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Take a look at this page for details on writing your own custom activity loop – paying particular attention to the scope and filter options: https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/custom-buddypress-loops/the-activity-stream-loop/

Wow that is fantastic!

In fairness the docs are a little light at present, but being brought up to date as quickly as possible. Essentially BP needs the root, you cant run bp on a user blog created by the main blog.

The ‘New Site’ is not! a buddypress site it’s a WP blog which will carry the BP adminbar. These blogs effectively work just as a standard WP blog their theme is defined from their own admin backend.

I would have a good read of all the docs you can find on the BP codex and WP codex.

As I mentioned a search would have answered this:
https://buddypress.org/search/?f=php+memory+limit

@imjscn — You can put BP on a secondary blog by adding define ( 'BP_ROOT_BLOG', $blog_id );, or in all blogs by adding define ( 'BP_ENABLE_MULTIBLOG', true );, into wp-config. However, by activating the BP at all blogs will make the blog posts on each blog will not appear in the activity.

For more can be found at https://codex.buddypress.org/buddypress-site-administration/changing-internal-configuration-settings

Have you has a search through the posts for any solutions or pointers?

Most often when this issue arises as you describe it’s due to having insufficient PHP script memory allocated, if you have a search around you will find many posts on the subject dealing with this and the available methods to deal with a the script memory limit setting in php.ini

@amattajm directions are in the readme file.

******How to set up featured posts*****

To show a featured post place it into a category ‘featured’

To show an post in the midbar column place it into a category ‘breaking’

******How to set up custom front page*****

Create a page called home and choose ‘Widget Home Page’ as the page template. Then in admin >> reading choose your created home page as the static front page.

The custom front page shows one featured post and four thumbs of the latest posts. The midbar shows two ‘breaking’ posts. The rest of the front page is made up from widgets.

To show a thumbnail on the front page posts just set an image as a featured image. Thumbnails are automatically cropped. To create exact thumbnails use the sizes listed below

Thumbnail sizes:

featured 405×175
midbar: 150×150
sub content: 190×100

******How to set up custom front page widgets*****

Widget areas include the sidebar that is a site wide column. The midbar, only on the front page. The bottom left column under the latest posts.

******How to set up sidebar ad space*****

Add your 300×250 ad code to sidebar.php file.

Here’s what you’re looking for: http://shabushabu.eu/reordering-buddypress-group-tabs/

You should also visit http://bpdevel.wordpress.com/ where you can find information about dev chat sessions on IRC (next one will be Wednesday, 20th October – 19:00 UTC)
Please use https://trac.buddypress.org/ for bug reporting, this way your fixes have a chance of being applied to the core and released to the community.
Good luck with your project and thank you for choosing BuddyPress!

@whitbyglennk codebases of WP single and WPMU were merged in version WP 3.0. You can now enable multisite (create a network) from WP 3.0+ installation. If you are considering going multisite, you must fix any path or permissions problems you have in single WP install (at WordPress.org forums) before Creating a Network. And, you must Create a Network and test it per link I gave you above BEOFRE installing BuddyPress, otherwise it’s going to be a bumpy ride

EDIT – too slow posting

@keithmarsh before installing BuddyPress, make sure that your WP is working well after you’ve moved your WP to root.
https://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress
btw, Giving WordPress its own directory method does not work for multisite and I haven’t seen it work for BuddyPress even if you have WP single site.

@whitbyglennk At first glance, seems to me like an upload path problem when you haven’t configured WP/multisite correctly – https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/before-installing/#wp-configuration

Q1: Group Avatars – if you’re on multisite and BP is installed at root, group avatars go to wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/group-avatars
Q2: What folders and in which places? The avatars and group avatars folders are automatically generated. I would suggest checking your site’s .htaccess file since I have only seen this kind of problem if multisite is not configured correctly https://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network#Step_6:_Super_Admin_Settings

I’m having a similar issue with the Forum except there isn’t even an option to Post a Topic! What the heck??!! Same with Groups – can’t post to it!

@freeriders sorry i don’t have a link to that particular comment which was likely part of a larger thread

@whitbyglennk

There are very few premium themes built specifically for BuddyPress – although you can enhance existing WordPress themes. I’ve seen some great looking bespoke BuddyPress sites, but I haven’t seen a generic BuddyPress theme with a design and layout that blows you away.

The difference between BuddyPress and WordPress is the number of options available to you. BuddyPress allows you to build much more complex sites.

Out of the box, BuddyPress attempts to be a generic social network that is all things to all men. Of course, this is not what real world sites tend to need – you’ll find that most of the best commercial developments only use the portions of BuddyPress they need, and bend the core product considerably to meet real world needs.

Whilst it’s useful to have an all encompassing platform, it doesn’t make it particularly suited to premium theme designers – sure, you can make it look nice, but with so many options, and so much tailoring to deliver real world needs, themers face an uphill challenge to produce something that breaks away from the out of box generic set of functions.

A further problem is the make up of the code – BP embeds an awful lot of presentation decisions in the core of the product (activity stream contents, default menu structures) instead of in the templates (where you’d expect them to be). So, again, producing any significantly different can be a real chore.

Hi Firetag
thank you so much.. I’m total rookie with BP but stumb upon your plungin

That is an awsome start.. definitively a must have in my list. hope you will be carry on developping it. What I think is missing in the overhall group concept is to be able to add fields for the group description.. that would be a kiler.. and from what I have found, nothing really exist so far.. for example let say that you are a wakerboard fan.. you built a community around it. you want to list all the clubs in your community geography area.. there could be a master category group as clubs and then sub category group for each club name… for example ‘club n°1’.. it would be great to be able to have additionnal fields for example the street address of the club, their website and so on to give more details… then administrator of that sub-grup (let say the club president) can invite all the member on his club who are in your community to join that sub group..
That could be a great starting point to make a club directory that way.. listing all their members…

Thank you again and good luck with the developpement