No, by default, BuddyPress works on one site in a network. This defaults to site ID #1, though this can be changed[1] if you need.
What are you trying to do? Create something like a “BuddyPress multisite”, where each site is its own social network?
[1] https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/install-buddypress-on-a-secondary-blog/
Hi Paul —
Thank you very much for the rapid reply. Yes — I would like to be able to have social networking type of on functionality on multiple WordPress sites in an MS environment.
I’m trying to create a kind of social networking environment to teach small private classes (in photography) in a single install of BD on a single WP site, I couldn’t find a way to provide students taking a particular class access to a private set of POSTS in a single install of WP, hence the leap into Multisite. Posts provide a much richer way for students and teachers to share rich media than spaces like Forums.
It sounds like I can’t get ‘multiple blogs’ in BP and can’t get ‘multiple’ social networking tools — beyond Forums — in a multi-site install — RIGHT?
I do NOT one to re-locate a single buddypress install, which is what I believed you referenced above in the post about secondary blogs.
Hope this is clear —
Please give me your best advise.
THANKS!
I looked at trying to accomplish my goal in a single site and
Hey Paul —
Sorry for all the rambling. For your initial response it sounds like I simply can’t get all of the social networking capabilities that BP provides (robust profiles, on-going ‘activity’ stuff, etc) on WP with multiple sites. Right?
Hence my choices are — separate sites — which wouldn’t permit any content to be shared, but would have all the BP offers. Or, multiple WP sites – looking for plugins to try to replicate as many of the social networking functions as might be possible.
Right??
And a bit more —
I tried using buddy press GROUPS as a way to keep content ‘private’ from one group of students to the next. This works … but WP POSTS would no longer be a way to include content and as I mentioned POSTs are a great way to be able to post content, still images, and slide shows….
Any suggestions??
