Thanks Bowe for the S2Member suggestion. I did see this while clicking around. Looking more closely, the two missing elements for us are:-
* the heavy lifting that WP-Wishlist does in working with payment processors outside paypal & affiliate systems.
* the private_tag protection of individual text that allows you to personalize the same page to show different content based on level…..(which can be also be a combination of all-access or “drip feed” for learning situations)
I really appreciate the suggestion. Thank you 
best solution I’ve found for a member based (subscription type) plugin is the new S2Member plugin.. It’s very well documented and free
http://www.primothemes.com/post/s2member-membership-plugin-with-paypal/
it like others social network gifts
when you see other member profile it will show gifts tab that you can chose gift and type your message then it create activity stream with gifts icon and your message to that member.
when user click gift tab on own profile they will see activity stream with type new_gifts on gift tab.
this is a screen shot
http://yfrog.com/6gbuddypressgiftsj
Still not able to find a way to do this, I’ve only come across this thread from a while back.
https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/displaying-custom-fields-in-home-widgets
My theme uses custom fields to set an image in a post. I don’t insert it in the post editor. So these images don’t get pulled into the activity like they would if they were inserted.
<?php echo get_post_meta( $post->ID,”custom-field-name”, $single=true ) ; ?>
Thanks Armand,
Was that a single install of WP or WPMU?
Regarding the question by Jeff Sayre (hello Jeff on Why WP-Wishlistmember….. it adds the granular control to setup of access control to sections of content by level, but (more importantly for us) allow that content to be dripped out over time. …and the flexibility to show different content (anything including payment buttons, text, images etc) on the same page or post depending on the member’s level.
I’ve not yet seen anything else that allows us to do this. The closest solution was Amember, and that required separate dashboards. I am open to being shown how to do this in other ways with compatible buddypress plugins..
Support ticket back from WP-Wishlist today regarding integration with community features/plugins (like those offered by Buddypress) in the future
Thank you for your message.
I did a search for Buddy Press and Wishlist member and it appears someone was able to make the two work together.
With that being said, we do not have any documentation on or offer support for Buddy Press or for other plugins.
WishList is compatible with most plugins, but we just do not have the time to test them all. We wish we could.
We will start development for a forum add-on soon but I can’t give you a definite timeline at this point.
Take Care,
Thanks for any comments..
Craig
@Modemlooper Shucks, that’s too easy. 
Wondering if anyone made progress integrating elements of Buddy press with Wishlist member. I have a single install of Worpress with pretty complex protection to content run by WLM (wishlist member). So we chose that functionality…and now would like to wrap some community around it.
We chose this last year prior to Buddy press being around. We also chose build on WPMU since multiple blogs were not needed now, and we are hoping the WP3.0 convergence will be a real one…and not end up being like Joomla was with 1.2 and 1.5
Ideas?
EDIT: Promising thread here: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/buddypress-and-wp-wishlist-help#post-26475
@DJPaul – I also though about Slicehost as Buddypress is a bit slow on hostgator (single blog). What do you need to configure on Slicehost to move on? Is Apache, PHP, MySQL out of the box? Do you have to be PRO to manage such server to protect your site from hackers and stuff like that? I have experience in managing Linux servers but very basic.
Thanks, but it seems that page covers upgrading only from version 1.0.
I need to upgrade from RC1 (that as I can understand is a more complicated task).
But I cant find anywhere online the instructrions that were in the page
https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/installing-buddypress/upgrading-from-rc-1/
You should try the oEmbed plugin! It automatically allows you to insert videos from youtube/vimeo and others by simply putting in the URL.
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/oembed-for-buddypress/
As Bowe mentioned, it was a webhost issue and not related to plugin/buddypress. Turned out I needed to switch to PHP 5 and to get that to work, I needed to change all files and folders to be 644 and 755 (respectively), rather than 777.
Thanks
Hey stwc – Very strange about the differences on a local vs live install. The inner workings of the plugin are in places a bit mysterious to me (the upload mechanisms in particular are pretty much 100% _ck_’s work). I too experienced some difficulties on different kinds of setups. But I’m glad you’ve got it working on the live install – that’s where it really counts
@Bowe
1: yes
2: Are you referring to subblogs? BPML since 1.0.0 version is only active on main blog.
