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If the live server doesn’t have mod_rewrite actually working or reading the htaccess file, then no, none of the permalinks work – BuddyPress or not.

AllowOverride FileInfo Options has to be in the vhost in httpd.conf for the acount.

Which versions of WPMU and BuddyPress are you running?

interesting:

2) How do spammers find BP communities?
Using Google.
Example: http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=%2B”is+proudly+powered+by+WordPress+and+BuddyPress”; (front page of every BP site on the net)
Example: http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=inurl:%22/community/members/%22+%2Bbuddypress (members page of every BP site on the net)

I have two open test BP installs (one wp_user linked to my blog domain) and changed the standard footer. Not a single spam sign-up (just hashcash installed)

@drmunden Like @claud925 said, it’s probably a permalink issue. What are your settings at Dashboard > Settings > Permalink? BuddyPress will not work with permalinks set to the default option. On your live server, do WP pretty (ie non-default) permalinks work without BP activated? If not, it’s likely that your host does not have the proper modules to allow for permalink rewrites, and you should contact them to ask whether they can enable it.

The short answer is that you take the code that creates the activity post box (located in buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/activity/post-form.php) and put it somewhere into one of the members/single profile templates, possibly home.php. I’ve done this on http://commons.gc.cuny.edu (though you won’t be able to see the post box without a login). It took quite a bit of playing around to get it to work right, especially to get the necessary Javascript in place.

I’m hoping @apeatling will post a quick tutorial on how he did it here on bp.org. I’m planning on writing something up about how I did it, but I’m sure his method was cleaner.

It sounds like a permalink issue. @malik, you said that when you switched your WP permalinks to something other than the default, WP stopped working. It’s probably the case that your provider is missing mod_rewrite or otherwise does not have the correct server configuration to support WP permalinks (which are, in turn, required for BP). Here is the page on permalinks from the WP Codex; there are technical details in the second part of the page: https://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks

If you’re using the bp-default theme, the login sidebar is created at buddypress/bp-themes/sidebar.php. You could copy that file to your child theme directory and modify lines 29-56 to contain whatever login markup you’d like.

Good suggestions, I like them all.

You can already change the “favorites” language to “bookmarks” or whatever else you’d like with a custom language file: https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/customizing-labels-messages-and-urls/

Hook to do_action( ‘bp_nav_items’)
or
1. create a child theme of bp-default,
2. copy the header.php from bp-default theme and copy to child theme
3. manually add/revise the navigation – lines 42 to 82

Would disabling “Friends” in your Buddypress Component setup do that for you?

Try this:

https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/modifying-the-buddypress-admin-bar/

@r-a-y would be great to have it like facebook where the video / picture etc. is quite small int he activity stream, but when you want to check it out, you click it and it expands full width. That way doesn’t take up a lot of real estate unless you want to check it out.

Groups forums are KEY and they absolutely need to have a way of creating multiple topics in each forum as well rather than just a running list of recent discussions.

But what is also 100% key is to have non-group forums as well from same install. That way you can have a traditional forum in addition to group forums which totally makes sense because when you have 100’s of groups it’s impossible to keep track of where things are at like in a traditional forum, so you want to have a balance of both.

Also 100% key is the ability to favorite forum threads. A basic and totally necessary feature to make the current set up slightly more manageable.

You’ll want to provide more details for everyone: what version of WP, BP, plugins, site URL, etc.

Hi @r-a-y, I wasn’t looking for a release version. Was wondering if it’s in SVN or something, because I can’t seem to find it.

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-45772

Did you have any BuddyPress plugins active when you deactivated BP the first time? Chances are that is what happened.

BuddyPress not worky in yourcomputy? Renaming BuddyPress plugin does not break servers nor computers. Try again.