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I cannot for the life of me get the activation email to send. Can anyone please help? I’ve been working on this for over 12 hours straight now and am exhausted. Please help me! I’ve checked the box next to “allow anyone to register”, saved changes and installed the latest versions of “wordpress”, “buddypress”, “buddypress template pack” and “mail from” and it still won’t work. What else do I need to do?

If you’re using BP 1.2.7, simply put your buddypress language files in:
/wp-content/languages/

Make sure your language files are named like:
`buddypress-vi.po
buddypress-vi.mo
`
If you’re using an older version of BP, read step 3 of this guide:
https://codex.buddypress.org/extending-buddypress/customizing-labels-messages-and-urls/

A workaround is you could create your own groups loop and place it before the group directory loop in the group directory template:
https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/custom-buddypress-loops/the-groups-loop/

If you know you’re not going to have to change these groups, you could just hardcode the group info with HTML directly into the template.
This saves having to create another group loop.

To remove the default tabs, you’ll need to modify the theme.

Read this page:
https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/

Then, once you’ve got the hang of that. Copy over /bp-themes/bp-default/header.php to your new child theme and modify the tab structure.

The function you’ll want is:
`is_user_logged_in()`

Wrap a is_user_logged_in() conditional around the tabs you want to show only for logged in users.

Something like this:

`

<li class=”selected”>
<a href="//” title=””>

<li class=”selected”>
<a href="//” title=””>

<li class=”selected”>
<a href="//” title=””>

<li class=”selected”>
<a href="//” title=””>

<li class=”selected”>
<a href="//” title=””>

`

Note that if someone knows the URLs to those tabs, they’ll still be able to access them.

You might want to look into some BP private plugins like:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-private-community/
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/private-buddypress/

De nada, glad you resolved the issue on your own, and a Happy New Year to you too

One way to change member list presentation without touching core file is by adding some tweaks below any other styling in your active theme’s style.css. Something like :

`ul#members-list li {
border: 1px solid #cccccc;
width: 110px;
height: 110px;
float: left;
margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;
padding: 3px;
text-align: center;
overflow: hidden;
}

ul#members-list li img.avatar {
float: none;
padding: 3px;
margin: 0px 0px 5px 0px;
}

ul#members-list li span.activity,
ul#members-list li span.update,
ul#members-list li div.action {
display: none;
}`
I haven’t tested this so adjust to taste, but you get the idea …

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/when-asking-for-support/

Cache db requests and you can host static files on a CDN. Using a light theme as well helps. Use browser dev tools to test bottle necks in speed.

Just a heads up. Most of the child themes probably wont work 100% with 1.2.7 version of BP because the default theme is missing things the child themes rely on and the theme reviewers in the WP repo are rejecting child themes because BP default is considered broken on their end.

If BP-default was added as a theme to the WP repo and not a via a plugin it would not pass the theme reviewers. But, theme reviewers test child themes based on this theme thats bundled with a plugin.

Hopefully the default theme gets fixed by the next version.

Did you upload BuddyPress by FTP? There is probably a corrupt file. Delete the plugin and, if you can, install BuddyPress via the “Add new plugin” page in your WordPress admin.

BuddyPress has a proper purpose; it lets you run your own social network. It’s not a forum. If you’re looking for a forum, then you don’t want BuddyPress.

The CSS from buddypress is not broken, more like you not doing something correctly. Did you call the default.CSS?

It;s all down to available RAM and how many visits, not users.

There’s not enough details here to troubleshoot anything.

Free custom child themes from where? The repo? They all have different authors.

Have they each been updated for the latest version of BuddyPress? (I know for sure two have not.)

BuddyPress is first and foremost a social network – the forums are attached to Groups and are a small component of the overall plugin. And the forum aspects can be disabled.

So… if you’re looking for just a forum, look for a forum plugin.

Yes.

Allow BuddyPress to function on multiple blogs of a WPMU installation, not just on one root blog:
define ( ‘BP_ENABLE_MULTIBLOG’, true );

Put that in wp-config.php

Its awesome but lacks a proper purpose.

I couldnt decide to choose from traditional forums and BP? what do you say?