I’m using your multi-site plugin and have a question…

Following this comment above:

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

So your saying…BP can’t work across the entire mu install if multi-site is used at all?

I’m building a site which I wish to separate the management of my content blogs vs user content blogs, but tied together by BuddyPress.
Is my only option, if creating a BuddyPress layer across both areas is essential, to not use multi-site and build it all directly on the root of the main site?

Also can your domain mapping plugin still be used for user blogs, without harming the BP features?

thanks Ron.

Regards
Paul

My response above to Ray was 2 weeks ago (after 2.8.4a was released) and is reflective of the current version of WPMU.

Multi-site capability is a function of WPMU rather than my plugin. What is not built into WPMU is a mechanism for creating and deleting WPMU sites. That’s the functionality in my plugin. Note that there is a small function in it to help BP run correctly in a multi-site environment.

Was the upgrade to 2.8 straight forward?

It’s almost been 6 months since this post was made. BP has come along quite a way since then. Does this solution have the legs to continue as WP & MU merge along with a quickly evolving BP?

Are your plugs based off Doncha’s work and will XMLRPC be intact?

If I had some additional time, I would think about implementing this.

BuddyPress has a “Create a blog” function that piggy-backs off of WPMU’s code, so I’m guessing for me to get the subdomain blog registration working from BP, I’d have to code a custom function to change the link of the blog signup page.

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.

The blogs could be moved to a different site using some SQL or by exporting the blog and importing into a blog on the additional site.

Thanks for the reply.

I have some follow-up questions involving BuddyPress:

-BuddyPress is installed in the root. Let’s say I’m logged in as a member and I try to create a new blog from http://www.example.com; with the Multi-Site plugin installed, would the new blog URL reside on the root or the new Site instance (blogs.example.com)?

Preferably, BuddyPress will detect blogs from the new Site instance.

This is one of the main things I’m trying to wrap my head around.

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Lastly, a question about porting over existing blogs. I have blogs already setup with my current subdirectory MU setup (eg. http://www.example.com/eachmemberbloginstance). If I install the Multi-Site plugin, would I be able to “port” over my current member blogs over to the new subdomain Site (eg. blogs.example.com/eachmemberbloginstance, etc.) without much difficulty? Again, how would this affect BuddyPress (installed in the root)?

Sorry if these seem like straight-forward questions!

define(‘COOKIE_DOMAIN’, ‘.example.com’);

The leading dot allows the WPMU cookies to server for both the domain & subdomains.

Question for you.

This is kind of an extension to a MU forum topic I made on:
http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/13986?replies=3

Basically, I currently have WPMU + BuddyPress installed in the root and was wondering for all new blogs (every blog except blog_id #1), can they be run under a subdomain?

To be clear, I have WPMU installed in:
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/

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Right now, I have WPMU setup to run new blogs under subdirectories.

However, is what I proposed possible with Simple WPMU multi-site plugin?

Also, would single sign-on stay intact across all blogs (even across the root and subdomain)?