I’m trying to build a social networking platform to link psychiatric survivors and engaged community to help people find personal resources outside of mental health care. This has the potential to take out much of big pharma’s inaccurate messages about mental health. I’m not a developer. I have posted 5 other wordpress sites but they are just basic blogs. I really like WordPress, so I turned to Buddypress first when I wanted to build something much bigger. What I have so far is on http://ConnectPower.org and I have the newest versions of Buddypress and WordPress.
However, I have seen threads with problems with Buddypress and I know I’ve run into a lot of those issues already like friend requests not working, forums not working, activation codes being requested twice, too much white space above the loop in all my pages, no way to join groups, etc. I’ve seen these issues on the help forums so I know I could probably work through them all bit by bit.
However, I’ve also been looking through all the galleries and haven’t yet seen a large community (over 300 members) with much activity showing.
My question is, Am I going to be able to develop a truly robust and professional looking product this way? Why is it the other big communities all work from scratch? Is it worth digging in and poking around and dealing with all these problems? Maybe the problems just have an initial barrier that will drop away. If Buddypress is supposed to be accessible to non-developers, maybe I just have a bit more learning curve to work through and then I’m home free? I’m pretty good at figuring out online stuff and I’m willing to take programming classes or go to Meetups or whatever would work.
Or should I write a business plan, find funding, and then hire programmers to build something for me, maybe from a different platform? It seems like all the reviews of all the platforms I’ve looked at have these same issues, so really the question is,
—->>> Can I do this myself or do I need to find some funding and get pros in on it for me?
Hello, need some assistance with finding a plugin that will integrate MLS listings into a real estate community that I am building. I also need some help customizing the pages and tabs on BuddyPress. Thanks for the help in advance! My site is tennhome.com.
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HI Am using buddypress in my site(www.chullanz.co.cc) . Am using my existing theme itself with the help of BP template pack. Eveerything is working Fine except the forums . i cant add a new topic in the forum. the link not working . Please help me to resolve this issue.
thanks & regards
hi all,
i have facing same problem on my site too
i have WP 3.3.2, BP 1.5.5, BB press 2.0.2, bp-default theme,Single WP and cpanel VPS server
and also using plugin like BP chat, BuddyPress Activity Plus
and i tried all things to solve this issue but yet not get result
i tried to re-install theme and BP plugin but can’t get result
can anyone solve this problem
Please help…..ASAP
Thanks for the reply mercime. I had changed this plugin now is working fine.
Nope I didn’t contact the authors of the plugin. I’ll Try. Thanks Paul
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/welcome-pack/forum/topic/making-links-live-in-html-emails-generated-by-welcome-pack/ – Found this other post related to this topic.
So is there any possible way to get the activation link to work in the email? Is there some other code we can use to accomplish this purpose? Workaround? I tried the Unconfirmed plugin but it does not fix this issue. Perhaps there is another way (unfortunately without the Welcome Pack) to change the standard Buddypress emails and thus keeping a working activation link?
I am not much of a programmer but I do know that most everyone needs to change the automatic emails being sent out (activation, friendship request, etc.) for BuddyPress. It should be easy to change this text, add your logo, and even add html. However, I have yet to see a plugin or update which makes this possible. I would love to know if anyone has found a solution for this?
Paul is very busy so perhaps the other people interested in getting this working can help? Thanks in advance for any and all replies! – Quote: 1+1=3
== but I’m not able to embed that same video within a status update or Forum on BuddyPress. ==
@stuffwelike there’s a plugin for that, download from trunk https://buddypress.org/community/groups/buddypress-links/forum/topic/buddypress-1-6-support-and-the-future/
Buddypress 1.6.1, WordPress 3.4.1. Moved hosting from GoDaddy to rackspace. We have Welcomepack 3.3
The activation email is still not showing the activation link. Just blank..
Has anyone been able to get this working? Is %s the best to use?
I like using this plugin because of the welcome message and this is one of the only plugins that lets you change the default BP messages going out.
Please kindly solve this fast.
As you have you have confirmed it’s not an issue with BP but with your custom theme, the advice already given earlier needs to be followed re updating the custom theme. For starters try doing a visual compare of the profile display files in members/single/profile/profile-loop.php of bp-default and your theme version.
Maybe have a look at the “Buddypress Followers plugin”
Hi,
As seen in buddypress forum, in the topic list view you can see that the time stamp (x hours, x minutes ago..) of the latest post is linked to the actual latest post of the topic.
How do I implement this in my site? is this part of the default feature? or do I need to make any changes?
@luk-gaming First, do provide a throw-away username and password to your site as you are asking for support here.
Just tested uploading and cropping an avatar with IE8 in my test installation. The upload and crop work just fine.
To troubleshoot, deactivate plugins except BuddyPress and BP Template Pack plugin then check if issue is resolved. If that doesn’t solve it, deactivate BP Template Pack plugin and change theme to bp-default theme then check if issue is resolved. .
I can embed videos such as from YouTube with solely the URL within a blog post on WordPress, but I’m not able to embed that same video within a status update or Forum on BuddyPress.
@zillabuggs best place to get support for BP Gallery is with plugin dev @sbrajesh at BuddyDev.com forums
I´m also having the same problem. I am using the same template . I just modified a bit.
http://theblakenetworktv.com/members/blake/profile/
If you see this problem exists with me and @travcentralen .
Well when I use default buddypress theme with all the plugins it works. So I assume the problem is with the template?
I am new in wordpress. This is my 2nd time with wordpress but 1st time with buddypress.
Please kindly solve this fast. 
Thanks a lot
Tirtha (TJ Designers)
I don’t know if this is just me, or if this is a more common problem:
I cannot use more than 1 plugin now (with 1.5.6 I could use two) that extends BuddyPress or I get memory overflow errors and have to delete the plugin(s) via FTP before I can access the plugins page in the ACP again. 
I don’t know if it’s just my host (JaguarPC Pro VPS account) or if it’s something in general, so I figured I’d post here and let you know as I have plans for a site in the future that needs BuddyPress and plugins for it to work and not cause memory overflows!
Thanks for any help/advice in advance!
I tried to install Buddypress using wordpress but it would get stuck on installing the package then crash. I tried installing it using the upload button but it would get to unpacking package then crash. When I uploaded it using my ftp client it uploaded straight away but wordpress would not detect it.
What am I doing wrong and what can i do to fix it.
@philip2 need more information. WP/BP versions? Have you tried changing to bp-default theme to see if issue is resolved?
@hkcharlie no problem. So your issue is resolved then?