I tried using bp multi network, but it won’t show up once I put it into mu-plugins. Would network deactivating BP work and just reactivating per site?
@mattfl850 – I run a few multi-sites and a few bp sites – and after reading your first post I still don’t understand what you have as a setup and what you are trying to accomplish.
I have awp multi-site with bp activated in maindomain dot com – the profiles and social layers are all based in the main root – if someone wants to create a “blog” aka “site” then their site becomes “usersiteOne dot maindomain dot com” – so each of their blogs (sites) are on a subdomain.
Of course it is possible to swap that so they appear as maindomain dot com / usersiteOne
All the groups and activity and such is run through the main root level..
are you trying to get each user to have their own buddypress layer layer – with their own groups and such that is completely separated from the others?
@Djsteveb Sorry for the confusion. I’ll try to explain it better. Ok so at /sbs I’ll be running a site for an online 32 man Madden league. At /rust I’ll be running a site for my rust server. What I’m wanting to do is have the buddy press signups separated by page. So if you sign up on /sbs you belong to that site and have access to post only those forums and member list for /sbs. And if you make a clan (via a theme that supports buddy press) that clan only applies to /sbs. Then the same applies for /rust. You sign up there and that’s where you belong. As of now they’re all meshed together as one member list.
@sharmavishal I’ll check that link out now
@mattfl850 – so you just need to the basic functions of BP with each? (not give each member a separate blog/site as well) – is what I am guessing…
I imagine these is a graceful way to put a wp/bp install in your root directory and network activate bp to create separate members and mesh this with multi-site to make it so that /sbs is a new “site” and /rust is..
but if I was going this (And I am not a bp dev or any kind of wp expert) – I would just install wp/bp in /sbs and do another separate wordpress install in /rust and add bp there.
That may be the simplest setup for what you describe as the current goal. Others may have a differing idea.
I’ve already installed multisite wordpress. I would rather not use separate installs if possible.
@mattfl850 – this info will help with that journey:
bottom of the page: https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/installation-in-wordpress-multisite/
I am sure this is possible, it’s not the way I would do it… might also want to consider some of the info here: http://halfelf.org/2011/dont-use-wordpress-multisite/ (updated may 2015 😉
Others may agree or disagree, and you may be keeping your server tuned like a well oiled machine – hidden from the SE spiders and brute force attackers and all that.
Of course I am not an expert, or a bp dev or anything – just another user who has tried a few different setups and spent many hours trying to do what it “possible” and should be “simple” – and pulled my hair out trying to make things like that work well :))
Not sure if anything is changed in recent updates, but I will mention that when I did this kind of conversion; I had to install the role scoper plugin (now called press permit) – in order to hide people’s private pics they uploaded – as they were visible in the media gallery for other bp users on my sites who had signed up for a “blog” (not called “site” in multi-site) – that was a painful thing to find out the hard way – maybe things have changed with that and other issues – not sure.
Have fun with that and let me know how it works out for ya!
is there a way to save everything ive done if i were to reinstall using separate instances of wp/bp?
I think it’s tools -> Export to export your posts and pages.
make a full backup is fairly easy – and you could easily recreate what you currently have with a zip file and an export of your database.
just get to your phpmyadmin, export (click add drop table under advanced) –
via file manager compress / zip your whole site.
(you might want to make a separate zip file of your wp-content folder to easily re-add your pics and plugins and themes and such with new install) – and download that – to upload later
real instructions here https://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Backups
then you could delete all the files in your your folder – reinstall wp (if you use a new db, then your old one will still be there if you decide to revert)
I would do a folder for your /sys and a separate install in /rust or whatever, and put a custom html index.ht page in your root that says welcome click here for my rust group, click here for my game group.. or something like that.. but that’s me and my limited knowledge of what you are going for.
pretty easy to import your posts and pages into a new wp.. if you plan to re-use pics and stuff, upload your wp-content folder and unzip – sometimes this is best done before you import posts and pages with the wp tool – sometimes you click “download and import attachments” – sometimes not. sometimes you have delete all the pages and posts and them re-import them and select the other option (don’t download import pics) or whatever.. I can’t remember which works and which fails – but it’s all fairly quick and painless regardless – and good practice for fixing a major problem in the futre.
