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@Memfis – I notice your using a custom theme (rather than a childtheme of bp-default)

Have you registered the buttons in your functions.php file?
Have a peek through the bp-default functions.php file for the code and copy it into yours.

It’ll be something like
`add_action( ‘bp_member_header_actions’, ‘bp_add_friend_button’ );`

Man this sucks, Deleted my entire site, reinstalled wordpress, buddypress, and still no luck

hello everyone,
i just installed Buddypress, it is up and running only for a minor hiccup. if i click on the “log in” link at the upper part of my screen, i receive page not found. but if i fill out the login form on the right side of the page, i get logged in. can anyone help out with this problem. i expect the “log in” link to display the login form, instead of the ‘page not found’ message it is displaying

No.

You need to mod the temple so it has the same header, sidebar and footer as your theme (redline)

‘php
/**
* Template: Page.php
*
* @package RedLine
* @subpackage Template
*/
get_header();
?>

[Buddypress Pack template code (remove header, sidebar & footer calls]

php get_sidebar(); ?>
php get_footer(); ?>`

The template pack is good for theme developers but its not an easy fix. It will require lots of custom coding and css to look and work right. I think you would be much happier modding the default BP theme. It would only take a little css to get the look of the Redline WP theme.

@lucust

I had the same issue. I found BP hadn’t created bb-config.php at root directory. I just created it and it worked fine.

You have to define some lines like wp-config.php:

define( ‘BBDB_NAME’, ‘dbname’ );
define( ‘BBDB_USER’, ‘dbuser’ );
define( ‘BBDB_PASSWORD’, ‘dbpass’ );
define( ‘BBDB_HOST’, ‘dbhost’ );
define( ‘BBDB_NAME’, ‘myGLOBALDB’ );
$bb_table_prefix = ‘wp_bb_’;
$bb->custom_user_table = ‘wp_users’;
$bb->custom_user_meta_table = ‘wp_usermeta’;

I also had to copy those following lines from wp-config.php:
define(‘AUTH_KEY’,”);
define(‘SECURE_AUTH_KEY’, ”);
define(‘LOGGED_IN_KEY’, ”);
define(‘NONCE_KEY’, ”);
define(‘AUTH_SALT’, ”);
define(‘SECURE_AUTH_SALT’, ”);
define(‘LOGGED_IN_SALT’, ”);
define(‘NONCE_SALT’, ”);

I just did it on my test site and it worked….

My default language in wp-config.php is defined as
`define (‘WPLANG’, ‘en_GB’);`
( see Language codes: https://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_in_Your_Language )

So I placed the buddypress-en_GB.mo and buddypress-en_GB.po in /wp-content/languages

Then logged out and the new message was there in the default sidebar….

Sure can. Two ways. Functions.php or a plugin

Have a nice day. https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/private-buddypress/

@filmoreha – I’m slightly confused,

“I think the codex needs to be updated to say that if you’re only using Site Wide Forums, you need to disable the Discussion Forums component since this is meant for Groups integration.”

As @djpaul said, you dont NEED to disable the group forum component… to have both running at the same time you simply need to ensure their not fighting with each other by ensuring that one of the slugs have been changed.

“Yes I understand you can map the forum’s component to a different page or change the bbPress settings away from “forums” but that isn’t necessary if you ONLY want site wide forums. It’s just easier to disable the Discussion Forum component in BuddyPress settings since that only affects Group Forums.”

This is where i’m confused. Before, you mentioned (or implied?) that the forum component is required to be disabled inorder to use the sitewide forum, but now your stating that you disabled it because of simplicity?

Did i get read this thread the wrong way? Could you clarify what you mean, as i think i ended up in the wrong street…

@Helmi as Paul said, any plugins for wordpress will (should) work. and their IS alot of them (about 177 plugins come up with a search – https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search.php?q=facebook+connect & https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search.php?q=twitter+login)

Their is also a premium facebook connect plugin designed for Buddypress – http://buddydev.com/plugins/buddypress-facebook-connect-plus/

Facebook book login integration can be done with the WP-FB-Autoconnect plugin. I have tried it myself and it is a solid plugin, however FB avatar support is a tad wonky.

Really will depend on what your needs are. I am actually looking for answers to mapping profile fields between FB and BuddyPress so that I can roll my own integration.

Your BuddyPress directory needs to be called ‘buddypress’, not ‘buddypress-xx’. e.g.
/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/

https://codex.buddypress.org/extending-buddypress/customizing-labels-messages-and-urls/
https://codex.buddypress.org/extending-buddypress/changing-internal-configuration-settings/

Note.

Searching through the buddypress .pot file, it seems like you need to ‘translate’ `Please create an account to get started.`

See:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/how-to-clear-the-previous-registration-form-data-1/

I’m not aware of any plugins or services that do this, unfortunately. You will probably have to hire a developer to figure it out.

There’s two ways you can do this.

1) Filter the avatar output

Try adding the following to your theme’s functions.php.

Disclaimer: Untested!

`
add_filter( ‘bp_core_avatar_title’, ‘__return_false’ );
add_filter( ‘bp_core_avatar_alt’, ‘__return_false’ );
`

2) Use javascript
You can also dynamically remove the title and alt text via javascript if desired.

-bbPress has been a stand-alone forum software for many years and there is still a stand-alone version to date. Not sure how long the stand-alone version will be supported though.
– bbPress the WP plugin came about with JJJ involvement. Stable version rolled out sometime WP 3.2.1 and it has been made compatible with BuddyPress 1.5
– BuddyPress uses internal (fork of the standalone) bbPress as forums for groups since version 1.0 stable and now you can also install bbPress 2.0.2 as the sitewide forums. https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/installing-group-and-sitewide-forums/
– There are plans to migrate the forums for groups to the sitewide forums sometime soon.

You’re not likely to lose any forum posts. Always suscribe to backup backup backup database and server files. I would suggest that you set up a test installation ideally with the same server configuration as your current site is in and install WP and bbPress, import database, When you’ve got that going, install BuddyPress. https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/before-installing/

There’s some patches available here:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2587

You’ll have to play around with the code a bit since it’s been awhile since those patches were created.

Not sure. You might want to bring it up with the authors of the plugin here:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/buddypress-group-email-subscription/forum/

You might also want to try WP Better Emails about making WP emails HTML-compatible:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-better-emails/

Bonus is it allows you to style the email template. Not sure how that gels with the digests in the Group Email Subscription plugin.

https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/installing-group-and-sitewide-forums/

Successful installation of forums for groups would create a bb-config.php file at level where your wp-config.php is located. Double-check that the database information in the bb-config.php file is correct. If not, correct the information and run the forums for groups again. Also check that there are 7 new bbPress tables created in your database, they should be there.