thanks for the info about the admin bar. So there is no workflow built into BuddyPress that enables someone to post on the blog? If thats the case.. how is an account supposed to be able to know where to make a post.. or get to the back end of WordPress at all? Is this something thats missing from my install.. or a feature that doesn’t exist in BuddyPress?
Also.. Anyone have any tips on setting up my domain/subdomain/wp-install directory correctly so its all named correctly. I have a external domain set to the Bluehost name servers… a subdomain – sdcityrobotics.saltbored.com – set up to alias to the publichtml directory my install is in.. so how do i get everything to look like http://www.sdcrobotics.com/activity .. instead of http://www.saltbored.com/sdcityrobotics/activity?
Even if you take the “Network” setting out of the plugin’s main file, BuddyPress will not work only a bunch of separate sites on the same network. It’s not built to support that.
bp adminbar requires a little work in that respect, I’ve created my own set of links for users with elevated roles from ‘Subscriber’ have a look at :
https://codex.buddypress.org/buddypress-site-administration/modifying-the-buddypress-admin-bar/
It will give you some guidance to modifying the adminbar.
Ok I figured it out. The author role does have the ability to make blog posts… Its just that through their buddypress interfaced account.. they’re never given a link to —-> http://www.saltbored.com/sdcityrobotics/wp-admin/post-new.php… to create one. Where in the buddypress front end can they choose to “create a new post”. or to get to the back end WordPress interface to see the dashboard?
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/wp-fb-autoconnect/
i tested it and on my site it did not integrate easily.
Others report it worked fine.
@hnla – Thanks for the link to the documentation, but that doesn’t answer the question. Installing BP on a secondary blog still requires a Network Activation of the BP plugin.
Is it possible to manually control which blogs on a WPMU network have BP and which do not? Is there any other option besides “Network Activate” ?
Thanks for the feedback. Are there any other people interested in being sponsors for this plugin? @finni3 it would be similar to the BP wiki plugin in functionality, however it would actually work. And it would be rock solid so that no users’ data is lost (which is the great downfall of the wiki plugin). Also, you could comment on pages as well as edit them. @Bpisimone it would be possible to have a global directory, but probably not in the first round – but it would not be hard to do.
Reinstalled the forum integration through the “Forums Setup” section of the BuddyPress options. everything seems to work fine now!
@cells
If you are on single wp, upgrade to wordpress Multisite.
Then you can limit it from Super Admin->Options->Limited Email Registrations
@r-a-y I agree with many, this would be a valuable plugin on many sites I think! +1 for the plugin!
@hnla I don’t have much experience with BP on the tech side (i.e. hacking core files…at least I’m able to customize BP template to use with wp theme). For now core features of BP and a bunch of stable plugins are enough to start with. So far I’m only missing a photos plugin but I’ll wait the new release of album+
The fact is that if I’d use jomsocial+joomla again, I’d have to spend more money on components and jomsocial’s 3rd party plugins. Most of WP 3rd party plugins are free ones, compared to joomla’s ones.
Paul,
Thank you so much for your insight! Here’s what I’ve got now:
1. I’m pretty sure we’re using the single site version of WordPress(maybe this is known as the MU version?). It was installed through our server using SimpleScripts. I was aware of the plugin option, but didn’t want to get into that yet until I had the account creation issues taken care of. Thanks for the info.
2. Disabled the BuddyPress plugin, as well as the Group Documents plugin (and reverted to the default non-BuddyPress theme). Created an account, and got the confirmation email right away. The WP account registration was just “username”, and “email”… and WP emails the password. The BuddyPress registration required much more info. So without BP turned on.. Accounts worked.. with it turned on.. The account gets created, but no activation email gets sent out.. thoughts?
3. I’m referring to the WordPress setting: Site Address (url): “Enter the address here if you want your site homepage to be different from the directory you installed WordPress.” I’m trying to point the domain to sdcityrobotics.saltbored.com , and it will display as http://www.sdcrobotics.org (our domain).
4. Got it. I was just curious as to if there were some settings I was just totally missing.
BlueHost Issues !?!?
1. Ok don’t use SimpleScripts or WordPress.. Just install WP manually on my server, and then install the BuddyPress plugin manually? And that will get it to work?
