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Whilst not 100% what you are asking the current community developed theme for the next version of BuddyPress has a custom background and colour option. As it’s a community project you can download from Github and see how maybe that could translate to your project.

https://github.com/karmatosed/Status

actually didn’t take it as criticism, it’s just a difficult area support forums for OS apps are run by volunteers, the ones that can answer questions effectively are more than often working pros so haven’t that much time for in depth help.

There are a few private forums or sites dedicated to BP you could try buddydev or bp-tricks? but not sure of the level of support those can offer.

Why do you place this emphasis on moderation? We have approx half a dozen moderators which is more than enough and I’m not sure I see what you require us to be moderating?

In reality I would say most questions do get answered, however questions along the lines of “I need to do xyz but have no idea how” can tend to receive a perfunctory response if it means that something has to be coded up for them as this forum – obviously – is not a service and manned by volunteers.

Paying for BP is not an option it’s open source software, maybe someone needs to create a fee paying membership forum where users can expect dedicated help, but that starts to become a full time job for someone – forums take a lot of management and dev time to maintain.

@tlovvorn Your forums URL == http://www.truebluetribe.com/forums/

== BuddyPress breaks the responsive layout of the theme on its pages. ==

To clarify, you’re using the WordPress responsive version as seen here -> http://themble.com/bones/#bones-showcase and https://github.com/eddiemachado/bones

After activating the BP Template Pack plugin, you still go through Step 3 of the Appearance > BP Compatibility process to surround the BP template files with HTML structure of Bones. Scanning Bones’ pages.php, you’d need to change 16 BuddyPress template files in your bone’s theme folder in server.

If you’re using the BP Default theme, you won’t see a link to “create a new account” if Registration is turned off.

@i25sa looks like you have more urgent issues than registration, see http://socialtimes.angloway.com/members/ Did you go through the Installation Wizard after you activated BuddyPress?

So far i know, email address are never public on a WP site…

Be inspired by reading those things:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_currentuserinfo
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6051748/how-to-display-buddypress-profile-field-content-within-the-post-loop

You’re welcome Marking this as resolved.

You cannot upload from iPhone. Apple does not currently allow this. In iOS 6 coming this fall they have enabled media uploads. However, the BuddyPress software does not do avatars on touch screens. I’m not saying it won’t in the future. There just needs a bit of work done. I’m pushing to get this done before iOS 6 is released. It’s a major feature I think is needed. Mobile photo sharing is popular i.e face books acquisition of Instagram for example.

We are aware of the issue. https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4271

As noted in ticket, you can use Google in the meantime. Plus the list of plugins tagged “BuddyPress” –> https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search.php?q=buddypress

Thank you for your patience.

You’ll lose your amendments as soon as you upgrade BuddyPress – it’s not a good practice to be hacking core files.

The safest way to address this one, would be to add a filter on: bp_get_the_profile_field_datebox

In there, you’d have to do a bit of PHP string manipulation – replacing the option value parts for year in the HTML string, with the range that you want.

It’s not straightforward, but it’ll work through a core upgrade.

Go to Settings > General, is your WordPress Address URL the same as your Site Address URL with www or without www?

@i25sa I found a fix that worked for me. It was a simple setting that got turned off when I added a plugin (and later deleted it). Go to settings, privacy and ensure that Registration is checked under Exclude from BuddyPress protection. Hope this helps. Q!

Same poster in two WP forum posts
– https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-admin-doesnt-work-because-of-buddypress?replies=2
– https://wordpress.org/support/topic/server-error-admin-bar-doesnt-display-after-buddypress-installed?replies=3

I think I got the right direction for you:

In bp-custom.php add:

`/Change wording in Activity Stream and use post_type iso of ‘post’
add_filter( ‘bp_blogs_activity_new_post_action’, ‘im_activity_content’, 2, 10 );

function im_activity_content($activity_content, $post, $post_permalink){

$activity_content = sprintf( __( ‘%s submitted a new ‘.$post->post_type.’: %s’, ‘buddypress’ ), bp_core_get_userlink( (int)$post->post_author ), ‘‘ . $post->post_title . ‘‘ );
$activity_content .= bp_create_excerpt( $post->post_content, 25 );

return $activity_content;
}`

@enderandrew – yes – there are quite a few sites now going with the tiled approach, e.g. the ‘new’ look Facebook friends page tiles 3 per row, and linkedIn has some tiled directories (with the profile tiles having a business card type feel). You’ll also find lots of smaller community / event site examples.

As HTML5 / CSS3 transitions become more prevalent, I expect to see more and more nice hover effects on the tiles – e.g. opening up in place to reveal more details about the member along with the ‘friend’ and ‘send message’ buttons. Andy Clarke’s “Hardboiled Web Design” book has some interesting examples of the type of effects that can be achieved, and the zurb playground is worth a look.

@aminima – we undertake that sort of complex development work on a commercial basis, almost invariably as part of full site builds. We contribute on the forums to give general advice and guidance, and sometimes to give short outline code snippets and pointers, but not to provide fully coded components.

If you need a developer to help build custom features for your site, we’d be happy to provide a quote, or you should be able to find other good BuddyPress developers who are available to take on freelance contracts.