Hi .. Can someone point me to the definitive step by step installation guide for BuddyPress 1.7 using bbPress as the forum engine please ? There’s quite a bit of old stuff around on the Web including installing with WP MU and when BuddyPress had it’s own forum support. I keep finding a guide which looks like it might be appropriate and then get confused when some option or other isn’t in the settings.
Thanks
Ron
I’m not seeing the file loaded into your header. You can try to copy the file over to yourtheme/css/buddypress.css
but that isn’t fixing the issue if why it’s not loaded in the first place.
@modemlooper No the buddypress.css file is not in my theme folder. Is it as simple as that? Do I just move it into that folder via FTP?
Hello any idea people, i have tried uninstalling other plugins and re-installed the setup, still no luck.
@djpaul sorry for the unrelated comment but can you please update us on whether the welcome pack plugin is compatible with BP 1.7?
thank you
the welcome pack would be a good start but I didn’t know it wasn’t updated to 1.7 yet
are you sure it doesn’t work with 1.7?
There is this but i have yet to employ it i believe needs updating for 1.7 compatibility:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/welcome-pack/
with regards to our site in particular new members can only contribute once they are granted that status currently. I’m working on turning it into a network at which point anyone will be able to create their own site and contribute that way. if you’d like to write an article or something i can certainly give you contributor status @attention just let me know your username.
thanks!
Correction & Apology.
My initial comments were correct and this plugin as far as i am aware works properly even on the iPad
Set up:- WP v. 3.5.1 multisite, BP v. 1.7, Bbpress v. 2.3, Other Plugins: a lot; Theme: Child of BP Default.
the temporary problems on the iPad were actually caused (according to me) by another newly released bp plugin that i was trying out. Once I deactivated that other plugin and cleared the cache completely Buddyshare worked properly.
@jdhall1972
you’ve got to put that code into bp-custom.php which you need to upload to wp-content/plugins/ folder in server as posted here https://codex.buddypress.org/developer/customizing/bp-custom-php/
cc @allenpayne
@ubernaut – your website gotgame dot come looks very nice on the front end. I registered and was able to login. But here is the key question and the reason why I wanted to test it on some website that looks nice on the front end like yours.
Question is – don’t you think that the average user gets confused when they register and login. I mean, after registration, I see homepage I already saw and there is new bar on the top. I am like “Huh! What now…” – nothing is intuitive and user has not idea how to add content to this website and contribute.
I assume this is default way BuddyPress handles experiece after the login and I must say – GUI does not help you to grow your members, contributors and content.
Is there a better way? Is there a better template we can redirect logged in users so they can have AN IDEA of what to do after they login?
Help from anyone greatly appreciated.
Thank you.
It would be helpful if you could check your PHP logs and find out what the 500 error was. I’ve never seen a 405 message before; it could be a problem with your ISP.
Hi,
When user without gravatar registeres, WordPress assigns default image to that profile. That works fine. But, when I go to WP User settings and replace default WP user profile image with a photo, it updates it in WP admin, but BuddyPress still shows old default “gray face” avatar. You can see it here: http://vladimircuk.com/carolalt/ – on the right under user “Carlos Burletwa” – it is still showing old default avatar even though I changed it in WP admin to real photo of that person. I am using plugin called Simple Local Avatars: http://10up.com/plugins/simple-local-avatars-wordpress/
Why is BuddyPress not updating avatar of user after it was changed in the WP Admin User section?
hi i am using buddy press here i have set buddypress for user registration but i want to use wordpress registration, when i remove page from page setting in buddypress it is still directing to the same registration page i want to use wordpress registration because i want to design my registration page
any ideads or help
thank in advances
I also noticed that the left curly quote was not correct in the activity stream, and curly quotes can cause other problems. To remove them I added the following to my functions.php in my child theme:
remove_filter('bp_get_activity_content_body', 'wptexturize');
you are welcome to join gotgame dot com as well always looking for contributors over here! 😀
Sorry about that, I am using Buddypress 1.7 on WordPress 3.5.1 it is a brand new site nothing was upgraded from older versions. I am running it off a local machine using WAMP server and the only other plugin I have active is Configure SMTP.
We’ve just launched a new BuddyPress plugins site.
PhiloPress is run by shanebp and hnla.
We currently offer 1 free plugin and 4 premium plugins.
We look forward to your comments and questions.
hello all,
I am using WP 3.5.1, Buddypress 1.7 and have subdomain multisite install.
I am using BP default theme.
The problem is that images are not syncing between the blogs and buddypress.
I have checked the option “Enable BuddyPress to wordpress profile syncing”
1- Profile pics don’t show up in buddypress admin bar of individual blogs.
2- Feature images don’t show up in activity stream on buddypress.
Please help, thank-you
You can run in theme compat mode i.e no BP folders directly in the theme root, or for that matter any BP templates in the theme then create a folder in the theme named ‘buddypress’ or ‘community’ into that you copy the templates from /bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress/ e.g /members/index.php and/or /members/members-loop.php preserving the folder structure to your new folder in theme root now you can copy the mods you had to those files and see how things pan out.
A slightly more detailed guide to read is here:
https://codex.buddypress.org/developer/theme-development/a-quick-look-at-1-7-theme-compatibility/
I found a way to create a group but i can see the group that i have created.
If you go to the admin page. There will be BuddyPress icon on the top of the admin login.
Hover over the icon and hover over Profile fields/group and then add new field group
WP version: 3.5.1
BP version: 1.7
BBP version: 2.3
Using Pitch Premium theme
http://www.sondregrande.com
Hosting at godaddy.com using their email-system
So, I tried to set up a forum and login/register system using BuddyPress and bbPress. Everything seemed fine until I tried to make a test user. The registration page worked fine, but I never recieved the registration mail. So, nobody is able to register to my website..
Does anyone know what to do?
Thanks in advance,
SondreGrande
I have installed BuddyPress on my website and set up a group. The group seems to be working fine, the only problem is that everything appears twice on the page: http://www.nhsalliance.org/groups/.
How can I stop this happening?
I’m not too experienced with WordPress, so any help would be much appreciated.
