Not seen anything for this. If you can find a WordPress plugin does this, it will work with BuddyPress.
I understand that I can create new groups of fields that won’t appear on the registration page.
But that still does not allow me to edit what is on the actual registration page that gets rendered.
The problem is with the way buddy press builds the registration form using only the one default field in the base group (name).
I suppose I am looking for direction in building my own form. If any one else has done anything like it. Any particular hooks I need to plug into to submit and send the fields to the appropriate places.
Even just pointing me in the right direction would be helpful. Buddypress functions always seem to be a labyrinth of nested functions and loops that i tend to get lost in with no frame of reference for what they are actually doing.
Or is there any documentation on how the registration process works in buddypress?
I should mention I saw the suggestion to increase the memory limits (using https://codex.buddypress.org/troubleshooting/blank-pages/) on someone else’s post. I have most of the ideas to no avail so far.
@thesurfinstitute you’re welcome. You’re lucky that the HTML structure of the Sliding Doors theme made it compatible with the 2nd method for BP compatibility 
Marking this as resolved.
No real coding knowledge needed, just some css changes
`body { width:auto; }`
`container, header { width:1060px; margin:0 auto; } /* SET YOUR WIDTH HERE */`
`body#bp-default #wp-admin-bar .padder {
min-width: 960px;
max-width: 960px;
}`
Then just match up the footer and admin bar etc… all fairly straightforward css stuff but make sure you do it in a child theme, never in the default theme’s css, otherwise your changes will get overwritten when you update
There is only one instance of BuddyPress in one WP multisite installation.
You’d need two plugins to have have separate instances of BuddyPress in a multisite install, one plugin to create multiple WP networks and another plugin to enable distinct and separate BuddyPress instance in each network http://wpmututorials.com/news/new-features/multiple-buddypress-social-networks/
I want to bump this because I think I’m very close to finally solving this for many of us, but it’s going to need someone who is better at reading PHP or understanding the BP Codex.
My activation links work if I register from BuddyPress, but not if I register from WordPress. Is everyone else doing the same?
Here is a link to the new thread in hopes to solve our problem.
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/registering-and-email-activation-links-not-working/
Well it is not clearing. I don’t want to edit core files, how can I force it to clear after a group is created? Should I put a setcookie() that hooks into the bp_after_create_group() ? Please advise.. something is obviously not working correctly here.
It is not clearing even when using the bp-default theme with no other plugins running. I have the latest stable version of WordPress (3.3.1) and BuddyPress (1.5.4).
@snowlas, thanks so much! i was going desperate. yeah member plugin was the issue at the end…
is there a fix for that so far?
so if i will use something lower then 1.5 of buddypress i will be able to use the member plugin?
do you know?
i have wp 3.2.1 will i be able to use BP 1.4 on it fine with the member plugin?
thanks for your help! you are the man!
The relevant pages are now private and password protected so I can’t let you have access to them.
However, I can tell you that there is no misalignment and all the BP content is fine – it’s just the sidebar that will not display.
Also, I tried installing just WordPress and BuddyPress fresh on a subdomain – with nothing else installed – and I still had the same result, i.e. no sidebar on the BuddyPress pages.
There seems to be somthing in WordPress, Thematic or BuddyPress that does not want to play nice.
For the time being I shall have to continue with the work-around I outlined above – not ideal but workable.
Thanks again.
Hi shanebp,
Thanks for your reply
Yes I know its the $aid in activity plus, is there any way to get the activity id if somebody posts an activity? the activity plus only works when if somebody post with using its functionality(sharing photos, links and videos) for a normal posting stuff buddypress default function is working. So I need to get the activity id in both cases.
(The whole thing I’m using for categorizing the activity. Please tell me if any plugin is available for this.)
Thanks.
Chek bb-config.php in your WP folder has the right database connection details. Check you’ve completed forum setup in wp-admin > BuddyPress > Forums. Then edit a group > admin > settings, disable forum (save), then reenable forum (save again), and try again.
Said cookie is cleared when a group is created. I’ve only seen conflicts from other plugins on the group creation screen – never edit core.
Dashboard menu BuddyPress > Profile Fields.
Note that any fields in the “Base” group will appear on the signup page == registration page. So create another xprofile group for the fields which could be answered at a later date.
