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@kumo99 – This will remove the trailing slash from the change avatar link:
http://pastebin.com/EMMvm2Qe

Plop this in your theme’s functions.php.

This is something I have been struggling with for a couple of years now. I am just getting on the W/BP platform having ditched our old solution…

Your concept is perfect for what we are trying to do.

We are a philanthropic social network and we have four basic “types” of groups.
1.) Groups centered around Causes – Global Issues such as Clean Drinking Water, Child Trafficking, Climate Change, etc.
2.) Groups centered around Occupations – Firefighters, Medical Personnel, Airline Personnel, etc. They all come together to help a project or region by volunteering their services.
3.) Groups centered around a Project – Rebuilding a School in Nepal, Providing Shoes for Kids in Nicaragua, Creating a Sewing School in Indonesia, etc.
4.) Groups centered around a Geographic Location – San Francisco, Nepal, Buenos Aires, etc.

Each “group type”, although similar in nature has different nuances on how they work and what needs they have. For example, the Project group type usually has some project management needs along with specific deadlines. We usually have trips that go to these projects and those trips typically cater to one of our Occupation Groups and falls under a global Cause that we support. Different Geographic Location groups might be interested in the trip too if it is coming to their area or if we have special airline discounts from a specific city like New York.

What I like about your approach is that you are thinking of letting users create their own groups under specific categories or “group types”.

We could benefit from drop-down lists that require the user to choose a “group type” when they create a group and then follow up with further selections (that we create, or fill-in-the-blank) based on their selection.

For example, if they choose:
Cause – What is the focus? Clean Water (from list), What country? Indonesia (from list)
Occupation – What is the Occupation? Firefighters* (from list), What country? United States (from list), What City/Town? Dallas(fill-in-blank if international) *this group could be a sub-group of our global Firefighter group
Project – What is the project? Drill Clean Water Well, What country? Indonesia (from list), What City/Town? Kalimantan (fill-in-blank), How many people does it impact? 250, What occupations can participate? Construction, Medical, General Volunteers

Maybe you’re not going in this direction, but I wanted to share a real-world example of what we are doing. Maybe it will give you some ideas.

Thanks for your work!!!

Cool, glad it was a simple fix!

Not sure why you’re attempting to edit the bp-core-signup.php file. This is something you should not be doing!

First, did you enable registration on your BuddyPress site?
https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/faqs/specific-faqs/#register

Where are you seeing this “inactive” string?

1) Yes, this is possible via this plugin – http://www.justin-klein.com/projects/wp-fb-autoconnect
2) Yup, BP offers profiles with avatar uploading / cropping.
3) By P2P, I believe you mean the activity stream. You can disable that in the admin area.
4) It depends what you mean by “simple forum”. The forums in BuddyPress do not offer a universal backend to administrate topics. Also, an important distinction you need to know is BuddyPress uses a concept known as “groups”. You need to create a group before you can enable a forum. This is similar to way Facebook works with fan pages. If you need a traditional forum (with forum categories, admin interface), stick to your bbPress install.

If you just want profiles, you can enable just the profiles component and turn off the rest.

The fundamental difference between BuddyPress and bbPress is this:
-bbPress is a forum
-BuddyPress is a social networking script

I believe it’s possible to have extended profiles and avatars on your bbPress install as well. There should be a few plugins out there that does the job.

Re: future of bbPress – it’s pretty much confirmed that bbPress will become a WordPress plugin some time late this year (in fact, work has begun!). Standalone bbPress will cease to exist. However, there are plans to provide backwards compatibility to the new plugin via an import script.

You must have changed the following in your theme:
/activity/index.php
/activity/activity-loop.php
/activity/entry.php

Make a backup of these files.
Next, copy the same files from the /plugins/buddypress/bp-default/ directory to your theme and see what happens.

Maybe someone has an idea?

You can ignore notices for the most part; it’s something the BP core dev team needs to clean up, but won’t affect the functionality of BP.

I believe you have WP_DEBUG defined in wp-config.php, if you do, uncomment that line.

It has to be this:

bp_follow_total_follow_counts( array( ‘user_id’ => $id ) );

Change $id to whatever.

You don’t need the BP Template Pack if you’re doing this.

What you’ll need to do is:

1) Deactivate the BP Template Pack plugin.
2) Activate the BuddyPress Default theme on your blog.
3) Setup WP 3.0 in network mode as a subdirectory install.
4) Create a new user blog and activate whatever theme you want on this new blog.

Can you not use that function I posted up to help out? If not @nuprn1 will have an alternative and probably better approach.

Updated the code to work with group avatars on the forum directory page:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/group-default-avatar/?topic_page=1&num=15#post-45769

I am very interested in this plugin.

I would like to use it to create Groups in the Admin site and have the users automatically added to the group based upon a response to a question in their account creation screen. Then the users would be able to create sub groups and have control over those sub groups.

It would also be nice to be able limit access to categories based upon the Main group the subscriber is assigned to.

@profitsbuzz
What do you want to do with the RSS feed? Pull in the latest posts to the person’s profile?

@bostonnorm
I’m creating a website built on top of BuddyPress that could be used for a parents association and at the same time act as a fundraiser for the association as well. I’d love to chat to see what you think of what I’m creating.

The secure invites could work also. You could also probably modify a security question plugin to work like this. Usually they ask questions like “What color is grass” or some easy math problem. You could just have the question be, “What’s the code-word?”

😆 I just tried

I did hesitate wondering if it was useful to have it in stats block in header as well as the nav items below. at the moment that little functions squirts followers/following directly beneath the stats output for me.

oh right member profile stats plugin i could add following/er/friends to the mix (think i left it off since the info is duplicated on the nav items)

I wanted something similar, this works for me (rich may have better take on it though also didn’t someone write a stats plugin , seems these following items would sit nicely in that output?)

Dropped into functions.php:

http://pastebin.com/q4mNZ3KR