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The groups_join_group action gets passed the group_id as its first parameter:

e.g. do_action( ‘groups_join_group’, $group_id, $user_id );

So, you have the group_id already.

Interestingly, there doesn’t seem to be a function to get the creator – so, you would then either have to:

Create a new BP_Group instance using the group_id, and directly access the it’s ->creator_id attribute, or
Make a direct SQL call on $bp->groups->table_name to return the creator_id where the id = group_id

Create the page, and set it in Settings > BuddyPress.

There’s a premium facebook plugin which works with BP and mulitiste for sites I’ve handled http://buddydev.com/plugins/buddypress-facebook-connect-plus/

Having said that, https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/socialauth-wp/ looks good as I see that the plugin dev is active in supporting the plugin. I don’t think the plugin provides support for BP as the plugin dev would have added the BuddyPress to the plugin tags. Best place to ask is at plugin’s forums https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/socialauth-wp

You could use bbPress plugin’s innate function to move topics to the appropriate forum  if you convert Group Forums to the bbPress plugin forums. If you’d like to give it a try, back up database and server files, then see how to do it https://codex.buddypress.org/buddypress-site-administration/migrating-from-old-forums-to-bbpress-2/

The problem is that I don’t want a user to be able to join any network they want.

They can’t if the respective site admins do not allow open registration or if the site is set up for invitation-only membership. The user-base in NOT shared between sites for that plugin by default.

is there a way for a person to set their avatar once on one network and not have to set it again when they become a user on the other network?

Since the userbase is per site only, i.e., not shared across the network as I mentioned above, then by default no, the user has to upload avatar again in the next site.

Having said that, there may be ways around it. The best place to ask is at the plugin dev’s forums as @sbrajesh knows his code better than anybody else 🙂

Dane,
Thanks for your thorough readthrough of the forums and knowing what to put in you posts ;). Welcome to BuddyPress!

Unfortunatly this is currently not possible. To my knowledge the people of bbPress and BuddyPress ( a select few awesome peeps ) are making bbPress(.org) more compatible with BuddyPress which should enhance it’s features ( if you ask me… ).

Checkout this plugin: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-topic-mover/

Cheers, Aron

Thank you  @rogercoathup Good to know for future reference when I need this functionality in few weeks.

I just checked http://hybridauth.sourceforge.net/ and it looks very powerful and free.

Is there any Multisite/BP plugin already available for this?

Btw, here is the latest about “Social Sign In” using Facebook/Twitter/Google (linkedIn soon) plugin from addthis.com guys:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/addthis-social-sign-in/

I asked them few questions as follows on there site:

Introducing Social Sign In for WordPress

My Questions:
Is this for ‘social sign in’ only?
Any plans to eventually include social sharing and social commenting?
What kind of cost if any are we looking at?
Does this plugin supports all the following:
1. WP
2. WP MultiSite
3. BuddyPress
Please advise.
Thanks.
AddThis.com answers:

Matthew Keesan on November 28, 2012 at 10:00 am said:

@RK
1. It’s only Social Sign In. We have a host of other plugins however for some of these tasks. We decided to keep them separate to give you maximum flexibility.
– Social sharing: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/addthis
– Following: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/addthis-follow
– Welcoming: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/addthis-welcome
2. It’ll always be free! Since we’re just a middleman there’s no significant cost to us providing this service, so we’re happy to pass the savings on to you!
3. We haven’t tested on Multisite or BuddyPress yet. If you do, I’d love to know what happens.

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Note: I don’t have a live site yet.I am wondering if someone can test it for Multisite and Buddypress?

thank you @mercime !

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-profile-menu/screenshots/

@paintermommy k8peterson Create custom menu and use the menu widget for sidebar.

@modemlooper is right seeing would be great at this point, thanks. Rather than pasting it all trying using Gist for example. https://gist.github.com

Post some code you are using so we can see what you are trying to do

As BuddyPress is just a plugin that sits on WordPress it shares the same media gallery as that. Now, perhaps you want more functionality than that?

Are you passing a userid or getting the userid? It would need you to as I said put a value in $userid.

That sounds like possible a theme or plugin issue – a slightly weird one but could you in order to determine let us know a bit more about your set up. Are you using multisite? What theme are you using? Have you tried deactivating all plugins to see if it still does the same behaviour?

@crewpass This is an old topic which has been resolved sometime ago. You’ve posted at https://buddypress.org/support/topic/join-group-button-missing-from-groups-directory/#post-146019 so please continue there. Closing this thread.

Hi,

you have some plugins who can do that.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-docs/  – for the whole site

http://lenasterg.wordpress.com/2012/04/17/buddypress-group-documents-for-bp-1-5-and-wp-3-3/ – group by group

(was initially created by Peter Anselmo and now adapted to work with BP 1.5.5+ )

Check out http://buddydev.com/buddypress/blog-categories-for-groups-plugin/ where you can set the category “surf” for that group