BuddyPress.org

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-tinymce/

but it was for the old BP

I only start with a child theme off the default BP theme, *if* the markup of the non bp-areas (blog pages, etc) is close to what I want in the end.

I’ve been following this thread closely because this is what I need to go live. My site would involve a lot of sub-groups for each continent/country and then sub-groups for the countries. I wish I could help you folks but I’m not a programmer. I’ve seen requests all over the net for what seems to be a premium plugin now. Good luck!

I noticed with database caching on in W3 Total Cache that if someone registered on a BP site, two additional accounts would be created with the same username, but their user ID for each of these new accounts would be different. So unfortunately I had to disable database caching.

Haven’t tried W3 Total Cache 0.9 to see if this is fixed.

@paul_gibbs we are also seeing issues using object-cache with BuddyPress and w3 total cache, most notably this manifests itself when trying to send Private Messages… We are using Minify, Database Cache, CDN (Amazon s3), and Browswer Cache (Developmental Version of Plugin)…

Yes, don’t use page caching with BuddyPress.

@jmarino I have no problem with W3TC’s CDN on BudddyPress.

I disagree. Using the BP Template Pack and building as a child theme of BP-Default have their respective advantages and disadvantages.

An advantage of using the Template Pack which I feel you’re overlooking is that it allows theme designers to quickly get the required template/css/js files into their custom theme. This is a lot quicker for a non-BP-expert than figuring out which files are required. The designer then has two options; add, possibly duplicate, your CSS to style the BuddyPress templates to match the rest of the site, or use the Template Pack files as a skeleton, which the designer can then use to rebuild those templates to their own HTML/CSS specifications (perhaps to use a theme framework).

@firetag perfect! just started thinking how to implement group categories! let me know if you need help!

Don’t use template pack. That’s a quick fix to get WP users without theming skills using BP. For the long run you are better using a child theme as a start. Upgrades are easy this way too.

Hi, we always create a child theme derived from the BuddyPress default theme (we are on our 5th commercial BP project at the moment).

We customise heavily, change an awful lot of the CSS, and tear our hair out at the masses of unnecessary divs and classes. But, on the other hand it does give us a huge head start – BuddyPress needs a lot of template files and loops that aren’t in standard WordPress themes.

If you are happy with the default structures and functionality, you can get a long way quickly with this approach. Styling the layouts to your needs.

If you want to add new functionality, seriously enhance the loops, and so on – you are in for a bigger challenge – it’s not as easy as WordPress theming, you quickly end up in hooks, filters and plugins (which you can usually avoid in standard WP theming), and a fairly restricted API (which is due to get better, and better documented). The joys of building on the sands of a still relatively early stage project.

Good luck – I’m sure you’ll create a great site.

Roger

p.s. setting up a child theme is straightforward – a few lines in your style.css. We typically mimic the folder structure of the default theme, copy over just the files we are specialising (most of them!), and work from there. Only strange thing is functions.php – a functions.php in your child theme doesn’t override the one in the parent theme, both are used.

p.p.s. I can’t comment on the theme pack plugin… I haven’t used it

@jmarino; We saw ‘unexpected results’ when using a page cache with BuddyPress. As BP is generating new content with each post and response, page caching appears to make a dog’s breakfast of things.

Check out the xprofile_set_field_data() in /buddypress/bp-xprofile.php.

Read this:
https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/faqs/specific-faqs/#register

I’d just create a custom page template and create a RSS feed from a filtered, BuddyPress activity loop that only outputs blog posts.

Here’s a guide that will help you create the custom RSS page template:
http://yoast.com/custom-rss-feeds-wordpress/

Here’s the activity loop codex page:
https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/custom-buddypress-loops/the-activity-stream-loop/

*Set the action to “new_blog_post”

“the function where by if your are member it just displays the group or if you are the admin of the group it displays the group setting and so on”
That’s how it is already set up actually. If I didn’t get what you meant though, you can also use https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-restrict-group-creation/ or check source code for more info.

edit – too slow mercime