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I have it in htaccess file as per below, I am sure it will correct the letters.

AddDefaultCharset UTF-8

# BEGIN WordPress

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index.php$ – [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

# END WordPress

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If the ‘ meta http-equiv=”Content-Type” content=”text/html; charset=utf-8″ ‘ in page head doesn’t help (it also didn’t help to me for Sk.) then placing ‘AddDefaultCharset UTF-8’ line into your .htaccess file will do it for you!

Without the two ‘ just like below. Let me know whether it’s what you want. Make sure you save/upload the file in Text ASCII mode (not like images that transfer in Binary mode – your site could go blank till you re-upload it properly.) The file editor in cpanel does this safely if you aren’t sure.

AddDefaultCharset UTF-8

If you use this in .htaccess file you will no longer need to include that meta tag in the head. BTW MYSQL is UTF-8 default also so no worries at all.

If it’s your apache server you can change this directly in the ‘httpd.conf’ file. I think Apache’s internal default charset is iso-8859-1.

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Some host will do this for you for free. You can do it easy too: Archive, zip, your full database if it’s larger (or if small just download it as in .sql file.) Archive all your files and folders into a zip file. Download the 2 zip files. Create the same database on your new host (same password, dat name, dat user) and reinstall then from your donwloaded one. Upload the other zipped files to your new host into a www directory where they belong, extract them there. You can preview your website from cpanel (or plesk panel it depends what control panel you have).

Then configure your DNS pointing it to your new installation space (you will get all the IP etc. from your new host or they will do it for you if you carry also your domain name to them.)

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John, interesting. But how do you “show one thing for logged in and one thing for not logged in” /index page? Just with coding on the one page/template set for home or create a whole new page template?

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I am considering using wp categories and subcategories to use as the directory system, don’t know whether it could be the only WP with BP for this directory OR whether I will need a separate/new standalone WP installation (second wp installed in a subfolder with a separate members database). Logistically and technically with the WP Categories any advanced directory can be tuned up perfectly. Any thoughts on this anyone?

* Unfortunately it seems, well at least to me, that this type of business directory program doesn’t exist. I was looking for a similar directory system you guys talk about, for builders offering their services to visitors on my site. It would become quite busy with us as I get emails regarding this feature each day. I couldn’t find any except one WP plugin however it isn’t being developed further nor updated on regular bases. Some one could make such a system really popular cause if you search forums you’ll see there’s a high demand for it.

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Thank you Roger! I’ve been reading the thread, and another one where your help is also perfect. I now have to educate myself on how to create/etc. all regarding the bp_custom.php file. Or perhaps purchase a tutorial/s or consulting from someone here who is already advanced, to speed up the learning!

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Is this matter of printing correct meta titles by the header.php already fixed somewhere? Should we do something?

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I found this fresh discussion very helpful:
http://premium.wpmudev.org/forums/topic/any-real-seo-options-for-a-mubuddypressbbpress-installation

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In BP function reference list I have just found bp_group_description and bp_group_description_excerpt , maybe there is even more useful stuff (does anyone know more about this?). I’ll play with these two today.

*Edit: Does anyone know; HOW could this be used in a function, and are there any more of such useful for adding SEO mainly in head title and meta description (for example taking first 160 characters from a first paragraph of a forum post and adding these to meta description in head template in the theme)?:
function my_bp_title_tag( $title )

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Yes it would be great if title and meta description were possible to tweak in BP just like in WP, so many options there. E.g. in WP there’s no need for All in one seo plugin in WP for adding meta description in posts because excerpt for feeds can be used in the head of a theme. If it’s not in the BP core, who knows what a plugin developer will do tomorrow, upgrade the plugin or not it’s entirely up to them. The “SEO buddypress plugin” wasn’t upgraded a while back and it didn’t work 100%, people needed to use it together with the WP plugin so the installation worked also with pages in this title/description sense. I think if this was only a little more friendlier in BP it would become such a huge help. Maybe all this is in the BP code and can be simply placed in the head of any BP theme file like in WP installations (I wouldn’t be surprised if it was already there if the plugin exists) … but where to look? This is the major why I might not install in the root due to main pages and posts can not be nicely SEOed.

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Maybe you are uploading an image which dimensionally smaller and then it gets stretched to fit the profile photo space/size? Try to upload larger picture say 200px x 200px

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It’s there as Paul said in your main wordpress admin, find it in your WP admin left menu towards the bottom. “WP Admin – Settings > Reading Settings > A static page (tick radio button) > “Front Page displays” (and select a page you want for your home). You can set a page for home page there, also for posts index page just under there.

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Beck, if they could be redirected there after the login and at the same time the home in navigation menu would link to the Activity or Profile for the logged in members. Possible to toggle?

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Some things are here visit the link and read the posts. The other guy updated the tutorial on his site. I think it’s not so easy because also forum search on BP org here when you click on the topic second third and so forth search result pages it gets you error. Pity.
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/buddypress-orgs-unified-search-how-can-i-get-it/

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Just wondering did he fix also the pagination for each search term? next -next-page as many following search results pages there are for a term.

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John,
Thanks. I checked out your website, interesting concept for sports fundraising. Do you plan to target for members globally, schools, individuals? Incidentally our kid just started to do better in tennis

Yes, I cannot decide how to restructure my website. To keep all old html pages as they are, a new home page with WP or home page created by BP. Or keep all as is and create a new directory. But I probably should think modern, and, WP and BP aren’t going to fade away. I need a new features for members so there’s only one right way it seems – to move all into one database.

So your blog is a page saved as a page-template and set in WP for blog, and another page with a second page-template set for home page? That’s how you achieved it? Something like that was discussed in this forum somewhere. Your blog is not linked yet from your home page. I hope you will do well with this!

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Thank you Techguy!

I see your interesting point, using WP multisite with not blogs for users enabled in BP settings, it’s as WP standard single user. I didn’t know that multisite allows for many more options perhaps useful down the road. Can you run only one blog with BP on WP multisite? A main blog where all members would share the one blog for publishing their posts?

I will be after all other BP community features it provides.

I am gradually getting the picture. I am only considering before the install: in root or in subfolder install (to change my site’s original home page or having a new homepage for members), multisite or single WP. Because of these my mind is quite mixed up now days; if it was a new site I would decide on the spot. I just need to figure out these logistics and then I will be able to make it live basically right away.

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Thank you Paul.

Yes regular WP is enough, not multisite (one basic blog only for members to post in articles).

Now I see that “BuddyPress Land” on buddypress.org is run in /community/ folder. URL’s created by BP software shows all is in /community subdirectory. I don’t mind if people must dive deeper to get to BP land features, as long as they can register and login from all pages including “/”. I think there was a page here somewhere explaining how to do that, or I will need to have have it set up by someone.

One thing crossed my mind, will I be able to put profiles in the root — example.org/username/ with the ‘define’ added into config file, if WP/BP are installed in /community/ sub folder? Most probably it would become example.org/community/username/
define ( ‘BP_ENABLE_ROOT_PROFILES’, true );

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Can anyone share some insights on the subfolder installation pls? Any thoughts on that?!

Basically some prons and cons of my second WP/BP install in a folder mysite.com/community/(new WP/BP here)

Thank you ahead!!!!!