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@jimboba My apologies, no you didn’t incur my wrath and weren’t dismissed, sometimes it’s easy to lose track of threads

Using the @mention system does help to ensure we see things flagged to our username.

At times it does become very difficult to help further, especially remotely where we can only ask questions and are divorced from the actual events, normally I have access to all the files such as access/error logs, DB etc so I can effectively troubleshoot issues.

Something else to check might be the settings for wordpress url and site url ; wordpress url should reflect the url path to your sub folder installation?

@pelleas You must start your own thread for your issues please you have posted to two diffrent and old threads that appear to relate to your issue

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/make-friends-button-does-not-appear/

Seldom do other threads relate exactly to your own issue, and responding to two different posters in one thread is a recipe for confusion and considered bad practice. I also believe you responded to Boone’s question above via a update which further disjoints things as we could be staring at this thread awaiting a response not aware you have actually responded.

For now I suggest continuing in this thread, but for future issues please start a new topic.

A further question: Are you using a custom theme? If you are can you revert to the BP default theme and also disable any third party plugins that are not absolutely necessary for the operation of BP (basically that means any plugins other than BP itself) and then check again whether you see ‘Add Friends’ buttons on members directory listing or profile pages.

While I don’t have personal experience with Mingle, it makes sense that you should at least be able to migrate the userbase over. As for Private Messages, Friendships, etc. that sounds more like a job for a plugin.

Make sure though that before you do anything that you create a backup.

@jimboba

Re: “incurred hnla’s dismissal?”
Do not take things personally. @hnla has assisted hundreds of users in this forum and some questions were out of this world compared to your questions.

Re: “Page Not Found” errors
– Change Settings > Permalinks to other than default.
– Activate bp-default theme to check links to BP components. When that works, insatll/create child theme of bp-default theme OR use the BP Template Pack if you want to use WP theme.

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@intimez – I’m with you that competition is a very healthy thing, and perhaps also the kick that Automattic appear to need

@Tolden and @stephenefromfrance
Your functions.php file should contain the folowing:
`<?php
//Deals with uppercase username signup problems…maybe
function my_sanitize_user( $username, $raw_username, $strict ) {
$username = $raw_username;
$username = wp_strip_all_tags( $username );
$username = remove_accents( $username );
// Kill octets
$username = preg_replace( ‘|%([a-fA-F0-9][a-fA-F0-9])|’, ”, $username );
$username = preg_replace( ‘/&.+?;/’, ”, $username ); // Kill entities

// If strict, reduce to ASCII for max portability.
if ( $strict )
$username = preg_replace( ‘|[^a-z0-9 _.-@]|i’, ”, $username );

// Consolidate contiguous whitespace
$username = preg_replace( ‘|s+|’, ‘ ‘, $username );

return $username;
}
add_filter( ‘sanitize_user’, ‘my_sanitize_user’, 100, 3 );

?>`

At least that’s what mine has and it works fine.

I’m also using this plugin to notify users if this would be a problem for them also: http://buddydev.com/buddypress/creating-a-buddypress-wordpress-username-availability-checker-for-your-site/ Although, I think I modified the script so it would only warn for certain use cases. I also did just realize that it doesn’t work for IE. Haven’t had a chance to see why yet. So, it’s good that I have both.

@pelleas Do you have the Friends component turned on? Dashboard > BuddyPress > Component Setup

Lots of features ready that bp still waiting for. Sorry but pay $99 and you’re still required to link back???? How about jomsocial pay me for the footer ad space?

1.2.6 should already be released. stop with all the last minute additions. SIGH

Too get rid of theme notice, where is says this in style.css

Theme Name: Imbalance
Theme URI: http://www.wpshower.com
Version: 1.18
Description: Designed by WPSHOWER
Author: WPSHOWER
Author URI: http://www.wpshower.com

add this right below Author
Tags: buddypress

Hey, I’ve just installed BuddyPress and BuddyPress Template Pack on the “Imbalance” theme http://wpshower.com/free-wordpress-themes/imbalance-free-wordpress-theme/ It said the install was successful whilst I was setting it up but still displays “BuddyPress is ready. You’ll need to activate a BuddyPress compatible theme to take advantage of all of the features. We’ve bundled a default theme, but you can always install some other compatible themes or upgrade your existing WordPress theme.”

The main issue is that after I’ve installed the template package no options are appearing to create a forum or group, the only options coming up in the Buddypress dropdown in the dashboard are; General Settings, Component Setup, Forums Setup, Profile Field Setup and I can’t do anything with any of them except Profile Field. I’m thinking it might be because I don’t know if my ” bbPress tables are in the same database as my WordPress tables”, I don’t seem to be able to work it out.

Really really need help with this, hope someone can!

Thanks

I’m bumping this because the @-mention above didn’t work, apparently.

@boonebgorges,

for some reason, your suggested solution doesn’t work. I suppose it has to do with the hook, but using bp_core_remove_nav_item(‘groups’) doesn’t work at ‘bp_setup_nav’, while it does work at the point @mariochampion suggested.

Here’s a problem, though, in my installation, when I remove the nav link, I am no longer able to access group pages. I can access the group directory and groups will be displayed there, but clicking on a group will take me to the front page. Is this a bug? It seems like it, since the function is supposed to only remove the navigation item, not access to the feature, am I right? Or am I not getting something? Is there a better way to remove the navigation item?

@Tolden : the same for me

@nunomad – as far I’m aware, that wouldn’t be a problem – the sign in and membership would still be unified across both primary and secondary sites.

Perhaps someone with a little more insight re: s2Member could comment on that?

I installed BuddyPress with Word Press 3.0.1. The two buttons (Add Friend/Send Message) have never appeared. Not easy to build a community.

@Tolden Do post in the plugin’s forums
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/buddypress-private-community/forum/

While I don’t have any experience with Thesis, I’ve heard raving reviews about their customer support. Have you been able to check in their forums yet?