when I installed the buddypress it works fine. But the register and upload avatar seems not to work. i think they are related. Please kindly visit my site http://www.ltdexperience.com/register. I haven’t yet updated theme’s structure to fit the buddypress. Please try to register, you’ll just get a page as if it was just got refresh only not really submitting the form, I’m bump.
We installed Buddypress to allow our users to create their own fan site within http://www.fanz-sitez.com. We have the Typography theme and are using Typepad as the spam blocker. When our users register and list their web site in their profile they get classified as spammers. I created a test user to see if this happened to anyone and it does. How can I fix this? Also, when the users see their member site, the right-hand site widget is not aligned to the right. Instead, it drops down to the middle of page and expands across. How can I fix this? We did install the compatibility plugin.
updated**: it’s Traject’s theme addon-functions.php. Maybe the author must be notified.
I would like to have a “community” tab in the main navigation bmenu of my wordpress site which links to the loggedin users xprofile page. Using the menu page in the wordpress dashboard, I tried to add a custom link using $bp_loggedin_user_domain(), but this doesn’t work. It wants me to put in a URL address starting with http. Since profile pages are dynamic based on the member who is logged in, I have no idea how to do this. Any ideas.
This is Traject’s theme functions.php. It’s not working on my part either and even with the crop image. sigh ***
== i go to one of my buddypress sites ==
BP version? Did you install the site in question before or after your server crash? If you deactivate BuddyPress as well, do you still have a blank page? How are your other BP sites working out?
the site that i am working on will be a directory of parent-owned at-home businesses…i am interested in users being able to have profiles with personal info about themselves, and socialize with each other through that…and then post their businesses (connected with their profile…similar to the recipes being connected to the profiles of the tastykitchen.com users) to a central directory which is fully browsable and searchable.
things i love at tastykitchen.com that i want to use similarly on my site:
* slideshow w/post pics and profile pics together (is this an existing or did they create this? anyone know?)
* featured member
* recipes button on bar w/categories list on hover…instead of a directory of recipes…i would like users to be able to add their business to a directory…so where tastykitchen.com would be listing recipes, i want to list the businesses of users
* spotlighted recipes in the sidebar (i want to spotlight user’s businesses)…
* popular recipes: i’d want “popular businesses”…i imagine that “popularity” is determined by how many views the recipe has had? and lists those with the most? is this part of buddypress or a hack?
* recent recipes: i would want this to be newly added businesses
* meet the member
* the community feature…i would want something similar, to be able to browse user profiles…featured users and popular users and newest members, just like at tastykitchen.com when you click on the “community” button on the menu bar.
i found this post: http://buddypress.org/community/groups/creating-extending/forum/topic/making-buddypress-a-social-network-for-non-bloggers/ which talks about what it is i am looking for info on…making buddypress work for non-bloggers…
but the thread is pretty old…and i am super new to buddypress, still figuring out how it works, and could use some pointers on how to make a site that functions very similar to tastykitchen.com. i’m guessing they hacked the heck out of buddypress, like the original poster of the above post mentioned? is there not now a way to do something similar to tasty kitchen with buddypress out-of-the-box or with some plugins?
i am not interested in setting my users up with blogs…i simply want the simple social aspects, profiles, forums, etc. something very simple for users…
i know that at some point recently (no idea when, haven’t read the details anywhere yet) WPMU became obsolete and the features integrated into the standard WP installation…so i’m wondering if this change and also the latest updates to WP and buddypress might affect this topic of buddypress for non-bloggers?
can someone please update me on how this situation is now, in july 2011, with the latest installations of WP and buddypress and relevant plugins?
a list of plugins that could be configured to have similar functionality to what is seen at tastykitchen.com would be wonderful! i’m hoping some of the things that would have to have been hacked before, maybe no longer need to be? maybe there are new plugins that cover these features?
i’ll post separately the features i’m looking for…this got long! 
tina
@pinhit
Dirty hands are fun 
Didn’t you already set member profiles to show only to logged-in users? The whole profile section (including the header) is being hidden whereas only the profile activity streams should be hidden. Check members/single/home.php for the code you added earlier, and comment it out or remove it temporarily to see if the display looks better.
Hi. Good Day! Does anyone of you here has traject theme by theme forest installed with buddypress? I am having trouble with mine, buddypress seems not to work with the said theme. Please help! 
@cfcunofficial
You can achieve that with a membership plugin. A quick search of the WordPress repository will turn up several: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search.php?q=membership
My personal favorite is s2member… it does everything, and then some!
:https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/s2member/
@pinhit
You really are struggling with this one, aren’t you? One of the important things to look out for is being sure your “if” statements are properly nested.
To mimic the functionality of the site you linked to above, open activity/activity-loop.php and paste the first part of the conditional (the if, message & else) immediately AFTER the following line:
“
Close the conditional (the endif part) immediately BEFORE the following line:
“
This will display your not-logged-in message to visitors everywhere the activity stream is displayed: in the main stream, as well as in profiles and groups.
i had tons of trouble with this.
Don’t know if you tried these methods but they worked for me..
I used two plugins:
Mail From and WP-Mail-SMTP
with mail from I had to create a myname@mydomain in the email section of cpanel because my site was stuck in default ‘noreply@mydomain.com’
It kinda splits your email send outs as: username@example.com
I chose: eMail Address admin@mydomain.co.uk as the Current address WordPress is sending mail from
With the other plugin I noticed one major edit solved the whole issue for me in terms of my site sending out the registry email verifications.
