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https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/2419

With the “Friends” component disabled, autocomplete on the “Send To” field in “Messages > Compose” should work for all members. Otherwise there’s no way to choose a recipient. You can write a message but you can’t send it. The only way to send a message is to visit the recipient’s profile and click “Send Private Message”. If you can message anyone by visiting their profile, why not be able to message anyone by visiting “Messages > Compose”? With “Friends” turned on, autocomplete could go back to using just friends. But with “Friends” turned off, autocomplete should work for all members.

Essentially, turning off “Friends” should be like saying that everyone is a friend… rather than like saying that no one is a friend. You can see all members in the member directory anyway.

No problem, glad I could help!

Was your WP install working before you installed BuddyPress? Did you change Dashboard > Settings > Permalinks from default to other structure and save it?

A number of ways depending on how you want it done:
1. Post on member’s status box https://buddypress.org/community/members/bluebird2/
2. @ mentions of member’s username appears in member’s profile activity area
3. BP Wire Plugin – ala Facebook Wall

@hkcharlie – You do not have to create subdirectory nor upload bbPress to get the BP group forums going, Go to dashboard – BuddyPress > Forums Setup – and install by following instructions. bb-config.php will be automatically generated.

Does it work with the new versions of BuddyPress? I installed it and tried to go to the admin page but it did not work. I tried to open “wp-admin/bp_profile_real_names” but I got a message saying this page does not exist.

You are in the BP settings there. Click on the WP settings near the bottom.

Settings—> General you’ll see it in there!

The plugin you need is Buddypress restrict group forums. Search for it through your admin panel and set the permissions accordingly.

@dwenaus I think total karma points should be the default setting.

At the moment as my site is very quiet I don’t get any karma showing when I select one of the PLUS or average settings. That is what led me to believe something was wrong with the setup.

It’s a really great plugin though! All I would do to enhance it is award rankings at certain levels. If an admin could set the rank names that would be great and maybe a ‘badge’ of some description could be displayed in a user’s profile for hitting a particular rank?

Great work though!

What @hnla said roadmap = BP 1.3 with WP 3.0. No one said BP 1.2.4.1 is compatible with WP 3.0beta/RC. Sure you can test it, but there are no guarantees. Right now, WP/MU 2.9.2 and BP 1.2.4.1 is working for me in test and live installs.

So while upgrades from WPMU 2.9.2 to WP 3.0 beta/RC multisite have been quite smooth in test installs, the BP trunk networking side is rendering some errors with some BP-dependent/extension plugins most often with “Page Not Found” as components are now rendered as WP Pages.

BUMP!!!!!

This problem is occurring on my install of buddypress at http://ownowl.com/members/ediosborne/profile/ (for example)

What’s up with the random links?

@dwenaus

I have just changed the settings for Karma to ‘Total Karma Points for quiet sites – this shows the simple total of karma points. example: 110’ and the points now show up.

I previously had it set to ‘Mixed Karma Points PLUS for normal sites – this is a higher value mix of total points and average points per post. example: 60’

I’m not quite sure of the difference here to make the points value not show up.
Could you shed some light on it?
Thanks once again!

@dwenaus

Seems a bit strange.

I get the options to rate forum posts no problem and the karma is given to the post. The rating shows up in the forums directory but just not next to the users name.
I have disabled ALL plugins except BP and Rate Forum Posts and it still happens so it can’t be a plugin confliction.

I have deleted and reinstalled Rate Forum Posts and that doesn’t help either.

I am running BP 1.2.4.1 and a single install of WP 2.9.2

Can you test with those versions and see if you can replicate it?

I’m not sure about the DB tables. I haven’t changed anything that I am aware of. If you could list the tables I am supposed to have then that would be great? Maybe I am missing some tables?

Thank you so much.

@lee_vhoi_ol You need to go into the ‘General settings’ in your admin panel and tick the box that says ‘membership’ – Anyone Can Register.

That will create the link to registrations.