Hey everyone.. gah where to start lol.
I’m a beginning web designer so adapting my current theme to buddy press is pretty hard for me. I was hoping someone could help me, even if its just a little bit.. I really really want to keep the theme I have..
The theme i’m using can be found here its open source: http://skattertech.com/2011/02/introducing-qawker-for-wordpress/
I have a temporary play around site located here: http://cubancomplex.kodingen.com/matrixinsider/wordpress/
I installed buddypress, and it installed fine, but of course it doesn’t display correctly.. and I do not understand how to correctly edit the files. So I have since uninstalled it and i’ve came here for help.
Any information I need to provide i’ll be more than happy to. If someone could please please please help I would be so thankful! I’d really like to get buddypress working and looking good!

@gunju2221 Thank you for feedback. After I had started porting the theme to buddypress, I found a child theme based on arras in the arras forums – it’s called BrownBuddy and seems to be a little unfinished, but a good starting point, as there are many things you have to change and adapt. Read about it here http://www.arrastheme.com/forums/topic4211-buddypress-arras-theme-child-brownbuddy.html
Core team are working on this.
So, it looks like there will be an alpha release of the new BBPress forums in the next couple of weeks. http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-plugin-updates/page/18
I am wondering if anyone has started working to mesh Buddypress with the new BBPress. Obviously, we not only need members to show up properly and link to their profile pages, but also the ability to assign these forums to groups (or not). And, it would be great to see a sub-nav link on profile pages to the discussion threads they started.
This is a big deal. I am guessing that most of us will transition over soon as it is integrated fully. Is anyone working on this yet?
Soon I will be changing my domain name from http://www.xxxxxxx.com to wwww.yyyyyyy.com. Will this affect my buddypress community in ANY way? Will everyone still retain all of their profile information? Will all of the activity be there? Thanks!
Hi there!
I am working on a BuddyPress project that will launch tomorrow as a part of 7 Days Of Inspiration. I spent the morning checking the auto-translations and made some manual translations in the source files for the words that were skipped. I didn’t change any of the functions, just some titles and description text. It all seemed to work fine, until I discovered the search functionality doesn’t work any more. Searching forums and messages works, but I can’t search through members of the community. Since this is a very important part of this community, I really need to fix this issue.
Do you guys have any suggestions on where to start looking for the error in the code?
Big big thanks for anyone that thinks with me on this issue 
@hsiaolungchang Read through the example of the BP Template Pack process https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/bp-template-pack-walkthrough-level-easy-2/
Note that there is usually a pattern to the HTML structures you will be imposing from your design onto the template pack files. The code you posted above for page.php is incomplete closing divs and get_footer code.
I agree that this is major issue in BuddyPress – people tend to reply to e-mail notifications instead of going back to the BuddyPress platform and posting a reply there.
As far as I understand the Mail From plugin simply defines one overall sender address. You can enter the admin’s email address here, and he will get all the reply mails. But that’s not what you want – you want the reply beeing posted to the discussion thread in BuddyPress. 37signal’s Basecamp does this nicely. Is there a plugin capable of doing this?
Hi, I would like to ask how was your progress with this? I am also interested in a QA Feature that is tigghtly integrated with Buddypress to have e.g. a QA area for a group only.
@DJPaul – I hear what you’re saying… really. But WP isn’t into taking criticism even if it’s dished out very delicately. They delete any criticism.
But good news … After WP caused plug-in developers to pull out their hair for 48 hours, BP Albums + is back in action and it works now. So if anyone was holding out updating just because of this, it’s working. Here’s the thread. https://buddypress.org/community/groups/bp-album/forum/topic/unable-to-upload/
Sorry to trouble everyone again with this… but if anyone could spare a minute to point out what I’m doing wrong, it would be greatly appreciated. Free Herbs for everyone!
This is from the page.php from my template.
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When I change */index.php to this
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The BuddyPress info is still right on top of the background image and the sidebar is at bottom left when it should be at right…
Anyone? Please?
You could create your own home page by a) creating `home.php` (a special WP template recognized by BP) or by b) creating custom `Page Template` set as front page
which contain:
1. widgetized areas – see this bp-default child theme for example https://wordpress.org/extend/themes/buddypress-widget-theme
and/or
2. special BP and WP loops and/or template tagsto call in data
https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/buddypress-template-tags/
https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/custom-buddypress-loops/
@johnjamesjacoby @r-a-y @djpaul @boonbgorges
Just re-looking at this thread 5 months later… Having the ability to cache avatars would be a huge load savings for all of us using CDNs… Any more progress or thoughts on this?
Hi.
I’m trying to set up Buddypress within my organization. For authentication, I have downloaded the plugin ‘Simple LDAP Login’, so my uses don’t have to create a profile for the Buddypress installation – they just use their Active Directory login.
But something strange happens – my users can’t view their profiles or others profiles. This only applies to the LDAP users.
I have added the ‘define( ‘BP_ENABLE_USERNAME_COMPATIBILITY_MODE’, true );’ to my wp-config.php-file, as described here: http://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/faqs/ but it doesn’t work.
Can anyone help me?
Yes, I am using BuddyPress Private Community
@jillian, found the little snippet in the plugin from bbpress and attempted to implement it for you, experimenting myself: @r-a-y, help me on any corrections:
`// update meta
$value = get_site_option($bp->current_component”_topic_views_”.$topic);
add_site_option($bp->current_component”_topic_views_”.$topic, $value+1);`
Than the function added:
`function bp_the_topic_view_count($topic_id = false, $echo = true) {
global $action_variables;
global $bp;
global $forum_template;
if($topic_id == false)
$views = get_site_option($bp->current_component”_topic_views_”.$forum_template->topic->topic_id);
else
$views = get_site_option($bp->current_component”_topic_views_”.$topic_id);
if(!$views)
return false;
if($echo)
{
if($views == 1)
echo apply_filters( ‘bp_the_topic_post_count’, $views.” view” );
else
echo apply_filters( ‘bp_the_topic_post_count’, $views.” views” );
}else
{
if($views == 1)
return apply_filters( ‘bp_the_topic_post_count’, $views.” view” );
else
return apply_filters( ‘bp_the_topic_post_count’, $views.” views” );
}
`
Not tested.
You can’t if you’re not familiar with code, as it takes some time getting used to how the plugin developer wrote the code to begin with and how to make it fit within BuddyPress.
You should be able to modify the code to make it fit within a member’s profile… will just take time and work!
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You might also be interested in a new plugin Boone Gorges is building called “BuddyPress Docs”:
https://github.com/boonebgorges/buddypress-docs
FYI, it’s in development and shouldn’t be used on a production site.
You need to port over a bbPress plugin and make it compatible with BuddyPress:
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bb-topic-views/
Look through http://trac.buddypress.org and submit an enhancement request if there is not already a ticket for this.
@Dfa327 You can always set up advance options to have the video chat run on like a cdn as well.
in the next release can we have the option to change the name from blog to site. So for example where it says random blog you can say random site. The easiest way is probably to change the word blog to a slug so all you have to do is change the slug to change the rest of them. What do you think?
I just installed Buddypress and this just started happening – I have a clone of this website at http://www.snipbids.com where this is not happeneing