@elangley edit topic and mark as resolved like above 
This question has been answered, by me from here: https://codex.buddypress.org/bp_enable_multiblog/
It would be cool to be able to mark the question answered like stackexchange…
Hello, I am very new to using buddypress and I just set up a site. However, everything seems fine except the Request Membership link for private groups is not working..
Please what am I doing wrong or what do I need to do to make this work.
Hello All,
New user to BuddyPress and first post. Here goes;
I have multi-site WP fresh install and BuddyPress plugin installed and activated on the Network. On my primary site I have the BuddyPress Theme installed and activated and all of the pages BP creates such as Activity, Blogs, Groups and Members.
However on a subdomain, where I have BP Theme installed and activated I do not have these links.
I deleted and re-added the sub-domain site but still no pages.
What can I look for?
TYIA,
~eric
== Perhaps this already exists somewhere? ==
Not exactly what you want based on your requirements. You could use the Groups feature wherein members need to be approved by the Admin before they’re in the group. But there’s no automatic transfer of members from one group to another. The member can leave the group and would apply to another group or you could use this https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-group-management/
== Or perhaps some epic person would be willing to take it on as a project? ==
Someone might do that if it was needed for their own project but we don’t know when and we don’t know if it will be released in the WP plugins repo or as a premium plugin or if would be released at all. So if you need one right now, you would have to hire a developer to do this for you.
== Only one thing which I could tweak is the main bar displaying.. Friends, on the profile for example, needs to be moved to the right a little bit. ==
@owen_a Not clear. What main bar, the buddybar? And what friends on the profile, in members > friends list? URI pointing to friends on the profile and “main bar”?
@teorourke Based on initial scan, you only need to create two new files, header-buddypress.php and sidebar-buddypress.php to make your theme compatible with BuddyPress.
If you’ve revised any of the BP template files transferred to your swagger theme folder in server during the BP Compatibility process, please delete the 6 BP folders transferred to your swagger 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.
For some reason I just simply cannot find what’s needed. Maybe this is it?
http://pastebin.com/icLZPDH2
@teorourke I was waiting for your theme’s index.php file to double-check the HTML structure so that we’ll get this hopefully in one go. As I mentioned above, that code you posted for index.php is obviously a BuddyPress template file see “BuddyPress – Members Directory”. written near the top of the file….
In any case, I will be posting the instructions in a few minutes. If this doesn’t work for you, do ask the theme author to look at this post and help you with the final touches.
What have your tried? Have a look through the codex for some guides to theme compatibility and using the template pack plugin, have a stab at getting things going then if you get stuck no doubt mercime will help out if you post back.
It’s been a few days now, I’d really appreciate help on this if anyone can spare a moment? Thanks!
I think I didn’t have the bb-config in my root cause I had previously installed bbpress and I clicked on use existing installation. I uninstalled it and reinstalled it via buddypress and now I’ve got one. I’m yet to check the details against wp-config. Will update here!
Thank you very much! I’m glad to say that I have it working. Only one thing which I could tweak is the main bar displaying.. Friends, on the profile for example, needs to be moved to the right a little bit. Do you know which part of the CSS handles this?
Ok I see my problem here. I don’t have a bb-config.php in my root directory. When I find the bb-config, it’s in “wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums/” AND “wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums” and the file says:
***
* *** IMPORTANT ****
* This file will stop people from accessing your bbPress installation directly.
* It is very important from a security standpoint that this file is not moved.
* Your actual bb-config.php file will be installed in the root of your WordPress
* installation once you have set up the forums component in BuddyPress.
*/
//header(“HTTP/1.0 403 Forbidden”);
So in there it says that my actual bb-config is located in my root dir, but I actually don’t have one there. Can I just copy that file over to my root or can I duplicate wp-config and rename to bb-config? Or is there more to it?
I have successfully matched bbpress to my theme.
http://participatorydemocracy.ca/forums/forum/test-forum
Now I’d like to match the features of buddypress as well. The installation currently looks like . . .
http://participatorydemocracy.ca/members
I haven’t figured out how to match my theme.
Any suggestions would be grateful.
@owen_a Based on initial scan, you only need to create two new files, header-buddypress.php and sidebar-buddypress.php to make your theme compatible with BuddyPress.
If you’ve revised any of the BP template files transferred to your Easel theme folder in server during the BP Compatibility process, please delete the 6 BP folders transferred to your Easel 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.
Hi guys- I’m new here but I love WordPress and Buddypress already and I look forward to getting more involved and helpful to the community as my learning advances. Now to the topic:
I am building a website for a client and am using Buddypress. Everything is all good, but in the flow we have created, I need to created Forum Topics and then have users comment and those comments voted on. I would like to restrict the creation of forum posts to Admins, otherwise users will add things to this forum and screw everything up. Any ideas? This seems to be different than “Restrict Group Creation”, and I need the Forum Post voting widget, so I can’t move away from that.
@modemlooper, it’s a custom BP child theme and the issue is fixed now. I had a guy help me find the issue. I don’t really understand how it was fixed but the important thing is that it’s fixed. I didn’t even know this thread was responded to.
“A couple of things – first, I found that the trigger was JavaScript driven, so I tracked back the jQuery directions that ran it. I found that they were using jQuery to set a cookie – but there was no jQuery cookie package installed, so I added that. Then, I noted that it *seemed* like that jQuery code was setting a cookie for ‘mobile’ rather than for ‘normal’ when it ran — so it seemed like it was working backwards. I’m not honestly certain which of these changes worked — but as a combination, it worked.”
== can this be custom developed? ==
Looks do-able. However, you have to be clearer about the following, among others::
– Where do you expect to see this layout to be rendered?
– Are those featured images which link to a post/page/post-type?
– Data for the page coming from a single WP installation or from WP multisite blogs?
To hire a developer:
– https://buddypress.org/community/groups/bp-jobs-board/forum/ or
– http://jobs.wordpress.net/
I am new to BuddyPress and I have created a static front page as a “Welcome” page (and a Parent) and then have Child Pages with the basic BuddyPress theme. What I would like to do is have the front page be just a very clean “Welcome” page with very little content, and just header links (Activity, Members, Groups, etc.) as links from the Welcome page to the pages with the real content. But after searching the internet and this support forum, I am at a loss. Any suggestions or links for a non-techie to review. Thanks.
I wasn’t really sure where to post this, but I’ve installed BuddyPress with WP Multisites using subdomains. All seems to be working fine as regards blog creation etc, but when a user tries to access their ‘Settings’ page it shows up blank. I checked my error logs and it showed me this:
`[19-Apr-2012 11:39:49] PHP Fatal error: require() [function.require]: Failed opening required ‘ABSPATHwp-includes/load.php’ (include_path=’.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php’) in /home/******/public_html/wp-settings.php on line 21`
Any help would be appreciated, as everything else works fine!
Hello all,
I’m using the theme (Easel) from (http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/easel) and I’m getting the alignment problem, were the pages, archives, meta, categories are messed up. Here’s a screenshot…
http://server1.owenashurst.com/error%201.png
I would fix this my self with the instructions it provided me, but the theme files have more than one ‘sidebar.php’ file should I say. There’s currently: sidebar-left.php and sidebar-right.php.
Any help is much appreciated!
