Um…..I don’t understand….the “plugin email?” What “plugin email?”
If you want users to post, you have to assign them WP role = Contributor.
In order for others to approve the publication of the post, then you have to assign them at least WP role = Editor.
WP and BP roles are different. BP roles = Super/Site Admin, Group Admin, Group Mods, and rest are Members (with default WP role = Suscriber)
Go to wp-admin dashboard menu BuddyPress > Forums and deactivate sitewide forums.
Then to Plugins > Installed Plugins, deactivate then delete bbPress plugin.
Also remove the Page generated for sitewide forums, if any, in Pages > All Pages. That would go to trash. Go to trash and delete that page permanently.
If you want to disable commenting only for forum topics and blog posts in activity stream, then you only need to go to wp-admin menu BuddyPress > Settings and click Yes radio button beside “Disable activity stream commenting on blog and forum posts?”
If you want to totally disable commenting in activity streams and you have a bp-default child theme, copy over https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/1.5.2/bp-themes/bp-default/activity/entry.php to your child theme folder following directory structure like mychildthemefolder/activity/entry.php then delete lines 54 through 84 as seen in link above. Save file and upload to server.
If you used the BP Template Pack to make your WP theme compatible with BP, open up /activity/entry.php which had been transferred to your WP theme in server during the compatibility process and delete lines as stated above.
I notice that in BuddyPress settings> “Restrict group creation to Site Admins?” won’t let me choose yes or no.
There are two media plugins that I know or used which could do it
– The beta version of BP Media, a free plugin https://buddypress.org/community/groups/bp-album/home/ see server requirements
– Stable version of BP Gallery, a premium plugin http://buddydev.com/plugins/bp-gallery/
@mrmyth cool. Marking this as resolved then.
Thank you @mercime for replying to this. I have now changed my display name so it is completely different from my login name. I went onto WordPress.org and changed it there as well. I’m still not seeing the Topics Started under forum>topics started.
I tried starting a new topic too, but still nothing.
I don’t want new members to have to figure out how to join a group if they want to post something in a forum. I figure I’ll have them auto join a group when they sign up for a profile.
I used the plugin BuddyPress Auto Group Join
I go to configure it and I get the error:
“BuddyPress Groups are currently Disabled. Please enable groups in the BuddyPress – Component Setup Menu.”
I go to the component setup menu and groups are enabled.
“For the time being, your display name needs to be different than your login to update your activity stream.” per JJJ at bottom of this page https://buddypress.org/community/groups/miscellaneous/forum/topic/forum-conduct/
Yes, it’s true. I found that whit my test site ( test.webtralia.com ) , there is no problem and the users receive the emails without problem.
When I installed buddypress in http://www.wikienlaces.com , the users don’t receive the emails.
I installed the plugin (mail me) and the problem was solved, but I don’t know what was the problem inside buddypress.
What is the difference with using the domain test.webtralia.coom and the domain wikienlaces ?.
Hi,
I just configured a server running WordPress + Buddypress Multisite.
After a lot of struggling with the server setup i finally got everything to work, except a little issue.
I posted that on wordpress multisite forum but it seems like here is more adapted.
When i’m on a sub-site (site.domain.com) and i click the register link on the right (i use buddypress default theme), it sends the user to site.domain.com/register, page that doesn’t exist, since the actual register page is located at domain.com/register.
Any hint on how to change this?
Thank you.
I’ve installed both these plugins and it looks like the BP Profile Search does not include S2Member’s custom profile fields even when S2Member is synced with buddypress. I was just wondering if anyone have found a solution or alternative to this problem?
Hi, I’m a newbie too, looking to do the same thing as well. Hopefully it will be simple 
@jennybeaumont this is something you should post over at https://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite where I recall seeing a solution to this. Very helpful and knowledgeable Mods will point you in the right direction.
Ah, I got it. I realized I was using the default profile field as the Business Name. I also found BuddyPress Real Names plugin. https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-real-names/ .
