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I guess I understand now what you are saying (@Michael, @Tore):

– when I make my comment to a Forum-Post, then my comment is showing-up at the “Home-page” and also within “My Activities”, but my comment is currently NOT showing-up within the specific Topic at the Group-Forum.

I do agree: All comments being made to a Forum-Topic, should be also made visible within this Group-Forum.

Also, I would suggest a re-design of the “Forums”-page:

https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/1389

https://trac.buddypress.org/attachment/ticket/1389/sketch_2.gif

this would make the “Forums”-page much more interesting for users and an easy understanding of how the “Group-Forums” are working.

see a similar example here:

http://vancouver.en.craigslist.org/forums/?forumID=6

If you totally want to restyle the buddypress theme then you should indeed just copy the bp-sn-parent folder, give the copy a new name and start editing that. Though, it’s recommended that if you just want small changes, to build a child theme.

You can find a guide here on building child themes.

https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/

I just tried that as I am out of alternatives…

Just noticed when testing the new signup slug that the user gets an email with the following text:

“You can log in to the administrator account with the following information:

Username: test

Password: bd36dc14

Login Here: http://test.biketravellers.com/wp-login.php”

? : Why does the user get a random password sent as he alreaady chose a non-random one? This random one does not work by the way.

Is this a result of the spam procedures or a regular bug?

Cheers, Bike

“2. In the test-group: http://testbp.org/groups/buddypress-testers-614548248 there are interesting discussions. One is about “feeding back” the comments to the original source (Blog-Post, etc) and one about the topic if the forums still make sense with that kind of activity-stream. Check it out and get involved in the discussion here – I think those are very important topics!

My answer is: As simple as possible for the end-user. Merge as much as you can!”

I’d also like to see merging. If not, there will be comments to forumposts that are lost in the clutter of comments everywhere.

The buddypress theme uses “wp_list_comments()” to get the comments, it’s a new template tag since wp 2.7.

Your able to change the output of this tag. See this article.

http://freebpthemes.com

Now that I tested it a little some thoughts (constructive I hope):

1. In the sitewide activity it doesn’t show a comment, when it’s belonging to an older entry… I think it would be cool, if it would show up on top, no matter how old the original entry was, because with the comment, it’s getting “New” again (hope you are getting what I mean with my english…)

2. In the test-group: http://testbp.org/groups/buddypress-testers-614548248 there are interesting discussions. One is about “feeding back” the comments to the original source (Blog-Post, etc) and one about the topic if the forums still make sense with that kind of activity-stream. Check it out and get involved in the discussion here – I think those are very important topics!

My answer is: As simple as possible for the end-user. Merge as much as you can!

An idea I posted in the group about the forum etc would be: Finding the topic and tagging would be the only benefit for forums. What if forums are topically organized with the overview and everything, but the answers would be the comments in the activity stream…?!

I guess technically (in the background) it would “measure” if it is a forum-post, blog-post or just a status-message your commenting to in the activity and handle all of it differently… (maybe that is very complicated, but would be great!)”

3. It really would be a loss, if there isn’t an option in the group anymore, to send a message to all members of the group… Right now I don’t see it anymore…

a ton, you will not have a ton…

but google helps a lot ya know…

http://www.buddypressthemes.biz/ free ones

http://premium.wpmudev.org/themes/ the flexiers

Nowhere? The only good themes out there right now are..

https://buddypress.org/extend/themes/

http://3oneseven.com/wpmu-buddypress-themes/

http://www.buddydress.com/category/buddypress-themes/ (badly supported)

http://premium.wpmudev.org/themes/ (paid)

Most people are still trying to work out there own themes, let alone work on other themes already. I myself am planning on doing a few themes in the near future as well.

I have the same, or similar, issue.

I’m started with WPMU 2.8.4, FR version, then did the automatic upgrade. I installed Buddypress, the default theme and the parent. When a user tries to activate his account, the go to this sort of URL http://ux-paris.com/wp-activate.php?key=7c9a743c9ff98355 which throws the following error: Fatal error: Call to undefined function bp_page_title() in /home1/thelayen/public_html/uxparis/wp-content/themes/bp-sn-parent/header.php on line 9.

FWIW, in the Buddypress admin panel, it shows that “My current theme is not BP compatible”…but my current them is BP Default?

Any ideas?

I believe Andy is waiting for WordPress 2.9 to come out, since that version will have a lot of media related updates. Not sure when it’ll release, but will most likely be very soon.

In the meanwhile you could use kaltura or the buddypress picture album plugin.

Your request will not be responded too btw, the buddypress development theme wont start basing their core on other people’s plugins. If you want something like that, ask the wpmu dev team to create this once it’s build into buddypress.

does the vBulletin integration to WordPress could work with Buddy

“DOES NOT and WILL NEVER support WordPress MU”

I’m not farmiliar with vBulletin, but if your sure 90% of Buddypress will be useless, why not totally use vBulletin (not that I agree with you that buddypress is only good because of it’s groups and forum)?

Hey jimmiejo,

Use TheEasyButton’s most recent tutorial:

http://theeasybutton.com/blog/2009/07/17/integrating-buddypress-wordpress-mu-and-bbpress/

This worked for me.

I posted the CSS I used on mine here recently….

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/horizontal-userbar

Is there a error of some sort or does it just do nothing? I just did those 5 steps and I had a integrated bbpress and shared user database.

We only deliver support on these forums. If you want to make a buddypress job offer, go here. https://buddypress.org/groups/buddypress-job-board

The privacy plugin is being done by Jeff Sayre, it is a plugin not a core feature. So it’s not even in the buddypress timeline.

And since nexia already gave a nice example on how to resolve your other feature, this topic can be closed?

He means the actual template tags from buddypress, like getting latest activity and members. But yes, you would also need to replace the wp_list_pages with the buddypress menu.

Totally transforming that theme to a buddypress theme is a little harder then that though, you would need to redo/restyle all the pages to work with that theme.

the “adminbar” is set inside buddypress/wpmu, you can use ANY WordPress theme and the adminbar will rise.

the theme you show here can be used for a user’s blog, but would require a rewrite if you want to use it as the front page theme… as it does not contain a single buddypress tagged function… but it could be used for it…