First I chose to send out the emails with my newly created email address (made in cpanel)
then I checked the: Send all WordPress emails via SMTP box
then I chose: SMTP Host = localhost
then this was the was crunch that seemed to make it work..I changed the default SMPT port from 25 to 26 and it worked !
I also chose: Authentication No: Do not use SMTP authentication.
sent a ‘test’ email out to a test account on my site and all was ok.
I don’t know if this will work for you..but all I can say is it worked for me so no harm in trying.
This issue took me 3 weeks to solve !!
I have a website that is partly blog and partly Buddypress, with a number of registered users.
I want SOME of them (the ones I most trust) to have access to the Buddypress part of the website and the others to be blocked from using Buddypress, REGARDLESS of whether they are logged-in to the website or not. That would effectively create two tiers of registered users – the ones that are allowed to access the whole website, and the ones that can only access (and write for, etc.) the blog, and NOT the Buddypress side.
Is there, therefore, a way of restricting some LOGGED-IN users from using the Buddypress part of my website? Thanks.
I took a different approach:
1)Buddypress general settings- rename the “Full Name Filed” to nothing… clear it out and save. This will remove the label from the reg page.
2) Hide the full name field on the registration page with css.
3) Add JS to mirror typed characters from username field into full name field
requires jquery 1.4.2
`
#field_1 {visibility:hidden;}
function sync()
{
var n1 = document.getElementById(‘signup_username’);
var n2 = document.getElementById(‘field_1’);
n2.value = n1.value;
}
`
Call it appropriately:
`<input type="text" name="signup_username" onkeyup="sync()" id="signup_username" value="” />
`
Seems to be working pretty good so far.
Wordpress 3.1.3
Latest BP install
WP Simple Community BuddyPress Theme
Thank you guys for all the help thus far all of my issues have pretty much been resolved but this registration problem is a huge headache.
When people create an account everything goes fine and it goes to the page that says an activation email will be sent but it never is. The registered user does show up in the admin panel under users but their registration is not active.
I have tried changing themes, uninstalling and reinstalling both BP and WP. I have deactivated every plug in and tried every compatible SMTP plug in. The SMTP plug in creates an error that says the SMTP server is not responding when a test email is sent. So far nothing has worked.
Does anyone have another solution to try or has anyone using the same installs had any success and can share how to fix it?
Is it possible to deactivate the themes log in and registration and use a plug in instead? I tried to do this but didn’t really know what I was doing.
If it helps my site is verbradio.com
As always your help is appreciated.
First the Deets:
WP V.3.1.4
Buddypress V1.2.8
Theme: bp-columns1.2
I would like to find a way to Remove the Buddypress Profile menues and place them in a side bar instead. The menu And its respective sub menus that are contained in :
* Activity
* Profile
* Messages
* Friends (2)
* Wire (0)
* Groups (0)
* Achievements (1)
* Points
* Settings
If it is at all possible to get these as a sidebar menu instead perhaps with an accordion style effect to open the sub menus that would be ideal, or is this asking for to much ? Let me know Thoughts, Suggestions etc…!
Cheers
Cad-Man 5000
Hello everyone! New to the forums and i am in a bit of a pickle.
First the Deets:
WP V.3.1.4
Buddypress V1.2.8
Buddypress Profile as Homepage v0.5
Theme: bp-columns1.2
Alright So even before I enabled all my plugins I was having the issue that when the user logs in they are redirected to the home page still signed out. BUT if I navigate to another page on the site I’m suddenly logged in, or if I refresh. Next I tried to add the Buddypress Profile as Homepage plugin to see if that would redirect the user but alas to no avail.
You can test it out yourself here http://4villains.org/WPtestBed/
Any insights or help would be appreciated!
I’m actually joshDjenks on Twitter – no account set up yet for the Hub. I’m not terribly active either.
Kudos on the BP Labs plugin btw! Quick admin got me thinking about other ways to streamline navigation and reduce page calls. The biggest time saver in my mind would be adding ajax to the item nav/subnav in profiles. I tinkered with it last night – still some css clean up to do but it works just fine so far. http://www.arhistoryhub.com/members/joshjenkins
@anesthetist As you’ll note this thread is marked as ‘Resolved’ this means that in all likely hood people are not going to respond to it.
It is general practice not to tag onto posts but to start a new one for your issue,, explain exactly what you have done, stages reached, the files manually edited as is necessary etc.
.htaccess lives in the root web directory of your domain.
I’ve only had a quick glance, and it seems pretty good. Are you or ArHistoryHub on Twitter?
On a cursory glance, yes you could work BP into your WP site, BP is simply a plugin for WP that extends WP to include social media aspects such as user profiles, site wide activity streams, user groups. You may want to install plugins such as BP Album+ to handle media , cubepoints for BP, or perhaps Achievements.
You’re best off setting up a test install and working BP into your theme using the template pack plugin to help integrate BP files into your child theme – a guide on this is found in the BP codex, then run through the various features of your existing site and see whether they function as is as WP aspects or whether you need to use more specific BP plugins that are BP aware, theres a good list of available plugins under the ‘Extend’ tab