Terrible advice in this thread from people recommending edits to core bp files — any changes to them will be lost next time you upgrade Buddypress. Never edit core. Use the custom query filter instead.
@DJPaul ‘s Welcome Pack works fine for me, always has.
I was extremely excited about BP as an extension of the free, public site I’ve created for local and family historians with research interests in a specific geographic location. BP provides precisely the community functions I want to have available for researchers to share.
I really like the WP theme (Panorama) that I’ve set up.
Unfortunately, I don’t like the display of BP content within the theme.
I’m not great at creating CSS, but I can tweak existing code — if I know what to do.
What I want is the forum portion to display much like it is here on the buddypress.org site. However, what I’m getting is a display that looks like the CSS file is missing or broken. I can’t figure out how to attach a file to a post, so here is a link to a screen shot — https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B0bN3UCRBvwDNzhmZGNkYmQtYTVkNC00YTQwLWI1ZDQtNmExMzQ2Yjc5YjY0&hl=en&authkey=CNeT6rQI
Is it possible in WordPress to run a secondary theme for a system like the bbforum portion of BuddyPress, leaving the main theme in place for everything else?
Any assistance would be tremendously appreciated!
When a click on header under appearance in the dashboard it shows me the blog title, but when I view a blog post, it shows the site name.
I’m now thinking that sites aren’t being created correctly and it’s related to the other problem that I posted in the thread below.
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/im-having-navigation-problems/
@airpilot
The easiest way to set this up with s2member would be to go to the user’s profile in your WP backend and assign that member the “Role” of “s2member Level 4”. Then go to edit the page you want to restrict access to and, in the “s2member” section at top-right, select “Require Level #4” at “Page Level Restriction?”. I haven’t tried this myself, but it should work to restrict access to that page to only those members who have a Level 4 membership (whether paid or not, doesn’t matter).
For even more granular control, see the following 2 sections under “s2member” > “API/Scripting”:
“Using Advanced Conditionals” & “Custom Capabilities”.
If you need more help with this plugin, the best place to go is their support forum: http://www.primothemes.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=4
Have fun! 
ok so ive started playing with the css file that has control over the admin bar for facelook, so far ive tried copying the admin bar code out of the default buddypress theme(where it looks fine) and replaced the admin bar code in facelook with it.
that equals blue text and a vertical menu off the to the far right, not in the right position or the right look. ideas anyone? thanks.
@eventfulsd
I just tried creating an account on your site and believe I’ve found the cause of the discrepancy between subscribers and members: no activation email is received so folks simply cannot activate their accounts.
Check with your hosting provider to ensure that your email accounts are set up correctly for WordPress (Buddypress uses the same email routines as WP).
When I or any other users click on a link to someone’s blog in the nav bar or the visit blog button on the blogs page it redirects to the member’s home page. But if you click on the link directly to a post in the activity stream the link works fine.
I am using the latest versions of WP and BP and using the buddypress default theme. I am using sub-domains.
I know nothing about php, but here is a little of my wp-config…
`define(‘WP_DEBUG’, false);
define(‘WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE’, true);
define( ‘MULTISITE’, true );
define( ‘SUBDOMAIN_INSTALL’, true );
$base = ‘/’;
define( ‘DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE’, ‘bloggerzoo.com’ );
define( ‘PATH_CURRENT_SITE’, ‘/’ );
define( ‘SITE_ID_CURRENT_SITE’, 1 );
define( ‘BLOG_ID_CURRENT_SITE’, 1 );
/* That’s all, stop editing! Happy blogging. */
/** Absolute path to the WordPress directory. */
if ( !defined(‘ABSPATH’) )
define(‘ABSPATH’, dirname(__FILE__) . ‘/’);
/** Sets up WordPress vars and included files. */
require_once(ABSPATH . ‘wp-settings.php’);`
Help!!! I’m pulling my hair out on this one and I’m afraid to open up the site to anymore bloggers until I get this fixed.
My error messages on buddypress registration and edit profile (and probably others I don’t know about yet) come up black type with no background, so they are unnoticeable unless you really know to look for them. This has led to a few confused users — http://www.pettrustees.net
I know this is defined by div#message.error, which in default.css of teh bp-default theme is set to
div#message.error p {
background: #e41717 !important;
color: #fff !important;
border-color: #a71a1a;
clear: left;
}
should be white type on a red background.