@yadigit thanks for the input. That is similar to what I would do as well. But creating the function is not where my problem is. The problem is that I am unable to pull any of a member’s Group activity dates (i.e. when applied, when joined, etc.) from the database. I have tried using bp_group_request_time_since_requested(), which runs bp_core_time_since( strtotime( $requests_template->request->date_modified ) ), but I am not getting the right data.
== several things missing when I post a blog entry (“What’s new?”) in BP Groups … The posts don’t show up in “All Posts” on the admin page (I thought I could apply categories there). It almost seems as if they’re not “posts” as far as WP is concerned ==
You’re right. Those are not posts but group activity updates. If you want posts by the group, you could try either:
For WP multisite with BP install – https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-groupblog/
For single WP or WP multisite with BP install – http://buddydev.com/buddypress/blog-categories-for-groups-plugin/
@DJPaul, I’m still having this problem described in my previous post. While the Name (Primary) (Required) returned after I re-enabled Extended Profiles, it’s not correctly linked to the actual WordPress naming system.
If a user registers with the username “william” and they put “Bill” as the Name (Primary) (Required) their username and nicename both show as “william.” Then if the user goes into the settings to change their name to, say Toby, they get this on the BuddyPress profile page:
Toby
@william
If I’m not mistaken, the Name and Nicename should automatically be changed to display the same name, just with the @ before the nicename?
Is there any way to re-add the original files without reinstalling BuddyPress so that it correctly links up?
I’ve been looking for a way to search the forums too — finding out if a question has been answered is tough if you have to browse through something like 938 pages of topics!
@thesurfinstitute Following is the simplest way to make your theme compatible:
If you’ve changed any of the BP template files in your theme folder, replace all of them for a clean slate by deleting the 6 BP folders in server – /activity, /blogs, /forums, /groups, /members, and /registration – then re-run Appearance > BP Compatibility. (make sure Sliding Door Child theme is activated before you run this)
A. Copy your theme’s header.php and Save As > header-buddypress.php
Open up header-buddypress.php and at the bottom of the file, below all other code, add this:
`
`
Save file.
B. Create a BLANK sidebar-buddypress.php and add this line only
`
`
Save file.
C. Upload header-buddypress.php and sidebar-buddypress.php to wp-content/themes/sliding-door-child/
D. Style modifications for BP templates – you might want to use some or all of styles listed in this page https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/theme-dev-bp-template-pack-walkthrough-twenty-ten-bp-1-5/3/
I tried the bp-default theme, I’m not using any other BuddyPress plugins.
Found a solution – the problem is a cookie set by BuddyPress that isn’t changing correctly or has the wrong expiration time.
Line 130 of bp-groups-actions.php (in the bp-groups folder):
setcookie( ‘bp_new_group_id’, $bp->groups->new_group_id, time()+60*60*24, COOKIEPATH );
I commented this line out. You could also change the time to a shorter time so bots don’t create groups, is that why this is in there? As it is now, this cookie prevents anyone from creating more than 1 group per 24 hours. Why?
There should be a link in your sites footer to switch back and forth, I don’t think domain mapping will work very well considering the hijacking of theme is how bp mobile currently works. There will be a future version that does away with theming in the WordPress sense and will use an API and then you will be able to put mobile version on another url. You will be able to even create a service that allows users to send content to your site from another domain. Think twitter apps.
== There’s really nobody out there that can assist me with this!? ==
@thesurfinstitute We’re all volunteers here living in different time zones and it just happened that your post got overlooked. A polite bump is acceptable.
You need to fix the alignment of the BP template files with that of your WP theme https://wordpress.org/extend/themes/sliding-door
Let me take a look and I’ll get back to you on solution.
This is just a though and that’s a very good idea and I will also look into it too..
have you tried the ‘ > ‘ sign..
I would set a $timeset = TIMERESTRICT
Now this is something I wouldn’t know how to do but This is how i would lay out the if command..
How would would you call the time of when the person left the group?
if you could do that I’d set a string as
$timeleft = TIMEPERSONLEFTGROUP
and make the if command
if $timeset < $timeleft {
Can’t join time
} else {
Join
}
Im not sure if it helped too much, but I hope it gave you an idea on what to do.
@jeffsl
