I am trying to get BuddyPress working so I can manage users at the admin level. I want to be able to have the admins create the user accounts instead of users themselves. The reasoning is that I am really building more of a member directory, but am interested in a few of the extra features BuddyPress offers.
So at this point I have found a few extensions where I can create and activate the users, but they don’t show up in the Members list on the front end until they log in for the first time. My question then is, does anyone know a way around that? Or what happens when they log in for the first time in the database that allows them to show in the list? Maybe I can put in a hook to update that data on creation. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Currently using WP 3.2.1 and BP 1.5.1
I am using the new BP registration form and am largely happy with it.
Once a user has registered they have the capacity to edit the extended profile fields from the registration, together with email and password but there is no access to the WP contact and biographical information fields. As admin I can see and edit them but ordinary users can’t.
I agree about scepticism on free hosting – I wasn’t suggesting moving the data simply trying the WP configuration with the established theme then adding Buddypress and looking at the result.
However as a newcomer to WP and BP perhaps my thinking is a bit woolly.
I dont trust my data to free hosting either but I am finding it a good way to learn what seems to fit together for my purposes.
Ah sorry thought by you saying older site no updates you meant you’d not updated WordPress either.
Well there is the template pack you can use for BuddyPress https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-template-pack/. Or yes, you can go with making a child of Bp-default and that as your basis. I’d recommend creating a child theme.
Personally I’d be very sceptical over ‘free’ hosting. You are putting maybe your data on their site and personally I’d be sceptical about a free service like that. But, that’s my opinion everyone has their own.
I assume that the loss of links to stickies and New Topic when refreshing Support is symptomatic of the same problem. I cleared my browser cache but I shall shut down and reload the browser too and see if that helps.
Thanks for the prompt reply Paul.
I seem vaguely to remember using square brackets to refine general searches but now I’m not sure if that was in Buddypress or WordPress.
Is there a workaround or should I just post my topics anyway?
On registration issues I end up posting in both places because I can’t determine if its a WordPress or Buddypress problem.
Regards
Paul
Hello,
We are thinking about, maybe, providing photo galleries to our members and maybe to groups. I seen some group gallery plugins but they are not been updated for about a years.
Anyone have any plugin recommendations or maybe thoughts as to why this is a good thing or not to add to our site?
Thanks,
Rhek
It’s not you, it’s us. It’s a known bug. Thank you for reporting it
Hmm.
Are you accessing the forums page on the site’s admin screens, or the network admin screen? It ought to be the latter in a multisite config.
Do you want those child sites to be individual BuddyPress sites, i.e. not connected?
If you don’t already use free hosting you might like to consider using http://www,000hosting.com or http://www.cixx6.com for prototyping changes they both have fairly easy WP installation which might enable you to set up a duplicate/development site (minus members and using their provided domain) to see how installing Buddypress will affect your theme without affecting your production site.
Just a thought.
I only have occasional questions to ask, but when I do I prefer to at least look for recent similar questions so I can either learn from them or avoid wasting others time.
Also after posting issues I often find that when I choose Topics Started from my personal menu the results panel is blank.
Perhaps it has to do with my dialup connection failing to load pages properly but I think it is too consistent for that.
I would like to enter meta title and meta description for each BP Group, for as many pages within each group as possible, but especially for each BP Docs page. And I would like all these pages automatically entered into my sitemap.xml too.
I’ve tried WordPress SEO by Yoast, and All-in-one SEO. Neither seems to work with Buddypress and BP Docs. Are there hacks in BP1.5.5 required to make them work? Will BP 1.6 fix these things? Should I use another SEO plugin?
All advice gratefully received – getting this basic SEO stuff working with Buddypress is driving me crazy! Many thanks.
@shanebp – a coincidence – I’m using the BuddyBoss theme! But, it doesn’t have a ‘Latest Photos’ or ‘Videos’ section on the Member Profile pages.
