Looks like I am going back to using Mingle more user friendly.
I use the add-on for theme compatibility and most stuff is still screwed up.
I will keep checking in on the progress thou.
Works well for me. Thanks!
@karmatosed I’m going to try this trac you speak of. I will submit these ideas to this place and get over my fear of getting punted.
I submitted a ticket just today…and I’ll submit this and the last idea you mentioned to do this for. 
The problem that I am experiencing is with a regular wordpress theme. After I installed buddypress and all the other plugins to make it compatible with my theme. I try to go to the buddypress pages (such as activity/groups/ and so on) and the pages come up but on top of the browser, it says “Not Found” | domain.com…
I have looked everywhere and tried just about everything and can not seem to get this working. I know that if I use a “buddypress theme” This problem does not occur. But of course, I don’t want to be limited to the few buddypress themes that I found, when there are many nice wordpress themes I could work with.
If anyone can please help me out, I would be much appreciated.
Thanks in advanced.
You can use as much or as little of BuddyPress as you want. So yes you can just use the membership components – avatar, profile, sign up.
If you want it considered to be part of the BuddyPress core then filing an enhancement ticket is usually the best route.
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/
If you have a patch for it smiley faces of happiness all around as that really rocks.
As a work around you probably want to look at some of the user limiting plugins / membership / privacy.
https://buddypress.org/extend/plugins/?search=permissions
You mean like an avatar moderator? No solution springs to mind but perhaps something in this search would be helpful?
https://buddypress.org/extend/plugins/?search=avatar
I see… I think we are talking about a different plugin and functionality.
I’m talking about this one: https://buddypress.org/community/groups/bp-profile-privacy/
And it’s complete functionality is listed on the roadmap for 1.5 
Sadly, that plugin does break with 1.5, and it is currently abandoned. The author stated someone else can pick it up.
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/creating-extending/forum/topic/buddypress-privacy-1/
Hey @modemlooper, I juts posted a patch to that ticket. Would you mind installing it and then walking through an upgrade again? I think that the patch fixes the biggest part of the problem (did for me with Achievements, anyway).
Is there anyone that has any other ideas about this? I still cannot get it fixed, it doesn’t happen with anything other than BuddyPress, I am using BP for a major part of my website that is due to launch by the end of this year. I would really like to get this working…
Please help?
The roadmap for bp 1.3 (1.5) states:
– Basic profile privacy – hide from public / only friends
I cannot find this option anywhere on my test install.
Was the idea scrapped?
My concern is that BuddyPress Profile Privacy will stop working come 1.5 and I’m somewhat comitted to this kind of functionality.
I’ll work on providing a document with best practices for creating them. See https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3422 for further discussion of the page creation problem.
All my plugins that create root component slugs are now broken and I need an example of how to create them for 1.5
Here is the problem that is happening with all my plugins
http://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3422
== how can I do this using the default theme.==
1. Create a child theme of bp-default theme. – https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/
2. Copy over header.php from bp-default theme – https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/1.2.9/bp-themes/bp-default/header.php
3. Open up header.php and replace the following:
<h1 id="logo"><a href="" title=""></a></h1>
with
<h1 id="logo"><a href="" title=""><img src="/images/logo.png" /></a></h1>
4. Upload a logo.png or .jpg, etc. to your theme’s images folder
Is there an easy way to provide the administrator of a BuddyPress suite the means to control user’s avatars? At the moment it seems all they can do if a user has uploaded an objectionable image for an avatar is to parse the folder to remove it. Is there a function that can be leveraged to provide this functionality? Thanks in advance…
Shoulld I replace that with a new function? What do I need to do?
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Well, `bp_core_add_root_component()` is most likely responsible for creating the zillions of extra pages, so getting that sorted made my plugins work 70%, so it should be a good starting point…
I am in the process of setting my website and using Buddypress for the first time. When a new user register they do not receive the email with a password. Instead they receive an email telling them to use the password they created when registering but this password does not work so they cannot sign in. What should I do to activate this email that generates the password. Thanks 
There is a would-be fantastic abandoned Buddypress plugin that breaks with 1.5. When you activate the plugin, it creates a whole bunch of pages over and over again for Privacy and Maintenance templates. It also seems to spam SQL queries of doom.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-privacy/
I would absolutely love to provide fine-grained privacy controls for my members. Would someone adopt this abandoned plugin?
It ought to continue to work. I don’t think we made any changes directly in the Group Extension stuff. If you can’t figure it out, check where you’re hooking into BuddyPress (try earlier) and/or report on BuddyPress.trac.WordPress.org
In Discussion Settings the box is checked for me, as Administrator, to receive an e-mail whenever anyone posts a comment. The e-mail address for this Admin account is valid, and is typed correctly. I had been running the “BuddyPress Group Email Subscription” plugin, and then everyone in the “group” received e-mails even though every one of them had the “no mail” option selected…and the admin still did not receive even one of them. So I deactivated the plugin. Right now I am a novice trying nothing fancy, I just need the admin e-mail address to receive notice whenever anyone posts a comment…which is why I checked that box. Can anyone help, please? Thank you.