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== 8. Do you have any plugins other than BuddyPress installed and activated? If so, which ones?
Yes, BuddyPress Multi Network, and a few others.==

Are you referring to the BuddyPress MultiNetwork plugin by Ron Rennick (aka wpmuguru) and not the BP MultiNetwork by Brajesh Singh (aka sbrajesh)? Either way, both plugins make each subsite (with own BP instance each) function separately from each other. In other words, using either plugin above, you’re not likely to see the blog posts from the subsite showing up in the main site’s activity stream at all precisely because of the separate instances. Having said that, you should contact the plugin author re best way to go about it.

@eric-johnson – BuddyPress isn’t a commenting system (Like Disqus) so to answer your first question, no. It creates something similar (but different) to Facebook.com (as in the site, not including their external products)

However BuddyPress can/does hook into WordPress’s commenting system to bring somewhat of a social component to WordPress comments for registered members. Out of the box it…
1. Allows registered users to upload an avatar that will replace the gravatar. (if an avatar is what you mean by photo in question 2, then the answer is yes – but only registered members can)
2. links the name of the registered user to their profile page (so that other readers can learn more about them).
3. adds comments (of registed users) to the activity stream (show off comments to friends and gets others to engage in conversation).

Non-registered users will use the WordPress commenting system the same way it did without BP.

But, having said that – If you know how to code, or your able to hire someone who can – BuddyPress was made to make nearly anything possible. (except make you breakfast)

Does it still show up in plugins? Have you tried deactivating and reactivating?

~eric
http://www.abeo.us

hi again @juanmaguerrero, I do not have any customizations, just child theme of bp-default (local at the moment) and your 2 steps. When I switch to “updates” in drop-down of site wide activity directory, I see my 3 activity updates. Now I press page refresh, 3 activities are still there, but every move of scroll bar returns “Sorry, there was no activity found. Please try a different filter.”

If you won’t be able to recreate it again, will send you some video from my test site in approx. 10 hours, it’s already night here. Drop me some email. thanks!

The register form appears to be displaying when I visit the link?!

I’m afraid that you are asking theme specific questions and this support forum is really geared to buddypress itself and it’s default theme. Salutation does a have support forums and asking there will get you a far better response also they will have guides that you should read and follow.

The top tabs are accessed from /wp-admin/themes.php?page=sidebars-top-tabs you need to also do something about adding their behaviour in the Appearance > widgets page

@Hugo @mercime Thanks for your guidance. On a testing server I took down all plugins and gradually tested everything out the culprit was the Easy Mailchimp email subscriber plugin available here.. http://www.najeebmedia.com/wordpress-mailchimp-plugin-2-0-released

And without that plugin, comments work like a charm. I guess if this was my own post, I could set it to resolved

Then this means that you have not completed Step 3 of the BP Compatibility process, i.e., fixing alignment and HTML structure of BP template files to use your own theme’s HTML structure. Check if your WP theme has already been “template-packed” in list near the end of the webpage linked to above.

This might help,
http://buddydev.com/buddypress/exclude-users-from-members-directory-on-a-buddypress-based-social-network/

just change line 7 to ` if($object!=’blogs’) //hide for blogs directory only`

Hi everyone,

I’m currently working on a project and my client wants only the admins to be able to create groups, so I set that option in the BuddyPress admin area, easy peasy. But, the Create A Group button still appears on the front end. For now I am simply looking for a way to hide that button, and I’ve added the CSS @Mike Pratt suggested but the button remains. Any ideas?

What would be really cool (not that I have a clue how to do this) would be:

1.) BP functionality that automagically removes the Create A Group button when you select that only admins can create groups, that would be ideal.
or
2.) A way to change the URL of the Create A Group button for the members level, so you could create a Request A Group page with a form that a member can fill out requesting a group. That is what I’d like to do, but I’m at a loss for where to start in the code, and I’m not much of a PHP dev.

`function cc_admin_bar_links() {
global $wp_admin_bar;
//BE GONE DEMON!
$wp_admin_bar->remove_menu(‘bp-register’);

//AbraCaDabra! Once i wave my wand, you will become an Elephant!
$wp_admin_bar->add_menu( array(
‘id’ => ‘bp-login’,
‘title’ => __( ‘Log in and register’, ‘buddypress’ ),
‘href’ => wp_login_url()
) );
}
//Wave Wand.
add_action( ‘wp_before_admin_bar_render’, ‘cc_admin_bar_links’ );`

SORRY! Don’t mind my lame humor within comments. Just remove them

If this doesn’t work, you will need to contact wpmudev as they are probably doing something really weird

hi @juanmaguerrero, great tutorial!
unfortunately, bug that @shawn38 has mentioned partly is still there. Go to site wide activities, switch to “updates” as drop down filter – everything still will work fine, but now refresh page and bug is back again. If you have custom bp_has_members loop on separate page, bug is always there. Have to say that for those, who really needs this functionality, it is not so terrible. thanks again!

“there is a plugin out there that tells you what template is being parsed”
I’m assuming your talking about ‘Reveal templates’ or is their another one?

“but it does not seem to work on buddypress.”
Yeah, BuddyPress does templating really weirdly. BuddyPress never talks to WordPress’ template loading functions which is why most of thoes types of plugins don’t work. The plugin should work after ‘theme compatibility’ comes, https://buddypress.org/2012/04/the-default-theme/

“do I understand correctly that there is no way to add simple filter which would return loop with specific IDs”

@janismo is the ‘include’ parameter what your after?

https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/custom-buddypress-loops/the-activity-stream-loop/

`include optional
Pass an activity_id or string of comma separated ids to show only these entries.

Default value: false`

According to the codex, include=1,2,3 should only show activities with the Activity ID’s of 1, 2 and 3.

“I am using buddypress but are there any plugins for bp or wordpress that will do what I want?”
Nope. Not that i know of.

“I would also like it if when users clicked on their name it brought them to a full profile page with a list of posts underneath..”
Not sure what your asking here, it sounds like WordPress does this by default with their Author Archives?

“Im looking for a plugin that will provide a list of my authors with a short profile..”
If you require it in a plugin, you might need to hire someone to do it. https://buddypress.org/community/groups/bp-jobs-board/

WordPress has a function called wp_list_authors()
(see: https://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_list_authors)

By default, it will link to the WordPress Author archive, i just used the ‘author_link’ filter to make the author id go through `bp_core_get_userlink();` which will make it link to the User’s BuddyPress profile.

read: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/3.3.2/wp-includes/author-template.php#L273
and: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/3.3.2/wp-includes/author-template.php#L224