Interested in this too … Do you get e-mail updates when someone responds to a thread. I would really like an answer to modifying the nav bar period.
If anyone can point me to directions on this please email me at ryanmlanane@gmail.com
Oh. Pooh. Just when I thought I had my site settled. hahaha. Maybe i’ll give myself a week to get up the courage to update Citizen Kane. BTW I “borrowed” the code that puts the login into the sidebar into my first Woo Themes to BP theme conversion and it ALMOST works perfectly.
Sorry, we display this information on a MY page that only logged-in users can see.
Yeah, at the moment we are using the answers to these questions to grab content based on their gender, location, and category preferences — we match what they give us to WP categories and any meta-keys in the content we can match.
@janismo Just updated the plugin in the repo and added localization to the share button.
I was wondering if it’s possible to make BuddyPress have privacy settings for updates. Like I might want to post someone, but only to my friends’ activity stream, and not to the entire site. I’ve looked around for a plugin without much success, any ideas?
What are you going to use the extra usermeta for? If you just need an easy way to store and retrieve some data about individual users, then using BP xprofile fields is really the easiest way to go – they can be created in the Dashboard, and all the registration markup & save/retrieve functions are all built in. If, on the other hand, you’ve already built a bunch of custom functions to query across usermeta, then it’s probably best to keep what you’ve got (saving in wp_usermeta) and hook some functions into the BP registration process.
Built a custom registration plugin for a client, only to realize that they have BuddyPress running. My registration hooks aren’t working (haha) mostly because I think BuddyPress has taken over the process. In this plugin, I prompt the user to enter information in about their gender, current country, and most important category of content, then i store all that info in wp_usermeta.
Would it be best to just trash what I have and use BuddyPress for this information, and if so, will BuddyPress let me do this kind of thing? Or can I just run my stuff by attaching to the appropriate BuddyPress hook instead of register_form (for the register form) and user_register (for adding info to the wp_usermeta table…
Thanks for your advice on this one.
Buddypress 1.2.6
Where can I change the format of the date in users profile. It appears in English, but I would prefer only digits like j/m/Y ?
Recently installed Buddypress on a new version of WordPress, I used the Buddy press template pack so I could use my own theme.
The only problem I have is I can not create new groups or users, when I fill out the first page for a new group for example, and I click submit it never goes to the second step it just reloads the same page with the fields blank.
I check the database and the information never makes it to the database, does anyone have an answer for this?
@jenyus
For a full list of all changes in Vs 1.2.6 & 1.2.7, see this page:
https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/bp-default-theme-changelog/
Also, you may want to check if Brajesh has updated Cosmic Buddy for the BP version you’re using:
http://buddydev.com/forums/
everything works fine with the default theme though. but with my custom theme, none of the BP pages work. did buddypress change up a bunch of the codex? what should i check in my theme? its modified from cosmicbuddy. homegrown4x4s.com
thanks
Where you allow people to post comments around your site is entirely up to you and depends on how you implement BuddyPress.
Head over to http://testbp.org/ and join/login to see an example of a default BuddyPress install or check out some of the sites here – https://buddypress.org/showcase/
The next thing I’d do is deactivate BuddyPress to see if you’re still not getting new user notifications. If you can’t do this on your live site maybe create a test install in a subdirectory. This would help isolate whether it’s a BP or WP thing. You might want to check out the WordPress forums, too – https://wordpress.org/search/new+user+notification?forums=1
Did you ever get these new user notifications? Or is it something that just started happening recently? Maybe it’s a plugin or customization issue specific to your setup.
ok, i installed wordpress, put in buddypress, so ez, so nice!
Nice ends quickly. Trying to add plugs i find many dont work or even come close to explaining how to use them! except for main page I cant have comments or posts for visitors to leave? I could of made a simple static site and not have to put up with all this.. I am not asking for alot, any real dynamic site you see nowdays has it where on every page or post you can leave comments that actually show on the page.. this helps to have the next visitor leave a comment, mabe join the site… its a very simple concept but for the life of me i cant get this engine to do any of this…. oh, i get on main page posts and hidden commments but common.. this engine cant be this big and not be able to do these basic things? what am i missing?
note: im quit a newbie in buddypress
About AVATAR System , first, i had a problem with crop avatar system. After done some research, found that many others also have the same and still unsolved (as i know) . So i decided to let the members knows the fix size of avatar (which i know its really bad way but i have no idea what to do) , but now i got new one, after i upgrade serveral plug-in s(my fault that im not sure which one is the first update before it caused,between jet event, favicon rotater,catablog), i CANNOT EVEN BROWSE ANY IMAGE , i mean the browse function is gone, righ now , if i go to profile and change avatar , i will get only message about introducing gravatar , and also no avatar upload page for registering users too!, really big problem for me !
second, i got trouble with e-mail activation feature, when register process done and got activation e-mail, i go through that link(via mail) and its appears normally , but after sign in, i got error about invalid activation code ! and show users to try to type password code, but its still cannot solve this , but you logged in since you signing in, and from some research again, found one topic that shows how to solve this one by install mail from plugin, which i done it and this ploblem is gone for a while , but now its happened again! i try removed and re-installed this plug-in, but right now it cant help me ! not sure this cause links to the avatar problem or not , right now i don’t know what to do and the time is running out, so any suggest please?
Yes the bb-config (at the root level) and the wp-config files have the same connection details.
I’ve found the table structure from a separate database on my production server. I’m thinking about adding the 8 missing tables manually.
Does anyone see any potential challenges with that or know of any additional steps that I will need to take to get things working after I add the tables?
I’m a little out of my depth here, but I’m willing to try it so that I don’t have to start the whole site build over from scratch on a new database.
I’m open to better ideas though!
hi @modemlooper,
could you help a bit on translation, I know it is just one word – Share (button), but…
I added this line to bp-share-it.php:
`load_plugin_textdomain(‘bp-share-it’,’/wp-content/plugins/buddypress-share-it/languages/’);`
translation is loading, seems to work fine.
question is how I can add translation tags to this code (as I understand this is exact place word “Share” comes from (one of them, all others are the same):
`$shareit = ‘Share
‘;`
thanks!
It’s exactly the same – it just pulls plugins from the wp repo tagged with “buddypress”.
I didn’t knew that wordpress plugins are compatible for buddypress.
If this is the case, why do buddypress has different plugin directory at https://buddypress.org/extend/plugins/ ?
@el_terko what ever language you use for your BP install then the mobile theme will use that too.
To add to what @hnla stated, if it’s about anything you can do before you add BP plugin then try searching on https://codex.wordpress.org/ or just google your question. There is more info out there about WP than you could read in a month.
Yep! Quite restrained here on this forum though, you should see my antics on my other forum home 
for the record If I’m upset or feel real admonishment is necessary it will be very plain and clear I will always say so in no uncertain terms, the above wasn’t so it was gentle-ish chiding.
I was inspired this morning to express my gratitude and thanks not only to the developers of BuddyPress and the various and sundry plugins but to all of you participating in this community who take time out of your day to put in your 2 cents worth, help us learn the deeper concepts and overcome challenges we encounter.
Lord knows, I’ve dumped a bunch of questions here and received a ton of helpful advice.
So … THANK YOU!