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Is wpmu 2.7 out now? Your site says its running “WordPress 2.7” not “WordPress 2.7-RC1-xxxx” like everyone else. The site in your profile must not be the site you are talking about.

Anyway, the dreaded “white screen of death” probably means you have some errors and it’s just not showing you them. Check your php and apache error logs and report back.

Sounds like the bp member theme is crashing for some reason. Do you have *all* the bp components installed?

@zenseeker, ok here’s the mu trunk link:

http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress-mu/trunk

Balance? Balance?! What balance? Alphas, betas and trunks (all together now) Oh, My!

I’m getting goofy. Gotta lay off the caffeine.

The transition from WordPress to WPMU is really simple. I did it in a few hours and there’s tons of resources out there on how to do it. Let me know if you want me to link some up and I can definitely do that.

As for your question, there’s no plugins I know for regular WordPress to add BuddyPress-like functionality, but Ning.com and KickApps.com may be worth looking into.

testbp.org is running ‘WordPress 2.7-RC1-10119’

my dev machine is running ‘WordPress 2.7-RC1-10145’

WordPress MU doesn’t quite have the famous “5 Minute Install” unfortunatly… it’s a wee bit more complicated than the basic WordPress.

You could update the file size limit in your php.ini file although that will increase the upload limit globally, not just for phpMyAdmin.

upload_max_filesize = 5M;

memory_limit = 16M;

A preferable approach might be to add an .htaccess file in your phpMyAdmin directory with the following directives:

php_flag upload_max_filesize “5M”

php_flag max_execution_time 300

php_flag memory_limit “64M”

This should increase your file upload size limit just for phpMyAdmin to 5Mb and allow for the extra execution time required.

It’s worth noting that most sources suggest increasing php’s memory limit from the default 16Mb’s when using WordPress MU anyway so you might want to make that change in the php.ini rather than the .htaccess file.

I’d suggest installing phpMyAdmin locally and importing your database with that or you could use a desktop database management application like SQLYog.

You’ll need to update any references to your live hosting url (domain.tld) in your SQL file to reference your local dev url (localhost.localdomiain).

Also, if you’re running under Windows and have WPMU set to use sub-domains you’ll need to add entries for each subdomain in your hosts file manually.

Andrea Rennick over at wpmututorials.com has just written a pdf ebook on installing MU that you might find helpful too.

It’s rather simple, create a plugin , and put it in mu-plugins. You’ll find the plugin and more information at: http://subscribe2.wordpress.com/2008/05/15/smtp-mailer/

Hi,

This is my first attempt to redesign a wordpresstemplate

so i would like some feedback of things that should be changed etc.

http://betzter.com

Tyna:

The IE and avatar issues are known and fixes are in progress. There’s no timetable but as soon as the problems are resolved the fixes will be rolled out.

As a fix for the improper titles (“Nothing found for…” etc.) I highly recommend installing the All in One SEO Pack Plugin. Besides being the best SEO plugin for WordPress imo, it will also take care of those titles, replacing them with the title of your choosing. I use my site title, for example.

Finally, the bbPress dual-login issue is a WPMU and bbPress cookie issue, not an issue with BuddyPress. I’ve found it’s easiest to just have users login a second time rather than mess with the cookies until the bbPress component is added to BuddyPress and bbPress 1.0 is finalized.

vanilla install

no extraplugins added

wordpress mu in subdomain mode,

eg:blog.screamings.com

theme:buddypress-home and member

site:screamings.com

have the same problem about blogs not getting attached to the profile

andy, if you want i can give you access to the admin section and server so that you can take a look.Just email me at saurabhmutha@gmail.com

@apeatling, by saying “at the moment” does that mean there are future plans for it to work with non-MU WordPress

I’m already using buddypress with the most recent SVN builds of WordPress MU based on 2.7 with no problems… for testing purposes only mind, WPMU 2.7 still has a bit of work to be done before it’s production ready .

I am having the exact same problem. This is a brand new install. Here are the steps that I took:

I downloaded the latest version of WPMU (2.6.5)

I copied wp-admin, wp-content, wp-includes directories along with the files in the root installation directory to the root directory of my site.

I installed the database with no problems.

I followed the advice of the BP instructions and I created a new blog, created new posts and comments. Everything worked as expected.

I then downloaded the latest BP zip file (r598).

