[@chrisclayton Participant 14 years, 5 months ago]

i’ve never changed the ID of what blog buddypress runs on, but assuming it talks to wordpress the same way as having it on the root blog (which it should, and if it doesn’t it should be reported as a bug) then all your questions are a yes.

1. Yes, activity stream tracks site-wide activity.
2. yes, one username (it doesn’t modify the way WordPress Multisite runs much…)
3. If you are using the bp-default them, then yes it does, if your using another theme then it wont by default. you will have to modify the theme (refer to bp-default theme for how it’s done their)
4. I’ll leave the languages questions to someone else (i dont mess with doing things with different languages)

[@chrisclayton Participant 14 years, 5 months ago]

You could use CSS li#xprofile-personal-li {display:none;} along with
`define( ‘BP_DEFAULT_COMPONENT’, ‘activity’ );`
(change activity to whatever you want the default tab to be)

[@chrisclayton Participant 14 years, 5 months ago]

@doctorwhobbc without knowing what exact theme your using, all we can suggest is to follow the steps written on the codex.

https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/

[@chrisclayton Participant 14 years, 5 months ago]

RE custom posts in activity stream. Here is some code that will help (had it bookmarked, cant remember who its from originally. i think @r-a-y originally posted it) http://pastebin.com/kNqTrRzc

[@chrisclayton Participant 14 years, 5 months ago]

Buddypress doesn’t make it easy to allow “profile types” out of the box, you will either need to hire a developer or use a plugin, this one might get you half way their – https://buddypress.org/community/groups/buddypress-user-account-type-lite/

@djpaul also suggested to someone else with a similar-ish question, of using xprofile fields and a some custom coding. https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/interactive-profile-fields-during-registration/ (Theirs some great discussion on that thread regarding similar things that you might be interested in reading)

[@chrisclayton Participant 14 years, 5 months ago]

@MaTaX91 as @dcavins said, the buddybar is being depreciated (when BP 1.6 comes out) so, you should use the toolbar.

The toolbar is alot easier to modify too
Here’s the codex – https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_node

[@chrisclayton Participant 14 years, 5 months ago]

If they are modifying it within an ‘options’ page, then it shouldn’t affect you/others. Unless their modifying the code, you should be fine…

The best way to find out though, is via creating a test site, modifying it and seeing if it modifys yours.

[@chrisclayton Participant 14 years, 5 months ago]

The section on the WordPress codex should help you out their.
https://codex.wordpress.org/Integrating_WordPress_with_Your_Website

[@chrisclayton Participant 14 years, 5 months ago]

Just the blogs on the homepage or the users’ blog posts?

To show the blogs on the homepage you can go into settings/reading in your wordpress admin (https://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_a_Static_Front_Page) and then chose the blogs page (the one you chose in buddypress settings/pages) to show as your front page.

[@chrisclayton Participant 14 years, 5 months ago]

Here ya go. Add this code to your bp-custom.php file.
http://pastebin.com/rgJ6BQc8

Just add “!is_page( PageID )” (with PageID as your tos page’s id) under “!bp_is_activation_page()”

[@chrisclayton Participant 14 years, 5 months ago]

This might help.
https://codex.buddypress.org/extending-buddypress/customizing-labels-messages-and-urls/

[@chrisclayton Participant 14 years, 5 months ago]

@mercime a bridge? You make it sound so scary, it’s not like trying to integrate bbpress 1.0 with wordpress… THAT was a bridge (with a scary troll underneath for an added bonus).

I prefer to call them ‘connectors’ as in “a plugin that connects one plugin to another”… man i have ALOT of thoes

@mangolife – It’s extremely easy to connect a well-written wordpress plugin to buddypress profiles (even easier if they are using wordpress features, such as post types)

The difficult part was adding entries from the plugins to the activity streams, but i believe that is being addressed for a future release.

Buddypress Codex Entry: https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/functions/core/bp_core_new_nav_item/

You should also read through the WordPress Codex entry on Administration Menus as they are very similar – https://codex.wordpress.org/Adding_Administration_Menus (and will help alot when you get to ‘screen_functions’ in the above buddypress codex entry.)

