What exactly happens when BuddyPress is enabled on a WordPress Network enabled site?
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Lately I have been running some local (WAMP) tests to learn more about WordPress Network and BuddyPress. For instance how to install BuddyPress on a secondary blog, which worked out swimmingly, so thanks for that!
One thing still mystifies me about BuddyPress on a Network: Upon network activation (I don’t see any other way, so I assume this is how I’m supposed to do it) there’s suddenly a top-level black menu added to every site across my network. Magic! I don’t mind it at all, it’s just rather mystifying is all.
I would like to kindly request either an addition to “before installing“, or a new page all together, like “installing BuddyPress on WordPress Network”, that explains the how-to’s and mind-you’s of the process. I didn’t mind seeing the BP menu pop up everywhere, but some questions came to mind:
– Where is the code? Is it replicated, or pulled from a single location?
– Should I be worried about the load?
– Can I keep it from loading on select sites?
– Can my messing about with BuddyPress somehow affect my other sites?
I think these type of questions ought to be answered in an official doc somewhere.It also took me a while to realize how exactly user registrations on a WordPress Network work (ugh), especially in accord with BuddyPress, but that might be more of a WPN-specific topic.
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Those are general multisite questions.
“- Where is the code? Is it replicated, or pulled from a single location?”
One codebase. pulled from one spot.
“- Should I be worried about the load?”
by just turning on multisite? no.
“Can I keep it from loading on select sites?”
that admin bar? yes.“- Can my messing about with BuddyPress somehow affect my other sites?”
depends. edit the files directly and whitescreen something and maybe it will show up everywhere.
generally, no.you read my blog now, right?
http://wpmututorials.com
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