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Hi Tutsie,

This type of change would typically be done with a plugin. Keep in mind that this isn’t a BuddyPress customization as much as it is a WordPress MU one.

I did a quick Google search for “change wordpress admin profile link” and found a few places you could start.

In this WordPress forum topic is some code that would change the behavior of the profile link (albeit for a different reason); this method of changing the admin behavior isn’t recommended, however, since it requires hacking a core file. A plugin would be much better since it doesn’t require changing the core file (and having to stress about updating your WordPress MU code later).

Depending on how much you want to work on this, you could download these two plugins: WP Hide Dashboard and Admin Menu Management, open them up in a text editor, and look at how they change the menus in the WordPress admin area.

Plugins do two things: (1) they provide a new functionality and (2) they hijack the normal WordPress behavior and perform the functionality described in the plugin instead.

Hope that helps…

“It is coming”

GREAT!

@Trent,

Turns out the problem wasn’t of my making at all and I was doing everything correctly!

So why didn’t it work?

My hosting provider doesn’t allow rpc calls to the same server, so I ended up splitting the installation, WMPU and Buddypress on my main domain and bbPress on another domain on a different server.

All works great! If you want to read the saga it’s all in its own thread here: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=2027

How about bbpress plugins in the forum working on buddypress CMS, would it happen?

It’s my intention to make bbPress integration with WPMU and BuddyPress even simpler and better over time. Many changes have already been made to both WPMU and bbPress core to help BuddyPress along and that cooperation will exist in the future.

If you just downloaded it from bp.org then it’s RC1. If you are not using svn then you can by getting a client app like TortiseSVN for Windows. http://tortoisesvn.net/

The url to get the latest source is: https://svn.buddypress.org/trunk

Running the trunk version of bp requires you to be running wpmu 2.7.1 which is only available by svn at: http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress-mu/branches/2.7

There have been changes in the member theme directory and bp’s move from the /mu-plugins dir to the /plugins dir in wpmu.

Not a stupid question at all.

As of revision 1270 in trunk you can now disable the admin bar like this in your “wp-config” file:

define('BP_DISABLE_ADMIN_BAR', true);

That way you don’t need any of those custom overrides in your “bp-custom” file.

@Seobrien — good point.

I will post some better/updated directions soon…

For now, the pertinent change to know about is switch from “wp-content/mu-plugins” to the new location for plugins, which is “wp-content/plugins/buddypress”. The “bp-custom.php” file goes inside that folder, and the languages files go inside “wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-languages”.

This will work anyway if bp is switched off and when someone switch on it he will give a redeclaration error

Look here:

$active_plugins = get_site_option( 'active_sitewide_plugins' );

if ( isset( $active_plugins['buddypress/bp-loader.php'] ) )

require_once( BP_PLUGIN_DIR . 'bp-core.php' );

or making a system of hooks in hooks i made fo bpdev plugins to prevent “undefinied functions error”

RPX is pretty well documented over at https://rpxnow.com/docs and http://rpxwiki.com/, so any one that has time (sorry, but I don’t) should be able to write a BuddyPress add-on that implements RPX. I would have used the FB-Connect plugin as a starting point.

@Jpipitone-

An Album component is planned for a future release. See info. at the bottom of this page: https://buddypress.org/about/

You need to wrap the code Andy provided in php tags. At the very top of the file, type:

<?php

Then at the bottom, type:

?>

Make sure there are no spaces after that last angled bracket. Save the file with the php extension and you\’re good to go.

If this is not clear, open up any BuddyPress file and look at the php tags.

You can put those mods wherever you usually put them (i.e. where you had them in the previous version of buddypress is fine). Only move them as and when the instructions that come with those mods are updated.

how about all the additional mods/plugins that work with buddyrpess ?

bp-dev plugins

terms_of_service

wp-captcha

those go in mu_plugins ?

or mu_plugins/buddypress/ ?

@Modemlooper — right now you can’t change the blog avatar.

There is an open ticket in Trac for it: https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/192, so it is in the roadmap for future versions.

Sorry I misread your topic… I need to slow down!

You cannot currently change the blog avatars.

This appears to be a hot topic — see also:

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=1262

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=497

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=798

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=2046

There is also an open ticket in Trac for it: https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/192

This has been this way for some time now.

This topic should give you more info on this…

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=1382#post-6727

If you login through the quick-login box in the header, you should always get redirected to whatever page you were on. If you click “Login” in the buddybar, it would need to save the referring page on the wp-login.php page load, which is more of a WPMU issue than a BuddyPress issue it sounds like.

If this has indeed reverted, and it’s not because of any plugin or custom theme you may have installed, please report this as a bug on trac.buddypress.org.