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@aboveNbelow Sorry, missed your reply. What’s your definition of “main nav bar”, i thought you where referring to the site navigation, for example on this site where it has the home, about, blog etc links and that article will help move it their (or atleast help with the process).

Where exactly do you want the my account menu? (i’m really slow at times, so sometimes you need to spell out in detail what you want. lol)

EDIT: If by “main nav bar” you mean the WP Toolbar, it’s built in by default, i believe. If not, it will be in 1.6.

BuddyPress uses different functions for different components,
“ will echo the current (displayed) profile’s url (used in your example)

@Tfazlani – It’s possible. It would consist of using bp_core_new_nav_item();
https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/functions/core/bp_core_new_nav_item/

Basically, create a screen function (what displays on the screen) and hook it into bp_core_new_nav_item;

This loop will probably help you build the screen function (splitting up profile details) – https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/custom-buddypress-loops/the-profile-data-loop-bp_has_profile/

EDIT: WordPress has some helpful examples on adding admin menu’s and as BuddyPress’ new_nav_item is built in a similar way might help if you have issues – https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_menu_page

@ktrojan
Non-members of a group?
or
Non-members of the site?

Nonetheless, That feature isn’t provided out of the box.

Is using bbpress site-wide forums out of the question for the functionality you require? You can allow both with bbpress.

@o4tuna – to follow on from @mrjarbenne‘s replies – BuddyPress doesn’t kill anything that WordPress does, WordPress by default allows you to move the blog to a sub-page (as done on this site) or on your homepage (testbp.org) BuddyPress doesn’t touch it. The only real time that BuddyPress touches functionality of WordPress is for small fixes when conflicts arise (for example, theirs code which ensures that the activity stream functions correctly on the homepage – as it was having issues at one point) or to enhance the features to provide an amazing experience.

I should also mention as a sidenote that I run a Buddypress/Wordpress Multisite install for 7000 users on IIS7 without issue.

Re: Killing off the blog. Check out testbp.org: the main page is the blog portion of what is otherwise a buddypress community. You can have the blog front and centre like on that site, or let it play a supporting role as it does on this site (you’ll notice the blog cleverly titled “blog” in the menu above. When users post to the blog (posts or comments) that activity is recorded and noted on the activity stream.

Re: your directory: Check out this plugin, that creates a better directory than the default one, hence the title BP Better Directories: http://dev.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2011/11/09/new-buddypress-plugin-bp-better-directories/

This plugin does that: http://etivite.com/wordpress-plugins/buddypress-block-activity-stream-types/

buddydev.com has two nice plugins that might do the brunt of the work for you. http://buddydev.com/plugins/bp-redirect-to-profile/ will force your users to their own profile upon login, and http://buddydev.com/plugins/facebook-like-user-activity-stream-for-buddypress/ will feed them content from the groups they are members of and people they are friends with.

@jcaynes If you followed plugin instructions per plugin page, you would have created another folder and file like so
/wp-content/plugins/buddypress-private-community-config/mm-buddypress-private-community-config.php
Delete that as well

@indieconnect the layout is working in my clean installation of atahualpa without using any configuration in theme options except for the CSS addition because adding style modifications in theme stylesheet does not change anything.

Did you copy everything I posted in pastebin.com and not just added the few at the bottom of header-buddypress.php or footer-buddypress.php for example? I ask because I’m seeing that your page source code has not changed to how it should be had you used the code I gave you. Know that these two files only affect the BP template pages and not your regular WP pages.

It’s a Gratitude theme issue, contact theme author. Change to bp-default theme in the meantime..

@ @rmandersen no, there’s no plugin like what you want at this time. There was someone who mentioned he would be releasing one sometime ago, but it didn’t pan out.

@chr313 no problem with periods or ellipsis [ … ] at end of Title of Group Forum Topic at all. Have you tried deactivating plugins or changing to bp-default theme to check if issue is corrected.

@jcaynes this plugin https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-private-community/ has not been updated for BP 1.5+. Delete it from your installation.

What theme are you using? What archive-slug did you assign to your Sitewide Forums – forums? Did you create a page named forums then? In other words, can you give the steps to what you’ve done so far so we can get a better perspective? Reference: https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/installing-group-and-sitewide-forums/

Do the pages actually exist? you have to have empty pages created and there to be selected, either named as conventionally or named as you wish.

Commendable! all but adding atahowlerhooper to the list that is

Guess I should have seen that list. My only worry with the list and all that work you’ve put in is that it rests on the forum links and posts themselves remaining true, be nice if there were some easy means of bundling stuff into a template zip or some such ‘thing’.

Right I’ll sidetrack post no more now I’ve vented my fury at atahowlerhooper