[@mercime Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

Strongly recommend getting Linux for any shared hosting especially with WordPress and BuddyPress.

[@mercime Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

BuddyDev is alive and well the last time I looked And if I recall, there are membership levels there which allow you access to all plugins and themes. Confirm with them first.

BP Mag Theme – As with other regular and premium themes, BP templates for plugins with template files included need to be updated and revised. @sbrajesh is active in providing support for the plugins one needs to use with the BP Mag theme.

You’d have to let sbrajesh know which Events plugin you want to use for BP Mag and if that BuddyPress Links 0.5 – is the premium version updated for BP 1.5

[@mercime Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

Languages and Translations

[@mercime Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

@kiddie you have two options:

1) Create only 2 files – header-buddypress.php and sidebar-buddypress.php and upload to server
– only thing is, the title of the page won’t be shown as seen on demo but instead will be atop content area, on the same level as the Directions link in the right sidebar of the demo.

2) Revise 16 BuddyPress template files – and upload to server
– the title of the specific pages will show up just like in demo but you’d also have to update the BP template files when the BP Template Pack plugin is updated

Let me know.

[@mercime Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

== there wasn’t the same as the one on my front page.==
The wp_nav_menu (custom menu) defaults to wp_page_menu If you have no custom menu associated with the Primary menu

Create your custom menu for BP the same way you create for WP menu.
https://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Menu_User_Guide
https://codex.wordpress.org/Appearance_Menus_Screen

[@mercime Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

@kiddie you forgot to add the pastebin.com URI’s for the respective files …

[@mercime Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

Go to your Settings > Notifications panel and click on “No” radio button for “A member mentions you in an update using @wceolin ” and/or “A member replies to an update or comment you’ve posted” which are set to Yes by default.

[@mercime Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

@kiddie Check if your premium theme has already been “template-packed” in these forums at https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/#template-packed-wordpress-themes

If yes, then follow instructions posted therein and post here if you have issues.

If not, let us know what the name of the theme is. Then open up your theme’s header.php, copy all, paste all at pastebin.com, click submit and post the generated pastebin URI here. Do the same for your theme’s index.php, page.php, sidebar.php and footer.php

[@mercime Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

It means that Huddle theme has not been updated for BP 1.5.5. Don’t know how Themeforest works – you might have to pay for every theme update. Or, if you bought it recently, you have the right to get a theme which is compatible with current BP version. Please contact your theme vendor.

[@mercime Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

Hard to say. You’re using a premium custom theme with custom BP compatibility and use many plugins and it’s happening to some people and at different times – one was registered last week and the other this week.

Have you tried changing to bp-default theme? It won’t correct the erroneous links from the past, so check if links to names are corrected in new activity logs. Did you install new plugins – around the time this behavior was observed?

[@mercime Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

@Chccclay there is also premium plugin, BuddyPress Message Privacy, which will give your students the ability to control who can send them private messages.

[@mercime Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

@tux-kapono http://buddydev.com/plugins/bp-username-changer/

[@mercime Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

@teorourke I know you do not have a sidebar.php in your theme. Please read the instruction above:

B. Create a BLANK sidebar-buddypress.php
Open up sidebar-buddypress.php and paste this: …..

Content will be added for the BP template files to adjust the structure and not for your regular WP files.

[@mercime Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

@arturdesign2devcom I see CATEGORY, GROUPS, and SINGLE WP

So I see using http://buddydev.com/buddypress/blog-categories-for-groups-plugin/ where each group is a category. Create posts via front end; then create a regular category template file (see WP codex) for each group with the layout you want which can pull in the first image from the post in that category template file (get the image plugin or use post-thumbnail support).

[@mercime Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

WP/BP versions? What theme are you using? Has it been updated for BP 1.5.5? Have you tried changing to bp-default theme and checking if issue has been resolved?

[@mercime Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

@elangley edit topic and mark as resolved like above

[@mercime Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

== Perhaps this already exists somewhere? ==
Not exactly what you want based on your requirements. You could use the Groups feature wherein members need to be approved by the Admin before they’re in the group. But there’s no automatic transfer of members from one group to another. The member can leave the group and would apply to another group or you could use this https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-group-management/

== Or perhaps some epic person would be willing to take it on as a project? ==
Someone might do that if it was needed for their own project but we don’t know when and we don’t know if it will be released in the WP plugins repo or as a premium plugin or if would be released at all. So if you need one right now, you would have to hire a developer to do this for you.

[@mercime Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

== Only one thing which I could tweak is the main bar displaying.. Friends, on the profile for example, needs to be moved to the right a little bit. ==

@owen_a Not clear. What main bar, the buddybar? And what friends on the profile, in members > friends list? URI pointing to friends on the profile and “main bar”?

[@mercime Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

Code moved to http://wp.me/p1I84P-1F

[@mercime Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

@teorourke Based on initial scan, you only need to create two new files, header-buddypress.php and sidebar-buddypress.php to make your theme compatible with BuddyPress.

If you’ve revised any of the BP template files transferred to your swagger theme folder in server during the BP Compatibility process, please delete the 6 BP folders transferred to your swagger theme folder in server – activity, blogs, forums, members, groups, register – then re-run Appearance > BP Compatibility again to make sure that you have clean template files.

[@mercime Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

@teorourke I was waiting for your theme’s index.php file to double-check the HTML structure so that we’ll get this hopefully in one go. As I mentioned above, that code you posted for index.php is obviously a BuddyPress template file see “BuddyPress – Members Directory”. written near the top of the file….

In any case, I will be posting the instructions in a few minutes. If this doesn’t work for you, do ask the theme author to look at this post and help you with the final touches.

[@mercime Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

Code is posted at http://wp.me/p1I84P-1y

[@mercime Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

@owen_a Based on initial scan, you only need to create two new files, header-buddypress.php and sidebar-buddypress.php to make your theme compatible with BuddyPress.

If you’ve revised any of the BP template files transferred to your Easel theme folder in server during the BP Compatibility process, please delete the 6 BP folders transferred to your Easel theme folder in server – activity, blogs, forums, members, groups, register – then re-run Appearance > BP Compatibility again to make sure that you have clean template files.

[@mercime Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

Works for either WP the or BP default/child theme, https://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_a_Static_Front_Page

[@mercime Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

== can this be custom developed? ==
Looks do-able. However, you have to be clearer about the following, among others::
– Where do you expect to see this layout to be rendered?
– Are those featured images which link to a post/page/post-type?
– Data for the page coming from a single WP installation or from WP multisite blogs?

To hire a developer:
– https://buddypress.org/community/groups/bp-jobs-board/forum/ or
– http://jobs.wordpress.net/