I don’t understand how to set up a forum on buddypress. Can someone walk me through the process?
I’m using buddypress default theme. I’m trying to remove “underline” links from CSS but can’t find where is this specified. I want to get remove “underline” from links in body, categoies and tags. Any help?
@marcycapron, did you ever figure it out? I need to do the same thing you were after (changing the default screen that loads when a member name is clicked on to “Profile”).
I have make a buddypress community at my server but when I send “Add as Friend” request or any “Private Message” then other person can not accept or open this page . Where is the problem please tell me ..
@jvoss — are any of your fields required? If so, are they actually forcing users to fill them out?
I was able to add my 2nd and 3rd profile fields to registration, but the “required” fields can be bypassed without filling them out.
@xevo
The colors for the basic theme are intentionally bland or harsh to encourage customization, and the shadow effects can easily be removed.
And thanks! I will keep at it. 
You have to update your permalinks after activating buddypress.
I already had that setup and it works fine, but since mine isn’t a live site yet, I’m planning on working with the bbPress plugin for WordPress.
Well things were all good for a month, now I am getting slammed every night from 2-6am.
Can someone confirm this is correct (if my site were ebay.com and my registration page was myslug)…
‘
# BEGIN ANTISPAMBLOG REGISTRATION
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} POST
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} .myslug*
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !.*ebay.* [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^$
RewriteRule (.*) http://die-spammers.com/ [R=301,L]
# END ANTISPAMBLOG REGISTRATION
‘
Reading back a page or two this is supposed to redirect attackers, I tried entering myURL?something=something but it doesn’t do anything. How can I test this to make sure it working?
Thansk.
We need more BuddyPress themes, but can’t really say I like the colors and all that shadow..
Other then that, it’ll probably be a good template to work out off. Keep at it. 
Hi everyone,
I currently have a WordPress.org blog with an integrated installation of BBPress on a Litespeed server.
I’d like to incorporate Buddypress into this but I’m concerned about potential problems.
Has anyone else made this move? What’s the best way of going about it? Any thoughts/tips/advice appreciated.
I’ve tried setting up a fresh installation of WordPress in a subfolder (mysite.com/buddypress) to see BuddyPress in action and get some experience of using it but it doesn’t seem to work properly when you do that – whenever I click on anything I get 404 errors.
So I’m in the dark a bit here and could use some help.
Thanks, @jeffsayre. I must have missed that page when I was browsing the Codex. I was following the Skeleton Component because my coworkers had recommended it to me. However, apparently none of them tried writing a BP plugin that provided a root component!
Now my problem isn’t that I’m getting a 404 error anymore. Instead, now when I go to “/groupsdir”, BuddyPress is redirecting me to the root “/”, without an explanation. Spent the last hour or so trying to figure out where this is happening. No luck so far, but I’ll keep looking.
@travel-junkie: You explained how root components were registered, and that `bp_core_new_nav_item` adds to the member’s menu, not to the root. But surely I still need to call `bp_core_new_nav_item` to tell BP which screen function to use when the “groupsdir” component is requested – right? So I’m still using `bp_core_new_nav_item` to provide that information – *in addition* to calling `bp_core_add_root_component` to state that “groupsdir” is also a root component. Is this correct?
Thanks for the note about the API key. I removed it from the original post.
The kind of sorting you’re talking about is possible but is quite a bit trickier. I have successfully used https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-geo/ is a starting point for that kind of filtering, but the repo version of the plugin is broken, and I’ve modified it fairly heavily to make it work for my projects. One day I hope to release a cleaned-up and improved version of BP Geo.
The basic gist is that you need to (a) use Google’s geocoding to turn location info into lat/long which you then store, and (b) use some fancy math (nicely defined in bp-geo) to do the proximity filtering.
All BP members are subscribers. If you want any of those members access to admin to post blogs then you make their account authors.
I’ve incorporated Buddypress into an existing WordPress installation. I am hoping to have both users who post blog entries with members who post in forums like this. Is there a way of giving some Buddypress members the privilege of posting on the blog?
I’ve tried to find some guide as to the relation between back-end users, found only on the dashboard, and buddypress members in the forums. Nothing has come up yet. It would be good to understand how they are related.
I am hoping that all the WP users can be also Buddypress members – do they need to register twice for this?
Thanks for the advice.
The way in which you check to make sure BuddyPress is installed and activated has changed over time. As @djpaul indicates, the proper way is to use a mypluginname_loader.php file and hook into the bp_include event: https://codex.buddypress.org/extending-buddypress/checking-buddypress-is-active/
The BuddyPress Skeleton Component is woefully out of date a this time. So you should use it as a general guide only. To get a clearly understanding of how things are done, I suggest studying a few of the more popular, major custom components that work with the latest version of BP.
The problem was in the plugin. Solved.
I have make a buddypress community at my server but when I send “Add as Friend” request or any “Private Message” then other person could not accept or open this page . Where is the problem please tell me ..
I’am with the same problem, when and user try to acess the registration page it redirect to “adress.com/?bp_pc_redir_to=register”
Anyone know how to solve? Alredy try to remove some addons like S2 Member, but still doesn’t working
Hi,
I’ve just installed Buddypress, tweaked a child theme & seem to be happy. Now I’m trying to get my head around how the app actually works!
The standard install creates a forum like page called “Groups”. I’ve found that you can also create a page too, so I now have Groups & Forums.
I may be missing something completely obvious, but whats the difference?
Thanks
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yes I used the template pack and am turn my theme into a buddypress theme. I am kinda new to this so what do I do? I don’t really understand.
errrr. ok. vars in caps: “maindomain.com/files/avatars/BLOGID/RANDOMCHARACTERS-bpthumb.jpg”
sorry. the sample image link above didn’t display correctly.
i meant that the image url looks like “maindomain.com/files/avatars//-bpthumb.jpg”
hopefully this works.
ok. everything is most recent version. re: avatars, everything works great except 1 major issue and 1 minor issue.
Major Issue: on user blogs all author avatars are broken images. in posts and in comments. the url the image is trying to read from is something like “maindomain.com/files/avatars//-bpthumb.jpg”
any ideas for a fix for this is much appreciated.
Minor Issue: on the buddypress side of things all avatars appear as expected, EXCEPT in the activity stream when a user posts a new blog post. when this activity shows up, the avatar used is a buddypress default avatar, not the user’s uploaded avatar. any ideas?
thanks again all.
Ok so I appologise in advance for my question as I am sure some of you will think it is silly. I am a novice and whilst I have used wordpress for some time, I am new to MU and buddypress in particular.
I want to create a site similar to Edublogs (as so many do I hear you cry!!) but my question is simple.
When I install buddypress on MU, I obviously have to activate the plugin. The main site should then be formatted with an appropriate template I presume.
The question is, how do I best create start pages that are simple in design and explain what we offer? The home page can be set to any that I want but I want it to look nothing like a blog itself…
In effect I want to make the main website http://www.community1stop.com the start page for people to then sign up to being able to use buddypress and other associated plugins.
Does this make any sense or am I rambling
?