BuddyPress.org

We are very successful and only 6 months in evolution at 1,200 members with a 70% active participant number (at least once every 2 weeks). The site is specifically for Music Education. You can check it out at musicpln[dot]org You’ll have to sign up to see it though (free sign-up).

Regards.

@mercime Just slightly concerned as I remember that when I was roughing up my approach to the lack of a blog/dashboard link for users or that a user elevated actually didn’t get the same main dashboard link as the original site admin it proved problematical getting things correct for all types of install if I indeed did, haven’t had a moment to look at the actual committed patch to see how it does perform for all install types.

@hnla I didn’t think to ask if it was clear that the new dashboard link only shows up for super admins everywhere and for blog owners only if they’re in their blog site

Brajesh wrote a plugin for it, check it out.

Creating The sitewide global/unified search Page for your Buddypress Theme

And what would be your definition of a “real social network”?

I’m not really seeing a buddypress driven site become as big as facebook or twitter w/o some serious original ideas etc.
Seeing that BuddyPress can be setup by anyone.

https://wordpress.org/showcase/?s=buddypress

http://thepioneerwoman.com/tasty-kitchen/

Puzzled by this what are you running and in what configuration, your users – if they are simply subscribers – shouldn’t be able to do much anyway. Is this dashboard link coming off the back of my ticket and code example as I had written it with user capabilities in mind it was only meant to show for users elevated to super admin.

Try installing Email Log (https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/email-log.zip), which records all mails sent from the WP+BP installation, this will at least let you know if the activation email has been processed from the Site (According to the site itself).

There is also another plugin (https://buddypress.org/community/groups/wp-activate-users/) which will allow you to activate users that dont seem to get the email or are just plain lazy.

@desha Thanks this solved the issue.

Deactivate BuddyPress and BP-dependent plugins. See if your media upload works in the first place. Before installing BuddyPress – https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/before-installing/#wp-configuration re media uploading

Is your install multisite? If so, post content of your .htaccess file

Check this out

I cannot for the life of me get the activation email to send. Can anyone please help? I’ve been working on this for over 12 hours straight now and am exhausted. Please help me! I’ve checked the box next to “allow anyone to register”, saved changes and installed the latest versions of “wordpress”, “buddypress”, “buddypress template pack” and “mail from” and it still won’t work. What else do I need to do?

If you’re using BP 1.2.7, simply put your buddypress language files in:
/wp-content/languages/

Make sure your language files are named like:
`buddypress-vi.po
buddypress-vi.mo
`
If you’re using an older version of BP, read step 3 of this guide:
https://codex.buddypress.org/extending-buddypress/customizing-labels-messages-and-urls/

A workaround is you could create your own groups loop and place it before the group directory loop in the group directory template:
https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/custom-buddypress-loops/the-groups-loop/

If you know you’re not going to have to change these groups, you could just hardcode the group info with HTML directly into the template.
This saves having to create another group loop.

To remove the default tabs, you’ll need to modify the theme.

Read this page:
https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/

Then, once you’ve got the hang of that. Copy over /bp-themes/bp-default/header.php to your new child theme and modify the tab structure.

The function you’ll want is:
`is_user_logged_in()`

Wrap a is_user_logged_in() conditional around the tabs you want to show only for logged in users.

Something like this:

`

<li class=”selected”>
<a href="//” title=””>

<li class=”selected”>
<a href="//” title=””>

<li class=”selected”>
<a href="//” title=””>

<li class=”selected”>
<a href="//” title=””>

<li class=”selected”>
<a href="//” title=””>

`

Note that if someone knows the URLs to those tabs, they’ll still be able to access them.

You might want to look into some BP private plugins like:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-private-community/
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/private-buddypress/

De nada, glad you resolved the issue on your own, and a Happy New Year to you too

One way to change member list presentation without touching core file is by adding some tweaks below any other styling in your active theme’s style.css. Something like :

`ul#members-list li {
border: 1px solid #cccccc;
width: 110px;
height: 110px;
float: left;
margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;
padding: 3px;
text-align: center;
overflow: hidden;
}

ul#members-list li img.avatar {
float: none;
padding: 3px;
margin: 0px 0px 5px 0px;
}

ul#members-list li span.activity,
ul#members-list li span.update,
ul#members-list li div.action {
display: none;
}`
I haven’t tested this so adjust to taste, but you get the idea …

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/when-asking-for-support/

Cache db requests and you can host static files on a CDN. Using a light theme as well helps. Use browser dev tools to test bottle necks in speed.

Just a heads up. Most of the child themes probably wont work 100% with 1.2.7 version of BP because the default theme is missing things the child themes rely on and the theme reviewers in the WP repo are rejecting child themes because BP default is considered broken on their end.

If BP-default was added as a theme to the WP repo and not a via a plugin it would not pass the theme reviewers. But, theme reviewers test child themes based on this theme thats bundled with a plugin.

Hopefully the default theme gets fixed by the next version.

Did you upload BuddyPress by FTP? There is probably a corrupt file. Delete the plugin and, if you can, install BuddyPress via the “Add new plugin” page in your WordPress admin.

BuddyPress has a proper purpose; it lets you run your own social network. It’s not a forum. If you’re looking for a forum, then you don’t want BuddyPress.

The CSS from buddypress is not broken, more like you not doing something correctly. Did you call the default.CSS?