I’m just wondering where to locate the setting then, in this default theme.
Not quite sure what you mean. But if you’re referring to something like a Theme Options page, there is none.
If you want to customize the BP Default theme to the max, you should create a child theme of the BP Default theme and upload the child theme in server wp-content/themes/YOURCHILDTHEMENAME/ so your revisions won’t be overwritten when BuddyPress is upgraded.
@discdemo please don’t bump if less than a day as we’re all volunteers here living in different time zones. That said, I’ve checked out the site and the sidebar width is 224px less 40px padding = 184px space for the image. The ad you have there is 203px wide, hence the image was cut off.
About the available themes: if you upgrade to BP 1.7 beta 1 download at https://buddypress.org/2013/02/buddypress-1-7-beta-1/ you can use any WordPress theme which does not override core templating system and you’re good to go. Caveat is that only a few BP plugins have been upgraded for BP 1.7 beta 1 compatibility.
This code is hooking into: the_author and get_the_author_display_name
It looks like buddypress uses: bp_core_get_userlink
Anyone know how to use bp_core_get_userlink in the code above?
You will have to create a custom menu.
https://codex.buddypress.org/user/setting-up-a-new-installation/how-to-set-up-your-main-site-navigation-using-the-built-in-wordpress-menus/
Then check the box beside register then add to menu. Save and refresh your front end to see the new menu with the register page.
Hi,
I have a static front page with slug of, say, site-stream, and I have the buddypress activity page assigned to that same page.
That assignment for some reason stops the is_page(‘page-1’, ‘page-2’, ‘site-stream’) test from working (it recognises page-1 and page-2 no problem, but not ‘site-stream’. The problem persists even if I replace ‘site-stream’ with the correct page ID.)
The issue is resolved if I uninstall buddypress, it recognises either the slug or ID.
What term/slug should I be searching on for is_page() to recognise the page when I have the buddypress activity page assigned to it? (Not ‘activity’, I tried that.)
I’m using WP 3.5.1 and BP 1.7.
Thanks!
@awmeneca
Go to dashboard/settings/general and check the box “anyone can register” then created a new page name it “register” and publish it. then go to dashboard/settings/buddypress/pages and go do to where the register drop down box is and select the page you created and save. Should work then!
Hi my wife and I are trying to create a social niche site where we can have multiple users register on our site and upload posts and pictures etc. I stumbled across BuddyPress 1.7 Beta and thought it would be ideal so I downloaded it and installed it to our new site and I can’t figure out how anyone can register to become a member on the site.
I’m using WP version 3.5.1 with a theme called Mantra version 1.9.9.6 by Cryout Creations and as you know BP version 1.7 Beta. The Site (only just started so no content at this point) is
http://savingpitbulls.com
Do I have to create a registration and activation page and if so does anyone know where I can get the necessary training to teach me what to do. I’ve never used BP before and I have no idea what I’m doing.
Any help or guidance would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you
Alan
@sbrajesh Any news on this? Thanks a million!
I already posted this question here but it seems like it got deleted somehow.
I have a website set up with BuddyPress and the link titled “Post” or “Post Update” is missing from all the locations where members can make posts.
I am using BP 1.6.4. I also tried it using BP 1.6.3 and had the same issue. I have tried using the BP Default theme and using multiple devices and browsers and I always have the same problem. I’m also using the BP activity plus plugin and the link is missing whether I have that active or not.
Will someone please help me with this issue? It makes it almost impossible for members to use my site.
there are free and paid options that work well
That seems to have fixed the alignment problem. Now, one more question if I may. How do I include a BP login in the top menu of my theme and a BP login form in my sidebar as a widget?
Again, thanks!
Thanks mercime! I believe that version 1.7 beta will get me closer to a resolution.
Hi! I was trying to follow this tutorial for customizing the members directory:
http://wpmu.org/how-to-create-a-custom-buddypress-members-directory/
I am using WP 3.5.1 and BP 1.6.4 and a child theme of BP Default. The tutorial is for use with with Twenty Twelve Themes and BP 1.7 however I am trying to get it to work with my mentioned setup with no luck. I am using firebug but I can’t seem to get it right. Is there any CSS guru’s that can help? I have the member-loop.php working right, I just can’t seem to get the CSS adjusted. Thanks everyone!
@bookee the reason why the instructions for the wisdom of life doesn’t work for your theme is because the themes have different HTML structure. Unlike the other theme where only 2 files are required to make the changes, your theme requires changes in 17 BP template files. Come BP 1.7 however, you would be removing those template files.
An alternative is to upgrade to BP 1.7 beta 1, deactivate BP template pack plugin and delete the 6 BP folders transferred to your theme folder in server. The BP template files will automagically show up in your pages. The caveat is that most BP plugins have not been updated for BP 1.7
Given the two options above, what’s your preference?
Greetings folks,
I’m working with Buddypress on Multi Site and I’ve encountered a problem.
