@hnla Of course, it would have to be optional. Generally I think this points to a larger issue of BP data portability – but that’s probably a collection of tickets 
It’s not possible (without doing some fancy MySQL work), but it’s a really nice idea (kinda like how WP handles user content when the user is deleted). Maybe you could file an enhancement ticket on http://trac.buddypress.org?
@aikighost
Yes, all these things are possible with Buddypress. There are a great many plugins designed specifically for the BP environment that can enable you to build a powerful community. For your specific needs, it may be necessary to do a bit of custom coding, but here are a few examples to get you started:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/buddypress-auto-group-join/
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/welcome-pack/
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/bp-system-report/
Here`s a great example of an academic cummunity built on BP:
http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/
Hope this helps! 
@johnnyscience – sounds like a javascript / CSS problem to me – are you definitely running with the vanilla BuddyPress install AND the BuddyPress default theme.
No CSS or HTML changes at all?
The default theme uses javascript routines to display a lot of the reply code – if you are using a different theme, you need to also modify your javascripts to ensure they still work
Hi there I’m not currently a buddypress user and need to ask a few questions about available functionality before jumping in. I work in web support for an academic department and one of the projects we are involved in deals with a large email list which we were considering changing over to a private community format. the current administrator of the list collects statistics on list members as the board of the research project find it useful. So anyway on to the actual questions.
Is it easy to add custom fields (tickboxes) to the signup form and automatically add new members to specific groups according to the boxes they tick?
Is there any statistic reporting that would allow an admin to see how many members of each group we have, how many members in each country, how many members from each university, etc?
The academic in charge requires this functionality or using buddypress is a no go and well have to go the joomla, drupal or aMember route. Id prefer to use buddypress if possible as I’m a bit of a wordpress evangelist in the university and would like to get a great example of an academic community in buddypress out there for my peers to see.
Sorry for wittering on so much, Cheers
I was also wondering this? To be specific I need to know how many members of each group we have, how many members in each country, how many mambers in each university (Our community is an academic research community), etc?
Is there an easy way to do this with buddypress?
Strangely this problem appeared
then the next day I did a test registration that worked fine
then again immediately afterwards I tried another test and cant manage to register again.
The registration page simply reloads without any success mesage
and the new user does not appear in the database.
Turning off Buddypress allows user registration again.
I am running the latest WP and BP.
I have disabled all but the most basic plugins and that makes no diff.
I am usin the atahualpa theme with the BP Template pack apparently successfully installed.
I guess the next thing to do is try activatng the default BP theme
and see if that affects the problem.
Any suggestions from people who know more than I do (almost anyone here Im sure) very welcome…
I installed BP on a single WP 3.0.1 but then wanted to have everything network-related in the folder /network/. So I switched to Multisite and everything worked except my BuddyPress suddenly became English. It worked, but now it doesn’t anymore (WP is fine). The language files are definitely uploaded in the bp-languages folder, so I don’t have an idea why it’s not running.
Maybe you can help?! 
http://bpdevel.wordpress.com/2010/10/14/postponing-buddypress-1-2-6-until-this-w/
Not utterly sure why.
Ideally we need to be testing this proposed release candidate as much as possible I’ve run 1.2.6 or more accurately the 1.2 branch on local test installs for a while and it feels solid, if others wish to try on test installs and they can grab a zip from:
https://trac.buddypress.org/browser/branches/1.2
As rogercoathup mentioned, before installing BuddyPress double-check if your WP installation is up to the task.
Great @modemlooper and @lph2005 – helpful!
You really need to supply more information about your BP installation.
In the meantime, did you try to upload an avatar again using a different browser?
Right, its private.
I have to login as admin, and then go to My Account, My Groups, then I see the link to the Students group, click that I then I can finally click the Forum link. I also can use the WP main menu Groups link, and find the Students group. Our members are lazy, they want to hit the main page, one click and they are in the forum (assuming they are logged in).
I tried the link you provided above and it keeps redirecting me to what I belive is the WP general blog/comment diaglogue. The buddypress install went OK as I can tell. In the WP admin backend I still have the msg:
“BuddyPress is ready. You’ll need to activate a BuddyPress compatible theme to take advantage of all of the features. We’ve bundled a default theme, but you can always install some other compatible themes or upgrade your existing WordPress theme.”
Even though I activated the default BP template several times. Possibly something to do with the issue here?
You might be interested in the privacy plugin, to be available in November 8.
http://bp-privacy.com/2010/09/privacy-comes-to-buddypress/
Ok so as the other thread, disabled all plugins except for most upgraded Buddypress plugin
Dropped down to
And when I have Order By set to: Last Active or Newest registered I get 33 pages of members, but if I try then search for myself I get Sorry, no members were found.
And if I try to Order by Alphabetical, no members show up at all & it says Sorry, no members were found.??
Any ideas?
Ok I disabled every plugin except the Buddypress plugin & still was having the same issues. I also dropped all the way back to the BuddyPress Default 1.2.5.2 by BuddyPress.org while only having the Buddypress plugin active.
And I have upgrade to the newest version as well.
Still when replying to someone on the Activity Stream page, the reply will post like normal, then when I refresh the page, the reply is gone.
It DOES however seem to post the reply to my wall, so its being registered some where… just not where it counts lol
So any ideas now?
I am just starting out with BP and am wondering if it is possible to set it up more like facebook where users can invite friends to join and then are the only ones able to see their status updates (as opposed to an open system where everything everyone says is viewable to all members).
thanks,
josh
I have seem few tutorial about speeding up wordpress site, there its mentioned about enabling zlib compression through wordpress themes …
my question is :
if enabled , will zlib compression work for buddypress site ?
what are the pros and cons for enabling zlib compression
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We’re experiencing some problems with our shop
Magento is a seriously awesome CMS for ecommerce, but getting it to run on a sub-domain (actually, sometimes, just getting it to run at all) might actually give you brain damage.
Anyways, the plugin is available, but for now we’ll have to do things the good ole-fashoned way… manually 
I am setting up a BuddyPress site and just noticed that when I logged in as a subscriber, I can get to the dashboard and create a post for review. I am trying to figure out how this happened as I thought that Subscribers could not post. Ideally I’d like to remove the dashboard for them, but I’m ok with it as long as they cannot post until they are at least a contributor! Does anyone know in the database or files or where I can look to see how this happened? Thanks, Andrew
“Privacy is coming to BuddyPress on Monday, November 8, 2010.”
http://bp-privacy.com/

Go back to a base WordPress install with the default 2010 theme. Then try to set custom permalinks to /%category%/%postname%/
Does that work? Can you go to categories and posts without problem?
If not, it is a problem with your server setup for WordPress and nothing to do with BuddyPress. You should fix that problem before attempting to use BuddyPress
The image quality of my users’s avatar is very poor. When they use gravatars the quality is much better. It looks like the compression is set too high. Is this set somewhere in Buddypress or WordPress or a server setting?
@obakitch You can over-ride the theme files — I guess you can get an events directory, etc. as required; disable the forums; to match the look of your site the edit-form, create and edit pages will have to be drastically re-themed.
For future reference, try raising plugin issues on the plugin group: https://buddypress.org/community/groups/eventpress/