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There sure ought to be. It’d be a great feature for both user update streams and groups. Maybe using the “float to the top” method that has been used to re-highlight commented on activity items

I agree with @hnla.. I’ve made a pretty nice pre-sales forum here: http://bp-tricks.com/themes/pre-sales-questions/forum/

I would gladly explain more about the features and tell you more.

@whitbyglennk: the demo you saw was from BP-Minimal, a FREE theme to be released soon. BP-Slick is a different Premium Theme and a feature overview can be viewed here: http://bp-tricks.com/purchase-bp-slick/. I can safely say that it’s the most feature rich premium BuddyPress theme too date, but you have to decide for yourself if you think it’s worth it. If you have any questions just let me know ok ? Also upgrades are indeed free and new styles and color variations can be submitted by the community in the support group. There will also be templates for popular 3rd Party Plugins. I do not believe in monthly subscriptions and the theme will be upgrade free for as long as BuddyPress keeps using the Parent-Child Theme structure (which will be forever I presume)

@Pisanojm: Check out BP-Tricks.com which runs on BP-Slick and check out the demo http://bp-tricks.com/demo and select the “BP-Slick Theme” in the sidebar to view the demo!

@boonebgorges released a plugin to control which fields are auto linked – have a search for that.

You can also turn them all off by removing the appropriate filter (do this in your functions.php or bp-custom.php). I can’t remember the filter off the top of my head – have a search on these forums – it’s been covered plenty of times.

@JackTheKnife
Did you find the solution to remove “displaying profile details as link”!?

Ok…thanks, that’s reassuring everything works fine now!

@johnnyscience

We’ve already suggested how your setup could be ‘messed up’ – perhaps you (or your developer?) have modified some of the core files?

I’d also be concerned about trying the theme built for 1.2.5.2 of BuddyPress with version 1.2.3 of the core – they might work together, but the theme might also rely on some amends in core (I’m doubtful on this, but it’s possible)

Your other problems should really be posted as separate threads on the forum.

Quickly though: your error message comes from including two files that declare the same function – it could be a badly coded theme / modifications / setup you are using, it could also possibly be something corrupted in your database / install – given that you’ve been trying to upgrade then downgrade, I’d be concerned that this is the case . If you want further support on this one, post it as separate thread, and give a lot more information about your setup and where the problem is occurring.

My personal suggestion would be to revert your system to a backup taken before you attempted the recent changes.

If your theme is purchased from Incsub (wpmu.org), you should contact them for support directly on problems with the theme

Did you search the documentation?

https://codex.buddypress.org/buddypress-site-administration/customizing-labels-messages-and-urls/

@dwenaus If you are serious about pursuing this project, please let me know. This would be a great help in the development of a project I am working on and I would happily contribute some seed money – probably 50 dollars. In fact, if you’re committed to going for it, send me your PayPal info and I’ll contribute right away. From my pov it’s well worth the investment.

I’m too learing on how to achieve this process, there is a wonderfull tutorial at http://cleverness.org/2010/08/08/add-user-types-to-wordpress-and-buddypress/ Cindy did a really good job there

@John McKenney

Great fix for use of the BP Template Pack and group creation. I was finally able to use my custom theme and create a group no problem

However since you saved the cookies if you create a second group it saves your info from the first cookie gets placed there and sometimes you overide that group.

Hopefully the BP Template Pack gets seriously overwritten once 1.2.6 comes out (they said a new version is coming but as 1.2.6 is already late we’ll see when that thing comes out)

mercime –

thanks for the link – but what if I wanted to actually run BP on multiple blogs? I’ve enable buddypress for multiple blogs, but the problem is it pulls all of the user info from across all of the networks. (I’m using multi-network plugin). I’d like http://www.domain.com/blog1 – to only post activity from members registered to blog1 and http://www.domain.com/blog2 (or http://www.domain2.com in multi-network) only post activity from members registered to blog 2?

@jhansensd http://testbp.org/ has the default theme and your users don’t have to go to the backend to log in. As for registration, it’s the “Create an account” in same login panel on the sidebar. You can can easily create a Register Now button in your BP child theme if you prefer. Users do not install bbPress, the Site Admin does.

