Great! I am thinking of also using it to create blogs for each of the runners and volunteers if GoDaddy can handle it. Also, would I be better off sticking with the default theme and customizing it for now?
Hi @mercime
Posting to forums seem to be working, but when I go to my profile to see my list of forum posts, that is blank.
When I try and post in a group or comment/reply to anything in the activity stream, I get the error “There was an error posting that reply, please try again.”
== I cannot post in groups or comment on activity. ==
Do you mean you cannot post in forums of plugin group or in plugin reviews?
As for status updates in groups and profiles, these have been turned off deliberately at BuddyPress.org so no error there.
Yes you can use BP. As for your hosting, noted that some newbies have encountered problems setting up BP there but since you have WP experience, you would know what to do. You aren’t planning to go multisite there, are you? Re putting BP on a subdirectory – if you can, install WP/BP at root of new physical subdomain as in http://buddypresshere.yoursite.com/, to avoid any possible interference or conflict.
Have never tried free webhosting. Deactivate BuddyPress. Is WP working with pretty permalinks in that hosting? If not, then you have to resolve that first before installing BuddyPress.
Also, you should not have installed your WP via fantastico or any hostscript because you’ll have lots of problems getting BuddyPress to work in that set up.
https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/before-installing/#system-server
1 I disabled all WordPress plugins (not very graceful) by renaming the “plugins” folder in wp-content to “~plugins”
2 going back to the plugin area in the wp-admin give the message that all your plugins are gone, and therfore deactivated
3 I renamed my plugin folder ‘~plugins’ back to ‘plugins’ and all my plugins showed up in my admin again, deactivated.
4 Activating them one by one gave me a 500 error again by activating “Group E-mail Subscription” https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-group-email-subscription/
5 repating the proces, but skipping the “Group E-mail Subscription” gave me a up-to-date BP, I have to find a other solution to email my groups… (any ideas?)
In your situation where you mentioned you didn’t change the BP template files at all, you can’t hook into div#content as your theme already has it – the one which renders grey background between your content and sidebar. You could hook into `div.padder` and add this to your stylsheet:
`div.padder {
background-color: #fff;
padding: 20px;
}`
BuddyPress generates body classes for each component/specific BP pages. Check out body classes generated https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/1.5.3.1/bp-core/bp-core-template.php#L1482
If your BP theme or bp-default child theme doesn’t have one yet, copy over https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/1.5.3.1/bp-themes/bp-default/groups/single/activity.php to your theme folder following the directory structure, i.e. yourthemefolder/groups/single/
Open up activity.php file and delete the following lines:
`
`
Save.
If it’s not in your theme or child theme folder, copy over https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/1.5.3.1/bp-themes/bp-default/activity/activity-loop.php following the directory structure i.e. yourthemefolder/activity/activity-loop.php
Open up activity-loop.php and replace:
“
with
“
replace 10 with higher or lower number.
I’m also desperately looking for a way to do this so I can remove the author page and just have the buddypress profile. Does anyone know how this can be achieved?
Thanks for the suggestion @wceolin
I found the following in functions.php which seems to be the code I need to replace:
`
`
I don’t know how to replace the code in functions.php – I’m happy to look up how to do that, but before I do I just wanted to check this is definitely the code I need to replace and I’m not barking up the wrong tree!
== The instructions on the page you gave are misleading because the screenshots for configuration (Step 9) show a menu link to the forums, when in reality there is no such menu link. ==
@neosin It was not meant to mislead, I added the links in my custom menu including that of the sitewide forums before I even created the tutorial. Tutorial has been edited with instruction to add the link to the sitewide forums in custom menu. Thanks.
@dgodot You have to delete the bb-config.php file created when you installed group forums https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/installing-group-and-sitewide-forums/4/#uninstall-forums.
Hey everyone, this is a very old thread but I thought I would discuss my findings when trying to create my own custom page in buddypress.
I am using the latest version 1.5.1 and i noticed the code only works if I navigate to mywebsite.com/(user)/example_page instead of mywebsite.com/example_page
(user) being the logged in usersname.
Any ideas as to why this may be happening? I am using the code the OP (jjj) posted.
