That sounds like somehow there’s a redirect going on, I’d disable all plugins, see if it still did that, then check for bp-custom.php or any other customisations, such as functions.php, if that drew a blank I’d search for bp_core_redirect in my website, however that’s not the only function that could be used to effect a redirect like that.
Are these two completely separate sites or part of a multisite install? For two separate sites there’s not an off the peg solution, you’d need to write a plugin to sync uses accross the two platforms.
It really depends what features you want for your site. WordPress already allows people to register and login to your site, BP just adds additional features such as extended profiles, friendships, groups, activity, forums etc.
To change the name of tabs etc you need to look into setting up a custom translation file. All the visible labels are able to be translated, so you can change them how you like.
You can use poedit to create your translation file and WPT Custom Mo File to install the translation onto your site.
BuddyPress uses the WordPress user database, so I think this is more of a general WordPress issue than one specific to BuddyPress in that if you removed BuddyPress and allowed user registrations to WordPress you would still be faced with the same issue.
You could raise this as a bug on BuddyPress Trac. but I think it’s probably WordPress that would need to change.
I think you are going to have to try it out. If your themes are overloading the BP files you should note that some files no longer exist in nouveau and some have changed, this may affect the running of your theme if you switch to Nouveau, on the other hand some Nouveau features may not take effect unless your theme is updated. I just depends on what changes your theme has made to the default working of BP. I’d try it on a test server.
I don’t think I can advise you. BuddyPress does not some built in with a personal description. You can add one, in Dashboard>>Users>>Profile Fields, and it would be displayed during signup and in the users Profile>>View page. However, that’s not the default landing page for a profile, so it looks like your theme is overloading the users profile, and I think your theme developers would be best placed to ask.
Yep that’s the WordPress Admin Bar. The only BP setting that affects this is that you can hide the entire bar for non logged in users via Settings>>BuddyPress>>Options.
As I said there’s a lot of plugins that will help you style this bar, just search WP Plugins for admin bar and you will find them.
