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Do you Need all the features that facebook offers? This plugin is just about the closest you will get, and I am pretty sure their next update will mimic facebook like features:

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/buddypress-like/

Best Plugin for FB-Like: http://www.gb-world.net/like-button-plugin-for-wordpress/ or @wordpress.org: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/like-button-plugin-for-wordpress/

Child themes usually don’t include page.php; they usually inherit it from the parent theme, which in this case is the bp-default theme (/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/).

However, you can easily make such a template yourself.

Just create a page.php in your child theme and customize!

Yes, using the admin panel to install BuddyPress will always download the latest, stable release.

Don’t move the wordpress directory! If you need to reinstall WordPress in the root directory, do it from scratch!

/buddypress/bp-core/bp-core-settings.php

It’s a little hard to override the settings currently, but it’s possible.

Did you enable pretty permalinks like mercime suggested? Are you using the latest version of BP?

Did you install WordPress in a subdirectory with these instructions?
https://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory

If so, there are bugs with BP 1.2.8 relating to subdirectory installs.

Please read this thread to resolve the login/logout issue for now:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/creating-extending/forum/topic/loginlogout-from-admin-bar-does-not-work

Do not use widgets that make use of iframe or script tags in a loop! Very bad load performance like you said!
Unfortunately you cannot use something like FB Like without an iframe or script tag as it requires pinging FB for the like count.

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Whenever possible, use links instead. The Shareholic API can help:
http://www.shareaholic.com/api/

There are probably other similar APIs out there as well.

You can have an alternate color of whatever you want in your theme via css, with this simple css rule:

` tr.alt { background-color: #f4f4f4; } `

Since your using the buddypress default theme, you will add this rule under the:

`/* > WordPress Blog Comment Styles

`#comments ol.commentlist tr.alt {
background-color: #f4f4f4;
}`

duplicate of https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/help-with-changing-the-submit-url-for-document-uploader/

It is in WP codex – https://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks#Using_.22Pretty.22_permalinks

The lack of BP theme authors, and the newness and complexities of supporting child themes in the repo makes this an easy target for confusion for everyone. I remember glancing over Otto’s update but I never got a heads up it was official for BP. Unless it’s just alwas been that way and it predates me.

Ideally we would want a dedicated BuddyPress theme reviewer that’s familiar with BP and has the time to maintain those specific themes, test them with future versions of BuddyPress, etc. Even more ideally if it was someone active in the forums and trac. Being a theme reviewer is a volunteer position that comes with it lots of responsibilities and expectations. It also doesn’t help that bp-default triggers a ton of debug notices in the 1.2 branch.

As my focus shifts around and as I settle in to my new role at Automattic, I’m slowly picking up access and getting familiar with things like this that I’ve never rounds before.

I am also having a similar error and Yes @djpaul it is the same Lines. I am also using custom fields but I have 3 groups, the group having the problem has only checkboxes and is a required field.

`
Warning: trim() expects parameter 1 to be string, array given in C:xampphtdocsashantibar.orgwp-contentpluginsbuddypressbp-xprofile.php on line 717

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at C:xampphtdocsashantibar.orgwp-contentpluginsbuddypressbp-xprofile.php:717) in C:xampphtdocsashantibar.orgwp-includespluggable.php on line 897
`

@linusf sorry for slow response missed you reply.

You don’t give much information about your setup, in theory it should have sufficed to up load the bbpress folder to the forums directory in buddypress as you did and you would have been good to go with an existing install or running a fresh install first, your issues tend to sound as though you have theme issues rather than issues with the forum/bbpress component. Are you running a custom theme rather than BP-default or bp child theme?

@sjtryon please understand that on a community forum such as this where people attempt to provide help to others on their own time for free as it were it does come across slightly rude to make remarks such as ‘silly’

Now I must really get my avatar sorted out as clearly I’m simply posting in far too feminine a manner

hi all,

I was able to add facebook like button to activities (simple facebook script to entry.php). Know experience is that like button in activities slows down www a lot.
Is there any way (where to add script) to have like button only in single view of activity (permalinks)?
think it won’t make so big load on www, but can not understand how to achieve this…tried adding of div (idea was of display:none in list of activities), nothing works. is it possible at all?

anyone?
thanks.

BuddyPress users are essentially WP users there’s no separation and in this and other respects BP is a plugin running under WP and thus using aspects of WP such as users/signups

Buddypress has extended profiles that can be set in the dashboard under the BP menu there you can add new fields to the base group (base group fields are displayed on the initial signup page) or create new filed groups for anything you like and those will be displayed on the users profile screens and accessed under ‘edit profile’ by the user to complete.

As an admin you are very limited as to what you can set on a users profile, basically being restricted to the capabilities under the WP dashboard ‘users’ and ‘add users’

Nice plugin! Kind of went under the radar! Why don’t you upload it to the WP Plugin repo?

No difference to BP.