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I needed similar functionality and was unable to find an existing component/plugin that was flexible enough for our needs. We are currently in the final stages of launching a first version of a company profile add on for our buddypress installation. We’ve built it using the pods plugin at http://podscms.org. I can send you a demo link once its ready if you would like to check it out.

@mazen and @Vendetta I’m having the same issue too. I create a group, I upload the avatar and at the last step Splash, Boom! I get a WP error which says “Are you sure you want to do that? Please try again.” So I’m stuck…

Maybe start with the settings for the group. There is a checkbox for forums that sometimes is not checked when a group is setup.

admin –> group settings

domain.com/groups/the-name-of-the-group/admin/group-settings

The buddypress-member-profile-stats plugin might interest you: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-member-profile-stats/

The Invite Anyone plugin by @boonebgorges is great for inviting people but you have to enter their emails: http://teleogistic.net/code/buddypress/invite-anyone/ People on my site like it because they invite people who they know will contribute to the site instead of just click around.

Could you describe it a bit more? Do you mean you want to have a live stream embedded somewhere on the site? Some sites like Justin.tv or Ustream may offer an embed code (I’m not sure since I don’t stream) that you could drop in a Text/HTML widget on the sidebar.

@LPH2005 good see you’ve fixed the headers already sent error earlier. I just checked out ExamView and and it looks like a great add-on for a school site. Thank you

EDIT – per your 1st post re suggestions:
1. Changing too-wide login to horizontal login under header – here’s some HTML and CSS you could try – adjust accordingly or let me know if it needs some tweaking
2, The right column looks good in home page but takes over content space which is more important imho in the inside pages.

This appears to be a job for a child theme of the bp-default and start changing the css in a newly created styles.css file.

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

Hopefully that should get you started.

@LPH2005 Cool. What did you use to embed the Practice Tests at http://www.thechembook.com/practice-tests/ and what application did you use to create the tests? I’m liking it a lot. Just answered some questions and managed to guess some correctly

Probably caught this during your modifications – the link “Chemistry Text” leads to headers not sent page at http://www.thechembook.com/wiki/index.php/TCB:_Chemistry_Online_Textbook

@luccame that’s the spirit!

@thegreatdaysho – Login to your FTP and navigate to /wp-content/plugins. Rename the BuddyPress Template Pack plugin directory to something else. Then reload your site.

FYI, I deleted your other topic because of double posting.

Yes indeed we may have seen a bit of slowing down recently, but IMHO: WP3 will be out this week and devs are really waiting for this final release. @johnjamesjacoby has worked on the 1.2 branch in the past few days and the trac says BP 1.2.5 is due in a couple of weeks, hopefully bringing even more compatibility with WP3 for the BP 1.2 branch. Then I think they will need to merge that with the trunk, where a lot of work is already done in terms of 1.3 roadmapped features. And what about the wonderful plugins coming within a couple of months from GSOC projects? And what about all the other plugin devs, constantly bringing us extraordinary new features for BP? Future seems bright to me!

@thegreatdaysho

Try to disable the plugins by removing them from the /wp-content/plugins/ folder

great work @foralien!

Now… my spambusher script gives me some very rudimentary statistics… and in the 2 days and 9 hours since that post above, the number of spam registrations has gone up 50%… but the number that I actually delete myself has gone down by about the same number

Which tells me two things:

1. People or bots are actually following the link above and tripping the spambush

2. Links to buddypress sites from buddypress.org are just ASKING to be spammed

@rainman I think one of the concerns is that BP is – too an extent – not to be considered a hobby project , it’s backed by Automattic and they employ Andy, and as far as I’m aware – not that I know one way or another – to work on developing BP; however I’m sure he help out in general where needed on Automattic’s development projects?

I’m afraid I too have noticed this decline in activity from when I first started frequenting buddypress.org and it’s Trac last november-ish when it was to a degree a hive of activity and one did see the three core developers drop in on a fairly regular basis, they are now extremely noticeable in their absence. It’s a little worrying as The community aspect of open source projects is often held aloft like a torch but that torch needs to be kept burning (rubbish metaphor )

It’s always awkward when a company such as Automattic backs something like BP as many might see that as a seal of approval and a reassurance that the project will be kept firmly on track and supported (I certainly did and it helped cement our decision to go with BP) at the moment it does feel as though things are on the back burner when – with the imminent release of stable WP 3.0 – BP appears to be far from release of 1.3 judging by the backlog of Tickets to be resolved.

I would really love to hear from the core dev team or even Automattic that BP is being kept on course and not sidelined for the moment while Automattic allocate resources elsewhere?

And no this is not a rant either just a fair degree of concern

Looks like this will do it: http://wpmu.org/how-to-create-a-gallery-of-members-avatars-in-buddypress/