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@Joey hey man I just figured out that there’s instructions on this page: you simply upload the .php file you download here to the /mu-plugins/ folder. And viola it works!

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/registered-users-only-2/

Buddypress is supposed to be activated sitewide, so click “Activate BuddyPress Site Wide”

Rename wp-content/plugins folder to something else e.g. wp-content/plugins-x and go to wp-admin dashboard and change Themes > Appearance to default theme.

@dennis_h, amen, preach it brother!

Yes, forums are very useful and popular, but they are just another way of displaying a conversation. The basic building blocks for blogs, forums or social networks are the same:

users
posts
comments

If you want a traditional forum view, you could probably create that in your theme.

There is no reason to bolt an external forum script on to Buddypress, with its own database tables etc. It only creates synchronization problems and confusion for the end user.

I have argued this before here and elsewhere.

@sadr-

I’m not sure as to which developers you’re referring? There are only three core developers that work on BuddyPress and two of them are volunteers like the rest of us non-core developers. Andy, as the only core BP developer that is employed by Automattic, is charged with working on BuddyPress. He does not necessarily have any additional information–than can be googled–on what Automatic plans to do with bbPress.

Should someone submit a ticket for this issue?

The big differentiator between diaspora and BuddyPress is that WP / BP is a centralized platforms. diaspora’s goal is to make distributed social networking the norm. We briefly had a discussion about this in this thread: https://buddypress.org/community/groups/creating-extending/forum/topic/alternative-to-facebook/

@jackreichert-

If you are asking where to start in helping turn WP / BP into a distributed social networking platform, I cannot say. That is currently not in the works. It would require a major rewriting of WordPress’ foundational core. If you are asking about the project I reference in my post, then it’s best to email me separately as that is beyond scope for the BuddyPress forums.

But, there may be a middle ground. A few of us are in the beginning stages of thinking about semantifying BuddyPress with the possible goal of enabling BP to use WebIDs as an alternative to OpenID, and to encode other semantic markup to enable BP networks to join the growing number of Linked Data applications.

Customizable Slugs in BuddyPress

I find it a bit annoying that the developers are so hesitant to speak on the matter, as it’s clearly a reappearing debate. Should that be interpreted as indecision, still?

Last I heard, bbPress was going to be rewritten into a native WordPress plug-in, taking advantage of custom pages and all that jazz. mmMMMm, smooth. Probably a year away though?

In my comments on this subject I tend to be a tad too negative towards BuddyPress. In truth, it provides me with all the *essentials* right here and now, I just feel it could be quite a bit better, without all too much effort.

@DJPaul where to rename them???
also i have few more questions….could you please check them here….
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/creating-extending/forum/topic/new-to-buddypress/
any help will be appreciated….

Do you have a blog category or group that has the word forum in the slug? I know you can’t have a group and a category with the same name not sure about the forum slug, BP permalinks are buggy.

Did you remember to change WP default permalinks?

Did you try changing the forum slug to something like “boards” just to see if that worked:

Customizable Slugs in BuddyPress

Even I am facing this problem. I noticed that the image was actually uploaded but it is using a wrong path in the crop page.

The path for the image shows as:

http://financetrain.com/members/editor/profile/change-avatar/wp-content/uploads/avatars/4/bis-449×298.jpg

When it actually should have been (I guess)
http://financetrain.com/wp-content/uploads/avatars/4/bis-449×298.jpg

I really don’t know how to resolve this.

I also tried this for my profile on buddypress.org (this website) and the same problem appears.

has any of you tried to work more with simple press instead? i’m sure not everyone will agree, but there are quite a few appealing function of simple press as an ‘easy’ alternative to bbpress. because it is all in a page, there must be some clever way of writing plugin which allows to call a specific subforum link?

it has been a very long time since i’ve looked at phpbb, but integration with wp never seemed easy with that one!

So’s to not modify other files, you can also serve it up through functions.php:

//serving up a different default avatar for members
function set_default_member_avatar($url) {
return get_stylesheet_directory_uri() .’/images/new_and_improved_avatar.png’;
}
add_filter(‘bp_core_mysteryman_src’, ‘set_default_member_avatar’);

See this URL for groups avatars: https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/group-default-avatar/

@danfun – That is not a bug, but an intentional design layout; it’s supposed to mimic Twitter’s status permalinks.

eg. http://twitter.com/buddypressdev/status/11101736399

If you don’t like this, if you created a child theme, you can override the activity permalink in your child theme’s /members/single/activity/permalink.php.

@silversurferes – Read this:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/faq-how-to-code-snippets-and-solutions/?topic_page=2&num=15#post-37123

@bplove – This idea has been requested before; I’m looking into this for a future version. The upcoming one will probably not support this though.