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I havent had a spammer registration since i used the “WMPU block spam by math” plug-in. i was getting 20 a day, and now absolutely zero.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wpmu-block-spam-by-math/

If you’re going to create a theme from scratch, then you definitely want to use the child theme so that it’s ready for the next time you have to upgrade BP. Although, the default theme is a good place for you to start since it uses all of the BP features and you just have to change the style, layout, etc. Or you could find an open source BP theme and just adapt it for your needs as well.

Otherwise, you can download the BuddyPress Template Pack which will try and convert your current WP theme into a BP theme. No doubt in this process of converting it to a BP theme, there will be changes you’ll need to make to make your old WP theme display right with the BP components layered on top.

Word on the street is that either option takes about the same amount of time. Kind of depends on what kind of WP theme you have already. Otherwise, probably better to just create a child theme.

There’s another BP Events solution for BP 1.2+ per this topic

Cheers.

Well, it’s only a ten minute job if you know how to hook it into the registration page.

As previously reported, when I activate either the Coffee with Friends 1.0 by Daisy Olsen theme or A Thematic/Buddymatic Child Theme 1.0 by Ron Rennick (after moving the files from the Buddymatic folder into the themes folder) I get the message saying “You’ll need to activate a BuddyPress compatible theme to take advantage of all of the features.” I’m using Buddypress 1.2.3 and Buddymatic 1.2.

@Mariusooms, @Ron R As suggested in https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/buddymatic-12#post-46675 I am wondering where to add Tags: buddypress in the style.css in the Buddymatic folder especially as there is already the following in the comments: TAGS: white, three-columns, two-columns, fixed-width, theme-options, left-sidebar, right-sidebar, threaded-comments, sticky-post, microformats, buddypress – buddypress is there anyway!

Have I missed something obvious?

We’ve just finished converting the WooThemes “Headlines” template, and it is well suited for Buddypress. You can see it at http://LabSecrets.com

We found that this template required us to modify the structure and add some new css. Once we did this, it was easy-enough (though just required the time to copy/paste) to replicate across the rest of the theme.

Probably going to try this next on the “Canvas” theme. This time might try to see if there is a way to do it without changing the id labels or adding extra div-tags (but not likely given the fact that the “container” and “content” div’s are used 2x, thereby necessitating the name changes for the inner (they’re used once by woo and then once again in the bp default template….which makes the css problematic….sigh…)

Here are the structures we modified (using group folder as the example):

TOP OF THE PAGE:

<?php get_header() ?>

<div id=”container2″ class=”col-full”>

<div id=”content2″ class=”col-left”>

BODY OF PAGE….CONTENT HERE… OMITTED….

BOTTOM OF THE PAGE:

</div><!– #content2 –>

<?php do_action( ‘bp_after_directory_groups_content’ ) ?>

<div id=”sidebar” class=”col-right”>

<?php locate_template( array( ‘sidebar.php’ ), true ) ?>

</div><!– #sidebar –>

</div><!– #container2 –>

<?php get_footer() ?>

As r-a-y just pointed out, it is called an external install of bbPress because it is external to BuddyPress. So, there is no secret BP code to make it work. You need to integrate bbPress into WordPress.

Once that is successfully accomplished, you then place a link to your separate, external forums within your BuddyPress site. Now, if you want to make your bbPress site look as if it is part of BP, then you have to theme your bbPress to look like the BuddyPress theme you are using.

That is all that was done on the BP.org site–an external install of bbPress with a theme that matches that of the current site theme so that the two appear integrated. In reality, bbPress is not integrated with BuddyPress at all. The bbPress theme does need a function call or two to make the BP menus work within bbPress, but that is covered in a number of other threads.

Have you seen this thread? Perhaps this will provide more insight on how to integrate bbPress into WordPress: http://www.wpmods.com/integrate-wordpress-bbpress

I changed the signup page name, stopped all new registrations across all blogs, added to the htaccess page and STILL get signups.

