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If you want users to have their own blog us MU. Otherwise, it’s the same thing on WP

Only use MU if you want multiple blogs on the same install (or if you want to let your users create their own blogs on your site). BuddyPress is otherwise identical.

Hi guys,

I’m not the most technical but trying to get to grips with setting up a BP site. I want to setup all of my groups and then only have admin (myself) able to add any more. I have just installed thsi plugin.

What needs to go into the configuration in my admin panel in order to achieve this.

Thanks

Ross

@gregfielding : BP Gallery doesn’t match with BP 1.2’s Default theme. See:

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/bppicture-and-buddypress-12rc3-problem

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/bp-12-bppicture-album-plugin

I dont have enough server space to give avatar upload feature to all members, so I dont want the avatar upload feature, how can I disable that please help me

Someone please build it so that I can stop seeing this argument recur on these forums every few weeks. If I didn’t have seven thousand other things to do I’d do it myself but hey – I just took all the thinking out of it by drawing a map

i’m wrapping up a buddypress group forum extras plugin which brings in some bbpress plugins to the bp-group forums (sigs, bbcode or shortcode, quote)… this might be tempting; especially the support forum plugin. i’ll look into it.

Some people are just refusing to understand the BuddyPress Groups concept. If you want something that acts as a site wide discussion forum, create a Group. As Boone’s suggested, it’s not hard to auto-add new and existing members to it; he’s even listed what a plugin would need to do for it.

When a user is marked as a spammer, all of their Activity data is deleted in the database. There’s no way to retrieve. They essentially start out as new users as far as BuddyPress is concerned; they’ll need to log in or edit their profile, etc, in order to appear throughout the site (on the members directory, for example).

This is what you’re looking for: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/facestream-facebook-plugin

But you can integrate BuddyPress into your exisiting theme.

https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/

There really isn’t a comparable plugin out there.

Did you get any errors in your server log when you couldn’t get into wp-admin?

I had the same problem. I solved it by using FTP to delete the BuddyPress folder from the plugins directory on my host. Now I can login, but BP is gone.

https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/

Much of the BuddyPress post and comment functions have been removed from 1.2.2 since they were no longer used at all. They were due for removal in 1.3 but I brought that forward because I didn’t want plugin devs making use of them. They are in the process of being moved to the back compat plugin. The activity stream tracks blogs, posts and comments and is a much better way (both performance and usability wise) of fetching the latest blog activity. Boone’s method is the way I would recommend.

Not sure why bp_blogs_get_latest_posts() isn’t working for you, but you might try as a more future proof alternative (bp_blogs will be phased out) the activity loop https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/custom-buddypress-loops/the-activity-stream-loop/

So you’d have something like (off the top of my head – probably won’t work without tweaking!)

<?php if (bp_has_activities( 'action=new_blog_post&max=5' ) : while ( bp_activities() ) : bp_the_activity(); ?>

// use the activity loop functions to display information

<?php endwhile; ?>

<?php endif; ?>

BTW – round here I don’t think bumping is too taboo, but the 13 hours between Friday night and Saturday morning are generally not a very busy time on the forums

“do I have to have a buddypress compatible theme for this to work. “

Yes. That’s how it manages the links to the BP pages.

Sounds like your database tables were not installed.

Add the following line to your header.php:

<?php bloginfo(‘description’); ?>