3: That is one of features left for future development. Personally, I don’t like auto detecting of languages.
4: WPML has ‘string translation’ API. Theme and plugin strings can be registered there and translated (WPML can scan theme for strings and allows you to translate them directly via WP.
@Mariusooms (Hi Mariusooms!)
That is good point. So you’re suggesting that in BP user’s option should be ‘default language’ setting?
I haven’t thought about this, but I guess there is some workout needed if user actually needs some language switching. And I also think that this can’t be done without using cookies (no matter how much I would like to avoid it).
@Erich73 (Hi Erich!)
I hope you can reach site. (it was down for a short while when I was switching it to new WPMU+BP)
Missing a ) after BP_FORUMS_SLUG
Thanks – I assumed as much and have taken it up over at my webhost, was just checking to see if this was a common issue.
Thanks for your response – I’ll post an update if things get worked out.
Hey Boone — just tested this on a live install (dunno why I didn’t think to do it before) and it seems to work fine. No idea why it might be the case, but it appears that it just fails on XAMPP local installs (two different ones I’ve tried so far).
Probably not worth worrying about — possibly just a useful data point.
Thanks again for this plugin! Just a few more forum-related things I need to do to make my forum users happy, and I might be able to move them to the new Buddypress site without too much moaning…
I think you should contact your webhost and ask why you receive an internal server error when you configure your server to use php5.. This is more something you should try to solve with your host, and not something plugin or BuddyPress related
Hi,
I did install Wordpres MU and BuddyPress a few days ago. OK – it is BuddyPress 1.2.2.1
And I installed the latest BP-Links what worked fine for the first link I created. But now, I am unable to drop down the settings for avatar and further link settings like description. It keeps closed and even entered URLs aren’t accepted.
So I actually stay with that single link 
I did install several other plugins afterwards. But I can’t suggest a corruption. Or is there any incompatibility known?
Well, how do I get back the settings in BP-Links?
Thanks…
René
thanks, what does this plugin do exactly? where do users go to send gifts??
@Jivany thanks for the suggestion, though I’m still doing something wrong. Here’s what I have:
<li<?php if ( bp_is_page( BP_ACTIVITY_SLUG ) || bp_is_page( BP_MEMBERS_SLUG ) || bp_is_page( BP_GROUPS_SLUG ) || bp_is_page( BP_FORUMS_SLUG || bp_is_group() || bp_is_member() ) : ?> class="selected"<?php endif; ?>>
In the php error log it says there was an unexpected :
Three ways to go about it depending on preference and how site is used:
1. define ( \'BP_ENABLE_MULTIBLOG\', true );
add this to your wp-config.php after the DB collate info will allow BP to function on different blogs of your install
Reference: https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/changing-internal-configuration-settings/ :
OR
2. You can copy source view code of the navigation in home site and paste it to replace relative navigation links in header.php your child theme to get the URL of home page navigation correctly. Caveat – you would have to do this every time you add new navigation link in home page.
OR
3. You could add the following codes before and after the navigation menu in header.php of your child theme
before main nav assuming BP site is at main blog
<?php switch_to_blog(\'1\') ?>
then after main nav
<?php restore_current_blog(); ?>
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-profile-widget-for-blogs/
– enables blog admins to show their BuddyPress avatar with link to BP profile page plus own xprofile fields
Thanks for the reply Modemlooper,
My page is not currently up.
I am trying to modify BuddyPress Default 1.2.3.
Here is part of header.php:
“</head>
<body <?php body_class() ?> id=”bp-default”>
<div id=”topbar”></div>
<?php do_action( ‘bp_before_header’ ) ?>
<div id=”header”>”
the Div I want to add is #topbar
#topbar {
background-color: #FFFF00;
width: 100%;
height: 22px;
margin: 0px auto 0px auto;
}
I can get it behind the admin bar but I can’t get to go to 100% of the browser. Width wise it will only go as wide as the admin bar.
for now I just set the background property to a color for testing.
Ideally I would like my div element to go 100% of the browsers and then I would like the admin bar to stay aligned with the main body at 960 pixs.
Swapping header.php on the blog files so it calls different CSS?
You are going to have to give a link to this site as there is no way to tell where you’ve placed your div.
