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@Michael

You can change this with a little .htaccess magic.

Say your Buddypress is setup in the following sub-blog – hxxp://example.com/community

Find where your wp-config.php file is located and in the same directory there should be a .htaccess file. Open it up in a text editor.

Above the line:

# add a trailing slash to /wp-admin

Add the following:

RedirectMatch 301 ^/members/(.*)$ http://example.com/community/members/$1

RedirectMatch 301 ^/groups/(.*)$ http://example.com/community/groups/$1

RedirectMatch 301 ^/blogs/(.*)$ http://example.com/community/blogs/$1

RedirectMatch 301 ^/forums/(.*)$ http://example.com/community/forums/$1

This should correctly redirect your old BP links to the new ones.

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@JJJ

In the example above, is there anyway I can use:

hxxp://example.com/register

Instead of:

hxxp://example.com/community/register

I don’t mind hacking a few core files to accomplish this. If not, I can always theme the registration / activate pages to match the WPMU root blog.

I’ve only spent a few minutes looking into this so far and I haven’t found a way.

@JJJ

Attempted to install BP Member Map 1.1 plugin at http://www.usanfransocialmediaclub.org

Received Error:

“The page at http://usanfransocialmediaclub.org says:This web site needs a different Google Maps API key. A new key can be generated at http://code.google.com/apis/maps/”

Regenerated new Google Maps API Key and updated settings. Still no luck?

http://usanfransocialmediaclub.org/members/admin/profile/

Thanks Advance

“Latest” can be a bit vague. Please would you answer https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/when-asking-for-support ?

Check the user that your webserver runs as has access to the BuddyPress files – i.e. the file permissions are probably incorrect.

Achievements hasn’t been updated for BP 1.2 yet.

DJPaul, the author of the plugin, will update it when he’s ready.

What happens when you try and activate the BuddyPress Default 1.2-beta theme?

I had an issue trying to activate the bp-default theme on my testbox last night.

What was the cause? Object cache!

If you have object cache enabled, delete your /wp-content/cache/ folder before attempting to activate the bp-default theme or child theme of bp-default.

WPMU version? BuddyPress version? Theme used?

I opened a ticket a few days back with a patch to add an action BEFORE the mentions tab to avoid having to copy the template. This also puts it inside the login check if statement, so you don’t have to check if the user is logged in.

https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/1715

Looks good, but you don’t need to copy the template. Just add this function in your child theme’s functions.php file (or wherever you put the other code):

function my_theme_add_activity_tab() {

if ( !is_user_logged_in() )

return false;

?>

<li id="activity-myclass">

<a href="<?php echo site_url( BP_ACTIVITY_SLUG . '/#myclass/' ) ?>" title="<?php _e( 'Activity for my Class Year.', 'buddypress' ) ?>">

<?php printf( __( 'My Class', 'buddypress' ) ) ?>

</a>

</li>

<?php

}

add_action( 'bp_activity_type_tabs', 'my_theme_add_activity_tab' );

Are you using the new BP .1.2 or the 1.1 version? In 1.2 you can upload a header in the theme options of your admin panel. if you’re using 1.1 I would strongly advise you to think about using 1.2

Tutorial for creating BuddyPress Child Theme – https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/

Use Google for more info re creating WordPress Child Themes

BuddyPress Codex – https://codex.buddypress.org/

BuddyPress Components/Features – https://buddypress.org/about/

Examples of BuddyPress sites and usage – https://wordpress.org/showcase/flavor/buddypress/

In child theme’s style.css, add BuddyPress tag ala bp-classic’s style.css where at top you see

Tags: buddypress, three-columns, white, orange

I agree that privacy is a prime concern, but I think by using plugins that work to your needs is a better approach then making everything core..

To use your analogy, WordPress is an Engine in a car.. Tested to be working 100% and made sure everything is perfect…

BuddyPress is an aftermarket Turbo that a bunch of guys got working on that engine..

It’s awesome, we all want it, but its not going to be totally perfect out the gate, and in the end may make your engine blow up..

Over Time I see privacy, images, user levels, events, projects, etc. becoming core but for now the idea is a stable base we can add on to..

If anyone ever used WP 1+ the switch to 2+ was NUTS and then 2.5+ OMG..

So much of what was a “Plugin” became core, and now look at 2.9 All those image plugins, thumbnail plugins, ETC went out the window when the core worked that functionality in.

@Andy

Thanks. I can probably figure out what you meant by this last post. I’ll look for a buddypress tag in the css header of the parent/child. I agree this will probably never be ideal as anytime there is a struggle between two ‘parents.’ Code mirroring life.

To hush the “No BuddyPress theme” nag you need to add a “buddypress” tag to your theme css header.

If you want to use BuddyPress with an existing WordPress theme you need to copy over the theme files. You’ll need to adjust the HTML to match you theme though.

This is never going to be the ideal way to do things though, the best experience with BuddyPress is always going to be building a site from scratch with BuddyPress in mind.

I sorta get this, but here’s my concern. I’m using Hybrid Framework which needs to be the parent. I will make a child theme based on it. Ideally, I’d like to put the BP “stuff” in the child so upgrading Hybrid won’t screw up anything (Andy said something about this being an acceptable approach in another thread). Also, if/when Justin adds BP capabilities to Hybrid, I can just delete the BP functionality in the child.

If I do this, I probably need to take the functions/templates from BP parent and put them with WP child. I’m fine with this too (although painful on upgrade). My question is about where BP is looking for things. If it’s looking in the plugin folder and I have the files/functions in the WP child theme folder, will that work???

Before I go ripping out BP parent files and inserting them into WP child folder, I’d like to know.

You should be able to post I think… strange.. you can always send Brajesh a message on BP directly:

https://buddypress.org/developers/sbrajesh/