Documentation: Unclear on what I'm supposed to do with bpress modules

[bflora]

Hi there,

Am setting up my first buddypress test install, and I'm not 100% clear on how my bpress modules are meant to be installed. The current documentation says to "Download all the BuddyPress plugins and drop them all into the "mu-plugins" directory"...but a bit more detail would be helpful. When I unzip them, I find a folder named after the zip, then a folder with a version number that contains what appears to be the plugin plus another file. Which folder am I supposed to put in my mu-plugins directory?

And once I get these files into my MU plugins directory, should these plugins show up on a list of available plugins when I navigate to my plugins page? I'm not farmiliar with how MU works with plugins, having only used normal WP. I'm assuming I should be seeing something when I go to the plugins page for the main blog...

[noumansaleem]

Hey, bflora.

Inside your mu-plugins folder, you should see the following:

/bp-core/
/bp-friends/
/bp-groups/
/bp-messages/
/bp-xprofile/
bp-core.php
bp-friends.php
bp-groups.php
bp-messages.php
bp-xprofile.php

everything but the buddypress-theme folder contents.
I get my download from here: ​http://trac.buddypress.org/browser/trunk and at the bottom 'Zip Archive'

[noumansaleem]

Replying to noumansaleem:

Hey, bflora.

Inside your mu-plugins folder, you should see the following:

/bp-core/
/bp-friends/
/bp-groups/
/bp-messages/
/bp-xprofile/
bp-core.php
bp-friends.php
bp-groups.php
bp-messages.php
bp-xprofile.php

everything but the buddypress-theme folder contents.
I get my download from here: ​http://trac.buddypress.org/browser/trunk and at the bottom 'Zip Archive'

apologies for replying the wrong way, first time.

[andrea_r]

Anything placed in the mu-plugins folder will *not* show up under the Plugins tab in the backend. that's just for plugins in the... Plugins folder. :)

If you have the bp files in the right spot under mu-plugins, you will immediately see a change in the menu system in the backend. There's a "Blog" tab instead of Write and Manage, for instance.

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