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It’s hard to remove a post and let you see the response, so I’m closing this one. Please refrain from posting any further about this, it’s beginning to look like spam (this is the third post that I’m aware of, in the last few days). Heck, the title of this thread is the sort of thing Google’s going to pick up on, which I know is your intention.

In terms of people selling or advertising premium BuddyPress services on this site, there’s a balance between promoting your plugin in situations such as responding to a relevant topic, i.e. “how can I do x?” and you reply, “my premium plugin z can do that for you!” (which is okay), and outright advertising or spamming (which isn’t). Announcing a new premium plugin or theme is fine, but posting an announcement or advert each week isn’t — that’s spam.

Blatant advertising or spamming is not allowed; BuddyPress.org community support is about community support, it is not a free-for-all marketplace. This isn’t the place for that type of thing.

Specifically regarding your site, there are extra considerations. You appear to be re-selling GPL’d plugins and themes[1] (I have only taken a quick look at your site). As long as you had purchased these GPL’d themes or plugins originally, then you can turn around and give that theme or plugin to anybody you want. The GPL is about redistribution. My understanding is that this viewpoint is entirely correct.

However, I think you’re missing the big picture. It may not be illegal, but I don’t think it’s ethical. The authors of those works which you are profiting from worked hard to create something. By re-selling their works, I believe you are disrespecting those authors and the larger community. To me, it’s as simple as this: if this sort of behaviour discourages even one individual from creating a new BuddyPress plugin or a BuddyPress theme, because they’d like to try to make some money from it, then the community has been harmed by having one less choice.

I feel this threads falls between an announcement of a service and an advertisement for that service, considering your repeated posts, with debatable ethics. I apologise on behalf of our moderator team; we should have got in contact with you after your first post, and we’re sorry that it seemed we were picking on your posts. However, you could have posted another topic and asked what happened to your previous posts; we would have seen it.

I am paul@byotos.com if you would like to discuss further in private, or you’re welcome to start a new topic and start a discussion about the ethics of re-selling GPL plugins/themes, but maybe that sort of discussion would go best on the wordpress.org forums, rather than here, as it would be seen by a larger audience of WordPress plugin and theme authors (relevant, of course, because your site appears to have WP and BP-specific themes listed).

[1] This assumes that everything in those plugins/themes is covered by the GPL, such as images or any other files, as opposed to just the PHP source.

If you want to help grow the WP AND BP community’s then you can do so by developing and sharing your own plugins or themes.you’re not helping if you rip off others,
it doesn’t mean if it’s GPL that everything should be free.In my opinion all those premium services are helping the grow of WP and BP that’s also a small part why WP has become so popular and if there are more such services for BP then BP will grow as well.

if you’re not a developer or designer but still want to help then you can help by donating to people like Paul or Andrea_r.

I’m writing a response to this.

Your site says straight from the source, but you are not the author of any of the plugins.

makes it look more like you want in on the action too.

Just because it’s not illegal doesn’t make it morally right. Bad karma, mate…
You talking about ideals is quite funny, me thinks!

https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3146

@Brandon Allen and @r-a-y,

I’ve decided that I wanted to add “meta data” as topic tags, instead, so I could use the bp_has_forum_topics() so I filter posts easily. I’ve modified the functions you guys helped me make, using bb_add_topic_tags() however no new tags are added. I want the user to be able to add their own tags via the text area box, in addition to selecting from a set of tags via check-boxes. Here’s what I came up with:

`function cg_postcatagory( $post_id = false ) {
if ( empty( $post_id ) || empty( $_POST ) )
return false;

$post_id = (int) $post_id;
$postmeta = $_POST;

$cg_newmeta = ( cg_newmeta( $post_id, $postmeta ) ) ? true : false;

return $cg_newmeta;
}
add_action( ‘bp_forums_new_post’, ‘cg_postcatagory’ );

function cg_newmeta( $id, $postcat) {

do_action (‘bbpress_init’);
bb_add_topic_tags($id, $postcat);
}`

I have a feeling that there’s a conflict between the form.php new topic form’s text-area input, and the check-boxes input that I’ve added…

This is such a huge, complicated issue. I’ve not even tried this myself. BP 1.2’s theme system changed, so you will be reverting back to the new default theme unless you build a new theme. Any specific BuddyPress plugins you are running will almost certainly stop working in some way. You’ve also got several WordPress versions to step through.

What version of WordPress are you using? I’m guessing WPMU 2.7?

This may work for you:

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/welcome-pack/

For example at the top of the twentyten theme’s style.css is the following line:
`Tags: custom-menu, sticky-post, microformats, rtl-language-support, translation-ready`
If you change it to:
`Tags: buddypress, custom-menu, sticky-post, microformats, rtl-language-support, translation-ready`
then that warning will go away.

However that warning is to tell you that the theme isn’t buddypress compatible so it needs to be converted/updated.

This can be done by following the guide in the buddypress codex: https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/

Some themes, such as Suffusion, have their own conversion pack, so it would be worth checking to see if one is available first.

Thank you all for posting this! I’ve been reading for hours and this has fixed my issues.

I’m running BP on a network install and want ALL subdomains to have use of BP. It was working on the main install but as I created subdomains, the BP pages (Activity, Members, etc,) was giving me 404 errors. I went down the htaccess rabbit hole for a while and gave up. Started at the beginning and reading thru all the forums that looked related and found this.

@WesCleveland – The bp-custom.php works like a charm so far. Thanks for posting your solution.

@ScrltOTara

Go to the group in question.
Click Admin > Manage Members > Remove from group (next to the member you want to remove)

We’ve fixed this tricky one for BuddyPress 1.3, too

Thanks for your comments, and good luck with your site.

@friederb Glad you resolved the issue on your own Thanks for sharing what the problematic plugin was.

Deactivate all plugins except BuddyPress and change to bp-default theme, does same behavior apply? WP/BP versions?

This would be the way to do that – https://codex.buddypress.org/extending-buddypress/customizing-labels-messages-and-urls/

Deactivate all plugins except BuddyPress and change to bp-default theme to start troubleshooting what’s causing the erroneous behavior.