Hello there. I am new to buddy press but I am getting my legs under me every day. I am trying to figure out a way, that I can change the way a user adds friends and the way those friends are able to view that users account. Imagine that a user is able to add a friend to either one of two main “Friends Lists” Lets say (for the sake of argument) that those lists are Business and Pleasure. When the user add’s a friend, that user adds that friend to either List. A friend in either of those list won’t be able to see friends in the other lists or certain pages or so forth. The user could then have other groups and so forth, but those two main groups are set in stone so to speak… I was looking at how a friend is represented in the database back-end. It seems as though it could be something as simple as adding an extra column in one of the tables that indicates whether or not this friend is a Business or Pleasure connection. It seems to me that just changing the database would completely destroy the buddyPress site. So I am thinking I would have to write a plugin to do that right? Of course, the best case scenario is that this functionality is already built into the site. What do you guys think of this… Do you have an advice for me? Thx
hi there i am new to buddypress i been using wordpress its self for over half an year now after moving from drupal but i need an helping hand with buddypress.
i want to make an website that lets users post into the categories i have set up in wordpress. but lets the site mods and admins check post before they go live on the site. i also need a way for users to upload images to categories i have set and display them in a nice to view gallery so they can view only the images they want is this somthing i can do with buddypress and if so what plugins would be an good started.
sorry for the newbe question i just thought it would help me get started with buddypress faster
thank you very much dor your help
Hello I was wondering if any one had any idea about why i have never recieved an HTML email using the plugin BuddyPress Group Email Subscription HTML. I looked through the code and it looks like I am always receiving the plain text version of the email being sent through the ALTBody . Is this correct? I tried commenting out that line and I still received text/plain email format. @boonebgorges maybe since you helped create it, could you offer some help or wisdom. Thanks!
Hello everybody, I’m fairly new to buddypress but have been using wordpress and forum software for quite some time.
It looks pretty straight forward but when I try to create a forum in the forum page or the group page I cannot.
– I click create new topic
– fill out the info
– choose which group to post in
– when I click post I get this message
“Please pick the group forum where you would like to post this topic.”
It’s probably something simple but I cant seem to get it for some reason.
I am using WP 3.3. BP 1.5.2 with Contact Form 7 and Postie, both latest versions.
So – here is the hack. I want to enable users to post content on my blog. I do this by setting up a form in Contact Form 7 and embedding that form on a page that users can access.
The mail (generated by CF7) is sent to an email address which then will be imported via Postie. The Postie plugin simply takes the content of the Subject Line and the Body and uses that as the Title (subject) and Post content (body).
So far so good. At this time – all the content is coming from the admin email – meaning that every post submitted by the user via the form will be registered as if it was posted by the admin of the site.
I would like to ensure that logged in users (members) can upload via the form without having to type in their email address. I want to grab it and automatically put their email as the sender of the email. That way the post will automatically be credited to the user.
How would I go about grabbing my buddypress users emails? And how would I go about getting it into CP7?
Anybody with some bright ideas?
Thanks!
Why not? It fixes a server configuration problem in many cases, which is probably what your problem is.
@Hysteriux Sorry if my comment assumed you weren’t familiar with open source projects. I apologize that it came across that way. My point was just to highlight that the shortcomings of the website, descriptions, possibilities, examples, etc are due to BuddyPress being open source that a lot of the descriptions of what it can do are done by volunteers (as you know). BuddyPress currently has a great group of programmers actively working on it, but doesn’t have nearly as many other people working on the “marketing” and “communication” side of it like many of the other large open source projects you mentioned have. This is still a major need in my opinion for the BuddyPress project.
Plus, as you mention, BuddyPress isn’t like many of the other open source projects where it was purpose built for something specific (blogging, forums, etc) or at least that’s not how it’s evolved. So, it’s quite a challenge to describe what BuddyPress can do since it’s being used in so many different ways. I think the Showcase page was/is an attempt at trying to feature the ways BuddyPress can be used: https://buddypress.org/showcase/
Outside of the showcase, I’m not sure anyone’s come up with a better way to show the various permutations that are possible with BuddyPress and how it’s being used or no one’s had the time to implement a new way to communicate it. I think the best way is to try it out and play with it to see.
“I’m just kindly asking for examples of constructive, every-day use of it. What the devs actually intended BP’s role to be and function to fill. “
Since you asked so kindly, here’s my take on a few ways that BuddyPress is being used (in no particular order):
-Group Centric – Communities organized around a BuddyPress group and interaction in the group while leveraging other things like profiles, messaging, etc lightly.
-Forum Centric – Communities organized around Forum discussions while leveraging other things like profiles, messaging, etc lightly.
-Blog Centric – Adding community features around a blog or network of blogs.
-Profile Centric – The profile is the centerpiece of the community and you create interactions between profiles.
-Wiki (plugin) centric – Some take a BuddyPress plugin and make that the core of their website (like the wiki plugin) and then lightly use the other things like profiles, messaging, etc lightly.
I’m sure there are more creative ways it’s being used. I hope this helps you better understand different ways to use BuddyPress. Another place to see some real world examples is: http://www.bpinspire.com/
