@r-a-y What does that actually do? I’ve been wanting to test it. Will it allow spaces and upper case letters?
@parkstreet – I think you’re making this way too complicated!
The easiest way is to copy over the /blogs/blogs-loop.php to your child theme and use the template tag: bp_blog_description() somewhere in the loop.
There’s an action to hook into in the bp-default template, but the hook is after the last activity block, which is probably not where you want the blog description to show up.
@socialsnus – You fix the member profile problem by adding the following code snippet to wp-config.php:
define( 'BP_ENABLE_USERNAME_COMPATIBILITY_MODE', true );
Gotcha! thanks @mercime and @drifter0658 – it seems to be ok now. *fingers crossed*
Ok… well, it seems to have taken issue with the wiki plugin, which is now deleted from the directory. What I can’t figure out is why the response was delayed. The site was fine the evening I installed it, but then, while I was away (and no other users), it mysteriously started acting up.
@isara what @drifter0658 said was to rename the wp-content plugins folder to something else.
Or, I remember bp-events plugin giving my test install a white screen a while back, so instead of renaming the whole plugins folder, you might want to try deleting the bp-events plugin folder first, refresh browser and try to log back in again. If that doesn’t work, rename plugins folder.
Widgetized home-page is great but i am missing the main activity stream there 
Is it possible to add activity stream as a widget? or is there a plugin for that? Thanks.
zip file corrupt.
the new upload returns this error when opening the zip file:
Archive: /home/shozen1/Downloads/discuss-buddy.zip
[/home/shozen1/Downloads/discuss-buddy.zip]
End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either this file is not
a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive. In the
latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on
the last disk(s) of this archive.
zipinfo: cannot find zipfile directory in one of /home/shozen1/Downloads/discuss-buddy.zip or
/home/shozen1/Downloads/discuss-buddy.zip.zip, and cannot find /home/shozen1/Downloads/discuss-buddy.zip.ZIP, period.
@DJPaul‘s plugin https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/welcome-pack/ – working well in BP 1.2.4.1
There is the Members Widget which shows the “Newest” “Active” and “Popular” Members, then add a text widget on top of that to welcome members.
Plus you could always add this code in home page and style accordingly – http://wordpress.pastebin.com/Rvx4ZgWF – change title and avatar sizes to taste
@DJPaul Any way of modifying your Welcome Pack plugin to accomplish what I want? In addition to this BuddyPress post, I’ve created on here, too:
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/407338?replies=1
@mercime thanks for replying!
“how can multiple users write in that blog under their own names?”
That is exactly the information i needed. I set them as “contributor”. That means they will be able to write posts but i can approve them, right? but how can they enter the writing zone? i mean the admin panel where they can choose new posts to write? i dont see any links. 
“how can the titles or summaries of those posts be shown in the homepage?”
Thanks. that’s solved too.
“how can i create a button besides the ABOUT button to easily point out the blog?”
I will have to work on this one a little more i think.
***NEW QUESTION***
but how can they enter the writing zone? i mean the admin panel where they can choose new posts to write?
@parkstreet
In case you want to give it a try later, the reason the filter didn’t work is because of the fourth parameter in add_filter(‘bp_blog_description’, ‘get_users_blog_description’,10,2). The fourth parameter is for the number of accepted arguments. The number of accepted arguments is determined by the number of arguments passed by the corresponding apply_filters(). In the case of ‘bp_blog_description’, only one argument is passed, which is the blog description. However, you are telling the add_filter() function that apply_filters() is sending two arguments its way, which in turn causes it to fail when it only receives one. The fourth parameter defaults to one, which is what you want for your example, so
add_filter(‘bp_blog_description’, ‘get_users_blog_description’,10);
should do the trick.
@parkstreet – will you be sharing this plugin 
@crashutah Yes, Welcome Pack will work that way. The extra work for me to activate is, however, annoying as you presumed.
@vanmurray Manual Member Approve will also work. But I still have to manually send an e-mail back to the user containing their username and password. One more step that I’d like to avoid.
Temporarily, either of those solutions will work. However, I still think that simply sending the activation e-mail/url to the admin(s) would be the best solution for me.
