Installing BuddyPress
To install BuddyPress, first install and activate the BuddyPress plugin. To install the plugin, log in to the WordPress dashboard, hover over Plugins in the left sidebar and choose Add New. From the Install Plugins screen, search for and activate BuddyPress (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress/). At the time of writing, the current version of BuddyPress is 1.5.5.
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If you are installing BuddyPress in addition to the WordPress Multisite Network (as covered in Chapter 4, Enabling a Multisite Network), BuddyPress will be installed and managed from within the Network Admin dashboard. While possible to run both a multisite network and BuddyPress, I have encountered occasional compatibility issues. I would recommend ...
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