Is it possible to install BuddyPress with blogs installed on several servers?

  • As far as I know, if you want to install BuddyPress you’ve got to have a WordPress MU installation (I know WordPress 3.x already is MU in itself) with a unique database, which has different tables for each blog.

    But my situation is quite different: we have a blog network, and we would like to have a buddypress installed for all our blogs. This way users could register once and comment on the blogs automatically, see their activity, link to other users, etc. But the blogs are on different servers ??

    Our current physical division of blogs (some of them are together in the same server, but others are in different servers, each with its own database) makes me think this is quite difficult to do. I know that the Multi-DB plugin could help us with the database thing, but… what if the blogs are, as in our situation, in different servers/VPS’s?

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  • Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

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    if you want to install BuddyPress you’ve got to have a WordPress MU installation

    No, you can install it on SingleSite.

    (I don’t know the answer to the rest, mind you. Have you asked on buddypress.org?)

    No, you can’t do this.

    I’m pretty sure I saw you ask this elsewhere as well and also mentioned you can’t use the multi db plugin to handle that either, as it’s for multisite.

    Please note it is not called MU any more and yes it makes a difference.

    Buddypress works on ONE multisite network. You do not have a WordPress network. you have a bunch of single installs.

    It will not work.

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