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Unfortunately, there’s no hook in the “My Account” menu to add custom items so you’ll basically need to duplicate the bp_adminbar_account_menu() and add your changes, then remove the bp_adminbar_account_menu() function and add your custom function.

The following guide tells you how to do this:

https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/modifying-the-buddypress-admin-bar/

if you have a “bp-themes” folder in your themes directory, you can get rid of it – not so sure you want to remove the one from within the buddypress plugin folder – the one in the themes directory is left over from older versions of buddypress. remember – before you delete anything, do a backup first.

@lpegram

Are you using WPMU or standard WP?

If you’re using WPMU, read what I just wrote here:

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/wordpress-vs-wordpress-mu#post-41890

Thanks! Good to be reminded, I’ll make sure to check again in case I missed something.

The new bp-default is already a MAJOR change in a good way since the old BuddyPress theme btw. The old theme was littered with empty clearing div’s.

If you install BuddyPress you’re blog will remain the main blog and all your posts/authors/categories etc are still there.. It does not remove your existing blog, it simply adds social network functions to them!

Your WordPress theme can’t be used though, so you’ll might need to change the standard BP theme to fit your needs by creating a Child Theme.

ok, here’s the results:

1. created a full mirror of my live site in a test directory, including a separate copy of the database.

2. de-activated all plugins, including buddypress

3. chose a non-buddypress theme in admin

4. ftp’d a fresh copy of wpmu to the directory – surprisingly, this didn’t break anything.

5. Before re-activating any plugins, I successfully registered, all activation / notification emails worked fine.

6. re-activated BuddyPress

7. tried to register a new member, and now I have nothing – no activation / notification emails.

Am I wrong to conclude this is a BuddyPress issue?

I meant maybe someone could take code from Buddypress and turn it into a BBpress plugin, instead of trying to force Buddypress to fit within BBpress. Half the posts on here are about BBpress these days. Buddypress is not supposed to be a forum script.

Couple of things that may be of vague interest.

1/ Just tested on a unmodified 2.9.1 / 1.2.1 install live server and the plugin seems to work flawlessly on PHP 5.1.6 in your readme.txt you state requirement of 5.2 perhaps to be safe?

EDIT/ ignore following just read the readme more carefully “not compatible with 1.2.x classic theme” hmm more and more the upgrade to 1.2.1 while maintaining backwards compatibility is simply not a viable proposition. projects like BP / WP rely heavily on third party plugins and the whole extensible nature if upgrades leave major plugins such as Events and Links non functional then there rapidly is little point in backwards compatibility, one finds not much choice but to upgrade fully. I have to know scrunb the theme work I’ve done and start over working on the 1.2.1 stream long before I had wished to given time constraints *sigh*

2/ appears there’s a possible jquery init issue. trying to get plugin to run on dev server running install using backwards compatible plugin / BP 1.2.1

As previous posters report Ajax will not fire whatsoever looking at script debugger shows this occuring in your global.js

‘bp_init_objects is not defined

bp_init_objects( [ ‘links’ ] );

http://********.co.uk.dev/wp-content/plugins/buddypress-links/themes/bp-links-default/_inc/global.js?ver=2.9.2

Line 9′

This sounds more like you need a very basic social networking plugin for BBpress. Why not approach it from that end?

I’d hate to see Buddypress reduced to a BBpress appendage.

I believe this is a similar issue: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/bug-recent-site-wide-posts-widget

You could do it other ways but if you just want the BP components placed inside your current theme the plugin is a easy way to do that. However, you still may need to adjust CSS.

Try and override things like width via CSS first.

If you can’t do that, use a child theme and copy over the BP template files you need to override to add CSS classes and then try styling them in CSS to achieve what you want.

The BP-Gallery plugin by BuddyDev.com is your best bet; it’s still in beta though.

Also, it’s a paid plugin. Cheapest membership rate is $30 for 3 months access to the entire plugin and theme gallery.

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There’s also MrMaz’s BP-Links plugin – https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-links/.

And oEmbed for BuddyPress – https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/oembed-for-buddypress/

Both of these plugins rely on third-party video sites like YouTube, DailyMotion, etc.

The Plugin doesn’t seem to work for domains .es and .cat

Please contact the plugin developer:

http://www.bravenewcode.com/contact-us/

Help! There’s no register button on my BuddyPress site!

If you’re using standard WP, login to the WP admin area, navigate to “Settings > General”, and make sure “Anyone can register” is checked.

If you’re using WPMU, login to the WPMU admin area, navigate to “Site Admin > Options”, and under “Allow new registrations”, select any option but “Disabled”.

Have issues such as this been caught and fixed for next release?

‘function bp_links_dtheme_creation_tabs() {

global $bp;

$href = sprintf( ‘%s/%s/create/’, $bp->root_domain, $bp->links->slug );

?>

<li class=”current”<a href=”‘

Missing short tag after class token

And explicit ‘for’ attributes need to to have a matching ID on the input.

I just discovered the “bug” 30 minutes ago. I’m not sure if it’s a bug yet, or an “upgrade”.

In Buddypress 1.2 /buddypress/bp-blogs/bp-blog-templatetags, all functions related to blog posting have been removed. They exist in Buddypress 1.1 and 1.0 but I don’t know why they are removed.

I’m going to manually put it back in for now.

– Shawn Yuan

Thats not the right way to do it. You will need to use some of these files.

Plugin here that guides you through it

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

I have not tested this out but I’ve been looking for something similar and also found the “My Favorite Post” plugin which links the database to the user profile rather than the wp-favorite-posts plugin which uses cookies. This may better integrate with user profiles in buddypress (if it works). If anyone tries it out let me know and if I get any updates I’ll post them:

http://www.kriesi.at/archives/wordpress-plugin-my-favorite-posts

does this work fully with BuddyPress?

ie, I know i can login, but can I then view my buddypress profile and edit etc?

RPX is working great for sign in, but thats all you get, is sign in.

Buddypress profiles etc dont work. If i sign in with my google account, and click on my profile, it just redirects to the home page….

is there a way to solve this?

Good point shared hosting won’t allow WPMU to run probably due to the requirement to be able to create sub domains at will.

Not sure even with single WP I would want to run a busy buddyPress site on shared hosting?

If you are running buddypress with wordpress single version (not wpmu), then dreamhost, hostgator, and others should be fine.

But if you intend to host blogs or use buddypress with wpmu, then those shared servers won’t be capable of your applications. I currently use wpmu/buddypress on Media Temple grid server.