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The ‘New Site’ is not! a buddypress site it’s a WP blog which will carry the BP adminbar. These blogs effectively work just as a standard WP blog their theme is defined from their own admin backend.

I would have a good read of all the docs you can find on the BP codex and WP codex.

You should also visit http://bpdevel.wordpress.com/ where you can find information about dev chat sessions on IRC (next one will be Wednesday, 20th October – 19:00 UTC)
Please use https://trac.buddypress.org/ for bug reporting, this way your fixes have a chance of being applied to the core and released to the community.
Good luck with your project and thank you for choosing BuddyPress!

@whitbyglennk codebases of WP single and WPMU were merged in version WP 3.0. You can now enable multisite (create a network) from WP 3.0+ installation. If you are considering going multisite, you must fix any path or permissions problems you have in single WP install (at WordPress.org forums) before Creating a Network. And, you must Create a Network and test it per link I gave you above BEOFRE installing BuddyPress, otherwise it’s going to be a bumpy ride

EDIT – too slow posting

@keithmarsh before installing BuddyPress, make sure that your WP is working well after you’ve moved your WP to root.
https://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress
btw, Giving WordPress its own directory method does not work for multisite and I haven’t seen it work for BuddyPress even if you have WP single site.

@whitbyglennk At first glance, seems to me like an upload path problem when you haven’t configured WP/multisite correctly – https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/before-installing/#wp-configuration

Q1: Group Avatars – if you’re on multisite and BP is installed at root, group avatars go to wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/group-avatars
Q2: What folders and in which places? The avatars and group avatars folders are automatically generated. I would suggest checking your site’s .htaccess file since I have only seen this kind of problem if multisite is not configured correctly https://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network#Step_6:_Super_Admin_Settings

@whitbyglennk

There are very few premium themes built specifically for BuddyPress – although you can enhance existing WordPress themes. I’ve seen some great looking bespoke BuddyPress sites, but I haven’t seen a generic BuddyPress theme with a design and layout that blows you away.

The difference between BuddyPress and WordPress is the number of options available to you. BuddyPress allows you to build much more complex sites.

Out of the box, BuddyPress attempts to be a generic social network that is all things to all men. Of course, this is not what real world sites tend to need – you’ll find that most of the best commercial developments only use the portions of BuddyPress they need, and bend the core product considerably to meet real world needs.

Whilst it’s useful to have an all encompassing platform, it doesn’t make it particularly suited to premium theme designers – sure, you can make it look nice, but with so many options, and so much tailoring to deliver real world needs, themers face an uphill challenge to produce something that breaks away from the out of box generic set of functions.

A further problem is the make up of the code – BP embeds an awful lot of presentation decisions in the core of the product (activity stream contents, default menu structures) instead of in the templates (where you’d expect them to be). So, again, producing any significantly different can be a real chore.

We use the Secure Invites plugin for our community.

There’s just so many things wrong going on, have to go at it a step at a time. You need to give additional information like WP 3.0.1 is multisite or single? The home URL goes to UShareNH.com/1/ so you installed WP in /1/ subdirectory or is your BP installed in secondary blog? Also, almost all of the links in your home page goes to HTTP Error 403.18 page. It’s more likely your server configuration that’s throwing off the site – server can’t handle the load, crashing etc.Was WP functioning well before you installed BuddyPress? https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/before-installing/ Special check on your WordPress configuration. If not, then you have to resolve that at WordPress.org forums before installing BP.

the setting uses the wordpress function get_site_option/update_site_option – do all the other options reset to default as well?

@dlabbe – if you want to get an answer to your question, it would be better to post it separately and not hijack an unrelated thread

You should also not expect an answer within just 2 hours… This is a voluntary forum. Allow at least 24 hours before bumping your post

anyone? please help

By running Buddypress on what is now called wordpress Multisite will I be able to link all members together. Another words…I want to have a social community that is broken into states and was thinking of having a site for each state so groups and blogs would better organized and such. What I want is all members to still communicate across state lines (or site to site in this case). Is this possible with a multi site setup? Or my other option is that I use one site setup and find a way to catergories groups (into states in this case) Example…Users clicks on groups and shows a list of the states… that user then click on the state they want to enter and then it shows all relevant groups within that state. I looked for a plugin, but none that are working full strength at this time unless I am overlooking something. Anyone have any ideas on how to handle this? thanks for you help in advance.

@dorothysulzmann –

No short cuts on jQuery – but it’s quite straightforward to setup a simple script like you’ll need: their site is good and full of useful examples: http://jquery.com/

show() and hide() are basic jQuery – and there are plenty of animation options you can apply.

Also, take a look in the WordPress codex re: wp_enqueue_script – their recommended way of loading javascripts.

@whitbyglennk

Yes, the mu features are now ‘built in’ to WordPress – have a look on the WordPress Codex for WordPress Multisite (and ‘setting up a network’).

We have no problems running BuddyPress installed on a secondary blog on one of our current development projects

looks like something is up with the wordpress.org servers – takes a few refreshes to get the file to download

Then you have a WordPress / server config problem. You should fix this before installing BuddyPress.

You need to ask your server company and / or go onto the WordPress forums