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Installation – https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/install-buddypress-on-a-secondary-blog/

Theme – themes at rocketthemes look good and if you have HTML/CSS mojo, you can make it work with https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-template-pack/. If not, a BP compatible theme or a BP child theme would be the way to go.

Before performing such a major upgrade (both WordPress and BuddyPress), you should backup your database. Next, it is always best to be safe than sorry. Deactivate all plugins. This means BuddyPress too, as it is a WordPress plugin. Once WP is up and running, it is time to upgrade BuddyPress. You should read the additional details here: https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/upgrading-from-10x/ See the “Upgrading from 1.1.x to 1.2.5” section, paying special attention to the notes on the theme files.

Finally, you need to upgrade any BP-dependent plugins before reactivating them. If any of these have not been upgraded to work with at least BP 1.2.5, then they should not be reactivated. Nicola’s plugins are very outdated and will not work with the current version of BP.

Thank you. “0.1” might have confused buddypress.

I got it to install… and WOW this is going to be extremely helpful and fun to use!! Thank you very much!!

@balkanpeople
1. create a child theme of bp-default theme
2. copy header.php and sidebar.php from bp-default theme to your child theme folder
3. Copy line 84 through line 102 of header.php to your sidebar.php wherever you want it to appear and save sidebar.php
https://trac.buddypress.org/browser/tags/1.2.5.2/bp-themes/bp-default/header.php#L84
4. Delete search code you copied to sidebar from header.php

@PJ, download the zip, and extract everything from `/2010/sushkov/branches/0.1/` to a directory named `courseware`.
Move the directory to your plugins folder.

Report if it works.
Thanks.

@sushkov, good stuff. Congratulations

BuddyPress (with the primary admin blog for your news stories, info pages, etc.) and the following plugins:

BP Media + for photo and video uploads
bbPress forum plugin (a beta version is due September 15th)

You’ll have to work on the templates, write some PHP / CSS / HTML to get them looking exactly as you want, but they’ll give you all the building blocks and some

You should have signed up for the 24 hour priority support plan – drop @apeatling a line and ask him to upgrade you.

You can change the structure of the page title by implementing your own version of the function: bp_page_title(), or by implementing a filter on bp_page_title. ( You’ll find these functions in bp-core-templatetags.php)

Put your modified function (or filter) in your bp_custom.php file

If you go the modified function route, remember to update your header.php in your bespoke theme to call the modified function instead of the core bp_page_title().

You might also want to suggest a change request for a future version of BuddyPress to output title in a more SEO friendly way by default.

If you have any problems with filters, bp_custom.php, or writing your own bespoke theme, you will find plenty of support threads in these forums

I will probably look to improving the email situation in Welcome Pack before BuddyPress 1.3 as best I can, but I do not have a timescale yet.

or… if you just need the default tab when visit a user to be their profile you can do it by setting: BP_DEFAULT_COMPONENT

See this thread for details: https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/customizing-buddypress-profile-page-default-tab-and-item-nav-order

Ok Guys! I found the solution for IIS Server! There is a problem with the ‘mod_rewrite’ function, it does not work. Here is the solution and I tried it and it works. Please take a look at http://www.kylecaulfield.com/permalink-for-wordpress-iis-6-mod_rewrite-fixed-free

The result of my new Buddpress can be viewed here http://www.unitedcasting.de/

Sorry for the try above, but it’s no really good solution, so I switched into the original theme file of Buddypress theme.

Many hours today for this result and nobody knewed that. Maybe a problem of Windows worker like me

@nirok, @jasperespejo

The activity content is written out by the function bp_activity_content_body() called from activity/entry.php in your bespoke BuddyPress theme.

You could try implementing your own version of bp_activity_content_body(), and changing your entry.php to call the new function. Or you could try implementing a filter on bp_get_activity_content_body. Either way you’ll want them to output the link to the blog and blog title. Have a look at these in bp-activity-templatetags.php.

I’m not sure quite how (you’ll have to dig in the activities_template structure), but you should be able to pull out the blog_id and query for blog link and title as well. Any core gurus got a pointer or two here?

To make it a bit more efficient, and restrict it just to blog post activity updates, you can check whether the activity is a blog post in your loop in entry.php with:

If (bp_get_activity_type() == ‘new_blog_post’) :

Good luck… let me know how you get on.

Have a look at the functions in bp-core.php, bp-core-templatetags.php :

You can call functions such as bp_core_get_username, bp_core_get_user_displayname, bp_member_avatar, bp_member_profile_data

There is a list of template tags being developed, (https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-discussions/buddypress-template-tags/), but I tend to resort to using find in files in my editor (Coda) and trawling the BuddyPress files.

I understand @johnjamesjacoby is doing work to significantly enhance the API for future BuddyPress releases

I suggest asking your group id questions in a separate thread

@johnjamesjacoby – I suspected you might have that one covered

interestingly, it has been deprecated in WP3.0 and replaced with is_super_admin:

https://codex.wordpress.org/WPMU_Functions/is_site_admin

It’s still used in numerous places in the BuddyPress plugin though

you could try the function:

is_site_admin()

It’s used extensively throughout the BuddyPress core files

@strackus you need an .htaccess file. What happens when you change permalink settings? change them to another setting and report any messages seen on the screen about creating/writing to the file. You shouldn’t have to create the file but your server must be able to write and read to this file. What server are you running on? not IIS by any chance?

yes, this seems to work Thorsten. I’ll search with you for how to adjust that links under “myaccount”and “notifications”

@hnla both checked. work.

@copgarden

I requested something similar in welcome pack by @DJPaul
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/welcome-pack/forum/topic/customize-message/

He is saying it is possible when buddypress 1.3 is out

Ok, I found one hint in Buddypress German Forum of WordPress, see http://forum.wordpress-deutschland.org/buddypress/73994-seite-nicht-gefunden-members-usw.html

I post there a solution for the normal menu. The ‘index.php’ file is missing in the permanent structure, maybe there is something different between the WP English and WP German version of 3.0.1. So all of you have the URL http://www.yourdomain.com/groups/. Please change it in your Browser to http://www.yourdomain.com/index.php/groups/ and check if you’ll get a page. Change ‘yourdomain.com’ in your real domain. See my page http://www.unitedcasting.de/index.php/groups/ – it works.

But now I’ve to search for the links under ‘MyAccount’ and ‘Notifications’. Maybe someone knows where the file is safed. Thanks.