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@aronmartin the old code got mangled with the redesign so do not copy the leftovers above. I did make backups of instructions I posted in the forums. I just have to look for that one and post the code somewhere. Will let you know in about an hour or so.

You just add position: fixed; to your #header (or whatever hook you have) in your theme’s stylesheet. Use Firebug, a FF add-on, or the Chrome Inspector to find what styles are used in the elements you want to copy.

Hi mercime,

I saw you helped buddypress users before with the alyeska theme. I have downloaded the latest version of bbpress and i have installed the alyeska theme but i dont have a child theme.

The problem is i want to make my buddypress compatible with the alyeska theme.

example of a buddypress page on my website: http://www.kleedkamerkratje.nl/teamleden/
I want to adjust the width of the page to full-width but the sidebar shows on every buddypress page. I dont want this offcourse.

Lucky for me i found this forum.

I have followed your steps and got stuck in step A. I dont know what to replace in my php files. Do i copy/paste your code in the first line in these files? or do i overwrite this part

Sorry for my bad english im dutch!

I hope you can help me

Aron Martin

hi,

– Should I update WordPress or BuddyPress first?
WP first than BP, but together !
BP from version 1.1.2 to 1.2!important, from 1.2 to 1.5 from 1.5 to 1.6.2
Same thing for WP from 2.8.4 to 3.0!important, from 3.0 to 3.2, from 3.2 to 3.4 from 3.4 to 3.5

For each, take the versions from SVN.

https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags

– Does any of the versions between the 1.1.2 and the last of BP will mess up with Design?

Yes/No depends on how deep you did the changes

– Where can I edit the website Title, Description and Keywords?
From within the site admin Dashboard > General settings
As keywords are no more used by Google, they’re not necessary. Otherwise you have to hardcode them into your child theme index page

– Is there something that I need to know in order to make this update successfully?
First of all, read the codex 😀
https://codex.wordpress.org/Updating_WordPress
https://codex.buddypress.org/developer/releases/

@chouf1 thanks for that plugin link gonna check that one out myself!

Hi,

if you activate site wide forum, you have to change the default Forum Base name to something other as “forum”.

Unfortunatly, bbPress and BP use the same base name and in a BP install, BP’s forum has priority.

Read here: https://codex.buddypress.org/user/setting-up-a-new-installation/installing-group-and-sitewide-forums/

I have the same problem: with buddypress & nginx, a 404 error occurs in groups/create/step/group-avatar/

Hi,

not exactly a response but see this awsome tutorial for bbPress 2.2 and BP 1.6.2 setup.

http://labzip.com/the-definitive-guide-to-buddypress-bbpress-configuration/

@imath provided another solution for single or multisite here 2 days ago after the same question on bp-fr.net

https://gist.github.com/4310524

Hi,

don’t try to prevent spammers. They already know how WP is working. 😀

So you have many unconfirmed subscriber anyway. In such case, you could resend the activation email or delete the unconfirmed account. A small plugin do this very easely:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/unconfirmed/

I use it regularly on my 1.6.2 network without problems. 😉

Hi,

you haven’t to rename it ! bbPress is part of buddypress as the integrated group-forum software and as is, use the BP theme or child theme.

bbPress themes are here: wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums/bbpress/bb-templates/kakumei

If you want to use bbPress separatly as standalone forum, you have to activate the bbPress plugin. The forum activation lets you choose for such an install. (group-forum and/or separate forum) and install the plugin automatically.

The buddypress theme (bp-default) sits in wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default

WP themes are in wp-content/themes/

If you use any other theme, it must be placed in the same directory like this:

wp-content/themes/your-theme

or

wp-content/themes/your-child-theme

If you need help, we need to see where and how you’ve put the code. Please tell us where you’ve put the bp-custom.php file, and if you can, share a copy of the contents of that file on pastebin.com

> once they find out that they have to activate their accounts etc then they just don’t bother any more

Unfortunately, time has shown this not to be true; it certainly lowers the amount of spam accounts, which is why activation is on by default. Spammers are either automated or just won’t bother to read any notices you show them.

I thought we fixed this in a previous release, but maybe not fully. Please submit a bug report on https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org, and you can use your name/password from this site. Thanks

https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4629 might be of interest, too!

I’ve happened to done some work on this for BuddyPress 1.7. See the commits and discussion on https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4661

You’ll have to wait for 1.7 for this to work. I can’t guarantee that making those changes on a 1.6 install will work or be safe: YMMV.

This is very much a server configuration question, and there’s probably not many people on this forum that know enough to offer meaningful advice (I certainly don’t). If you’re on a Linode 512, there just mightn’t be enough power on your server, especially if you are running other services, too (e.g. MySQL).

Hi Everyone,

Here is the solution on half part of the saving custom value in the user meta table:

/* Add sign-up field to BuddyPress sign-up array */

function bp_custom_user_signup_field( $usermeta ) {
$usermeta[‘expertise’] = $_POST[‘expertise’];
return $usermeta;
}

add_filter( ‘bp_signup_usermeta’, ‘bp_custom_user_signup_field’ );

/* Add field_name from sign-up to usermeta on activation */
function setMeta($user_id, $password, $meta)
{
global $wpdb;
$signup_tbl = $wpdb->prefix.”signups”;
$users_tbl = $wpdb->prefix.”users”;

//Query to get the custom field store in the signup table here I have set it to expertise
$metadata = $wpdb->get_var(“SELECT meta FROM “.$signup_tbl.” WHERE user_login=(SELECT user_login FROM $users_tbl WHERE ID=”.$user_id.”)”);

$user_exprts = unserialize($metadata);
update_usermeta( $user_id, ‘expertise’, $user_exprts[‘expertise’] );
}
add_action( ‘wpmu_activate_user’, ‘setMeta’, 10, 3);

@djpaul https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4566

It’s still broken