This looks promising, but it doesn’t seem to work with BuddyPress 1.6-bleeding. If I click on the link “Blog” in my group, a white blank page appears.
Any suggestions?
Thanks!
Frisco Theme for BuddyPress – https://wordpress.org/extend/themes/frisco-for-buddypress
Or use any responsive WP theme and install+activate the BP Template Pack plugin, then go through BP compatibility process. There’s a list of “template-packed” WP themes https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/#template-packed-wordpress-themes for reference on how to go about it.
Telegraph uses Disqus across all our sites; we have so many comments we have a team of people working full-time to moderate them. And, yes, Telegraph pays money for Disqus.
Upload a BLANK file which should be named sidebar-buddypress.php to your active theme folder in the same level you’d find index.php, page.php, etc.That will effectively make all your BP template files full-width.
@aarc If you’ve revised any of the BP template files transferred to your musiclife theme folder in server during the BP Compatibility process, please delete the 6 BP folders transferred to your musiclife theme folder in server – /activity, /blogs, /forums, /members, /groups, /register – then re-run Appearance > BP Compatibility again to make sure that you have clean template files.
Hey everyone,
I’m trying to round up as many responsive buddypress themes as I can. So far I’ve only found these two:
http://themeforest.net/item/bounce-responsive-business-wp-buddypress-theme/2324726
http://317.milo317.com/members/
Does anyone know of any others?
Thanks,
James
Hi Paul,
Thanks for your in-depth reply. I will probably circumvent the default WordPress comment system and fully use Disqus. I sent an email to the Disqus team, however I’ve got a feeling that I’ll need to purchase their professional add-on package to get their full support on the implementation. From the information outlined in the OP article, I’d say that this was the route that the Telegraph.co.uk took as well in order to get your three way system up and running?
I’ll see what I can come with 
James
Thanks once again Hugo, you always have the solution!
I was doing the sort of digging you describe yesterday in fact and was able to find out how to add a “Follow” button which may interest users of Andy’s plugin BuddyPress Followers:
bp_follow_add_follow_button( bp_displayed_user_id() );
Hi there!
I currently work for the Telegraph, so have first-hand knowledge. If you want to use Disqus, you need to get user authentication going between WordPress and Disqus. At the Telegraph, we have our own in-house authentication system, too, so we’ve got a three way connection between our system, WordPress, Disqus. It’s as tricky as it sounds, and it’s not perfect.
We also have to use the Disqus Single Sign On feature, which you have to pay money for.
Disqus do have a WordPress plugin https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/disqus-comment-system but as I understand, it syncs between WordPress comments and Disqus comments (it never looks like you’re using Disqus).
I would suggest either using Disqus comments fully or WordPress comments fully. Not a mixture. Requiring people to sign in to Disqus via FB or TW I don’t think will realistically be a problem, as a lot of users have those social media accounts already. If you absolutely must have the Disqus / WordPress user authentication going, I’d suggest you get in contact with Disqus support at http://disqus.com/support/ and see what their thoughts are.
If you learn something, do share 
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4242 (which you know about, since you posted the bug report. Thanks!)
If you’re using wordpress 3.3+, you can use the wp_editor function in your buddypress powered theme. For example, the is the textarea for posting reply for group forums in BuddyPress Default theme located in /buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/groups/single/forum :
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Change it to
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Where the first quote (‘Type here …’) is the initial content for the editor (You can just leave it as ” if you don’t want any initial content) and the second quote (‘reply_text’) is the id of the editor.
By default, wp_editor will use the default TinyMCE editor that comes with WordPress but you can change it via a plugin e.g. CKEditor For WordPress
i have a strange issue. i am not able to invite some friends into a group. if i want to do it, the field for the friends is completly empty.
things i’ve done: (all with the same origin database-copy)
* ‘i have created a copy from the site / database and started the standard theme – nothing happend
* reinstalled buddypress plugin
* reinstalled wordpress + buddypress
* deactivated all the other plugins
so it has to be something wrong in my database. how do i check it? if i do a complete reinstall it would be fine, but i dont like to reimport all the users and group messages..
any ideas?
@psanvito
I have used Shopp in the past, very good support and a reliable product.
Also mentioned above ‘S2Member’ looks perfect for BuddyPress websites
This is really annoying and many people want to quickly send a message without a subject. Can we remove this feature from BuddyPress?
@b1gft copy over https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/1.5.5/bp-themes/bp-default/forums/forums-loop.php into child theme folder/forums/forums-loop.php – then change value in line 61 for the poster avatar and line 68 for the groups avatar.
Hi,
Ive been looking top to bottom for an answer of this question, can’t find it anywhere.
The problem: when a new user signs up to buddypress and groups that are set to public, they can already see the content.
All I am wanting to do is simply change something that ensures I can create groups with the public visibility however to subscribe to the activity feed the user needs to become a member to that particular group (like the private group but without a request to join required). It sounds like the fix would be small and simple however I cant find it anywhere, the idea is kind of like Facebook pages where once you like a page you subscribe to the updates.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Billy
When I put my BuddyPress pages as child pages (i.e. http://mysite.com/community/activity), the page titles are not generated properly in the browser. All that is listed is “Directory” instead of say “User Groups Directory”. Can this be fixed at some point so that it still displays the correct page title whether or not the BuddyPress pages are child pages or main pages?
Hey all,
I am looking to install both Buddypress and DISQUS into a WordPress site that I’m developing. I am looking to get a similar system going as the The Telegraph were registered users can comment using their BuddyPress profiles, while non-registered users can comment via their social media media profiles for convience : http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/culture/kateday/100044509/telegraph-communities-the-arrival-of-disqus-and-buddypress/
Does anyone know how do you this? I’ve been searching for quite some time and I’ve found no information on this subject. Any help will be greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
James