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For the alternative method, use Rich’s block activity types plugin:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-block-activity-stream-types/

There’s a bug in the ‘bp_get_the_profile_field_datebox’ that’s preventing overriding the date field.
See – https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/2947.

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@bobsie – To override the year value temporarily, you’ll need to patch /buddypress/bp-xprofile/bp-xprofile-templatetags.php:
https://trac.buddypress.org/attachment/ticket/2947/2947.001.patch (only lines 457-534 are important).

Once you’ve made those changes, add the following to your theme’s functions.php:

`
function my_datebox_field ($html, $type, $day, $month, $year, $default_select ) {

// change your max year here
$year_max = 2013;

/* Check for updated posted values, but errors preventing them from being saved first time */
if ( !empty( $_POST ) ) {
if ( $day != $_POST )
$day = $_POST;
}

if ( !empty( $_POST ) ) {
if ( $month != $_POST )
$month = $_POST;
}

if ( !empty( $_POST ) ) {
if ( $year != date( “j”, $_POST ) )
$year = $_POST;
}

$html = ”;

switch ( $type ) {
case ‘day’:
$html .= ‘–‘;

for ( $i = 1; $i < 32; $i++ ) {
if ( $day == $i ) {
$selected = ‘ selected = “selected”‘;
} else {
$selected = ”;
}
$html .= ” . $i . ”;
}
break;

case ‘month’:
$eng_months = array( ‘January’, ‘February’, ‘March’, ‘April’, ‘May’, ‘June’, ‘July’, ‘August’, ‘September’, ‘October’, ‘November’, ‘December’ );

$months = array( __( ‘January’, ‘buddypress’ ), __( ‘February’, ‘buddypress’ ), __( ‘March’, ‘buddypress’ ),
__( ‘April’, ‘buddypress’ ), __( ‘May’, ‘buddypress’ ), __( ‘June’, ‘buddypress’ ),
__( ‘July’, ‘buddypress’ ), __( ‘August’, ‘buddypress’ ), __( ‘September’, ‘buddypress’ ),
__( ‘October’, ‘buddypress’ ), __( ‘November’, ‘buddypress’ ), __( ‘December’, ‘buddypress’ )
);

$html .= ‘

for ( $i = 0; $i < 12; $i++ ) {
if ( $month == $eng_months[$i] ) {
$selected = ‘ selected = “selected”‘;
} else {
$selected = ”;
}

$html .= ” . $months[$i] . ”;
}
break;

case ‘year’:
$html .= ‘—-‘;

for ( $i = $year_max; $i > 1899; $i– ) {
if ( $year == $i ) {
$selected = ‘ selected = “selected”‘;
} else {
$selected = ”;
}

$html .= ” . $i . ”;
}
break;
}

return $html;
}
add_filter( ‘bp_get_the_profile_field_datebox’, ‘my_datebox_field’, 10, 6 );
`

I also have a MU site where members can have their own blogs, without BuddyPress, but I don’t want the member blogs to have the BuddyPress Widgets showing in their admin. When BuddyPress is enabled it places the Members, Group, and Avatar widgets into the member blog admin. How do I disable this funtion?

It does what you want. It does not create a bunch of individual BuddyPress sites (which many other people really want). The MU just enables people to create blogs and for the username to be used across all the blogs and the stream can take in information from those blogs.

If you can submit this as an enhancement on https://trac.buddypress.org/, we can fix this in core.

There is a plugin by Brajesh that is designed for Activity replies. Not sure if it works for forum replies. Download and try it. http://buddydev.com/plugins/buddypress-activity-comment-notifier/

It will be nice if a notification appear when someone replies on your activity or reply.
Is there such opportunity?

Just found out about this plugin. looks great! Is it still on development? any response to what @juanmaguerrero asks two posts above this one?
congrats!

@testador thanks for elaborating on what you’ve done so far.
– Check out the Ride Oregon site in BP.org showcase – https://buddypress.org/showcase/
– I recall seeing a travel or tourism site here before – http://www.bpinspire.com/

Re themes, I prefer to create my own themes – either child themes of bp-default theme or use BP Template Pack for a couple. It depends on a lot of factors. Here’s a simple walkthrough for BP Template Pack for reference – https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/bp-template-pack-walkthrough-level-easy-2/

Re media plugin, I’ve been using the BP Gallery plugin, (premium) since early 2010 to date. Preference is hosting own media rather than having it hosted at Kaltura/Cincopa servers.

Good luck

I can’t help you, but can I see your site?

I’m a suffusion theme user as well.

http://damatrixstudios.com

@ddgdaily – on the Thesis theme, sorry, I don’t use it. I recall some Thesis users a while ago who mentioned getting info from Thesis support forums to get BP compatibility on using the BP Template Pack.

Why not just backup database tables and server files then go maintenance mode for an hour to test BP in site? Use bp-default theme which has the regular WP template files but souped up for BuddyPress and see how it goes.

Or, export XML from your site, and install WP with BP it locally in your computer to test it out.

@manimaranvel BuddyPress can only be activated once in either the main site or a secondary blog of a WP Multisite installation – there is no BP multisite at this time. If you allowed your members to create own blogs and then want to show the member profile in his/her blog, you can use a plugin – https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-profile-widget-for-blogs/

99% who help out here in the BP forums are volunteers. On a very rare day, someone might come into the forums and make a long long list of all that they need for a BP site and get spoonfed with all the answers in one go, though I haven’t seen that happen totally. I know you expect answers that’s why you go to the forums but on our end, we expect that you did some research on your own as well. If you want simple BP/WP install, it’s all easy (assuming you have good server). But If you want fully customized BP install, the learning curve is medium high if you’ve got WP experience.
BP Codex – https://codex.buddypress.org/home/
BP compatible plugins – https://buddypress.org/extend/

Back to Woo’s City Guide Theme, I only mentioned that theme because I saw it just before I saw your post here – CITY GUIDE. Also, as I mentioned before in post above, you would need to install BP Template Pack, make necessary changes, and if you have HTML/CSS/WordPress theming knowledge, it’ll be a breeze. You could choose whatever WP theme you want and install BP Template Pack or get a free BuddyPress theme or go for a premium BuddyPress theme with free support.

Check this out – https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/profile-fields-questions/