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closing this. answered in https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/how-to-install-buddypress-along-side-running-blog-1/

@modemlooper

Have to disagree with that.

The stream is an easy way to look at prior posts – especially helpful because the search doesn’t work.
I have an activity stream on my profile – but it’s always at least 2 months behind and never comprehensive.

So having neither a useable stream or search means people using this site… well you know how they feel.

Do you mean this: http://www.artisteer.com/? If so I’m not seeing that it is designed to create a BuddyPress theme which may be the hurdle you’re encountering. I would suggest if you want an easier route to look at BuddyPress themes and / or the template pack for BuddyPress. I know it’s not a perfect answer but you could just find the task to fix too big for a support forum like this and tackling the root a better method.

You can do a user check in the template file if you want using this: https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/is_user_logged_in

Maybe that would be a good starting point for you?

Adding a sidebar would require you to change the width of the content div and then also add in another get_sidebar call. https://buddypress.org/community/groups/creating-extending/forum/topic/buddypress-default-theme-12-add-more-sidebar-column/ is a good starting point.

As for changing the header – do you just want to change the header or the entire content area as it’s set to the full width of the site?

@raminjan just use a regular WP theme like Twenty Ten, no need for bbPress version. Check out BP Codex Twenty Ten child theme with BP template pack plugin for reference -> https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/theme-dev-bp-template-pack-walkthrough-twenty-ten-bp-1-5/

@raminjan more info needed – e.g. BP/WP versions? What plugins are activated? What theme are you using, etc – https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/when-asking-for-support/

@calico_owl either you hire a developer to migrate this for you or better yet, do it yourself.

As always, back up database plus server folders so you can always revert to your old installation if migration doesn’t work out. Then again, you can always set up separate installation and import database (changing URI’s first) from your existing installation and test it first.

Note that users will have to log in once after BP is activated to show up in the Members Directory page.

@maggieymae forums page at https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/installing-group-and-sitewide-forums/

Favorites are user picks for posts, forum topics ,et al which show up in Activity Streams and listed in your profile’s “My Favorites” tab

I take it you used a developer to develop the code to auto generate the usernames from the email address… what does the developer say about this problem?

On the face of it, it looks like they are applying some hashing algorithm to the email address to generate the username.

Love it or like it, you should be aware that usernames in addition to email addresses are a fairly fundamental feature of WordPress — attempting to bypass the need for both can lead to issues, e.g. using a raw email address for username, would lead to strange urls for the member profile pages in BuddyPress.

try adding this to your theme’s functions.php — there is a known problem with Gravity and BP (should have mentioned this originally!):

function bbg_switch_gf_hooks() {
remove_action(‘wp’, array(‘RGForms’, ‘maybe_process_form’), 9);
add_action( ‘bp_actions’, array( ‘RGForms’, ‘maybe_process_form’ ), 1 );
}
add_action( ‘init’, ‘bbg_switch_gf_hooks’, 99 );

the username and email address on the registration form are sanitized in the function: bp_core_validate_user_signup()

Passwords are passed through wp_hash_password() which I assume does any necessary sanitising implicitly.

Not sure how any additional signup fields are processed.

As @hugo says — I can’t envisage how a scanner could possibly check this.

@newpress why on earth have you posted this site here? This is a forum for Buddypress this app you are trying to promote is not even WordPress based, and thus entirely inappropriate to posts here, please do not do so again.

If you do not want people messing around too much then really you should think about posting an admin loggin on a public forum. I feel you haven’t learnt much from the other post where you blindly downloaded a script and uploaded to your live site? If your Host is troubled then it is firmly your responsibility and you must think about that before leaving links like this.

I am removing the link as not appropriate to this forum.

You can build this type of site on top of the BuddyPress platform, but it’s custom development work. There’s no ‘off the shelf’ plugin to achieve it.

Is that a Buddypress site?! Perfect plugin. where to get it?