I’ve got a very small extension to get this figured out how I would like. If I cannot get help, or figure it out on my own, then I’ll have to use of these two brute-force methods.
So, still looking for help on how to get the activation e-mails sent to the admin(s) instead of the corresponding user after registration. Thanks everyone.
@jujunkie – hi there, you should be able to get free support from theme authors after purchasing that premium theme. I don’t know what files they have in there but here’s giving it a try:
“how can i create a button besides the ABOUT button to easily point out the blog?”
I assume that your theme has a home.php (most premium themes do), so follow #2 instruction here – http://www.nathanrice.net/blog/creating-a-blog-page-with-paging/ – take care to delete the space between less than sign and question mark in the posted codes
“how can multiple users write in that blog under their own names?”
Do you mean you want to set up your installation as one site with many authors – you’re not giving them free blogs? Then you should at least make your users “Contributors” – where you have to approve each post before in order for the post to be published – or “Authors” whose can publish their posts without any moderation.
“how can the titles or summaries of those posts be shown in the homepage?”
Looks like your home page is widgetized in the left column. Go to Appearance > Widgets and get the “Recent Posts” widget on left side and move to appropriate widget name.
Per roadmap, BP 1.4 will have the import/export of all user data – https://buddypress.org/about/roadmap/
“I then changed my home page to it’s own page and specified another page for my blog.”
@hkcharlie What do you mean by you changed your home page to it’s own page? a) To a Page you created and set in Readings as static front page? b) Or created a home.php and now can’t find your main blog page?
For a) you might want to try @dwenaus solution.
For b) you might want to use Nathan Rice solution #2. Just make sure to delete the spacing between < ?php in the posted code
@DJPaul I never asked you to release any new version & also never mentioned any download stats!
I did ask @ffemtkl if he knew if the plugin worked on 1.2.4.1 to which he kindly replied above.
@gtn
If you are looking for a videochat app that will integrate perfectly with bp groups, then check out http://www.123flashchat.com/feature.html
While I do not currently use it with bp, I do have it 100% perfectly integrated with elgg groups. Frankly integrating it with elgg was 10x more difficult than it would be to integrate with bp. Basically all of the db parameters are wide open, so in theory you could connect their system to any user db.
Word of warning though, I would not even both trying to integrate it with red-5, that’s a waste of time; You will need to purchase a real flash comm server package, wowza will work, in order to get reliable video chat working. Also keep in mind that video chat takes some serious bandwidth, and I mean serious.
I’ve pretty much tried all the pro chat scripts out there on the market, and I have to say that 123flashchat is hands down the most powerful and efficient system out there. I use the load balancing system and it works perfectly across my network of chat servers. Their tech support is fantastic, though they pretty much only speak Chinese.. yeah that makes for some interesting discussions with them.
https://trac.buddypress.org/browser/tags/1.1.2 download link near bottom of page
Having posted that, why not use BP 1.2.4.1? If you don’t mind my asking, what theme is that?
@thekmen
Yes, Welcome Pack works fine on 1.2.4.1. You really want me to release a whole new version which will force everyone to re-download it just because I’ve updated the version compatibility numbers in the readme.txt? I’m not that bothered about the download counter 
I have had the same problems and the proposed solutions here do not work for me either.
For now I have just used the older version of bp-core-avatars.php from https://trac.buddypress.org/browser/branches/1.2/bp-core/bp-core-avatars.php?rev=2876#L109 which has worked although there may be knock on affects from using the old file that I am unaware of.
There is also a thread here about it https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/how-to-show-avatars-uploaded-via-buddypress-in-wordpress-mu/
Paul.
Thanks Kaberi,
You are doing a great job chasing this down. I will try using the older file although there must surely be some knock on affects that we are unaware of yet. Will try it now.
It is kind of mission critical because the whole blog thing is clearly not working from a user perspective.
Thanks again.
Paul.
PS The old version of bp-core-avatars.php seems to do the trick – thank you for that. Have not noticed any drawbacks yet but there must be some. Hopefully a fix for the new file will appear. In the meantime, thank you again.
