@mercime, the plugin folder does not exist due to deletion. Therefore that php file also does not exist. Thank you for your assistance.
@djpaul I don’t get it. If I set posts_per_page to -1 it shows all the posts correctly. So why isn’t it allowing to page when I set it to 8? How would you do this if it were you?
@o4tuna Re: Themes and BP – Ways to have a BuddyPress-compatible theme
1. Create a child theme of bp-default theme – https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/
2. Make your regular WP theme compatible with BP via BP Template Pack Plugin – https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/ – includes list of “Template-Packed” WP themes in latter part of the page
3. Install a WP theme with explicit BuddyPress-support e.g. Elbee Elgee – https://wordpress.org/extend/themes/elbee-elgee – this theme already includes BP template files
4. Plugin purchase – Premium themes more often require purchase of a plugin so you could use their themes with BuddyPress – e.g. Genesis, Pagelines, etc.
RE: Do the regular WP plugins still work with BP?
In general, yes. BuddyPress is also a WP plugin. There are rare conflicts with AJAX, JS, etc.
Ok done, you can view the new tab here:
http://www.linguistconnect.net/members/user1/education/
It works wonderfully well, thank you @ChrisClayton for your help.
Any feedback or suggestions are welcome.
@mrjarbenne
By repo, do you mean the list of WordPress plugins?
It looks like a really cool plugin! Though what i wanted to do, is a bit more simple. I would just present the users with some different cartoon and comic figures, which they could pick from.
Our users are teenagers, and might not be so fluent in English, so if the plugin would work through doppelme, it would be a problem.
I’m not that experienced, but maybe it would be possible to replace the avatar function, with some kind of gallery function?
@mercime What a great reply, many thanks!
I’m off to a great start now.
By default everyone has a profile page within a Buddypress site under domain.com/members/username. You can edit the information that gets added to that profile in Buddypress/Profile Fields. If you want to centralize the community around the profile you can add something like this: http://buddydev.com/plugins/bp-redirect-to-profile/ which would redirect your users directly to their profile when they log in.
You could also allow them to customize the background of their profile with this if you really want to go wild: http://buddydev.com/buddypress/allow-your-users-to-change-their-profile-page-background-using-bp-custom-background-for-user-profile-plugin/ although that has the potential to get really ugly.
so sorry guys..I moved my buddypress site to my new domain..
http://www.flair1.com
thanks for your comments..
@nivanc Just to start off, you will need to
1. Install WordPress
2. Create a Network of your WP installation
a) subdirectory structure – http://www.domain.com/subsite1; http://www.domain.com/subsite2; http://www.domain.com/subsite3, etc.
OR
b) subdomain structure – http://subsite1.domain.com; http://subsite2.domain.com; http://subsite3.domain.com, etc.
3. Install/activate BuddyPress plugin
4. Make your BuddyPress “multisite” (separate instances of BP in one WP installation)
a. BP Multi-Network plugin https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-multi-network/
OR
b. BuddyPress Multi-Network plugin http://buddydev.com/plugins/buddypress-multi-network/
5. s2membership plugin – Free or Pro version
Then install other plugins to improve user experience in the different BP installations in WP subsites.
Thanks for the fast reply! I got xampp running and reinstalled wp and bp. I am still seeing the blank page when logging in, it works if I use the wordpress log in but if I use the log in on the side bar of the default buddypress theme I just get sent to a blank page. Is there anything else I might have setup incorrectly that would cause this?
Buddypress Humanity has worked really well for me.
@djpaul The loop shows the correct posts for the corresponding author on their profile. I have loop-index.php and loop-member.php and the templates are the same except the beginning of the loop. So I tested the loop-member.php on the homepage adding a specific author id and it triggers the infinite scroll but loads the same 8 posts each time.
@djpaul Ok I rewrote it like this but it’s still not triggering after the post_per_page limit.
