Having the option of setting certain “Friends-List” to be “public, private or hidden” would be great. So I can set a certain “Group of Friends” to be hidden from other “Group of Friends”.
Not sure if Jeffs “Privacy-Plugin” is capable of doing this ?
@ Andrea: I’ll think about it, though if I choose to make it a free theme, I’ll release it somewhere in march (don’t have that much free time on my hands). 
The latest buddypress 1.2 default theme has this built in, it uses a custom wp_list_comments template callback. It’s really easy to do. Just google if you want to know more.
bp_core_get_userlink( $comment->user_id );
Use that in your comment template and you’ll get a link including anchors to your buddypress profile.
Ahh now I understand what the problem is. many thanks for that. My WordPress Mu wasnt actually working in first place, and had nothing to do with BuddyPress.
However the question is; can I – being hosted by GoDaddy Windows Economy – access the config file of the webserver in order to make this little change? 
Many Thanks for help,
Houman
You might wanna make the buddybook one a free theme, since currently there are no working free themes based off facebook.
Both of those themes look really nice. Good job. I look forward to seeing the others.
YouGo is close to finishing, but since I’m already building it for the new buddypress 1.2 and basing it off the new default theme (which is changing all the time right now), I won’t release any theme till 1.2 is stable. Building a theme for Buddypress 1.1.3 right now would be a waste of time.
I also will rethink the buddybook theme, since the guys over at wpmu-dev already made a buddypress theme based of the facebook theme.
Sorry to the people that are waiting on these, you’ll have to wait a bit longer.
If it’s an old group, you must first disable then re-enable the group forum in the group admin menu.
The bp-default and bp-parent-themes are theme frameworks for the BuddyPress plugin. They show what can be done with the BuddyPress plugin and I appreciate that a lot.
For a current project with WPMU as CMS plus BP for an organization, I went with creating a customized child theme using the bp-sn-parent throughout the site including all blogs for a consistent look and feel.
Aware of the time I could allocate for this project and my average skillset, creating a child theme was the path of least resistance during continuous trunk upgrades of WPMU and BP since I started this project late September for a tentative launch mid to late January. And I would say the time I invested in creating customized child themes was worth it, 10x over.
At this time, all I have to watch for in my child themes are code changes in the files from upgraded parent themes – header.php, footer.php, sidebar.php, home.php, functions.php, style.css, and some new page templates I created.
When the new bp-default theme came out for BP 1.2 trunk, I made a new child theme based on that for blog_id_1 (BP install) specifically because of the new forums layout My only question for the new bp-default parent theme is:
why is it that the only way I could find to avoid getting a white screen when I activate my bp-default’s child theme (with own home.php) is by consistently copying the code of bp-default/activity/index.php over bp-default/home.php ?
Xevo, any updates to your new themes?
https://wordpress.org/showcase/flavor/buddypress/
Maybe developers of those sites can be contacted or interviewed to give more info.
The drop down for “Select theme to use for BuddyPress generated pages:” is not visible.
That particular option was changed in BuddyPress 1.0. Since then, you just pick the site theme and that controls the setting.
From the recent SitePoint podcast.
Andy Peatling said:
The BuddyPress.org site is actually over a million users because it’s connected to the main WordPress database/user database. It’s obviously not one million active users, but there is a fair few thousand active users every week, multiple thousands of users every week.
Some of the other standalone websites – testbp.org is actually over about 14,000 users now. TastyKitchen, which is which is another site using BuddyPress for recipes used in cooking, they’re around 20,000, I think.
Check the full podcast on http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2009/12/21/podcast-41-buddypress-with-andy-peatling/
https://buddypress.org/demo/
If you want to run a site like those examples, your probably gonna need at least a virtual dedicated server. Not sure what exact serverspecs you need though, it’s more based on how many users your expecting.
Andy said he will be looking into that per this this thread in testbp.org
Forgive me for not having dug through the code as much as I should before commenting. I will do that before I go much further. However, one of the things that Ptah Dunbar and Justin Tadlock have made me think hard about is separation of appearance from functionality.
The goal would be for Hybrid to handle all the WP functionality in a theme “framework” (which I consider ‘less’ than a parent theme). Of course, he would bundle some templates as a starting point, but the core would be in the “functionality” files. For the developer, what is key is the knowing the custom functions, hooks and css rules built into the framework.
OK, now BP comes along. It is adding “functionality” that will hopefully “appear” somewhere. Because Hybrid is the parent, I’d want to put the BP files in the child. Again, BP would ideally be a separation of function from appearance (Andy above suggests that separation is not that good, but I’ll dig through at some point). BP functionality would be placed in the child (e.g. functions.php, .js, etc). Where those functions didn’t conflict with Hybrid, they would just be additional functionality.
Now, the BP templates would go in the child too. They would be hacked into oblivion, but as long as the functions are the same, omitted or supplemented by my own, it shouldn’t matter. When BP is upgraded, I’d have add the new functions/js, but that shouldn’t break my site unless they conflict with existing ones. The painstaking part would be looking through the templates and understanding how the new functions are used and porting what I want and leaving behind what I don’t.
Hybrid would be automatically upgradeable and the functionality part of BP would almost be automatically upgradeable. The painstaking part would be adding the functionality to my existing – custom child theme.
What am I missing?
Have you created a Group in your install? Forum topics are associated with Groups. If the issue is other than that, it would help if you shared what WPMU and BP versions you are using.
You go to the dashboard of the blog where you installed BP then Appearance > Themes – choose the theme you want.
The only way BuddyPress is going to upgrade without being a pain is if you either use one of the bundled BuddyPress themes as a parent, or use another framework that is kept up to date.
If you build a theme from scratch built on a copy of another theme, or do not create a child theme from a parent that is kept up to date, you are going to have a bad time.
This will always be the case, since BuddyPress is a tight combination of plugin code and theme code.
You cannot use the admin panel of bbPress if you use the one/two click BuddyPress installation. If you want a bbPress admin panel and want to install bbPress plugins, you need to install bbPress externally, then use the WordPress integration plugin, then you go to BuddyPress Forum component and click on “I want to use exisiting bbPress forum”
This topic seems to go a bit offtopic, so there’s no way to use the administration panel of bbPress?
If for example I wanted to activate plugins bbpress how can I do?
It’s pretty much the process Simon describes.
I mean gallery 2 is selfhosted with feeds ,so you can get the feeds or api .. but I’m more interested in ustream.tv ,twitgoo & twitpic !
Its not feasible to support a software package since rich media embedding relies on the URL as a key for which API to use. It would be possible to support a list of websites that use the software, but not all of them automatically.
http://gallery.menalto.com (gallery 2 & 3) for people with selfhost photo sites.
view their feeds… would be awesome!
I’d buy the pro pack…
