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@Hysteriux I think the challenge your facing isn’t necessarily with BuddyPress itself, but with open source projects in general. Open source means that everything you see here and all of the documentation is contributed by the community. If you don’t like the way that BuddyPress is presented then you as a member of the community can learn the system and work to change the presentation, tutorials, etc that are available to learn what BuddyPress can do and how to get the most out of it for a new person.

The point being that as an open source project it’s all community driven, so if something is missing then no one in the community has volunteered to do that piece. Maybe you’re the right person to help out with that part of the project. I’m sure it would be very welcome.

Welcome to open source software!

#my 2 cents#

Either you’ve forgotten you created that xprofile group name several weeks ago or another Site/Super Admin created that profile group

It’s not a Groups component but a Profile component. To edit the name of the Profile Group Name, go to wp-admin dashboard menu BuddyPress > Profile Fields and click on the Tab “Getting to know you” and click on Edit Group button under Profile Group Name.

As for adding an image fields in user profile, can’t do that in default and there’s no plugin for that at this time. You’d have to develop this or find a developer to do this for you.

I am intrigued to actually find a topic like this as the thoughts behind the question it asks are just as mundane yet as troubled as the ones that i’ve had since the moment i read about BP a few days ago. Not at all to insult the creators of this obviously much-adored piece of software. I’m almost ashamed to admit that i wholly agree with TireKicker’s pondering. Ashamed because it makes me feel old. I pretty much grew up in forums and find their logical structure so natural they are almost like a safe haven to me.

Anyways, i too feel very confused with whether i should go for BP, a forum or both for a new clan site of mine. As i’ve played around with BP for a few days now i can honestly say that there hardly is anything to dislike with it, even though its lack of structure still bothers the very core of me. It’s like handing a clay-worker a glass of water to work with. It’s so fluid that you don’t really know what it is or what you can do with it. It feels so alien that i still, even several days of working with it, can’t figure out whether it’s better than a forum or whether a clan would even want it or not. It would be very interesting to get a developer’s input on BP’s core ideology and actual, formal use of it. Examples of websites using it and for what. The “You can use it for whatever you’d like!” answer doesn’t really answer anything. Not that i’m complaining! I’m just so stumped that i can’t figure this software out. Mind you facebook scared me away pretty quickly too, so don’t take it personally! An information-flow like FB is a nightmare to people who enjoy order.

And this is why i’m asking you for help in explaining its formal use, so i can figure out whether my members would actually enjoy it or hate it. It might just be the most brilliant plugin ever, which would bode well for me if i as a manager who enjoys progress as much as anyone got my members started with it. Does it have any use for a clan, you think? I mean, it has an activity-page with everything happening in it, on which you can reply to everything and make even more happen, plus groups with their own activity-page on which you can make even more happen. Then there’s your own user-page that displays everything i made happen, where anyone can make even more happen, that gets added to THEIR user-page and again back to the main activity-page.

An endless cycle of information about everything from everyone, everywhere on the site. I don’t know if i’m a digital dinosaur at age 25 or if i’m simply having a bad week, but what exactly is so attractive about this flow of information? Who really wants to know everything that everyone does on a website? EVERYTHING? If i visit the site one day and feel like talking about, say, dinosaurs, how can i do that when i’ll be bombarded with a hundred other pieces of information regarding either the start, end or the middle-grounds of other subjects that i didn’t intend to read during that visit? And if i decide NOT to read all of that info every time i visit that site, how do i know what i missed? What if i missed something important because i didn’t realize its importance since it was just mumbled up among all the other information? How do you produce anything meaningful when there is no structure whatsoever to hint me or anyone else at what is important and what isn’t? How can one keep up with random comments regarding random subjects every time they visit the site? What if i forget what one subject was about? Will i have to go back and look for every comment made about that particular subject and read through half of it again just because i missed two or three comments?

How can you actually keep a discussion about a specific subject in a software like BP? What’s BP’s version of topics? How do you keep things ordered? How do you make a sticky? Are you supposed to create a new group every time that you want to have a specific discussion? One group per subject, that every member has to join in order to take part in? A group discussing dinosaurs, the weather, cooking lessons, the next map pack for Battlefield 3? Won’t that consume a heck lot of server resources?

Hmmm, you do come up with some ideas when you write what you think like this. How about adding color to messages in BP? Red for important, gray being just notices, blue being personal, green being something else. That could potentially solve the lack of knowledge of importance issue. That would at least bring some clarity to WHAT i’m actually reading and WHY.

