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Thanks for these brilliant additions to forums. I’d been wondering for some time why tags weren’t appearing anywhere as I’d initially had the groups forum directory switched off. Now we have the opposite extreme using all the suggestions above – alpha sorted tag clouds for individual topics and for all groups forums appearing in all the right places. Thanks @snark and @boonebgorges – you’ve made my day.

Oh, by the way, since input of uppercase/lowercase tags doesn’t make any difference, you might consider use of CSS formatting like this:

`your_selector a { text-transform:lowercase; }`

@oldrow – With hosting, a lot of times you get what you pay for. I don’t have experience with Lunar Pages, but I do know that if you want to control how fast your site loads, you need either a better shared hosting environment or a VPS or better.

If you want to stick with cheap hosts, you might try another one. For example, I have had decent luck with Hostgator.

I don’t know if I have a permission to provide a little review about this plugin , but 1 thing I can say now this plugin is very very cool and I think that will be a very popular one , if you want to beta test it @gdeglin is a nice person trying to discuss your opinion , new features and all your advices.

Very nice! If you need a beta tester..count me in

You have to create a child theme by yourself.

follow this steps. https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/

thanks for the reply @pcwriter

If you don’t mind I need a little more assistance with this (as I’m not code savvy)

how do I find this ‘child-theme’ you mention
do I go to cpanel..? or in my admin (dashboard)

Also, I do not want to restrict ‘members’ viewing, only their ‘profiles’

@pinhit

You’re not going to get told off again but I’m afraid you are asking coding questions, questions about how to adapt and modify a site and that requires a little coding knowledge, not everything is plugin based – although a lot is.

Sorry pcwriter but don’t link to W3Schools it’s not that great a site and we forbade it’s mention on csscreator years ago One of the best resources for frontend coding is htmldog

@pinhit

I replied to your identical query here:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/members-privacy-how-can-i-hide-members-profiles/#post-102533

BP & WP do not assume you are a computer wiz kid, but basic coding knowledge is a must if you”re developing a site.
For help learning html, css, php, etc, start here: http://www.w3schools.com/default.asp

For help with BP: https://codex.buddypress.org/home/
For help with WP: https://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page

Check out this fantastic new plugin – BP Multisite http://wpmu.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/bp-multi-site.zip. I’ve installed and am testing it. Not completely sure yet, as there’s a permissions issue (see my comment on the article page below, but it seems to work like a charm.

Now I can have my main network site and not only set up a mixture of regular blogsites (like a restaurant review) and networks (a local English club) but offer my members the chance to have their own distinct network, rather than a mainsite group or regular blog! All using the same username, as @dgmodel and I’ve got it working with facebook connect, so people don’t even have to create ANY accounts!

Here’s the article with the guy/project who got this going:
http://wpmu.org/free-plugin-lets-you-use-wordpress-multisite-to-power-multiple-buddypress-social-networks/

Have you installed the BP template pack and modified the BP files to match your themes markup?

Best place to start is to read over this guide:
https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/bp-template-pack-walkthrough-level-easy-2/

@nuhammadrid

Try wrapping the code in the plugin’s main file with a conditional so it only executes on the main site.

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Or you could do something similar to exclude selected sites. Check the codex for available tags: https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/conditional-template-tags/

@Brandon Allen and @r-a-y,

Suddenly bb_add_topic_tags() stopped working.

How I isolated the problem: In function cg_postcatagory( $post_id = false ), I subbed out bb_add_topic_tags() with echo $postmeta (in a foreach loop) and upon posting a new post, it displayed the categories that I wanted saved to the database. So I know that bb_add_topic_tags() is getting the categories, but it just isn’t doing anything with them.

I’m going to install an older version of wp on my test server to see if the upgrade is what borked it. Because that’s the only thing I can think of at this point.

This function is literally the backbone of my site, and I was all set to launch too. If anybody could help me out I’d appreciate it.

Confidence -100
Panic +10

the widget widths are set with CSS, but usually the div#sidebar width is set and that controls the widget width, for example here on buddypress.org:
`
div#sidebar {
width: 224px;
}
`

@pinhit

The file you want to edit is members/single/home
Make sure you edit the file in your child-theme, not bp-default, or you will lose your changes when you update Buddypress.
Add the following just after the opening padder div tag (change the text to suit your site/users):

`

`

Then add this to close the conditional just before the closing padder div tag:

``

I was able to hack this plugin to accomplish most of what I needed:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-export-users/

You have to edit the array in the plugin file to use your buddypress profile fields (you can add or delete), but other than that, pretty slick.