I copied all of the files and directories in the root directory of the zip to the /wp-content/mu-plugins directory.

I copied the buddypress-home directory to /wp-content/themes directory

I copied the member-themes directory to the /wp-content directory.

I went to the Site Admin->Themes page and selected ‘Yes’ for the BuddyPress Home Theme and ‘No’ for all the others.

Note: At this time the theme for the home page was still the default wordpress blog theme.

I then went to the root blogs (located at / according the the manage blogs page) and change the theme for it to BuddyPress Home Theme.

Now I get the 404 errors that are described above. Also, when I go to my member’s page, it says that I have no blogs, to create one. After creating another blog, the member’s page still says that I have no blogs.

I feel pretty confident that I installed WPMU correctly, but I suspect that I didn’t install buddypress to the right location(s).

Please advise.

It won’t work with WordPress only WordPress MU at the moment.

yes i think this is the same problem i’m having …. the member’s blogs not the main admin one … the member blogs they can’t use a widget that displays any blog posts on their front page …. the only widget availble is a list and i mean

list of recent posts
what happens to the other widgets that are on the admin’s options like site wide activity or more importantly blog posts?

would like them to at least have a wordpress type latest posts homepage as their homepage on a buddypress/wpmu member blog

Although WordPress / MU use its own WP authentication methods, I would state that LDAP will never be a plugin module for BuddyPress.

BuddyPress is a plugin for Social Networking – asking it to deal with authentication is like wanting your office document application to play mp3’s.

Authentication however – within WordPress / MU is pluggable and if there is a plugin out there that supports LDAP, then give it a go as BuddyPress will only check if you are logged in or out and has nothing to do with authentication.

http://www.ohiofreedom.com/wordpress

What album plugin for wordpress mu do you recommend for now?

Sorry to hijack this thread, but I’ve been wanting to change the groups URIs, and ok, so I know that groups is hardcoded in.

But I tinkered around with it and basically created a GROUP_SLUG and set that, in my case, to “projects”. Everything works fine (I had to change a few template things but otherwise it’s ok) except I have a teensy weensy problem with the catchuri function

So now all my pages are something like siteurl.com/members/username/projects/action

(siteurl.com/members/username/projects/, siteurl.com/members/username/projects/my-groups, siteurl.com/members/username/projects/group-finder. You get the idea)

And it works fine until I create a wordpress page called projects, then for some reason siteurl.com/members/username/projects rewrites to siteurl.com/projects, which in my case would be the wordpress page instead of the groups memberpage. I’ve tried taking a look at catchuri, and playing around with the is_page function, but even if I try to name the page something else, like say “projects main”, it still ends up trying to add the template into the page, which naturally fails and ends up with the 404 template.

I also don’t know if it’s related, but my wordpress mu is in a subdirectory, which looking at the catchuri code, doesnt seem to deal with subdirectories at the first explosion of the uri to rewrite (but I may be mistaken), so before the explosion of the actual site_uri function, $bp_uri[component_index] ($bp_uri[0]) actually returns me the subdirectory that my wp mu is in. I’m not sure if this is a bug and/or if it affects muy uri rewriting, but I thought I’d mention it.

p.s. when I delete the projects page, members/username/projects rightfully shows me the my-group template.

you can take a look at it here http://donicethings.org/beta

If anyone could help me I’d be most grateful, thanks!

I’m with you ‘ricwes’! I can’t wait to implement BuddyPress into my website!!! This is really exciting. I can’t wait to see how it develops.

I’m preparing a proposal for my company to use WordPress for blogging too.

I think I’ve fixed it.

When using the BuddyPress function bp_core_do_catch_uri() via the ‘template_redirect’ action, there needs to be a remove_action() on redirect_canonical() to stop the BuddyPress redirection and WordPress redirection conflicting.

Basically adding a remove action on line 158 of bp-core-catchuri.php seems to work:

remove_action( ‘template_redirect’, ‘redirect_canonical’ );

add_action( ‘template_redirect’, ‘bp_core_do_catch_uri’ );

This seems to fix the problem of conflicting page names/group names.

BuddyPress is doing its own thing.

Take a look at bp-core/bp-catch-uri.php

The URL is split up into variables and used within plugins. This is obviously interfering with some of the WordPress URL’s. I’m going to take a look at this and see if there is a solution to put pages on a exclude list.