I don’t understand what you mean by folder name. The BuddyPress folder on the file system is not used in that way. We have components at example.com/members/, and example.com/groups/, etc.
1. Yes, we changed this to make BuddyPress compatible with more servers. To change this WordPress email address, try a plugin like https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/send-from/ or ask on the WordPress.org forums for other recommendations.
2. What theme (and version of the theme) are you using? What version was this working on? i.e. what version did you upgrade from.
3. 1.6 uses the WordPress core toolbar, rather than BuddyPress’ old toolbar. The WordPress logo is added to the bar by WordPress itself.
If it loaded first, you’re going to get other elements of your page loading last — and they might be a more essential element of your page than the toolbar. I’d more investigate ways of speeding up the loading time on your site.
Yes, that’s the whole point. Or you could put all your custom code into a utility plugin, and load it that way. There’s many ways to do the same thing (load code to use in a theme) and which is best depends on the situation.
Thanks for the extra detail. It’s intended that the banned user can still read a (public) group. A banned group user should probably not be allowed to comment on activity feed items that belong to a group, so I’ll raise a bug ticket for that. Thanks!
bp-custom.php is loaded before most of BuddyPress is loaded, and a theme’s functions.php is loaded later in a process. Functions.php is also specific to a theme, and bp-custom.php isn’t.
Not out of the box. If you are creating a *brand new* BuddyPress site, you don’t need to use the Group Forums at all. I recommend that you:
1) Go to Settings > BuddyPress > components, disable the “Group Forums” component. Save.
2) Go to the Pages menu, and delete the “Forums” page which BuddyPress would have created for you.
3) Go to Settings > bbPress settings, and scroll right down to the bottom. You’ll see a box labelled something like “enable BuddyPress integration”. Tick it, save.
4) That’s all!
Ah hah. Historically we’ve seen strange issues with quick installs in hosted versions; I’d have hoped those would have been ironed out by now, but I’m glad you got the problem resolved.
Anything’s possible, but I think you’d have to write it yourself. Unless there is a plugin that loads RSS feeds in a new tab in the member profile (I haven’t seen one before).
