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@Brian

Just insert the raw html or video embed code into your homepage template. If your using default BP theme you can put it in wp-content/themes/bp-default/home.php

Question, to the group, posting a video clip to the home?

I would like to place a short “site purpose” & “how to” video clip on the home page for new users. (non bloggers) What is the cleanest and easiest way to do that? Thanks

What you’ll want to do is run BuddyPress on a sub-blog not the root blog. There are a couple of threads on how to do this if you do a quick search.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-links/screenshots/

@MrMaz, Can you screen shoot the plugin in action for I to see?

Hi,

First of all: thanks for BuddyPress, great work

I’m building a new template for my BuddyPress site, but for some reason Ican’t get the custom template pages working. I copied an existing archive.php file to links.php,

put

<?php

/*

Template Name: Links

*/

?>

at the top of the code and put the file into the sn_parent directory.

When I add a new page in admin, I’m not able to select the template of the new file. Is this different then WordPress? Or am I doing something wrong.

@PH

I already have much of the code completed for remote submit and bookmarklet type tools, etc. However, I am probably going to have to release those tools in a pro version and charge for it because so far I have received zero financial support for the plugin despite over 1000 downloads.

@MrMaz

Are there any plans for “tools” for BP Links?

1) A code snippet for my blogs/post so that I can add it to my template and add a post to my links.. very similar to those “share this” buttons that are ever so popular

2) A bookmarklet for my browser?

With out these two tools, it makes it very hard for my users to share.

Thanks!

I feel that maybe the life-stream should hacked or this FYI: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/complexlife

because it a simple and powerful plugin,and different from the other feed aggregator…

Thanks Xevo, but yes it is active. Can’t figure this one out. Have deactivated, reactivated etc to no avail…

Issue resolved for me.

Turns out (in my particular case), buddypress doesn’t like being integrated with a WPMU that is installed in a directory named /blog/ ….it seems to sorta confuse bp when it tries to route the main WPMU blog, which sorta makes sense when you really think about it.

So I renamed the /blog/ directory to /social/ and made sure this change was also made in my wp-config.php file and .htaccess file. Also double checked my database as well and presto, everything works perfectly.

Note that any existing member blogs may be adversely effected by this process, but luckily I only had test blogs on my install. So this may not work as easily for everyone.

:]

@nzde: The error is saying that one of the buddypress functions can’t be found. You sure you activated buddypress in the admin panel?

Hi All

Is anyone getting this kind of fatal error when activating the new default theme?

Fatal error: Call to undefined function bp_is_member() in /home/axiomat/public_html/wp-content/themes/bp-default/header.php on line 47

Many thanks

Richard

@MrMaz

The other plugins arent designed for BuddyPress. Overall, I think having an life-activity aggregator is something desperately needed for buddypress.

I agree that conceptually there is a big difference between “stuff” and “actions”

–nonetheless;

just simply based on the constant request — it seems like a plugin is needed.

Check your logs, probably some unseen error popping up somewhere.

De-installing buddypress after installing is impossible right now (unless you exactly know what buddypress adds to your wpmu install). This is a problem with a lot of plugins.

Finally back at it after a few days off for Christmas, and faced with another hurdle. I can create a blog but when I access it, nothing shows but a blank screen. I tried the fix suggested in this thread but it didn’t help (actually, I couldn’t even access the Create A Blog page so I re-edited the file as it was originally). I’m running WPMU 2.8.6 / BuddyPress 1.1.3.

I’ve tried deactivating the most recently installed plugins, but nothing seems to be in conflict. If need be, you can see my efforts here: http://rspace.org/

Any ideas?

Sounds cool to me. Hopefully it will work with Jeff’s Privacy Control Plugin as well.

Replying to six month old threads that have been marked as ‘resolved’ (Green traffic light) will mean most people will skip the thread.

But, https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-profile-filters-for-buddypress/

Just a note to say that I tried looking at Atahualpa to modify it for use with Buddypress, and the code is an absolute nightmare to work with. And it’s a table-based layout.

Yes, it has a lots of options. But if you want to mod it, ugh… There’s loads of other themes out there with options pages.

edit: to answer your original question, in taking the navigation on the right, just move the code in the theme into a nav spot where you want in the header, and style it to go horizontally.

It’s not really BP specific, or even MU-specific. It’s all a matter of styling.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_Horizontal_Menus

“Is the benefit to buddymatic that it can support all of the themeatic child themes out there?”

Yes.

“I’m looking to do the same with Theme Hybrid and I’m sure the process is similar. “

He’s already done & submitted Theme Hybrid as a buddypress theme to the repo & we’re just waiting for it to be approved.

Excellent John James Jacoby!

I was looking for a solution for this last Fall. You can see what I came up with here (How to synchronize firstname+lastname between xprofile field_1 and wp_usermeta upon registration). It’s part of a bunch of other stuff.

But your code looks a lot more sophisticated. I’ll try to incorporate it into my upgrade to 1.1.3.

Can something like this please become part of the core?

Ahh… I was actually aware of the group forum post notification plugin. I still miss the ability to post to the wire however and have everyone notified. Much less ‘friction’ for users than having to create a new thread just to make an announcement of some kind. Oh well.