I asked over at wpmu and they say it is Buddypress causing this and to ask here but I see that BP blame WPMU.

Great!

It’s not a code thing, Dainismichel.

If it was a code thing I would have posted it.

I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again… an external install of bbPress (which is what you want) has absolutely nothing to do with the BuddyPress admin area. It’s between WordPress and bbPress.

Numerous others (me included) have given you the correct procedural steps to integrate an external install of bbPress. Furthermore, lots of people have come into these forums and have successfully integrated an external bbPress install properly. You’re basically looking at the instructions and interpreting them differently.

Granted, as we’re not all technical writers like you are, our instructions might not be as clear as you want them to be, however we are trying our best!

Without hand-holding, we can’t physically do this for you.

I will answer my own question. I called tech support at hostmonster.com and the second guy I spoke with was very helpful. He looked at the .htaccess file in the /subdir and saw that SimpleScripts had not properly configured it. He edited line 2 to read:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /~username/subdir/

Substituting the actual username and subdir for the placeholders I wrote above.

HTH

BuddyPress.org uses gravatars for avatars.

I have the same problem but a different setup. The site is hosted by hostmonster.com, so I can edit the .htaccess file (or create one if necessary)–if I could learn what the .htaccess file should say. In my root directory is an installation of WordPress MU. The domain does not yet point to hostmonster.com’s name servers so I must access the WP installation and the wp-admin files via the IP address. This works fine and I don’t want to mess what I have there. In a subdirectory off the root, I did an installation of BuddyPress. http://[ipaddress]/~username/subdir shows me the front page of Buddypress the default theme. But all of the links result in 404 errors. They are looking for http://[ipaddress]/~username/subdir/activity or http://[ipaddress]/~username/subdir/members, etc. and those directories don’t exist. What am I doing wrong? TIA!

This is an old thread.

Basically, the WP-reCAPTCHA plugin needs to hook into the BP registration page actions for it to work.

It’s a 10-minute job at most.

It’s not showing up on my signup page either. I’m using BP but not MU.

ha HAAA breakthrough.

I figured out this much. But is there any logic or autodiscovery to it? Or does it just create “dumb” objects that you have to push around by hand (such as, “if you are on the groups page, display breadcrumbs x, y, and z”). In the readme.txt, JJJ says automatic adding of breadcrumbs is planned, so maybe that is the “smart” phase of this.

<style>

.breadcrumb-wrapper { border: 0px solid red; padding:3px; height:25px; clear:both }

.breadcrumb-list { border: 0px solid green; height:25px }

.breadcrumb { float:left; margin:2px; border: 0px solid blue }

</style>



<?php

/* put function bp_breadcrumbs_add( $name, $url, $desc, $parms, $img ) in places you want to add a breadcrumb */

// global $breadcrumbs_template; var_dump($breadcrumbs_template);

if (bp_has_breadcrumbs()) {

bp_breadcrumbs_add('Members', '/members');

bp_breadcrumbs_add('Groups', '/groups');

bp_breadcrumb_display( ' > ' );

}

?>

Hey Tosh,

Never made a plugin myself so can’t help you in that matter. But thanks a lot for making the effort, your plugin will be very useful once its ready.

I would really, really love to learn how to create new types of notifications.

I’ve been tracking this topic for a few weeks now. I’ve figured out the functions for inserting a notification into the database, but for some reason, a notification is not generated to the user:

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/how-do-i-create-a-notification

Congrats Sven, I read that article some days ago and forgot to post it here, my bad !

You have all the praise well deserved, bis spater !

On my site I see a similar problem with a small difference, I have people register which makes them a “Subscriber” but they never confirm by email. I am not sure that all of them get the new user email or if my host trash cans some of them.

Anyway, this leaves me with registered WP users that are not site members in Buddypress.

My wish list would be for a plugin that would allow me to delete any WP user that had not confirmed in some time period.

This is a self hosted site with WP 2.9.2 and the users cant write to the blogs so I don’t have that clean up to worry about.

Ed

http://www.carvingbuddy.com

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