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Describe “what you get,” please!

  • @bewst

    Member

    14 years, 10 months ago

    I’ve been looking around the site for some description of what you are supposed to get, structurally, by installing BP over WPMU, but not finding much more than vague hints. I mean, for example, do all the blogs on the site get BP capabilities, or does it only apply to the top-level blog? If the latter, does it have *any* effect on the other blogs, and if so, what? If all the blogs become BP-enabled, do they share accounts and users and is there any other interaction?

    I think this kind of information should be prominently featured on the website (maybe you should also link to the codex from the front page!), especially because it’s been my experience that turning off BP once installed breaks my WPMU installation.

    Thanks

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  • @bewst

    Member

    14 years, 10 months ago

    [Oof; I just noticed this site doesn’t handle unicode in post titles. Sorry, those were just curly quotes]

    @symm2112

    Participant

    14 years, 10 months ago

    the only reason that bp should break your WPMU installation if you turn it off would be if you left the bp theme set as your blog’s theme. So long as you remember to change your theme back to wp-default or another wp theme, you should be fine.

    you will have one MAIN blog that will be bpenabled. you can set multiblog=true to enable bp on all of you blogs. This means that if you go to domain.com/members/username, and then go to a sub blog like test.domain.com, you can go to test.domain.com/members/username and you would get the same screen. If you do this, all blogs need to have bp enabled themes to work or elss links will break. Otherwise, your nav bar on top of your screen will always link to your bp root blog.

    Hope this helps.

    @bewst

    Member

    14 years, 10 months ago

    Yeah, very helpful, thanks! A few further questions:

    1. Do these blogs share the identities of users, or do you have to register for each one separately?

    2. Is it possible to selectively disable BP for a sub-blog?

    3. Can anything be done to make this information more prominently available, like in the BP documentation?

    Many thanks again,

    D

    @andrea_r

    Participant

    14 years, 10 months ago

    “1. Do these blogs share the identities of users, or do you have to register for each one separately?”

    The userbase is shared. This is the part BP inherits from MU.

    2. Disable how? Either BP is set to run sitewide (and show admin bar everywhere with the profiles in one spot) or it;s set on one blog, thus not appearing on other blogs.

    3. short of writing a book, I’m not sure what else can be added.

    @bewst

    Member

    14 years, 10 months ago

    1. Thanks

    2. Well, “how” is for an expert like you to answer. The effect I’m looking for is BP everywhere, except for blogs X and Y.

    3. The information in this post can be added to the documentation, can’t it?

    @bewst

    Member

    14 years, 10 months ago

    @Symm2112: is “multiblog=true” really something like BP_ENABLE_MULTIBLOG as described in http://premium.wpmudev.org/forums/topic/buddypress-corporate-buddypress-community-buddypress-fun-and-buddypress-social-updated ?

    According to https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/bp_enable_multiblog, BP will function on any sub-blog with a BP-enabled theme, even without this setting. The explanation there

    If your main site is example.com and your hosted blogs are blog_x.example.com. example.com/members would go to the members directory, and so would blog_x.example.com/members.

    is a bit lost on me, I must admit. Can someone explain what that means?

    Thanks again and again

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