brianhinkley

That is true. Especially since I like to use post names in the URL.

@andrea_r with two installs the users wouldn’t be members of the main root install. This does get me thinking that it would be nice to add child sites to the created sites. I could just add a site called blogs and add the new sites to that.

Maybe I should consider switching to the sub-domain option. Is there any pros or cons that should be considered with that configuration?

It would be nice if there was a way to automatically add any page or post name to the “banned site name list.”

That would prevent URL collisions. Wouldn’t it?

I’m looking for the answer to this question also.

This is one area where I think WPMU may have gotten it a little bit wrong. The root site when I create a new post puts “/blog/” in the URL. I was able to remove this on the options.php settings page under pemalinks.

I was thinking that I could change things with the permalinks to add /blogs/ to the add on sites. That doesn’t work because the sitename still comes first.

The main site is…. Well…. the main site not a blog. I would like there to be no doubt whether or not someone is looking at the main site or one of the blogs.

I know that there is a reason as to not cause cause conflict of some sort. This doesn’t seem valid though because adding pages doesn’t follow the same rule.

Thanks.. I will check the .

The plugins I’m thinking of are the ones to display avatars of friends and users in the sidebar.

I think I will look at it from both angles multi-site and single site. Now that things are working on MS without new users beginning a super admin by default I like it better. I don’t know what happened with that first install. It’s one of those things that will drive a guy crazy.

Thanks again for your help.

OK… I think I have made some progress. After spending the morning modifying the files in the BuddyPress template pack to match my site template I have gotten a base install of to work close to the way I would expect.

As for the blogs created by users I may not be looking for the right answer. It may not matter that the new blogs look like the main site if I modified my themes to contain the relevant links back to the main site. It probably wouldn’t hurt in that case to let users style their blog a little.

Is there a list on someone’s site of the most common plugins for BuddyPress that would save myself time searching for them. Ie(Friends, logged in users, followers, etc)

Thanks. I will check the logs.

Too much tinkering so I deleted everything to start with a fresh install. I haven’t added define(‘WP_DEFAULT_THEME’, ‘theme-folder-name’); to the config.php file or added any sites yet.

Could my php error be because I’m using a child theme and need to add more code somewhere else to reference the parent?

Also it seems that when I added new sites, to the original install, by clicking on the register link the same as an end user would the user of the site isn’t assigned a role at all and seems to have super admin privileges.
Is there a resource with a collection of all the code / hacks to set up things right?

Is BuddyPress setup to control user privileges and to use the same theme on new blogs?

Thanks. I’m looking into where to put this code as soon as I have access to a computer and have time to access my server.

I’m using a child theme and when the last change I made brought up a blank white screen as if there were no template at all.

I have been looking for an answer to this also. When I first set up WPMS and add a new site it defaults to Twenty Ten. I want all new sites to use the current theme from the main site and also share the widgets and plugins form the main site.

I would like the users of the site to only be able to add content into the content area.