[@mercime Participant 15 years, 4 months ago]

You are probably using an old BP theme that’s not been updated. Change to bp-default theme to see if same behavior applies.

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 4 months ago]

== Going directly to the slug just bounces the user back. ==

Did you check if you allowed registration in your second WP install which has BP ativated?

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 4 months ago]

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/30-upgrade-bug-ftps?replies=100

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 4 months ago]

So you mean that you have a WP install in domain root http://yoursite.com and have installed a second WP at e.g. http://community.yoursite.com/ using the same database and the same users table?

When you say standard PHP sign-up form, I take it you mean it’s not the actual WP login.php? So have you tested what happens when you remove that standard PHP form (which could have caused conflict with registration) and go the route of a direct link to the BP registration page slug http://yoursite.com/register or to whatever URL/slug you set up for your BP install?

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 4 months ago]

== I tried to modify it per the community instructions and broke the site. ==

I hope you backed up DB before activating the plugin. It was for WPMU 2.9.1.1, BuddyPress 1.2.1. http://teleogistic.net/code/buddypress/bp-import-blog-activity/

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 4 months ago]

You can do all that when you transform your single WP into a multisite installation by creating a network with subdomain structure https://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network
Multisite support forum – https://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite

“same content” – if you mean that each user has a portfolio page, or about me page, a contact us page, etc. this can be achieved by creating a custom theme which you can designate as the default theme for each new subsite created by your members.

Create a network/go multisite before installing BuddyPress plugin if you want to add social networking features – https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/before-installing/

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 4 months ago]

@aces thanks for the link to create a network

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 4 months ago]

@flynn basic troubleshooting – deactivate all plugins except BuddyPress and change to bp-default theme. In all probability, your users can create groups. Then activate plugins one by one and then your custom theme (if any) to see which one causes the group creation hiccup.

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 4 months ago]

== I though there was maybe a separate link for “blogs” ==

There’s a major difference between a “blog” and “blogs”. You get “blogs” link if you transform your single WP into a multisite install (or create a network) then allow your WP/BP members to create their own respective blogs.

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 4 months ago]

@triznic have you tried to work on what I posted above?

get_sidebar appears in footer.php for the intrepidity theme https://themes.svn.wordpress.org/intrepidity/1.5.1/footer.php so following the structure of your theme onto the activity/index.php file, you don’t add any get_sidebar calls in the other BP template files

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 4 months ago]

WP started out primarily as a blogging tool.

The default home page for BuddyPress using the bp-default theme is the blog index page like you see at http://testbp.org/

If you want a static page in front page and have a “blog” link read https://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_a_Static_Front_Page

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 4 months ago]

== Is there really no support for this issue? ==

Know that except for the Lead Dev, support is given by volunteers. Feel free to bump if your question has not been answered after 24 hours. Stay calm, cool and collected.

== A site I’m working on ==

Is the site WP or a another kind which you want to integrate with WP/BP?

== BuddyPress to feature the activity and work of its users. Is BuddyPress capable of doing this? ==

If site is WP, sure it can. Know that the activity will only be recorded starting from the time you activate BuddyPress. I think there’s a plugin that can get users’ posts from existing multisite to be listed, just can’t recall which one and if it’s been updated.

== How do users use the BuddyPress Like plugin to ’like’ the work other users do? ==

Members click on Like button. Or did you mean something else? You would have to be more specific.

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 4 months ago]

You have to allow registration first – go to dashboard menu Settings > General > Membership – check Anyone can register

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 4 months ago]

Sure they can. Unless you change your home page to show something else.

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 4 months ago]

@modemlooper, that’ll be a cool option +1

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 4 months ago]

You don’t have this in your Settings > Reading page? http://www.michaelkuhlmann.com/2010/02/19/how-to-display-activity-stream-in-buddypress/

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 4 months ago]

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/quick-post-widget/ plus others listed (check if updated to current WP version) in http://wpmu.org/8-wordpress-plugins-that-enable-posting-and-editing-from-the-front-end/

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 4 months ago]

Hi Morticia. You don’t need to touch php files to add spacing between topics, it’s just changing styling – like adding padding/margin in style.css.

Your link above redirects to home page and http://glitchaddict.com/forums show no topics at all.

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 4 months ago]

== copied the “register” sidebar from the function.php file of twenty ten and added it to the buddypress default theme function file ==

So you had to copy the function to register the sidebar from functions.php file of twentyten. Could be that not all files were uploaded properly to server when you installed BuddyPress. I didn’t have to copy anything when I tested fishbook theme or any bp-default child theme.

At this point, it would be beneficial on your end if you download a fresh copy of BuddyPress https://buddypress.org/download/ and re-upload the files manually (FTP/cpanel/etc) to wp-content/plugins/buddypress/ just to make sure that all files have been uploaded.

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 4 months ago]

Cool. Just checked your permalink page and body is still 960px and not 1000px like other pages in site. Looks like you’d have to add !important to the style like so
`body.activity-permalink {
max-width: 1000px !important;
min-width: 1000px !important;
}`

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 4 months ago]

WP Multi-Network and http://wpmututorials.com/news/new-features/multiple-buddypress-social-networks/

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 4 months ago]

No worries. And yeah, pastebin is cool

At top of activity/index.php, replace
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with
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At the bottom of that file, replace
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with
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In addition, you might like to change the header tag used in BP template files to match your theme’s. So for activity/index.php, change
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to
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[@mercime Participant 15 years, 4 months ago]

== I think i have the activity in between the sidebars and looking OK. ==

Confirming that it’s looking good

== I just have the admin bar width issue to figure out ==

The adminbar in that permalink page is styled like so in bp-default adminbar.css
` body#bp-default.activity-permalink #wp-admin-bar .padder {
min-width: 960px;
max-width: 960px;
}`
I see you have a fixed width of 1000px for your site. So if you have custom.css listed after the @import of adminbar.css, just add this
` body#bp-default.activity-permalink #wp-admin-bar .padder {
min-width: 1000px;
max-width: 1000px;
}`
but if you use stylesheet listed before @import of adminbar.css, you’d have to add `!important` to your min-width and max-width

You should also correct the width of the site when in permalink view
` body.activity-permalink {
min-width: 960px;
max-width: 960px;
}`
change to 1000px

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 4 months ago]

1. Create a child theme of bp-default
– https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/

2. Copy header.php from bp-default and paste in your child theme folder.
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/1.2.8/bp-themes/bp-default/header.php

3. Open up header.php in your child theme folder. In the area below and insert the code in bold below.
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<li class=”selected”><a href="” title=””>

• class=”selected”><a href="/about/” title=””>


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[@mercime Participant 15 years, 4 months ago]

== Oh my, they actually display on the default theme. I’ll try rolling it up from here… ==

Cool. Good luck.