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or try: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-mail-smtp/ It also has an email tester built in to instantly check settings….

Hi @mpvshameem I was having this problem and it was solved by installing the plugin called Mail From by Andrew Hamilton. For some reason the confirmation emails weren’t getting sent (I have bluehost, and it seems to be a common issue with them).
This plugin helped the emails get through, but it actually didn’t actually do anything else that it was supposed to do. I wanted to change the mail from address that people see in the confirmation email but I ended up having to call bluehost and they fixed it for me. The bluehost rep told me that WP often has generic or inaccurate headers so some things don’t work as they should. I pretended like I understood what that meant and was happy my problem was solved.

I have the same problem.

@sbruner, okay that second article was a lot more easy to follow. so now it says my footer and header are ready to be used as widgets. but when i got to wp-admin/apperance/widgets, i only see the menu for sidebar widgets, shouldnt there be a footer and header as well?

@guileshill I see that you’ve changed to bp-default theme. Go to http://artsnet.co/groups/ – do you see the “Create Group” link beside page title “Groups Directory”?

This site here is not a sandbox. It’s not meant to test things out. That would be http://testbp.org, as you can see from the theme, for example. testpb runs the default theme, while we have a more or less functional custom theme here

Install BuddyPress in a subdomain or, better locally on your home computer, and test out what it can do and what it can’t do. testbp is good in that you can see what you can do as an end user, but you won’t know what you can adjust as a site admin.

My philosophy is everyone starts knowing nothing we all know varying things and should share to help each other. Whilst a lot of what I think you want to know would be helped if you can by installing BuddyPress on a a site somewhere and exploring or trying the test site (http://testbp.org/). Let me see if I can help a little.

Traditional forums would be what bbpress (https://bbpress.org/) would be your solution for. Now, in saying that BuddyPress uses bbpress for forums. So it’s a mutual use in sense of BuddyPress.

The way groups work are yes by having forums. The way I like to think of them are hang outs / clubhouses where there is a link between members and they can discuss. I may have an interest in dogs (the main site) but I may only want to talk about dog training or labradors (those would be groups). That’s a bit of a broad explanation but hopefully gets the notion across.

Now can you have traditional forums – yes with bbpress but groups is a more segemented talking.

Others may have their own breakdowns of it but to me this is what groups and forums are in simple terms.

Some more links to share with you though that may help it make a bit more sense:

https://buddypress.org/about/story/

And here is from the buddypress.org home page about groups:

“Powerful public, private or hidden groups allow your users to break the discussion down into specific topics. Extend groups with your own custom features using the group extension API.”

And about forums:

“Full powered discussion forums built directly into groups allow for more conventional in-depth conversations.”

Use beta BuddyPress 1.5 and the bbpress plugin. Go over to testbp.org and you can see the combo in action

@sbruner, apparently the function ‘bp_search_form_enabled’ has been deprecated in BP 1.5:

http://phpxref.ftwr.co.uk/buddypress/nav.html?_functions/index.html

@qrahaman – to post code here, you have to wrap it with backticks as seen within the parentheses ( ` )

We have initial docs on styling for BP 1.5 https://codex.buddypress.org/releases/1-5-developer-and-designer-information/

@simon_said – exactly right. Sorry I wasn’t more clear.

Still to do: My topics & replies

These will likely come back when we move to bbPress 2.0.

* Topic links are fixed
* Topic tags are fixed

@tommyhoang Again, this is a bug in WordPress core. Not BuddyPress. It’s not been fixed into WordPress yet; look at https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/16744

BP_DISABLE_AUTO_GROUP_JOIN is part of BuddyPress core. It ought to work.

@sbruner, is that article up to date for the current version of wordpress and buddypress? I created a child theme and made a blank functions.php file and added the codes from step 1 and step 2. now Im a little confused with step 3, where am i suppose to put those codes and am I suppose to rename my functions.php file to page.php?

If you want to uninstall BuddyPress later, you’ll go through this process https://codex.buddypress.org/buddypress-site-administration/deleting-buddypress/

As for BP Template Pack plugin, you’d have to delete the plugin and then delete the BP template folders/files copied over to your active WP theme folder when you went through the BP compatibility process.

WP/BP versions? Could be that you have outdated theme? Change to bp-default theme and check whether mentioned misbehavior is corrected.

@simon_said BP 1.5 Theme Stylesheet info in BP Codex – https://codex.buddypress.org/releases/1-5-developer-and-designer-information/

So the code in my previous post doesn’t show. Since then, this is what I’ve included in my child theme’s functions.php file (and I have NOT done an @import within my style.css file):

http://chopapp.com/#2s3gjzs6

This seems to work. Is the syntax for enqueuing the style.css file correct? Is this the right way to do it? Thanks.

By the way, I see that other folks are able to paste code into the comments/replies. I don’t know how to do that, hence the link. Could someone enlighten me?