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https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/when-asking-for-support/

I know that the premium Gravity Forms plugin can be integrated with BuddyPress in general, but to attach that form specifically to certain group/s would require extra coding to achieve this on your part.

By walkthrough, you mean this one? https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/bp-template-pack-walkthrough-level-easy-2/

The last time I checked out an On Demand theme was almost a year ago, but I remember it has a page.php file where you can see the HTML structure you should impose over the BP template files transferred when you went through the compatibility process with BP Template Pack.

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/buddypress-docs/
If you create a hidden group, only group admin and invited members of the group can access these pages.

== I prefer keep local forums with the global fourm running along. ==

Actually, @sbrajesh‘s Global Forums plugin can either integrate the groups forums or run separate from the group forums.

== i’ve done so many posts and image uploads, its going to be a nightmare to re do it, ==

If you don’t need to install BuddyPress and make sure it works for all WP and BP upgrades including BP plugins, then you can stay in that setup.

If you do want BP in your setup, backup database and server files and save to hard drive then reverse the process you went through “giving WP it’s own directory”, you can then reinstall WP at domain root.

And the code is giving me an error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘}’ in xxx/public_html/wp-content/plugins/bp-custom.php on line 9

Make sure it has been wrapped around “ at the beginning and the end.

But I want it to display their usernames instead of their RealNames.

Use this plugin: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-usernames-only/

If you are going to use an external forum software, then you can just go to dashboard > BuddyPress > Component Set up > Groups – Disabled. Note that if you go this route, you would have to create a plugin to integrate your forum software with BuddyPress.

If you want to use the internal bbPress forum which you install via BuddyPress > Forums Setup , then you have to keep the groups enabled because the default forums are connected to groups. https://codex.buddypress.org/buddypress-site-administration/buddypress-forum/ In this scenario, you could rename and use Groups as the Main Forum sections like https://wordpress.org/support/ and adjust navigation in BP Admin Bar, Main Navigation and Item Navigation accordingly.

<i> How can I make it so it displays the users by nicknames, not by their names?</i>

That is what Buddypress does currently. It displays their “RealName” rather than their Username across the site.

<i> how can I add Activity and Members links in the adminbar?</i>

Add this to your bp-custom.php:

function pages(){
?>

<li class="no-arrow"><a href="yoursite.com/activity">Activity</a>

<li class="no-arrow"><a href="yoursite.com/groups/">Groups</a>

<?php
}
add_action( 'bp_adminbar_menus', 'pages', 15 );

@chouf1

thanks for reply,
even if I would find necessary octals for my language, it still would not solve my issue, since biggest problem is updates and, of course, I can not ask my users to use octals in their updates.

at the moment they will have to refresh page after every update, maybe some other solutions?

can plugin “RS activity refresh…” solve this issue?
maybe I should completely switch off javascripts for updates?

In that article, they recommended DB cache to be off, yet you have it on. Why?

thanks a lot.

Here is a good answer by Frederick Townes the developer of the W3TC plugin:

http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/blog/2010/09/02/optimize-your-wordpress-site-with-w3-total-cache/

ok, good to know.

So exactly what does database caching do? I know it sounds obvious, but what things are cached and what is left purely dynamic? Is it only for logged in or out users? Or both?

Sorry for being vague, but again, it would be great if there was a definitive doc on this (being WT3 and BP).

I am interested in this thread. I would like to have 3 BP networks with three separate brands and three separate URLs, but them all using the same database. That is, a user signed up in site3 can see, group with, friend, email, etc a user in site 1 seamlessly.

So site1 would be subdomain.domain1.org and typing in that URL gets you to a page where you see a a theme and branding specific to domain1.org. Site2 would be domain2.org and likewise going to that site you would see a theme and branding specific to domain2.org, and likewise for site3.

The independent branding is important, but the ability to have cross site networking is important as well.

On solution I thought of is the following:

Set up BP network with users subdomain.domain1.org/domain2 and subdomain.domain1.org/domain3. Then use the Domain Mapping plugin to map domain2.org to subdomain.domain1.org/domain2 and domain3.org to subdomain.domain2.org/domain3.

Then I would want to continue to be able to make new users like domain2.org/names and domain3.org/names.

Or is this all possible using the Multi-domains plugin?