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This is a bug in the libxml2 library on your installation.

http://josephscott.org/archives/2008/12/problems-with-libxml2-for-wordpress-xml-rpc-users/

You can upgrade this on your server – but – make sure you have enabled the “BuddyPress enable” plugin on the bbPress side, as this is a temporary fix for the problem.

For now you must use WPMU 2.7.1. Down the road BuddyPress will work on single WordPress.org installs but not currently and not for 1.0 release.

Are you familiar with the way WordPress hooks into functions with filters and actions?

Standard WP support won’t be coming until a release after v1.

Can’t wait to give it a try, WPMU seems to be a bit like an overkill for my purpose.

@Dbascent94 & @mesgains: Do you use this on a production server or purely on a test install?

I\’m wondering if this has to do with slugs and wordpress redirection and thinking about downgrading next week if no solution is found, because the minimal would be working then…

Bpfan,

You can install the same old standard WordPress theme if you’d like, but keep in mind that it won\’t have any functions that tap into BuddyPress at all. Yes they will work, exactly like they did before.

You upload and install them in the same place you’re used to, wp-content/themes/

Then they must be activated in the Site Admin->Themes area.

(Hope you don’t mind, I renamed your topic title so it doesn’t confuse “Member Themes” with “Themes for Members” haha!)

Erichamby, see if this helps:

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=538

@Erichamby-

I hope that TMD works well for you!

Incidentally, I noticed that their BuddyPress tutorial is out of date. They have not been keeping up with the changes in theme directories. Also, they state that:

As an addon to the official WordPress MU, BuddyPress is fully compatible with all the plugins and themes of WordPress and does not limit its functionality in any way

This is not true. There are several incorrect statements there. For instance, there are a number of steps that must be taken if you are using a custom WordPress theme with BuddyPress. I hope they’re good at tech support!

This could mean several things. You have an existing WP site and want to get those users into WPMU.

Or you have an existing WPMU site, but when you go the ‘members’ list pages on BuddyPress, most of them don’t appear.

I can’t help you with the first one as I don’t know and that question is more appropiate to the WPMU forums (not BuddyPress’). If it’s the second, the users won’t show up until they’ve logged in and done something. There was a script or so around the forums to get this done automatically, but I don’t know where I saw it. Hopefully someone will post.

That is not a BuddyPress problem. I suggest you search WordPress’ forums.

I was running WordPress MU 2.7 before and have been manually upgrading ..

bp-themes contains the original buddypress RC2 theme.

I’ve backed up the entire wordpress directory, copied the database, downloaded the zip and overwritten everything. WordPress MU seems to work perfectly. I wonder if BuddyPress would break if I’d return it to it’s RC1 state with the newer WordPress MU installed?

OT: I also wonder why there is an \”Inactive\” above my name, bug?

– logs do not show any errors except the normal 404’s

x.x.x.x – – [24/Apr/2009:13:10:28 +0200] “GET /members/wildchild/ HTTP/1.0” 404 9959

– WPMU 2.7.1 is installed

– Buddypress RC2 is installed for sure (https://buddypress.org/download/ has an error with the url in the title announcing the new version while pointing to the old! Only download zip is RC2 currently)

– RC2 default templates and custom templates do not change anything at all

– I’ve followed the upgrade instructions currently a dozen times

Do you have by any chance the sunrise (domain mapping) or any redirect plugins installed?

I tried by disabling them but I know WordPress is a little bit persistent on it’s redirections; if you got the same installed, it might be a good idea to look towards the mapping since the SLUGS are not working at all.

First change your home theme to a standard WordPress default theme, disable all other plugins, then try and delete.

Jfcarter-

The upgrade process will remove a few BuddyPress tables that are not needed anymore in RC2. Don’t worry, though. All the important data is safe. So, as long as you have a recent backup of your DB, you’ll be fine.

As far as shutting down your site during the upgrade, I usually make a post the day before stating that I’ll be performing upgrades. Since it is should take no more than 10 minutes, usually it is not an issue.

But part of the upgrade process has been to delete everything except your wp-config file, various files in /wp-content/ (and of course your database), if someone attempts to go to the site during the upgrade, there may be no files to serve. So, with more established sites, I’ll stick an index.html file in root so that it will be served if someone comes while I’m upgrading. In that file, I have the logo and a “be back soon” or something like that message. This is overkill for most sites though.

Finally, you could look at the Lock Outplugin. I’ve never used it and I do not know if it works with WPMU 2.7+.

Good luck!

BuddyPress RC2 will consolidate your activity streams and merge the tables. It will also go through and add any additional settings that are missing and set them as default if for some reason they do not already exist.

As long as you have not hacked the core of your install, upgrading from RC1 to RC2 should not harm any of your existing data.

There is a built in maintenance mode when using the automatic update feature of WordPress, but for something manual (such as RC1 to RC2), I might recommend something like…

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/maintenance-mode/

i think the problem your having is the fact that p2 is not a “buddypress theme”

like in the main theme how it has a large widget area and 2 small ones, and also has a BLOG tab where the main blog is

the problem your having with p2 (and any other standard wordpress theme) is the BLOG tab is displayed on the main page rather than a large widget sidebar, as the recent blog posts thing is actually a widget, if you put this widget in your p2 sidebar you will see a direct comparison between the 2

currently you cant have a p2 “theme” that aggregates ALL blog posts like the buddypress widget does,

all the users will be posting to the main blog if you want them to use p2, and if you do then the current skin should be fine? it was designed to show comments

im sure you could add some nice jscript to add collapsing comments? this would probably bring better functionallity to your site if you didnt want the comments taking up the whole page?

there is a plugin to disable the dashboard but then obviously they cant edit the blog?

i think what your looking for is just plain wordpress (not mu / multi user) and buddypress which is upcoming, theres a thread about it in the forum if your interested, it would definately be worth a read and then base your decision on that

Anyway, updating to wpmu 2.7.1 first is ever better

RC2 this evening? sweetness!