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Do I need to install MU to run BuddyPress?

@mybenson

Member

13 years, 10 months ago

My client wants an affiliate site to sell products. There will be a storefront and a backend affiliate program. They also want BuddyPress installed for social networking, but from what I can understand (sometimes they’re not super clear) they do not need/want their affiliate to have their own blogs within the site. So my question is, do I really need to install WPMU (or whatever it’s called now) or can I just do a regular WP install?

I should also mention that the main area where we need BuddyPress installed would be something like theirsite.com/righthere, rather than the root.

Thanks!

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@modemlooper

Moderator

13 years, 10 months ago

Single WP will work fine. MU is only to add user blogs.

@mybenson

Member

13 years, 10 months ago

That’s what I was hoping for. I just got confused when I saw this:

https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/install-buddypress-on-a-secondary-blog/

@modemlooper

Moderator

13 years, 10 months ago

when you install BP it attaches to the first blog on MU. You can tell it to attach to other blogs. So you could create a community.url.com bog and put the social (BuddyPress) on that url. Some blogs do not want BP taking over but want to add on a social aspect to WordPress.

@mybenson

Member

13 years, 10 months ago

Great. Thanks so much for the explanation. Very helpful.

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