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If you edit bp-default, when you upgrade buddypress you will lose work done on bp-default.

Twenty ten is the wordpress default theme.

How to build a child theme: https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/

Ye was just giving it as a reference, thanks techguy for making it clearer

If you do modify it, do it as a child theme: https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/

That way when you have to upgrade, your changes won’t get overwritten.

In a word? Yes! Doing so is really the purview of the plugin developer? I would have though it’s a simple check that a member is not equal to whatever the field is that marks someone as a spammer however and not having looked at the plugin it sounds as though a table is built up of follwers but that isn’t rechecked against possible changes to those members, essentially you add a member as a follower and remove a member as a follower but nothing happens in-between.

Hi, I’m also looking for a really simple way to add 1 meta data to groups, if anyone knows where to look please guide me…
@nit3watch

you need to register a ‘slug’ for your new profile component…

maybe the codex could help you… and check this: https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/creating-a-custom-buddypress-component/

something like this:

bp_core_new_nav_item(
array(
'name' => __('Test', 'buddypress'),
'slug' => 'test',
'position' => 1,
'show_for_displayed_user' => true,
'screen_function' => 'test_screen_inbox',
'default_subnav_slug' => 'test',
'item_css_id' => $bp->test->id
));


@RogerCoathup
Agree with you on the fact that APIs need to be called for forum activity to show up in stream. Other than that everything else is simple and I would consider that myself.
An easy solution is to create a general group for site wide forums or use a (paid) plugin in beta by Brajesh.

the bbpress plugin will make things easier (right now with how buddypress wraps bbpress internally is a bit messy with “removing” features/hooks)

i would contact Andy if his plugin is causing a conflict.

@ashfame – it’s not quite that simple. Yes, have a standalone installation. Then, to give smooth integration, you also want to ensure you have single sign on (i.e. not having sign on separately for both the forums and BuddyPress network), and you want to see your activity on the forums being shown in your profile activity stream on BuddyPress (this needs callback routines when events happen in the forum software, you’ll have to code these so that they call the BuddyPress activity API correctly).

@markhahnel mark, you want to put “header right?” in the header? if so just insert somehting like http://pastebin.com/U8L0YmbG or you can style it with heading tags like h3.

@djpaul – your solution on here kind of works, but still introduces concepts that confuse the user. They are made to ‘join a group’, when all they wanted to do was post on a forum (to you and me it’s trivial, but not to the ordinary user)… other confusing things happen… e.g. on this site – I click on a thread under the Support top level tab, and suddenly find that I have been thrown into the Community tab (because the actual forum / thread is in a group). Again, as a normal user I’m confused – I was in support, and suddenly I’m in Community without choosing to go there.

So, from a technical viewpoint, it works, but from a usability viewpoint, it’s not really delivering.

We need somewhere to discuss usability – is there anywhere?

@lisame – the pricing policy for @sbrajesh plugin software is his own choice as an independent developer. It seems really inexpensive to me (although I don’t like the recurring subscription model for this kind of one-off purchase). As @gregfielding notes, he provides excellent help on the forums. But I’m getting off track.

Full featured global forums would be nice in BuddyPress, but I don’t think it’s where the core development should be (strong, flexible core profile features would be nice). By the same score, I don’t think the Group / Forum approach should have become so integral.

It would be nice to see a more loosely coupled approach – strong support for profile integration with 3rd party forum solutions, i.e. leave the forum function to specialist forum developers, but ensure activity, sign on, etc. can be integrated with BuddyPress.

So many threads on forums – would be nice to see them pulled together!

You can also look at simple:press – some work has been done integrating that with BuddyPress

@lisa – I share your frustration with the BuddyPress approach to forums; every client we have worked with (6 in total now) has asked for standard forums to be integrated, and not the BuddyPress Group / Forum approach.

The BuddyPress Group / Forum idea might be an interesting technical approach (and logical from a data modelling point of view), but unfortunately doesn’t seem to have been an end user requirements driven decision.

The best approach to get full functioning standards forums (working with a BuddyPress site) is to disable the BuddyPress forums (a simple checkbox in the admin system), and install your forum solution separately – you’ll then want to ensure you have single sign on, and integration with the activity stream – there is some work documented already to do this with simple:press and bbPress (search on their community forums), but I’m not aware of an out of the box fully functioning solution.

Of course, you’ll also want to design your theme to seamlessly integrate the forums.

[aside: I noticed an announcement re: bbPress being moved into WordPress as a plugin. The announcement also said it was being coded by @jjj, one of the core BuddyPress deveIopers. I don’t know how this will affect the functionality of bbPress (more or less featured?), or whether it will integrate a standalone forums solution into BuddyPress by default. Any more info on this @djpaul or @jjj?]

Just wanted to pop in and say that BuddyPress *is* a part of our plans. Probably not at site launch, but definitely in the works.

Hey guys,

i am using Jukt micronics theme downloaded from BuddyPress webiste and avatar crop after upload works in all browsers except IE8. It’s strange that it works in IE7, but not working in IE8.

When i upload the photo it gives me this error:
Message: ‘document.documentElement’ is null or not an object
Line: 153
Char: 486
Code: 0
URI: http://www.teledruzenje.com/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.js?ver=1.4.2

I didn’t upgrade BP to 1.2.5.2. Does this problem occur in new version too?

It would nice if somebody would give some hint to us what to do to solve this strange problem.

Cheers

The default BuddyPress theme, under bp-themes, is the correct place. Any other themes go into wp-content/themes/ as usual. There’s code-magic that makes the WordPress theme page look in the bp-theme folders for the default theme.

I believe your problem is your install path. To quote, “WP installed as a subdirectory (mainsite.com/members).” BuddyPress uses the url “/members/” for its members component. BuddyPress gets confused when you install it in a directory with the same name as one if its components (it can’t parse the URL).

To fix: either reinstall WordPress into the root of your site, or in another directory that’s not called “members”, or try putting this into your wp-config:

define ( ‘BP_MEMBERS_SLUG’, ‘users’ );

This will change BuddyPress’ “members” URL to “users”, so http://example.com/members/members will look like http://example.com/members/users

URL not found on all links here too.

Running on personal ubuntu lamp install, WP3 fresh install, Buddypress default theme.

Followed the install and selected a different permalink option and nothing seems to work.

What are we missing here??

You may be able to ‘bridge’ phpBB, etc, into WordPress, but you’d have to probably rewrite all of the BuddyPress forum integration code. It’s non-trivial.