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1. Anything’s possible. You’ll just need to build it. BuddyPress doesn’t handle authentication, that’s all down to WordPress (so, if you can get it working with WordPress…).

2. By default, any user can see any user’s activity. You’ll either want to build some sort of bespoke privacy control, or see if you can get s2member (plugin) configured to work like this.

3. Anything’s possible. BuddyPress 1.6 will have built-in integration for the Activity component with Akismet, which might help get you started. bbPress 2.x also has built-in integration for Akismet.

4. Yes, it scales. Research into how to scale WordPress up to your expected levels of users.

Yes. Use bbPress 2.x (we refer to this inside BuddyPress as “Sitewide forums”). By the time you guys decide if you need a social layer in addition to a forum, both bbPress and BuddyPress will be ready to integrate.

Try http://buddydev.com/buddypress/buddypress-globalsitewide-unified-search-update-for-buddypress-1-5/

@remedy01 – You need to enable forums for the group. Go to that specific group’s > Admin > and check Enable forum

If you don’t mind, can you tell me where is your site hosted or what kind of set-up you have? It is pretty fast – my buddypress set-up runs much slower.

I’m with you mrwolfy, I see the search functionality that comes in the header area with bp-default will work – though I would like to be able to modify it – but if you use the wordpress search widget, or the search box that shows up when something isn’t found, I get pushed back to the activity page (home page for me). The same happens on this site if you use the search box at the top – you’ll get thrown back to the home page.

I found a plugin at http://buddydev.com/plugins/buddypress-sitewide-activity-widget/ but it wouldn’t list posts for me. It seems to list everything but. Any advice anyone?

Those ‘missing’ members haven’t logged in to your site since you activated BuddyPress.

@andreao No need to put codes. Change to bp-default theme and deactivate plugins except BuddyPress to troubleshoot. WP/BP versions? Single WP or WP Multisite? Linux or Windows hosting?

== … but you haven’t completed the setup process. Visit the BP Compatibility page to wrap up. ==

So go to wp-admin dashboard menu Appearance > BP Compatibility and click on Save/Finish button.

== in the groups and members button, the buddypress apparence seem too high … ==

You can add something like the following to your stylesheet:
`div#content { margin-top: 20px; }`

== you can try to clic on the ”test” button, it does’nt work anymore ==

The “test” page on your site was working when I checked it before we did Step 3 of the compatibility process. Checking it now.

BuddyPress doesn’t do anything with user authentication. Get it working with WordPress, and it’ll work with BuddyPress. For further advice, it’s probably worth searching the WordPress.org forums as I imagine this sort of topic has come up in the past.

r-a-y was the person who built oembed into BuddyPress core.

@djbnotts – sorry, missed your reply the other day. Your welcome. Just thought i’d suggest it as users seeing errors is a serious problem.

BP Private community does the exact same thing as David’s code (his code is their ‘default’ mode, and their optional method can be easily done easily just by removing the Exclamation mark just before the conditional).

Private community doesn’t seem to be maintained anymore (last update was in 2010) so you might be better off using that code as it’s slightly more recent and works in current version of 1.6 bleeding.

Point 2. should work if you enabled the “Site Tracking” component (wp-admin BuddyPress > Components)?
Point 3. is expected behaviour (assuming there is indeed more text than that warning message). Some browsers offer default styles for RSS feeds (e.g. Safari), some don’t.

Not easily* possible without changes to core. We’ve an enhancement ticket for sticky groups: https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2242

Yeah, we don’t support nesting of the pages when those pages are mapped to BP components.

@r-a-y said his plugin https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/oembed-for-buddypress/ would eventually offer this as an option.

Re: Cropping Avatars

Change to bp-default theme and check if you can crop there. If you can, well and good. If not, check out some trouble-shooting tips https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/before-installing/#wp-configuration

Re: Theme Compatibility

First thing’s first. Before making any WP theme (downloaded outside of WP theme repository) compatible with BuddyPress, make sure that it is secure. Download the Theme Check Plugin and see if there are warnings or required generated when you run the theme check. WP Theme Repo for example only accepts themes which do not contain warnings and required items.

I have just downloaded a copy of gamespeed per your link above and there are obfuscated code within 2 files I checked out so far – at the bottom of the theme’s functions.php file and all of footer.php file. Because of that, I can’t help you since I need all the HTML information in footer.php among other theme files for the BP Compatibility Process.

@snowlas You’re welcome and Congratulations. Glad you resolved layout to your satisfaction