Another topic derailed. Closing topic.
This is something I’ve been wondering about too. The funny thing is they say “search the support forum” before you post a duplicate topic. lol Gee wouldn’t it help us follow that guideline if there WERE a search feature. It’s like me saying look at my homepage ” ” and tell me what you think.
PS – This is not a moderator issue this is a core team issue.
This isn’t the place for this discussion; talk of forks on this forum harms the perception of BuddyPress. There are many ways to contribute to BuddyPress and change things. We welcome any and all contributions. Splitting effort is not the answer.
== Buddypress should have the multi-user and blog options pre-installed. ==
Nope, because not every BP-enabled site requires a network. Besides, that’s the mothership’s (WP) function. Glad you resolved it anyway 
WP/BP versions? Multisite or single WP? Are you using BP default theme or custom theme? Did you check out https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/installing-group-and-sitewide-forums/
@Mercime:
Thank you for your advice!
I’ve followed your instructions but somehow it’s throwing a massive amount of weird and very confusing code errors.
I had no other choice than to start from scratch: I’ve reinstalled WP and upgraded it to WPMU. Next step was re-installing Buddypress and my custom theme. Copied some customized files from the old blog to the new one. It’s still time-consuming.
Buddypress should have the multi-user and blog options pre-installed. 
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Thanks,
Kookidooki
Hey guys-hoping you can help me figure out what I’m doing wrong…if I can’t hide or remove the “community” tab then it would seem to be a pretty simple concept to change the order of the tab, but no luck with the above…not that php or css savvy but the instructions here are pretty straightforward so any help is appreciated!
Using latest wordpress version and just installed buddypress yesterday so I would assume it is also the latest version.
My website is http://www.defendersofturntablism.org
I added the line `define( ‘BP_DEFAULT_COMPONENT’, ‘preferred_default_tab’ ); to wp-config.php above ‘//MySQL settings – You can get this info from your web host **//`
Created bp-custom.php in plugins folder and added
`function bbg_change_profile_tab_order() {
global $bp;
$bp->bp_nav = 10;
$bp->bp_nav = 20;
$bp->bp_nav = 30;
$bp->bp_nav = 40;
}
add_action( ‘bp_setup_nav’, ‘bbg_change_profile_tab_order’, 999 );`
Unfortunately all this has done is add the above line of code to the header of my site…can anyone help me figure this out??! Seems like it should be very simple. Ideally I want to have see the community tab go away and have the members section contain the buddypress activity, groups, forums, etc.
Thanks in advance!!
@drdavis74 Per theme’s info page, Huddle already contains the necessary BP template files. So if you did activate BP template pack plugin and went through Appearance > BP compatibility process, then you could have overwritten the native BP files. In this case, re-upload the Huddle theme files to wp-content/themes/huddle/
@buddyok BuddyPress does not limit the number of member-created blogs. Check if you have any BP/WP plugins that restrict blog creation in your plugins or mu-plugins folder or in special BP file bp-custom.php in wp-content/plugins.
@kookidooki WPMU is old school and has been merged with WordPress way back version WP 3.0. If you want to allow your users to create blogs, you’d have to create a Network (go Multisite) https://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network
I would suggest deactivating BuddyPress and other plugins, plus changing to Twenty Eleven theme before creating a network. Please make sure that your multisite installation is working as expected before activating BuddyPress again. If you have any issues going multisite, please post at https://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite
@ronnie_fantastic flattery will get you nowhere and this “legendary creature” cannot guarantee compatibility with Artisteer-generated themes. Having said that, we could give it a try. Do post the codes for header.php, sidebar.php and footer.php files as well.
@ouyagamingsource please create a new topic and move the information/questions you posted above which are not related to the subject matter at hand over there.
@ahmedselim open up your theme’s header.php file, copy all code, paste in pastebin.com, click submit, and post the generated URI here. Do the same for your theme’s index.php, page.php, sidebar.php and footer.php files. Initial scan looks like you only need to create two files for BP compatiblity, but have to see the files first.
@mairaj you’d either have to follow up with the plugin developer, code it yourself or hire a developer to do so.
Best place for this is https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org — log in with your username and password from this site. If you’ve got a patch, or more specific details on exactly what you want added, attach it to the ticket
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@johnjamesjacoby Its cool. I need a break from all this for a long while. I helped with what I could. I will be absent for awhile. I need a real job anyway and the stress of taking this too seriously has burned me out. I am sorry if I let anyone down.
Sure thing @modemlooper. The code below will look for all the custom fields that a user has filled in, compare them to what should be visible for the currently logged-in user and then loop and display the forum reply user’s data. Instead of simply looping the default titles and data of the xprofile fields, I do a custom switch/case so that I can format each field individually for more control.
`
$user_strAllFields = get_user_meta( bbp_get_reply_author_id(), bp_get_user_meta_key( ‘bp_xprofile_visibility_levels’ ), true );
// get all the completed user fields for this poster
if( $user_strAllFields != null ) :
$user_arrAllFields = array_keys( $user_strAllFields );
else :
$user_arrAllFields = array();
endif;
// get all the fields that should not be displayed for this poster
$user_arrHiddenFields = bp_xprofile_get_hidden_fields_for_user( bbp_get_reply_author_id() );
// loop through all the poster filled-in fields
foreach( $user_arrAllFields as $field ) :
// exclude the ones that should not be displayed
if( !in_array( $field, $user_arrHiddenFields ) ) :
// turn the ID of a field into its object
$obj_field = xprofile_get_field( $field, bbp_get_reply_author_id() ) ;
// depending on the field name, customize the display
switch( $obj_field->name ) :
case ‘Location’ :
$user_location = xprofile_get_field_data( ‘Location’, bbp_get_reply_author_id() ) ;
if (strlen($user_location) > 0 ) :
echo ‘
Location: ‘ . $user_location . ‘
‘;
endif;
break;
endswitch;
endif; // !in_array( $field, $user_arrHiddenFields ) )
endforeach; //( $user_arrAllFields as $field )
`
@shawn38 – Firstly, thanks for the kind words. Secondly, if someone wants to try and charge for a plugin, they are free to do so. Also, telling someone you’re not trying to attack them, and then attacking them, isn’t going to yield positive results. If you don’t have anything nice or helpful to contribute, it’s best to keep it to yourself, or that you share it outside of these support forums.
(Emailed @shawn38 privately to continue chatting.)
@ffadler – open up your favorite database manager, and search the options tables for anything that looks like ‘bp-db-version’
We’ve changed the option key over the years, so it’s possible something is someplace it’s not supposed to be anymore.
Can you can post a code snippet so others that search can find info on this?
@modemlooper thanks! I used a combination of your tips and info I found here https://bpdevel.wordpress.com/2012/03/16/profile-field-visibility-in-bp-1-6/ to make this work for me. I now have any custom field in Buddypress show up in my forums loop and it shows up conditionally as well for the appropriate users only.
For the registration piece, your best bet is to use Gravity Forms and create a custom registration page. BuddyPress does not support multi-page registrations out of the box.
As for the hidden profile field, what is the purpose of the field? Why does it need to be hidden?
