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Installing Group and Sitewide Forums

– See links to subpages on the right sidebar of https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/
– I suggest using bp-default while you are setting up the site and change to a different theme later.
– After going thru installation wizard, you can make changes at dashboard menu BuddyPress > Choose specific setting you want to change

@elangley Since you’ve already purchased Networks+, at this point I suggest that you take advantage of the advanced and excellent support included with the purchase provided by the plugin developer at http://wpebooks.com/support/networks/

@MrJarbenne – Thank you for that! Going to go check it out now.

Can you post the exact cron as you have it in cPanel?
Also, BuddyPress has a group in here I believe, so you might also want to post the question there, including the line as you have it entered.

It should look like this: `wget http://YOURDOMAIN.com/wp-content/plugins/buddystream/import.php -O /dev/null -q`, and be set to run every 15 minutes. Don’t reduce that time by the way. Networks will cut you off if you do.

Hi:
Sounds like you’ve got everything set up right. Do you have the “Disable BuddyPress to WordPress profile syncing?” in BussyPress settings set to No? Once the WordPress registration page is pointed at the BuddyPress registration page, no one should have to register on both, and the option above should keep those registrations ‘in sync’.

You said:
“I have the buddypress register associated with the wordpress register page, but it still does not work.”

If you’ve done this within BuddyPress Page settings, you’re actually associating WordPress’s Registration and activation pages with BuddyPress. Not the other way around as you stated. Is this what you’ve done?

If you have specific issues then you need to create a topic for it, explain in as much detail what exactly is wrong, then we can attempt to help you with something specific.

All the information that is available is in the BP Codex, I’m not suggesting that you necessarily write something for it but it is only as good as the effort put in by the collective volunteer community and is acknowledged to be in need of expanding.

@ChrisClayton answered many of your points but if you have further specific issues start a new thread and people will attempt to help you with them.

As for the visual editor issue that is a WP function not BP so suggests that perhaps your WP install is not functioning correctly. The best approach to setting everything up is to to first install WP and simply work with that checking that all it’s functions work as expected,i.e posts, permalinks, registering new users etc only when all that checks out proceed to activating BP using it’s default theme and checking all it’s basic functions are working.

Just add an the following IF Statement

if (current_user_can('level_10')){

} 

Add the above if condition around the following code in wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-settings/bp-settings-loader.php

$main_nav = array(
'name'                    => __( 'Settings', 'buddypress' ),
'slug'                    => $this->slug,
'position'                => 100,
'show_for_displayed_user' => bp_core_can_edit_settings(),
'screen_function'         => 'bp_core_screen_general_settings',
'default_subnav_slug'     => 'general'
);

This isn’t possible at the moment. There is too many hard coded URLs throughout BuddyPress.

There are two options for forums…
1) Forums for Groups
2) New! Site Wide Forums

You might have chosen the first one!
thanks

I did cover the image header question in the other thread – no I didn’t copy the code in to the thread as – in all honesty – stating “copy this ‘named’ function” ought to be sufficient to get started with.

I’ll now copy the function I referenced originally – you need to copy this into your child theme functions file, this function will alert BP not to run it’s original version and allows you to manipulate the rulesets that are created for custom headers.

`
function bp_dtheme_header_style() {
global $post;

$header_image = ”;

if ( is_singular() && current_theme_supports( ‘post-thumbnails’ ) && has_post_thumbnail( $post->ID ) ) {
$image = wp_get_attachment_image_src( get_post_thumbnail_id( $post->ID ), ‘post-thumbnail’ );

// $src, $width, $height
if ( !empty( $image ) && $image[1] >= HEADER_IMAGE_WIDTH )
$header_image = $image[0];

} else {
$header_image = get_header_image();
}
?>

#header { background-image: url(); }

#header h1, #header #desc { display: none; }

#header h1 a, #desc { color:#; }

<?php
}
`

Now in the other thread I explained how to adjust the image dimensions by setting the define(‘HEADER_IMAGE_WIDTH’, 400) that will be displayed on the dashboard settings page and that represent the sizes the image will size and crop to, so you should still have that aspect in place.

If you leave the BP default layout unchanged then the header element width is likely wider than your background image ( the header width is stated in the stylesheet, the background image is set from the embedded styles in the code above) and that background image will repeat – but we went over that on the other thread, with the code above you can now add the required properties to prevent that.

Now code does need to be copied carefully and any stray code that may be causing issues might still affect things. Headers already sent errors have a number of reasons and are not necessarily easy for us to diagnose, I explained one possible cause but only you can determine if that is a reason.

On this issue of instruction; as I have said and now mercime this is a volunteer support forum, we are not obliged to provide absolute instruction we attempt to help and guide, also when one is a web dev professional there will be a level of expertise expected in general terms regarding coding experience. You are attempting to customise buddypress past what it offers in the default so you must expect certain aspects of doing that to be less than utterly idiot proof and there are aspects of BP that many of us struggle with.

@mac02 check if we have “template-packed” your WP theme from list near bottom of https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/

Depending on the size of your userbase, you could make all the groups Hidden, then use the Invite Anyone plugin to manually invite (or have established group admins manually invite) the users who belong in each separate group. Don’t get thrown by the first bullet in the description of the plugin, in this instance the power of this plugin will be in your ability to invite people to a group even if you aren’t friends with them (bullet 2 in the description on the link below). Perfect if you are using the Followers plugin as well and have Friend Connections turned off:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/invite-anyone/
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-followers/

You need this plugin: http://etivite.com/wordpress-plugins/buddypress-restrict-group-creation/

Under Buddypress / Pages, have you created all of the requisite pages for Activity, Groups, Members, etc.? I don’t understand “Everything was spread all throughout the page”. You’ll need that template pack enabled, and it needs to move some components into your active theme. Did you run through the 4 step process?

It’s a beautiful theme you’ve got going there, but I have honestly never had much luck converting a non-bp theme to be truly bp compatible without a lot of massaging. It’s not a plug and play process, hence the default theme. You may want to consider creating a child theme of the default: https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/

The bb-config.php file is the only file necessary to create forums “the old way” using bb-press 1.x instead of the completely reconfigured 2.0. You’ll notice in the Buddypress / Forums menu there are two options: Forums for groups (that single bb-config file uploaded to the root of your site), and Site Wide Forums, which is the separate bb-press 2.x plugin you have enabled. Not sure if that’s your issue or not. All of that said, full compatibility between buddypress and bbpress isn’t expected until version 1.6.

You can download the bb-config-sample.php file from https://bbpress.org/download/legacy/ and then populate the necessary database information to enable the Group Forum capability, but with 1.6 so close (I think) you might be better off holding out.

@elangley sorry, I understated what was expected. For example, WordPress.com is a custom Multisite installation with around 35Million+ user blogs spread over several DB’s and supported by multiple paid topnotch frontend and backend developers, server admins, etc. Even if you would only have e.g. 100 Networks with WP Multi-Network and you’ve allowed user blogs in each Network and then go BP MultiNetwork, that would require a serious developer skills where making some changes in DB is just child’s play since by that time you’d have to use SharDB, HyperDB, or MultiDB to maintain, sustain and grow the Networks over several servers and DB’s.