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==. I’ve read through the previous topics in regards to this, but haven’t seen my particular issue brought up. … I’ve tried switching to BP Default theme, and disabling all plugins except Buddypress. ==

@sarah_lena Which kind of images are not sized properly – user’s gravatar, or uploaded avatar or the mystery man default avatar?

@timmvaughn what theme are you using? site url?

Their site is based on Elgg

I have a single buddypress blog under sub directory, I have activated 1.6 version in WP 3.4.1 but I can’t see any forum groups, etc option for users at front end. Also in admin area under BuddyPress >> Settings gives error message “You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.”
Not even BuddyPress tab appearing at left menu.

Ok, I did a lot of reading here. I decided to try something much simpler… and it worked for me.

I… uninstalled my forums from the WPadmin area
Made a copy of my bb-config.php on my desktop (just in case I needed to put it back
deleted the existing bb-config.php using file zilla FTP program
re-installed forum WPadmin area(with my forum page I created already selected)

It told me a new bb-config.php file was created. Tested out a post and it worked! I really hope this helps others!

Try dudamobile plugin or wptouch, you have to pay for wptouch but its suppose to support buddypress.

Interesting ‘plugin’ that GRA4.. it is a connection to their website. A little more than phoning home. Your members get included into their website. Wherever their ‘plugin’ is activated, all the members show up on all the other websites. They have a plugin for oscommerce, phpbb and wordpress and they are working on a plugin for drupal. All members are gathered to their website and you have NO admin privileges. You have NO control over the content on the website and I don’t know for sure, but I think there could be some major security (and privacy) concerns for all of your website members.

They don’t tell you straight out that you aren’t adding functionality to your WordPress website, they are providing a portal to their website, which shows up on your website making it appear like it’s your website. Quite crafty. – A FACADE-

They are using ‘elgg’ social software on their server. They authenticate using cookies and they secretly provide your website with a ‘secret key’ and their coding changes the .htaccess rewrites for your website to redirect your members to their website. The page they tell you to add, is the same name as the directory of their plugin and the rewrite for permalinks makes it appear that your members are looking at a page, but they are looking at another website. The shortcode they tell you to put on the page you create for their plugin calls the function that imports the data from their website to display on that page. So, basically.. it’s an interface with their website gra4.com. Their website shows up on an ip address in the United States, but they are Russian (no prejudice, just an observation), to share the information. Part of their coding calls a another website virturossiya.org/c (which shows up as ‘GRA4SetConfigValue(‘GRA4_remote_url’… in one of the files. That website also shows up on an ip in the USA, but the page title is in Russian and the favicon is a red star. (looking at that last domain name I can see ‘virtual russia’).

In conclusion, from my perspective, it’s a scam. You do NOT get your own social network with their ‘plugin’, you get to include your members into their website, without your members knowing it.. I don’t think that would be consistent with the spirit of WordPress or BuddyPress. I would stick with BuddyPress or one of the other true WordPress plugins that provide social networking within WordPress, unless you want to find yourself answering questions you have no answer for sometime in the future.. Let alone the risk of your own website and hosting information somehow being hacked. The concern I have is, if they are being honest, why hide all of this from WordPress users of their plugin? With their obvious ability to rewrite and redirect, who knows (really) where your website and member information is going?

If they do get back into the WordPress Repository, I would really be careful of these people. Always check to see if a plugin requires a connection with remote servers before you consider using a plugin.

@shaista here is the link to that conversation: https://buddypress.org/community/groups/installing-buddypress/forum/topic/buddypress-1-6-multisite-help/
In my case, I had to add ( ‘BP_ROOT_BLOG’, $blog_id ); with “2” replacing “$blog_id”. Hope that helps.

I’m running out of time for a solution so I hope one is found soon. I’ve been building an online class website and classes start in about a week.

There’s a WordPress app that allows iPhone uploads for blogs. Just the straight WordPress app in the store. But you can’t do it via Buddy. You just have to connect your blog to the app and it works out. You have to enable atom publishing.

See http://themekraft.com/custom-community-issues-with-buddypress-1-6/

@smartmwp do provide more information about your installation like — Single or Multisite? Custom theme or have you tried changing to bp-default to see if issue is corrected? Plugins installed? etc.

1. Yes, we changed this to make BuddyPress compatible with more servers. To change this WordPress email address, try a plugin like https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/send-from/ or ask on the WordPress.org forums for other recommendations.

2. What theme (and version of the theme) are you using? What version was this working on? i.e. what version did you upgrade from.

3. 1.6 uses the WordPress core toolbar, rather than BuddyPress’ old toolbar. The WordPress logo is added to the bar by WordPress itself.

@zillabuggs

– re BP Gallery – if you have any issues with the plugin, then bring it to BuddyDev.com forums so @sbrajesh can assist you

– re BP Album – if you need assistance with this plugin, then do post it in their forums which the plugin devs check regularly at https://buddypress.org/community/groups/bp-album/forum/

@ale_ba – not on this site unfortunately.

I’ll fix

https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4429

bp-custom.php is loaded before most of BuddyPress is loaded, and a theme’s functions.php is loaded later in a process. Functions.php is also specific to a theme, and bp-custom.php isn’t.

I second this request. even google failed me. Can we downgrade to a previous version of buddypress?