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Apologies for not getting back.

If I had my brain in gear would have remembered the remove adminbar constant – thanks mercime.

Also this page in the codex will give you an idea of how the adminbar is created and manipulated and perhaps how you could re-position those links:
https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/modifying-the-buddypress-admin-bar/

there are several other threads on this:

https://buddypress.org/search/?f=forum+blank

go through all of them first.

To remove the admin bar completely
https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/modifying-the-buddypress-admin-bar/hiding-the-buddypress-admin-bar/

Happy New Year !

@tekuan-coleman
Hi. About Achievements: at the moment, points earned through unlocking achievements are not used for anything other than a highscore table. There is no virtual store and they are not intended to be a form of virtual currency.
Have you seen how to create the Achievements by going to yoursite.com/achievements and clicking the “create” button at the top of the page?

Not to add fuel but, I guess I’ll chime in as it was thread title that looked interesting. I also think Achievements should get BP Plugin of the Year award. It is the most “fun” and “useful” and it works.

I have the achievement and thought it was an awesome plugin as well….but i havent been able to use it yet because i dont know where to get awards from and how to set it up where they can use their points to buy awards or gifts for others….can you post your site so i can se how you used it or give me feedback on how i can use mine (set up awards and have people interact). i promise i want steal any of your ideas or material i just want to gain an idea on how to do this…thanks

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No worries. I agree, BuddyPress is awesome

@dasnipe unfortunately that fix was only temporary… there was an error in the next step:( but I just found out once I deactivated buddypress welcome pack plugin it started working again. I’m hoping to now find a fix for that as I really like that plugin…

I narrowed down my issue to buddypress welcome pack plugin:( too bad, really liked that plugin…

@victor_moura – glad to help.

define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘whatevernameigivethedatabase’);
define(‘DB_USER’, ‘root’);
define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘root’);
define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘localhost’);

root/root is the default username / password combo for MAMP. Obviously you should never have it set like this on a live public server because it’s instantly hackable, but on your local MAMP (assuming you haven’t got it set up to actually serve a Live site for a client to see online) it’s fine.

(When setting up a brand new site from scratch, you can also change your database table prefix (the setting is found in wp-config.php) for extra security. Google this to learn why it’s a good idea.)

b) I use MAMP Pro which comes with phpMyAdmin built in. phpMyAdmin can be launched from MAMP Pro’s interface. When I’m setting up a site I create a folder in my browser bookmarks for local, and one for remote. Aside from the site URLs, I bookmark the phpMyAdmin interface for both local and remote, so I can get to either database in a single click. Obviously, with the remote database it will ask you to log in during the loading, since to bookmark it initially, you’ll need to access it from your website’s cpanel (or wherever you launch phpMyAdmin from at your web host) and to do that you’ll need to be logged in to your host.

So, go into phpMyAdmin, click “localhost” (top left of main content area) to check you’re on the “home” page, and you’ll see an input field (“Create new database”). Name your db, and click Create (that’s all, no need to touch anything). This will create an empty database (a “shell” if you like) ready to be filled. I find it helpful to name the remote and local dbs differently (otherwise it’s too easy to get confused / messed up) .

3. Then click “Import”, find your backup and load it. At this stage, absolute URLs in your site will be wrong (they’re pointing to the address of your remote web server, not at your local MAMP server). To correct this in one easy find and replace (whilst protecting the structural integrity of your database tables – very important!) use http://spectacu.la/search-and-replace-for-wordpress-databases/ (it’s a very powerful tool, treat with caution).

Once you’ve got the hang of it, it’s quick. From starting a remote backup to running that db as a local mirror takes me about 30 seconds.

i. when I’m loading in a remote db, I always delete the local one (to do this go to “localhost” in phpMyAdmin, click the name of your db in the left hand column and when it’s loaded click “Drop” – it means “Delete” – it’s top right, in red), make a new local one, and load the remote db into this fresh “shell” – just to make sure everything is exact. You can delete the local db from within phpMyAdmin. Incidentally, this usually isn’t the case on a remote database (usually, to delete the remote db if you need to, you have to go into cpanel and select “Database Tool” or something similar).

ii. When saving the remote db, I select these options (you should Google this stuff) :

Add DROP TABLE / VIEW / PROCEDURE / FUNCTION / EVENT
Add IF NOT EXISTS
Complete inserts
Extended inserts

Select “save as file” and “gzipped”. Don’t mess around with the dump, or unzip it.

All of this works for me, with my particular setup. I can’t stress enough how important it is to do thorough testing, to be certain that the backups you make actually work.

There are several standalone tools out there for more comprehensive db management, but phpMyAdmin works great for me at this point, and it’s so convenient having it all in the browser. What makes MAMP Pro so good is being able to set up multiple virtual servers – sometimes I’ll run several local mirrors of the same site so that I can try out different things and easily compare the results.

If you’re using GenesisConnect, please keep questions over on that support forum.

Usually, Buddypress links are all on the blog where BP is activated. They do not go across all blogs unless you add a line to the config file. (like you see in our demos)

@roy27 Please don’t double post always choose an appropriate sub forum and post once.

Closing this thread, please continue in ‘Creating and Extending’
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/creating-extending/forum/topic/how-to-move-the-admin-bar-functions-into-the-template-and-remove-the-admin-bar/

WHAT THE HECK? I get every email from wordpress and buddypress except the ac. email.

IT WAS WORKING like Yesterday! I upgraded to wordpress 3.0.4 and UHHHH!