`<?php
global $bp;
$user_id = $bp->displayed_user->id;
$my_query = new WP_Query(‘&posts_per_page=8’ . ‘&cat=-1’ . ‘&author=’. $user_id);
if ( $my_query->have_posts() ) : while ( $my_query->have_posts() ) : $my_query->the_post(); ?>`
What do you recommend?
Ah, good idea, Paul. Right now I’m locked out of blog2 (access denied) and can’t even login. Vincent suggested I change the name of the plugins folder on the server via Dreamweaver to deactivate BP but… permissions issues foiled that plan. Will try via the admin panel as soon as the techie resets permissions.
Will report back. Thanks.
BP doesn’t try to do anything when WordPress regenerates its permalinks. Does disabling BuddyPress “fix” the problem?
@mammothIdeas you’re welcome. Glad you were able to resolve it 
Hey Hugo. I upload media all the time. The Mac Lab (including the blog) houses a huge collection of resources (about 70 GB) that I’ve created and successfully uploaded over the past 10 years. We’re gamifying the curriculum and hoping to use BuddyPress in conjunction with some custom plugins to provide students with real-time feedback as they complete projects, earning XP and virtual currency.
Anyway, the techie set up a sandbox for us to test the kids’ themes and plugins (Vincent is a key player in this) but we ran into the 403 as soon as I activated BuddyPress. The techie is quite knowledgeable about WP but not BP. He’s got loads more on his plate than just my site so I’m trying to help locate relevant info.
He’s also duplicated the issue at his end. He fixes permissions then any change in BP settings triggers the 403. He said he commented out some of the htaccess file and BP rewrote it. (I have no idea just exactly what he commented out.)
Have to run. Thanks for any additional help or direction in where I might look next!
One of these aspects that’s not really buddypress related- it classically sounds like permissions issues as that is what 403 means so not sure why your tech says perms are ok, might be a case that file perms are ok but that the web server hasn’t got correct access (group or owner) to write to files ?
either way it’s going to be something that we will not be able to help with too any great extent, check your server access logs try and track down the issue there, also ask your techie to check that the web server does have correct perms to write to files – can you do stuff like media uploads ok?
If it matters, we’re running WordPress 3.3.1 (with the current version of BP) and the active site is at http://maclab.guhsd.net/blog/
District tech has verified permissions are set correctly. He suspects something odd is happening with the htaccess file. I’m more of a graphics guy than a coder so I’m unable to offer any insight into the issue. Thanks for any suggestions you might have.
Oh, and if the test site at http://maclab.guhsd.net/blog2/ becomes visible (once the guy at the district waves his magic wand), it will look horrible as we’ve not yet applied the new template.
-Mike
Also I forgot to mention this site has 10 years worth of links running all around the site, and I understand that changing the links from Default to Numeric will still work because WordPress recognizes a link to a pageid and redirects if the permalink structure was changed, it just doesn’t work the other way around (linking a numeric link to a page with a pageid link).
Hi @mercime thanks for the reply. I tried disabling all plugins and I still get the problem with the topic_slug not being created correctly. I also tried putting it back to the default theme and still having the problem. Any other ideas?
Thanks for the replies. I added BuddyPress to my WordPress install on my web site (that I’m not doing anything with) and fiddled around with it a little, and got a little better foothold on it all. I’ll check out the link.
Thanks for the Reference link. Once I read through that, I made sure that there wasn’t a page associated with the forums in the BP Settings. Then after that, I went to BuddyPress > Components > and unchecked Discussion Forums and it is working great.
Thanks @mercime for your help.
thanks @chrisclayton! using your method I’ve been able to modify read more link too, but how could I hook into $excerpt = bp_create_excerpt( $text, $excerpt_length, array( 'ending' => __( '…', 'buddypress' ) ) ); to change ending text ‘…’?
@djpaul – i was actually thinking the same thing after i wrote the above, just testing a patch before adding it to trac for feedback.
BTW, we need to be more consistant… why do we use displayed_user for the displayed user but we use current_group for displayed group ect.?
