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You’re asking on a BuddyPress forum which is the best social networking plugin? You’re going to get biased responses

I see you mentioned this in a previous post:

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/buddypress-donate/

Sounds like either a custom job or plugin to me. Maybe a potential options is:

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/cubepoints-buddypress-integration/

Hi Greg, did you find a solution to add a text field in the activity stream ?

Headway just came out with a paid add-on for BP compatibility.

Not a problem. We all overlook things.

Drupal does have comparable social networking tools and is worth considering. It is more of a “proper CMS”, but also considerably more difficult to configure properly.

I’d recommend against Joomla if for no other reason than they don’t have an upgrade path. They have fewer extensions available, and more of their extensions cost money. I also wasn’t a big fan of the social network tools available.

In the end, I went with WordPress because I love how easy it is to update, and how easy it us to update all my plugins. I looked at Mingle, WP-Symposium and Buddypress. Of the three, Buddypress had the most features and plugins, and seemed to have the most developer support.

I think it is the best tool out there for building a social network personally, but your mileage may vary.

@enderandrew of course , I am so stupid , thank you, it works now !!

@Karmatosed I hate responsive themes because they are misused. You do not need it for desktop. Ever. If you use responsive css then it should give you the appropriate css based on screen size, not change the layout when you resize a browser. That is the worst UI/UX i’ve ever seen.

As for the app approach, more people access Facebook and Twitter via apps than they do browsers. The numbers dictate the slow death of the browser.

I don’t believe there are many options for it. But under the Buddypress menu you should see components, and you can turn the forums on and off from there.

https://codex.buddypress.org/extending-buddypress/customizing-labels-messages-and-urls/

@4ella you have the Buddypress plugin folder named 1.5-beta-1. Rename that folder to Buddypress.

Nope, only the groups directory is a page, but not a single group. This topic is for compatibility issues, so please create your own topic if it’s not related. Cheers.

Since 1.5 top level is page, I’m curious– a single group is a page or something else?

I have a similar problem , I can’t install the latest trunk , I have (with simple scripts) on my bluehost installed new fresh 3.2.1. wordpress installation , I downloaded latest BP 4921 trunk , unzipped , archived and succesfully installed and when I try to activate I get this:
Warning: require(/home2/………../public_html/………../wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-core/bp-core-wpabstraction.php) [function.require]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home2/………./public_html/…………./wp-content/plugins/1.5-beta-1/bp-loader.php on line 68
What should be wrong ?

Mapology and Buddyvents are compatible with BP 1.5 now.

hi guys, I assume 90% of bp users have this issue (see my last check at testbp.org)
no one hasn’t anything to say/help? thanks

@ronia I have renamed BP ‘Favorite’ to ‘Bookmark’ and extended an old version of BP-Like to use with blog posts and comments and other stuff (as well as count ‘likes’ given and received per user), and used the built-in functionality in BP-Like to rename the links to ‘Thanks’.

Hi !
I am really intersted in your subject, and to me disabling “Friends” in the Component Setup is not enough.
I am setting up an alumni website for my school, and we would like directly everybody to benefit from the “Friends” capabilities without the operation of asking everybody to be “Friends”…with all the time that takes, and with experience, we see lot of people don’t care and never answer to that request.
I tried disabling “Friends” but then the simplest function of “fullfilling a name in the private message thing” doesn’t work anymore…between other things…

So, is it possible, is there any plugin for giving everybody all the accesses for talking, writing mass messaging, create events, etc…automatically, without asking anyone to be “Friend” ?

Thank you very very much for you help !

+1 mobilized style sheet for BuddyPress by default

Add this to functions.php or bp-custom.php

define( ‘BP_ENABLE_USERNAME_COMPATIBILITY_MODE’, true );

Oh and i’m pitching for 1.6 to have a mobilized style sheet for BuddyPress by default.