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Hi, I’m In the need of help, in the activity stream I want to limit amount of images shown (I’m Using rtMedia) and I figured out how, on the activity filter editing the line 362, to trigger the excerpt, but the Read More Link appears aside the Post, and I wanted to create a button on the activity Meta (activity/Entry.php), to allow the user to load the rest of the post with its images, but I don’t know how to do that (Replace the Read More Link with a button and put it on the activity meta).

Appreciate the help.

Hi,

I am really new to all of this. I am starting up a new site – just registered the domain, secured VPS hosting via a small orange and had my domain name servers set at my domain registrar (dynadot).

This is a private paid membership site. There is no free content, no teaser pages, nothing.

I plan on installing buddyboss.

Members of our local, in person, social group will get an email inviting them to subscribe to our optional online community.

They will be able to subscribe at 3 different levels. Basic will get them a profile, wall, status updates, ability to post images, send/accept friend requests, email other members, see member directory. They will also be able to see blogs written by higher level subscribers, and if I can get it set up, they will be able to see a marketplace and buy things that higher level subscribers have for sale or see businesses they are announcing in the marketplace.

If this private community site goes well, and works well without being a big pain in the neck : ), then I will be making it available to other groups in other cities. So, my thinking is this…

Using the example site of “www.psn.com” for my question purposes

– the social network I create will be designated by the local community geographic location – so for example the very first site I make live would be chicago.psn.com.

If that goes well and runs nicely, then I would make another site toledo.psn.com for members of that social group.

Members in chicago.psn.com would have NO access to toledo.psn.com, and vice versa, they remain separate private communities.

I want them all to look the same way, same layouts, same levels of membership access, etc, just be restricted to access by locally residing group members.

What, in baby language, do I need to do to set this up so that it will work when I start to add on the new city sites? Given I am a total beginner with this stuff.

Do I install wp
in http://www.psn.com/wp
or do I install it in http://www.psn.com
or do I install it in chicago.psn.com
or do I install it in chicago.psn.com

I have read about the child theme stuff and plan to use a child theme. Once I get the site set up with the correct membership levels, S2member and any other plug ins, then I will want to have that shell (minus the subscribed users) to very simply be able to pop onto toledo.psn.com, pittsburg.psn.com, etc.

I have read lots of stuff and am now thoroughly confused… : )

Here are more questions:

Can I install wp using the softaculous one click and still have buddypress work properly? I don’t know a thing about css php etc… but have read things that said it won’t work but I am not sure if that is from before buddypress made changes or not.

should I just stick with the default themes for wp and buddypress since I am buying buddyboss?

Many many many thanks for your kind patient advice!

I want to make this as streamlined and automated as possible from the start. I had a recommendation to use softaculous as it will apparently let me update one instance of wp/buddypress/buddyboss and have it automatically update all the city.domainname.com accounts… I do not really know how I will accomplish that, but am learning as I go, but he said it would help me so I got softaculous.

thanks again!

Hi –

Are there any plugins or themes that are page builders that I can use to customize Buddypress pages? So that I don’t have to use a custom theme, I can build it myself.

For example, I’m looking for a wysiwig editor like the popular Visual Composer for WordPress or Headway Themes but for Buddypress, so I can move around and style the elements visually not through style.css.

For instance, I’m looking to resize the Buddypress member’s gravatar, add a border around it, change the order of the menu tabs on the user’s profile, add some custom fields, set up a sidebar containing profile details, enlarge the images on the Members page, etc.

I know I could do this in the child theme’s stylsheet but it’s way faster and more convenient for me to use a visual page editor.

Hi, I need a little direction here please.

When a logged in user tries to go to the register page they are by default sent to the home page – usual BuddyPress behaviour I understand. However, I want to redirect them to a custom page which tells them they are logged in and gives them options of going to pages on the site via links. I have found come which sets up a conditional redirect if the user is already logged in – but it does’t work. I want to send people to this page http://findaukexpert.com/expert-already-logged-in/ and i have used the following code.

function bbg_bp_loggedin_register_page_redirect_to( $redirect_to ) {
if ( bp_is_component_front_page( ‘register’ ) )
$redirect_to = bp_get_root_domain() . ‘/expert-already-logged-in/’;

return $redirect_to;
}
add_filter( ‘bp_loggedin_register_page_redirect_to’, ‘bbg_bp_loggedin_register_page_redirect_to’ );

Any input would be fantastic. Thank you!

Hi,

Ok, basic wordpress theme is setup along with some empty pages and categories.

Are these the proper steps to install the Buddypress:

1. install Buddypress plugin
2. install aksimet
3. get aksimet key and activate it
4. What other spam protection plugin should I use that will make sure that only humans are registering and no automatic script is registering members? FREE plugin suggestions please.
5. What else should be done at this stage?

Thank you very much.

Here’s the deal:

I already know of and tried using the BuddyPress Wall by meg@info. It’s a good plugin, the only problem is that a) a lot of code is redundant, b) there’s a problem with the statuses staying on the other user’s page after it refreshes (it disappears), and c) Meg@info takes a really long time to get reply to support queries.

I’m trying to find an alternative. There was one mentioned by one of the admins here by using bp_activity_add() but I’m not quite sure where to start with making the function.

Here’s what I need to do: for the activity page to be manipulated to be a Facebook-style wall where one user can post to another user’s profile and it doesn’t disappear. I know it’s an AJAX /Posting issue on the BP-Wall plugin but if I can find out a solution through bp_activity_add() it would be much better.

Please advise.