FYI https://trac.mu.wordpress.org/ticket/894#comment:3 has added a hook so we can customise the subject line of the email sent to new users (accounts) after activation.
MartinNr5.
Clear your cookies, then after logging in both places, view your cookies in like Firefox. I am assuming that they should be named something like wordpress_ and wordpress_f5433ed3c296d4543 (where the letters after the underscore is a hash).
In both your wordpress and bbpress config files, add the following:
define('COOKIE_DOMAIN', '.example.org');
define('COOKIEPATH', '/');
define('COOKIEHASH', 'f5433ed3c296d4543');
Log out, clear cookies, and it should work.
Don’t know about the groups, but as far as your subdomain problem… you can only set these options (between user.domain.com vs. domain.com/user) when you install WordPress MU. Once you set that during install, there’s no way to change it after that. If you have to change it, you have to reinstall WordPress from scratch and pick the right installation options.
I will go out on a limb to say that what looks like a bug at first is often times just normal user error.
I consider myself a seasoned PHP/SQL/Linux/WordPress/bbPress veteran, and to be honest it took me installing and reinstalling MU/BuddyPress 4 times before I was able to follow the instructions correctly. Each time I would have sworn on my undead mothers grave that I did everything right, but alas…
So a tip to you all, if it isn’t working, it just might be because of something you don’t know you didn’t do… 
Now I’m trying to use Burt’s plugin in combo with the Block Admin plugin to prevent users from accessing the dashboard but no luck. I have new blog owners defaulted to author, and yet they still get access to the dashboard.
For what it’s worth, I’m using it and I can get to the dashboard once logged in via ‘URL/wp-admin’.
Of all the solutions, Burt’s plugin seems to work best, and of course if we can redirect the login page to whatever page we want to, it would be even better.
However, the only problem I have encountered with Burt’s plugin is that after I upload it, I can not access the dashboard as the administrator either! To get in the admin area, I have to remove the plugin again. Perhaps, there is a shortcut of something to avoid this.
Sorry Burt. The questions don’t seem to end. But I guess that’s how human beings have continued to evolve, eh?
Thank you 
Vida
Were you using the same version of WordPress MU when you were testing with Beta 1?
was not trying to be rude, sorry if it came off that way. This script was used with the Beta 1 of BP without issue, so whatever changed in the Beta 2 that is related is what I need to find a workaround for. Just asking for some guidance/assistance. The script is textbook php so it works fine from that respect…. I have 2 databases in mySQL, 1 that is for the WordPressMU and Buddypress, and another that I created separately for another part of my site….the second database is the one the script is calling.
Any thoughts?
burtadsit
function oci_login_redirect($redirect_to, $set_for, $user){
$redirect_to = bp_core_get_userurl($user->ID);
return $redirect_to;
}
add_filter(‘login_redirect’, ‘oci_login_redirect’, 10, 3);
How do I redirect to the user’s new blog versus their profile?
Thx
Okay so i followed the instructions here https://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic.php?id=3173&replies=3#post-19388 .. here’s what I did..
# chown nobody -R blogs.dir
# chgrp nobody -R blogs.dir
# find blogs.dir -type f -print -exec chmod 644 {} ;
# find blogs.dir -type d -print -exec chmod 755 {} ;
but it still doesn’t seem to work… any idea what to do?
blogs.dir and some other folders will probably need to be chown’d to the user and group that runs the webserver. Apache2 by default (I think) uses the nobody user account, so I’m assuming that’s what your host uses.
Whilst 777 will let everything access it, from a security perspective, you should really go for 755 permissions and check that the owner/group of the files is the same as that of the webserver.
BTW if you’d have tested uploading an avatar on a plain WordPress MU install, you’d have had exactly the same problem. This isn’t buddypress.
I tried deleting blogs but everything went horribly wrong and I had to reinstall wordpress mu. The ids would go from 1 ,4 7 and so on . The ids would skip as if id 4 couldn’t be used…it was gone but it was still kind of there. I am amazed no one else is not having this problem, thanks tom for the advice, I don’t know how to deal with this.
Hi Laura.
Are you talking about the so called “widgets” that display information on your site (I can’t see the items you mention when I visit it)? These are responsible for showing, among other things, categories, recent posts, comments, and so on.
You can remove these from the WordPress admin page, under the Appearance section.
As for the problems with the avatars I’m not sure (I created a test account, MartinNr5, feel free to delete it if you wish). There might be a problem with the graphics library on the host that you have your site with so that the images isn’t processed properly.
Can you check with them to see if they support the minimum requirements for WordPress and buddypress?
“Open Inviter” plugin http://openinviter.com/ is working with WPMU, try to download it from wordpress.org that one will work but not for all service providers.
BR
SDQ
Hi DJPaul:
So, I created the little plugin and placed it in wp-content/mu-plugin folder.
I then went back to the “welcome” box to make the changes to the outgoing text. No changes were made. Sorry for being slow here. But these are the questions I have right now!
1) I have no idea what to do with this step you mentioned above:
“Sorry, forgot to add. Use these tokens in your update_welcome_user_email function to tell WordPress where to insert the relevant values: USERNAME PASSWORD LOGINLINK SITE_NAME”
2) After I create the file and place it in the Mu plugin, where should I go to customize my final message going to the user.
I really appreciate the help.
Thanks so much;
Vida
Use FeedWordPress on the WordPress site. Let me know if it works for you.
I found this post and it helped (https://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic.php?id=7393)
In file wp-includes/capabilities.php add on line 2:
require_once(‘pluggable.php’);
Worked PERFECTLY!
I found this post and it helped (https://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic.php?id=7393)
In file wp-includes/capabilities.php add on line 2:
require_once(‘pluggable.php’);
Worked PERFECTLY!
Sorry, forgot to add. Use these tokens in your update_welcome_user_email function to tell WordPress where to insert the relevant values: USERNAME PASSWORD LOGINLINK SITE_NAME
We need to narrow this down further. Make a copy of the custom theme you’ve created. Save it someplace. Wipe the directory /wp-content/themes/home. That’s where the theme labeled “WordPress mu Homepage” is located. I’m guessing you modified that one. Upload a fresh copy of that directory to the server. No mods nothing. Right out of the download zip. Activate that theme and then see if you get the error.
I have installed and been testing this login plugin, and it’s working great so far…even allows me to configure login and logout redirects, among other things.
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/sidebar-login/
You can legally remove it.
(wheeze) I never should have come back to this thread. (wheeze) You guys are literally gonna kill me. You know I have asthma, a heart condition and psoriasis. (wheeze) Where’s my doctor’s number.. (giggling) There I go again. (wheeze) LOL.
I’m never coming back here.