Recommend that you read the “Getting Started” section in Codex – https://codex.buddypress.org/home/

If your WP is running well in that same server, permalinks are set to other than default, and only BuddyPress plugin is activated in your install, then I would venture that you might also need to increase PHP memory limit

I agree, looking of some kind-hearted soul to upgrade the lot of them. Oh wait I see one good soul now, it’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s @boonebgorges !

will block all future entries

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/buddypress-block-activity-stream-types/

but you’ll need to remove the previous entries manually

well, I had to do some hacking in when and how it would reset the cookies… from this:
`
/* If no current step is set, reset everything so we can start a fresh group creation */
if ( !$bp->groups->current_create_step = $bp->action_variables[1] ) {

unset( $bp->groups->current_create_step );
unset( $bp->groups->completed_create_steps );
setcookie( ‘bp_new_group_id’, false, time() – 1000, COOKIEPATH );
setcookie( ‘bp_completed_create_steps’, false, time() – 1000, COOKIEPATH );
$reset_steps = true;
bp_core_redirect( $bp->root_domain . ‘/’ . $bp->groups->slug . ‘/create/step/’ . array_shift( array_keys( $bp->groups->group_creation_steps ) ) . ‘/’ );
}

/* If this is a creation step that is not recognized, just redirect them back to the first screen */
if ( $bp->action_variables[1] && !$bp->groups->group_creation_steps[$bp->action_variables[1]] ) {
bp_core_add_message( __(‘There was an error saving group details. Please try again.’, ‘buddypress’), ‘error’ );
bp_core_redirect( $bp->root_domain . ‘/’ . $bp->groups->slug . ‘/create/’ );
}

/* Fetch the currently completed steps variable */
if ( isset( $_COOKIE ) && !$reset_steps ) {
$bp->groups->completed_create_steps = unserialize( stripslashes( $_COOKIE ) );
}

/* Set the ID of the new group, if it has already been created in a previous step */
if ( isset( $_COOKIE ) ) {
$bp->groups->new_group_id = $_COOKIE;
$bp->groups->current_group = new BP_Groups_Group( $bp->groups->new_group_id );
}
`
to:
`
/* If no current step is set, reset everything so we can start a fresh group creation */
if ( !$bp->groups->current_create_step = $bp->action_variables[1] ) {

unset( $bp->groups->current_create_step );
unset( $bp->groups->completed_create_steps );
//setcookie( ‘bp_new_group_id’, false, time() – 1000, COOKIEPATH );
//setcookie( ‘bp_completed_create_steps’, false, time() – 1000, COOKIEPATH );
$reset_steps = true;
bp_core_redirect( $bp->root_domain . ‘/’ . $bp->groups->slug . ‘/create/step/’ . array_shift( array_keys( $bp->groups->group_creation_steps ) ) . ‘/’ );
} else {
/* Set the ID of the new group, if it has already been created in a previous step */
if ( isset( $_COOKIE ) ) {
$bp->groups->new_group_id = $_COOKIE;
$bp->groups->current_group = new BP_Groups_Group( $bp->groups->new_group_id );
}
}

/* If this is a creation step that is not recognized, just redirect them back to the first screen */
if ( $bp->action_variables[1] && !$bp->groups->group_creation_steps[$bp->action_variables[1]] ) {
bp_core_add_message( __(‘There was an error saving group details. Please try again.’, ‘buddypress’), ‘error’ );
bp_core_redirect( $bp->root_domain . ‘/’ . $bp->groups->slug . ‘/create/’ );
}

/* Fetch the currently completed steps variable */
if ( isset( $_COOKIE ) && !$reset_steps ) {
$bp->groups->completed_create_steps = unserialize( stripslashes( $_COOKIE ) );
}
`

inside bp_groups.php inside buddypress plugin. Finally works for me…

Notice I completely removed the need to set the cookie with a past date (deleting it) and instead just check for an existing cookie AFTER the first step.