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Sounds cool, @lincme. I’m not 100% confident that the theme gallery on this site is updating properly so if, once it’s on the wordpress site, it doesn’t appear on here, get in contact with me and I’ll prod the necessary people

I’ve just uploaded our Facelook theme to the WP site (which it says will appear on here too sometime). For anyone thinking, “Oh no, not another Facebook clone”, you could change the colours, etc., easily enough. The main aim is lots of space for content, and simplification for ordinary site visitors (ie., non-techies). It’s a port of Fishbook by Avenue B2, and after a lot of time and effort, we think it works really well.

If you’d like it right now (as someone else did) just email or msg me. Oh, and it looks very nice with Featured Members, Recently Active Members, and Groups widgets. And thanks to @nuprn1 for the advice on how to properly hide the silly View link with a function.

Yes, we hope more theme authors will start releasing BuddyPress themes or “add-on” packs for their existing themes. I think the separation between BP’s default theme and the BP code is pretty good, actually. It’s not perfect, but most of the remaining stuff is left over from the BP 1.0 release. And that’ll only change as and when developers contribute to the project.

@alanchrishughes; Ah, sorry. I wasn’t implying that you were criticising the BP developers, more that I’ve criticised the project and product, which is easy to do when you’re not involved in it. (And sometimes when you are, too!)

Jeff’s spot on; back ups are only useful when you need to restore from them; and I can guarantee that if you back up specific tables, you are going to kick yourself when disaster strikes and you realise that you need a table you didn’t backup

bbPress is part of BuddyPress; it provides forums within the Group component. If, per your first post, you just want a forum, I suggest you use SimplePress.

Also, for future reference, please title your support posts on these forums with something more factual about your problem, and less alarmist. It gives the wrong impression to users passing by about BuddyPress, so I’ve re-titled it.

Everything has its own learning curve. There’s currently a couple of issues on WordPress 3.0 installs, but we’re working on those. Everything else is and should work fine, though that’s not to say improvements can be made in future releases.

I think you thought BuddyPress+WordPress would do things that it doesn’t, and that’s unfair to blame BuddyPress for not matching your expectations.

“ajaxurl” is set as a global reference for the AJAX path for all? WordPress plugins.
The bp-like CSS classes sound as if they belong to the BuddyPress Like plugin, so either they need to be there or the programmer’s got them to load on every page.
_wpcf7 is from Contact Form 7.
#header sets the page header image which is why it’s loaded dynamically like this.
I’m not sure if the “Are you sure” prompt is from WordPress or BuddyPress, but the reason it’s there is that it’s the sensible of localising the words “Are you sure” on multi language installs (because we can’t load text strings from language files in Javascript).

You actually can give each person their own blog. You just have to use what was previously called WordPress MU (now called Multisite and comes with WordPress 3.0). There’s some extra configuration, but it’s definitely possible.

There’s definitely more configuration with BuddyPress and WordPress MU than Ning, but there’s also more ability to customize as well.

Have you read this Codex page?

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

Please provide us with the the following information: https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/when-asking-for-support/

You can backup individual tables if you want but it is a wiser move to back up your entire DB. Since BuddyPress relies on user data that is stored in WordPress tables, it is not a good idea to just back up BP tables.

Here are some basic instructions in the WordPress Codex.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Backing_Up_Your_Database

I suggest that you bring this issue to the attention of the covert Ninja team that has been formed to fix the plethora of issues with BP.org.

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/buddypress-org-ninjas/forum/topic/welcome-to-buddypress-org-ninjas

Which versions of WordPress and BuddyPress are you running? This plugin has not been updated for 9 months, https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-fbconnect/

You should contact @apeatling, the author, and ask him if he plans on updating his plugin.

Have you integrated bbPress with WordPress? Or have you just installed WP for the first time? To share logins with WordPress ( BuddyPress does not handle logins. That is WP’s role), bbPress needs to be configured with what is termed deep integration. This is not a simple task.

Below are some links with more details. Read the first link to decide if you truly need bbPress configured in this way. Perhaps the way BuddyPress uses bbPress (providing group-based forums instead of one, overall site-wide forum) might be acceptable for your site. If so, then you’ll have a much easier time.

https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-discussions/buddypress-forum/

Deep Integration (I have no idea if this information is still accurate for WP 3.0):

https://bbpress.org/documentation/integration-with-wordpress/#func

Deep integration of bbPress with WordPress

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@LPH2005 Sorry, I completely forgot to say thanks the other day. I’ll have a look at what you did. Hopefully I can get rid of moodle and use WordPress / Buddypress for everything. Moodle is such a pain to customize and even then it still looks like moodle.