BP along with a forum seems, just like Neonocon pointed out, quite like an overkill. The thing is, neither he nor i seemingly understand whether or not it is since we don’t understand the actual point with BP. It’s a forum plus something alien. Is that a good combination or not? Have you developers thought about this too? If you have, would you say that BP would be the main attraction and the forum the backup, or the other way around? BP is obviously a very different way than a forum to handle information, but it is a BETTER way? Does it actually help anyone, for anything? I mean, it’s pretty easy to keep up-to-date with every new post in a forum, thanks to neat little “New!” features here and there for most BB software. Wouldn’t that then destroy the purpose of BP?

This far into this blabbering i want to remind you that this isn’t a rant. I’m simply asking because i don’t understand. Not getting it is quite the itch! You’ve made BP do what it does damn well. The question just is; who needs what it does? Obviously, i don’t know whether i do or not yet.

Did you make BP simply to attract users of WP to a facebook-clone because of its mere potential or did you have a spark of genius with an actual passion behind it to add something to WP that you deemed truly necessary, or solving a general problem with all community software, or something else that neither of us understand?

I hope that nobody is feeling offended by my post. I have absolutely no intentions at all to insult or to judge. I’m simply trying to figure out a rubrics cube with black-and-white goggles on.

Please note that the plugin has not been updated since BP 1.2.9 and WP 3.2.1 per plugin page https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/u-buddypress-forum-editor/ . That being the case, the plugin was meant for the Groups Forums (internal bbPress installation) and not the site wide forums (bbPress 2.0 plugin).

Unfortunately, just using CSS won’t cut it as the titles do not have unique ID’s or classes. If you put `body.directory h3 {display:none;}` even the widget titles will disappear along with page titles of activity index page (when logged out).

The alternative, If you have a child theme of bp-default theme:
– Create three folders in your child theme folder namely: groups, members and forums.
– Copy over groups/index.php from bp-default theme to your child theme
– Copy over members/index.php from bp-default theme to your child theme
– Copy over forums/index.php from bp-default theme to your child theme
– Open up the files you copied over to the different folders in your child theme and delete the titles. Note: for groups/index.php, if you also want to delete the “Create Groups” link, delete from start of `

to end of `

`. Otherwise, leave the link for Create Groups link.

If you used BP Template Pack plugin and transferred 6 folders with BP template files, just open up the files mentioned above, make revisions and upload to server making sure you upload to correct folder.

You don’t change the files in bp-default theme nor in BP Template Pack.

You only change the 16 files within the 6 folders transferred to your WP theme, Collection, in server.

Instruction is posted at http://wp.me/p1I84P-1B

Hey there,

I thought I was the only one having this problem! I tried a test registration and I get the confirmation email with the key, but when I click on it, it just takes me back to my home page without anywere to input the key or any way to finish the registration process. I tried just logging in, but it comes up with an error message “you have not activated your account.” Weird!

Any help????

Tracy

The “new look” is in BuddyPress trunk coming up BP 1.6 if not earlier. https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk

WP/BP versions? Check if activating their account works If you deactivate all plugins including BuddyPress and change to Twenty Eleven theme?

“First, i would like to thank the creator of his wonderful plugin that is free”
First, let me mention that their is no ‘creator’ – buddypress is an excellent product by the entire community. But you can read about the core team over here – https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/help-us-help-you/

As for your issue, Just to clarify: Users can register but after recieving and clicking the activation email their account does not activate, correct?

Chozen, if you need a temporary solution, you can hack this http://pastebin.com/kNqTrRzc

Here is the same code cleaned up a little without the ‘register post type’ stuff – http://premium.wpmudev.org/forums/topic/show-qa-activity-in-the-buddypress-activity-stream#post-112242

It looks to me like the content is there and working fine, but the links in your menu are incorrect. The links read:
`http://survunity.com/survunity.com/buddypress/groups-3`
when they should read
`http://survunity.com/buddypress/groups-3`

Is your menu being autogenerated, or have you created it manually at Dashboard > Appearance > Menus? If the former, try creating one manually and correcting the links. If the latter, go in and fix those links (you probably left out the http://)

I have this problem too. I’ve definitely posted in the forums – it says “3 forum posts” in the stats on my profile, but it doesn’t show anything in my personal activity stream. Is the activity stream time-limited?

Have a look yourself: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3037692/buddypress.png