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Hi Trent and RamsayB –

I’m looking to do the same thing. How’s this looking?

Biegun-

Since this thread has not seen activity for at least three months, it would be better to start a new thread. You will receive a faster response!

I just posted these new guidelines: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=2543

(I believe what I’m about to write is relatable to the topic at hand; if not, feel free to close the thread!)

I’m just starting to grasp the whole concept of multi-sites.

From what I’ve read, it’s exactly what I want to do.

But I need some clarification.

Here’s my setup, I have WPMU+BuddyPress installed in the root:

hxxp://www.example.com (blog_id #1 should be shown here, including all its posts, categories and pages)

I want all subsequent blogs to be created from

hxxp://blogs.example.com

So that new blogs will have a subdirectory under that subdomain.

eg. hxxp://blogs.example.com/newuserblog/

Single sign-on should work across the root and subdomain.

From those that have responded to me on the WPMU forums, this should be possible with the multi-site plugin.

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Now for the BuddyPress questions!

Okay, so let’s say I login to BuddyPress (which is installed in the root instance of MU) and I want to create a new blog from “My Account > Create a blog”, would BuddyPress be creating this new blog under the new Site instance (eg. the subdomain Site – blogs.example.com? This is what I would want to do. I’m guessing this would require some core hacking.

Also, if I go to hxxp://www.example.com/blogs, would this show blogs from the blogs.example.com subdomain?

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Thanks for reading! Hope to hear some feedback!

Just re-read, Domain mapper is what you want.

However buddypress is sitewide as is bbpress.

I am working on a domain mapper compat bbpress seperation.

Keeping bp unified is still recommended.

As JasonG states, WPMU is really setup to work with a single domain. However, as he also points out, Donncha has an early-stage plugin that allows the mapping of a domain to a specific blog on a Mu install. It is called the WordPress MU Domain Mapping plugin.

Concerning getting the multi-site plugin to work with BuddyPress, there is a ticket in Trac that addresses a potential way to allow it to work with BP.

I got a reply from Ron over at WPMUTutorials.com.

If you’re interested in our discussion, head on over to:

http://wpmututorials.com/how-to/blog-categories/

A summary of what Ron wrote:

1- BP is enabled on a WPMU site basis so when running multiple site, BP can be enabled on one site and not another.

2- The same applies to site options/settings like registration.

3- BP does not filter a user’s blog list on the member profile by WPMU site. So, if you had 5 sites and a user had a blog in 4 of them then all 4 blogs would be listed.

One way you could accomplish the multisite setup where BP is on the main site and blogs on the additional sites is

Enable BP only on the main site.

On the main site set registration to users only.

On the additional sites set registration to only users can create blogs.

Create an info page on the main site that provides links to each of the other sites’ signup page.

This is a little bit involved and I’m a little pressed for time; I would at some point like to tackle this… but then I’d have to worry about redirecting /copying over blogs and permalinks on the existing WPMU setup… (sigh).

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@Jeff and Jason – Thanks for the info.

Donncha’s Domain Mapping plugin wouldn’t work in my situation because I’ve setup WPMU with subdirectories and not subdomains.

Re: the Multi-site plugin on WPMUDev. That one is different than the one that Ron has developed. So I’m not sure if XMLRPC will work with Ron’s version… a good question to ask him!