Can’t find anything overriding it. My theme, Secondary by Milo, only has one stylesheet and this is not defined in that stylesheet.
Any ideas?
Mary
@dinoraptor101 – I see you posted this same idea in another thread, too.
I use CloudFlare on buddypress sites and do not have the issues you describe. I am paying for the pro version for the sites and am able to change settings from Basic to Aggressive, etc. Maybe something else is happening on your site and there is a plugin conflict. For example, I removed WT3C because of issues with CloudFlare. Have you contacted CloudFlare?
@naijaping, you legend. that is exactly what im after, thanks a mill
Perhaps my question should have been more basic. I am new with buddypress and wordpress, so please forgive my painful learning curve. I have 130 subscribers yet I only show 2 “members.” How do I set up buddypress to make each subscriber a member. My site is at eventfulsandiego.com. Thank you so much for your help. And by the way, I did see a send friend request to my other member.
@dinoraptor101 so you use the plugin https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/cloudflare/ or did you test without it? If you did use it, maybe a bug report post on https://wordpress.org/tags/cloudflare?forum_id=10#postform about it would help get it solved 
@acustica
You are my hero ! Thanks.
Hi All. We can’t able to see the ‘Comments’ live unless it has been moderated and approved by blog administrators. Similarly why don’t/can’t we have the exact functionality to be applied on top of ‘Blogs’, ‘Forums’, ‘Groups’, etc for Buddypress and WordPress Multisite enabled website. I am basically a non-techie guy. Please discuss your ideas and implementations if did already. Thanks in advance.
BEWARE!! CloudFlare so far uses Page Caching, and for buddypress that means you will login and still load the page where you’re not!! and much more problems until the CDNre-caches which takes a lot of time.. hours – day the pages will be OUT OF DATE..
I recommend not using any Page Caching solution with Buddypress… since it’s a live-site.. not a blog.
The best bet is to find a CDN that does NOT cache pages as static.. yet it can save images, scripts, and static data.. 
it would be another story if cloudflare offers to turn the page caching of manually.. it DOES NOT –_–
Had this same problem, and my solution was that I didn’t have the plugin files inside a folder called “buddypress”. Rather, they were all loose in the “plugins” folder. Once I made a “buddypress” folder in “plugins” and dropped the files in, all I had to do was reload the admin page and try again. Smooth sailing from that point on.
FWIW, I had this problem, and the solution was that I did not put the BP plugin files into a “buddypress” directory, but rather had them lying loose in the “plugins” folder. Added a new folder under “plugins”, tossed the files in, reloaded the admin area and everything worked beautifully.
@airpilot
What you’ve described (create and assign custom capabilities per subscription type/level) is one of the basic features of a very powerful plugin called s2member. It can seem overwhelming at first (it’s huge!), but once you start playing with it and experimenting, you’ll see just how flexible it can be.
http://www.primothemes.com/post/product/s2member-membership-plugin-with-paypal/
Hope this helps! 
I wish to be able to assign specific subscribers write privileges to specific pages in my CMS WP/BP website. I tried Role Scoper, but it crashed my website. I presently have the following plug-ins installed:
BuddyPress
BP Group Management
BP Profile Search
BP Group Email Subscription
BP Profile Privacy Mod EW
BP Registration Groups
BP Restrict Group Creation
Will one of these, or some other BP plug-in provide assignment of privileges by pages?
Thanks,
Airpilot
I wish to be able to assign specific subscribers write privileges to specific pages in my CMS WP/BP website. I tried Role Scoper, but it crashed my website. I presently have the following plug-ins installed:
BuddyPress
BP Group Management
BP Profile Search
BP Group Email Subscription
BP Profile Privacy Mod EW
BP Registration Groups
BP Restrict Group Creation
Will one of these, or some other BP plug-in provide asssignment of privlieges by pages?
Thanks,
Airpilot
Actually, I tried switching to the default BP theme to see if it was a theme-specific issue, but the issue didn’t go away, which leads me to believe it is a Buddypress issue.
hey @gayatriom mind sending me that code? Thanks. 