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class wpdev_compose sounds like its not part of BuddyPress Core and is from a 3rd party plugin. This site only offers support for 3rd party plugins if another user helps you or the 3rd party plugin developer offers you support.

This site is mainly to help with the base install of BuddyPress.

@raminjan know that we are all unpaid volunteers helping out here, living in different time zones and have lives outside of BP and WP.

You have created many number of topics, some of which I answered and other topics were answered by others. And private messaging is turned off because others have abused it already.

BuddyPress is an opensource software, i.e., free and we try to help out as many people as we can, not just one. And when I was still a student, I recall doing my own research (Google et al) when I didn’t know the answers. So be patient and stay cool.

== The button on the activity stream for “Joe Schmoe joined . . .” is obscured by buttons ==

@timetraveler As an online visitor, activity stream looks good for Joe joining a group. I will presume you mean the activity meta seen by logged-in users i.e., the Comment, Favorite and Delete buttons. If so, open up your theme’s stylesheet and add the following at the bottom.

`ul#activity-stream div.activity-meta {
clear: left;
margin-bottom: 15px;
}`

If that doesn’t work, create a throw-away username and password and post it here. You can delete that account after the issue has been resolved.

Pretty permalinks are required for BuddyPress sites.
Settings > Permalinks and choose option other than default permalink.

I’m just getting started with BuddyPress, and I was wondering about this myself. I realize that the default WP function to display a user’s articles still works, but I’d like to display them in a BuddyPress tab. I’m on the hunt for a plugin to accomplish this. Any guidance would be welcome!

@rehaugew I see you’re using the Mingle theme. I do not know whether that theme’s been updated for the latest and beta versions of BuddyPress. That being the case, you should change to bp-default theme, clear cache and check registration process there for BP 1.5.6. Are you using Mingle also in BP 1.6beta2 install? Then change to bp-default there as well. We have to ascertain what’s the real culprit.

Did you complete the BuddyPress setup wizard in wp-admin? Including creating the pages?

For new users, you need to enable new user registrations in wp-admin settings

Frank – while I am new to BuddyPress (started it on a site today), i think you are working on similar layouts at moment that I am. The file I just finished re-working was “member-header.php” – I had added Profile Fields like Gender, Age, Etc. to display Gender for Example I used:

‘[?php bp_profile_field_data( ‘field=Gender’ );?]’

basically add the name of the Profile Field you wish to display and use the Field Title name you gave it in the format above.

Other than that its just editing CSS and adding text etc to layout. I am still working on many things – its the one area I really want to pop is the Profiles pages.

I hope it helps!

Yes.

Take a copy of ../wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/activity/post-form.php

Put it in your themes directory using the same sub-dir structure /activity/post-form.php

Then simply comment out line 25 in the script

Quite sure that will do it for you.

Good luck.

@raminjan Let’s keep your problem in your thread. I think I replied earlier today.

@RehaugeW Are you using multisite?

There are 3 core developers; John James Jacoby, Boone Gorges, and myself. We all read and reply on the forums, but we also have a team of forum moderators who have excellent BuddyPress knowledge: hnla, r-a-y, and mercime. There are many others who regularly help out on the forum. Not everyone knows everything, and if the question is extremely technical or is a “build X feature for me” post, then that person might skip over that forum topic — which is fine.

Stepping outside the forums, we have a lot of contributions from people writing tutorials, talking about BuddyPress at WordCamps and local meet up groups, people writing patches, writing BuddyPress plugins and themes, submitting/managing bug reports and enhancement ideas, writing and improving documentation on the BuddyPress Codex, writing translations, helping other users in real-time in our IRC channel… and there are probably other areas that I’ve overlooked.

Lots of people are involved with BuddyPress. Everyone can be involved with BuddyPress. And someone will get to your question as soon as possible; if no-one does, feel free to post a reply on it to bump it to the top of the list after a couple of days.

On multisite, all user registration is tunnelled through the same place. This is a standard WordPress behaviour. So yes, they’d see the BuddyPress registration templates.

@jason — It’s something that could be built, but it’s a reasonable chunk of development work, which would need some thought and investigation.

I doubt anyone on the forum has done anything like this wrt blogs (certainly in a manner where they can give a quick answer on the forum). We’ve done similar things with the members directory (adding multiple filters), but it was considerable pieces of code and expertise.

In our case, we layered new functionality in / javascript etc., rather than trying to extend any existing function.

I’m about to give up on buddypress. They have something great going on, but how many devs are involved?

It must not be enough, or they need to get some forum people to help ping developers when something is up. Buddypress is good, but it’s so close to being great, and their 1.6 is getting back on a good track again.

My Question has no replies, and I’ve seen many older posts that are the same way. I wish there were a little more transparency into who does what around here. A “Meet the team” if you will, and a “Join our efforts” page really need to be showcased at the top….

You’ll probably need to upgrade your BuddyPress version for compatibility with the latest version of WordPress.

Unfortunately, a number of look / feel aspects typically change when you upgrade BuddyPress (particularly coming from a relatively old version). It often requires developer support to upgrade and retain your site’s design.

Some questions that will help you get further support:

What version of BuddyPress are you on / were you on previously?

Which ‘off the shelf’ theme (if any) are you using?

If bespoke theme – is it a child of another theme – which version?

@michaeljdornan best place to ask is at https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/bp-multi-network wpmuguru does answer forum questions

Having said that, you can try this plugin which I know works with the other BP MultiNetwork plugin by sbrajesh http://buddydev.com/buddypress/introducing-join-blog-widget-for-wordpress-multisite/

@mercime I have same kind of problem with registration form but mine is on the date picker for age it goes up to 2037 Paul said its difficult to fix this and I am kind of stuck can you please help?

site name buddyswired.com

@rehaugew

Re BP 1.5.6 re “nobody can register” -> do be more specific by listing the steps taken during registration to find out where the hiccup is.

Re BP 1.6 beta 2 re “missing uploaded avatar” -> were avatars working in your BP 1.5.6 installation? Where are you hosted? Is GD libary installed in your server?