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WP 3.0.1 would be the best install with BuddyPress 1.2.6 (released this coming weekend).

But before walking through too much detail, is there a reason you want BuddyPress on a subdomain? Is WordPress installed on the main domain?

Now, it is possible to install BP and have members create blogs using subdomains .. but maybe you have a different purpose for putting the whole community on the subdomain .. which is also possible.

There are a growing number of great themes for BuddyPress:

http://premium.wpmudev.org/project/buddypress-magazine-theme

http://bp-tricks.com/

Also, you can take any WP theme and modify it to match the community by using the template pack.

Why do they find they can’t post anything?

You need to take a little more time to play and test your install, create a user ensure you have enabled create user blogs in the main options under super admin on the main blog then logged in as that new user create a new blog or register a new user and create a blog at same time., and re read my post above re upping the users capabilities/role, you don’t for a user blog.

I too have this same exact issue, and I have tried every template known to buddy press and word press, and even tried the wordpress 2010 with the buddy press template pack, without success.

I am very frustrated by this error

http://bpdevel.wordpress.com/2010/10/14/postponing-buddypress-1-2-6-until-this-w/

Not utterly sure why.

Ideally we need to be testing this proposed release candidate as much as possible I’ve run 1.2.6 or more accurately the 1.2 branch on local test installs for a while and it feels solid, if others wish to try on test installs and they can grab a zip from:

https://trac.buddypress.org/browser/branches/1.2

Yes, enabling zlib compression by placing code in the header.php of a child theme will improve performance.

`<?php
ini_set(’zlib.output_compression’, ‘On’);
ini_set(’zlib.output_compression_level’, ‘1?);
?>`

Source: WPMU.org

Additionally, you could enable W3-Total Cache as a plugin and gain other benefits, ie. CDN, Minify, database caching, object caching, browser caching, and user agent groups.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/w3-total-cache/

You cannot do both the plugin and the enabling of zlib compression in the header

Go back to a base WordPress install with the default 2010 theme. Then try to set custom permalinks to /%category%/%postname%/

Does that work? Can you go to categories and posts without problem?

If not, it is a problem with your server setup for WordPress and nothing to do with BuddyPress. You should fix that problem before attempting to use BuddyPress

wordpresss but this filter can override the jpeg default (which is 90) `apply_filters( ‘jpeg_quality’, $jpeg_quality, ‘image_resize’ )`

Alright, concrete feedback now that I’ve played with your features.
1) Header image is too small. I would like options to have a larger image. I like 275 px
2) Remove the search from the header. I’d like options to remove that. It’s unneeded for my site.
3) Title. It’s currently behind the gray bar for the buddypress. Move it down?

Now, I’m just learning PHP, been using HTML for years. New to WordPress in last year. Can I make the above changes somehow in the style.php? I hate to make changes and break it.

I like that it uses the custom menus, so much of my information needs to be accessed in it’s categories.

Thanx for the hard work!

I used WP-DB-Backup (https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-db-backup/), which can export all the tables specified, to successfully export — and re-import via the phpMyAdmin panel — the whole megillah, including BP-specific data.

Check this out https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-registration-options/

ok, with thanks to http://cleverness.org/2010/08/08/add-user-types-to-wordpress-and-buddypress/ found another starting point:

Put this in you BuddyPress theme /registration/register.php file:

`Account Type:

User Type A
User Type B
User Type C

`

Put the following code in your theme’s functions.php:

`<?php
/* Add sign-up field to BuddyPress sign-up array*/
function bp_custom_user_signup_field( $usermeta ) {
$usermeta = $_POST;

return $usermeta;
}
add_filter( ‘bp_signup_usermeta’, ‘bp_custom_user_signup_field’ );

/* Add field_name from sign-up to usermeta on activation */
function bp_user_activate_field( $signup ) {

update_usermeta( $signup, ‘signup_type’, $signup );

return $signup;
}
add_filter( ‘bp_core_activate_account’, ‘bp_user_activate_field’ );

function synchro_wp_usermeta($user_id, $password, $meta) {
global $bp, $wpdb;

$type = $meta[signup_type];

update_usermeta( $user_id, ‘signup_type’, $type );

}
add_action( ‘wpmu_activate_user’, ‘synchro_wp_usermeta’, 10, 3);
`

This should create selection of account types on the signup page.
If anyone knows how to update profile-loop.php, so that every account type would have different profile group, please share your opinion.

thanks.

It means the plugin will only work for regular WordPress installs but not for WordPress MU or WordPress Multisite.

just wrote a plugin but for single wordpress only
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-pending-activations/