2. I’ll definitely search around for BH. Thanks for the tip!
now switching to buddypress for a huge community site
Having stated experience with Jom, I assume that you have as much or more experience with BP as ‘Huge Community Site’ worries me slightly, not trying to put you off BP in the slightest, but generally one would tackle large projects only when 100% confident developing on a particular platform, and BP does require a fair bit of work to get what one wants.
@johnwinch42
I’m not really sure what you are asking:
Do you want to allow all blogs to have their own choice of theme, but ensure that they use the same font for the admin bar?
That’s not really possible, because you don’t have any control over the CSS files in the sub site themes – if they define their own CSS settings for the admin bar / standard fonts / etc., they are the ones that will be applied in their site.
If you want that degree of control, you probably need to create a small set of bespoke themes that they can choose from, ensuring you have set the admin bar settings as you want them in each of those themes.
@sulley – on the flip side – with one company developing it, you have a single point of weakness. if they go under, the whole project disappears – not just one plugin.
However, I tend to agree with you: BuddyPress would definitely be a more attractive development platform if a solid company took more responsibility for specifying standard components, resourcing their development, ensuring stated deadlines were met, and supporting them.
@TedMann – No, manually going to your signup page will not trip the spam alarm. Putting in the URL with all the submit stuff (like attempting to pass registration info via the URL instead of entering it like a human) will trip the alarm. What it’s checking for is the POST command, and was THAT passed through by your site. Otherwise no one would ever be able to sign up 
Thanks for the link, does anyone have a solution about the notification ?
With ` add_filter( ‘content_save_pre’, ‘bp_activity_at_name_filter’ ); `in bp-custom.php, my blog’s @mention are clickable but in buddypress the notification is not really working, any idea on what to add to bp-custom ?
Good job! Would you provide us – the community – that plugin? I looked for several solutions and couldn´t really find anything small but nice that fits my requirements. I´m looking for a simple gallery tool that offers users to make pictures or galleries public or privat, that has a category tag-function (e.g. this picture belongs to the category “nightlife”) and that includes some other stuff like automatic resizing, multi-upload, widget-displaying…etc…
Any other good idea (anybody)? Any exeriences with the BP-Gallery plugin? Is there a stable version available yet? http://buddydev.com/buddypress/bp-gallery-beta-available-now-download-test-and-enjoy/
the gallery plugin is self coded. i host it on a root server at hetzner.de
Solution for the Erromessage during activation:
Open bp-maps.php an delete the comment–marks in line 594 completly, so the ?>-Tag is in line 594.
Unsoluted Problems:
The profile map still have some problems.
Change of an member-location is not working.
Dynamic map in profile not displayed
Been using jomsocial since it’s early beta stage (almost 2 years) and now switching to buddypress for a huge community site.
Don’t like that twitter, ’cause to have “jomsocial + wordpress goodness by corephp” you have to spend $218,99 compared to $0,00 for buddypress.
However, what I like of jomsocial is that it already comes with built-in must-have applications/plugins for a community such as videos, photos, events (besides standard ones like groups, forums, pm). Plugins all developed by the same developers (come built-in with the installer). Instead with buddypress you depend on plugin’s developers (events, photos, privacy….) and what if they’ll stop supporting/updating them? Also in jomsocil the users is given the possibility to add what application they want to their profile.
@paulhastings0, nice! Thanks for the suggestion. I’ll be sure to look into that.
Ah, Bluehost 
1. If you are running the multisite version of WordPress, on the super admin’s options there is a setting for default profile. Alternatively, there are lots of plugins that control this sort of setting on. I use a couple of role management plugins on a few sites but I’m not sure what’s best. Hopefully someone can recommend one.
2. If you disable BuddyPress, and register an account on the site (via WordPress), do you receive the email? If you don’t, it is either ending up in your email’s spam or your server is not configured to send emails correctly. However, since you’re on Bluehost, have a look at the bottom of this message first.
3. That site URL setting should match the URL of your site. I’m not sure what you mean by “pointed url”, but you should probably only change it if you have moved the site from one_domain.com to another_domain.com.
4. Depends on definition of “easy”; they are in the theme’s header.php.
Bluehost: We have seen issues with Bluehost previously. I do not know if all the issues still apply, but in general:
1) I suggest that you do not use simplescripts to install (or even WordPress).
2) RE: your email problem. I suggest you search this site for “Bluehost” as we have had lots of discussion around it previously but, from memory, https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/mail-from/ might fix the problem (it has to be a valid email account, so you may need to create it first).
