[plrk]

You could do it, but it is no five minute job, as you’d have to learn of a WordPress theme template works and add the code of the widgets to the code of the theme you are using. This means you pretty much have to learn PHP. Do you know PHP?

May I ask why you don’t want to use the widgets?

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You’ll have to replace the image. You have to replace the logo image files in wp-content/themes/bphome and wp-content/bp-themes/bpmember

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you can put your changes in a custom.css file in the theme (the same folder as the style.css) file. that way your changes will not be lost when you upgrade the themes.

note that there are two theme folders, one for the home theme and one for the member theme.

[plrk]

have you replaced the logo file in the image directories of both the home theme and the member theme?

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The functionality you are looking for is not included out of the box, but is not very hard to create plugins for.

[plrk]

Why not use the widget?

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buddypress uses two themes – the home theme, which you have edited, and the member theme, which you can find in /wp-content/bp-themes/bpmember/.

[plrk]

it looks like you have a group without a slug… hmm

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Naming the buddypress.org dashboard “Dashboard” was perhaps a mistake…

[plrk]

Admins can change the name of their groups because they are the rulers of their little kingdoms. If you don’t trust the admin – don’t join the group.

Of course there are many ways to look at the group functionality. For my part, I see the group as a community within the community – a place where a few people can coordinate something, discuss something, or whatever. A group has it’s dynamics, and part of that is being able to change. Perhaps the “Event X Planning Group” will later take on a new event and thus change their name to “Event Y Planning Group”, or perhaps they’ll just bask in their old glory and rename the group “We who were behind event X”.

Another way to see the group functionality is the way they have evolved on Facebook – a sort of name list, each group a statement on a particular issue, with no function other than to be spammed and show up on profile pages.

If you prefer the latter, I can understand your predicament. A plugin can probably be built to provide the functionality you are looking for.

[plrk]

“bumping” will not help you. It is only annoying. If noone replies, it is because noone reading the forums knows the answer. (I’m reading this after having been away – I would have done so even without your “bump”.) Please do not do it again – anywhere on the internet.

I have no idea why the component returns to it’s “disabled” state, try re-installing – either just it or the entire setup.

A “forum” tab will never appear on your BuddyPress site, unless you apply specific code. You can put something like this in a file called bp-custom.php in your wp-content/plugins folder:

function add_forum_to_main_menu() {

?><li><a href="http://example.org/forum/" title="Forum">Forum</a></li><?php

}

add_action( 'bp_nav_items', 'add_forum_to_main_menu' );

[plrk]

Dude, you may have to wait more than 7 hours for a reply. Whining about it will only piss people off and then you’ll get no answer at all.

For my part: I don’t know, but I suspect it could very well fuck something up. There is only one way to find out, ain’t it?

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The only image with text is the one that says “socialnetwork”, but you should change that anyways

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I’ve updated the Codex page to point to the readme.txt in the 1.0.3 tag. Let’s all help each other remember to update the link with future versions…

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They work for me.

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If you can build a WordPress theme, building a BuddyPress theme is not very hard – it is just larger.

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Is the eshop plugin a buddypress plugin really? If it is designed to work with WordPress, it does not hook into the menu functions etc that BuddyPress uses. Contact the author of that plugin and talk to him/her about it.

What do you mean by “menus and new tabs”? If you create a plugin, you can add custom menu items related to your plugin through various hooks (see the Skeleton Component for examples), but there are no built-in drag’n’drop functions for it.

[plrk]

Changing the name of the theme you’d like to use as default to the name of the theme that is supposed to be the default might work too. (An awfully dirty hack, though.)

[plrk]

To begin with, try upgrading to the latest version of each of WPMU/BP/BB

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No. Well, I think you could write a plugin for it (but I’m not 100% sure).

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Have you installed BuddyPress in the “plugins” folder or the “mu-plugins” folder?

[plrk]

It may be so that the translation functions for these strings are missing in your releases. You should update to WPMU 2.8.1 (or 2.8.2) and BP 1.0.3 anyways.

WPMU translation files should reside in:

wp-content/languages/

and BP translation files should reside in:

wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-languages/

If you’d like more help, please provide a link to the language files you are using, and where and what strings are not translated.

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I have ~250 users and quite a few blogs, and my database is still below 50 mb. We’ve only been active for a few weeks though. Extrapolating wildly, I’d say a reasonably active 100 user installation would take a month to build up 50 mb and that is three months to build up to your limit, 150 mb.

So in the short run, it is sufficient, but after a while you’ll have to move or sweep out old stuff from your database.

[plrk]

What is it that you are trying to do?

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I’d guess a “native” function for it will come soon.