@Henry – I actually already have the BP Activity Plus plugin installed and need to uninstall it because the BuddyBoss theme already handles that stuff pretty well (just paste the URL in). Unfortunately, uploading photos/videos doesn’t provide what my client needs. They want a site visitor to be able to go to a member’s profile page and see photos, videos, and music that the member specifically posted for this purpose. In a nutshell…this client wants MySpace : (
@mark2741
You could try the BuddyPress Activity Plus plugin (has 32,963 downloads and 5 * rating from 35 votes)
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/buddypress-activity-plus/
I’d be interested to hear if the plugin works well. The ability to add media to the standard activity feed would suit my site too.
Hi, I have a need to setup a network of wp sites, what I need is a main blog that is a news style theme wordpress blog and a number of child sites that are all buddypress social networks, is this possible with networked wp?
So
Main site = site1.com (wordpress news theme)
Child Site = child1.site1.com (buddypress theme/network)
Child Site = child2.site1.com (buddypress theme/network)
Child Site = child3.site1.com (buddypress theme/network)
Or if not can I put a news theme into the main site and hide the buddypress features?
Thanks in advance for any help
@mercime
Hopefully you can help me. bbPress seems foundational to the BuddyPress experience….
@elangley
Hello All,
I would like to be able to Insert BP extended profile fields into Custom Posts.
Has anyone done this before?
~eric
@elangley
i do update it but haven’t added too much to it except a catacha and few other tools that help me, but not my readers. So I thought about using buddypress as a way to help my readers out. Now my theme on the website has only been up for like six to 8 months. Yes it has had updates and i installed them. But as far as upgrades are concerned that benefit the readers, and members i haven’t done much at all. I did install a spam blocker, to help them out too. I have never used buddypress, and if i do use it then I will because of the benefits to my members and readers. But I think I will be losing my theme. After looking at buddypress I think it will effect my whole site layout.
I can’t find a way to search this forum, I tried that search bar at the top and it just took me to the buddypress blog, How do you search????
so I am starting a new topic.
Running WP 3.3.1 and BP 1.5.5 the install is running pretty good and been running for awhile at
godstuff.ablurk.com
We just noticed this because we just scheduled a blog post for the first time I think. The post was created , edited, and scheduled last night at 5pm, but was scheduled to post this morning at 7am, which is what the post edit page says, that it posted at 7am today.
But on the activity page it says 20 hours ago which would be last night at 5pm.
Obviously not a tragedy, but could be confusing to a viewer (if we ever get one that is LOL)
I checked our clock in WP general settings, everything is correct there Greenwich minus 7.
Anybody seen this behavior before,
It may sound brutal but you really should be updating WordPress whether you are using BuddyPress or not. If your theme is limiting you then I’m afraid you do have to consider an alternative or update to it. Upgrades when done right shouldn’t effect your blog posts – it all depends though how far you’ve gotten behind though as to this task (and it won’t get less leaving it).
In saying this I do understand sometimes restrictions and issues happen that mean upgrading isn’t easy or as frequent. I usually find though that the issues in doing are out weighed by the benefits.
I really like the strong header and footer you’ve used there with the block format. I would maybe suggest you increase the width of the grid articles so they fill up the space a little. But, really cool use of BuddyPress love the idea of behind the scenes of media.
I would like to try out buddypress but my site is older and I have a theme I have used a while that my members/readers love. Plus many blog post.
How will buddypress affect an older blog?
Thank you!
Yes i’d like to proceed, the result is worth the pain.
Header: http://pastebin.com/Q6gRsNZn
Sidebar: http://pastebin.com/n8X2WznW
Index: http://pastebin.com/dNTbT5A3
Page: http://pastebin.com/GJM3Q1iS
Footer: http://pastebin.com/zUhvQeJR
Here’s the style.css also of the child theme for your reference:
http://pastebin.com/kwCJ72Uz
Thank you!
Ziad
