful of plugins for that, as well. http://yoast.com/wordpress/google-analytics/

You can’t without a special plugin: https://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/9049

Perhaps a search at the WPMU forums will bring up some more recent results than the one I’ve provided.

I’m setting this thread to resolved since BuddyPress uses the WPMU user table and thus this is a WPMU issue and not BuddyPress.

Can not add WordPress MU password in bbpress “WordPress integration” Step 2.

Problem when installing bbpress 1.0 with WordPress MU 2.7.1 and Buddy Press 1.0.1 is when I get to step 2 during in the installation of bbpress 1.0 “wordpress integration”. I can add in all the database informatino however the password input area is missing for inserting the database password. I have tried to skip this step however when I go into bbpress settings and add in all the information, when this step is completed there is no “Admin settings” inside bbpress (this is missing although I am logged in with “admin”.

Does anyone have any ideas to fix this problem?

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’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.

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).