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I’m trying to get my buddybar back, but the kick of it is, I customized my buddybar with poedit, so it’s not the default that comes with buddypress. I only want the buddybar (and some menu options) to be available to registered, loggedin users……more or less to keep out the “snoops”

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

Note.

BuddyPress can handle whatever you need it to. That said, it is not a turn-key community ecommerce solution, and you’ll need to patch plugins in, create s custom theme, etc… As long as you use BuddyPress/WordPress as the engine that powers your idea rather than the solution to all your problems, it makes perfect sense to start here. If you expect to install a few plugins, turn it loose, and have your ideas come to life, sadly it won’t be that easy.

Installing Group and Sitewide Forums

https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3885

1) Do not bump your post more than once every 24 hours or so.

2) I’m not aware of any plugin specifically for BuddyPress that does this.

the whole bbpress+buddypress thing is expected to become alot easier and better in BP 1.6. (so it’s subject to change)

But for now, Sitewide forums are using bbpress 2.0 theming have a look here – https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-20-theme-compatibility

Does this help?
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/bp-group-organizer/

@bryanjwatson out of the box, buddypress doesn’t really do much with multi-site blogs. Afew features are planned however – such as allowing users to post from the front end rather than requiring the need to go to the admin panel (refer to https://buddypress.org/about/roadmap). That’s one feature i’m calmly waiting for :p

Currently, If you have the tracking option you mentioned above selected, it will post your users blog posts to the activity stream. It will also links the logged-in users comments and the blog posts author links to their buddypress members profiles and It also adds a listing of users blogs on their profile and in a directory on the front-end. That’s really all it does out-of the box. It’s still your regular multisite experience that your used to.

Have any other ideas on how to further-enhance the multisite social experience?

You’re right. There is a lot constantly going on, and it’s dizzying to keep up with it all. We try really hard on our end to balance updates with backwards compatibility, to make sure things run as smoothly as possible while also fixing bugs and problems.

Some of what you’re talking about is that, where fixing bugs leads to other bugs. Some of it comes from us doing something incorrectly for a very long time, setting a bad example, and when WordPress calls us out and deprecates something, it breaks things down the line later.

I think the bigger take-away is that running your own social network isn’t as easy as it should be. We can do a better job at making it simpler, and also at setting the expectation that there’s a huge leap from having 1 blog to having hundreds or thousands of users. Social networks like Flickr or Twitter have dedicated staff to keep things running smoothly, and trying to do that as one non-developer is currently pretty intimidating, and maybe not always a good idea.

I don’t think it’s a funding issue, I think it’s an education issue down the tree from WordPress core to BuddyPress core to third party plugin authors. Also, we try really hard to do tandem releases with WordPress core, but not all plugin authors have the ability to stay on top of their projects like we do.

The BuddyPress core team is making changes for the better to improve the experience you’re talking about, but they are still baby steps so we don’t perpetuate the issue further.

We’re not really supporting BP 1.2.x any more, but anyway:

Are you using a plugin called “BuddyPress Registration Options”? If so, try deactivating that and see if your registration page works again.

HTML format is only sent on digests (Daily Digest, Weekly Digest).

Tell your designer to check out this article to upgrade your theme:
https://codex.buddypress.org/releases/1-5-developer-and-designer-information/#theme

The buddypress admin menu is translated as are the main tabs, ‘Componentes’ page content is translated but ‘Configurações’ page content is still in english.

The parts that aren’t buddypress aren’t translated for me, as I don’t have the main wordpress and theme or plugin language files installed

Re-upload single.php file of bp-default theme, clear cache, and see if issue is corrected.
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/1.5.2/bp-themes/bp-default/single.php

Happy New Year to you as well.

Saw the screenshot. This is not a BuddyPress issue but with your theme. Somethings went awry with the styling when you went three columns. If you change it back to 2 columns, is the issue corrected? You’ll need to contact theme devs to help you out specially as you’re using a premium theme.

Since you only want to install sitewide forums, make sure that there’s no bb-config.php where you installed WP, i.e. same level as your wp-config.php. If you find that there’s a bb-config.php, delete it.

Check in wp-admin menu Plugins > Installed Plugins and see if bbPress is listed and activated there. If you ran “install sitewide forums” and were able to download bbPress via pop-up screen in backend and activate it, then yes, the link in BuddyPress > Forums – Sitewide Forums should be “Uninstall Sitewide Forums”. If you see “install site wide forums” instead, then you were not able to install bbPress in the first place.