2) Go to your wp-admin area, in the BuddyPress menu go to “Component Setup”. This lets you disable/enable each component of BuddyPress. If you disable, they are removed from menus. If you want the component active but not on your menu, you will need to create a child theme: https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/
Bit of a lively debate, which is fine; but please remember to leave anything that is or could be misinterpreted as a personal attack out of this thread.
That settings code has been around since 1.0, and we know it needs to be re-written so that page can be templated. Unless someone wants to contribute a patch, we will have to be patient.
I’ve been driven almost crazy by hearing about “canonical plugins” by the WordPress core team (if you don’t know, see this).
I think a BuddyPress events plugin would be a good project for developers to collaboratively work on in this way. Whether built on Erwin’s code or started new. I can’t help but think that however wordpress.org is redesigned in future to encourage more team-driven plugin development is just going to be BuddyPress with a custom theme! But I digress.
I might be shouting into a funnel again but again if there is another developer or two out there, perhaps we could look into this?
1) Not aware of any existing code that does this. However, your users would only have to go into their profile and change the ‘name’ field (this is what BuddyPress uses).
2) I think the addon you want is called “Plugin Commander.”
3) All of the core BuddyPress features are detailed on https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/custom-buddypress-loops/ which you can use to integrate bits of functionality wherever you want. As far as third-party plugins goes, it is dependant on how the plugin author wrote their plugin.
4) Have you looked at new BP theme on http://testbp.org/? That and BP 1.2 should be released mid/late January.
5) Haven’t got time to discuss how to fix but look at trac.buddypress.org/ticket/1501
Probably something to do with the domain you’ve chose. localhost.localdomain would have been more orthodox, or even if you used something like example.com.
What do you get in your Apache log when you get a failed redirect?
Early versions of BP didn’t work 100% properly on subdirectory installs but as far as I know it shouldn’t make a difference nowadays (from BuddyPress’ perspective).
Yeah, exactly. Any theme will work, but you will have to copy some of the templates from the bp-default theme into whichever theme you use, and write custom CSS to style the pages to match your site.
The BuddyPress.org site is actually over a million users because it’s connected to the main WordPress database/user database. It’s obviously not one million active users, but there is a fair few thousand active users every week, multiple thousands of users every week.
Some of the other standalone websites – testbp.org is actually over about 14,000 users now. TastyKitchen, which is which is another site using BuddyPress for recipes used in cooking, they’re around 20,000, I think.
