ok I understand though it could be clearer also on BP side, because for the login… they send to a WordPress login!
And all internet says that both bbPress and BuddyPress come from the same company!
I started by googling “free online forum platforms” and then saw there was a platform by wordpress… etc, and I finished here.
We have no relationship with wordpress.com, BuddyPress is a free plugin, available to anyone using a wordpress.org self hosted site. it’s the wordpress.com info that would need to tell you this, not BP.
But also in BuddyPress, they should say that intalling BuddyPress in wordpress is only for paid plans. I did not see it mentionned, so it seems possible to do for the free plans as well….
At least good to know that I cannot install BuddyPress… nobody says it is for paid sites!
they say it is free, but if I have to take a paid plan, then it is not free for me!
Thanks!
Ok ic.
But where are the settings for BuddyPress stored? DO you know?
My understanding is that uninstalling BuddyPress would not remove the settings, so the new copy would simply take on the old settings.
Plugins might be different, some of them delete their data, some don’t.
Hi.
Thank you so much for a detailed answer. I think I understand what you are saying. Other than installing buddypress, extra plugins and a theme we have not done any extra customisations to the functions.php.
So if i delete the buddypress plugin and the other plugins and the theme, I would get a quite clean start right?
If I do so. Is there any special steps I need to take on when installing buddypress and other plugins again to make sure the users info shos up again or does that automatically happen?
Regards
When you uninstall BuddyPress it does not delete the databases so reinstalling would not lose any data. However I don’t think that would help you very much if at all. Your issue will be with other plugins/customisations that have been added and these would not be removed just by reinstalling BuddyPress.
For a BuddyPress site there’s a few areas where a site can be customised:
By installing other plugins ( easily deactivated to remove those features)
By adding customised theme files in a child theme, in particular:
themes/child-theme/functions.php
themes/child-theme/buddypress/... – BuddyPress specific theme files that have been modified.
By adding a plugins/bp-custom.php file.
Any extra customisations in the functions.php file would have to be removed and the file re-saved to the child theme directory.
Files in the child-theme/buddypress directory structure can be isolated simply by changing their extension from php to old.
The bp-custom.php file can be isolated by changing it’s extension to .old
Anything in your child-theme directory would be ignored if you installed a new theme.
The rest is down to the configuration of the theme, BuddyPress and any other plugins you wish to use.
I could hardly arrive here… I have a free version wordPress site and cannot find where to download plugins, as I want to install a forum.
So I cannot install buddyPress nor bbPress!
I cannot even give my version of WordPress as I do not find where it is written… It is from december 2017.
And I could not even log in here with my log in informations from my WP site and had to recreate an account, so I dont even know if I have 2 accounts now, and why the BuddyPress site would not recognize my mail!
Quite discouraging as I used to run an SMF forum, so how much changed in 15 years?!!!
Hey forum.
I have some questions. I have a community site with about 600 users. As I have let another guy run the site over time its all messed up with the design, plugins, etc etc. And now it seems like to big of a job to revert everything step by step. I got lost.
So I am thinking about deleting everything and build an new interface, new buddypress install, theme etc. BUT, how do I make sure that users, their profile info, forum posts etc not get deleted. I am not fluent in how databases work, what is stored where etc?
Could any of you Buddypress troopers give me some advice to the steps needed to be taken and waht to be mindful of? Link to any resources etc.
Any help would be appreciated.
Regards
Terjemk
Take a look at plugins/buddypress/bp-members/screens/register.php this is loaded when the register form is submitted. There’s a hook in there do_action( 'bp_signup_validate' ); which you could use to implement your own validation.
In there you can set `$bp->signup->errors for the error you want to display if the validation fails for that field.
You should definitely have some BuddyPress options in the Tools page, one of these options is to reinstall the BP Emails and selecting that often fixes this problem.
I don’t know if you found one but I found this recently: https://wbcomdesigns.com/downloads/buddypress-hashtags/
Hello,
I working on a custom template for activity loop, I want to display “add to favorite link”, “edit activity post”, “delete activity post” in the select box with 3 dots for each activity post on the top right corner like Facebook posts.
I am using a plugin for BuddyPress edit activity to add edit functionality, which has added edit option on activity meta beside the comment favorite section on each post. I want these options to be displayed and use in the select field on each post. All the activity options are added on the activity meta besides a comment, favorite. I want to display only like, comment, and share in activity meta area and all other options viz. “favorite”, “edit”, “delete” to be inside the select field.
I have made research to achieve this, but could not find resources, anybody please help me to achieve this.
Can not share the link as the files are on localhost.
Your help is appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Is this not a wordpress issue as opposed to something in BuddyPress, if you can see the extended profile link in the Users list, that’s the only link BP adds to this view, role settings are WordPress.
I have three admin accounts on my site – the default admin, a TempAdmin, and one under my own username. I can edit the first two but not the third. I can view the standard and extended profile but when I mouse over the account I do not see the edit link nor links to assign roles etc. that I see for the other accounts. I am using the latest version of BuddyPress, on the latest WordPress hosted on WordPress.com. Their techs cannot figure this out. Any help would be appreciated. The site is https://hellocommunity.net
Another option that PERHAPS MIGHT work
Have a separate home page for any group you want
Try making a page template called “front-slug-group-name.php” for each group (for which a unique home page is desired)
(“group-name” being the lowercase name of the group)
and put it in wp-content/themes/your-theme/buddypress/groups/single/
as in
wp-content/themes/your-theme/buddypress/groups/single/front-slug-group-name.php
Hello,
I’m using Buddypress latest version, with a child theme.
I would like to enable a specific WordPress role I’ve created (“Gamer”) to be able to edit the BP Profile of all users. How can it be done ?
Cheers,
Denis
Hi there Kenni,
Thanks for reporting this, would you mind raising it as an issue on Trac:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/
Then you’ll get confirmation when it’s fixed.
Ah got you, I can confirm clicking on blog based notifications does not clear the notification.
Could you raise a bug report on Trac?
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/
Once you’ve done that I’ll add some comments about my own testing.
Ah got you, I can confirm clicking on blog based notifications does not clear the notification.
Could you raise a bug report on Trac?
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/
Once you’ve done that I’ll add some comments about my own testing.
@venutius
Not on the Buddypress activity stream.
Could you please write a post via editor on the WordPress?
I mean on the post thread, not the Buddypress activity stream. 🙂
I’m testing on Twenty sixteen theme+Buddypress plugin only.