GParticipant
@mercime
Allow BuddyPress to function on multiple blogs of a WPMultisite installation, not just on one root blog:
define ( ‘BP_ENABLE_MULTIBLOG’, true );
how would this appear to work? does each blog have its own setting? or do we still do all settings from main network admin? will each blog have its own forum, eachdomain.com/forum?
GParticipant
Xtrodites, how did u go with this? i am looking at buddypress for this too, and would like some tips so i dont blow the whole wp network install!
@mercime It’s a new buddypress install on a new WP install: http://social.ourenglishclass.net. The admin pages say everything’s set up fine, but I can’t create a forum through the groups page or through the main forum page. I always get this message:
“This group does not have a forum setup yet.”
OK.
I have it running.
I had to enable ‘Show adminbar on the homepage’ in GenesisConnect Settings.
This displayed the BuddyPress admin bar at the top of my homepage where I was being redirected on logging in. *Then* I was able to use the BuddyPress admin bar to log in to WordPress.
This was very confusing.
I kept expecting to go straight to the old WordPress admin area after logging in.
@mercime
==You create one in custom menu. What theme are you using?.
default BP them
The menu “Forum” link only shows up if you install “group forums”.
The instructions on the page you gave are misleading because the screenshots for configuration (Step 9) show a menu link to the forums, when in reality there is no such menu link.
Perhaps since you say I need to create a menu to access the forums, this should be included in the instructions page.
== If you choose Sitewide Forum as your forum option, you do not get a menu link to your forum. ==
You create one in custom menu. What theme are you using?.
== If I select to install Sitewide Forums for Buddypress, it presents a popup window to install bbPress as a plugin in wordpress. ==
That’s the way it’s done.
Have you read this: https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/installing-group-and-sitewide-forums/
Hi @r-a-y
I checked my bp-custom.php, which looks like this: http://pastebin.com/Tp861Dy9
And your code was already in there.However autocomplete still doesnt work.
Im using the bp-default theme.
@mercime – much thanks for your time…this has been a REAL bugger to figure out (and I”m getting nowhere)….
Well….this is sorta weird. I don’t see a .htaccess file (am using Dreamweaver) on the server…BUT, I do have one locally (no idea why there’s one there, but not on the server – it’s been over a year ago since I’ve set this up originally and the mind is getting a bit rusty 
Should I upload the local .htaccess below to my root directory of network it.com you think?
The local version reads like this:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index.php$ – [L]
# uploaded files
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?files/(.+) wp-includes/ms-files.php?file=$2 [L]
# add a trailing slash to /wp-admin
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?wp-admin$ $1wp-admin/ [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^ – [L]
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(wp-(content|admin|includes).*) $2 [L]
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(.*.php)$ $2 [L]
RewriteRule . index.php [L]
SetEnv TZ America/United_States/New_York
After further thought; it can’t be the .htaccess.
The URLs are not being redirected- they are where I want to go.
It’s the content that’s incorrect; which seems that it’s one of the buddypress options to ‘select page’ to show the content on; however, I’ve delected the page, created a new one, etc in trying to get this to work – it’s a buddypress/wordpress issue – not an .htaccess one.
@davidveldt -This sounds like something that I have yet to do… what exactly should I be changing these things to? This is where my ‘newbie’ status’ comes into play. I have deactivated all plugins and went to the default theme, and still recieved the ‘forum not setup’ error again for the groups…
I am thinking that this may be exactly what I need to update, but don’t know what I should update my wp-config.php file to exactly? (as in my BBDB_NAME, BBDB_USER, BBDB_PASSWORD and BBDB_HOST files).
Your help is damn appreciated with all of this!
Should I be putting my own information or is there something special that goes here?
Thank you all!
@mercime, so without making any changes to any files directly, I simply added your “BuddyPress Compatibility Style Mods” to my style.css and bam it fixed the alignment issues I was encountering but I would now like to start customizing buddy press. Without asking for too much, I would like to change the general backgrounds of the profile pages and really any page associated with buddy press to white. I was hoping you might no the name of the tag to call upon in order to do this. thanks again for the your assistance already, it’s been extremely helpful.
<?php
/* translators: 1: comment author url, 2: comment author name, 3: comment permalink, 4: comment date/timestamp*/
printf( __( ‘%2$s said on %4$s‘, ‘buddypress’ ), get_comment_author_url(), get_comment_author(), get_comment_link(), get_comment_date() );
?>