i have tried to disabled the activity stream form the buddypress setting, but then what i got is only the header with the blank white content T____T
ya ya…it still not resolved 
you guys have any idea?
hmm a post box on every wall? maybe something happened to mine? It is not there even when I switch to the buddypress default theme. I will do some more testing. Thanks for a response always appreciated!
@h32 with a lot of hard work tapping into the local community in various ways
How did you get the word out about your site?
@esploded I’d suggest starting with a clean version of wp/bp you can set up a new site on your MAMP, if that doesn’t work then there is something up with your settings.
If you want help from the forum it might be worth you setting this up on a server rather then keeping it local so you can show people.
@qrahaman I use Another Classified WordPress plugin
@Chad – Did you ever find a solution for this? I need the same capabilities!
What the title says… Have tried to optimize it as best as I can as well as utilizing W3TC.
Suggestions and critiques welcome. Any advice on building membership is also welcome. thanks – thesoundlot(dot)com
I’m interested in knowing if there’s a solution to this question.
@ewebber, your site looks inviting! Alas, I live in Las Vegas. If you don’t mind, which plugin are you using for the “Business” tab as well as the categories? Thank you!
@mercime, this doesn’t appear to be resolved. I’ve clicked on just about every link and the site activity still shows on every page.
== adding the line: define(‘BP_DISABLE_AUTO_GROUP_JOIN’,true); – but that doesnt work either. in fact that line replaces the admin bar at the top of my site. ==
@tommyhoang Your bp-custom.php should contain not only that line but also the opening and closing tags.
`<?php
define(‘BP_DISABLE_AUTO_GROUP_JOIN’,true);
?>`
bp-custom.php should be uploaded in plugins folder => wp-content/plugins/bp-custom.php
Congratulations, you’ve resolved this on your own 
Anyone using the lite version of WPMU’s Chat plugin https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/chat/ ? Pros and cons please.
@djpaul any advice?
I’m actually thinking about dropping buddypress if this doesn’t get itself fixed.
Actually I stumbled across this question while spending several hours last night looking for the answer on the infamous Group Avatar step error message, after seeing there were as many different answers as there were questions, and not finding the solution (and doing what each answer suggested), I decided not to fight it. I don’t know if your question stems from this type of error or simply you’ve come to realize the group is created after the first step (as you said), but rather than using php or a core hack,etc, etc, I just removed the upload buttons and text of the avatar step using CSS, essentially users who create the group will consider it a default avatar, not get thrown off by an error message and click through the process; they then do any editing afterwords. Editing the avatar after the fact doesn’t throw any errors as it does when creating the group.
In my case, I know it’s a child theme problem and having a static home page, even though I followed the buddypress docs to a t. Didn’t want to give up the home page for the buddypress default, so that was my solution. it’s fairly painless and works.
Really cool I have a soft spot for community use like this of BuddyPress – great use. Nice amount of members and done from ground up always puts a smile on my face
I don’t have a section where I can delete it on my wordpress admin. I’m trying to find it on the account but no luck. the only functions I have with wordpress on buddypress are:
“General Settings”
“Component Setup”
“Forums Setup”
“Profile Field Setup”
“Privacy Settings”
Nothing else. When I did an older version I got more options because I installed bbpress with it. I’m just using Buddypress. I dono? maybe I’m doing it all wrong?
I’ve been running a buddypress site for the last 10 months called yeah! Hackney http://www.yeahhackney.com it’s a (hyper)local community site for a borough in London.
I think buddypress is awesome, the work that the developers have done on it mean that someone like me (a non-developer) can build a community site that works.
I have a lot of plugins and have done a lot of tweaking, but it’s working almost as I want it right now.
I currently have 820 members which means there is enough people to keep content fresh – but that grows every day
Really need a solution for this. Anyone?
@tommyhoang what says your “footer and header are ready to be used as widgets.”? Did you place the proper code in functions.php?
@alexpee that line is on 1554 of your style.css file, that is forcing your text to align in the centre