On a subsite I created a while ago, on the “Add New User” page (http://sub1.example.com/wp-admin/user-new.php) I can add a new user while assigning their role as: Admin, Editor, Author, Keymaster, Member, Blocked, Inactive, etc
But on another subsite I created today, on the same “Add New User” page, the only roles I can assign to a new user are: Subscriber, Administrator, Editor, Author, Contributor.
Just those 5.
What happened?
I’ve created other new test sites today, and I’m still getting only those 5 roles.
Does anyone know how I can fix this/what error I’ve made?
to @idanny08 and anyone willing to help – I appreciate how you all have taken the time to assist not so smart users like myself trying to integrate BP into a custom theme. I am having the same problem like this user at http://buddypress.org/support/topic/changing-html-in-current-theme-wisdom-of-life-themeforest/
My page at http://www.ppua.net/member-directory/ needs alignment help. I have tried to fix it myself on numerous occasions but to no avail. Here are the pastebin links of header.php, index.php, page.php, sidebar.php, footer.php
header.php – http://pastebin.com/EtKgU00e
index.php – http://pastebin.com/AG9wL6Mz
page.php – http://pastebin.com/kipLd8LG
sidebar.php – http://pastebin.com/Rv0Ydxah
footer.php – http://pastebin.com/cni2rViM
Could you please assist?
Thanks so much!
I took the premium route and have used BP Gallery since 2010 for all BP installs. I’ve styled the galleries based on design, the different users have been happy with posting media from activity streams, group galleries or personal galleries. I’ve been satisfied with the support given by Brajesh. Happy users == headache-free me.
I think that’s a separate but related point. Most BP site owners don’t have the chops to just “decide” they want media functionality and up and build it. None…None..of the existing offerings come close to what has become the standard now. I am not saying we have to match FB but we have nothing at this point.
Don’t interpret “very few sites have media in them” as “no one wants media in their sites” There just aren’t suitable offerings Thus we wait.
You guys are missing the point. Facebook is it’s own service and thus created its own functionality. You can create your own media functionality. It should be up to site owners to decide what that is.
Paul – I would disagree. I am not suggesting that your point that just what constitutes a “gallery” varies by user. For sure it does. I don’t think that’s the issue. I think our friends at Facebook have demonstrated that the ability to upload, share and organize media (mostly images and video) is an essential ingredient to a social network. BuddyPress allows us to configure and design our network to suit the needs of our niche in ways FB and others do not. Therein lies its real value.
I can think of may use cases, tons actually, where this functionality is required (my community of gardeners, for example) to upload images and have proven functionality with them like tagging, sharing, commenting & activity streams.
The same goes for events given the social nature of the communities.
It’s not a light on the efforts done, just know the demand is DEFINITELY there
Thanks Chouf. I found the solution and the problem is resolved. So I was trying a million different things within the Network Admin to make this work… I read in a thousand different places that all you need to do is define BP_ENABLE_MULTIBLOG as true in wp-config. For whatever reason, this DID NOT work and had zero effect on my network.
The solution was to define BP_ENABLE_MULTIBLOG as true in bb-custom.php. For those that don’t know, bb-custom.php is a stand alone file that is placed in the plugins directory. It’s basically like a child theme’s functions.php, but for buddypress. Why I had to dig deep into buddypress codex to make this discovery, I’m not sure. Hopefully this spares someone else the hair-pulling struggle I had to go through!
Hi @jcangler,
you have to activate BP only once, on the main site.
The main site is the WP declared as network. In the network admin you install BP as plugin. And BP would only be managable from within the network admin. And that’s right so !
Now this site is network enabled and is using BP. If you want install other blogs, do so from your network admin. Those blogs are all included into BP activities. There is no need to install BP on each secondary blog. This cannot work.
https://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_Multiple_Blogs
https://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network
https://codex.buddypress.org/user/setting-up-a-new-installation/installation-wizard/
Has anyone used Google Custom Search on their buddypress install, if so does it work ok.
This drove me a bit nuts. I figured out how to do it though and it’s very easy.
With buddypress installed it takes over the registration entirely and ads this activation email which is outside the normal header load so it;s outside of the functions.php call include.
The way I got it to work was by adding a call to the welcome email action after the do_action( ‘bp_after_activation_page’ ); in plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/registration/activation.php file.
Near the end of the file you see this.
do_action( ‘bp_after_activation_page’ );
Add the following
do_action( ‘welcome_email’ );
Now this may work because I am using a plugin to modify the welcome email to begin with. I am using SB Welcome Email Editor
As for why someone would need to send the user their id and password. I needed this because people can sign up using a name with spaces but the id is created with a dash in place of spaces so they may never know their id isn’t what they saved it as. I also added a condition on the id entry to force them to not use spaces but I like to cover all bases and let them know what they signed up with.
Hope this helps.