[@chrisclayton Participant 14 years, 5 months ago]

@gerryleblanc – Buddypress DOES support ‘pretty permalinks’, they dont however support the default (?p=x) structure. Have you tried removing ‘index.php’ from your permalinks? did it help?
Try using the permalink ‘/archives/%post_id%’ and see if that works.

You said “several things don’t seem to work.” but only mention one, what was the other things?

@jurry123 – We ‘react’, we also sleep occasionally

[@chrisclayton Participant 14 years, 5 months ago]

As mentioned here – https://codex.buddypress.org/extending-buddypress/bp-custom-php – “if you don’t have a file called bp-custom.php [..] go ahead and add one”

[@chrisclayton Participant 14 years, 5 months ago]

@derek-melo, you will get a quicker response by posting on the albums/media forums (https://buddypress.org/community/groups/bp-album/forum/) People who are most knowledgeable about that specific plugin keep a closer eye on that forum.

[@chrisclayton Participant 14 years, 5 months ago]

@conschneider the last we heard is that it was “planned to coincide closely with the release of WordPress 3.3” Source: https://buddypress.org/about/roadmap/

(@ core devs could we have the roadmap updated to a newer date? )

But, If you dont want to insert the code into your wp-config file, you can put it into your bp-custom.php file which does the same thing https://codex.buddypress.org/extending-buddypress/bp-custom-php/

Buddypress always looks to see if you have a bp-custom.php file in your plugin folder and reads the code in it before it does anything else.

[@chrisclayton Participant 14 years, 5 months ago]

@rizkipratama – Sounds like their is afew issues popping up with the current version of that plugin (https://buddypress.org/community/groups/creating-extending/forum/topic/buddypress-default-theme-not-showing-events/)

Your best bet would be to contact the plugin developer so that he can ensure he looks into it and include a fix in the next version. http://wp-events-plugin.com/

[@chrisclayton Participant 14 years, 5 months ago]

That’s weird.
Have you tried adding the import plugin and importing your data and THEN (after it’s imported your data) activating buddypress?

[@chrisclayton Participant 14 years, 5 months ago]

@G – looking into the buddypress adminbar stylesheet that bp adds to my site, i believe that that stylesheet has the buddypress specific styles for the ‘toolbar’ (the stuff buddypress adds, such as notifications thus it requires to be in the code (i could be wrong though)

EDIT: You could always remove it if you wanted to – https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_deregister_style

Global.js – https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_deregister_script

[@chrisclayton Participant 14 years, 5 months ago]

That will change the background of the header. Was their something else you wanted to change via CSS?

Everything else is practically the same concept, for example removing the header logo, you will want to ad “div#header h1 { display:none; }” ect. ect.

What exactly do you want to change? (you will need to be clear as their are alot of divs and other elements that make up the header)

See the codex on Child Theme’s and Stylesheets regarding where to add it. You will want to implement it into your child theme’s stylesheet. https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/

[@chrisclayton Participant 14 years, 5 months ago]

@JoeMD Sounds like a theme issue, what theme are you using?

[@chrisclayton Participant 14 years, 5 months ago]

div#header {
background-image:url(‘This-is-the-path-to-an-image-file.gif’);
}

[@chrisclayton Participant 14 years, 5 months ago]

I’m using a custom-designed theme.

If you think it might be a theme issue, have you tried reverting back to bp-default theme? Oh, and have you double checked Event managers settings to ensure their okay?

EDIT: Also, try creating a single-event.php file with a basic posts loop in it, and make sure your “event pages” in events/settings/pages is set to ‘posts’.

[@chrisclayton Participant 14 years, 5 months ago]

@gobbleoff – does buddypress work without the events plugin active?
If it does, you will need to contact the plugin developer. It’s the plugin’s job to set up the ‘relationship’ between the plugin and buddypress.

You can contact them on their website – http://wp-events-plugin.com/ (they have been quite fast in responding too.)

Though, if it helps – events manager 5.0.50 seems to work fine on my bp 1.5.3.1 install.

[@chrisclayton Participant 14 years, 5 months ago]

In your wordpress admin panel, you can change the homepage. https://codex.wordpress.org/Settings_Reading_Screen

Their are also multiple ways you can achieve that redirect thing, Codex is a good starting point.
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_redirect
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/is_user_logged_in