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You should network activate BuddyPress.

This is so your user blogs can take advantage of BP functions. Most notably, the BuddyBar gets displayed at the top of each blog and your user avatars should use your BP one.

Oh, i almost forget. I’m using wordpress 3.0 and buddypress 2.4

having the same problem https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/multiple-issues-please-help/

@peterverkooijen said; “Talk about dropping rigidity and opening up to an amazing new flexibility and power is pure nonsense”. Ah Peter, without visionaries such as yourself, how would we ever have got to where we are..?! Growing out of rigid definitions into new flexibility is where the virtual world is heading, like it or not. Everything you see online now will be long dead in five years, and all the concepts you hold dear buried deep. Might as well get used to it.

BuddyPress is a mess, as I see it. It isn’t really anything, and at the same time it’s too much. If I want a community conversation stream, along with simple WordPress themes, etc., there’s Mingle. If I want a forum on my site that’s easy too; there’s BBPress, Mingle Forum, etc. If I want member groups regardless of these, there’s, erm… there’s… well, BuddyPress does that, kind of, in a big and over-complicated way.

BuddyPress should be about making social contacts. The name’s a bit of a clue, right? In other words, friends and contacts with grouping of such, contact streams, and strong privacy for users so they determine who sees what they post. On top of that, as it’s a social tool; community moderation/banning, and reporting to site admins in a simple and obvious way. Oh, and of course, easy to see notifications such as friend/contact requests, etc. Who thought it was a good idea to *include* forums in all of this, and relate them to groups?! Each entity and its associated operations should be separate and self-sustaining. Basic OOP.

It just doesn’t do anything easily, does it? And the hype on the download pages about plugins to do whatever you like is just hype, really. Oh, it ‘kind of’ does everything you want, but only kind of. You have to jump through hoops, and even then you’re fighting with a forum which tries to be a group trying to hold conversation streams together.

I’m interested in productive discussion about social networking sites and their take-up and impact, though not here as I feel it’s not the right place. For one thing, the developers and those who kiss up don’t like to hear how their baby was malformed from the start. If anyone is interested in finding solutions to creating truly interactive social networks in the easiest and most stable way possible at present, please email any-name-you-like at our domain.

i believe that is just adding in the @simon.goodchild automatically to the message – (though not a plugin and unique to this site – but could be done via some custom coding as the current method is just ‘mention this user’)

I to had the 404 error when trying to show the activity stream on the home page. I already upgraded to WP 3.0 and BP 1.25 and things were working fine. I found this thread and installed the patch. Now it won’t let me change anything and only the activity stream shows up on the home page. When trying to access my home page it now forwards to the activity stream. Is there a way to get it to stop forwarding? I have tried re-installing the functions.php file from 1.2.4.1 and even deleting the patch from the current functions file.

My site is http://www.WorkoutJourney.com. Notice how it forwards to http://www.WorkoutJourney.com/activity. I have the settings set at Front Page Displays: Your Latest Posts.

Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks

Have a look at https://trac.buddypress.org/changeset?old_path=/tags/1.2.4.1&old=&new_path=/tags/1.2.5&new=#file40

was also pwnd by @boonebgorges

Should be in buddypress > bp-themes > bp-default > _inc > css

bumping for moosh101

Zip Archive link at bottom of page https://trac.buddypress.org/browser/tags/1.2.4.1

In WPMU 2.9.2, avatar uploads in main site are in wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/avatars while in WP 3.0 the avatar uploads in main site are “supposed” to be in wp-content/uploads/avatars/ like it is in single WP.

This solution to others’ avatar problems in this post might help you. Good luck.

There are a variety of ways to create home page – also depends on what WP version you’re on. In any case, you might want to look at @modemlooper‘s https://wordpress.org/extend/themes/buddypress-widget-theme

Hi, I did try to find the 1.2.41 version from trac.buddypress.org but can’t find it. Does somebody have a direct link to download it? thank you in advance.
Philippe

lines 84 – 120 in the header.php file of the default theme (version 1.2.5).

div id=”search-bar”

Buddypress > bp-themes > bp-default > header.php

@commentluv I’ve noticed with BP Followers that if you follow someone and then unfollow them before they clcik on the notification about the following that I get reverted back to the homepage. I expect this is because when the ‘follow’ is ‘unfollowed’ the template for the section that records the followers is removed therefore there is nothing to show. This results in a permanent notification that you can’t get rid of unless you go into the database.

Not sure if it has anything to do with the things you are experiencing?