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I’ve not tried it myself but you could try this plugin: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-login-redirect/

Hi Ashley, welcome to using BuddyPress There are some good getting started guides right on this site in the codex.

https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/

If you look to the right side where it says sub pages you can work through each of those.
Hopefully that will at least get you on track.

@megainfo, what a lovely site you have. by the way how do you manage to have a custom registration form? i really really like it.

Regards

This MIGHT work.

Get the blog id of the blog you want buddypress to be on say for example the blog id is 2

Put
`define (‘BP_ROOT_BLOG’, 2);`

in wp-config.php before /* That’s all, stop editing! Happy blogging. */

Buddypress will still be configured in wp-admin/network but should operate on blog 2.

You can then configure the main blog any which way you want with links to the ” community ” blog or whatever.

@alexcurrie123 I was going to check out that link posted in first post and I got a big Warning using Chrome that your site contains malware. Your site was clean the first time I checked it out. Please address this issue first.

Just to add to that reading list would be http://www.abookapart.com/products/mobile-first/. BuddyPress default itself is to a point responsive now (but not mobile first). The theme you mention Shawn38 isn’t and therefore will if you want not just a 100% width but a proper ‘responding to devices’ probably cause some issues.

Responsive web design (as it’s known) is a major subject area — basic fluid designs are one approach (percentage widths and so on, and will help with your white space concern), but it’s a much richer field than just that.

Check out a book such as: http://www.abookapart.com/products/responsive-web-design/

You can also look at some of the responsive ‘frameworks’ as a base for your site – twitter’s bootstrap, zurb’s foundation, or Andy Clarke’s 320 and up.

You’ll also find plenty of responsive themes for WordPress (2011 included), that can be enhanced to support BuddyPress.

@blixus the styling is not coming from BuddyPress. Download Firebug, a Firefox add-on to identify the styles associated with the Avatar i.e., img.avatar in your stylesheet and make revisions as needed.

Seems like maybe a more open approach to the documentation is in order? Like a mediawiki or something like that? I could be wrong; just a feeling.

What is your website? It could be the sidebar not in the right place.
Using the template pack helps a lot, but some CSS editing may be required.

Try this plugin instead:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-registration-groups-1/

It’s not as outdated as the one linked by karmatosed and should work. If it doesn’t, please inform the plugin developer.

BuddyPress is a WordPress plugin, so try looking for any WordPress Google Analytics plugin:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tags/google-analytics

If you’re looking for customized, advanced, Google Analytics data for BuddyPress that use custom variables and event tracking, I don’t believe one exists at the moment and will have to be custom-developed.

@notpoppy – You have the right idea that your code is loading before BuddyPress and you are also correct to have read the Checking if BuddyPress is active codex article.

Now, you just need to connect the dots!

1. Create a new folder (eg. /my-bp-plugin/).
2. Copy and paste the contents of what you wrote above into a new file (eg. /my-bp-plugin/my-bp-plugin.php).
3. Now, copy and paste the contents of the codex article into a new file (eg. /my-bp-plugin/loader.php) into the folder you just created. Make sure to change the file path and name to the ones you created above as well as the meta data at the top of the file.
4. You should now have a folder with two files. Move this folder into the /wp-content/plugins/ directory, navigate to the WP admin dashboard and activate the plugin!

If you have any other questions, let me know.

@tgg brand new install on WP 3.4.1 and BP 1.5.7? Is BP installed in main site or subsite? Windows or LInux hosting? Error log? Have you tried deactivating all plugins except BuddyPress and see if issue is resolved?

Try:

Change the register slug to something else. Make sure BuddyPress or WordPress is not shown on any page of your site. Check footer and header via the browsers view source. Use a captcha. Only allow sign ups via Facebook connect. Don’t use multi site.

In my profile privacy plugin there is a button on user pages that lets admins mark user as spammer. This is for quickly blocking a user. It doesn’t delete account just puts account into a state that will not allow user to sign in.

I’m working my way through my plugins and adding updates. One update I may add to the profile privacy plugin is too block an account if they post without doing a certain thing first. Maybe they need to add a friend or join a group.

Search around, but no one should open a BP site without locking it down.

I think we already covered that over here: https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/header-duplicating/. However, if that’s not the solution it’s probably a good idea to keep to one thread as saves confusion.

@alexcurrie123 Yes, that’s the code of permalink.php. I believe that you only needed to create two files to fix alignment of the BP template files based on the HTML structure of your theme.

In this case, to make it easy for you, open up that permalink page and make the following revisions:

A. Beneath “ and before `

B. COPY your theme’s sidebar-single.php file (that’s the file called from your page.php file) and Save As > sidebar-buddypress.php

Open up the blank sidebar-buddypress.php file and at the very TOP of the file, above all code add this:
`

`

Save file.

C. Upload header-buddypress.php and sidebar-buddypress.php to your theme folder in server wp-content/themes/celebritypress/ in the same directory where your regular header.php and sidebar.php files are

D. Final note: Copy the style modifications for some BP elements https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/theme-dev-bp-template-pack-walkthrough-twenty-ten-bp-1-5/3/ and paste those at the bottom of your theme’s stylesheet, then adjust to taste.

@blixus Confirmed that based on the HTML structure of your theme, you will be only need to create two new files, header-buddypress.php and sidebar-buddypress.php to make the BP templates compatible with your theme.

If you’ve revised any of the BP template files transferred to your celebritypress theme folder in server during the BP Compatibility process, please delete the 6 BP folders transferred to your celebritypress theme folder in server – /activity, /blogs, /forums, /members, /groups, /register – then re-run Appearance > BP Compatibility again to make sure that you have clean template files.

A. COPY your theme’s header.php and Save As > header-buddypress.php

Open up header-buddypress.php and at the BOTTOM of the file, below other code contained within, add this:
`

@rhenium3 in the right sidebar under support forums select which title would best fit your support topic, then in the menu above the topics in the main page area select New Topic. Scroll down if necessary and type in the title, and content. Then click the Post Topic button at the bottom.